[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #4 - 12/01/99
s.excite.com/news/r/991201/06/international-japan-cult http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562352046-522 # Israel OKs new door for Al Aqsa Mosque - surprise move stuns opponents: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562351865-41b _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MOZART EFFECT REVISITED: 6 years ago scientists reported that listening to Mozart made folks smarter. But last summer a new study failed to reproduce results of the first, disappointing waves of music fans. But a closer look shows that Mozart's music does have a profound effect on the brain, though no one knows why. Rats raised on Mozart run through mazes faster and more accurately. People with Alzheimer's disease function more normally if they listen to Mozart; the music even reduces the severity of epileptic seizures. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/Arts/19991201/RV1MOZART.html # Starbucks Sued Over Alleged Crushed Penis. NEW YORK (Reuters) A Canadian tourist who claims that his penis was crushed by a faulty toilet seat at a Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) restaurant has sued the giant coffee retailer for $1.5 million: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991201/07/odd-life-penis : Should Mozart be played on the sound systems of all Starbucks? Would it help? Would you run faster? Would you twitch less? Would you need espresso? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Microscope works on computer desktop.(AP) Science has become way cool. And a groovy new science goody is the QX3 Computer Microscope, an affordable, high-tech "toy" that brings the world of things invisible to the naked eye to the PC, making squinting one-eyed through conventional magnification optics as outdated as the slide rule. Far surpassing the capabilities of a regular microscope, the multimedia QX3 seems well worth the price for its educational value alone. It is a fun way to explore the complex wonders of the microscopic world, and seems like an incredible bargain. Besides basic microscope functions, it also takes digital snapshots of any image, which can be stored printed, sent via e-mail or used in Web site construction. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562354436-6b8 : Would you rather have a desktop scanning electron microscope, or a super-scanner that lets you manipulate atoms? [Hint - you can build one for about US$10.] Will you put images of little teeny weeny aliens/demons on y'r site? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "The dog must have eaten it." * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #1 - 11/30/99
rs: http://news.excite.com/news/u/991129/21/science-mars-overview _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ USAF COMMANDO SOLO: AERIAL MIND CONTROL BROADCASTS. The US Air Force uses aerial mind-control broadcasts on civilian population as well as enemy troops. Some of these actions against civilians are done with the intent of influencing public opinion and the outcome of elections. The rationale is always the same: "to make the world safe for democracy". "Psychological operations broadcasts": http://home.nas.net/~raven1/commsolo.htm : Have you broadcast any mind-control signals lately? Do you work for govt, industry, advertisers, aliens, Bilderbergers, me? Do you determine public opinion and the outcome of elections? Is it fun, profitable, difficult?? @ Great Secrets Of The 20th Century: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/20th.htm http://www.sightings.com/politics5/secrets.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The Intelligence Gap - How The Digital Age Left Our Spies Out In The Cold. http://cryptome.org/nsa-hersh.htm While probably true, the timing - just before crucial oversight hearings concerns of illegal NSA spying - is a bit coincidental: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32770,00.html Last week's CNN reports raised near-identical concerns about newfound NSA eavesdropping ineffectiveness: http://cnn.com/US/9911/25/nsa.woes/ : Have you confounded any surveillance systems lately? Do you wrap your head in tinfoil to keep the NSA from reading your thoughts? Are you ineffective? # "Next time your library book runs overdue, watch out, robo-librarian could be on your trail." Intelligence/police technology revolutionizes libraries too: http://194.130.56.40/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_365000/365869.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "The computer you have reached has performed an illegal operation." * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #2 - 11/30/99
RECEIVE 'ABOVE AVERAGE' GRADE ON Y2K - but they're cheating: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/29/final.y2k.grade.idg/index.html # Y2K - Clinton Set To Declare National Emergency - 50+ Crises Expected: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/19991129_xex_clinton_set_.shtmlm Kill-A-Rama: # Follow this parent's logic: "The Columbine killers were into Wicca. Harry Potter is a wizard. Wizards practice witchcraft. Wiccans practice witch- craft, therefore..." http://laweekly.com/ink/99/52/news-ehrenreich.shtml # Chuck Colson blames Littleton on postmodernism: http://www.christianityonline.com/ct/9T9/9T9080.html Prez-R-Us: # Will I.Q. woes catch up with George W. Bush? http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/sunday/news_5.html @ Hey, Warren G. Harding wasn't the brightest bulb in the lamp, either. http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/wh29.html # TRUMP WILLING TO DROP A BUNDLE ON PRESIDENTIAL RACE - $100 mln, no prob: http://www.capitolhillblue.com/Nov1999/112999/trump112999.htm # FBI PROBING MASS GRAVES IN MEXICO - may contain as many as 100 bodies - Bush denies involvement: http://cnn.com/US/9911/29/mexico.mass.graves/ @ Reagan's dark side glossed over by 'Dutch': http://www.consortiumnews.com/112599a.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Are you just dying to live forever?" * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
Re: [CTRL] [SC] Skeptic News - Monday #1 - 11/29/99
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Ric Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeshua's crucifixion was faked and it was actually Simon of Cyrene who was nailed up, Why Simon of Cyrene? What's the story? This is one of the earliest traditions of non-orthodox Xianity, passed on for millennia in the oral tradition, and substantiated by the Nag Hammadi scrolls. I'm reading about it in HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL by Baigent Leigh Lincoln [Dell, 1983]. On page 381 of the Dell paperback they write: In one undated codex, for example, the Second Treatise of the Great Seth, Jesus is depicted precisely as he is in the heresy of Basilides -- escaping his death on the cross by dint of an ingenious substitution... Jesus speaks in the first person: "I did not succumb to them as they had planned... and I did not die in reality but in appearance, lest I be put to shame by them... it was another, Simon, who bore the cross on his shoulder. It was another upon whom they placed the crown of thorns... And I was laughing at their ignorance." (22) With convincing consistency certain other works in the Nag Hammadi collection bear witness to a bitter and ongoing feud between Peter and the Magdalen -- a feud [reflecting] a schism between the "adherants of the message" and the adherants of the bloodline. HOLY BLOOD is a fascinating book, laying the groundwork for many of the conspiracies that are currently under discussion. And it points out just what a sham Xianity is. Read and learn. 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #3 - 11/30/99
okemon _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Police Search Home 300 Times, Find Nothing. CIUDAD NEZAHUALCOYOTL: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991129/07/odd-crime-mexico # Israeli Woman Wins Right to Dead Husband's Sperm. JERUSALEM: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991126/08/odd-health-israel @ Militia Of Montana: http://www.montana.com/militiaofmontana # Arafat's Involvement in Terrorists Who Have Killed Americans: http://www.ourjerusalem.com/documents/summer99/1126docs.htm # Gypsy families leave Czech Republic following a skinhead attack: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562333887-a56 @ Fighting poverty with the classics: http://expressnews.com/pantheon/news-bus/greenberg/28greenberg11-28.shtml @ Source-code lit: http://salon.com/tech/feature/1999/11/30/lions/print.html @ A sexy librarian named Natasha and other surprises of the New Russia. I go 5000 miles to learn that God is in the weiners William S. Burroughs is a cult star. http://www.salon.com/travel/diary/pott/1999/11/13/siberia5/ @ Christ Conspiracy Links: http://www.truthbeknown.com/christcon.htm # Gulf War, brain damage linked - brain scans evidence: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562335450-ef0 # DEPRESSIVE ILLNESS COSTS UK ECONOMY 2 BILLION POUNDS ANNUALLY. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13548.rhtml # STUDY SAYS PHYSICAL INACTIVITY COSTS U.S. $24 BILLION: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=22624 # SMOKING BEGINNING AT YOUNG AGE LINKED TO NEGATIVE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13553.rhtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "What kind of dumb thing is THAT?!?!?" --kid pointing at my BikeE http://www.bikee.com [the highly-evolved human-powered vehicle] * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #1 - 11/29/99
tp://www.lightshift.com @ Y2K - MILLENNIUM SERVICE PROJECT: http://globalvolunteers.org/millmain.htm @ Y2K - Pray on 2000: http://www.e-pages.com/celestine/vision/prayer.tpl @ Y2K - MILLENNIUM DAY: http://www.globalmeditations.com/mil2.htm @ Y2K - Jan. 1, 2000, ONE DAY IN PEACE: http://www.oneday.net/ @ Y2K - Earth Mandala: http://www.globalmeditations.com/mil3.htm @ Y2K - Tutu 2000: http://www.united-religions.org/72hours/index.htm @ Y2K - Pray For Peace In 2000: http://www.instituteforworldpeace.com @ Y2K stuff: http://www.united-religions.org/ http://www.rustlers.co.za/ http://www.pauseforpeace.org http://www.globalmeditations.com/mil1.htm http://members.tripod.co.uk/creative_living http://www.carloswarter.com/ http://www.hartcentre.demon.co.uk/ http://www.millenniummonument.com/ http://www.kachina.net/~alunajoy/dec2000.html http://www.jubillenium.com/ http://millenniumworld.org/ http://www.globalmeditations.com/cloth.htm http://www.irishmarine.com/millennium_peace_project http://happyearth.com http://global-alliance.com/html/main_menu.html http://kagyu.org/first.html http://www.everything2000.com/ http://www.lynx.co.nz/chch/millennium http://home.earthlink.net/~carepower http://www.redanahuak.org.mx/opa http://www.yesic.com/~pilgrim/athome.htm#Suggestions http://kang.da.ru http://www.whidbeyinstitute.org/ http://www.lightworker.com/schedule.htm http://millennialgoods.com http://bethlehem2000.org/ http://pkp.com/ http://www.signet.nl/~wpostema/hymn http://www.egyptontheweb.com/ http://wkweb5.cableinet.co.uk/matrixhospitality/Year2000.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "We, amnesiacs all, condemned to live in an eternally fleeting present, have created the most elaborate of human constructions, memory, to buffer ourselves against the intolerable knowledge of the irreversible passage of time and irretrievability of its moments and events." --Geoffrey Sonnabend * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #2 - 11/29/99
=2562320467-1fe # More bombs drop on Grozny - falling like a deadly fiery rainstorm: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562316984- : Have you bombed any apartments lately? Have you provoked any military ops? Do you enjoy causing and inciting mayhem, retaliation, devastation? Do the voices in your head guide you? Does your belief system promote terrorism? @ Garbage guilt: emotion felt by the eco-minded as they tip yet another load of trash into a designer bag. www.linguafranca.com/br/9911/palattella.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MARTIAL LAW HAS BEGUN! Military policing 77 Texas Counties. While everyone has been wondering what excuse the Federal Government will use to declare Martial Law, we have been living under it. For years, right here in Texas, US Army soldiers have been performing civilian law enforcement duties off base. Photos: http://www.infowars.com/martiallawphotos.html : What's your favorite police state? Do you prefer military or civil cops? @ Maybe you don't like those http://mapping.usgs.gov/mac/findmaps.html USGS topographic maps. Stop your whining! Make your own! Use the standard symbols http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/nmpstds/acrodocs/qmaps/5PSYM499.PDF standard colors http://gisdasc.kgs.ukans.edu/dasc/metadata/drg_lam.html and of course the authorized, official, U.S. governmental standard naming http://www.emtc.usgs.gov/umesc_spatial/available_data/100k_tile_names.html So what are you waiting for? Go make some maps! But remember that the map is not the territory. And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Cartography/ : Is your police state well-mapped? Do they know just where you are? Do you know where *they* are? Do you mislead each other? Are you lost? Are they? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Your saints are rather tortured - they hop around, twitch and curse Demonic possession, angelic obsession / Dementia vulgaris, and worse" -- http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/saints.htm#yrsa * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #3 - 11/29/99
s, demons, robots? Do you want to be voted on? Are you qualified for anything? Are you human? Eh? @ The untold history of the Aztecs: http://www.dayofdestiny.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ *A Thanksgiving Prayer* by William S. Burroughs: http://www.txt.de/spress/beatshop/burroughs/audio/prayer.htm http://observations.homepage.com/bill.html @ Mayflower Passengers http://members.aol.com/mayflo1620/bradford_plist.html @ Thanksgiving Football: http://www.sportsjones.com/sportsociety7.htm @ Before the White Man Came: http://www.word.com/gigo/whiteman/ [flash] @ Have a superbad Thanksgiving: http://www.superbad.com/1/turkey/turkey.html : Are secularized materialistic holidays worth every penny? Should everyday be a holiday? Do aliens abduct humans more or less on holidays? Do we humans brutalize each other more or less on holidays? Is it an excuse? Why not??? # X-factor, squirm factor, yuck factor, yuppie-scum factor. With so many factors being discovered, the social sciences are in a golden age: http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/99nov/9911factor.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Please Lord if I'm abducted, don't let it be the Greys, the short little guys with the big black eyes from a galaxy far away; I've heard the horror stories, being taken in the dead of night, laid out on a table like a Christmas turkey, I'm afraid I'd die from fright." --anon http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/thegreys.htm * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #4- 11/29/99
sperm count, but also report less sexual satisfaction. Can't get it up? http://health.iafrica.com/newsletter/index.htm?src_id=tmp0345 : Do smokers deserve to die, to fail to reproduce, to be rendered extinct? Do you? Should assholes, jerks, dweebs and goons be encouraged to smoke? @ Bad things happen to nice people: http://www.disasterium.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Half of world's rivers in peril. (BBC) Pollution and depletion are causing serious damage to more than half the main rivers of the world, the UN says. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_538000/538457.stm # Also: Africa's potential water wars: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_454000/454926.stm # Extinction warning for freshwater species: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_465000/465712.stm # US dustbowl fears return: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_433000/433213.stm # World rivers at a glance: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562319569-417 : What's your favorite environmental disaster? Are alien agents fomenting ecocide in order to transform our planet to their specifications? When?? # The plight of Earth's coral reefs: http://motherjones.com/coral_reef/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Every sperm is sacred, Every sperm is great, If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate. Let the heathen spill theirs, On the dusty ground. God shall make them pay for, Each sperm that can't be found" --(Monty Python?) http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/ev_sperm_sng.txt * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Sunday #1
C) Another team of researchers have seen a planet moving across the face of its parent star. They're everywhere: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_534000/534855.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Japan eyes wearable PC. (BBC) Those tired of hauling around "portable" computers may be able to wear a Pentium PC from next year. What a relief: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_538000/538072.stm # ALSO - Future gadgets get mixed reaction: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_332000/332628.stm # Surfing on a matchbox: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_276000/276762.stm # Made to measure computers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_203000/203805.stm : Would you rather wear a computer or be one? Will differently-styled wear- able computers be fashion statements? Will NSA surveillance extend to every computer you wear, every computer that's implanted in you, every computer in every appliance car tool that you use? How many computers do you need?? # THE SOLDIER OF THE FUTURE - a super fighting machine, deadly as a tank and able to vanish at will. Even Schwarzenegger would be impressed... www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/11/28/stidordor02001.html?999 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "We're Radical Methodists And God gave us Fiji We're God-fearing people And Fiji is ours" http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs2.htm#radi * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Sunday #2
ator Danforth gets shell casings: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562246168-73a # "Why Waco?" METH LAB WAS INSIDE THE WATER TOWER. Taped talks between APFN Info Agents reveal that in fact a Methedrine Operation of as much as $30 million, some say $50 million a month was in fact a true drug/gun op run by the CIA black ops while George Roden was in possession of Mt. Carmel. http://www.konformist.com/1999/whywaco.htm http://www.konformist.com/1999/waco99.htm http://esotericworldnews.com/wacopg.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Hooked on Zen, hooked on chanting (2x) Nam nyoho renge kyo (4x) Hooked on Zen, hooked on mantras (2x) Om mani padrha om (4x) Hooked on Zen (4x) (temple bells, bowls, chimes, blurred chanting) (then again, reversed, over rhythm track, etc.) Hooked on Rap, hooked on rapping (2x) Get down, get back, get off (4x) Hooked on Zen..." http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs2b.htm#zenr * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Saturday #2
eavy gases argon, krypton xenon than would be expected had it formed solely from gas left over after our Sun's birth. It has also 3 times more nitrogen than expected under prevailing models of how our Solar System was created. http://www.caus.org/pn112599.htm # Go Mars: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/mars991124.html # Mars lander has modest mission - goal is to understand climate history: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562266265-b1e # ALSO - Events around Mars lander arrival, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562266275-b40 # Digging for Water in Space. (Wired) An Australian scientist creates a mineral cocktail in an effort to mimic the asphalt-like ice believed to lie at the core of comets. Pepsi will introduce COMET SODA next year. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,32497,00.html?tw=wn19991126 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Learning brain cells identified. (AP) - Neurons flashing signals about the brain undergo a dramatic change as the mind learns new habits of behavior. Brain scientists using rats taught to run a maze found that as the rats learned, there was a change in firing patterns of certain neurons in the brain. This new pattern may mark the way habits are acquired. "One small step toward figuring out what the brain does when we develop a habit" - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562259540-fc6 # AT AGE 45 BRAIN SAYS: HARD DISK FULL. Ever wondered if your brain was filling up with information, and soon you wouldn't have room to remember anything new? Well, that's not far off the mark, according to this study. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14354 : Is your brain full? Have you learnt anything lately? Did'ya have to forget other stuff first? Has your brain changed lately? Have you acquired any new habits? Are they disgusting? Would'ya rather not discuss it? Should we care? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Hello Death, y'fat fuck Picking at my glowing eyes Feasting like a crow" http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs5.htm#bant * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Saturday #3
ws/n0720naked-d.html : Do you long for nude adventures? Would you rather participate or view? Do aliens watch your nude adventures? Do they make you behave strangely? How? @ "Women have thrown away the trump they held in the mating game: the constraints they once imposed on their own sexual activity" http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/lifestyle/review.html?in_review_id=230 176in_review_text_id=179070 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Crash-o-Rama: # EA990 - Co-pilot's family angry over reports - not suicidal: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562261084-2b0 # EA990 - EgyptAir Pilot Says Missile or Bomb Caused Crash: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991126/ts/crash_egyptair_171.html # Flight 990 Tail Blown Off - Crucial Information Withheld For Weeks: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/990tail.htm # http://www.konformist.com/1999/egyptair/egyptair.htm # http://www.konformist.com/1999/egyptair/990-33.htm # http://www.konformist.com/1999/egyptair/edwards.htm # http://www.konformist.com/1999/egyptair/egyptair1.htm # http://www.konformist.com/1999/egyptair/quinn-990.htm # Egypt denounces crash suicide theory: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_538000/538384.stm # EgyptAir crash 'not caused by Mossad' http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_53/530723.stm # Conspiracy theories spread: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_524000/524795.stm # Flight 990: The final hours: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_501000/501632.stm @ LINKS - National Transportation Safey Board: http://www.ntsb.gov/ @ EgyptAir: http://www.egyptair.com.eg/docs/inside/insideaircraft.htm @ Al-Ahram: http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/ @ Boeing: http://www.boeing.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Blibber jubby glubber jabber pigeon jabber blubber" --PAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Saturday #1
run, hide: http://www.wired.com/news/reuters/0,1349,32737,00.html?tw=wn19991126 : If MicroSoft worries, should YOU worry? Didn't Bill Gates exacerbate the Y2K mess by mandating bad dates in MS products? Is it all his fault? Yah?? # Canned Food a Hot Commodity? (Reuters) Trade groups in the food biz expect a Y2K rush on canned goods, but polls show consumers aren't planning to empty the shelves of soup and canned vegetables before the New Year. Got Spam? http://wired.com/news/reuters/0,1349,32753,00.html?tw=wn19991126 # Companies stockpile Y2K drugs. NEW YORK (AP) - Major drug companies are boosting their year-end stockpiles in case of hoarding by people afraid Y2K trouble will cut off their supply of life-sustaining medication. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562272736-708 : What are you hoarding for the millennium? When apocalypse erupts, what good will your stash do you? Do you need dried beans for the Rapture?? # Y2K Spoof Flick Goes Awry. (Wired) The FBI asks a Web hosting company to yank an artist's Y2k-themed disaster video. Once again real life proves scarier than fiction. Yes, they ARE out to get you. And you. And... http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32746,00.html?tw=wn19991126 # Y2K - Insurers Brace For Flood Of Millennium Claims: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/y2lclaims.htm @ Y2K Resources and Preparedness Suppliers/Sites: http://www.sightings.com/y2kresource/y2k1r.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "The perimeter patrol insures our security We're sealed in tighter than tourists at Narita I am well nourished by the vending machines And opto-electronics fill my spiritual needs I live in the Rad Lab, I live in the Rad Lab" http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs2.htm#rlab * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #1
ild UFOs? -- Detroit isn't building Sky-Cars or UFOS yet, at least not "officially"... Or maybe they are, they use them often enough in their ads!!! Do you want to be the first to know? For the latest Electric Car news, see: http://www.electrifyingtimes.com @ And see the S4 Database List - http://www.anomalies.net : What machines do you wish you had? Do you wish you were a machine? What machine would you like to be? If you were a revolutionary machine, would the Establishment suppress you? D'ya deserve to be suppressed? Are you already? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Louisiana Judge Overturns Psychic Ban. LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) A federal judge struck down New Iberia's 1982 ban on palm reading fortune telling, say- ing the south Louisiana town of 31,800 went too far to protect residents and had created a threat to their First Amendment rights. Lawyers for New Iberia argued the ban protected against fraud and unfair trade practices. www2.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,500061457-500101575-500432658-0,00.html : Does your belief system promote prognostication? Do you make money at it? Should all forms of belief-based business be legal, encouraged, mandatory? @ ARE YOU... EXPERIENCED? Pamela Stonebrooke, singer who claims encounters with reptilian aliens. http://laweekly.com/ink/99/52/reverb-alfvegren.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Spacecraft zips past Jupiter moon. (AP) NASA's Galileo spacecraft plunged thru Jupiter's dangerously intense radiation belts on course to pass just 186 miles above the surface of the fiery moon Io. Damaged but determined, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562260212-5a2 : Do you plot a hazardous course in your journey? Is existence a risk? Have you plunged thru dangerously intense radiation belts? Shouldn't everybody? # NASA plans return to Mars - trial for "faster, better, cheaper" strategy: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562259131-c38 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Bright and cold, white and gold The boarding lights lead us on, young and old Maybe we're just dreaming this, spinning happy lies Don't say a word while the starships rise Don't turn your head while the starships rise" -- http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs1.htm#cent * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #2
nt and shipped down an optical-fiber pipe- line to your computer, where it's consumed and destroyed. That just might be the model for a future generation of quantum computers. But does your computer eat your data already? http://www.msnbc.com/news/339196.asp?cp1=1 # Internet spies' new tactics. (BBC) Computer users are now at risk from internet spies who are hiding secret codes in screensavers, experts warn. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_537000/537520.stm : Would you rather have computers eat software, or vice-versa? Will spyware devour your brain? Do you eat computer chips dipped in guacamole? Is that only fair? Does your computer spy on you? Do you spy on your computer? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Revenge: Death to Pikachu! (MSNBC) Every day at Www.MustBeDestroyed.Com, a Pokemon character is destroyed in a new, merciless way. People are able to vote for their favorite method of killing and torturing the creatures. So far, the most popular choices for mode of death are incineration and being sawed in half by a chainsaw, but plans for death by rottweiler are also on the horizon. Poor dog: http://www.msnbc.com/news/337458.asp : Is destruction the only defense against these Oriental mindcontrol agents? Is antiPokemonism another virulent meme? How many memes infect y'r mind now? Have you designed/constructed/promulgate any memes/countermemes lately? How? # Video-game violence is under attack as issue heats up before sales season: http://www.msnbc.com:80/news/339375.asp # ROGER CLINTON TO PLAY CONCERT IN NORTH KOREA - will further demoralize faltering Commie regime: http://cnn.com/US/9911/25/roger.clinton.nkorea/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "mountains (pesky beasts!) scattered around Alaska like caribou dung" http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs5.htm#asce * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #3
SAL ORGASM? The nose does swell during sexual arousal - some people are overcome by sneezing fits while in the heat of passion. Is it nosgasm? http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14266 : Do you bond before, during, after orgasm? Does your nose bond? Does super- glue ensure secure bonding? Do you snort superglue? Are your firmly bonded? @ Fave Dirty Books: http://salon.com/books/bag/1999/11/29/bright/ @ The classical nude is dead - try newds, images that combine the idea of nude and with a sense of the lewd. And send me the .JPGs: http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/nochlin/nochlin11-5-99.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y2K-a-Rama: # Jerusalem Braces for Syndrome Surge in Millennium. JERUSALEM (Reuters) Jerusalem's main psychiatric clinic said Thursday it expected a surge in admissions among millennium pilgrims struck by a syndrome that convinces some people that they are characters from the bible. But I really *am* Ezekial: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991126/08/odd-millennium-syndrome # Millennium Martini' Shakes, Stirs San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) A San Narcisco hotel's plan to erect a giant "Millennium Martini" glass with dropping olive for New Year's Eve celebrations has shaken and stirred the city's religious leaders, who will be holding a peace prayer service. On the rocks: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991126/08/odd-millennium-martini # Y2K - Millennium Bug In Detail: http://cnn.com/TECH/specials/y2k # Y2K - Aussie ports to close as precaution - harbormasters bugged: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562258233-f27 # Y2K - Millennium Is 13 Months Away - won't start until Jan. 1, 2001: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562259147-20e # Y2K - Despite Y2K preparations, many will be working New Year's Eve: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/24/working.y2k.weekend.ap # Y2K - Microsoft Releases Millennium Beta 2 - or did it escape? http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991125S0003 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ If you're so smart, why haven't you been abducted yet? * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #1
es of fear are processed. This points the way toward possible treatments for anxiety disorders. Military applications include rendering troops fearless, and paralyzing enemies with paranoia. http://www.usc.edu/ext-relations/news_service/releases/stories/36023.html @ Treatment of Schizophrenia: http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7216/1045 @ Drug Treatment of Depression http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/318/7192/1188 @ Surviving Stress: http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/cenear/980525/sur.html @ The Unconscious Mind: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/980905/features.html @ Beauty, Charm, and Strangeness: Science as Metaphor. Modern science, particularly physics, is being forced, under pressure of its own advances, to acknowledge that the truths it offers are true not in an absolute but in a poetic sense, that its laws are contingent, that its facts are a kind of metaphor. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/281/5373/40 # Bad news for novelists. The fiction computers now produce is increasingly hard to tell from creations of the human mind. Humans are obsolete, eh? http://nytimes.com/library/tech/99/11/cyber/artsatlarge/11artsatlarge.html @ EgyptAir Flight 990 DataPage: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/990dtapage.html # EgyptAir data points to human cause http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562227703-ca3 # Also: Egyptian experts join crash probe. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562225576-e87 # Y2K - Essential Military Command System Risks Failure: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/y2kess.htm # Y2K - Neediest Americans Said Being Left Behind: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/behind.htm # Y2K Party Canceled - Sting, Tom Jones, Aretha Franklin couldn't sell tix: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991123/aponline183326_000.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Thank you for being such heehawing hoaxing donkeys, dopes on ropes, and proving yourselves as such. Canaphone anyone? Phone on a string? Why not encrypted cellular phones you farking dopes?" --Twonky * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #1
.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562223427-6f5 : Do you buy Chinese products? Are they made by Falun Gong or other slaves? Are slave-made products better than those made by unionized workers? How?? # China deploys new missiles - short-range nukes aimed at Taiwan: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562229261-b97 # Retired admiral warns of China takeover of Panama, attack on US: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562230697-834 # China Celebrates 5,000 Years Of Uninterrupted Civilization: [HA!] http://www.sightings.com/politics5/5000.htm @ MEDITATION: WHERE DO I START? (be subversive): http://www.vow.com/musetools/tfdl_start.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Major Media Sneers At Chemtrail Controversy. GOOD NEWS! Those black heli- copters that threatened to take over America for years have vanished. The folks who spend their time warning us about such things have discovered a new menace: jet contrails. As menaces go, this is a pretty good one. While hardly anyone you know has ever seen a black helicopter, a UFO or a giant man-eating squid, practically everyone's seen a contrail. You just know they're there. http://www.sightings.com/politics5/chembe.htm : Have you eaten or been eaten by a giant squid lately? Do telepathic giant squids make us think about contrails to distract us from their conspiracies? # PSSST! WANNA HEAR A SECRET? Sordid whisper campaigners cannot become successful character assassins on their own. They need accomplices. http://www.capitolhillblue.com/Nov1999/112499/whisper112499.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "I wanna watch the Wahines sway / Down on the sands of Kahuna Bay / I'll feast on mangos and coconuts / While the hula girls shake their butts (thump thump)" http://sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs4c.htm#kahu * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #2
ternational team has reported. http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/11/24/timfgnusa02004.html?999 # Old DNA revived: http://accessexcellence.org/WN/SU/beebacteria1198.html # Dinosaur DNA Recovered: http://khouse.org/dna.html @ Dinosaurs DNA: http://www.wwy.org/wwy0595.html @ Can dinosaurs be cloned? http://www.pages.org/bcs/Bcs039.html @ Mouse/Human Chimera: www.medsch.ucla.edu/som/ddo/aidsprog/cfar/Mouse.htm @ Human Genetic Cloning: http://webpages.shepherd.edu/jenter01/cloning.htm @ Cloning Ethics: http://www.puaf.umd.edu/ippp/Fall97Report/cloning.htm # Saddam's Clones: http://www.parascope.com/articles/slips/fs_161.htm @ CLONAID (Raelian movement): http://www.clonaid.com/ @ Sumsoshoeugenics, Case for Human Cloning: http://www.summum.org/mummification/sumsosho.htm # Bionic Eyes on the Cutting Edge: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/cuttingedgeii981105.html # Companies Want Biochip Implants To Monitor Employee Performance: http://www.newpower.org/xnews/99/05/11.shtml @ Homo sapiens sapiens cyber - Upgradings Ourselves Beyond our Biology: http://homepage.esoterica.pt/~jpnitya/science/hcyber.htm @ The Real Bionic Man: http://discoveryschool.com/fall97/programs/therealbionicman/ @ Animal and Plant Genetic Engineering: http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/aa244/geneng2.htm @ GENETIC ENGINEERING GOING MAD - God-like powers: http://www.thewinds.org/archive/medical/genetic_engineering04-98.html @ What is Genetic Engineering? http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/aa244/geneng1.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ It's hard to retain human dignity when you're dead. * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3
ot; (Reuters). To resolve this important matter WN called the Chinese Embassy. The Cultural Officer said that "shenzhou" means "beautiful land." Told of the other meanings, he insisted it's "land"--not "vessel"--but agreed that mysterious may be better than beautiful. The mystery is why China, with a profitable launch industry, wants to wade into the swamp of human space flight. The most hours in space have been logged by Russians--and we can see how much it's done for them. If we want to level the playing field, maybe we could give China plans for the space station. It's only fair. : Will a manned space program break China's economy as it broke Russia's? Do the various mistranslations indicate the breakdowns of alien implants? # SPACE TOURISM: DOLE IS OUT OF THIS WORLD. Dole Food Company is offering a trip to outer space as a sweepstakes prize. All you need to enter is 2 bar code proofs-of-purchase from Dole products. The 2-hour sub-orbital flight on a Vela Space Cruiser, also known as a "vomit comet," will come at the end of a seven-day astronaut training program. Free Dramamine included. : How much pineapple would you eat to go to space? If the pineapple is laced with LSD, would the spaceflight be redundant? D'ya vomit easily? Is it fun? # APPLIED PHYSICS: HARNESSING LAWS OF NATURE FOR POLITICS. While the GOP, Democratic Reform parties engage in bloody internal squabbles to select their presidential candidates, the Natural Law Party has peacefully united behind John Hagelin. A string theorist with a PhD in physics from Harvard, Hagelin is author of Manual for a Perfect Government. The book describes how a superstring field generated by many minds meditating in unison would radiate throughout society reducing stress and spreading tranquility. : Are you stressed about stress? Are you tranquilized? Should you be? Will Transcendental Meditation transform American politics? Why hasn't it yet?? THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (Note: Opinions are the author's and are not necessarily shared by the APS, but they should be.) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Your liver was quite delicious, thank you. * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
Re: [CTRL] [SC] Skeptic News - Monday #2
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Germany eyes nuke ban. BERLIN (AP) Germany's coalition govt is working on laws to phase out the country's nuclear power industry... http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562064492-1a9 : Can humanity live with/without fission reactors? Yep. At least the Danish part of humanity. And that's enough. Which meant: yep, the Danish part of humanity lives *without* it, and we're doing just fine, thank you! Ah, you *think* you're doing just fine -- but that could be because of the mindcontrol rays, lulling you into false security while the ETs infiltrate, replacing your citizens with "pod people". In fact, how do we know that YOU aren't one of the 'podders', feeding us disinfo about Danish affairs? And does Denmark get any of its energy from nukes elsewhere? Are you living in a state of denial? Ric "finally catching up on old mail" Carter 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
Re: [CTRL] [SC] Skeptic News - Monday #1
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: DougKeachie [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Walking robot may make its wearer incredibly powerful. She _Is_ Rambo: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991120/newsstory2.html : D'ya want an exoskeleton? D'ya want personal power? Will you Need lubing? Oh my goodness yes ! Can't you just see me driving my D6 Caterpilar tractor to work wearing such a thing ? I mean, when I signal for a left hand lane change, nobody will risk the iron fist to cut me off, as I'll be able to cuff them to the far lanes heading the other way. The downside: your sex life (if any) will be a bit, well, mechanical... But now imagine an entire society weqring exoskeletons - million of iron-augmented machomorphs thrashing at each other, safe from damage but unable to effect change thru violence either. A descent into chaos! And assassins will need to develop new techniques. Targets will need to be "accidentally" knocked into pools of electric eels, or "inadvertantly" bumped into a blast furnace, or something... Conspiratorialists will decry any attempt to peel the protective suits from people, as being a govt plot to disarmor law-abiding citizens. And gang-signs will be etched into the carapaces, so you'll know at a glance whether anyone you encounter is friend, foe or neutral. Forging and counterfeiting will abound, of course. Can-openers will be licensed. Let me be the heart of the Tin Man, so I can remove a few parking meters the next time I stupidly blunder into SF and make a couple of pretty bouquets, and present one to the nearest meter maid and the other to da Mayor, Willy Brown the 1st. By then it'll be Mayor Armiani, and he *loves* bouquets. Ric "watch out for power-suited politicos" Carter 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #4
ings.com/ufo5/spy.htm # Czech wall separating Gypsies to be razed: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562229081-1d1 # Czechs tear down anti-Gypsy wall, move out neighbors: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562243373-36d # IMMUNE RESPONSE TRIGGERS MAY REACTIVATE GULF WAR SYNDROME. GWS may result from an IL-1 mediated sickness: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/14244.rhtml # ESTROGEN USE MAY PROTECT AGAINST EARLY-ONSET ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/14268.rhtml # HIGH RATE OF UNDIAGNOSED GASTROINTESTINAL PROBLEMS FOUND IN AUTISTIC CHILDREN: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/14292.rhtml # California laser quite fucked up - late and over budget: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562230918-242 # Gates Foundation gives $750 mln - "pocket change" for poor kids: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562235262-126 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Flagellation's such a trip (I'm mortified, mortified) Spoil the child and use the whip (I'm mortified, mortified) Hit me 'til I'm bloody red (I'm mortified, mortified) Whip me 'til my demon's dead (I'm mortified, mortified)" http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs4c.htm#mort * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #1
n't even exist. (NewSci) TIME SEEMS TO BE the most powerful force, an irresistible river carrying us from birth to death. To most people it's an inescapable part of life, a fundamental element of the Universe. But time may be an illusion. Physicists struggling to unify quantum mechanics and Einstein's general theory of relativity have found hints that the Universe is timeless. http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991016/timeless.html : Are you out of time, of space, of love, of grace? Are these all virtual, reversible, immersible? Have you gone across these lately? Where/when to?? @ Zippy http://www.sfgate.com/sf/zippy/ says these are only for "bored yuppies http://www.reliablehost.com/planetearthmusic/LiveAtRedRocks.htm with more discretionary income than http://brains4zombies.com/ brains". YOW! And see: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Gadgets/ or get fried. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ The List Of Lists: http://catalog.com/vivian/interest-group-search.html @ Simpler Simpler Simpler Simpler Living: http://www.simplerliving.com @ YOU READ IT HERE FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST: http://www.itgossip.net/ # TEXAS AM BONFIRE COLLAPSE PROBE GROWS - Bush denies role: http://cnn.com/US/9911/23/students.crushed.01/index.html @ A Bush Family Book Burning. http://www.consortiumnews.com/111799a.html @ Like Father, Like Son. The Bushes: http://consortiumnews.com/101899a.html @ Pedigree: Bush Family Politics. http://consortiumnews.com/100599a1.html @ Bush the Condor Mystery. http://www.consortiumnews.com/100599b.html @ Bush's 'Zingy' One-Liners. http://www.consortiumnews.com/100599c.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "My friends, the molluscs, they wrap me up tight They show me a good time, keep me up all night My friends, the molluscs, have spectacular sex They sure have nice houses, and very short necks" http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs4c.htm#myfr * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #2
ts, "Dipsy" the Teletubby bucket and Rad Repeatin' Tarzan could be dangerous for children, a toy safety advocate said hypnotically. Pokeman forever: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991122/15/news-life-toys # SLOTS FOR TOTS? IS GAMING INDUSTRY GOING AFTER KIDS? The gaming casino industries are engaged in efforts to market gambling to children, sez a coalition of academic and religious leaders who are asking Congress to investigate what they call an "alarming trend" featuring "slots for tots." http://www.capitolhillblue.com/Nov1999/112399/gambling112399.htm @ Pokemon News: http://nt.excite.com/topics/top_stories/pokemon_first_movie @ POKEPARENTS - Fight Back! http://www.topica.com/lists/pokeparents/read # 21st century toys: http://www.feedmag.com/invent/resnick.html?alert _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Dream Machines - Designers, authors, and imagineers envision the ideal inventions of the future. http://www.feedmag.com/invent/dreaminvent.html # Pop Economics - The turn-of-the-millennium's most critical invention is a mass Net marketplace: http://www.feedmag.com/invent/ledbetter.html?alert # A Nobelist talks about decoding the human genome and our evolutionary right to invent ourselves. http://www.feedmag.com/invent/mullis.html @ Bubbleboy News: http://nt.excite.com/topics/top_stories/bubbleboy_virus @ XML FROM THE INSIDE OUT - if you dare, *sucker* http://www.xml.com # YahooCompanion/NetFuture: http://feedmag.com/daily/dy111899_master.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "My friends, the molluscs, support the NRA Shoot wormy vagrants, make the guilty pay My friends, the molluscs, are kind to cats They'd never hit them with baseball bats" http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs4c.htm#myfr * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #1
y.htm @ Space Online: http://www.flatoday.com/space/ @ Defence Systems Daily: http://www.defence-data.com/index2/index2.htm @ Defense Briefing: http://www.defensebriefing.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hindus picket Baptist church. BOSTON(AP) Dozens of Hindus picketed outside a church to assail a Southern Baptist Convention [SBC] prayer booklet that said Hindus have "darkness in their hearts that no lamp can dispel." Simi- lar guides have been distributed by the SBC asking Baptists to pray for the conversion of Jews, Muslims, Catholics, Mormons, Lutherans Quakers. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562196374-2a6 # Unity urged against Christianity. LUMBINI, Nepal (AP) -- 3 weeks after the pope called for missionaries to spread Catholicism throughout Asia, Hindu Buddhist priests passed a resolution to unite against proselytizing. The sense of crisis within Asian religions was evident throughout the confer- ence at this small town close to Nepal's border with India, the birthplace of Gautama Buddha. During the assembly, delegates publicly and privately said they were concerned by the pope's comments. Many described conver- sions as a "war against Hindus and Buddhists" and a "spiritual crime." See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562194429-7f4 : Does your belief system wage war against other systems? Is your faith like a giant amoeba, mindlessly feeding on all around it, engorging on the fallen husks of other amoebae, then fissioning into child-amoebae, fighting always? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Your saints need badly to bathe, they're the flea-bitten kind; Hairy scratchy, ragged patchy, Holy out of their minds" --YOUR SAINTS: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/saints.htm#yrsa * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #2
Off - UFO suiciders worth more dead than alive: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991122/08/odd-cult-auction : When your cult suicides, how much will your leftovers be worth? To whom? Can I have y'r leftovers? Will you authenticate them first? Do we have time? # Old LDS items sold at blazing prices: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,130009720,00.html? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Sahaja Yoga: religious cult set up by a woman who calls herself "Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi". She claims to be the incarnation of the Supreme Goddess who can perform any miracle and cure any disease - even AIDS. She claims that apparent lights on photographs of her are proof that divine energy emanates from her. The sun shines from her derriere; the world revolves around her. @ Sahaja Yoga: Facts and Warnings from Ex-Members: http://mitglied.tripod.de/Sahaja_Yoga_Facts/index.htm (Italian) http://members.xoom.it/xemu/sahaja/saha_menu.htm (French) http://members.tripod.com/toutsursahajayoga/sypage1.htm @ The Truth about Sahaja Yoga: http://www.delphi.com/SahajaYoga @ Ex-members of Sahaja Yoga can be contacted at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] @ Homepage of the Sahaja Yoga mailing list http://www.geocities.com/yogamail @ Threaded archive of recent messages to Sahaja Yoga mailing list: http://www.mail-archive.com/sahaja-yoga%40onelist.com/ @ Archive of old messages to Sahaja Yoga mailing list: http://www.geocities.com/yogamail/archive/syarchiv.txt @ To subscribe to the Sahaja Yoga mailing list send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Your saints need counseling, they tend to rant and rave / Haunted, infested, not too well-rested / And it would help if they'd shave" --YOUR SAINTS: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/saints.htm#yrsa * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #3
ase - Richard Posner to teach Bill Gates Janet Reno to sit cross-legged, chant "omm..." and stare at their navels: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562160406-7be # Also: Facts on Microsoft transcendental mediator Posner, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562160422-64f # And: Microsoft mediator is top scholar and breathitarian, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562165507-bed : Should all disputes be resolved by meditation? Is meditation enhanced by hypnosis, fasting, drugs? Should all disputants be starved medicated? Eh? @ Free Revelations + Meditation Course: http://metaphysic.free.fr _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Some genius at Microsoft thought it logical to put the computer shutdown command under "Start." Then there's the guy who designed the Honeywell thermostat. "Our computerized appliances and computer software all behave in that same obnoxious, demanding way... because that's how programmers think." Burn their brains: http://www.forbes.com/asap/99/1112/279.htm @ I'll bet you didn't even know that there was a patron saint of computers http://www.scborromeo.org/saints/isidores.htm and computer users. And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Religion/ for even more holiness. : Does MicroSoft have a patron demon? Do you? Are patron demons stronger sexier than patron saints? Can my patron demon kick your patron saint's ass? @ Berkeleyan philosophy? Was that a tree falling? http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ursa/philos/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Your saints are rather tortured - they hop around, twitch and curse Demonic possession, angelic obsession / Dementia vulgaris, and worse" --YOUR SAINTS: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/saints.htm#yrsa * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #4
- What Are They Hiding Out There? Disturbing trends: First, images are lost from the Hubbell Space Telescope in mysterious cir- cumstances, followed within days by a rumour from no directly attributable source that images from SOHO satellite, in particular C3 images of the Sun are to be curtailed forthwith. At the same time, Solar images from a Japa- nese satellite have also been suspended; so what are we to make of these problems? http://www.sightings.com/politics5/hidesatellites_p.htm # Phone-sex operator wins masturbation injury claim. The woman, 40, said she developed carpal tunnel syndrome in both hands from masturbating as often as 7 times daily doing hot-chat with callers. She'll get benefits for the injuries. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991119/13/fl-life-phonesex # OSHA RULES FOR KEYBOARDERS: http://cnn.com/US/9911/22/workplace.rules.ap _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y2K'r'Us: # Y2K - Eye on High to Espy Jeru Pilgrims. JERUSALEM (Reuters) Year 2000 pilgrims will be watched from on high as they walk thru ancient alleyways of Jerusalem to visit holy sites in the walled Old City. Sees all, knows all: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991122/08/odd-millennium-jerusalem # Y2K - SEC says brokerages ready for Y2K - moneys tied down: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562152994-b45 # Y2K - Texas Telephones Are Y2K-Ready: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991119/16/tx-state-news-11 # Y2K - Most Americans Will Spend New Year's Eve At Home: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/home.htm @ Pat Robertson's Millennium Shake Recipe. One of those self-explanatory things. http://the700club.org/living/health/mcfarland/patshake.asp @ Another millennial site http://www.endnear.com/ - see the scenarios http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rhoward/frame.gif people are proposing. Why are they called "schematics" though? Some are wonderously wrong http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rhoward/schematics/scem1.html already. And see the Centre for Millennial Studies http://www.mille.org/ and their bibliography http://www.mille.org/bibliography/index.html soon. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Someday he might be President, if things loosen up." --Randy Newman * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
Re: [CTRL] [SC] Re: Skeptic News - Monday #4
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Hilary A. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Tape: Call on JFK wasn't Oswald. WASHINGTON (AP) Hours after Pres. Kennedy was assassinated, FBI agents reportedly listened to a tape of a phone call that a man identifying himself as "Lee Oswald" had placed to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. They made a startling discovery: The voice on the tape was not Oswald's... only now have new details about the tape come to light. CIA said years ago that the tapes on which it recorded the call were erased. Documents released in recent years said otherwise. And bets on the date the press release will come out stating that the above information is incorrect? That depends on when the next necessity arises. I suspect that Dubbwa's campaign is a factor. It'd be interesting to analyze voiceprints, see just who made that call, eh? But even an identification there may only be more disinfo, to throw pursuers off the track. # Phone-sex operator wins masturbation injury claim. The woman, 40, said she developed carpal tunnel syndrome in both hands from masturbating as often as 7 times daily doing hot-chat with callers. ... http://news.excite.com/news/r/991119/13/fl-life-phonesex I'm speechless... Say it with dactylics. 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Sunday #1
churches pooled $13500 for ads that offer "Strength training for the weak-minded." Next to the addresses, it's noted: "There's a work-out location near you." Bring some bar-bells: www.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisSlug=AD20date=20-Nov-1999 : Does your belief system use advanced marketing schemes to gain converts? Do you administer alcohol, psychedelics, endolphins, pheromones, herbals? Do you rely on old-fashioned mindcontrol techniques? Do aliens assist you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y2K-a-Rama: # 'Y2K: THE MOVIE' - NEW YEAR MEETS MURPHY'S LAW. The premise behind NBC's Sunday-night special, "Y2K: The Movie," is simple: If everything can go wrong, it will. Murphy's Law is the star of this show, a fictional account of coming Y2K havoc that includes food and cash shortages, power outages, a plane falling out of the sky, even a prison riot. Never mind all those pronouncements from govt and the private sector that widespread mishaps are unlikely. The movie devises as many as it can. "Paranoia is our most important product" - see http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/TV/9911/18/nbc.y2k.ap/ # Y2K - Few Heeding Official Warning: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/y2kwrnof.htm # Y2K- Thirteen Small US Utilities May Not Be Ready: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/y2krdy.htm # Y2K- Banks Brace For Run On Cash...Extra $50 Billion On Standby: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/cash.htm # Y2K - Canada's Energy Industry Confident Of Readiness: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/rdnies.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "I dreamed I saw St. Dracula, swimming to the shore I dreamed I saw St. Dracula, and then I dreamed no more Radiant with a holy glow / Spinning like a dolphin, so I dreamed I saw St. Dracula, boiling in the sun" -- http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/saints.htm#drac * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Saturday #2
ven months in jail for slander because of accusations of organ trading on a show: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991119/08/odd-brazil-slander : What organs would you like to trade? Will you take my left lung in trade for your right kidney? If I told the world you would, would you sue me? Do you want to trade organs with people with better DNA? Will they let you?? # The Human Genome Project: A False Dawn? http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7220/1282 # The Human Genome Project: Pharmacogenomics: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7220/1286 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Lab-o-Rama: # Deadly Injection Pinpoints Pain. (Wired) Scientists discover how to relieve pain with a shot that causes pain-inducing neurons to self- destruct. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32634,00.html : Should your tissues be induced to suicide? Isn't that illegal? Why not? # Cold 'cure' comes one step closer. (BBC) US scientists think they've found a way of blocking one of the principal viruses that cause cold symptoms in adults. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_526000/526904.stm : Is curing the cold "tampering with nature?" Will deities strike us down? # Expanding the Lab Menagerie. (Wired) Bad news for the animal kingdom: Scientists now have a way to study gene function in species beyond rats and mice. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32641,00.html : What animals would you like to vivisect? Do they want to vivisect you too? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "I want something more in life," Welsley fumed as the lime-scented Jacuzzi bubbles collected between his secretary's breasts. --Josh T. Simpson * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Saturday #1
including herbology holistic healing, has become more mainstream. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562149436-41a : Does your dentist use acupuncture, acupressure, homeopathy? What are mean life-spans of recipients of Eastern/traditional vs Western/modern medicine? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 19 Nov 99 Washington, DC # LOS ALAMOS: SPY INVESTIGATION NOW POINTS AWAY FROM LAB. To use Lincoln's description of Douglas's arguments, the case against Wen Ho Lee now seems "thinner than the homeopathic soup made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that starved to death." The Cox report focused almost exclusively on Los Alamos as the source of leaks (WN 27 May 99). From the beginning, however, Los Alamos scientists have pointed out that leaks of classified info could have come from any of dozens of facilities, including contractors. Sez the Washington Post today, an analysis of errors in the Chinese documents that set the spy hunt off narrows the focus to "integrators" outside the Lab, casting more disrepute on the Cox report (WN 16 Jul 99). : Do you enjoy homeopathic soup? Do you swill such soup as you probe spies? Is the Cox report a bundle of disinfo that protects the miscreants, if any? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Black Triangle Research: http://members.aol.com/SecretJet/index.html @ Black-Triangle Links: http://members.aol.com/SecretJet/Page22.html @ Black-Triangle Resources: http://www.bcity.com/reset11 # PE_FUNLOVE.4099 is a memory resident Win32 virus that infects PE files. www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=%20PE_FUNLOVE.4099 # Spawn of Melissa: W97M_MELISSA.AD deletes all files from drives D:\ to Z:\ http://antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=W97M_MELISSA.AD @ Most prevalent viruses: http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/most_prevalent.htm $ Rock climbing naked women: http://rockfax.com/rf_usa/stone_nudes.html @ The people at JB Scotch want every child this Christmas to experience the magic of holiday drinking. http://www.liquorfairy.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Millennium? WHAT millennium? I don't see any goddam millennium!" --anon. * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
Re: [CTRL] [SC] Skeptic News - Sunday #1 - Happy Hallowe'en!
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: DougKeachie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ric Carter wrote: # ARCHAEOLOGY UNDERMINES ZIONISM - Questions Raised in Bible's Accuracy. JERUSALEM (AP) There was no exodus from Egypt, Joshua didn't bring down the walls of Jericho, and Solomon's kingdom was a small, tribal dynasty, an Israeli archaeologist says in a new article. http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991029/aponline013030_000.htm : What are your favorite biblical texts? Are they accurate? Is accuracy [or lack thereof] relevant to your belief system? Will one or more deities zap the infidels who raise questions about their existence? It's their story, so they get to tell it their way ! Ah, but if Hebrew myths are bunk, then so are the Xian/Muslim myths based one'em. Bye-bye, monotheism. And if there was no Exodus, then there's no "promised land", and Palestinians have every right to evict Israelis. Bye-bye, Zionism. Well, if neither Jews nor Xians nor Muslims have real 'divine' claims on the Temple Mount / Jerusalem / et al, then we're left with "right of conquest" - as usual. Right, based on might. bangthud Ya gotta be careful about what stories are told, and by and for whom -- one entity's bald-faced lie is another entity's divine justification. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # COAST GUARD SEARCHES FOR MISSING EGYPT AIR 767... off the island of Nantucket. http://cnn.com/US/9910/31/missing.plane.01/ # BOEING DELAYED HANDING OVER STUDY OF FUEL TANKS TO TWA 800 INVESTIGATORS. http://cnn.com/US/9910/30/boeing.report.02/ : What's the Egypt Air 990 connexion with TWA 800, JFK Jr, other crashes in the Nantucket area, and the secret research station at Montauk, Long Island? Aliens hurling meteorites, shades of Footfall ! So you'd rather blame aliens rather than the US military, those guys at Montauk with their death-beams, eh? More disinformation? What's your connexion to Montauk? Where were you when TWA 800 went down? Are you an un-indicted co-conspirator? Aren't we all? Come clean... Ric "catching up on old email, now that my system's restored" Carter 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Saturday #4
://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_529000/529511.stm : What's your favorite primitive planetary surface feature? Do you worship volcanoes? Is lava the juice of life, planetarily speaking? Is it HOT!?!?!? # Jupiter's Atmosphere Gives Clues On How Solar System Started: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/11/991117154803.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Crash-A-Rama: # U.S. Concedes Error in EgyptAir Translation. WASHINGTON (Reuters) Some of the words originally attributed to a crewman of EgyptAir Fl. 990, which bolstered a U.S. theory that the plane was deliberately crashed, were in fact never spoken. The embarrassing admission strengthens Egyptian opinion that U.S. media officials are rushing to judgement on the cause of the crash. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991120/02/news-crash-egyptair # Suicide speculation raises suspicion in Cairo - US, Israel blamed: http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/20/egyptair.01/ # A History Of Mind Control - Was Flight 990 Involved? http://www.sightings.com/politics5/mdcontr.htm # EgyptAir suicide theory rejected, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562144387-38c # Also: EgyptAir debris search continues, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562145954-77b _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "The last time we mixed politics with religion, people got burned at the stake." --Jack Deckard * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #1
invasion fleet creep in undetected? Is the mothership disgorging landing shuttles at this moment?? # Japan satellite blows - engineers responsible for failure will suicide: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562093059-331 # China may launch unmanned spacecraft - US may shoot it down - maybe: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562088209-e50 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Salt may damage sexually-explicit temple. KONARK, India (AP) The 700-year- old Sun Temple emerged from a recent supercyclone mostly unharmed, but the famed monument now faces a more insidious threat - salt. The storm's 155 mph winds stripped away much of the surrounding forest, planted by kings over centuries, leaving the stone temple vulnerable to salty sea winds. The Sun temple was conceived as a chariot for the sun god, Surya, with 7 mighty stone horses hauling the temple, whose 24 intricately carved wheels are often depicted on postcards. Thousands of erotic sculptures adorn the base of the structure, which is protected as a U.N. World Heritage Site. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=256208-538 : Did fundy jeezoid wizards or their CIA weather-control minions direct the path of the storm to destroy this ancient monument to erotic power? Will the Xian mindfuckers stop at NOTHING to achieve total world domination by sexual repression? If they're got your pecker in their pocket, will your heart and mind follow? Will the release of orgone energy free us? Do they know this?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Wichita to ban public nudity: But kids under 10 may prance naked outdoors: www.wichitaeagle.com/news/local/community/wichita/docs/council1116_txt.htm : Is this age discrimination; discrimination against Pagans; an attempt to keep aliens from revealing their presence; more fundy jeezoid hoo-hah??? # UNREAL IMAGES - Average US Model: 5-10, 107 lbs... Average US Woman: 5-4, 143 lbs - http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9911/14/girls.weight/index.html : Are you programmed to desire/be an unattainable physical type? Do aliens implant these images for control, evolution, entertainment, profit, ritual? # Sexism after communism explored - "rampant sex bias" under capitalism: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562093295-577 # Soccer And Mortgage on Italians' Minds During Sex: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991115/11/odd-italy-sex _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "I believe in animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal." --E.Abbey "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals; I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants." --A.Whitney Brown * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #2
ithium xtals. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_523000/523161.stmc # ALSO - Scientists 'create' a neutron star: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_515000/515765.stm # Hubble homes in on black hole: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_491000/491683.stm # Black hole detected swallowing matter: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_422000/422837.stm # Not the end of the world: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_422000/422837.stm @ Links - Black holes FAQs: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/bh_faq.html http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/abholes.html : Have you made any black holes lately? Did you throw anyone in? Are black holes perfect for disposing of corpses? Did Jummy Hoffa go into one? Yours? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ You thought the Honda www.honda.co.jp/english/technology/robot/ walking robot was neat? How about a bipedal mechanism that walks without sensors, motors or a computer? http://www.msc.cornell.edu/~ruinalab/pdw.html And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Robotics/ or walk away slowly, slowly. : What's your favorite robot? Are you a robot? Do you want to be a robot? Can/do/will you walk without sensors, motors or a computer? Fast or slow? # Strange Bedfellows at ArtSci99. (WIRED) What happens when artists and scientists collaborate? Plenty. Especially with enough beer and pizza. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,32482,00.html?tw=wn19991115 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "A whippoorwill somewhere miles away in the secluded valley below called its sad, sorrowful call, underscoring the lonliness and isolation of the remote mountain lodge, and Samantha Jane fropped her piton and gazed in open-mouthed horror at the brazen chipmunk already snatching the trail mix that spilled down Bucky's red Eddie Bauer shirt, silently chastising herself, as the sobs welled up, for not paying attention when they demonstrated the Heimlich maneuver." --Denis W. Wade * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #3
ican rules for schools: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,130007936,00.html? # Rally hails posting of 10 Commandments: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,130007939,00.html? # S. Korean Buddhist elect new leader. SEOUL. Dissident monks boycotted the vote, vowed to take control of Chogye's main temple in Seoul once again. Holy war: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562088287-545 # Hindu guru, 'Sex' rabbi discuss the meaning of life. NEW YORK - "What we all want," he said, "is a connection to the creative power of the universe." http://jta.virtualjerusalem.com:80/index.exe?9911122 # Scientologists convicted in France. MARSEILLE (AP) A French court found 5 members of the Church of Scientology guilty of fraud, a setback for the cult's efforts to become recognized in France as a religion, not a sect. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562094899-cd7 http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562088684-128 # Religious parliament to focus on tackling world problems: # Government of Hungary to compensate 4 religions: # A 2nd miracle is attributed to socialite turned nun: # Nun becomes a hip DJ for an hourlong radio gig: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,130006655,00.html # Supreme Court mulls prayers at school games, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562089032-7a6 # Also: Past court rulings on school prayer, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562093117-df0 # Catholics are protesting the wrong movie with "Dogma": http://www.phillynews.com/daily_news/99/Nov/12/features/FGAR12.htm # That "satanic rave" wasn't so devilish after all: http://www.citypaper.net/articles/99/news.cb.killith.shtml # Ministers want "Huck Finn" off required reading list: http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/shart?ID=401583TP=getarticle # Falun Gong members appeal to Annan - but he's already married: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562088783-270 # Beijing cops bust Falun Gong members - kicking pushing them: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562099852-4c0 # Underground Christian church leader arrested in China again: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562088229-382 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent." --Thomas Edison * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #4
rst public execution of a woman in Kabul since the then-US-backed Taliban thugs took control 3 years ago. The Taliban have imposed their harsh brand of Islamic law in the 90% of Afghanistan under their control, severely oppressing women especially. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562104750-ef9 : When resistant women were assassinating Taliban goons a couple years ago, how many were non-so-publically executed? Does your belief system promote the dehumanization of women, children, opponents, dissidents? Do the voices in your head tell you whose throat to slit, who to stone, who to shoot? How? @ If you're convinced that Pat Buchanan http://buchanan.org/gopatgo2000/ is too soft and left-leaning to lead the U.S. in 2000, vote for Palpatine http://www.countdownalliance.net/nashville/palpy4pres/ for President. Then kill some kommies at: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Politics/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiHuh? # FOR ADULT EYES ONLY: CONDOM WEEK SLOGANS. They're already hard at work, trying to find a good slogan for National Condom Week, which happens in February. Here are a few not-ready-for-family-hour possibilities. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=22055 @ Let's go [concentration] camping with FEMA: http://members.tripod.com/nwoholocaust/ http://www.thewinds.org/archive/government/camp9-97.html http://www.best.com/~ray673/search/database/is5.6.html http://www.crossfields.com/~watcher/fema.html http://www.mt.net/~watcher/fema5.html http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/shuma/fema/fema.html http://www.prolognet.qc.ca/clyde/camp.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices." --Oscar Wilde "I'm a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times." --Everett Dirksen * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991115b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 migraine personalities were seen during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The William Shatner Acting Simulator: http://www.hecklers.com/simshatner/simshatner.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ask Oakland's tattooed punks about Jerry Brown you'll find that Mayor Moonbeam rules with an iron fist: www.city-journal.org/html/9_4_a2.html @ PoliticalCorrectness has made taboo the very idea of beauty. Elaine Scarry wants to restore the place of the beautiful, and of trust, in the world: http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/11/09/scarry/print.html : Is all politics conspiracy? Are all conspiracies political? Are you sure? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # EVIDENCE FOR "MIGRANE PERSONALITY" REPORTED BY CHINESE TEAM. Although migraine treatment eliminates or reduces many abnormal psychological traits in patients, some neurotic traits still persist in migraineurs following treatment. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13800.rhtml : Does your personality torture you? Do you have many abnormal psychological traits? Is chemical/surgical intervention required? Does your implant buzz? # ESTROGEN REDUCES AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR AMONG ELDERLY WITH MODERATE TO SEVERE DEMENTIA: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13746.rhtml : Can agressive behaviour be fine-tuned with estrogen and testosterone? Are these effective for controlling human behaviour, with or without dementia? Do your ET/CIA/KGB masters control you with hormones? Do they pump you up? # USE OF IBOGAINE TO TREAT DRUG ADDICTION EXAMINED - Clinical, cultural, and political issues of ibogaine: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13803.rhtml : Does ibogaine really induce telepathy? Do addicts need telepathy? Why?? # RISPERIDONE ENHANCES FRONTAL CORTICAL ACTIVATION IN SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS -- A newer atypical antipsychotic, it enhances activation of brain areas associated with working memory: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13792.rhtml @ Herbal Remedies - An alternative guide to health and well-being: http://iafrica.com/backpage/index.htm?src_id=tmp0346 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Genes-R-Us: # Gene flaw may promote cancer. (AP) Scientists have identified an inherited genetic mutation that may make people more vulnerable to colon cancer, possibly playing a role in up to 9% of cases diagnosed each year in the U.S. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562078245-971 # Human genome rivals may unite. (AP) The public private rivals racing to decode the human genetic blueprint are discussing collaborating on the effort: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562077526-2dc # Retardation clues - genetic. (AP) UK scientists have discovered that a subtle genetic abnormality could be an important cause of unexplained cases of mental retardation in children. Not just from eating lead paint: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562049682-7c8 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Germany eyes nuke ban. BERLIN (AP) Germany's coalition govt is working on laws to phase out the country's nuclear power industry. Meanwhile, several thousands anti-nuke protesters demonstrated in Berlin Saturday, demanding immediate shutdown of all of the country's nuclear power stations. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562064492-1a9 : Can humanity live with/without fission reactors? Will cold fusion save us? @ NANOTECHNOLOGY WITHOUT GENIES http://geniebusters.org/ - detailed anal- ysis of Earth's current economic technological systems, refuting some misconceptions about molecular nanotechnology http://zyvex.com/nano/. And see: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Commentary/ : Can humanity live with/without nanotechnology? Will nanobots rebuild us? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiSpace: # It's Real! (NASA) By observing the transit of a planet across the face of a distant star, astronomers prove that planets exist outside our solar system. http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast14nov99_1.htm See also: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9911/13/newplanet.ap/ # Reminder: There will be a planetary transit of our own star on Monday, Nov. 15 when Mercury crosses the face of the Sun. For details see: http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast12nov99_1.htm # Comet's meteor storm to occur soon - peaks every 33 years, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562059594-68b # Also: Web sites showing updates on comet, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562059595-f8f _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Crash-A-Rama: # EgyptAir tape data inconclusive: http://cnn.com/US/9911/14/egyptair.05/ # "Something happens. Alarms go off... There is some kind of problem that they're
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Saturday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991113a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 neural networks were implanted during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ AstroPic of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # TRIANGULAR UFOs SPOTTED ON HALLOWEEN NEAR FLIGHT 990. NANTUCKET - Several pleasure boaters off the coast of Nantucket report seeing at least 2 large and silent triangular craft in the vicinity before reports of the loss of Flight 990 from radar. "The huge objects passed over us at an unbelievable speed," stated one observer. "There appeared to be a glowing light at each corner of the object, and stars and clouds behind it disappeared. That's how we knew it wasn't just an airplane, but something else." http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/filers111299.htm : Do UFOs cause some/most/all airliner crashes/explosions? Why don't they harvest the passengers? Or do they harvest their souls? Are ETs vampiric? # 990 Flight Attendant: 'Something Wrong With The Plane' http://www.sightings.com/politics5/wrong.htm # Recorder Reveals Final Moments of EgyptAir Flight: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991113/00/news-crash-egyptair _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Rocket Boy' predicts fast voyages to planets. OGDEN, Ut. A new propulsion system using antimatter soon may open up the solar system to much swifter exploration, the original "rocket boy" of the movie "October Sky" says. "I think the next time we go (to the moon) we're going to go with a whole new manner of propulsion... And these devices, which I call 'space drives,' are actually in the works today in Huntsville, Ala." NASA gears up the dilithium: http://www.desnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,130006848,00.html : How fast do you want to go to other planets? Do space cops give speeding tickets? Will aliens shoot us down if we try to go to other planets? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CIA COKE DICTATORS. A dark chapter of South America's history: the rise of right-wing military dictatorships in the 1970s their enduring ties to the cocaine trade international neo-fascists. Due to the CIA's dealings with these drug-tainted figures, this history largely has been kept from the American people. Indeed, while shielding CIA assets from criticism, the U.S. govt has shifted the cocaine blame to leftist "narco-terrorists." This pattern is repeated today in Colombia as the Clinton administration embarks on a major counterinsurgency campaign against "drug-financed Marxist guerrillas." Like his predecessors, President Clinton is gluing black hats on one side and white hats on the other, when the truth is far more complicated. http://www.consortiumnews.com/111299a.html : Is CIA coke better or worse than coke from other sources? Which things go better with coke? Do aliens have better drugs? Have you designed any drugs lately? Are you partnered with the CIA, UK royals, Russian mafiosi, ETs?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # REV. PAT ROBERTSON OPERATING INTERNET PORTAL IN PRC - AN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE? Televangelist/zillionaire/politico Robertson has teamed with the Butchers in Beijing to suppress Tibetans and Falun Gong members push the invasion of Taiwan. Krist almighty - see http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/roberts9.htm and http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/roberts8.htm and http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/roberts3.htm : To which dictators do you especially like to cozy-up? Do they send you cute girls/boys to ease your lonely nights, or do they just give you cash? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SPEAKERS OF MANDARIN, VIETNAMESE OFTEN HAVE PERFECT PITCH. Perfect pitch is not quite the rare gift we thought - researchers have discovered that speakers of tonal languages like Vietnamese Mandarin often have perfect pitch. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=21923 : Are ya perfect in any/every way? Is y'r brain wired for perfection? Should all musicians be taught Mandarin? Should all orchestras/bands be Vietnamese? Do voices in y'r head sing imperfectly to you? Are you bitter? Got migraine? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ SciBorg http://www.scicentral.com/Y-scborg.html - Brain: # Neural Prosthetix http://exn.ca/html/templates/htmlpage.cfm?ID=19980306-01 # Facing a Remote Control Future? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_375000/375521.stm # Think and It's Done: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/981017/nbrain.html # Scientist Puts Computer in Control: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_503000/503552.stm # UCSD Team Connects Electronic Circuit to Brain Cells Enabling Repair of Damaged Neurons http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/alobster.htm # Emory Neuroscientists Use Computer Chip
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Saturday #2
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@ The Cask of Amontillado:
http://www.literature.org/authors/poe-edgar-allan/amontillado.html
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# Police Say Computer Game Behind Shooting. SAO PAULO (Reuters) A computer
game may have motivated a medical student to go on a deadly shooting
rampage in a packed Brazilian cinema hall last week, sez da cops. Yup.
Pac-Man from Hell: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991112/08/odd-game
: Do computer game programmers work for the CIA, aliens, Bliderbergers? Do
they control your mind? Do they make you kill, steal, cheat, fart, lie, die?
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Mind-Kontrol-a-Rama:
@ CAPTIVE MINDS. Captive Minds: Hypnosis And Beyond explores the power of
suggestion and its ability to influence behaviour - sometimes for life.
By focusing on such disparate institutions as an Indian ashram, a U.S.
Marines training camp, a monastery and the Moonie cult, the film reveals
the striking similarities in the indoctrination methods used to archive
long-term effects. http://info.wlu.ca/~wwwav/WLUCollection/C/v486.htm
@ DELGADO IMPLANTS. The intercerebral implants in the heads of many (UFO)
abductees correspond quite well with a description of a device known as
the 'stimoceiver' invented in the late 50s by neuroscientist Jose Delgado.
www.fortunecity.com/roswell/prediction/51/text-files/coscon/coscon10.txt
: What's your favorite indoctrination technique? Do you prefer suggestion/
hypnosis, drugs, implants, MC rays, lifelong programming? What works best?
@ USAF CyberSurgeons: http://members.tripod.com/~mdars/usafcyb4.htm
@ Mind Control, Murder Torture:
http://www.parascope.com/cgi-local/psforum.pl/topic=3Dmatrix
@ Future technology / UFO / mind reading:
http://www.eagle-net.org/dulce/K-DBOARD.html
@ Mindcontrol Blamed on UFO's:
http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/prediction/51/text-files/mindcont.txt
@ Project Freedom - exposing technological aspects of UK/US mind kontrol
ops: http://www.isleofavalon.co.uk/local/h-pages/pro-freedom/
@ Former USAF guy on computer device to speak to aliens: ABOVE BLACK -
Insider Account of Alien Contact: http://www.aboveblack.com/page1.htm
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# Experimental Lamarckism. "Why have Lamarckian organisms never evolved?
Surely a mutation which made the genes responsive to changes of phenotype
('learning') would have selectional advantage, and there seems to be no
physical impossibility in such a set-up. Wouldn't natural selection favour
a physiological mechanism that allowed learned characteristics to be
passed genetically to offspring?" Let's run some experiments and try:
http://www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/issues/Comsci99/compsci1999-11.html
: What changes would you like to pass on to your offspring? What changes do
your offspring hope you DON'T pass on? Would the world be a better place if
you don't reproduce? Shall we experiment on you? Do you want anaesthesia?
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@ The Solstitial and Equinoctial Seasons. As astronomers reckon time, it
happened over four and one-half eons ago. A cloud of cosmic proportions,
composed of the dust and gases left over from the wreckage of early stars,
condensed and coalesced to form a new star, with its retinue of planets,
moons, and comets. That star was our sun, and one of those planets was
the earth. Chaotic time: http://www.atheists.org/Atheism/seasons.html
: If one or more deities created Earth, the galaxy, the universe, for the
use of humans, couldn't they at least have synchronized the cycles better,
so we woouldn't have such trouble with calendars? Or did they deliberately
complicate things, so we'd have a challenge? Is time a learning experience?
# Solar Storms Will Be Disruptive. Sol is acting up; satellite users are
getting twitchy: http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32496,00.html
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# Giant plant-eating dinosaur found; 2 cast skeletons unveiled. WASHINGTON -
A primitive, long-necked dinosaur that weighed an estimated 20 tons and
grew to a length of 70 feet is the newest species to be plucked from the
African Sahara . http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/ngs-gpe110599.html
: What's your favorite giant long-necked dinosaur? Is it related to your
Reptilioid masters? Did they implant a love of saurians in you? What else?
# From dust to database - hi-tech tools drive modern archaeology:
www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000343180237640pg=/et/99/11/4/ecfarch04.html
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# Texas Christian U. course helps students to identify breaks from norm.
A male wearing a pair of bright pink women's pajamas to class.
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 99c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 millennial maniacs matriculated during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NOTE: I had problems with mail/news handlers earlier, which may have left you with multiple copies of a prior bulletin pasted before your eyeballs. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. I severely chastized the offending software. I hope this doesn't happen again. --Ric _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Dilbert of the Day: http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/ab.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CROSS-CULTURAL ABDUCTIONS. (PNN) John E Mack has spent the last ten years discussing the the cross-cultural abduction syndrome that seems to have affected a large number of individuals from all walks of life. He has found that their stories are not merely flights of fancy, because even if the beings weren't physical entities, there are cultural connections in the descriptions that span the ages. He has spoken with African tribes- man, North American Indians, and a number of different cultural groups to try and determine if, in fact, there is a common element. And time and time again, there is. http://caus.org/pn99.htm : Are you alien? Are you an equal-opportunity abductor? Do you abduct regar- dless of race, creed, color, gender? Why don't you abduct more attorneys?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ XML IS SATANIC. A new religion, a 1st-generation religion, starts with a basic idea expands it to fill the universe with visions of Beginnings Ends - right wrong, righteousness sin, good evil, Heaven Hell. It may have strict standards to make sure individuals demonstrate reverent compliance. A 2nd-gen religion shifts emphasis, since people's concerns have changed - perhaps with new lands to conquer, less worry of sin. The priests adjust the previous basic idea to grapple with the new situation. But in the 2nd generation, priests must also show fidelity to the language of the earlier age, framing their new concerns amongst the old ideas wherever possible. Everyone is stuck with the concepts already elucidated. SGML is a 1st-gen religion: http://www.xml.com/xml/pub/w3j/s3.nelson.html : Are markup languages tools of devils? Do demons haunt your scripts? Are VRML coders irretrievably damned? Are you a webmonkey? Are you damned? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The first email worm - VBS_Bubbleboy only works with Windows 95/98 2000. VBS_Bubbleboy also requires Internet Explorer 5.0 MS Outlook (or Outlook Express). It does not work with any other email client (such as Pegasus Mail or Eudora). http://antivirus.com/vinfo/security/sa110999.htm # The most prevalent viruses: http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/most_prevalent.htm # Security experts scramble over BubbleBoy. (ZDnet) The new virus ushers in a new challenge for the cyber cognoscenti to find an effective defense. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2391728,00.html : Have you created any new forms of email worm/virus lately? Do you like to attack MicroSoft products especially? Are they easy targets, sitting ducks? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Plum Island Investigation - Dangerous Territory, Indeed. Officially listed as a Level 3 facility, I have deteremined that Plum Island is, in reality, a Biocontainment Level 5 Facility...the only known such facility in the U.S. This was documented at the USAHA (United States Animal Health Assn) website. Biocontainment at Level 5 is partially-dependent upon Plum Island being located where it is, offshore from New York City, with prevailing winds that blow offshore. Unfortunately, the birds and winds from storms tend to blow onshore. http://www.sightings.com/politics5/plumdanger.htm : Have many new diseases blown ashore to NYC from Plum Island? Are you in/ near NYC? Are you infected? Who is waging biological warfare on you? Why? # Salmon Firm Admits Link to Deadly Fish Flu Virus: http://www.sightings.com/health3/salmonvirus_h.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Dynamics Of Earth's Core Reveal Hurricanes Under Your Feet. Once nature finds something that works, it sticks with it. Take vortices for example: from the nearly incomprehensible rotation of galaxies to the familiar swirl of a hurricane right down to plodding rotational characteristics of the Earth's molten core, spinning works. In recent years scientists used computer models to predict that there would be cyclonic systems in the fluid portion of Earth's core. Now researchers have confirmed the presence of a vortex in the Northern Hemisphere. The scientists studied the earth's magnetic field, going as far back as 1870, to make their finding.
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991112a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 microprocessors were overclocked during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ MST3K - Project E.U.N.U.C.H. - http://totl.net/Eunuch/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Virgin Mary says: Don't fear the 21st century. Speaking through visionary Ivan Dragicevic, the Virgin Mary says stockpiling for Y2K is unnecessary. "Take these out," she says. "You're not going to need them." Dragicevic, whose fulltime job is being Mary's spokesman, says she tells crowds to put God before family. http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/met8visionary.htm : Have you channelled any divine entities lately? Do they offer good advice? Do they sometimes play little jokes on you? Do you trust them implicitly?? @ "YoMama is so fat, when she lays on the beach Greenpeace tries to push her back in the water." http://www.yomama.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Praying 'aids mental health'. (BBC) People who pray frequently are less likely to suffer from depression anxiety, according to a study. Glory! See http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_516000/516350.stm # ALSO - Faith 'good for mental health': http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_462000/462748.stm # Churchgoing improves life expectancy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_401000/401091.stm # Religion tackles mental illness: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_321000/321622.stm : But is there any correlation between praying and dementia? Does it matter which entities are being prayed to, or what is being prayed for? Does "good mental health" include having fantasy relationships with paranormal beings? @ While there may be deep clashes of intuition about the nature of rational inquiry, the so-called science wars are mostly just media hype: http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/99nov/9911sciencewars.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # How 'Chasing the Dragon' Causes Brain Damage. NEW YORK - Heroin users who heat the drug and then inhale it, a practice called "chasing the dragon", risk serious brain damage or death. This form of heroin use is increasing- ly popular, as users think it protects against transmission of HIV other diseases associated with injecting heroin. But the practice carries a risk of untreatable brain damage, with death occurring in about 20% of cases. High 'til the end: http://foxnews.com/health/111099/heroin.sml : Are users of addictive drugs much concerned with brain damage, longevity, viability? Do alien implants cause brain damage? Would you rather "chase the dragon", be abducted/implanted by ETs, watch MTV all day, or live forever?? Is more heroin marketing controlled by the CIA, UK royals, Russian mafiosi, Latin American cartels, Chinese People's Army officers, Bill Gates, aliens? # No Pain... No Brain. Couch potatoes beware, a new study shows that not only are people who exercise healthier, but they also have improved long- term memory as well as an increased ability to learn. The findings are based on research that measures the responses and nerve growth in mice. Off yer butt: http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/tnw/today/ps/ps04we_1.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ You tried the Death Clock http://www.deathclock.com/ but you're unsure of its accuraty. The Sparks http://test.thespark.com/deathtest/death.cgi Death Test just seemed too tongue-in cheek. So try the MSNBC death test. http://www.msnbc.com/modules/quizzes/lifex.asp And go out happy. And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Reference/ or die trying. : Do you want to know when you'll die? Would you like to make an appointment with Death or one of her representatives? Shall I handle it for you? When?? @ Break it up and don't be a bunny. The online Chinese angle on hardboiled slang - click here, it's duck soup. http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Genes'R'Us: # Gene clue to learning disability. (BBC) Researchers investigating children with unexplained learning disabilities found a significant number of them have abnormal chromosome endings. So the little dummies are just mutants? See http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_516000/516427.stm Or http://news.excite.com/news/r/991112/04/science-health-handicap # ALSO - The genetic history of sex: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_492000/492147.stm # Major step forward for gene therapy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_48/480795.stm @ Links - Genome database: http://www.genome.wi.mit.edu/ @ The Lancet (journal): http://www.thelancet.com/ @ Mencap: http://www.mencap.org.uk/home.htm : Do your chromosome endings need burnishing, normalizing, maintenance? Were your
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991112b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 conspiracy theories were hatched during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Every Episode: http://www.xnet.com/~djk/main_page.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ This Day In History: 1933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken 1933 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal) 1933 Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany : Coincidence... or conspiracy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Conspiracy theorists exploit Y2K fears, sez prof. (U-WIRE) BOSTON -- With the disappearance of tangible, Cold War-era enemies like the Soviet Union, many Americans have latched onto theories of millennial apocalypse as the next great threat to society. "In a post-Cold War world, the visible enemy has vanished. There is a great temptation to manipulate the old Naturalist theme of an invisible enemy whose power is a function of their invisibil- ity." GOTCHA!!! http://news.excite.com/news/uw/991109/university-292 : Are you a conspiratorialist? Have you exploited any fears lately? Do you fervently wish for a millennial apocalypse, so you won't be proved wrong? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Americans Think Intelligent Alien Life Coming Here - Poll. LOS ANGELES (PRNewswire) - Is there intelligent life on other worlds? Does it resemble the tentacled uglies of Independence Day?... or, the lovable, teddy bear- like Ewoks in George Lucas' "Star Wars?"... or, maybe, the nine-foot tall, gas-breathing Psychlos of L. Ron Hubbard's "Battlefield Earth?" And if extraterrestrials decide to visit Earth, will they come as friend ... or foe? http://news.excite.com/news/pr/99/ca-dateline-usa-alien : Are you alien? If so, are you a) intelligent, b) tentacled, c) cuddly, d) gassy, e) friendly, f) all of the above? Should we believe in you? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Washington state near top in UFO sightings. BREMERTON, Wash. -- Based on reported sightings to the National UFO Reporting Center, one of the best places to see a flying saucer is Puget Sound. In fact, Washington state trails only California in the number of reported UFO sightings since December 1996. http://detnews.com:80/1999/nation/9911/11/0235.htm : Do UFOs regularly land at the MicroSoft campus? Is Bill Gates reptilioid? Is the Seattle Space Needle a beacon? Is Mt. Olympus the abode of ET gods? Do telepathic giant squids cruise beneath Puget Sound, feeding on the mental emanations of MicroSerfs? Does Boeing Aerospace have an alien connection?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Spacecraft Arrive -- But Whose? Everybody knows what space vehicles look like on the way up. The explosive steam-enshrouded liftoff becomes a fiery upward trail, brighter than the sun. The rocket rises, dims arches over, aiming to throw itself beyond the horizon and into space. But even after decades of space ops, many remain in the dark about what spacecraft look like when they return. http://space.com:80/area51/spacejunk_991105.html : Have you seen any returning spacecraft lately? Were they human or alien, controlled or crashing, fine-tuned machinery or space-pitted junk? Really? # Moon mission targets mystery. (BBC) A European Space Agency mission to find exactly what the Moon is made of has been given the final go-ahead. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_517000/517232.stm # Active Sun. A magnificent display of Sunspots is on show on Sol's surface. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_516000/516102.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Peru Indian chief's tomb found. LIMA (AP) - Archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of an Indian military chief who lived 1,000 years before Christ in Peru's north Andes. An Italian team found the tomb of the Huayakuntur Indian in Ayabaca province near the border with Ecuador. The chieftain's excavated skeletal remains were found laid out on a stone altar grasping a sea shell, and a stone hatchet within reach. With him were two women, accompanied by five warrior guards, and two human sacrifices, all in fetal positions. Skeletal remains surrounded by ceremonial pottery - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562034115-32c : How many women, guards and sacrifices would you like to be buried with? Do you want to be dead or alive at the time? Will your memory live forever? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # U.S. WARNS ISRAEL OVER SALES OF MILITARY TECHNOLOGY TO CHINA. Pres. Bill Clinton said the U.S. military had "good reason to have questions" about Israel selling advanced radar systems to China. But Monica's mentor said he wanted to hear the full facts of the case before deciding what to do. "Our people have questions, and they had
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991112c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 sacrificial offerings were made during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Earthweek map: http://www.cnn.com/NATURE/9911/12/diary.planet/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Man cuts pregnant girlfriend in devil sacrifice act. ALBUQUERQUE. A man pleaded guilty to slashing his girlfriend with a 13-inch knife after she resisted his attempts to cut a 3-month-old fetus from her womb, as a sacrifice to the devil. http://www.abqjournal.com/news/1news11-11-99.htm : Have you sacrificed anyone lately? Are your offerings gladly accepted? Do paranormal entities reward you for your offerings, or d'ya just get a rush? # Vampire role-players develop creative talents: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/99/university-142 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'AIR CULT' PAIR ON TRIAL OVER DEATH AGONY. An elderly couple are tried for manslaughter after the agonising death of a woman who believed she could live on air alone. Jim Eugenia Pesnak initiated Lani Morris into their cult, "breatharianism." When Lani went comatose after a week without food or water, Pesnak stuck a tube down her throat. He told cops he believed Ms Morris was suffering a "spiritual blockage." She died on a hospital life- support machine. http://www.ic24.net:80/mgn/THE_MIRROR/NEWS/P16S2.html : Does your belief system eschew nourishment? Will/should you die pure? Do you help others reach your state of grace? Do voices in your head help you? # Chimps review new tv season: www.nationalenquirer.com/stories/11135.html # Gore's diet makes him stupid: www.nationalenquirer.com/stories/11142.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NEW PHONE CARDS TO CARRY POPE JP2'S IMAGE. A U.S. telephone-services firm that makes phone cards carrying images of the Virgin Mary announced a deal with the Vatican to sell Pope John Paul II phone cards. The phone cards will come only in a $15, 75-minute denomination and will be sold first in the US and elsewhere in 2000. The Vatican will receive $1 for each of the cards, limited to a maximum of 4 million monthly. Vatican to get $1 for each $15 card sold: http://cnnfn.com/1999/11/11/news/wires/pope_wg/ : Would you prefer phone cards with pictures of Popes, Ayatollahs, Televan- gelists, Mary, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammad, Isis, Kali, Priapus, Artemis, Loki, Kokopeli, Aphrodite, Prince, Madonna, Art Bell, Spiderman, Xena, Scully, me? @ Modular Framework for Artificial Intelligence Based on Stimulus Response Directives: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/19991110/guy_01.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Prayer-pusher drags 50-pound cross around U.S. The 48-year-old arthritic man set off on his 700-mile trek three months ago and he hopes to get to Colorado this month. Garlin Newton logs 20 miles a day with the cross and takes plenty of abuse on the road from people who order him out of the way. The poor wife follows Newton in a very slow-moving car. Heal him, Jesus. Heal his mind, too. http://www.denverpost.com/news/shot1112.htm : How far can/should/will you haul a cross? How big a cross can/should/will you haul? Will you obstruct traffic? Wouldn't it be more efficacious to just visit a sacred shrine, like at Chimayo NM, and eat some holy chile peppers? @ Melodramatic animation of Crucifixion: http://mightyagape.com/walk.html @ Guide to current Dublin slang: http://www.clubi.ie/nobyrne/situations.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tolerant Baha'is battle misconceptions. Christy Besozzi was in a booth offering educational materials on the Baha'i faith during Perrysburg's recent Harrison Rally Days when she overheard someone say, "Don't bother, that's a cult." It is a characterization that is familiar, but still frustrating, to the followers of Baha'i (ba-HIGH), a world religion founded in 1844 in Iran and known for its emphasis on the unity of all faiths races. http://toledoblade.com:80/editorial/religion/9k06baha.htm : Is an ecumentical religion better than no religion at all? Are pacifist religions doomed to be obliterated by aggressive faiths? Does BOB save all? @ Cool chart of top four recording artists in many different countries: http://www.thenation.com/issue/991129/1129mcchesneychart3.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Iranian cleric found guilty. (BBC) Abdullah Nouri, former Iranian interior minister close associate of Pres. Mohammad Khatami is found guilty on 15 unspecified charges. Verdict didn't specify what Mr Nouri was guilty of: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_516000/516423.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/515000/images/_516342_charge_sheet_fctbx.gif # Jury finds Iranian reformist guilty. (AP) A clerical jury in Iran found a noted reformist guilty
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #4
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991112d - - - - - - - - - - - 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 horse parts were dehydrated during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Y2K Checklist: http://sonic.net/~ric/checklist.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HONG KONG WANTS TO MODERNIZE ANCIENT CHINESE HEALING ARTS. Chinese herbal remedies may be less effective than Western drugs, but why not try them? Touted as milder: "There are a lot of chemicals in Western medicines, and I'm worried about side effects," he says, sitting in a room full of jars of dried leaves, roots fruits, coils of dried snakes, lizards mounted on bamboo sticks and several deer penises in mildewed glass cases. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=20882 : What are your favorite ancient healing arts, herbs, dried animals? Do you use dried deer penis salve or tincture? Where? How d'ya inject dried lizard? # Feline Fatherhood Furore: http://helix.nature.com/nsu/99/99-8.html # Big Biz In Baby Parts - Fetal tissue sellers cash in via legal loophole: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/19991112_xex_the_big_busi.shtml # Shooting rampages caused by Ritalin? Hearings examine psychotropic drugs' effect on kids: http://www.denverpost.com/news/leg/leg1110.htm # Size Matters - Prenatal screening may soon make dwarfism obsolete. Is this eugenics, or a cure? http://feedmag.com/deepread/dr261_master.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Candidates coy on faith.(AP) Presidential hopefuls have long spent Sundays canvassing churches to share their faith shake hands with pious voters. But when it comes to their own religion, the candidates are a bit more circumspect; most want to talk about faith morality without getting too personal. "Candidates see this (election) as an opportunity to address religious spiritual moral questions. As long as the economy keeps doing well, this will stay on the public concern list." Reveal nothing: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562046586-bc0 @ Queen Jane Bible: http://www.queenjanesversion.com # Catholic Church begins fingerprinting priests: http://news.excite.com/news/u/99/13/news-fingerprints # Bible belted by divorce - South trails only Nevada in breakups: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/1999/us/the_divorce_belt_1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ 21st CENTURY INVENTIONS: http://www.feedmag.com/invent/index.htm @ Thinking Small - Molecular-scale manufacturing, the gray goo problem, and how nanotechnology will change the world as we know it. http://www.feedmag.com/invent/pesce.html?alert # The Spy Who Financed Me - Why is the CIA turning its long history of covert invention into a venture capital project? http://www.feedmag.com/invent/boal.html?alert # Xerox's Proving Ground - When the marketplace is king, can a corporate research outfit like PARC remain a real innovator? http://www.feedmag.com/invent/parc.html?alert @ INTERFACE - Tomorrow's Desktop. What will computer screens look like ten years from now? http://www.feedmag.com/invent/interface.html @ Immaculate Contraptions - a sneak preview of the inventions that may transform the next century. http://www.feedmag.com/invent/brief.html : Can we have the foggiest notion of what anything will be like in 10, 20, 50, 100 years? Will time-traveling aliens tell us? Do we have to invent the future the hard way, with blood/sweat/luck? Are you up to it? Are your lice? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Uri and Ira, together again. Uri Geller didn't want to make a scene in the restaurant, so he grabbed my teaspoon and walked to the swinging doors in the back of the room. "I'm going to bend a spoon." But this meeting wasn't meant to uncover the secrets of Geller's spoon-bending abilities, but was about Ira Einhorn, the fugitive hippie guru who killed girlfriend Holly Maddux. "Ossining was like a brainstorming center," Geller said during the interview. "He had a control over people," Geller said of his friend. http://phillynews.com:80/daily_news/99/Nov/12/local/URII12.htm # Also - PSYCHIC TRICKERY? http://www.phillynews.com/daily_news/99/Nov/12/local/USID12.htm # Einhorn's Internet words of wisdom: http://www.phillynews.com/daily_news/99/Nov/12/local/UBAR12.htm # Ira interviewed in new Esquire: http://www.phillynews.com/daily_news/99/Nov/12/local/UIRA12.htm : Would you rather bend a spoon or kill someone? Would you kill to be able to bend spoons mentally? Does Geller kill with spoons? Are you in control? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Taking Einstein to the Mat - Peer into Black Holes to Test Relativity. LIVINGSTON, La. (AP) Scientists gathering this week in the piney woods of Louisiana aren't looking for a rare fern or an endangered species of
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #5
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991112e - - - - - - - - - - - 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 humans achieved immortality during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The UnaBomber Quiz: http://thesmokinggun.com/unabomber/unabomber.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NON-FLUORIDE TOWN A BOON TO DENTISTS. Most of the US has left the "cavity- prone years" thanks to water fluoridation, but there is one Indiana town where tooth decay is still going strong. This community continues to be a holdout against water fluoridation - and they've got the dental records to prove it. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=21609 : What's your favorite fluoridation conspiracy? Do you resist fluoridation? Is your mouth rotten? Is your brain affected? Will you die young? Who cares? # Making Robots Microscopic but Mighty - nanotools, nanosoldiers: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/19991108/t000101547.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Indiana Sighting of Humanoids in Woods. (PNN) I walked down the hill into valley and saw 3 suited humanoid figures around a deer carcass about 150 yards away. Behind the beings was a round metallic object that I watched for 10 minutes. After about 15 minutes a being came out of the stainless steel-like craft pointed in my direction. The beings all started moving toward me so I fired four or five shots into the air and ran up hill. I heard a strange sound about 90 seconds later, that may have been the craft leaving. It was almost dark by then. I went back next morning but there was nothing there and I am not crazy. http://www.caus.org/pn111299.htm : Are you a humanoid figure? Do you like to gather around a deer carcass? Do people shoot when you're around? Does this disturb you? Are people crazy??? # Australian Sighting Report: http://www.caus.org/mu111299.htm # And More Arizona UFOs: http://www.caus.org/az111299.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CELLS GRANTED ETERNAL LIFE. A biotech firm has figured out how to create an "immortal" line of human cells to use in research. I know what you're thinking and no, this does NOT mean eternal life is just around the corner for us. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=21740 : What'd ya do with imortality if you had it? Would'ya know immortality if it bit your ass? Would you rather be immortal or immoral? Am I immortal yet? # Monsanto Says "Potato", Nervous Public Says "Mutant Tuber". (TIME) Fearful consumers pitch a hissy over genetically modified foods; biotech companies fight back. http://pathfinder.com/time/daily/0,2960,34237-101991112,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Look at that Sunspot Go! (NASA) On Monday afternoon, November 15, planet Mercury will pass in front of the Sun, creating a speedy dark spot on our star that can be seen through properly filtered telescopes. The unusual grazing geometry will not be repeated for centuries. Enjoy the view, Earthlings: http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast12nov99_1.htm : Why does my 50th birthday have to be clouded by this insignificant smudge? WHY ARE THE REPTILIOIDS DOING THIS TO ME?!? Where did I put my pills? Wait, did I say "my 50th"? How much is that in Zeta Reticulan years? Lemmee see... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Can a Book End Debate Over Religion in Schools? (TIME) A coalition of groups on both sides of the issue have a plan to teach the Bible in public classrooms. But will the schools go along? Will you? http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/0,2960,34153-101991112,00.html : Which versions and subsets of biblical texts would you like to have taught in public schools? Would you kill those who use "wrong" versions/subsets?? # PROTESTS http://detnews.com/1999/entertainment/1112/mdogma/mdogma.htm by Catholics and Christian fundamentalists draw attention to "Dogma," a movie about vengeful angels. It's a "freewheeling, irreverent, disorderly and, above all, juvenile comic fantasy so sloppy, so silly so puerile that it would have died quickly on the vine had it not become a stimulus for religious and political mouthpieces," writes one critic. ALTERNATIVELY: Movie is a "celebratory leap of faith": http://salon.com/ent/index.html : Can films about religion be any sillier, sloppier puerilier than those religions themselves? Is that a stretch? Is your belief system entertaining? # Is Pokémon Evil? Well, maybe not. But educators parents still worry it's gone too far. http://newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/so/a26033-1999nov7.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ WHAT'S NEW - RL.Park - 12 Nov 99 - WARNING! THIS ISSUE MAY CONTAIN THEORIES! # OKLAHOMA: A THEORY THAT CREATIONISTS ARE BOOKBURNERS. The state textbook committee found that biology texts refer to--gasp!--
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 99a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 hearts were heedlessly broken to produce this bulletin. Weep for me. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Word Of The Day: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists 'create' a neutron star. (BBC) Physicists have simulated some effects found around one of the strangest most dangerous objects in the known universe. In New Mexico lab, a machine is creating temperatures rivaling that found at the centre of the Sun. It is helping physicists learn what happens to matter that falls into black holes and neutron stars. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_515000/515765.stm @ Links: Sandia National Laboratories: http://www.sandia.gov/ @ Life cycle of stars: http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/starsbackground.htm : Have you created any neutron stars or black holes lately? Are you a black hole? What quasi-stellar objects would you like to create/visit/pollute?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Robot trainers aid stroke recovery. NEW YORK (Reuters) -- An interactive robot that can coax stroke patients through rehabilitation exercises may help them regain more muscle control and strength than standard therapy alone: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991110/18/health-rob1 # Implants could help paralysed patients. (BBC) Implants could be used in the future to help patients with spinal injuries regain their movement. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_514000/514478.stm : Would you rather be implanted, roboticized, borgified? How many implants and robotic assemblies need be installed before you're completely a Borg? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Medics peer into the future. (BBC) Patients will be implanted with sensors to detect disease, toilets will analyse urine samples and diabetics will never have to worry about their condition again - in the next century. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_514000/514592.stm # ALSO - Taking the needle out of diabetes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_514000/514890.stm # Biosensors 'will transform healthcare': http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_514000/514801.stm : Who will control the machines that monitor/sustain you? Who'll have access to the data they gather? Can you wait for the next century? Must you anyway? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Giving birth may boost memory. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sure it may ruin your figure and take up all your free time, but having children may also boost memory power, a new study in rodents shows. US researchers report that female rats who had given birth performed better on two standard mazes that test learning and memory than female rats who had not given birth. Huh? http://news.excite.com/news/r/991110/20/health-mem8 And see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_514000/514607.stm and http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562015450-e08 # ALSO - Hormones: the elixir of youth: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_395000/395538.stm # Mother's hormone levels 'can affect baby's IQ': http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_424000/424661.stm # Soya beans linked to developmental damage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_503000/503781.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 100-eyed bug surprises scientists. The extraordinary raspberry-like eyes of a tiny parasitic insect have been described for the 1st time. Strep- sipteran insects, which live in the bodies of paper wasps, have a visual system not found in any other living creature. The bugs see out of struc- tures that are made up of 50 self-contained eyes with retinas behind them. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_505000/505129.stm # Also - Insects use lesbian ruse: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_481000/481394.stm # And - Bull's-eye beetle: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_422000/422599.stm : Would you like to have your eyes re-engineered? How many eyes d'ya need? Would you like to see into the IR and UV spectra? Want wideband receivers? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Heart-O-Rama: # Robotic-Assisted Heart Bypass Shown Safe. ATLANTA (Reuters) - Someday surgeons may be able to perform non-invasive heart surgery on a patient without being in the same room or even the same state. Phone-in the per- formance: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991110/02/science-heart-robotics : D'ya want robots crawling around in you, cutting stitching mucking-up? # Chinese Diet Protects Heart. ATLANTA (Reuters) Chinese researchers presented more evidence that the standard Western diet can cause heart disease. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991110/02/science-heart-chinese : Are McFood vendors
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 99b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Oklahomans evolved during the production of this bulletin. No loss... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Zippy Of The Day: http://www.sfgate.com/sf/zippy/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # `WISH MACHINE' MAKES DREAMS COME TRUE. PALM SPRINGS, CA. (Wireless Flash) A Palm Springs man claims to have invented an electronic device that makes wishes come true. Inventor Thor Templar says his "Tachyon Thoughtform Generator Wish Machine" electronically senses brain waves and turns them into reality with the help of a headband and two copper handles. Selling for $700 each: http://www.globetrax.com/globedaily/content/111099_04.html : Can you make dreams come true? Do you have any detectable brain waves? Do Templar's dreams of riches have a possibility of becoming manifestly real? @ Paraphernalia, memorabilia, information: http://www.anotheruniverse.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Oklahoma texts to carry disclaimer. TULSA (AP) An obscure state committee has voted to require that all new biology textbooks contain a disclaimer saying evolution is a "controversial theory" after one member said not enough attention is paid to alternate explanations of how life began. School districts may purchase only books approved by the committee. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562018586-adc : Have OK bureaucrats the slightest conception of what a scientific theory is? Do "alternate explanations" have the slightest shreds of evidentiary support? Does your belief sytem value fantasy/dogma over verifiable reality? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Physical FORCE - What It REALLY IS! Most orthodox physicists do NOT know what force REALLY IS. The best they can do is define it in terms of what it DOES. But according to a GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of physical Reality developed by the late Physicist Dewey B. Larson, each force is a MOTION, or a COMBINATION OF MOTIONS, or a RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOTIONS, including INWARD OUTWARD SCALAR MOTIONS, as TRANSLATIONAL, VIBRATIONAL, ROTA- TIONAL, or ROTATIONAL-VIBRATIONAL motions. http://www.randomc.com/~rs : Are you forceful? Do you rotate? Do aliens push you around in circles? Do you have a really neat Theory? Does everyone ignore you, the fools?!?!?!?!? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Study may shed light on planets. (AP) - Scientists say a loosely packed asteroid with the consistency of a melting snowman may help explain how planets formed in the early solar system: by gobbling up other objects. Mathilde: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562016474-787 # Move Over Mars - Europa Needs Equal Billing. Europa, a moon of Jupiter, appears to have vast quantities of liquid water below its icy surface, making this world a top candidate in the search for exobiology -- life beyond Earth. The National Research Council recommended to NASA that Europa be given equal priority to future exploration of Mars. Coming: http://www.space.com/news/planetarymissions/europa_story_991109.html : What's your favorite planet/oid? Do you grow by gobbling up other objects just like Mathilde? Do you have vast quantities of water under your surface? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Cylinder UFO Reports: http://www.caus.org/mu99.htm # UFO Crash In 1865 - Craft Wreckage Still There? http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/crashwreck.htm # Catholics successfully pray topless bar away - the place will soon become a library. http://detnews.com/1999/metro/9911/11/0080.htm # Malaysia parliament to be dissolved - dumped in sulfuric acid bath: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562015065-c32 # Pastor: I BURNED THE CHURCH TO UNIFY MY PARISHIONERS. Nothing brings a religious community together like a nice construction project, eh? Or a topless bar: http://www.ardemgaz.com/today/ark/B5xharris11.html # CDC: Pesticide may have been cause. Malathion sprayed over two Florida towns to kill crop-eating MedFlies may have sickened 123 people last year: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562017063-6d9 # SAME DRUGS CHEAPER FOR PETS THAN PEOPLE - redefine yourself as a dog, save money: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9911/09/health.drugs.reut/ # Pope's health raises questions - Death provides the answers: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562024385-54e @ Why them? Falling in love remains a mystery, even in the harsh light of scientific analysis: http://www.sfbg.com/lit/october99/reviews/cupid.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Genetic Ethnically-Specific BioWeapons Coming. NEW DELHI - Biological weapons that would attack one ethnic group but leave others untouched may be available within 10 years. While the potential benefits of
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991110a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No software monopolists were cloned during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Do Your Own Mars Exploring! http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HEADS UP! THE LEONIDS ARE COMING! (NASA) The upcoming Leonid meteor shower (Nov. 17-18) is predicted to be the biggest in decades and perhaps for the next century. While we are safe on the ground, satellite operators are concerned that even small impacts could short-circuit satellites. NASA will coordinate a team that helps track changes in the shower that could be a storm. http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast10nov99_1.htm : Are you ready for a meteor storm? Are y'r sats shielded? Will the orbiting commo infrastucture be decimated?? D'yahave backups: smoke signals, flags, heliographs? Will holes be punched in the sky? Is this The End already?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Baptists vote 'no' on wifely submission. EL PASO (AP) - Texas' Southern Baptists rejected the sect's call for gals to "submit graciously" to their husbands/masters. "The Bible doesn't teach that the husband is the general and the wife is a private, but yet that's how it gets interpreted;" see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562002387-834 # Also: Baptists vote to take Confederate flag down, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562004468-70e : Are you graciously submissive, archly uppity, overbearingly domineering? Do you agree with biblical texts supporting slavery, genocide, kid-bashing? Does your belief system establish interpersonal hierarchies? D'ya revolt?? @ Wealth on a small scale: there's a species of fly, says Stephen Jay Gould, in which the male presents his lady with a gift of food wrapped in silk: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/99/1011/6409090a.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ProblemsSolutionsInnovations: BRINGING CONTROLLED REMOTE VIEWING TO YOU. Welcome to ProblemsSolutionsInnovations (PSI). Here at PSI we strive to bring you the most up-to-date information regarding Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV). Whether you are well-versed in CRV or you are a beginner, you will find what you need here. http://www.crviewer.com/index2.html : How remotely do you view? Do you see many buffalo from far away? Do alien scenes flash into your consciousness? Do you know what I'm wearing now?? # Hubble spies a doomed star. (BBC) A detailed image of a stellar nursery taken by the Hubble Space telescope shows a young but doomed star. Tsk. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_512000/512582.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New atlas asks: Is the world the wrong way up? LONDON (Reuters) - Is the world the wrong way up? A new atlas just published in Britain questions the conventional logic that the north, and consequently Europe and the United States, are undisputed king of the world. Stand on your head: http://www.cnn.com/books/news/9911/08/bc.millennium.map.reut/index.html : Do you need new perspectives? Does your alien implant change your view- point? Can you see reality with fly-o-vision? Do your maps need re-drawing? @ A repository http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/users/mount/maps.html of science maps! That is, if you aren't more interested in old maps and the history of cartography. http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/maps/sum.html Mapping needs still unfulfilled? Check the WWWVL's guide to online and commercial maps http://geog.gmu.edu/projects/maps/cartogrefs.html and the Oddens archive. http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/ see http://memepool.com/Subject/Cartography/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Voices didn't drive Kinkel. EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - One by one, Kip Kinkel's victims rose in court and told him they thought he was lying when he claimed that voices in his head made him open fire inside his high school cafeteria. "I'm not falling for this poor, mentally sick rich boy" crap: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562006269-6e3 : Are the voices in your head unreliable? Do they back you up when you need them? Do your invisible friends lead you astray? Are they naughty? Are you? @ Would 100 monkeys in front of 100 typewriters for 100 years eventually type a Shakespearean sonnet? The Search for Intelligent Monkeys on the Internet http://www.100monkeys.org/ hopes to find out. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Bruce H.G.Calder's THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 10 November 1938 -Germany- Starting yesterday, November 9, and continuing thru the night, a public demonstration against the assassination of a Paris embassy official by a Jewish refugee takes place. This shooting provides the excuse to incite Germans to "rise in bloody vengeance against the Jews." This "spontaneous" demo is organized by
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #2
-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:
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991109a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 suitcase nukes detonated during production of this bulletin. Whew... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Open up a portal to another dimension: http://www.jodi.org/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Your Ancestors May Be Martian. Nanobes from Mars may account for the origin of life on Earth - but where did they originally come from? http://www.space.com/science/astronomy/rocks_fromspace_991108.html : What planet did you come from? How did you get here? What do you want? # How an Asteroid Impact Causes Extinction: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/ast.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # POL FEARS SOVIETS HID A-BOMBS ACROSS U.S. WASHINGTON - A congressional Russia expert says the FBI is afraid to ask Russia a direct, potentially shocking question: Are suitcase-sized nuclear bombs buried in the U.S. - including New York? http://www.nypost.com/110799/news/17726.htm # Future flu pandemic could kill 200,000 in US. NEW YORK (Reuters) Another deadly flu pandemic is "highly likely, if not inevitable," according to experts, and could take the lives of more than 200,000 persons in the US alone. shiver http://news.excite.com/news/r/991108/18/health-flu10 : Are you more concerned with suitcase nukes, flu pandemics, degenerate rok' n'rol, yuppification, alien abductions, creeping fascism, ozone holes, me?? What's the worst thing that's happening to you right now? D'ya fight back? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Japan reprimands cell researcher. TOKYO (AP) The Japanese govt criticized the ethics of a researcher at a Tokyo university who combined a human cell with a cow's egg - a procedure officials said was too similar to cloning. But the scientist defended it as unrelated to cloning and merely aimed at studying leukemia blood cells. He warned that Japan would fall behind the United States and other Western nations in basic research on cells. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561984828-6c3 : Do you want to be cloned? Wanna be hybridized with a cow? Is international clone competition heightening? Is there a clone gap? Will losers be eaten?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Researchers Stung By Claims Of AIDS Origin. PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) An eminent U.S. medical research center will release lab specimens from a 1950s polio vaccine project in Africa in hopes of dispelling claims that its scientists inadvertently caused the AIDS epidemic. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991109/01/science-aids-polio : Is AIDS accidental, deliberate, natural, extraterrestrial? Were you invol- ved in AIDS development/promulgation? Are your masters happy with your work? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Austalian Fishers Claim To Have Videotaped UFO. (AAP) A group of profes- sional fishermen said yesterday they had video footage showing a recent possible UFO sighting off the coast of northern New South Wales. Strange, dome-shaped object : http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/aussieufo_u.htm : Have you taped any UFOs lately? Have any UFOs taped you? Which is better? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Interfaces: The Century's Top 10. (TechRev) The world we experience is incresingly defined by the intermediaries between us and our machines. Betcha can't make it through the day without using all 10. Just try: http://www.techreview.com/articles/nov99/kreuze.htm : What's your favorite interface? Are you an interface yourself? Does your alien implant interface well with you? Do you dream of electric sheep? How? # ACID DREAMS - LSD, the CIA, and Your Brain: http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/acid_dreams/acid_dreams1.shtml @ PSYCHOACTIVE VAULTS: http://erowid.org/psychoactives/psychoactives.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Future fantastic, future frightening? (BBC) In the future, will babies be born in artificial wombs or even in surrogate pig mothers? Will time travel allow distant stars to be visited? And will telepathy become a reality as brains and computers interface? So bright I gotta wear shades: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_505000/505022.stm # ALSO - The future's not all bright: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_504000/504682.stm # Scientist puts computer in control: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_503000/503552.stm # Vision of the future - peek-a-boo: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_472000/472796.stm : What's your favorite future prospect? Are you ready for immortality, time travel, intergalactic excursions, teledildonics, expanded corruption, goo? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The Jesus Orgy. Now, I've gone to black churches and gospel concerts throughout the South (to hear stirring renditions of "This Little Light of Mine" and "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" and to reflect on the comparative dead-dullness of the
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991109c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 mice were potentiated during production of this bulletin. But wait... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Nude Of The Day: http://www.nerve.com/photoday/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Schizophrenia drug 'stimulates brain activity.' (BBC) The first study of how a new schizophrenia drug affects key areas of the brain could herald new treatments for the condition which affects 1% of the UK population. Gooba. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_509000/509927.stm # Also - Schizophrenia: The facts: news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/medical_notes/newsid_218000/218389.stm @ Links - National Schizophrenia Fellowship: http://www.nsf.org.uk/ @ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: http://www.pnas.org/ @ UK Department of Health http://www.doh.gov.uk/ : Are you British, schizo, drugged? Is your brain stimulated? Is it fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Brawn, brains do mix - at least in mice. SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) A study shows brawn and brains do mix, at least in mice, which have been shown to get smarter with exercise. http://news.excite.com/news/u/991108/20/health-mice : Do we want smarter, stronger mice Do you exercise your brain and/or body and/or implant and/or fingertips and/or metaphysical matrix? Are you BUFF? # Healthy lifestyles could prevent 80% of heart disease: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991108/18/health-nur12 # East meets West not good for the heart - gringo plot: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991108/18/health-wok9 # Obesity Brings On Early Heart Disease and Death: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991109/01/science-heart-obesity _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China busts 111 Falun Gong. BEIJING (AP) China cops have formally arrested 111 Falun Gong members in their extended crackdown on the banned spiritual group, and at least two other followers died while in custody. Authorities in Beijing rounded up more than 1,000 followers who streamed into the capital from other provinces in recent weeks to protest a tightening of the government's ban. Those followers were subjected to lectures about the supposed evils of Falun Gong - a process the communist government calls education - and most were then sent to their home provinces. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561984844-41d # ALSO - 2 Falun Gong members die in custody - nor formally arrested. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561991019-d39 : Would you rather die in custody or be shot while trying to escape? Do you like to suppress people? Are you driving them into exile? Are CIA mind-con- trol rays exacerbating the situation in China? Is revolution being fomented? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Rabbi rocks! (U-WIRE) COLLEGE PARK, Md. The sounds of Bob Dylan's classic "All Along the Watchtower" were met with screaming, swaying and dancing by a crowd gathered at the University of Maryland's Nyumburu Amphitheater Saturday night to hear none other than -- no, not Dylan -- the Rockin' Renaissance Rabbi. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/991109/odd-133 : Does your Rebbe rock? Do you? Have you ever sung with Schlomo Carlebach? Do one or more deities/spirits/demons/aliens influence your musical style? @ Does U.S. music have a heritage of greatness, or is it one of mediocrity, propped up by patriotic and moral conceits of the musical establishment? http://www.nationalreview.com/22nov99/nordlinger112299.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # How to Buy GOP Candy. Imagine a site where you can do your shopping, plan your calendar, and engage in "family-friendly" philosophical chats on the Republican way of life. Coming soon: GOPnet. All plutocrats, all the time: a political ISP - http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32401,00.html : Does your belief system sell Net access yet? Is this a good fund-raiser? Does your site feature hypnotic patterns for mindcontrol dominance of your users? How many minds does your conspiracy control? Is purchase required? # MS Pals Dis Monopoly Finding. Microsoft pays big money to surround itself with influential friends. Does anyone expect them to abandon their patron? http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32387,00.html # MSFT Defiant: http://www.wired.com/news/reuters/0,1349,32422,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y2K-a-Rama: # Y2K Countdown - All Systems Go for US Nukes. (Wired) All 103 nuclear power plants in the US have been deemed fully functional for the calendar roll- over. But that doesn't preclude the possibility of human error, watchdogs say. Bother... http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32409,00.html # Y2K - Europe's Y2k 'blacklist' - 10 EU countries too dangerous: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_506000/506554.stm # Y2K - No Bangladeshi planes over millennium:
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991108a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 goldfish, geeks or Reptilioids were branded to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UK'S 1999 Crop Circle Season Had Some Surprises - Year's Best Featured Spectacular Details Never Seen Before: http://caus.org/ccr110899.htm @ Images: http://cropcircleconnector.com/1999/Avebury/Avebury99a.html and www.cropcircleconnector.com/1999/StantonStBernard/Stantonstbernard99a.html : Have you improved your crop-circle designs lately? Are you adding great, specftacular details? Do the voices in your head offer aesthetic advice?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Animals-R-Us: # Pets Cut Dangerous Surges In Blood Pressure. ATLANTA (Reuters) Facing a stressful task? Trade your husband or wife for a dog or a cat. NOW!! http://news.excite.com/news/r/991108/08/odd-health-heart-pets : Would you rather have a cat, a dog, a husband, a wife, a robot, or me? Do you raise your companions' blood pressure? Do they raise yours? How? # Psychic: Dog may have been military leader in past. (AC) She paid $15 to learn about her Boston terrier's previous lives, but was shaken by the revelation about Amanda the dog. "Goodness, who knew?" she asked. Does atrocity lurk in every pet? http://www.azcentral.com/news/1108pet.shtml : Is your pet a reincarnated mass-murderer, demagogue, conquistador? Who? Who's your favorite historical figure to have been reincarnated as y'r pet? # British Reporter 'Tortured With Branding Iron.' LONDON (Reuters) An award- winning TV documentary maker who exposed extreme elements within Britain's Animal Liberation Front (ALF) said he was kidnapped and tortured with a branding iron. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991108/08/odd-crime-branding : Would you rather brand animals, reporters, lawyers, aliens, robots, me? Do you brand/torture many of your adversaries? Do they brand/torture you? Why? # School-spirited Texas teens spray-paint animals. To "celebrate" the big upcoming football game, high school kids spray-painted cows and pigs (in green gold, the school colors), and fatally beat some animals, including ten prize-winning turkeys. http://dallasnews.com/metro/1107met5turkeys.htm : Do you have a love/hate relationship with animals? Do voices in your head direct your attitudes/behavior towards animals? Should animal activists burn HS students with branding irons? Is it OK to molest a pig who was Hitler in a previous life? Is spray-painting animals good for your blood pressure? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Woman to fight her "blessed day" discipline. Her bosses told her to knock off the "blessed day" business, but Liz Anderson is determined to keep it up. She hired a lawyer to file a religious discrimination complaint. "My telling people to 'have a blessed day' is not taking anything away from anybody:" http://starnews.com/news/citystate/99/nov/1107st_blessed.html : Do you annoy people with your verbal blessings, exorcisms, curses, other spiritual statements? Do others annoy you with such language? Will you sue? # 500 Falun Gong sentenced to slave labor, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561966743-f73 # Also: China building Falun Gong cases, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561950702-24e _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Five men arrested after scary "supernatural encounter." Dressed as Ninja warriors for martial-arts practice, the guys pounded on a minister's door at 2 a.m. after they were confronted by a beast-like demon. "We just wanted to talk to the pastor because Shaun was pretty spooked" - but the cops were called: http://www.courant.com/news/archive/Nov7-ctnews6.stm : Have you encountered any demons lately? Did you run to a pastor? Were you exorcised, busted, cursed, obliterated? Are you a beast-like demon? Really? @ THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO BEING PSYCHIC at least declares its honest regard for its readership: http://www.csicop.org/si/9909/book-review.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS - Jesus expelled from class - 'Poster' boy, 7, fights decision with crayons, lawsuit: http://nypostonline.com/news/17606.htm $ 'Brave New Schools' - Get this expose of the public school system: https://locked.webforums.com/forums/secure.o-read/msa64.211.html : Have you promoted your belief system in a tax-supported venue lately? Do you mind if your taxes support the promotion of other people's beliefs? Eh? @ Harry Keeler's mysteries give us a world that is idiotic, to be sure, but also pleasingly weird and lunatic. Here are crimes whose solutions are exquisitely unreal: http://www.sfbg.com/lit/october99/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Vatican vs. Scotland - Church blasts end to ban on promoting homosexuality:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991108b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 artificially-grown heart valves were stolen to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Die of heart disease, or something: http://www.clottedcream.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Editor's Note: Many of you, o Gentle Readers, who have emailed me in the last couple weeks have received no reply. It's not that I hate you; but since my recent Win98 crash, I'm still working on my backup machine, and am trying to restore the systems to my main machine. The latter, a Compaq laptop, is slow enough; the former, a Monorail of dimished capacity, is slower than snot on a cold day. And I have other excuses. But suffice to say, I'll respond to you as soon as I can. Thanx for your patience. --Ric PS: Donations of new, blindingly fast hardware will not be refused. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFOS COME IN All Sizes and Shapes... With some UFO's it's stretching a point to call them saucer-shaped. But whether they're round and thin, long stubby, or even shaped like home plate, they remain as baffling - and fascinating - as ever. http://users.ev1.net/~seektress/sizes.htm # WE FLEW ABOVE the Flying Saucers. How does it feel to see flying saucers? Like most people, we had never consciously expected to face that question, but now we have an answer. When you see "saucers" from the angle and near- ness that we did, and watch them go through the astonishing maneuver that we witnessed, you feel humbled. http://users.ev1.net/~seektress/above.htm : What's your favorite flying saucer? What angle did you see it from? Were you near? Did aliens abduct you? Did you abduct aliens? Did everyone escape? @ Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe DataPage - UFO Pioneer: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/keyhoedatapage.html # Deer Hunters Claims To Have Seen ETs In Woods: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/filers11699.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ROOF COLLAPSES AT CHURCH. The concrete roof of a covered walkway collapsed as churchgoers socialized between services, injuring 17 people. Dozens of people on and near the 72-foot-long walkway had been sharing doughnuts and coffee at St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church when the structure fell. No life-threatening injuries: http://cnn.com/US/9911/07/walkwaycollapse.ap/ : Was this God's Will? Should God be charged with aggravated assault? Do your deities regularly injure, maim, kill their followers? Do you mind?? @ What is the present tense of "wrought," as in the line from Judges, "What hath God wrought"? Steven Pinker has the surprising answer: www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/11/07/stibooboo01011.html?1334425 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Muslims remove protest tent. JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli Muslims removed a tent which they had pitched outside a basilica in Nazareth to thwart a Catholic Church plan to build a plaza there. The Muslims agreed to remove the tent after the Israeli government authorized building a mosque on part of the square. The Church criticized the government's decision as capitulation to Muslims and a failure to defend the rights of the Christian population. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561976311-4d8 : Do buildings threaten your religious rights? Do you think more religious building should be built because the more there are, the more will collapse? # 4 Killed In Indonesia Riot - Christian-Muslim Conflict Widening: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561966752-75c # Racial and Religious Integration Ruffles Malaysia University: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561968874-68b _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SPACEVIEWS: X-33 Hydrogen Tank Damage May Delay Program - Engine Replace- ment May Delay Shuttle Launch - Challenger Tile Auction Halted - Service Module Launch Delayed - Astronomers Discover Planet Around Binary Star - Decision on Shuttle Replacement Years Away - US Abstains from UN Space Vote - Candidate McCain Speaks Out on Space - SpaceViews Event Horizon - Other News - The X-20 Dyna Soar: http://www.spaceviews.com/1999/1108/ : Are space projects always delayed? Do ETs interfere with our space work, to keep us from finding or competing with them? Are you an alien saboteur? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hindus protest Baptist booklet. HOUSTON (AP) Over 100 people protested at one of the US's largest Baptist churches over a booklet that urges South- ern Baptists to pray for Hindus' deliverance from the "power of Satan." "We want all people to understand that religious intolerance is rearing its head in this country. Some people aren't aware of the type of hate that is being preached by mainstream churches." The booklet, distributed during Divali, the major Hindu festival of lights, says Hindus have no concept of sin or personal responsibility and "worship
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991108c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 pig hearts were implanted in Sikhs during prduction of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Friends: http://www.isness.org/FRIENDS.JPG _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # When Disclosure Serves Secrecy. (PNN) The covert projects which have been running UFO related programs for nearly 60 years are not interested in a disclosure which upsets their apple cart. They want such a disclosure to transform their apple cart into a freight train. And they potentially have the power and connections to do it. http://caus.org/pn110899.htm : Do you derive power from your UFO work? Will you do ANYTHING to retain enhance such power? Are all who oppose you doomed? Do you rule the world?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Researchers Grow Artificial Heart Valves In Sheep. ATLANTA (Reuters) Artificial heart valves made from a patient's own cells have worked in experiments with sheep and may someday be used in humans: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991108/00/science-heart-valves # Japanese Study Hints Of Home-Grown Heart Bypasses. ATLANTA (Reuters) Cells taken from the umbilical cords of newborns might work to help heart patients grow their own heart bypasses: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991108/00/science-heart-cells : Do you want replacement heart parts grown in yourself, in pigs or sheep or cows or clones? Would you rather have nanobots rebuild your heart? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PENTAGON MUSED HACKING SERBS. During last spring's conflict with Yugo- slavia, the Pentagon considered hacking into Serbian computer networks to disrupt military operations and basic civilian services. But it refrained from doing so, according to senior defense officials, due to continuing uncertainties and limitations surrounding the emerging field of cyber warfare. http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35345-1999Nov7.html : Do you have ethical/tactical/mental problems with CyberWar? Do you wage cyberwar anyway? Do you lie about it? Are you waging cyberwar right now?? # REPORT LINKS FREED PUERTO RICANS TO CUBA - Spies For Castro? http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/11/07/puertorico.clemency/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Anthrax drill gets a little too real. The players in a mock anthrax attack were thrown into a real scare after pepper spray was released during the exercise. http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/nov99/anthrax07110699.asp # TB gene found. SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Scientists have identified a gene necessary for the tuberculosis bacterium to wreak its disease-causing havoc in the lung. http://news.excite.com/news/u/991105/19/health-tb : When will engineered TB make its appearance in BioWar? Do you prefer to use/have TB, anthrax, AIDS, mega-jock-itch, other biological agents? Which? # Researchers try to control fire ants - fire ants reciprocate: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561968639-36c _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE GOTHS COME OUT AT NIGHT. Think of the "Saturday Night Live" parody of pubescent kids competing over who's more goth when you visit this newsgroup. Enjoy the long thread about Slimelight, a British goth club; and there's some healthy mocking of the poor goth who takes himself and his "Ministry of Evil" too seriously. News:uk.people.gothic : Are you goth? Are you more goth than me? Yah? Can you ever be goth enough, too goth, WAY too goth? How? Do you minister to evil? Is it rewarding? How? @ Send dog doo via the Internet: http://www.dogdoo.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pope: Religious freedom a right. NEW DELHI, India (AP) - With his church under fire by Hindus for its missionary work, Pope John Paul II said free- dom to practice or change one's religion must be considered a basic human right. Then Holy Office agents beamed mindcontrol rays into the audience. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561978117-40f : Do we have the right to NOT be converted, as well as to convert? Have you converted lately? To what? Was it voluntary? Are you sure? Were drugs used? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BAGPIPES RESONATE THROUGH RUGGED COASTLINE OF... SPAIN? The green, rolling hills and wild, untamed sea conjure up a vivid image of the rugged Irish coastline - but tho there are bagpipers galore providing background music for this idyllic scene, this is not Ireland. Rather, it's northern Spain, a region whose unique Celtic culture has moved ahead with a unique inno- vation: electric bagpipes. http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9911/05/wb.galicia : Are bagpipes Satan's favorite musical instrument? Are pipers diabolic? If you listen to pipes, are you damned eternally? Are electric bagpipes even more horrible than the acoustic variety? Should pipes pipers be burnt?? # CAT scan used to study artifacts - non-intrusive
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991107a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 holy hallucinogenic plants were patented to produce of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Jed Clampett folk art: http://www.buddyebsen.com/jed5.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Falun Gong members to be sent to slave camp. BEIJING - Thousands of Falun Gong followers who traveled to Beijing to protest the banning of their sect as an "evil religion" are likely to be sent, without trial, to a labor camp for up to three years. Remember that when you buy Chinese. www.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,500054341-500089345-500318929-0,00.html : Should your sect be sold into slavery? DO you like to buy products made by slaves? If you complain about product quality, are the slaves beaten?? @ Beyond facts - Can one teach spirituality in college? http://www.salon.com/books/it/1999/11/05/lastyear10/index.html @ "Priestess" Sinéad O'Connor abandons neo-Catholic celibacy vow: http://www.salon.com/health/sex/urge/world/1999/11/05/sinead/print.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Canadian Health Officials Pull Chinese Herbal Drugs. TORONTO (Reuters) Canadian health authorities have pulled five Chinese herbal medicines from store shelves because of fears an acid-producing herb, Aristolochia, could cause cancer, human cell mutations and kidney failure. Bummer... http://news.excite.com/news/r/991107/00/science-health-herbal # Amazon Group Wins Plant Patent Case. QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) Amazonian indigenous peoples celebrated their victory over a U.S. businessman who patented a hallucinogenic vine that the Indians use in religious rites. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991107/00/science-environment-ecuador : What's your fave ritual herb? Are you cancerous? Are you hallucinating? Are you mutating? Do you appropriate ritual herbs? Are you cursed yet?? @ Out-of-brain experience: you are having one right now as you watch a movie in your head, currently starring SkeptiNews. Think of it as do-it-yourself virtual reality: http://www.sciam.com/1999/1199issue/1199reviews1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ARE WE ASCENDING? If so, what are the signs? Who's helping us, and who's not? So are we ascending? I'd say yes. How do we know? Simple, just look at the many predictions that haven't come true. By now we should have had a lot more earthquakes; California should have been devastated by a major quake. Comet Lee, named the "King of Terror" by Nostradamos, was supposed to wreak havoc on earth, but once again, it came went without much ado. The fact that predictions are not coming true, are the signs that we are ascending. http://www.nibiruancouncil.com/html/ascending_article.html : Are you ascending? Am I? Are we all? Where to? Why? If we ascend, will we poke holes in the roof? Will the rain get in? Will everything be spoiled?? # Satellite Firm Offers Detailed Global Photos - see everything NOW!! http://news.excite.com/news/r/991107/00/science-space-spaceimaging _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Science Struggles With Faith, Authority. WASHINGTON (Reuters) In 1500, if you wanted to know something about the world around you, it was wise to ask the Church, as Galileo found out to his dismay. Or did he? http://news.excite.com/news/r/991107/00/science-millennium-science : Was Galileo suppressed because be was a dangerous rebel, or just because he was an arrogant asshole? Have you read Koestler's biography? D'ya care? @ "It's a technological solution to the nonexistence of God; It makes us feel like our calendars are counting something." Y2k, the song: http://members.aol.com/tmshaw/y2k/y2k.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Cultural/Economic Barriers to Protecting Children from Ritual Abuse Mind Control. How are we to understand phenomena of ritual abuse in the 1990's? Throughout the Western world, increasing numbers of therapists helping professionals are hearing accounts from children as young as 2 adults into their 90s describe mind-numbing accounts of abuses consisting of sexual sadism and pornography, physical torture, and highly sophisticated psychological manipulation which, taken together, we have come to refer to as ritual abuse. http://members.tripod.com/~Curio_5_/gould.html : Do you engage in ritual abuse? Is it fun? Are you a member of an organized group? Who do you abuse? Who don't you abuse? Should you be abused too? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # RITUAL SACRIFICE OF EGYPT AIR 990. A pattern of Egyptian motifs re: New York City - the "West Nile" virus, the "Black Madonna", the "Old Kingdom" artifacts display at the Met - indicates that EA990 was ritually killed. Numerological confirmation: http://www.enterprisemission.com/egyptair.htm : Have you ritually sacrificed any airliners lately? Do you sexually abuse them first? How do you
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991103a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. : No annoying commentators were harmed during production of this bulletin. And let's keep it like that. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ EAT IT RAW: http://www.californiacarnivores.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Today In History - 3 Nov.1888: Jack the Ripper kills last victim - or did he? You decide: http://va.crimelibrary.com/jack/jackmain.htm Tomorrow In History: 4 Nov.1922: Howard Carter finds tomb of Tutankhamen: emuseum.mankato.msus.edu/information/biography/abcde/carter_howard.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Streiber Calls For Serious Scrutiny Of UFO Evidence. UFO writer Whitley Strieber challenged both the scientific community and news media to focus more attention on what he described as the "ever-increasing" evidence of encounters with extra-terrestrial beings. Then he morphed into a werewolf and attacked reporters. http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/streiber_u.htm : How much attention is focused on UFOs now? How much time/money should be spent on UFOs? How much would you spend? Would you like your taxes raised? @ Follow The Bouncing Ball By Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe: http://users.ev1.net/~seektress/bball.htm @ Mjr. Donald E. Keyhoe DataPage: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/keyhoedatapage.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Kinkel journal read aloud in court. EUGENE OR(AP) Rambling journal entries written by a teen-ager who killed his parents 2 classmates were read as his sentencing began, with passages describing his feelings of rejection evil. "I am so full of rage... Blowing the school up or walking into a pep assembly with guns... That is how I will repay all you... They won't laugh after they are scraping pieces of their parents, sisters, brothers and friends from the wall of my hate." He shot 27 students - See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561893080-c5d : Who ran Kip Kinkel's mindcontrol program? Was his derangement deliberate or inadvertant? Were/are you a tortured youth? Have you killed? Did you try? @ The Psychohistory of the Vampire: http://www.generation.net/~kazoo/Features/indexcrtique.html @ Who Wouldn't Want to be a Vampire? http://www.generation.net/~kazoo/Features/indexvampire.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Faith-O-Rama: # Mormon Temple Unease. NAUVOO, Ill. (AP) - More than 150 years ago, Mormons fleeing persecution settled here and carved a city from the wilderness between a high bluff a bend in the Mississippi River. The centerpiece of that community was a great temple on the bluff's brow. The temple took 5 years to finish, but by then church founder Joseph Smith had been slain and his followers were being driven out by neighbors suspicious of the new religion. Fire storm later destroyed the temple. Now, the Mormon Church is planning a two-year, $23 million effort to rebuild the temple. And once again, the project is causing unease among neighbors. Some people fear a big influx of new residents and more tourists drawn by the temple, which plays a central role in the history of the 10-million-member LDS Church. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561889075-5ac : Do you have a large temple in your neighborhood? D'ya want one, many? Why? # China Busts Catholic Bishop. BEIJING (AP) Cops busted a 65-year-old bishop of China's underground Roman Catholic Church; his whereabouts are unknown. China frequently imprisons priests and worshippers who remain loyal to the Vatican and refuse to participate in the state-approved church, set up in the 1950s. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561887872-9bc : Have you registered your belief system with the govt yet? Why not? # 9 Arrested To Protect Pope. NEW DELHI, India (AP) Cops busted nine Hindu activists to avoid any trouble during Pope John Paul II's visit this week. They belong to Shiv Sena, an ally of governing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. The militants were arrested on breach of the peace charges. The Shiv Sena and two religious affiliates demand the pope apologize for killings forced conversions in Portuguese colonies in India in the 16th century. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561892451-f2c # 11 Busted: http://news.excite.com/news/u/991103/01/international-pope : Which religious leader would you most like to protest/humiliate/damage? @ JP2 - Millennial Pope: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pope # KGB Plotted To Kill Pope. ROME (Reuters) Soviet spies in the KGB plotted to destabilize the Roman Catholic church and even kill Pope John Paul II, according to Czech documents sent to Italy's secret services. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991103/08/international-pope-plot : Is your belief system stable? Would killing your leader have any effect?
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #2
-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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991103c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 antediluvian megaliths were badly damaged to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Jesus of the Week: http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/extra/gilstrap/jesus.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Archeologists Make New Finds At Miami Circle. MIAMI (Reuters) Charred wood fragments suggesting the construction of dugout canoes and carbon-dating tests on bones and charcoal show that the downtown Miami Circle was probably the site of a thriving American Indian town, archeologists said: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991103/00/science-life-circle : What's your favorite prehistoric circle? Did aliens gather there? When? # Underwater Structures Found Off Malta. Recently, structures resembling a megalithic temple have been found on the seabed in Maltese waters and they are being studied to see if indeed they are a form of megalithic temple. http://www.sightings.com/politics5/malta.htm : What's your favorite megalithic structure? Is it under- or above-water? @ How to make a real arrowhead from a beer bottle: http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~t64tr/bottle.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ultra-tiny machines are becoming big hope for scientists. WASHINGTON -- After years of preliminary research, hope and hype, business industry are starting to enter the strange, invisible world of the very... Very... VERY small. "Nanoscience and technology will change the nature of almost every human-made object in the next century." Are you teeny-weeny yet? http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/029581.htm : How do you know that alien nanobots aren't already coursing through your veins, controlling your neurobiology, your every thought and deed? Huh?? # Spyware Grabs Keystrokes, Mouse Motion, Even Phone Calls: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/spyware.htm # How Much Is Your Playlist Worth? How About Your Privacy? http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32258,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Medic-o-Rama: # Cutting-Edge Day Trips. LONDON (Reuters) Frenchmen seeking a vasectomy can now take a day trip to Britain for the operation but Paris media refuse to tell them about the "away day" with a difference. Why not? http://news.excite.com/news/r/991103/07/odd-britain-vasectomy : What's your fave vacation experience? Was surgery/implantation involved? @ Doctor Over Time. It didn't really matter what ailed you. If you were sick in 1900, your doctor couldn't do much except provide comfort til your body defeated the illness, or until the illness defeated you. The doc had a few goodies in his little black bag, though: morphine aspirin to ease pain, quinine to fight malaria, smallpox vaccine, digitalis for heart failure. How that black bag has grown in this century! There are drugs treatments for almost every illness known. Today's medics draw upon a vast arsenal of drugs, vaccines, and diagnostic tools that could not even be dreamed of in 1900. This activity shows how doctors over this century would have handled the same afflictions. All you have to do is complain to the doctor, then see how he or she responds. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/doctor/# : Do you long for the good old days of natural healing? How long d'ya think you'd've lived then? D'ya prefer medics, faith-healers, aliens, robots, me? @ ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE HOMEPAGE. Sources of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative and integrative therapies. http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/altm.html @ The latest news about alternative and complementary medicine: http://www.healthcentral.com/Centers/OneCenter.cfm?Center=Alternative : What's your favorite unothodox, unproven, untested medical treatment? # Lawmaker mulls open doctor database - secret govt database lists doctors who have been disciplined for incompetence, malpractice or other problems. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561891822-566 : What do you know about your doctor? Does remove viewing help you? How? # Paramedics Rush Toy To Hospital. LONDON (Reuters) A group of UK paramedics had the fright of their lives this Halloween, when they mistook a child's toy found on a London subway station platform for a human fetus and rushed it to hospital. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991103/07/odd-alien : Do you perform practice abortions on Barbie or other dolls? With what? # Rats Dive into Cell Phone Debate. An experiment with rats swimming in milk shows cell phones may damage long-term memory and the ability to navigate. What does this strange study mean for humans? What else? http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32280,00.html : Should rats be allowed to have cell-phones? Do they already? Do you? # 6 Gene Therapy Deaths
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991102b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Egyptian pilots augered-in during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ How To Be Goth: http://home.talkcity.com/QuadCir/astaroth/goth.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Chronic strain linked to depression in women. NEW YORK (Reuters) - The chronic strain caused by daily stresses and lower social power may explain why women are more likely than men to experience depression, new research suggests. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991102/12/health-gen3 # SHADOWS FROM THE PAST: POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER. She was desperate, fearful. She heard voices in her head, feared she was going crazy. "The world means to do me harm," she told her shrink. "Someone might want to kill me." The voice she heard: a family member who had abused her. Twice as many women as men have PTSD: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9911/01/ptsd.wmd/ # Young breast cancer patients may be depressed. NEW YORK (Reuters) -- For several reasons, including the "unexpected psychologic/physical shock" of having cancer at a young age, younger women diagnosed with breast cancer are more likely to show signs of depression than their older counterparts. Surprise, surprise: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991101/17/health-you8 : Are you female, sick, stressed, depressed? Do biology culture conspire to depress you? Are you mind-controlled? Or are you a controller, inducing depression/despair in women? Do you enjoy your work? Are you well-paid??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ BrainWave Generator. Want to relax? Meditate? Learn faster? Focus atten- tion? Sleep better? Alleviate headaches other pain? Prepare for stress- ful situations? Increase your awareness? Try self-hypnosis? Have better sex? Make more money? Enhance psychic capabilities? Dominate all others? Take total control? http://www.saunalahti.fi/~noromaas/bwgen/index.htm : Do you use devices/drugs/meditation to enhance your mental capabilities? Are you psychically potent? Are you making me ask these questions? Why??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Positivity Gives Aged A Sturdy Gait. (Reuters) How you feel about aging may make the difference between doddering along or walking with grace and confidence: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991102/06/science-health-gait @ Slouching toward the Ouija Board: new Yeats bio proves that bad seances can make great poetry: http://thenation.com/issue/991115/1115kunkel.shtml : Do you dodder about, slouch along, walk gracefully, crawl on your belly like a reptile, sting like a butterfly, march forcefully, or just sit there? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Crash-a-Rama: # U.S. Coast Guard: No EgyptAir survivors, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561879493-7a9 # Also: EgyptAir passenger list, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561881299-8a9 # Also: EgyptAir path busy flight route, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561879229-ad9 # And: Counselors supportive in air crash, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561878447-c7f # Clues in EgyptAir crash sought, no shit: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561878607-699 # Also: High tech search for EgyptAir, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561879112-c67 # Also: NTSB stretched thin with EgyptAir, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561877701-ddd # Also: Students 1st on air crash scene, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561878914-6a5 # And: Boeing 767s popular with pilots, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561882340-3d6 # Egyptian military officers aboard Flight 990, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561878764-c5d # Also: EgyptAir crew members were to wed, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561882324-36d # And: EgyptAir co-pilot was soon to marry, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561880847-fab : What's your fave conspiracy theory re: EA 990? Was the crash caused by the Islamic Brotherhood, HAARP/Montauk broadcasts, suicical pilots, aliens, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Baby bottles banned for pope mass. NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Police advised India's parents not to bring small children to a Mass that Pope John Paul II will celebrate Sunday, as authorities have banned milk bottles, water containers handbags for security reasons. With some Hindus opposing the pope's visit -- burning effigies staging protests at the Vatican Embassy -- police stepped up security. The Vatican rejected a police suggestion that the pope celebrate the Mass behind a bulletproof screen. Holy shit - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561879007-52f : Have you engaged in ritual cannibalism lately? Do you
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991102c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 personalities were disordered during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Meet cute chicks who are in jail: http://www.jailbabes.com/ @ Garza: http://www.jailbabes.com/jb.cgi?af=22at=40p=JB01709s=21 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Falun Gong reminds China of past. BEIJING (AP) As fast as they appeared in China's political heart, those in the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement went underground, on the run from cops, biding their time. In the struggle between the sect the Communist Party lies a tale of two groups: one, a band of faithful held together by zeal, organization the tools of the InfoAge; the other, heirs to a revolutionary army grown ploddingly bureau- cratic and less ideological in running a vast, changing nation. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561876860-6ab : Have you overthrown any aging bureaucracies lately? Have you tried? Will you win eventually? How many will die first? Have aliens ingested y'r brain? @ Learn how to be an international arms trafficker: http://online.offshore.com.ai/arms-trafficker/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DID: Research Pseudoscience. Some egregious abuses of science have come from those attacking the validity of a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder (formally called multiple personality disorder or MPD). Here are some examples of how bias and personal opinion can masquerade as serious research. Read'em and weep: http://idealist.com/tat/98-07-02-did.shtml : Have you published any pseudoscience lately? Were you well rewarded? Did your inner voices fight over just what you'd present? Which prevailed? Why? @ The Star of Bethlehem: http://www.linguafranca.com/br/9911/panek.html @ Great Arizona Orphan Abduction: http://linguafranca.com/br/9911/wyp.html @ Black Book of Communism: http://www.linguafranca.com/br/9911/shatz.html @ Waste Want - Trash: http://www.linguafranca.com/br/9911/palattella.html @ Crossing - Becoming a Woman: http://linguafranca.com/br/9911/shalit.html @ Politics, Philosophy, Terror: http://linguafranca.com/br/9911/plotz.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Take A Ringside Seat For A Blast: Supercomputers are giving scientists a ringside seat for one of the most violent events in nature, the heart of a gamma ray burst. The "collapsar" model simulates a star that is too heavy to go supernova, and thus turns itself inside out. Yuk. http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast02nov99_1.htm : Are you a star? Are you supermassive, like Marlon Brando? Have you ripped your guts out lately? Did aliens/mindcontrollers/deities/demons force you? # "WHAT THE [expletive deleted] DO YOU WANT FROM ME! WHY THE [expletive deleted] DO YOU COME HERE AND SCARE THE [expletive deleted] OUT OF ME! JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT, AND I'LL GO WITH YOU!! STOP TREATING ME LIKE A GUINEA PIG" http://caus.org/pc110299.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # OH MY DARWIN! Cambridge, Mass. is home to some of America's most prominent evolutionary scientists. But that don't make'em friends allies; far from it. Harvard entomologist E.O.Wilson MIT psychologist Steven Pinker think we owe even language and morality to gene-based natural selection. They're fiercely opposed by Harvard biologists Stephen J.Gould Richard Lewontin, who say mysteries of evolution can't be reduced to DNA. Is Cambridge big enough for both points of view? http://linguafranca.com/9911/darwin.html : Have your language and morality evolved? Does genetics determine culture? Is evolution shaped by deities, demons, aliens, robots, me? What's your fave evolutionary mystery? Who/what programmed your DNA? Do you program DNA? Why? @ Remote Mind Control Technology - everything you wanted to know: http://etext.org/Politics/Spunk/library/altern/pub/keith/sp000435.txt @ [MC] Who Knew What When What Happened: http://users1.ee.net/pmason/Investigation_index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Newly Discovered Dinosaur May Have Been Biggest. OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) Newly-found dino remains are of a creature so tall that it could look into a 6th-floor window and may have been the largest creature ever to walk the earth: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991102/12/science-science-dinosaur @ Don't let them pesky skeptics with thar fancy-pants science books empir- ical facts upset y'r faith; Christian Answers http://christiananswers.net/ offers scientific-sounding justifications for creationism and other areas http://www.christiananswers.net/creation/menu-species.html where the bible contradicts science. Glory!!! http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Memetics/ : Do you prefer religion, science? Has your deity created any dinos lately? Why not? Is your god bigger than a mega-dino? Are you? Try Weight Watchers.
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991101a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 gangsters were devoured raw during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Ulysses for Dummies: http://www.bway.net/~hunger/ulysses.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 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? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 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 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 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? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 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 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 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 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991101b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 theological disputes were resolved during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Earth, Venus, Mercury are HOLLOW! http://www.hollowplanets.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # REFORMATION OVER - Churches end salvation dispute. AUGSBURG, Germany (AP) Putting aside 5 centuries of schismic bickering, Roman Catholic Lutheran church leaders embraced as they signed a declaration ending a dispute over salvation that sparked the Protestant Reformation and led to the 30 Years War. From the Vatican, Pope John Paul II gloated at the Protestant cave-in - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561865456-921 : Has your sect been recently re-absorbed by the belief system you schismed from violently? Do you regret your disputes? Will you submit to authority? @ How 2 trigger/re-access your mindcontrol victims in public: http://members.aol.com/smartnews/page5/NBpresentation99.htm @ "Persuasion and Brainwashing Techniques Being Used on the Public Today:" http://www.magnet.ch/serendipity/sutphen/brainwsh.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # American Crop Circles Warn Of Coming Earth Changes. At least 4 American crop circles have pointed to catastrophic earthquakes by latitudes and longitudes at which they appeared, and a key geometry represented by a triangle. Two of these crop circles in 1993, formed a triangle with the Sun and Moon Pyramids near Mexico City. These formations not only show a relationship in placement to the Mexican pyramids, but their designs reflect Mayan timekeeping glyphs, indicating a relationship to Mayan prophecies about a series of earth changes due to occur during this period of history. You've been warned. http://caus.org/ccr110199.htm : Are you a nonhuman entity? Do you normally communicate with groundhuggers by inscribing diagrams on the surface of their planet? Are all you entities like this? Can't you just interrupt our regularly-scheduled broadcasts??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Christian lawyer urged for Columbine. DENVER (AP) A Christian lawyer who'd represented a student injured in the Columbine H.S. shootings has warned the boy's family against hiring Jewish lawyers. "You have hired two Jewish attorneys, and Mr. Fieger in the past has been quoted openly ridiculing anyone who believed in Jesus. I know that you are committed Christians and I do not want you to be led astray to a position that might be a poor wit- ness to our Lord." He also advised self-flagellation and snake-handling. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561853007-352 : Are you an attorney? Are you more skilled in religion or law? Do you win? Do voices in your head help you with your law work? Do they direct you to defame members of other belief systems? Do they protect you from bad stuff? @ Keep NSA surveillance operatives from listening to you: http://www.spectrum-soft.com/news/summer98/wpnoise.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Chinese medicine sources criticized. BEIJING (AP) As China looks to expand the global market for its traditional medicines, conservationists are try- ing to ensure that won't mean a greater threat to tigers, rare plants and other endangered wildlife often used in the remedies. Ecocide for profit - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561847168-437 : Do you include endangered lifeforms in your medical formulations? Are the most endangered thangs also the most effective? What is the correlation?? @ Alternative History Directory: http://www.thwww.com/mrwizard/wizardAH.HTM @ Essentialist Explanations: http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/essential.html @ Disinformation, Disinformation: http://www.disinfo.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Silver Spheres Have English Town on UFO Alert - UFOs have been reported in the skies above the Yorkshire moors. Glowing silver balls hovering over different parts of Keighley: http://caus.org/mu103099.htm @ UFO Mania - The U.F.O. reality, does it exist? Are they real? Is there enough evidence to support this!!?? Why YES!! http://www.ncircus.com/ufo/ # Tubes aka Rods. "Over the last month, my wife, sister and brother-in-law have independently seen the same sort of thing in our rural area: A silver tube several feet in length and a few inches in diameter zip across the road in front of them and disappear. They all insist that this tube is barely glimpsed before it is gone. I live in rural northeastern Utah. Is this anything you've ever heard of?" http://caus.org/mu102999.htm : Do objects appear and disappear around you? Are you yourself an object that behaves thusly? Why do you do it? How do you select your victims?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Laser could be key part of defense. SEATTLE (AP) Across the street from a museum
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991101c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 psychodweebs were delaminated during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Dan 'VisiCalc' Bricklin dressed as a calculator: http://danbricklin.com/log/02f86c00.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HOW ALIEN IS MY VALLEY. A TOP-SECRET Government research base was used to store alien bodies after their UFO crashed in a remote Welsh valley. The mysterious craft came down in the Berwyn Mountains. In a chilling echo of the infamous Roswell (N.M.) Incident, scores of troops were dispatched on a secret mission to recover the wreckage. http://caus.org/pn102899.htm : Have you helped cover-up any UFO manifestations in the UK? Have you ever crashed a UFO in the UK? Is the UK worth the bother of ETs to visit? Why? @ REALITY AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE - Robert Anton Wilson: http://ss.gettingit.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=Fut ureTense/Demos/GI/Templates/Article_Viewparm1=A1758-1999Oct29 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Millennium Generation Could Live To 120 - Report. LONDON (Reuters) The next millennium generation of children could start school at three, launch their own businesses at 20 and live until the age of 120. Yow. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991101/00/science-britain-future : Do you look forward to long life? Are you ready for immortality? How soon will be come as gods? What will you do with limitless time/power/ability??? # Three African Countries Crack Down On Human Skin Trade: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/worldother/skin291099.shtml # New Proof Cell Phones Damage Longterm Memory - huh? http://www.sightings.com/health3/cellphonememory_h.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # THE RANCH ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER. "There are other visible mysteries that occur in the Sedona region. There are UFOs and strange orbs of light that move through the back canyons, notably Long and Boynton Canyons. A myster- ious military or para-military presence has been reported in Boynton Can- yon, Secret Canyon, and Sycamore Canyon." http://caus.org/pn102999.htm : Have you seen any strange manifestations around Sedona, Arizona? Have you manifested yourself around Sedona? Do your manifestations help make money?? @ Consciousness Studies: http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu @ The Leary, Alpert, Metzger translation of THER TIBETIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/dead/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Waves Of Anxiety, Prophets Of Doom - No End To 'End Times' In Sight. (MSNBC) Even if we survive the Y2K bug, don't expect a quick end to all this "End of the World talk. Waves of worry about the future will rise and fall until Judgment Day itself. But experts on end-time prophecies say the latest wave is likely to settle down after 2001 " and perhaps even flow in a more positive direction. Among all of history,s projected doomsdays, the year 2000 has a special appeal: http://www.msnbc.com/news/240654.asp?cp1=1 : Since "The Millennium" has already occurred in various calendar systems, did The End Of The World already happen, but nobody noticed? How d'ya know? @ New Age Nonsense And 'Save-The-Planet' Brigades: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/newage_u.htm @ The Secrets of Thoth and The Keys of Enoch: http://caus.org/pn102599.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CONTACT WITH A SUBTERRANEAN SPECIES. "I want to say I am not a nut case and all of this really did happen as I tell it. Because of it I have had to undergo 2 psyche evaluations through the military which were indirectly related to our experiences. It all started summer of 94 when my wife woke up to find 3 puncture marks in a triangular pattern on her lower navel. Prior to this we had no interest in UFOs or aliens and I really didn't care about the subject at the time. But when strangeness comes to you have to sit up and take notice." http://caus.org/pc102799.htm : Do you consort with trolls, kobolds, salamanders? Do they bite you or your kin? Do you bite back? Have you been evaluated lately? What are the results? @ Using signs and wonders to track down a reincarnated national leader is probably no more odd than relying on a royal family's mutating genes: http://www.ft.com/hippocampus/q2c573a.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Meteor Storm Could Damage Satellites, says USAF: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991101/00/science-arms-meteor # Trigger for end to last ice age found: http://news.excite.com/news/u/991101/17/science-ice # This computer may recognize you - you can't hide: http://news.excite.com/news/u/991101/15/science-brain @ Conspiracy Journal: http://www.members.tripod.com/uforeview/articles.html @ UFO researchers: http://www.phantombookshop.com/seancasteel/seancii.htm @ New Dawn:
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991102a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 psychedelic prunes dehydrated during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ How The Internet Ruined San Francisco: http://www.salonmagazine.com/news/feature/1999/10/28/internet/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # QUETIAPINE HELPS RESIDUAL SCHIZOPHRENIA - Schizophrenic patients who have responded incompletely to conventional antipsychotic therapy may improve significantly on quetiapine. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13278.rhtml # BEWARE OF LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF ANTIDEPRESSANTS - Don't overlook the possibility of long-term and late-emerging side effects when prescribing antidepressant medications. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13323.rhtml : What's your fave mood-altering drug? Do you use it often? Does it help? # Once Is Enough (one dose of amphetamine could be enough to induce long- lasting changes) http://helix.nature.com/nsu/991028/991028-5.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'End alternative therapy free-for-all' (BBC) UK Doctors' leaders call for the regulation of alternative medicine to protect patients from potentially dangerous practices. Do you trust your iridiologist? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_501000/501136.stm @ Links - Quackwatch: http://www.quackwatch.com/ @ Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine: http://www.hcrc.org/sram/ @ Research Council for Complementary Medicine: http://www.gn.apc.org/rccm/ : What's your favorite alternative medical practice? Does it work? Do the survivors like it? What's the survival rate? Are you sure? Did you count? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HIGH STRESS LEVELS IN INFANT RATS IMPAIR COGNITIVE ABILITIES IN ADULTHOOD. A study undertaken with rats points to a physiologic relationship between levels of the stress hormone corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) in infancy and brain changes in later life that can negatively affect memory and learning skills. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13301.rhtml : Were you stressed in infancy? Was your life ruined? Did this result from deliberate experimentation or sloppy parenting? Does your alien implant calm you down? Do you remember being implanted? Is it a happy memory? Why not?? # Neurobiology of Morals: http://helix.nature.com/nsu/991021/991021-6.html # PANIC ATTACKS AND HYPERTENSION FREQUENTLY LINKED. So calm down, have some Thorazine: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13289.rhtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Of Particle Physics Theory StarTrek Captains. Invisible extra dimensions do for particle physicists exactly what they do for Star Trek captains: they provide a way to cover a lot of ground quickly -- and to explain anomalous behavior. Some theories contend that we're not aware of extra dimensions because they extend only a very short distance, far shorter than the size of an atom. http://unisci.com/stories/19994/1022996.htm : How many dimensions have you noticed? Have you shifted dimensions lately? What's your fave dimension? What dimensions would you like to do away with? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Crash-A-Rama: # No EgyptAir survivors expected - squashed, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561876796-d83 # More: EgyptAir crash victims remembered, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561875833-d33 # Also: EgyptAir plummet is focus of probe, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561875543-7a5 # Also: EgyptAir co-pilot was soon to marry, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561876699-4e4 # And: EgyptAir's management criticized, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561875368-b3c # And: L.A.'s Muslims remember Egypt pilots, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561872616-3c6 # Sidebar: Major air disasters, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561872415-e8d # Sidebar: Boeing 767 involved in crash, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561872412-18e # Clinton: No evidence of jet sabotage, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561872753-d9e _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 29 Oct 99 Washington, DC 3. PERPETUUM MOBILE: ABC TO EXPOSE FREE ELECTRICITY HUCKSTER. Dennis Lee is three-fourths of the way through his 45 city tour of the US to demonstrate his technology for making unlimited free electricity (WN 1 Oct 99). He's been tracked by ABC Good Morning America consumer reporter Janice Lieberman. Her report is set for next Friday. Lee depends on "permanent magnet motors that are more than 200% efficient" and the "Fourth Law of Motion" to make free electricity. All it takes to get one of his machines installed in your home, so you can be disconnected from the grid before the Y2K crisis blacks out everyone else, is a $275 gift to Better World
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Sunday #1 - Happy Hallowe'en!
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991031a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 greedy trick-or-treaters vanished during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Goth Babe of the Week: http://www.gothic.net/~cossack/gothbabe.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Today in History: 31 Oct 1517, Martin Luther began the Protestant Reforma-tion by nailing a manifesto to the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # San Diego State U. students say ghosts haunt the corridors of dorm. He was alone in the bathroom on the 4th floor of Zura Hall. At least he thought he was. He heard a man's voice rumble through the room. He looked around. No one was there. Ohhh: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/991029/odd-172 # Stories say U. New Hampshire dorms are haunted. When Scott Sinclair first heard the story of the ghost that haunts the basement of Hetzel Hall, he didn't believe it. Then, one fateful night, he had an encounter that turned him into a believer. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/991029/odd-329 : Have you been haunted lately? Have you haunted anyone lately? Is your home /school/workplace/website haunted? Does cosmic evil envelop you? Why not?? # Ghost hunters study hauntings in Ohio. Nicholas Reiter and Lori Schillig have ghosts and haunted houses on their minds, and not just because it will soon be Halloween. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/991029/odd-196 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FBI REPORT SAYS THREAT OF MILLENNIUM VIOLENCE 'VERY REAL'. An FBI report prepared for the nation's law enforcement officials says the threat of violence by extremists to mark the new millennium is "very real." The bureau said in a written statement on October 20 that it was preparing the report, entitled Project Megiddo, and would share it with police chiefs at their upcoming convention. Report also cites threat of violence in Israel: http://cnn.com/US/9910/31/fbi.millennium.01.ap/index.html : Do you intend to commit violence at the millennium? Are you sure of your date? Will someone commit violence against you? Does it matter, since the world will end? Will violence help bring about Armageddon? Do you hope so? @ Why do women spend so much time with the kids, or weeping, or looking out the window? Why don't they just accept that they're responsible for evil? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/feed/a58252-1999oct29.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NewAge Leaders Call For Millennium Prayers On New Year's Eve. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Leaders of the "New Age" spiritual development movement are calling for "wave" of prayer around the world on New Year's Eve -- with prayers spoken, sung, chanted or even typed into the electronic realm of Cyberspace. The aim of the mass prayer is to do nothing less than "heal the world." http://news.excite.com/news/r/991029/20/millennium-prayer : Have you prayed lately? Have you healed any worlds lately? Are worlds hard to heal? Have you healed anything else lately? Did it work? Are you sure?? # Literature project mistaken for bomb in university building: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/991026/odd-151 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ARCHAEOLOGY UNDERMINES ZIONISM - Questions Raised in Bible's Accuracy. JERUSALEM (AP) There was no exodus from Egypt, Joshua didn't bring down the walls of Jericho, and Solomon's kingdom was a small, tribal dynasty, an Israeli archaeologist says in a new article. It's all a big mistake: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991029/aponline013030_000.htm # Deconstructing the walls of Jericho. (Ha'aretz) Following 70 years of intensive excavations in the Land of Israel, archaeologists have found out: The patriarchs' acts are legendary, the Israelites did not sojourn in Egypt or make an exodus, they did not conquer the land. Neither is there any mention of the empire of David and Solomon, nor of the source of belief in the God of Israel. These facts have been known for years, but Israel is a stubborn people and nobody wants to hear about it. Judeo/ Xian/Muslim faiths bogus: http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/htmls/kat34_1.htm : What are your favorite biblical texts? Are they accurate? Is accuracy [or lack thereof] relevant to your belief system? Will one or more deities zap the infidels who raise questions about their existence? Will you be zapped? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # WE'RE WATCHING YOU. Pinhole cameras - now being sold over the Internet - can hide in the smallest cracks; satellite cameras can read the time on your watch from orbit... Van Eck devices can read what's on your computer monitor from halfway down the street. You thought you maybe had privacy? HAH!! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/29/0832246mode=flat : D'ya have pinhole cameras in your cracks? D'ya put them in other people's cracks? D'ya read
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Saturday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991030a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 dwarves were defenestrated during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ MrLoveYaMate: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~dee/kungfoo.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Witch exhibition reveals Dutch past. NIJMEGEN, Netherlands (AP) In the musty recesses of a medieval battle tower, every hour is the witching hour. The De Stratemakerstoren Museum, tucked away in the turret of a 16th century garrison, is conjuring up images of a dark era for the Dutch: the executions of scores of alleged witches in the 1400s and 1500s, many of them guilty of nothing more than eccentricity. And although Holland doesn't celebrate Halloween, the museum's latest exhibition also chronicles the resurgence of witchcraft in modern society. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561839597-ea3 # Also: Spook Hill in Fla. draws tourists, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561839825-9fd : Should you be executed for your eccentricities? Have you burnt any witches lately? Are they more convenient than firewood, coal, propane? Do you glow?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tattood Bar Codes Patented - Be Scanned For All Debit Card Transactions. "A bar code or a design is tattooed on an individual. Before the sales transaction can be consummated, the tattoo is scanned with a scanner. Characteristics about the scanned tattoo are compared to characteristics about other tattoos stored on a computer database in order to verify the identity of the buyer. Once verified, the seller may be authorized to debit the buyer's electronic bank account in order to consummate the transaction. The seller's electronic bank account may be similarly updated." http://www.sightings.com/politics5/tattoo.htm : Should/must/will you be tatttooed with The Mark Of The Beast? Will it make life easier for you? Are chip implants more convenient? Should you be color- coded too? Would you like a designer I.D. pattern? Are these inevitable? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China busts Falun Gong members. BEIJING(AP) Stung by 5 days of defiance by a banned spiritual movement, China's communist govt used rougher tactics in its campaign to stamp out the Falun Gong, hauling away at least 50 fol- lowers Friday. Other protests were quickly stifled. The busts added to the 3,000 people a Communist Party source said have been detained in Beijing this week. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561840654-1c7 # CHINA PASSES NEW CULT LAW AMID PROTESTS. China's parliament on Saturday passed a law outlawing cults, but defiant members of the Falun Gong banned spiritual movement, its prime target, continued silent protests in Tianan- men Square. It left no doubt Falun Gong would be shown no mercy. The law "calls on courts, prosecutors, police and administrative judicial organs to be on full alert for cult activities and smash them rigorously in accordance with the law." Protests have continued all week - see http://cnn.com/ASIANOW/east/9910/30/bc.religion.china.reut/index.html : If Falun Gong is successfully suppressed, when will the next cult sweep China? Will it learn from Falun Gong and stay covert until ready to take control? Is the Chinese govt doomed? How much suppression is necessary?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Vatican halts heroin safe house. SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - The Vatican has rejected plans for a safe house where heroin addicts could inject themsel- ves, drawing criticism from its own priests. The Sisters of Charity, an order of Roman Catholic nuns, were to have set up the safe house in Kings Cross, a Sydney suburb notorious for drug use and prostitution. The so- called "shooting gallery" was intended to provide addicts with a safe environment and clean needles while keeping them off the city's streets and attempting to wean them off drugs. It had the blessing of the New South Wales state govt cops. But the Vatican reportedly feared the nuns' involvement would be seen as the condoning of drug use by the Catholic church. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561837110-874 : If religion is the opiate of the masses, who needs drugs? Is heroin one of your favorite sacraments? Do you prefer junkies, nuns, junkie nuns, spaced- out Reptilioids, spaced-out Popes, me? Does your belief system need drugs? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiBriefs - ask your own questions: # And The Scariest Character Of All Time Is... LOS ANGELES (Reuters) They may be generations apart in raising the devil, but Frankenstein's monster and modern-day slasher Freddy Krueger are tops at scaring the wits out of people - poll: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991029/09/odd-life-monster # Author Plans Mystery Park Attraction. BERNE (Reuters)
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991028a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 technophobes were mollified during the interruption of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Virus Report: http://www.antivirus.com/trendsetter/virus_report/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Who's been sleeping in my bed ... (CNN) Rumors abound of ghostly guests at hotels and inns around the world. Some try to hide the unexplainable, while others are making a profit from it. Take a look at some of the properties where a room for the night sometimes comes with more than you bargained for. GHoSTS CHeCK iN BuT THeY WoN'T CHeCK ouT: http://cnn.com/TRAVEL/NEWS/9910/26/haunted.hotels.lat/index.html : Have your accomodations lately been infested by good/evil/indifferent spirits, undead/unborn/inhuman entities, aliens, politicians? Who's worst? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Second-hand screams: Artist makes haunted fortress from junk. STANFORD, New York (AP) -- Books fly off shelves in the cobweb-lined library. In the tiny church, a bloodstained priest conducts an exorcism as a tin-can snake jumps out of the holy water bowl. In the evil veterinary laboratory of Dr. Mel Practice, a toilet seat rattles the nerves when its lid flies up with a bang. The commode is among the discarded objects recovered from junk yards and trash bins that Peter Wing has incorporated into "Frankenstein's Fortress." "Stuff that you picked out from a Dumpster has that trashed-out look that you can't get with new materials," Wing said. "Death and decay is unsettling -- and that's what we're going for here." http://cnn.com/US/9910/27/frankensteins.fortress.ap/index.html : Do you prefer art that includes living or dead stuff? Do you artistically do torture, mayhem, murder, suicide? Are art critics better dead or alive? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Halloween candy not the usual fare. ATLANTA (CNN) Don't expect apples in the Halloween loot bag this year. For 1999, trendy confections rule -- gummi burgers, Mega Warheads sour candies, Atomic Fireballs, bloodshot "Eyes of Terror" gumballs and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" lollipops which paint your trick-or-treater's tongue red. No TReaTS. aLL i GoT WaS CLiCKs: http://cnn.com/FOOD/news/9910/22/halloween.candy/ : Are Hallowe'en candies symbolic of ritual cannibalism, the same as Xian sacramental wine/wafers? Do you prefer symbolic or actual cannibalism? Have you devoured anyone lately? Whom would you most/least like to devour? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Message Board: Great Halloween costumes. Are you looking for the perfect disguise for that masked ball you were invited to? Have you found a way to turn that old couch slipcover into a space man costume? Trying to decide if that Austin Powers costume is "groovy?" Seek and share Halloween costume tricks and treats here. What is the most creative costume you have ever seen? What is an easy, fun costume for those who need last-minute help? i GoT aN iDeaR: http://community.cnn.com/cgi-bin/WebX?13@@.ee94ef2 : Do you costume yourself? Can you pass for human? Are many actual aliens/ zombies/monsters in your neighborhood? Are they perferable to real humans? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Suspect nabbed in missionary death. BHUBANESWAR, India (AP) - A suspect was arrested in the burning death of an Australian missionary and his two sons, but police are concerned of more Hindu-Christian trouble during the pope's visit to India next week. The gruesome killings are linked to Hindu radicals struggling against missionaries accused of illicitly winning con- verts to Christianity by offering inducements - a charge the missionaries deny. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561825110-24a : Are religious prosletysers committing cultural genocide? Have you burnt any/many missionaries lately? Is religious war more fun than work? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Israel deports doomsday Christians. JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel will deport 17 Americans, two Britons and a Jamaican suspected of membership in Christian doomsday sects. Israeli police busted 21 foreign Christians for allegedly preparing the ground for groups from abroad planning apocalyptic acts for the year 2000. The raid, in a neighborhood on the Mount of Olives, was the third Israeli operation in recent months against such Christian groups. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561825835-5f7 : What's your favorite doomsday cult? Are you in a doomsday cult? Have you been deported lately? Are you planning apocalyptic acts? Will you survive? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Falun Gong members ask for tolerance. BEIJING (AP) - Bruised and battered from beatings and on the run from Chinese police, members of the banned spiritual movement Falun Gong vowed to press their protest campaign to end
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991029a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 neural connexions went unharmed during interruption of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ LOOK flying saucers: http://www.thule.org/looksaucer.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MESSAGE FROM MARY: "JUST DO IT!" The Virgin Mary told him to build the shrine -- and the city council has told him to take it down. But the 79- year-old one-legged WWII veteran is appealing the ruling. Rotsa ruck: http://www.bostonherald.com/bostonherald/lonw/pepp10291999.htm : Have you received instructions from any divine entities lately? Do you always/often/sometimes/never obey the voices in your head? Are you sorry? # MESSAGE TO GOD: "SHOW ME THE GOO!" With biblical prophecy and creationist geology as his guides, Hayseed Stevens is now only one well short of find- ing the greatest oil field on Earth http://www.csicop.org/si/9909/oil.html : Do divine entities guide your professional activities? Do spirits/demons/ deities lead you to wealth/happiness/orgasm? Are they trustworthy? Are you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The History of Sex. Men and women may have more in common than we ever dreamed. Scientists report that the ancestor of today's human sex chromosomes evolved from an identical set long ago. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32156,00.html?tw=wn19991028 # Why Men Are That Way. A researcher in Texas has created a male mouse with two X chromosomes. His findings call into question the widely accepted belief that gender is determined by the XX or XY configuration. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32162,00.html?tw=wn19991028 : What's your favorite chromosonal structure? Did you evolve from men, women or others? Do you have any Reptilioid genes? How many sexes do they have?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MEDICAL RESEARCHERS RECEIVE THREATS FROM ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS. A group of animal rights activists have sent threatening letters laced with razor blades to researchers at universities across the United States, demanding an end to experimentation on animals. More than 80 researchers have been listed on a Web page as potential victims of violence if they don't release their laboratory animals by the autumn of 2000. Support mental health or I'll kill you: http://cnn.com/US/9910/29/monkey.threats.01/ : Have you threatened anyone lately? Would'ya rather threaten/dissect/devour animals, humans, aliens, robots, me? Are you a lab rat? Are you afraid? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pig Cells Make Great Arteries. (Reuters) Artificial blood vessels from cows and pigs may be the next big thing in heart bypass operations. http://www.wired.com/news/reuters/0,1349,32166,00.html?tw=wn19991028 : Does your belief system preclude you from having animal tissues implanted in your body? Should/will you go extinct? Would you prefer Reptoid tissues? Should animal-tissue researchers be killed? Should PETA activists die young? @ HIV is easy to avoid. But viruses know how to find open sores and exploit folly and the intoxicant of lust. http://www.nationaljournal.com/rauch.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # STUDY FINDS MANY THINK LOTTERIES ARE TICKET TO GOLDEN YEARS. Too many Americans are betting their future on lottery tickets instead of putting aside a regular amount of money in savings accounts or mutual funds, according to a new survey. More than one quarter of Americans believe lotteries are their best chance to have enough money for retirement. Savings rate redefined, rises: http://cnn.com/US/9910/28/savings/ # And: SAVINGS UNDERESTIMATED: http://cnnfn.com/1999/10/28/life/q_survey/ : Are lotteries an effective tax on the illiterate/innumerate? Do Believers buy more lottery tickets than non-Believers? Do they deserve poverty? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MARYLAND TOWN EMBRACES 'BLAIR WITCH' COMMERCE. The Blair Witch believers are back, just in time for Halloween. This time, Burkittsville is ready. Last summer, curiosity seekers overran the startled west Maryland hamlet where the hit hoax horror film, "The Blair Witch Project," is set. They snatched road and cemetery signs and vandalized tombstones, prompting a beefed-up police presence in the quiet farming community. Burkittsville has since wised up -- and cashed in. Townsfolk embracing wave of 'Blair Witch virus': http://cnn.com/TRAVEL/NEWS/9910/28/blairwitch.ap/ : Have you overrun any towns lately? Are you a witch, or do you just play one on television? Have you exploited any believers lately? Do they mind? @ World Of The Strange: http://www.jb-graphics.com/thestrange/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # In universities of the future, the faculty will be software icons: "Click on the professor, and let him take you to the world that he knows" :
Re: [CTRL] skeptic news- hey wait, im not illiterate
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: ob [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Are lotteries an effective tax on the illiterate/innumerate? Do Believers buy more lottery tickets than non-Believers? Do they deserve poverty? Why? ...i believe my chances are 50/50 i'll either win or loose- so there! and if your alien implant happens to pass on a winning number for the california lotto then let me know. Your possible outcomes are binary: win/lose. Your probability of winning is based on the number of lottery tickets you bought VS. the total number of tickets sold in a lottery. If you bought one, and 150 million others were sold, then your chance of winning is one in 150 million. You're more likely to be hit by a meteorite. Have you encountered any meteors lately? I thought not... 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991027a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No MicroSoft staff escaped damnation during interruption of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Are you lost too? http://www.iamlost.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New UFO Crash In Brazil Forest? Explosion, Devastation... But No Wreckage. A huge UFO was seen by hundreds of witnesses - some of them Kaiapoh Indians - when it crossed over the skies of Sao Felix do Xinguh on October 9th up in Parah State. This UFO fell down in the middle of the forest about 40 kms away from town. http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/wreck.htm : Are you active in suppressing evidence of UFOs? Do you scurry around to crash sites, scooping up debris? Where do you store it? Is is smelly? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China Charges Falungong With Leaking State Secrets. BEIJING (AFP) Members of the banned Falungong sect obtained and leaked state secrets, including top secret documents, China's official Xinhua news agency said. The group had "political motives" and "used the Internet to spread rumors based on information in their ill-gotten state documents, which has created dist- urbances for the government and disrupted social stability," Xinhua said. Dirty rotten cultist spies: http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=104089 : Has your belief system disrupted any social stability lately? Is it fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Natural Human Computing. Researchers develop a computer algorithm that aims to imitate the way humans think by recognizing patterns in data and images. It could even make for better Web searches. But does it have faith? http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32093,00.html : Do humans think better than computers? Do Reptilioids think better than humans? Would you rather be a human, a Reptoid, a computer, a bicycle seat? @ Millennialism is an abiding demon of the human mind. We search for order, and find it; expect havoc, and wreak it; find a hole, and fill it. Yup. http://www.thenewrepublic.com/magazines/tnr/current/coverstory110899.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Discovery Separates Thought From Perception. Using a novel approach to imaging, researchers have discovered that thinking about moving objects pre-activates areas of the brain's motion detection system before any moving objects appear. These areas would hold our expectations on-line as we prepare to cross a busy street, return a tennis serve or catch a fall- ing child. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991026074849.htm : Do you trick your mind into operating more efficiently? Are your thoughts perceptions totally separate? Do you interact with reality? How d'ya know? @ Why is it that natural languages like English or Italian, imperfect as they are, seem to work so much better than artificially constructed languages like Esperanto? http://www.italynet.com/columbia/dream.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Neanderthals survived longer than thought. (BBC) Neanderthals, once portrayed as grunting, primitive cave-men, lived as recently as 28,000 years ago, according to research on bones found in a cave in Croatia. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_486000/486041.stm # Evidence Indicates Modern Humans Neanderthals Coexisted. WASHINGTON - Neanderthals and modern humans may have coexisted in central Europe for thousands of years, possibly even mating, suggests new Croatian data. http://www.canoe.ca/WorldTicker/CANOE-wire.Neanderthals-Humans.html : Is y'r Neanderthal ancestry obvious? Are you primarily Neanderthal? Do you coexist with Homo Sapiens well? Which subspecies has worse personal habits? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mice 'make human proteins in semen'. (BBC) Scientists genetically engineer mice to produce human proteins in their semen, which may allow drugs to be farmed from GM livestock. Now if they could only produce hallucinogens... http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_485000/485123.stm : Do you prefer semen from humans, mice, whales, aliens, deities, me? Have you been gene-altered to produce interesting/useful/valuable/quaint chems? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Jerky preachers even bug Jeezoids. 2 Bible-thumping evangelicals infested Yale to damn Jews, Muslims, gays rock'n'roll fans. Students called the cops on the screamin' sidewalk preachers, but were told such obnoxious behavior isn't illegal. http://yaledailynews.com/news/article.asp?AID=2533 @ Philosophy won't kill theology, Albert Camus thought. Religion is best countered by a belief that one cannot, must not believe in God. Rotsa ruck: http://www.thenewrepublic.com/magazines/tnr/current/wood110899.html : Is your belief system obnoxious, or just your members? Are preachers or philosophers more obnoxious? Do you believe in one or more gods? Which? Why? _ _ _
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-Caveat Lector- Gentle Readers: SkeptiNews production has been curtailed due to technical difficulties. This time my implants didn't misfire, I wasn't abducted by Reptoids for reprocessing, nothing like that - rather, minions of the Dark Lord aka Bill Gates have moved to shut me down, in the guise of sending Win98 off to neverneverland from my ratty old laptop. It's taken me days just to get that machine to talk with its roommate, via DOS COMMO - zowie, I haven't fired that stuff up for a LONG time. Anyway, I'm staggering around in Win98's "safe mode", slowly porting Net/Mail files over a nullmodem link, so maybe I'll be able to resume after the weekend. It hasn't helped that a massive brushfire upwind has seriously damaged the Bay Area air quality, clogging respiration and impairing cerebration. Hmmm, maybe my implant's fouled with soot - I'll have to scrub it. Cya --Ric 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
Re: [CTRL] Religion
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: earthman [EMAIL PROTECTED] We just need the right marketing and we'll rich and famous.. There are various ways to market a religion / belief system / obsession / scam. Besides the traditional mind-control methods [drugs, implants, subliminal suggestion / hypnosis, traumatic brainwashing / love-bombing, etc] there are techniques to gain public attention approval, usually by gaining media exposure: 1. Bribe your way into popular entertainments. 2. Commit public atrocities to gain notoriety. 3. Spam media/commo nets with proclamations. 4. Buy control of media outlets. It's also possible to operate "below the radar" of mass-media: 5. Promulgate rumors, domestically abroad. 6. Hijack existing groups to spread your message. 7. Develop disciplined cadres of operatives. 8. Infiltrate and subvert governing bodies. But even energetic implementation of such techniques doesn't guarantee success. Note that classic Marxist/Leninist disinfo marketing strategies/tactics managed to attain short-term gains in terms of thought- and territorial-control, but were unable to prevail against a materialist system that actually delivered material results. The same techniques, when employed by holy hucksters, succeed because the payoffs accrue AFTER one's death. The lesson is clear: if you're going to market a system, DON'T PROMISE ANYTHING TANGIBLE! Sell the sizzle, not the steak. Always structure your claims so that you have no dissatisfied customers grumbling that they'd have done better somewhere else. CONTINUISM will succeed if it's entertaining enough. A well- produced cosmology that includes sex/drugs/music should suffice. 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991015a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 flying dinosaurs survived the production of this bulletin. Tasty, too. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Learn Czech, one picture at a time: http://www.czechprimer.org/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Fossils of flying dinosaur found. (AP) - A fierce turkey-sized animal with sharp claws and teeth may have been the first flying feathered dinosaur, a missing link between the lumbering lizards of millions of years ago the graceful birds of today. Fossils of Archaeoraptor liaoningensis suggest it lived 120 million to 140 million years ago when a branch of dinosaurs was evolving into the vast family of birds that now live on every continent. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561634791-d63 : Do you think ancient saurians 'lumbered'? Have you watched too many films? Do flying Reptilioids frighten you? Have you killed any lately? With what?? @ The Chupacabras: A Monster for the New Millennium? http://www.americanatheist.org/win96-7/T2/chupacabras.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Czech intellectuals languish in poverty, while standards of public debate in the Czech Republic are set by jumped-up, semi-literate young journalists: http://www.ce-review.org/99/16/culik16.html : Are you an impoverished intellectual, a semi-literate journalist, a failed /successful media manipulator, a cynical controller, a hapless victim? Why?? # Censorship always censors the wrong things for the wrong reasons and produces, after some delay, the opposite of the intended effect. Yow. http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/18/oct99/bowman.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ancient face found carved on Stonehenge. (BBC) An ancient face has been found carved on Stonehenge. Is it the face of its designer? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_474000/474977.stm # Link - See more faces on Frank Wayman's Megalithic site: http://www.stonecentric.connectfree.co.uk/aveburyi.html : Have you created any ancient megaliths lately? Have you carved you own or someone else's face(s) into any of them? Did you pretty-up yourself? How?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # It Holds Tissues Together. Scientists studying the adhesive properties of cadherin - a protein that binds cells into soft tissue - have found a built-in safety mechanism that may keep cells from ripping apart. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991014080224.htm # Genetic On-Off Switch Found. A researcher studying genetic on-off switches in yeast has found a system that could be useful in human gene therapy. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991014075909.htm : Would you like to apply on-off switches to cell-binding mechanisms? Whose cells would you like to see ripped apart? Would you apply such switches to the brain cells of your ideological opponents? Will your belief system win? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ GHOST-PHOTO. Halloween approaches - check out the spooksters! Ghost-photo is a fun place to start, since many contributors post online and/or swap image files of ghostly images they caught on film. There's a lot of talk about ( pictures of) "orbs," which are faintly visible globular thingies that may be ghosts, aliens, or both. Of course, if you want to be a cranky skeptic, they may be photoprocessing glitches, too. The list is fairly active, 10 to 20 posts per day. To subscribe, send a blank e-mail to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- see the public archives at http://www.onelist.com/messages/ghost-photo : Have you photographed many orbs/ghosts/emanations lately? Do chemtrails affect your film? Do you deliberately fog film to hide the sordid details? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # No Water Ice Detected From Lunar Prospector Impact. The controlled crash of NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft into a crater near the south pole of the Moon on July 31 produced no observable signature of water. Bother. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991014080522.htm # Chemistry Of Comet Hale-Bopp May Offer Clues About The Early Solar System. Astronomers have found that a new molecule, nitrogen sulfide (NS), is con- tained within comets. Altho scientists have long known that the molecule exists within dense interstellar clouds, this is the first time it's been seen in a comet. http://sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991014080325.htm : Did the Mothership exude NS into Hale-Bopp? Did they suck-up all of Luna's water? How will they next despoil our solar system? Who can/will stop them? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Philosophy News: http://www.philosophynews.com/ @ Global Lukewarming: http://www.vision.net.au/~daly/ @ Obscure Store: http://www.obscurestore.com/ @ Junk Science: http://www.junkscience.com/ @ Quackwatch: http://www.quackwatch.com/ @ SciTech Daily:
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991015b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : Most millennialists survived production of this bulletin. The poor sods. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Virgin With Dung: http://www.oasinet.com/postmedia/art/ofili.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PREPARING FOR BIOTERRORISM - MENTALLY PHYSICALLY. Bioterrorism can have a devastating effect on both physical and mental health, says a prominent psychiatrist, who suggests any response plan include a mental health com- ponent. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=19262 # Another big SF quake feared. (AP) - There is a 70% chance that a large earthquake will shake the San Francisco Bay area in the next 30 years. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561630534-b45 : Are you more terrorized by biowar, geowar, nukewar, random acts of planet- ary violence, religious/political/economic/artistic proselytizers, ETs, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists ponder life on Jupiter. PADUA, Italy (AP) - Hundreds of cosmic scientists mobbed Galileo's homeland, hoping to learn from a spacecraft named Galileo whether a heavenly body the Renaissance astronomer found 4 centuries ago might support life. The NASA Galileo probe, winding down a 2-year, $30 million probe of Jupiter, recently made its closest-ever flyby of the Jovian moons, passing within 380 miles of Io, Jupiter's innermost large moon. But many scientists here are more interested in Jupiter's 4th largest moon, Europa, spotted by Galileo in 1610. In the world of planet- ary science, and the search for life beyond Earth, Europa is hot. Hubba hubba: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561631055-380 : Is Jovian life Jovial? Is Europan life European? Is Io life Ionian? Are you hot for Europeans? Should I stop playing these silly name games? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Researchers Map Molecule That Repairs Sun Cigarette Damage. The crystal structure of an enzyme that hunts down DNA damage caused by sunlight and cigarettes, then snaps it up like a Venus' flytrap, is described: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991014075631.htm # Green Tea Shows Antioxidant Benefits In Human Plasma. Substances in green tea known as catechins can increase the antioxidant capacity of human plasma, which could help reduce cardiovascular disease risk, say Japanese researchers: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991014075533.htm : Are you damaged? Does green tea repair you? Do you smoke tobacco drink green tea, or vice versa? Have'ya oxidized much lately? Are you crystalline? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ BARE YOUR SOLES: CELEBRATE FEET. Thinking alt.barefoot might be some kind of hippifest of dirty toes callused heels, I was surprised that it is in fact a newsgroup of photos of toes painted or not, feet arched or flexed. Just feet. Oh yes, and toes. More more toes. One pair of feet grips a banana in one shot, a telephone in another. Bare feet mostly, so if it's a shoe fetish you've got, keep on walkin'. (Nina Gregory) news:alt.barefoot : Should everyone go barefoot? Is that how you can tell humans from aliens? Should we all go naked, so there's no question as to one's species status?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ALLERGIC TO EXERCISE? A FOOD MIGHT BE TO BLAME. The classic couch potato's excuse - an allergy to exercise - might have it's basis in a latent food allergy. Lay off the offending food, and enjoy your workout! Flex those pecs: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=18757 # Doctor defends heroin detox procedure - linked to 6 deaths - just trying to help: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561634772-4d1 : Are you allergic to exercises, foods, opiates, detox procedures? Is life hazardous to your health? Do alien implants protect you from these hazards? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Millennium-a-Rama: # Y2K - BEWARE COMPLACENCY ON Y2K COMPLIANCE http://www.ncpa.org/oped/dupont/dupont99.html # Y2K - more on Year 2000 (Y2K) Computer Bug: http://www.ncpa.org/pd/economy/econ13.html # Y2K - Millennium resolution on Brit TV - call for world peace: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561629837-7b6 # ON THE CUSP OF THE MILLENNIUM -- MARTYRS, PRAYER WARS AND UFO VISITATIONS. Has it begun? 1000 years ago, claimed Burgundian monk Ralph Glaber, inhab- itants throughout Europe packed churches in terror, stopped planting their crops prepared for the end of the world. Groups of pilgrims roamed the countryside warning of impending Armageddon. Apocalyptic movements arose, some even taking up arms to establish a "New Jerusalem," a paradise on Earth to pave the way for the Second Coming of Jesus. It was all a manif- estation of the fervent religious belief - and social hysteria - linked to
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991015c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 mindless morons went unexploited during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ GamaSutra - Game Design News: http://www.gamasutra.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Plans hatched for giant telescope. (BBC) Australian astronomers hope to build a unique telescope that looks like an array of "eggs on legs". http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_473000/473559.stm # 2 Ton Alien Hairball In Oz. Leading geneticist Ian McCaulway says a two-ton spherical object found in the Australian outback is actually a memento of some enormous extraterrestrial's digestive tract. http://www.space.com/area51/tabloid_hairball_991013.html : Have you discovered any alien hairballs lately? Are they impressive, icky, fluorescent, radioactive, ectoplasmic, holy, crystalline, unknowable, dense? Are the most interesting artifacts/discoveries/breweries Australian? Why?? @ Amazing 1897 'Airship' Article Unearthed: http://home.fuse.net/ufo/Aeribarque.html @ Piercing The Gloom And Doom With Facts: http://www.worldtribune.com/hu-3.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # US DoE Establishes Test Bed For Computer Storage-Intensive Applications. Today's scientific researchers are generating staggering volumes of data, with data sources ranging from computational simulations of global and regional climate, to digital instrumentation of physical experiments and satellite imagery. Add projects such as human genome mapping, with massive demands for rapid user access, and it's easy to see why strategies for optimizing data storage and retrieval are vital for research laboratories. Govt help: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991014075202.htm : If govt agents steal your soul, where will they store it? Is soul-storage the real impetus behind data-optimization research? Are disk drives satanic? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Holy Water Found On Moon. Although NASA spokesmen recently confirmed that the Lunar Prospector found no water on the lunar surface, the Weekly World News stubbornly insists that the probe not only discovered water, but holy water at that. http://www.space.com/area51/tabloid_moonwater_991013.html : Did the Vatican complete its takeover of Luna yet? Will the Pope's Jubilee message include a demand for total submission by all humans, on threat of bombardment from Lunar bases? What power is contained in the Papal sceptre? # Huge Unseen Planet Proposed Circling Our Sun - Nibiru? http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/nib.htm @ Original Zechariah Sitchin Remarks On The 12th Planet: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/12thplanet.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ "CULTURE" BETWEEN ICE AGES. When your current infrastructure breaks down, and soon it will my human friends, and the next ice age begins, only about 12,000 years will pass before you will start making your tools of stone and your clothes from animal hide again! http://www.thule.org/iceages.html : Are you prepared for the upcoming ice age? Do you have plenty of Sterno? Will your alien masters desert you when Terra freezes over? Will you weep? # Screensaver to predict climate change. A UK scientist is appealing for anyone with a home computer to help forecast how the Earth might be affected by global warming in the next century. The big chill? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_473000/473856.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # France legalizes unwed couples. (AP) A new French law gives unmarried couples - including gays - the same status as married couples, including the right to file joint tax forms and to bring foreign partners to France. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561629323-2fb # Japanese Woman ET Nearing 7 Year Mark. A Japanese woman the space alien she learned to love are nearing their 7-year wedding anniversary. Receptionist Miyoki Tanaka, 25, married the extraterrestrial known only as "X1431" on March 29, 1993, in a traditional Shinto ceremony. http://www.space.com/area51/tabloid_alienwedding_991013.html : Are you unconventionally mated? How? Is your spouse human, alien, animal, vegetable, mineral, robotic, virtual, divine? Do you file tax forms? Why?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Occult in Public Schools? SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The implementation of the Waldorf curriculum - an educational philosophy related to the New Age religion "Anthroposophy" - in some California public schools, has stirred up controversy as opponents say its use violates the U.S. Constitution. http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/19991001_xex_public_schoo.shtml : Have you infiltrated your belief system into public education? Have you taken control of many innocent minds yet? Have you bent them to your will? # Evil-twin cleansing fraudster is busted. Sacramento
Re: [CTRL] The Illuminati Millennium Rituals
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From: YnrChyldzWyld [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What a coincidence that the Illuminati-created Gregorian calendar
should be orchestrated to hit the peak of a massive Sun cycle
PRECISELY at the point of the false millennium - January 2000.
January 2000 really IS the date of 'the false millennium', but not in
the way the poster means
Yah, especially since the Solar Max will occur in mid-2000 CE, according
to a recent press release from NASA. So the Illuminati set the Greg
calendar off by 6 months or so. Oops...
Centuries...and millennia...always end with a year ending in zero, and
begin with a year ending in '1' (there never having been a year 'zero'
in our present calendar system)hence, the 20th century really spans
the years 1901 thru 2000, NOT 1900 thru 1999.
Yah, Dennis the Insignificant and his successors really screwed up by
adopting a base-1 system, rather than base-zero. Of course, {JHWH}
hadn't told them about zero, so they couldn't have done any better.
The first millenium spanned the years 1 thru 1000; the second millenium
started with the year 1001, and will end at the stroke of midnight on
December 31, 2000. The third millenium doesn't start until January 1,
2001 (in our present calendar system).
This is a theological debate, not numerical. Consensus is impossible.
Anyway, numerous other calendar systems have already passed their 2nd,
4th, 6th millennia without discernible damage [or benefit] to humanity.
Those expecting this time-passage to be any different are [character-
ization deleted]. But it gives them something to obsess over...
Depending on who does the calculating, we're actually approaching year
7500 AM [Anno Mundi, since the creation of the world, a calendric system
used by Byzantium and its heirs for quite awhile.] 2000? Piffle!! A
very small number...
Let me again recommend an excellent review of Western Civ's interaction
with timemarks - CENTURY'S END: An Orientation Manual Toward The Year
2000, by Hillel Schwartz [Doubleday, 1990-1996].
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spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL
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[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #4
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991015d - - - - - - - - - - - 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 aquatic apes were greatly harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Temple of the Screaming Electron: http://www.totse.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # STOCK DROP: Astrologist sees more market woes. Appliance repairman Robert Hitt's side job is financial astrology and the stars are telling him the market will decline until May 5, 2000 -- a day when the solar system will serve up "the most significant alignment of planets that we'll see in our lifetime. I'm expecting a major low in the market." Better believe him: http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Oct/15/business/STARMAN15.htm : Do you trade astrologically? Have you correlated past market performance with planetary motions? Do voices in your head handle your accounts? Well? # MUFON news: NASA FILM SHOWS UFOs - multiple UFO sightings - CANADA CROP CIRCLES - likely blimps - POSSIBLE NEW PLANET FOUND IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM - SPACE JUNK RE-ENTRY PREDICTIONS - FALUN GONG BUSTS CONTINUE - UNDERGROUND VAULTS AT WRIGHT PATTERSON: http://sightings.com/ufo5/ufoshow.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Secrets of super zip revealed. Researchers have created the first atomic- resolution image of a donut-shaped enzyme that unwinds the DNA double helix. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_475000/475085.stm @ Links - Cell: http://www.cell.com/ @ Ellenberger Group: http://sbweb.med.harvard.edu/~tome/ : Have you unwound any DNA lately? Has anyone unwound your DNA? Did they put it back right? Do you unzip a great deal? Have you ever been caught at it?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Positive thinking 'cuts no ice with cancer'. (BBC) Neither stressful events, nor a woman's 'fighting spirit' have any impact on the likeli- hood of developing or dying from breast cancer, say scientists. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_475000/475128.stm : Have you caused/cured any diseases with sheer willpower lately? Do you prefer willpower to drugs, surgery, prevention? Are you still alive? Why?? @ Ethno-Mycology: http://www.sirius.com/~holy/mushroom.html @ Space transportation: http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Tech/Space/ @ The economics of science fiction: http://hanson.berkeley.edu/econofsf.html @ Computational chemistry: http://nano.xerox.com/nanotech/compChemLinks.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Humans have downward-pointing nostrils, a dive reflex, skin-bonded subcutaneous fat, and a number of other peculiar traits that we share with aquatic mammals but do not share with other primates. The Aquatic Ape Theory http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5168/aat_leaflet.html attempts to give an evolutionary explanation of these and other traits. Needless to say, it's http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5168/aat.html controversial. : Are you an aquatic ape? Can you swim? Did you evolve? Are you a primate? How do you know? Were you planted here? Do you float? Are you bloated? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Data raiders prove power grids, infrastructure vulnerable. WASHINGTON. The ground rules were simple: Use laptop computers purchased at local stores software downloaded off the Net. Target only unclassified govt computer systems. And see how far you can get. "Red Team" hackers hit the jackpot. In less than 3 months, a team of about 30 NSA geeks secretly penetrated computers that control electrical grids in Los Angeles, Washington other major cities. They broke into networks that direct 911 emergency-response systems. They even got access to the Pentagon's National Military Command Center, the heart of America's war-fighting operation. If they can do it, so can I: http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/cyberwar10.htm @ Hacker Alert: http://ojr.usc.edu/content/sectionfront.cfm?request=10 : What national/regional/local infrastructures would you like to disable? Have you practiced? Where? Have you caused any disruptions/deaths yet? Who? @ Multics was developed in the mid-1960s in the programming language PL/1. Unix folklore has it that Unix began as a miniature mutant offshoot of Multics. http://www.multicians.org/multics.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pakistani coup spreads to the Internet. (BBC) Hackers have taken over one of the official websites of the Pakistan Government while other official sites have disappeared from the Internet. Cyberwar spreads: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_473000/473991.stm # THE UNABOMBER: Ted Kaczynski Talks -- From his "Supermax" jail, Kaczynski talks about his upcoming book, relations with his brother and his future: http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,32213,00.html : What is the most efficient way to apply force in a wired world. Would you rather hack, bomb, shoot, burn,
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #1
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SkeptiNews 991014a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question
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@ See sex sell. Sell, sex, sell! http://rockers.nu/trams/banners/
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# Prancing Priest's 'Jesus Twist' Tops Charts. RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A
dancing priest's 2nd CD of aerobics music has shot to the top of Brazil's
pop charts with its hit song "Vira de Jesus" ("Jesus Twist"), his record
company says. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991012/11/odd-priest
# Singing Priests Draw Thousands To Mass. RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) Brazil's
revitalized Roman Catholic Church attracted more than 100,000 people to a
splashy service in Maracana soccer stadium where nine rock-star singing
priests led a raucous homage to the country's patron saint. Next: anti-
Satan cha-cha: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991013/11/odd-religion
: Who are your favorite singing/dancing priests/nuns? Are they fast, slow,
indeterminate, au courant, indecipherable, mechanistic, mind-controlling??
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# SOUTH CAROLINA TO DECIDE WHETHER TO ALLOW 'HARRY POTTER' BOOKS IN CLASS.
Some adults here wish Harry Potter would just - poof! - disappear. Parents
worried about the influence of the wildly popular Harry Potter books by
J.K.Rowling have persuaded the South Carolina Board of Education to review
whether the books should be allowed in the classroom. "The books have a
serious tone of death, hate, lack of respect and sheer evil" - State board
to review books: http://cnn.com/books/news/9910/13/potter.protest.ap/
: Are childrens' books effective mindcontrol tools? Have you promoted lack
of respect lately? Do Reptoids/Republicans control S.Carolina? Should they?
@ No thinking, no fucking: http://yeshiva-pgh.com/images/logo/main-logo.JPG
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@ The Orhai Method of Total Healing. Light activation points that clear
cellular structure, Eliminate developmental traumas. Awaken spiritual
memory. Discover the sound of your soul, its significance and karmic
implications. http://www.sayahda.com/Orhai.html
: Are you structurally muddy, developmentally traumatized, spiritually for-
getful? Does your soul make grating/grinding/grunting sounds? Are you numb?
@ Alignment Techniques: Spiritual Attunement - Unified Consciousness -
The Indigo Shield - Healing Empowerment - Energetic Decoding:
http://www.sayahda.com/techniques.html
: Have you been aligned/shielded/healed/empowered/decoded lately? Why not?
@ Articles and Channelings: The Multidimensional Self - Trading Places -
Soul Purpose CoCreation - Communication with Spirit - Dreams, A Magic
Mirror: http://www.sayahda.com/Article.html
: Have you channeled or been channeled lately? Anything important said? Wha?
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# Gas Powered Computers Closer To Reality. LONDON (Reuters) A super-fast,
minuscule molecular computer driven by gases may be a step closer to
reality thanks to research by a Berlin-based chemist. Fart in a jar:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991013/19/science-science-computers
# Staggering Implications: US Scientists Use Computer To Watch What Cat
Brain Sees: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/catbrain.htm
# Looking Through Cats' Eyes - Pictures:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_471000/471786.stm
: Do you use gas-powered computers to look through cats' eyes? Should you?
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# Theologian okays stock deals for Catholics. MILAN (Reuters) Catholics can
invest in the stock market safe in the knowledge that they are acting in
the common good so long as their only aim is an "honest profit," Italy's
main Catholic rag sez. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991013/11/odd-market
# NY's Giant Squid Unveiled But Its Living Peers Stay Hidden. NEW YORK -
After sitting more than a year in a metal storage tank, a dead, floppy,
26-foot 250-pound giant squid is finally ready for public eyes at New York
City's Natural History Museum. http://foxnews.com/scitech/101299/squid.sml
: Have you mentally communicated with any 8-brain-lobed telepathic molluscs
lately? Would you rather be mind-controlled by Catholic investors, CIA/NSA
operatives, telepathic squids, Reptilioid/Republican minions, me? Can giant
squids invest in stock markets for moral purposes? Can Catholics? Can you?
# Chinese Woman Said Beaten To Death In Police Custody For Falun
Gong Beliefs: http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=99834
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@ RISKS DIGEST: Serious security flaw in MS Java - Latest UK train wreck -
Glitch switches Nevada 911 calls to San Diego CHP - Supercomputer lost to
fire, weather predictions reduced - Calif government computers fail, cars
impounded - Massive fiber cut - Internet Explorer 5.0 flaws - GPS rollover
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[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991014b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 telepathic molluscs were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ StickDeath: http://www.stickdeath.com/frameset.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Teleology, the idea of purpose in nature, has been on the back foot since the 17th century. But it's not dead yet, even in physics. http://www.linguafranca.com/9910/hypo.html : Does nature have a purpose? Do you? How many deities shape you and your nature? Do they have different purposes? Does this explain chaos? How? # The speed of light may be variable, rather than constant: http://www.newsreality.com/localnews/?id=18 # Questioning current notion of "time" as a framework for the universe: http://www.newsreality.com/localnews/?id=28 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Telecom Future: Flying Wings And Unmanned Planes. EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (Reuters) - It creeps across the bright desert sky as quiet as a ceiling fan. It carries no fuel, no pilot and is wider than a jumbo jet's wingspan. In fact, that's all the Helios is a giant wing. Bzz-bzz-bzz: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991013/20/science-science-planes : How many unmanned craft do you want orbiting overhead, beaming signals at you? How many are there already? Does your implant receive signals clearly? # MagLev (magnetic levitation) orbital launch systems are becoming more a reality now that NASA has built an experimental launch track: http://www.newsreality.com/localnews/?id=23 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Solar Cycle Update. Updated predictions from NASA scientists put the solar maximum in mid-2000. As activity on the Sun increases toward this broad maximum, we can expect more auroral displays, radio disruptions power fluctuations. http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast14oct99_1.htm : Have solar flares interrupted your thoughts lately? Have your thoughts had any effects on solar flares lately? Do flares disrupt your remote-viewing? # Talk of discovery of a 10th (and perhaps 11th) planet orbiting the sun. http://newsreality.com/showbindings/?section=science.astronomyid=4068 http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991016/newsstory2.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A Revolution in Brain Evolution? New research shows that monkeys regener- ate and repair brain cells in the cerebral cortex. If humans do too, a startling new view of the brain is possible: that our minds are shaped by our experience. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,31889,00.html : Has your cerebral anatomy undergone radical transformations? Do you try to reshape your brain? Do you use drugs, knives, films, implants, sex, cigars? # The inner idiot savant: you too could learn a dozen languages or play the complete works of Bach, if only you'd stop trying to be so clever: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991009/tuneinturn.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Irish Coffees Better Than Drugs For Stroke? HOUSTON (Reuters) A slug of alcohol followed by a quick cup of coffee may work just as well to limit stroke damage as some of the drugs now available in emergency rooms. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991013/16/science-health-stroke : Is Irish Coffee your preferred medication? Do Mexican Coffees work just as well? Have you ever fed Irish Coffee to a Reptoid/Republican? Do they gag?? @ See rural UK as a domestic Transylvania, where normality can't survive an uneasy night or an innocuous dinner party www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n20/wood2120.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Immortality On Ice. NEW YORK - Kennita Watson likes to think about what she'll be doing in a few hundred years. "Some things that come to mind are traveling to the stars; terraforming an asteroid; learning dozens, then hundreds, of languages; understanding general relativity; playing musical instruments that haven't been invented yet... I could go on and on." Cryonics to the rescue: http://foxnews.com/scitech/100899/cryonics.sml # Bionic Humans in Slow Motion. Researchers have made headway in tissue engineering, but a real-life Jamie Summers is still years away. Surgeons convene to discuss growing cells organs outside of the body. Resistance is futile: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,31893,00.html : What's your favorite tissue work? Would you rather be cryogenically stored revived, exobiologically regenerated, saturated in preservatives, deified? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists Say Attack On GM Food Safety Is Flawed. LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists reacted angrily to a commentary in a leading science magazine slamming the criterion used to assess the safety of genetically modified foods. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991013/17/science-science-gm Source: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991016/newsstory3.html : Have you modified any genes lately? Are
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991014c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 purpose for life was found during production of this bulletin. Bother. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ DUMB LAWS R US: http://www.dumblaws.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Think The Internet Stinks? Try This! SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) If you think the Internet is in your face already, you haven't smelled anything yet. Smell-o-video: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991014/11/odd-internet # Rudy vs The Elephant Dung: stock characters hurl abuse and feign hurt, secretly gleeful at the publicity. A well-staged scandal: http://nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19991010mag-art-politics.html : Is your nose more offended by the Internet, politics, your cow orkers, me? Do alien implants cushion you from the worst scents? Do Reptilioids stink?? # COSMIC ANGST. The discovery of more solar systems in the universe just increases the likelihood that space is filled with assholes, morons and goons: http://www.annoyed.com/daryl-lease/cosmic-angst.htm : How many jerks can the universe abide? All of'em? Are deities jerks too? Is jerk-hood a survival characteristic? Did we evolve to be jerks? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Paul Kurtz has been in foxholes under fire and he's still a happy atheist. This apostle of godless morality is now leading a revolution on campus: http://www.linguafranca.com/9910/faith.html # What's striking about today's intellectuals, says Wendy Kaminer, is their utter failure to criticize, much less satirize, America's romance with God: http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/277/living/An_avowed_agnostic_divines_the_ perils_of_piety+.shtml : Are you romantically involved with one or more deities? Do intellectuals mock you? Dare they? Do you mock them? Are you revolutionary? Are they? How? # Despite liberal orthodoxy, Harvard still harbors a flinty right wing: contentious, mordant, and politically incorrect on a cosmic scale. The swine! http://www.harvard-magazine.com/so99/conserv.ssi _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Improving the human race with genetics is a sensitive subject in Germany. Just raise the topic and you may hear shouts of "Fascist!" http://www.philosophynews.com/news/19991001_habermas_vs_sloterdijk.htm # Four Sisters Up For Adoption On Internet. LONDON (Reuters) Authorities in Britain are using a photograph on the Internet to offer four young sisters for adoption in a desperate attempt to bring them together under one roof. Bring on the clones: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991014/11/odd-adoption # If Mozart piped into mother's womb causes baby to kick, what's the kid trying to say? Maybe, Turn off that racket! Let's have some quiet here! www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/280/metro/Discordant_note_little_heardP.shtml : Have you improved anyone lately? Did you use genetic modification, social engineering, personal manipulation, prenatal music, drugs, sex, surgery? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Brain wave: Suppose all that was thought to happen in your left lobe took place in your right instead? Would it make any difference? Would anyone notice? How? http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n19/fodo2119.htm # Since the chance of an election being decided by a single vote is almost nil, why should any citizen bother to vote? Ask a rational choice theorist http://www.thenewrepublic.com/magazines/tnr/current/coverstory102599.html : Is rationality overrated? Are your lobes scrambled? Do ET implants help? Do'ya make a difference? Do differences make you? Do you control the future? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Message from a Mouse. The very notion of a gene "for" something as complex as "intelligence" lapses into absurdity. A Gene for Intelligence? Pshaw!! http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,30590,00.html # RACING TO MAP OUR DNA: http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,17688,00.html # WHO OWNS OUR GENES? http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,17682,00.html : Are y'r genes smart? Do you own them? Do they own you? Is ownership passe? Do mice communicate meaningfully with you? Do you talk back? Do they listen? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Faith isn't omnipotent, writes John Horgan, nor is it always benign. Religion is a fine therapy, but also foments intolerance. And as for science... http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i07/07a07201.htm # Cobra Kills Top Snake Charmer. BANGKOK (Reuters) Thailand's top snake charmer was killed by one of his own cobras which turned on him during a show. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991014/11/odd-snake : Do you have faith? Has faith killed you yet? Have you killed a believer lately? Did they resent it? Do you? Is faith the best therapy? Are you nutz? # Rabbis Excommunicate Assassin. JERUSALEM (Reuters) More than 50 Israeli rabbis signed a decree excommunicating
Re: [CTRL] Where do we come from?
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: earthman [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Sumerian cuneiform deciphering skills of Zecharia Sitchin, a linguist in command of many ancient languages who has set the scientific world on its ear with his astounding interpretations of ancient writings. Are Stichin's translations reproducable? Have any other linguists translated the same texts the same way? If not, why not? Do you value unconfirmed reports, non-repeatable results, unvalidated notions? Is consensus too boring? 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
Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #2
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: C. Laughlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: "Paul Kurtz has been in foxholes..." yada yada yada... So...looks like Paul has finally achieved the founding of a new evangelical religious movement! Move over Jerry Falwell! Wonder where he plans to set up his "Vatican." Amherst, maybe? That would be "irreligious movement", I believe. Better than a religious movement, a bowel movement, the usual social demagoguery, eh? "We're no longer just a movement, we're a revolution -- and we've got what it takes to kick some irrational butt!" Yowser... I seem to recall Tom Jefferson writing something about the need to have a new revolution every 20 years or so. Maybe it's time for a revolution to kick wishful/magical thinking out of public life, eh? Or are godless ethics more than most people can handle? Amherst isn't really the right place for an antiVatican, though. I'd nominate Provincetown. Better situated. 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
Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #2
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Tatman, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Is Irish Coffee your preferred medication? Now, at the time I discovered Irish coffee, I was still, alas, a registered Republican. Shortly thereafter I looked at my voter registration card, gagged, and promptly re-registered as a Democrat. After looking at the current crop of candidates from all parties, both major and minor, I am about to abandon the political spectrum and re-register as a Non-Euclidean. A wise move. I was once a registered Platypus. Our candidate for mayor of San Francisco, Tony Serra [the 'dope' lawyer portrayed by James Woods in some late '80s film] proposed financing The City by legalizing drugs and holding continuous rock concerts on Alcatraz. Alas, he was beaten by Geo. Moscone IIRC who was later assassinated [along with Sup. Harvey Milk] by Dan "Twinkie Defence" White, giving the world Lady DiFi [Sen. Diane Feinstein]. But I digress.. As the doctor told me when I asked him if I was crazy, "One of us is, my boy, one of us is..." Any consensus? 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- Lorem Ipsum Dolor. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetaur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum Et harumd und lookum like Greek to me, dereud facilis est er expedit distinct. Nam liber te conscient to factor tum poen legum odioque civiuda. Et tam neque pecun modut est neque nonor et imper ned libidig met, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed ut labore et dolore magna aliquam makes one wonder who would ever read this stuff? Bis nostrud exercitation ullam mmodo consequet. Duis aute in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. At vver eos et accusam dignissum qui blandit est praesent luptatum delenit aigue excepteur sint occae. Et harumd dereud facilis est er expedit distinct. Nam libe soluta nobis eligent optio est congue nihil impedit doming id Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, set eiusmod tempor incidunt et labore et dolore magna aliquam. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerc. Irure dolor in reprehend incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse molestaie cillum. Tia non ob ea soluad incommod quae egen ium improb fugiend. Officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum Et harumd dereud facilis est er expedit distinct. Nam liber te conscient to factor tum poen legum odioque civiuda et tam. Neque pecun modut est neque nonor et imper ned libidig met, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed ut labore et dolore magna aliquam is nostrud exercitation ullam mmodo consequet. Duis aute in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. At vver eos et accusam dignissum qui blandit est praesent. Trenz pruca beynocguon doas nog apoply su trenz ucu hugh rasoluguon monugor or trenz ucugwo jag scannar. Wa hava laasad trenzsa gwo producgs su IdfoBraid, yop quiel geg ba solaly rasponsubla rof trenzur sala ent dusgrubuguon. Offoctivo immoriatoly, hawrgasi pwicos asi sirucor.Thas sirutciun applios tyu thuso itoms ghuso pwicos gosi sirucor in mixent gosi sirucor ic mixent ples cak ontisi sowios uf Zerm hawr rwivos. Unte af phen neige pheings atoot Prexs eis phat eit sakem eit vory gast te Plok peish ba useing phen roxas. Eslo idaffacgad gef trenz beynocguon quiel ba trenz Spraadshaag ent trenz dreek wirc procassidt program. Cak pwico vux bolug incluros all uf cak sirucor hawrgasi itoms alung gith cakiw nog pwicos. Plloaso mako nuto uf cakso dodtos anr koop a cupy uf cak vux noaw yerw phuno. Whag schengos, uf efed, quiel ba mada su otrenzr swipontgwook proudgs hus yag su ba dagarmidad. Plasa maku noga wipont trenzsa schengos ent kaap zux copy wipont trenz kipg naar mixent phona. Cak pwico siructiun ruos nust apoply tyu cak UCU sisulutiun munityuw uw cak UCU-TGU jot scannow. Trens roxas eis ti Plokeing quert loppe eis yop prexs. Piy opher hawers, eit yaggles orn ti sumbloat alohe plok. Su havo loasor cakso tgu pwuructs tyu InfuBwain, ghu gill nug bo suloly sispunsiblo fuw cakiw salo anr ristwibutiun. Hei muk neme eis loppe. Treas em wankeing ont sime ploked peish rof phen sumbloat syug si phat phey gavet peish ta paat ein pheeir sumbloats. Aslu unaffoctor gef cak siructiun gill bo cak spiarshoot anet cak GurGanglo gur pwucossing pwutwam. Ghat dodtos, ig pany, gill bo maro tyu ucakw suftgasi pwuructs hod yot tyubo rotowminor. Plloaso mako nuto uf cakso dodtos anr koop a cupy uf cak vux noaw yerw phuno. Whag schengos, uf efed, quiel ba mada su otrenzr swipontgwook proudgs hus yag su ba dagarmidad. Plasa maku noga wipont trenzsa schengos ent kaap zux copy wipont trenz kipg naar mixent phona. Cak pwico siructiun ruos nust apoply tyu cak UCU sisulutiun munityuw uw cak UCU-TGU jot scannow. Trens roxas eis ti Plokeing quert loppe eis yop prexs. Piy opher hawers, eit yaggles orn ti sumbloat alohe plok. Su havo loasor cakso tgu pwuructs tyu. http://nwalsh.com/comp.fonts/FAQ/cf_36.htm#SEC145 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.
[CTRL] Lurid account of 1943 nuclear accident in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991012a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 blueberry pies were fellated during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Reach dolphiness thru interpretive dance: http://dolphinsociety.org/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Gays urged to renounce homosexuality. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Gay activists hissed, booed screamed as Rev. Jerry Falwell lectured via satellite to a group of gays and lesbians about giving up homosexuality. One member of ACT UP San Francisco threw a blueberry pie at a member of the group that organized Falwell's speech from Lynchburg VA to about 60 folks in a site in Golden Gate Park. "Xian bigots out of our city," cried Josh Trenter, hauled off by cops after allegedly tossing the pie. He and another member of his gay rights group were cited for battery and released. "God loves you and so do I," Falwell told the audience. "Just as people can come out of the closet, so can people choose to come out against a sinful life- style." http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561593604-cf1 : Have you come out against left-handedness lately? Is left-handedness a lifestyle choice? Have you bashed any lefties lately? Did God insist? Is Xianity a social disease? Should blueberry pies be wasted on Xians? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Come One, Come All, Access My PC - 24Link lets you create a web server on the fly, for free. Anyone can run a website on a home PC, if that someone is brave (or foolish?) enough to allow the world to snoop around on his hard drive. And it only takes a minute or two to set up. http://www.techsightings.com/ts_review/403.html : Are you brave, foolish, crazy, implanted, controlled? Will your server take over the world? Will the world take over your server? Are you served? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Kan. ridiculed for evolution ban. DeSOTO, Kan. (AP) The state Board of Education got an earful about its move to de-emphasize evolution in Kansas public schools, including ridicule from student groups from Harvard and support from the Hare Krishnas. The board, which OK'd the change to state science testing standards in August, continues to hold public hearings on its decision. The board was given an Ig Nobel Prize (a spoof of the Nobel Prize) for scientific achievements that shouldn't be repeated. The board got support from a Hindu creationist, whose letter of praise was read by Danavir Swami, president of the Rupa Nuga Vedic College in Kansas City, Mo. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561593126-1b9 : What's your favorite creationist doctrine? Do backers of various creation myths fight bitterly for public support? Has your myth won any prizes? What? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ROSSLYNTEMPLAR "This list is set up to discuss and theorise about Rosslyn Chapel, founded during the 14th C. It is an intriguing building with many links to the Knights Templar and from there to many other esoteric fields. Discussion on this list is restricted to things relating to Rosslyn, all aspects of the Knights Templar, and anything relating to these two topics. (quite a broad remit when you consider that Rosslyn has been given as a repository of everything from the Ark of the Covenant to Jesus earthly remains). If you're familiar with the writings of Baigent, Lincoln, Haisman, Bauval, Hancock, Knight Lomas or similar authors then that's what we're about." http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/rosslyntemplar : Are you esoteric, exoteric, endoteric, psychotic? What are your favorite Templar conspiracy theories? Do you talk about them? Do they talk about you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # World population at 6 bln. UNITED NATIONS (AP) Earth's population reached 6 billion, say U.N. demographers, and more than 1 billion youngsters just entering their fertile years will determine how fast the next milestone is reached. Even with continuing declines in fertility rates family size, the sheer numbers of the largest "youthquake" in history guarantee huge growth thru 2050, UN gurus say. Most of these more than 1 billion young people, aged 15 to 24, live in less developed nations where govts struggle to provide education, jobs, and social services - and they urgently need reproductive health info and services, the U.N. Population Fund says. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561592996-32c # Also: Clinic designates 6-billionth baby, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561596359-0c3 # And: UN names family planning official, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561593709-af2 : Have humans replenished the Earth yet? Has that contract been fulfilled? Can we move on to another contract? What planet(s) do you want to fill next? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[CTRL] SkeptiNews Editor's Plea
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991012x - - - - - - - - - - - - All The Gore That's Fit To Ignore Gentle readers: I hate to break into your personal fugue states this way, but I have an urgent request. If you have visited my MUSICAL RESOURCES AND MATERIALS webpage [at mymusic.da.ru or www.sonic.net/~ric/music/music.htm - but DON'T GO THERE NOW!!] in the last few days or weeks, at anytime before today [Tuesday 12 October 1999], and if you still have a copy of that page sitting in your browser's temporary folder / file cache, PLEASE PLEASE send me a copy - just email music.htm to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] as soon as possible. Yes, I had a strange interaction with my text editor, and it truncated the music.htm file at the top of the RESOURCES links, and then I irretrievably deleted by file backup, and was otherwise foolish. Bother. I blame it on my extended exposure to the Northern Lights - or was that really a HAARP mindcontrol experiment? Did my close proximity to the Arctic Circle quite disorient me? Or am I just making excuses? Whatever. Your help will be greatly appreciated, except by those who find themselves following expired links, but I'll fix those Real Soon Now, I promise. Thanks --Ric _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Welcome to Forestville. Population 1708. Elevation 255. Zip Code 95436. Total 07399." --sign in my village * http://sonic.net/~ric UPDATED * ICQ# 19633976 * FAX: 603-415-3736 * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * 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
[CTRL] The 'The Israelites of the New Universal Covenant' et al
-Caveat Lector- UNCONVENTIONAL MEANS I 'We were somewhere over Manchester on the edge of England when the drugs began to take hold... and suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the plane, which was going about a thousand miles an hour on the way to the UnConvention in London. And a voice screaming: "Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?" 'I thought about telling the pilot, dragging myself up the aisle, fighting off the lizard-like stewardesses with my sword-stick, but no... ...no point in mentioning those bats I thought. The poor bastards will see them soon enough.' By 1100 hours, Blather's leading gonzo journalist staggered from his plane at London City Airport and lurched into the steaming fleshpots of the City. By 1900 hours he was seated by the Thames - outside a certain alehouse near Blackfriars bridge - those adept in conspiracy lore may note that Roberto Calvi - The Italian financier - was found dangling from this bridge in 1982, his pockets laden with bricks. Calvi was known as 'God's Banker', due to his ties to the Vatican, as well a member of Propaganda Due (P2), a right-wing, once Masonic group with connections to the CIA and the Italian Mafia. But we digress. Various folk of the forteana mailing list clique sucked down ales in the bearable damp of Friday's twilight UnDrinking, before some of us - members of the American and Irish contingents - slunk off for a Chinese meal, during which the waiter insisted on ripping apart a duck for our entertainment. Fortunately, it was dead and well-cooked beforehand. After hours of sampling the late night drinking dens of Soho and slugging back garlic-chili-vodka shots, we made for home, grabbing some fitful shut-eye in for preparation the UnConvention weekend ahead. Long-time Blather sufferers may recall last year's UnConvention reports - a two-day conference on the weird, wonderful and paranormal, staged by Fortean Times, the *Journal of Strange Phenomena*. Last year's event covered such topics as Goat-Suckers, giant elephants, thunderbirds, grim-reapers, Elvis cults, hollow earth, Men in Black amongst other oddities. This year's UnCon - which took place in the Commonwealth Institute on Kensington's High St., had a different thread - 'Monsters, Madness the Millennium'. We shall try to furnish the readership with a brief rundown of the events... When Damian Thompson, author of the excellent *The End of Time: Faith and Fear in the shadow of the Millennium*, kicked off his talk, the atmosphere was comparable to the first day of school term. So intriguing was the Thompson spiel, we're giving it an exorbitant chunk of column space. A week before speaking to the UnCon, Thompson had been in Peru, visiting the 'The Israelites of the New Universal Covenant', a new religious movement in the Andes, now with allegedly 200,000 members. The talk was accompanied by interesting photographs of the the group. He described the sacrifice of a heifer by men in 'old testament clothing', surrounded by hundreds of people in a scene seemingly influenced by Hollywood renditions of Biblical themes, inside a half-built copy of Solomon's Temple, with a Mexican Mariachi band playing along... He talked of 100ft (30.48m) high letters on a mountainside reading: 'Israel in Peru' 'Peru is Privileged' The Israelites believe that Peru is new Holy Land, that Israel is out of favour with God, that they *are* the Incas, and that their leader - Ezekiel - an 81-year old shoemaker with Seventh Day Adventist influences is the Son of God, The Holy Spirit and the Last (of the old) Inca rolled into one (this somehow reminds of Jan Bockelson, the 16th century Münster (Germany) tailor who became a local Messiah figure after 'running naked through the town in a state of ecstasy'. See *The End of Time*, page 85. The Israelites seem to be a mixture of Andes peasants, Peruvian Indians, repentant criminals, reformed alcoholics, ex-drug addicts and narcotics pedlars - these people are searching for a better way of life. As Thompson states, they 'get new meaning from life when they join Israelites'. While Ezekiel's followers dress in a Cecil B. De Mille gone Technicolor chic - the men in long beards, white robes, vivid blue sashes, the women with their heads wrapped in red scarves, the Son of Man himself (who, according to Thompson, seems somewhat senile) wears normal black clothes, and seems almost indifferent to his thousands of worshippers. On his birthday, they sing to him... there's a full moon, and a mariachi band playing outside. Worshippers appear in plastic Inca apparel, a woman is in tears - she has met the Living God. Ezekiel seems more interested in his food. Perhaps he's bored... Most Israelites were illiterate before getting hold of Bibles. Thompson states that there seems to be no fixed doctrine - any Bible will do, and any question - never mind how mundane - is
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-Caveat Lector- http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc99/9_25_99/bob2.htm The Weekly Newsmagazine of Science September 25, 1999 Vol. 156, No. 13 Slumber's Unexplored Landscape People in traditional societies sleep in eye-opening ways By Bruce Bower A Gebusi woman in New Guinea, decked out in her dance costume, catches a few winks on a woodpile during a male initiation ceremony. (Eileen Knauft) Ah, the sweet simplicity of sleep. You tramp into your bedroom with sagging eyelids and stifle a yawn. After disrobing, you douse the lights and climb into bed. Maybe a little reading or television massages the nerves, loosening them up for slumber's velvet fingers. In a while, you nod off. Suddenly, an alarm clock's shrill blast breaks up the dozefest as the sun pokes over the horizon. You feel a bit drowsy but shake it off and face the new day. Images of a dream dissolve like sugar in the morning's first cup of coffee. There's a surprising twist, however, at the heart of this familiar ritual. It simply doesn't apply to people currently living outside of the modern Western worldor even to inhabitants of Western Europe as recently as 200 years ago. In such contexts, and probably throughout human evolution, solitary shut-eye organized around a regular bedtime and a single bout of sleep proves about as common as stock car racing or teleconferencing. Surprisingly, anthropologists have rarely scrutinized the sleep patterns and practices of different cultures, much less those of different classes and ethnic groups in the United States. An initial attempt to draw back the veils of sleep in hunter-gatherer groups and other traditional societies has uncovered a wide variety of sleep customs, reports anthropologist Carol M. Worthman of Emory University in Atlanta. None of these snooze styles, however, looks anything like what modern Western folk take for granted. This finding raises profound questions for the burgeoning discipline of sleep research, Worthman says. Over the past 50 years, scientists have avidly delved into slumber's biology. Early research identified periods of rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep, during which intense dreams often occur. Current efforts pursue genes involved in wakefulness and sleeping (SN: 8/14/99, p. 100). Researchers have also taken strides toward treating insomnia and other sleep disturbances. While investigators readily concede that they don't yet know why people sleep and dream, they assume that they at least know how people should sleep: alone or with a partner for a solid chunk of the night. Sleep studies therefore take place in laboratories where individuals catch winks while hooked up to a bevy of brain and body monitors. However, the distinctive sleep styles of non-Western groups may mold sleep's biology in ways undreamed of in sleep labs, Worthman suggests. They may influence factors ranging from sleep-related genes to the brain's electrical output during various sleep phases. "It's time for scientists to get out into natural sleep environments," Worthman remarks. "It's embarrassing that anthropologists haven't done this, and the lack of such work is impeding sleep research." A seemingly innocent question awakened Worthman to her discipline's ignorance of how people sleep. In 1994, she had a conversation with pediatrician Ronald E. Dahl of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, who studies the effects of mood disorders on sleep. He asked the Emory scientist to tell him what anthropologists know about the history and prehistory of sleep. "[My] bald, if somewhat overstated, answer was 'zero,'" she says. Sleep scarcely figures in the literature on either cross-cultural differences or human evolution, Worthman realized. Investigators generally relegate slumber to the sidelines, treating it as a biological given with little potential for variation from one place to another, she holds. A few researchers have bucked this trend. For instance, anthropologist James J. McKenna of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana has reported that babies in many countries outside the United States sleep next to or in the same room as their parents. Contact with a parent's body helps regulate an infant's breathing and other physiological functions, he asserts, perhaps lowering the risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SN: 12/4/93, p. 380). McKenna's work should have roused investigators of traditional societies out of their sleep-related torpor, Worthman says. Yet, even seasoned field-workers have tended to ignore sleepat least in their published workswhile describing food production, sexual practices, and other facets of daily life. So, Worthman contacted seven researchers who she knew had intimate knowledge of one or more traditional societies, including nomadic foragers, herders, and village-based farmers. Among these far-flung populations, none of the investigators, by their own admission, had systematically studied how people sleep. After plumbing what the researchers had
[CTRL] Fw: SciCentral News Alert for Friday, 01-Oct-1999 11:37:01 AM EDT
-Caveat Lector- SCICENTRAL NEWS ALERT [1]SciCentral: http://www.scicentral.com _ Friday, October 1, 1999 Edition _ References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/ BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES * [1]Selected Articles: + Mice Lacking a Gene that Controls Production of One Protein Gain Less Weight, Prefer Safe Places + People in Traditional Societies Sleep in Eye-Opening Ways + Frogs Kiss and Tell + Work Probes Why Habits Are Hard to Make, Break References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-behavs.html#articles BIOCHEMISTRY * [1]Selected Articles: + Protein Tagging en Masse References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-bioch.html#articles BIOTECHNOLOGY * [1]Selected Articles: + Protein Tagging en Masse + Plastic Plants (GM plant makes the organic polymer PHBV in its seeds) + Advance May Put Gene Chip Technology on Scientists' Desktops + Cinderella's Shoe Holds 500 Sequencing Machines + Oceans: Medicine Chests of the Future? References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-biotec.html#articles ENVIRONMENT ECOLOGY * [1]Selected Articles: + USGS Finds Elevated Levels of Organochlorine Pesticides in Aleutian Bald Eagles + Counting Down (gloom about a population explosion is probably misplaced) + NASA Reveals a Very Bad Year for the Ozone Layer + Forget Rainforests (planting forests in dry areas to combat the effects of global warming) + Ecologists Look to Purge Deadly Exotic Species References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-enviro.html#articles EVOLUTION PALEONTOLOGY * [1]Selected Articles: + Some Neanderthals Practiced Cannibalism Shows Find from French Cave + Mysterious Stone Circle Was a Busy Trading Post + Dino Deaths Revisited: Meteor May Not Have Destroyed Them, After All + Unscrambling Dinosaur Eggs: Fossils Offer Clues About Behavior + Religious Text Could Be "Lost Scroll" + Cannibalism in Oceania + Studies Show Neanderthals Were Healthy References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-evolut.html#articles FOOD SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY * [1]Selected Articles: + Natural Pesticides Could Keep Fruit Fresh Longer + Biosensor that Detects Pathogens in Poultry and Other Foods to Be Tested in Metro Atlanta Processing Plant References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-foodsc.html#articles IMMUNOLOGY * [1]Selected Articles: + UCSD Researchers Pinpoint the Genetic Mechanisms Associated with Leukemia in Children + Sniff This (bacterial DNA could prevent asthma attacks) + Reports from Special Environmental Health Issue Explore Links to Autoimmune Diseases Diabetes, Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, and Arthritis + Gamma/Delta T Cells Essential to Regulating Airway Hyper-Responsiveness in Asthma, Other Lung Diseases References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-immuno.html#articles MICROBIOLOGY * [1]Selected Articles: + Blood Product Contaminated with Unusual Bacteria + Researchers Identify Enzyme Essential for Battle Against Bacteria in the Intestine + New Technique Identifies M. tuberculosis Genes References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-microb.html#articles NEUROSCIENCES * [1]Selected Articles: + New Research Method Reveals High-Density Information Storage in the Brain + High Brain Centers Teach Lower Brain to Adapt to Injury + Study Spotlights Uniqueness of Human Brain + What the Cat Saw (experiment confirms scientists' understanding of the language of certain visual neurons) + Brain Center Likes Action, Not Decisions + Work Probes Why Habits Are Hard to Make, Break References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-neuros.html#articles PHYSIOLOGY BIOPHYSICS * [1]Selected Articles: + Molecular Muscle Motor Found to Move Backwards References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-physio.html#articles VIROLOGY * [1]Selected Articles: + Prion Meets Its Doppelgänger + HIV's Deep Pocket May Reveal Vulnerability + Treatment Options for Chronic Hepatitis: Antivirals Look Promising + New York Virus "Could Be New to West" References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-virolo.html#articles WILDLIFE, FISHERIES, BIODIVERSITY * [1]Selected Articles: + Bass Are Bad News for Lake Trout
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990930a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 boreal aurorae were seen during production of this bulletin. But soon! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Baphomet: http://www.crossfields.com/~watcher/baphomet.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # VR Opens Body Window. Researchers use virtual reality to help diabetics "see" into their bodies, to teach patients to increase circulation to problem areas. http://wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21999.html # Spiders light the way. (BBC) Swedish researchers have shown how spiders can find their way about by looking at polarised light in the sky. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_461000/461143.stm : How well can you see? What type of light do you use? Do you prefer looking inward, outward, up, down, sideways, cross-eyed? Do you get dizzy and fall? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pope Sez Euthanasia Assisted Suicide Are Bad, Bad, Bad. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) Pope John Paul II strongly condemned euthanasia and assisted suicide, telling doctors that not even a patient's request could justify such: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990930/09/science-health-euthanasia Would you like a long, extended, painful, humiliating death? Do you have the right to decide when to die? Does your belief system dictate absolute moral standards for life death? Do you have the power to impose those standards? @ Now we can all sample what Ohioans have enjoyed for years: the subtle pleasures of cow tipping. http://cyberstudio.com/mindcandy/cow/cow.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PEOPLE ARE BEING CONDITIONED TO FOREIGN TROOPS PATROLLING AREAS OF FORMER- LY SOVEREIGN NATIONS! In 1952 the Illuminati re-drew the map of the world, designating zones to be patrolled by outside troops. UN "peacekeepers" now routinely go into certain zones, conditioning the people to accept the new normality. East Timor today; Los Angeles tomorrow. And then a Reptilioid will marry your sister: http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1328.cfm : Are you an Illuminati? Do you enjoy carving up the world into zones of control? What's your favorite zone? Do you control it? How? Is it kewl?? @ Actual Cthulhu Cultists performing human sacrifice. BELIEVE IT OR NOT! http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9879/acol.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mystery Solved: Lab Finds Blobs That Washed Ashore in Joizy Harmless. NEW YORK - It had all the makings of a great SciFi mystery. But the strange rubberlike blobs that recently washed ashore on New Jersey beaches turned out not to be space aliens. http://foxnews.com/scitech/092999/blobs.sml # Drug Resistant Bacteria Found In Rural US. (Reuters) A drug-resistant form of bacteria has been found in rural Native American communities. Superbugs are moving out of their hospital breeding grounds and into the community: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990930/01/science-health-superbug : Would you rather be infected by superbugs or space aliens? Have you washed ashore on any beaches lately? Are you moving out into the community? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Albert Pike's Occult Vision As To How To Achieve New World Order: http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1015.html @ COMPARISON BETWEEN NAZI BELIEFS AND GOALS WITH NEW AGE/NEW WORLD ORDER BELIEFS AND GOALS: http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1004.html @ HITLER'S ROLE IN NEW WORLD ORDER PLAN: http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1008.html @ "I, WITCH" NEW WORLD ORDER ORGANIZATION - Secrets of the Illuminati: http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1221biwitch.htm : Are you a NewAge Nazi Illuminati Witch? What's your place in the NWO? Have you taken control of the world yet? Is it real close now? Are you drooling? @ Masonic/Templar Connection: http://crossfields.com/~watcher/templars.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Island Of Jersey Goes GM Free. LONDON (Reuters) The Channel island of Jersey has declared its agriculture free of genetic modification, halting research into a new strain of potatoes. General Motors cars unaffected: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990930/06/science-genes-jersey # UK Has New Scare On Genetic Pollen Spreading. LONDON (Reuters) Britain was embroiled in a new scare about GM crops with reports that GM pollen was escaping from British field trials into the wider environment. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_461000/461734.stm http://news.excite.com/news/r/990930/05/science-britain-gm : Do you do GM life? Do you enjoy spreading gene-mod lifeforms around? Will engineered life take over the planet? Will your alien masters be pleased? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Space probe disappears coincidental with magnetic storm after unexplained flash. Preceding the sudden magnetic storm September 23, a burst of energy came screaming out of nowhere September 15 to leave astronomers scrambling for answers. Then
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990930b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 innocent bystanders were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ FBI FILE of UFOlogist Dr. J.A.HYNEK: http://cufon.org/cufon/fbihynek.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AIDS Pandemic To Worsen Next Century. BOSTON (Reuters) Unless the search for a cure for AIDS accelerates or preventive methods improve, the worst of the HIV epidemic has yet to come, experts predict. Kiss y'r ass g'bye: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990930/10/science-aids-pandemic : What's your favorite pandemic? Can/should/will you be re-engineered to be AIDS-impervious? Is life a terminal disease? Do humans infest the universe? # 'Crticality incident' exposes 3 Japanese workers to 4000X radiation: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990930/06/nuclear-japan _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ALL 3 PLANNED CRISES TO PRODUCE ANTICHRIST ARE HEATING UP SIMULTANEOUSLY! The hoofbeats of Antichrist can be heard in the distance, to the person whose spiritual ear is atuned. The 3 planned crises designed to set the stage for his appearance are reaching that crisis level, and are doing so in conjunction with one another. http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1319.cfm : Are you an antichrist? Are you galloping up? Are your plans well advanced? What's your favorite crisis? Can believers foil your plots, ruin your plans? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Internet addicts 'need help'. Surf's up - do you spend too long online? Internet addiction is a growing problem doctors should be better quipped to deal with it, research from the Center for Online Addiction suggests. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_46/460208.stm # Also - Addiction triggers exposed: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_448000/448550.stm # Eating disorders linked to addiction: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_434000/434559.stm # Online sex carries health risk: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_305000/305106.stm @ Link - Center for Online Addiction: http://www.netaddiction.com/ : Are you addicted to the Net, to sex, drugs, food, rock'n'roll, shoes, air? What's y'r favorite addiction? Are you disordered, reordered, repaved, flat? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Parents' beefs stop Harry Potter readings at school. Kids love Harry Potter, but some parents are complaining about the books' wizardry magic. So a Minnesota school tells teachers to put the books away. http://startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisSlug=HARR30 : Should all books depicting paranormalities be dumped from public schools? Should such books be removed from libraries, bookstores? Should they burn? @ Hitler's Pope? Should Pius XII be damned or sainted? http://www.zenit.org/english/archive/documents/gumpel-eng.html http://www.sobran.com/columns/0914.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GET YOUR JAR JAR BINKS SEX CANDY TODAY! The Baptists say that the ten-inch tongue is really a male sex organ. I'll take their word for that. http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0899/toy.html : How long is your tongue? Do male/female humans/aliens/animals/robots have longer tongues? Do you prize long tongues? Do Baptists have short tongues? If I said you had a nice tongue, would you hold it against me? Where??? # Adrenal Treatment Can Boost Female Libido. For women with dysfunctional adrenal glands, hormone supplements can improve mood and enhance libido. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_461000/461688.stm http://news.excite.com/news/r/990930/01/science-health-mood _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AMERICANS BECOME MORE SATANIC JUST AS WE ARE ABOUT TO SEE ANTICHRIST! One of the most sure signs that the Age of Antichrist and his False Religious Prophet is nearly upon us is the Mark of the Beast. Shockingly, we now see that the technological details have been solved, and that the next step of conditioning people to accept it is now occurring. Wait until you see the conditioning picture! http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1318.cfm : Are you American? Are you becoming more Satanic? Is it easy, fun, tasty? Do you bear The Mark Of The Beast? Are you The Beast? Do you itch? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Baboon virus passed to transplant patient. (BBC) A man who received a baboon liver in an operation hailed as a breakthrough has managed to contract a virus thought to affect only the animal. Isn't that special! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_461000/461583.stm : Is this a case of "Love Me, Love My Virus"? Are you a chimera? Do you have exotic infestations, infections, symbioses? Do you willingly breed a virus? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ TechnoBriefs: # New Bugs Discovered In IE5; security hole leaves PCs wide open to hacking; Switch it off, quick:
[CTRL] capital offences?
-Caveat Lector- *** Mob hit man admits to killings BOSTON (AP) - A mob hit man who told federal prosecutors he killed 20 people in gangland shootings pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 murders and to racketeering and extortion charges. John Martorano, 58, agreed to the plea worked out with federal prosecutors that calls for a 12-1/2-year sentence in exchange for testifying against his cohorts in a major mob trial. As U.S. District Court Judge Mark Wolf read the 78 charges against him and asked if he understood them, Martorano repeatedly replied, "Yes, your honor." The deal still needed approval from Wolf, who has expressed concerns about the arrangement. In a recent ruling, Wolf noted that Martorano turned informant only after learning that codefendants in a racketeering case were FBI informants for decades. The judge was concerned that the way the information was gathered was tainted. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561410569-419 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Does the death penalty deter murder? Suppose I come home early one day and find my Significant Other in bed with another. Instead of saying, "Move over and pass the Vaseline," I go red with rage, grab the shotgun out of my truck and blow'em away. That's Murder One, two counts - a long slow ride to death row, especially if one or both of'em are white and I'm not. Did the death penalty deter me? But suppose I'm John The Shark, and I work for Tony The Tiger, and my job is killing people, mostly "business" competitors of Tony's. And I get caught somewhere along the line, but I cut a deal with the prosecutors: give me a light sentence and I'll give you Tony, testify about the hits he ordered. Better yet, give me a couple million bucks and a new identity, and I'll talk all about Tony and his associates: their drug-running, their murders, the unions they run, the cash they laundered, some of the cops politicians they bribed [not all of'em - wouldn't be prudent, eh?], that kind of stuff. And I'm off to a new life. Did the death penalty deter me? Or suppose I'm dealing crack/smack/whatever down in the projects cause there's no other way where I live to make money, and I know it's a high-risk business where competitors will kill me without thinking about it, so I have to be ready to kill them just the same. And I know that I have almost zero chance of being free and alive for many more years 'cause that's what this life is like, so if I'm threatened, I'll kill fast. Does the death penalty deter me? Death penalties don't deter rational cold-blooded killers and don't deter irrational hot-blooded killers. Death penalties only deter people who aren't likely to commit murder [the intentional killing of a human with malice aforethought] anyway - and they'd be deterred just as well with the prospect of life without parole, eh? I mean, you may REALLY want to off [insert name of politician] but they're really not worth a long vacation, are they? So you let the bastard live - NOT because you'd be iced in revenge, BUT because your time is worth more to you than is their slimy ass. Anyway, a really horrendous sadistic mass-murderer doesn't deserve to be executed quickly, cleanly, painlessly. Wire up their pain centers to a pulsating voltage and zap'em into endless misery, eh? Or force'em to listen to perpetual Congressional hearings. Torture... * http://skepticon.da.ru * ICQ# 19633976 * FAX: 603-415-3736 * * *** SkeptiChat: sliding down the razor-blade of life *** now featuring SkeptiNews: All The News That's Fit To Question email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Re: [CTRL] Jesse Ventura - Have You Heard?!?!
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Involuntary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jesse Ventura said that religion is a crutch for weak minded people who need their strength in numbers. He also said that if you buy an American flag, it's yours to burn. Jesse Ventura for President. Sounds like someone who thinks for himself. He also said that the presidency is a prison cell and that he'd rather have his freedom. And he said he'd like to be reincar- nated as a bra. A big bra. Yup, he's the kinda leader we need. 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990930c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 sacred vessels were cracked during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Map: Tranquil Spots, Ireland: http://homepages.iol.ie/~discover/tranq.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Japan's Nuke Plant Disaster. Several people are seriously injured, tens of thousands are at risk, in a criticality nuclear accident at a Japanese uranium processing plant 90 miles outside Tokyo. Reaction still raging: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/22022.html http://cnn.com/ASIANOW/east/9909/30/japan.nuclear.05/index.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_462000/462090.stm # Ex-cult leader gets death. TOKYO (AP) - A former doomsday cult leader who spread lethal nerve gas in one of Tokyo's busiest subway stations in 1995 was sentenced to hang for his role in the attack, which killed 12 people. It was the 1st death sentence meted out in the Aum Shinri Kyo cult case. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561405142-cee http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_461000/461406.stm : Are you in Japan? Would you rather be killed by hanging, radiation, nerve gas, contaminated sushi, earthquakes, stress? Do ETs force you to remain?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # IO IS HELL (FIRE BRIMSTONE) - IO IS ACIDIC. (Nasa) Sulfuric acid found on Europa: Sulfur from fiery volcanoes on Io may be responsible for a battery acid chemical on Europa with implications for astrobiology. http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast30sep99_1.htm # Confusion doomed Mars Orbiter. LOS ANGELES (AP) A mixup over metric and English measurements likely caused the loss of the $125 mln Mars Climate Orbiter as it circled the planet last week; this caused the probe to fly too close to the red planet, causing the spacecraft to break up or burn in the Martian atmosphere that it had been designed to study. Like, oops. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561411574-072 : Have you probed any inhospitable planetoids lately? Would you rather take a vacation on Mars, Europa, Uranus? If Europa has life, would you kill it? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Lost Dead Sea Scroll Found? (BBC) A religious text, billed by some as one of the "lost" Dead Sea Scrolls, has mysteriously surfaced in Israel. The text uses some of the same phrases imagery as the famous 2000-year-old scrolls. But further study is required before experts can confirm whether the so-called "Angel Scroll" is genuine or an elaborate hoax. If real, it could shed new light on Jewish mysticism and the origins of Christianity. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_459000/459879.stm : Have you faked any religious texts lately? Are all/some/no religious texts genuine? Is authenticity irrelevant to belief? Do you trust me as I channel Sacred Words of the Cosmic Otter? Are old texts more worthy than new ones? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Kenyan prez bashes gays. NAIROBI(AP) Pres. Daniel arap Moi lashed out at homosexuals, saying their behavior is abnormal and contradicts biblical teachings and African traditions. Moi mocked homosexuals as having "a funny way of dressing which included wearing earrings." Moi's comments, at the opening of an agriculture show in Nairobi, came one day after Ugandan Pres. Yoweri Museveni said homosexuality was abominable and urged police to round up and charge homosexuals. Homosexuality is illegal in both countries. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561409202-c07 : Do you wear earrings? Have gays been around longer than arap Moi? If your political/economic situation is crumbling, who do you desperately scapegoat? # "It's rather an interesting, titillating finding" one fine scholar says of a study claiming that gay men have bigger dicks than straight men. http://nationalpost.com/home.asp?f=990928/89154 And what's the careful, rigorous methodology behind the Kinsey Inst. http://indiana.edu/~kinsey/ data this study used? The survey "asked 4,187 heterosexuals and 935 homo- sexuals to measure themselves with a ruler at home mail in the lengths." : Is genital size important to you? Is gender preference significant? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The truth is out there: Scramble! Aliens about!! Get all the news at CNI: http://www.cninews.com/ Aliens control Tony Blair's brain, say Serbian newspapers. Dr Todor Jovanovic says: "[ETs] radiate something diabolical. They have a hold over the brains of Bill Clinton, the British PM and other world leaders." French air force chiefs and space satellite engineers sent a 90-page report to President Chirac warning that, beyond any shadow of a doubt, UFOs have been sighted repeatedly over Western Europe. Nato should prepare for the
[CTRL] Skeptic News - HIATUS
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991001a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Y2K compliance was demonstrated during the production of this note. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Publication of SkeptiNews will suspended until further notice - probably resuming in 1.5 weeks, say on or after 11 October 1999, but don't try to hold me to that. Your hard-working editor/reporter/commentator will head up to the Arctic Circle to observe alien mating rituals, monitor Aurora Borealis displays, try some Tcl/Tk programming, and mind-meld with brown bears. Pity da bears. Remember, only YOU can prevent forests. Cya --Ric _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ * http://skepticon.da.ru (updated) * ICQ# 19633976 * FAX: 603-415-3736 * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/SkeptiNews archives: http://skeptifiles.da.ru (belated) * Fringe/Science/Faith * Sex/Drugs/Art * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * 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
