[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #4

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@ Can't Count: http://www.chaosprotocol.com/news.htm
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# EXPOSED: The Great Organic Food Rip-Off. Supermarkets are taking advantage
  of the huge demand for organic food by charging grossly inflated prices:
  www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Environment/2000-02/organic060200.shtml
# UPDATE - ABC News Attacks Organic Food:
  http://www.sightings.com/health3/organicattack.htm

@ We Can Engineer Nature. But Should We? "Nonetheless, it seems clear
  that the way to acceptance of genetically engineered foods lies through
  the creation of regulations that the public trusts and the delivery of
  benefits the consumer sees and tastes." And at affordable prices:
  http://www.nytimes.com/library/review/020600genetic-food-review.html

: Have you re-engineered nature lately? Is it easier to manipulate nature,
technology, fear? Have you manipulated any fears lately? Do you profit??

# PETA-loving pet won't touch Alpo (or other "meat"). Prince, thought to be
  the world's only vegetarian wolf, enjoys a daily Crock Pot-made stew of
  black beans, soybeans, peas  brown rice. For dessert he gets tasty raw
  carrots. http://www.injersey.com/news/app/story/0,2110,246956,00.html
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# Major flare erupts on Sun. (BBC) A major solar flare erupted on the north-
  east limb of the Sun on Saturday. It was one of the largest and brightest
  optical flares seen in recent years. It was followed by the ejection of
  billions of tonnes of super-hot gas. This was not directed at Earth but
  the increasing activity raises the possibility that a future eruption
  could damage satellites and communications and power supplies on Earth.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_633000/633913.stm

@ Links - Solar flares: http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory/
@ Coronal mass ejections  http://science.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/cmes.htm
@ Soho satellite: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
@ Current images of the Sun: http://www.maj.com/sun/index.html
@ Anomalous Images: http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/orbit.html

: Have you shielded your satellites, communications lines, power supplies,
against the upcoming solar surges? Is destruction inevitable? Will solar
flares strike down all those who attempt to cross space? Will Sol punish us
for our hubris, arrogance, ambition? Do we deserve destruction? Why? Eh??

@ Channeled information received from Kirael in the Seventh Dimension about
  the Great Light Shift of May 5, 2000: http://www.inward.com/may5.html
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@ Fatima/"Mary"/UFOs. Fatima was not a "Marian apparition," a mass sighting
  of Mary. Like Lourdes, the only persons to have "seen Mary" were the prin-
  ciple players in the drama, not the crowds. But Fatima's public aspect,
  while not classically Marian, was classically ufological. The prime event,
  the "dancing sun", exhibited well-known ufological traits  features. So
  THERE! http://area51.upsu.plym.ac.uk/~moosie/ufo/txt/civ/030.htm

@ UFO ABDUCTION AND CONTACTEE MESSAGES - AN ANALYSIS. Hundreds of thousands
  of people in many parts of the world are claiming they are encountering
  UFO entities in one way or another. http://www.wj.net/wguimb/abdanal.html

: Have you encountered any deities/demons/angels/aliens lately? How do you
distinguish between these?

@ BIBLEMAN - The Fiendish Works of Dr.Fear: http://bibleman.com/drfear.html
@ Cycle of Power - Animal Totems: http://www.sayahda.com/cyc2.html
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# Eyeing the London Eye from space. London's Millennium Wheel is captured by
  a satellite taking images so detailed they would once have been classified
  as "top secret". Destroy before seeing, then commit suicide - security.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_634000/634074.stm

# Also: Wheel delights passengers:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_626000/626607.stm
# Satellite 'spy pictures' for sale:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_472000/472735.stm

: Have you taken any spy pictures lately? Did you use your own camera, human
satellites, alien technology, remote viewing, an Etch-A-Sketch? Who did you
deliver them to? Were you killed afterward? Is spying hazardous, healthwise?

@ Are these http://www.watertanks.com/articles/images/fluseason.gif
  y2k http://www.watertanks.com/articles/images/prepare.jpg
  survivalist http://www.watertanks.com/articles/images/radical.jpg
  cartoons http://www.watertanks.com/articles/images/ready.jpg
  humor compliant? And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Comics/
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@ Letter: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/letter_from_america/
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# Planetary Alignments in 2000. (GO) The news is out! There will be a series
  of planetary alignments in the year 2000. Will Earth tilt over? No. Will
  tidal forces trigger earthquakes? No. Will polar ice caps melt? No. Will
  you even be able to see the alignments? Not really. But lotsa folks want
  to know what is going on: http://www.griffithobs.org/SkyAlignments.html

: Has your planet been disrupted lately? Do you blame alignments? What have
you done about this? Have you joined Californians Against Earthquakes yet?
Or the Society for the Prevention of Planetary Alignment? Did'ya contribute?

# Volcano erupts in rebel-held Congo - Earth gods attack insurrectionists:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563731711-95f
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# CAMPAIGNING ON THE FRINGE. You're sitting at a table eating breakfast with
  friends, maybe bagel-biting  coffee-sipping, when the unexpected happens.
  A strange man with dark-rimmed glasses and out-of-control hair approaches
  your table with a crazed smile. He's wearing rubber gloves  he's holding
  a toilet brush. His slogan: "Jim Taylor for president: Because everything
  is crappy." http://www.politicslive.com/2000/013000/fringe013000.asp
# Bush  Kiddy Porn: http://www.hightimes.com/News/2000_01/gopfront.tpl

: Who's your favorite politico? Are they controlled by corporations, aliens,
conspiracies, deities/demons, robots, me? Are they crazed? Aren't we all??
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@ THE 13TH STEP? (Nina Gregory) NG: alt.recovery.from-12-steps - Helping
  people damaged by 12-step programs such as AA or NA, 'arf12s' offers
  support  successful alternatives to such programs. The road to recovery
  for addicts is often long  uphill, and choosing the wrong route can lead
  to a dead end. Tho 12-step programs are great for some, for others their
  foundation, principles, and philosophy offer faulty logic  psychological
  profiling, religious incompatibility, and other complex incompatibilities,
  which cause these programs to fail to address their problems or offer
  viable solutions. This newsgroup features intelligent, logical postings,
  and can be a good resource for recovering addicts who have problems with
  some part of the 12-step philosophy. news:alt.recovery.from-12-steps

: Have you modified y'r behavior lately? Did you follow a specific strategy?
Was that strategy imposed on you? D'ya feel controlled? Can you break free?
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# VOYEURS FOR VIOLENCE: "Starting in Violence 101, 'Introduction to the
  Comparative Study of Violence,' and on through 'The Causes of Crime and
  Violence' and 'Violence in Film and History,' students are encouraged to
  look at history, arts and sciences through a single lens: the infliction
  of injury and death." But are such classes anything more than voyeuristic
  rubbernecking? http://www.salon.com/books/it/2000/01/31/violent/

# [ via http://www.obscurestore.com/ ] They say their "gentle" pal wouldn't
  dump her headless, armless, legless hubby in a trash bin. Sometimes people
  surprise you, though. http://www.azcentral.com/news/0131torso.shtml

: Does violence arouse you? Are your nipples stiff? Do you pant, sweat, rub
yourself? What's your favorite violence.porn? Who controls your access? How?

# Myanmar children's army under siege: Can urchins-with-guns save downtrod-
  den people of Myanmar's ethnic Karen minority with their mystical powers?
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563760865-22a
# Rescuing God's Army - Thais bid to save Burmese pre-teen guerrillas:
  www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/01/30/stifgnfar02001.html?999
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# Computer Problem Delays Endeavour. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) A last-
  minute problem with a critical computer delayed space shuttle Endeavour's
  launch today on a mission to map a still-unknown planet: our own. Alien
  interference: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000131/12/space-shuttle

# NSA Suffers Intelligence Blackout. The super-secret spy agency downplays
  a computer failure that kept it from processing intelligence reports for
  3 days last week. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,33986,00.html

: What's your favorite computer glitch? Have your systems failed lately? Do
you trust your electronic systems? Are you absolutely dependent on them for
life, truth, progress, profit? Do you worship systems? Do you sacrifice??

# Special counsel uses polygraph on Waco 

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@ Museum of Unnatural Mystery: http://www.unmuseum.mus.pa.us/unmuseum.htm
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# Old women fall foul witchcraft hysteria. KENYA: East Africa is haunted by
  a witch-killing scare as violent lynch mobs in Tanzania  Uganda hunt down
  scores of people suspected of casting spells. Many of the victims of the
  hysteria are elderly people, often women who suffer from red eyes which
  their attackers say is a sign of sorcery. In fact the condition is caused
  by smoke from cooking fires in badly ventilated huts. Tanzania cops say
  more than 350 people in the last 18 months have been beaten or burnt to
  death by gangs. http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2000/0113/wor6.htm
@ Vampiros lesbos http://www.salon.com/ent/log/2000/01/12/willow/index.html

: Have you burnt/beaten/mutilated/hanged many witches lately? If they're so
powerful, how can you get close to them? Wouldn't a competent witch/warlock/
wizard just turn you into a frog/salamander/platypus and be rid of you? Eh?

# Japan's Law on Sects Spurs Debate. Foes of legislation seen as targeting
  Aum cult warn of loss of civil liberties in interest of public safety.
  A friend of a lawyer killed by Aum members, agrees: "As much as I'm
  against Aum and its activities, I'm also against these inhuman policies."
  http://www.latimes.com:80/news/nation/2116/t05054.html
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# Tech's New Promised Land. With the prospects of Mideast peace something
  palpable, and the quality of engineering very high, many U.S. technology
  companies are finding Israel an attractive place to expand their global
  reach. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,33537,00.html

: Does your transnational corporation have tentacles extended into countries
all over Earth? Would you rather employ expensive Israelis or cheap Arabs?
Do you control wage-slaves all over the Earth? Are your prospects superb??

# Rally targets Confederate flag: "Your heritage is my slavery"
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563394175-d61
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# Burnt bodies found in Egypt. SOHAG, Egypt (AP) Cops found two burnt bodies
  near a southern town where more than 20 people have been killed in Muslim-
  Christians clashes this month. A Coptic Orthodox priest in the Christian-
  majority town, the Rev. Gabriel Abdel-Masih, is wanted for questioning on
  allegations that he opened fire on a group of Muslims in the village. The
  discovery of the two bodies in a field raises the death toll to 23 people,
  comprising 19 Coptic Christians, one Muslim and three unknowns. Thirty-
  four wounded: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563369257-b94

: Would you rather burn Xians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Agnostics,
Sufis, 7th-Day Adventists, Scientologists, your family, neighbors, lawyers?

# Mom, son fight over where to dump granny's ashes:
  http://www.bergenrecord.com/news/ashes21171.htm
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# Indonesian religious violence grows. JAKARTA (AP) - A Muslim mob set fire
  Monday to at least eight Christian  churches on the Indonesian tourist
  island of Lombok and battled police trying to stop the spread of religious
  violence that has claimed more than 2,000 lives. Get those polytheists:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563386879-64d

: Have ya burnt any/many religious structures/sites lately? Has anyone burnt
your holy site(s)? Does a good fire just clear the way for new construction?

# Vatican urges Cuba on religion - We can make a deal, Fidel:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563391956-c5d
# Taiwan leader rewards Vatican bishop, plots against Communists:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563389931-9e4
# Worshippers honor Cardinal O'Connor, 80 - he'll be ousted soon:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563367988-dab
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# Australia Fish Fossil May Be Distant Human Relative. CANBERRA, Australia
  (Reuters) A 400-million-year-old fossilized fish recently discovered near
  an Australian dam may be one of the human race's earliest relatives. Hey,
  cousin: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000117/02/science-australia-fish

: Are you closely related to a fish? Do you have any family portraits? Are
they artistic, realistic, surrealistic? Have you licensed the rights yet??

# DRIVE A PICASSO: The artist's heirs have licensed his name to the hood of
 a new Citroen car. www.artnewspaper.com/ArtNews-headlines-01/PicassoCar.htm
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# Experts see evidence of will to 

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@ Jesus: http://greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0027vI
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# AOL Devours Time-Warner. (Wired) America Online is buying entertainment
  colossus Time Warner in a deal that will create the world's largest media
   online services firm. AOL CEO/chair Steve Case will be chairman of the
  new biz, to be called AOL Time Warner, with a market value of some US$350
  billion. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,33531,00.html

: What's your favorite media conglomerate? Who sells you your news, reviews,
entertainment, access? Are you a happy little dupe? Are we all happy dupes??

# IBM REBOOTS LINUX: www.cnnfn.com/2000/01/10/technology/wires/ibm_wg/
# Red Hat buys BeOS? www.byte.com/printableArticle?doc_id=BYT2104S0007
# Automakers, Internet companies partnering - GM  AOL, Ford  Yahoo:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563161252-7a4
# Human Microchip Implants - How The Military Envisions Their Use:
  http://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/usaf/2025/v3c2/v3c2-4.htm#IIC
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# Firms use Oklahoma school shooting to pitch product.  The local schools'
  chief is angry because security  safety companies are using last month's
  shooting at Fort Gibson Middle School to pitch their products. Supt Steve
  Wilmoth said that since the 6 Dec shooting, in which four students were
  wounded, he has gotten numerous brochures, pamphlets, e-mails and phone
  messages from companies hawking everything from high-tech security systems
  to firearms training. "That's just what we need" - see
  http://cnn.com/2000/US/01/09/shooting.salespitches.ap/index.html

: Have you exploited school violence lately? Who controls the conspiracy to
promulgate/sensationalize/exploit school violence? Is it very profitable??

# Do School Killings Follow A Pattern? http://rumormillnews.com/pattern.htm
@ I'm not the only one http://www.ihateclowns.com/ who thinks that all
  clowns are child molesters. Are you a clown? Do you molest? Next stop,
  Santa Claus: http://www.fastlane.net/~sandman/santa/sce1.html  And get
  a full dose of culture at: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Culture/
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@ MIND CONTROL VICTIMS' EXPERIENCES. "I've decided to start a list called
  'Mind Control Victims Experiences' (MCVE) using onelist.comAll victims
  worldwide are welcomed. As the title has indicated, this is a list for the
  victims to share their personal experiences on MC. Perpetrators are not
  welcome. [...] We might not know all the aspects of the MC under the oper-
  ation of military agencies, intelligence circles, and local cults Even
  the FBI or CIA agents won't know what they're doing in the mess of the MC
  tragedies. They, the agents, only perform what they are told to carry out
  their missions. In a sense, the targeted, the victim, is their commodity,
  with some code names on the file." http://www.onelist.com/community/MCVE

: Who's your favorite MC agent? Are you a MC agent? What's your mission? Do
you control MC agents? Are you controlled by MC agents? Which is more fun??

# Mental illness drives bodybuilders? Treatable with drugs, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563157150-15c
# x10's advertising is apparantly now targeting pornographers and
  stalkers: http://ads.x10.com/zdnetmacro/nov19m1.gif
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# Cell Towers Take Root on Farms. Cell phone towers are sprouting all over
  rural America. Some farmers are happy to house the towers for extra cash.
  Others worry about environmental effects and if the signals harm humans 
   animals. www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33352,00.html?tw=wn2110

# Genome Map Near Completion. Celera Genomics says it is ahead of public
  efforts to detail human DNA and has identified 97 percent of all genes.
  The company expects to finish the sequencing later this year. Submit!!
  http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33534,00.html?tw=wn2110

: Have cellphones zapped your genes yet? Have you mapped out the damage? Do
you want to restructure your genes? Will cellphones help? Do you sprout???
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@ "Info Operations: New War-Fighting Capability" The IIC is a constellation
  of integration or "smart" satellites receiving all-source info. Within the
  IIC, resident intelligent software will run decision support tools, cor-
  relate  fuse data into useful information, identify inconsistencies and
  information gaps, and task collectors to seek data to fill information
  gaps. 

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@ The Vision of St. Eustace: http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/eustace.htm
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# Church offers 'drive-thru' Xmas. LITTLE ROCK, Ark.(AP) In a nation of fast
  food restaurants, cash machines and even drive-through liquor stores, the
  First Church of the Nazarene is finding people like their religion quick 
  convenient as well. This week, the church is closing its parking lot to
  set up a drive-through Nativity scene for those who want to experience
  the "true meaning of Christmas," but don't want to leave their cars. Too
  busy: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562433402-8c2

: Do you often worship in your car? Do you worship your car? Does your car
worship you? Should all churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, pagodas etc
have drive-thru facilities? Do you prefer to worship in person, by drive-up,
online, in your imagination? Should all religious facilities be wired? Why?
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# BETHLEHEM KICKS OFF CELEBRATIONS (AP) - Yasser Arafat lit a Christmas tree
  to kick off the millennial year in Bethlehem, the town of Jesus' birth,
  capping a day of festivities that Palestinians also used to press their
  political cause. The Palestinian leader waved to the crowd but made no
  remarks as he pressed a switch to light the white-and-gold bulbs adorning
  a 35-foot-tall pine tree. Then he went home and got blind, staggering
  drunk. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562416654-52e

: Do Palestinians gladly exploit visiting Xians in a festival that commemor-
ates killing a Jew? Do you like to exploit Xians too? Which believers are
the easiest  most profitable to exploit? Is Xianity a "cash-cow?" Where?

# Arafat gives poet wry pledge - "Shoot me if I betray you!" Poet checks
  bullets: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562437192-6b2
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# NHS euthanasia claims 'nonsense'. (BBC) A senior consultant's claim that
  elderly patients are being left to starve to death in (UK) NHS hospitals
  has been dismissed by the government as "nonsense". They prefer to use
  poison: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_552000/552326.stm

: Would you mind much if your govt euthenized you? Would you rather be euth-
enized by your own govt, another govt, private business, aliens, robots, me?

# Also: UK doctors allowed to let patients die - conserve resources:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_375000/375583.stm
# BMA [British Medical Assn] stands by end-of-life guidance:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_389000/389034.stm
# BMA guidance: The main points. 1) Don't get caught. 2) Deny all:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_375000/375981.stm
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# THE END IS NIGH. (Times) Heavyweight scientists have been taking out full-
  page adverts in newspapers across America warning of the end of the world.
  They believe that the world faces a spontaneous nuclear holocaust. Boom.
  http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/12/06/timintint01033.html?999

: Do you have plans for next year? Have you put the future on hold? Are you
enjoying your last few days of existence with all the energy you can muster?

# New play about historical Los Alamos nuke accident:
  http://www.laweekly.com/ink/00/02/theater-morris.shtml
@ THE END OF TIME - A Talk With Physicist Julian Barbour:
  http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/barbour/barbour_index.html
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Y2K-Y2K-Y2K-Y2K:

# WHATEVER HAPPENED TO Y2K? Disappeared as an issue of serious public
  concern: http://www.capitolhillblue.com/Dec1999/120699/y2k120699.htm
# Y2K - College preparing for worst from Y2K - planning shelter for 500:
  http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/dec99/shelter04120399a.asp
# Y2K - U.S. Y2K READINESS CHIEF PREDICTS NO MAJOR COMPUTER BREAKDOWNS:
  http://cnn.com/1999/TECH/computing/12/05/koskinen.y2k.ap/index.html
# Y2K - Czech Republic Says Nuclear Plants Y2K-Proof:
  http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/techwr/19991206/tCB00V0542.html

# Consumers picky about Y2K stuff. (AP) Millennium merchandisers hoping to
  profit on the novelty of the calendar's turn are finding that consumers
  are choosy about their mementos. Splashing "2000" on a ballcap or T-shirt
  doesn't guarantee a sale. Surprise! Shoppers aren't all total air-headed
  suckers: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562441079-e4d

# Israel bank doubles Y2K cash supply, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562430610-7ca
# Also: Japan premier urges Y2K stockpile, see
  

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@ Whatever... http://www.whatever.org
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# Prophets making profits? (IAFRICA) Lots of people are reading the Signs
  of the Times and saying the end of the world is at hand. But do we need
  these prophets of doom? Aren't they just exploiting our fears of the
  future? http://iafrica.com/forum/index.htm?src_id=tmp0334

: Who's your favorite prophet? What's your greatest fear? Do you demagogue?
Are you clear? What's your agenda? What's your hope? Are human? Yup? Nope?

@ ROSWELL REVISITED Many seek to prove or disprove the 1947 Roswell UFO
  "crash" (or crashes) But, "What does this all mean?" The Roswell "crash"
  was STAGED by these mysterious beings. http://www.caus.org/mc112999.htm
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Tattoo Man Turns Up at Own Funeral. BANGKOK (Reuters) Mourners took
  to their heels and Buddhist monks performing the last rites froze
  when a Thai man turned up at his own funeral. He felt pretty good
  too: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991129/07/odd-thailand-funeral

: Will you be late to your own funeral? Will you show up on time? Will you
be dead, alive, indeterminate, immortal, transhuman, deified, forgotten?

# Superheroes: http://news.com/News/Item/0,4,0-40592,00.html?st.ne.140.head
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ The Hickman Report - Flying Triangle Overview. Many ufologists have noted
  in the past few years a major change in the type of craft we are seeing in
  the skies overhead. In the past, most "UFO's" were either the classic
 "flying disk" type, or cylinders, or even just anomalous lights in the sky.
  Today we have noticed a major increase in sightings that are of a specific
  type of aerial vehicle, the dark triangle. This type was first thought to
  have been seen in Belgium in the '80's, now we know different. What we are
  seeing is something that's been reported in our skies for many, many years
  and I feel is not of human construction. http://www.caus.org/pn112999.htm

: Have you seen any/many dark triangles flying overhead? Have you flown in a
dark triangle lately? Are they maneuverable, responsive, agile, quiet, fun??
What's your favorite UFO geometry? Are UFO geometries linked to structures
in the human brain? What shape is your brain? Are there triangles inside??

# UFO Geometry 101 - Around the U.S. on a Flying Triangle. ARIZONA -
  NEW JERSEY - VIRGINIA - INDIANA: http://www.caus.org/ft112999.htm
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Monks destroy symbolic sand. BALTIMORE (AP) After spending a week crouched
  on the floor of the American Visionary Art Museum coaxing grains of sand
  into an elaborate design, 10 Tibetan Buddhist monks held a brief ceremony,
  swept up the sand  tossed it into the harbor. The intricately detailed 
  brilliantly colored design was a mandala, an ancient and exquisite form of
  Tibetan art that is a key part of Buddhism. The grains they scattered over
  the Inner Harbor were meant to spread peace in Baltimore. "The mandala has
  nothing to do with substance, it is not material. It's spiritual." There
  are several mandala designs, signifying spiritual qualities. A mandala is
  created whenever the need for healing of the environment and living beings
  is felt. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562315374-c19

: Have you spread peace over a city lately? Did you use colored sand? Did
the city become more peaceful? If not, did you try a different design? Eh?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Security scare hits WTO. (BBC) Security services close a site in Seattle
  where WTO talks will be held after reports of an attempted break-in.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_541000/541879.stm
# WTO meeting in Seattle disrupted - security sweeps take hours:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562320967-afd

: Is the WTO a Bilderberger/NWO conspiracy to control world trade, politics,
belief? Must the WTO be destroyed? Is a unified planet a Satanic goal? Why?

# PROTESTS MAY OVERSHADOW WTO TRADE CONFERENCE - Agriculture seen as
  major point of contention: http://cnn.com/US/9911/29/wto.seattle/
# WTO opponents sound battle cry at forum - swear to disrupt opening:
  http://www.seattletimes.com/news/local/html98/glob_19991127.html
# WTO TALKS MAY CAUSE POLITICAL HEADACHES FOR CLINTON/GORE - China to watch
  from sidelines: http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/11/28/wto.talks/
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Smoking puts out the fire. (IAFRICA) Smoking kills passion according to
  the experts. A recent study says that men who smoke not only decrease
  their  sperm count, but also report less sexual satisfaction. Can't 

Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #4

[Tatman, Robert]

 -Caveat Lector-

Ooookay, under the proposed new "ergonomic workplace" regulations, does her
employer have to adapt her workstation to prevent further injury? *How*
would you...er, is there...umm. I can't figure out how to say this, but you
get the picture...I think... blush

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 Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 2:08 PM
 To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject:      [CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #4

# 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

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Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #4

[Kelly]

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Tatman, Robert wrote:

  -Caveat Lector-

 Ooookay, under the proposed new "ergonomic workplace" regulations, does her
 employer have to adapt her workstation to prevent further injury? *How*
 would you...er, is there...umm. I can't figure out how to say this, but you
 get the picture...I think... blush


Sounds like she needed a little aid or aide methinks.  Plus a whole new
head.  Of her own!

Kelly

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The answer is obvious! She just needs a remote controlled vibrator. You'd
think she could figure it out given the industry she's in.
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:  employer have to adapt her workstation to prevent further injury? *How*
:  would you...er, is there...umm. I can't figure out how to say this, but
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:  get the picture...I think... blush
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[CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #4

[Ric Carter]

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SkeptiNews 991122d - - - - - - - - - - - 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?
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@ Bored with gardening? Try something more radical. http://www.reh42.com/
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# 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, govt records say. This controversial tape has been
  a question mark in the assassination investigation since JFK was killed.
  The assassination occurred 36 years ago Monday  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. Newly declassified documents offer more evidence that the tapes
  survived. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562187471-529
# Also: Excerpts from JFK documents - but you don't think they're all real,
  do you? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562187060-b4e

: How many layers of disinfo surround Oswald/Ruby/JFK? Who does Oswald dis-
tract us from? Who do THEY distract us from? Why release this (dis)info now?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# 4,000-year-old palace found in Syria. DAMASCUS (AP) - Archaeologists have
  discovered the ruins of a royal palace believed to be 4,000 years old near
  Damascus. The palace contains a throne hall 70 ft by 132 ft with 6-ft high
  adobe walls. In the very center of the hall, an unbroken jar with "amazing
  decoration" was found stuck to the ground. Ancient demons haunt the area.
  See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562168247-89f

# Orkney Farmer Finds Ancient Underground Pagan Temple. (Times) Armed with a
  JCB digger, ropes  a shovel, Douglas Paterson set out to discover whether
  stories that he had heard as a boy about a "spooky underground hoose" at
  Tankerness on Orkney were true. With a rope round his waist and hanging
  headfirst down a 2 ft-wide, 30 ft-deep muddy hole, Mr. Paterson excavated
  two ancient stone staircases of 29 steps leading down through three sub-
  terranean chambers. http://foxnews.com/scitech/111999/times_temple.sml

: What's your favorite ancient palace/temple/site? Do you still perform any
human sacrifices there? Do the channels of power HUM  THROB with the blood?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Evidence That Animals Have 'Souls'. Scientists have found the strongest
  evidence yet that some animals may have "souls". They have located cells
  responsible for self-consciousness in the human brain - and found similar
  clusters in great apes. The cells, named "self-awareness neurons", appear
  to integrate the work of various parts of the brain - and create a sense
  of individuality. http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/Ecclesiastes3_19-20.htm

: Would you like to genetically-engineer mammals/reptiles/fish/birds so the
brains contain these neurons and thus have souls? Are souls evolutionarily
useful? Will soulful chickens take over the universe? Have they already??

# Physiological Abnormalities In Abductees Revealed:
  http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/abductees.htm
# Teens' Biological Clocks Different - Classes Should Start Later:
  http://www.sightings.com/health3/teenclasses_h.htm
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

SkeptiBriefs - I hardly know what to say - it's your turn:

# Vesuvius Evac Drill Staged. SOMMA VESUVIANA, Italy (Reuters) Neapolitans
  staged an orderly "Vesuvius drill" Sunday in a dress rehearsal of an
  evacuation in the event of an eruption of the volcano that buried Pompeii
  in 79 AD. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991122/08/odd-italy-vesuvius
@ Fireworks: http://markun.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp/japan/fireworks/index-e.html

@ The Differential Geometry of the Sphericon. The Sphericon really is a
  (double) cone with a twist. It is formed by taking two right-angled cones,
  joining them at the base, slicing the resulting solid by a plane through
  the two cone points, and gluing the two resulting pieces back together
  after having rotated one 90 degrees with respect to the other. It can be
  made from cardboard: http://www.ams.org/new-in-math/cover/sphericon1.html

# Giant Floating Metropolis Planned. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Reuters) A huge
  $8.5 billion luxury floating metropolis, the biggest boat in history, is
  about to be built in the poverty-stricken Central American nation of
  Honduras. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991122/08/odd-honduras-boat

@ Death For Satellites - What Are They Hiding Out There? Disturbing trends:
  

Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #4

[Hilary A. Thomas]

 -Caveat Lector-

 From: "Ric Carter" [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, govt records say. This controversial tape has
been
   a question mark in the assassination investigation since JFK was
killed.
   The assassination occurred 36 years ago Monday  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?

 # 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

I'm speechless...

Hilary

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Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #4

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  I'm speechless...

Me too. At the woman's stupidityShe couldn't pretend over the
phone? I mean, unless they had picture chat or something... ugh
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Man, you can't even get away from the porno on the e-mail lists.

Look at the advertisements the CTRL has to put out with their e-mail. I
guess you got to make your money somehow.  I am just so embarrassed with
this whole thing. You people should be ashamed. I mean to tell you. Can't
I get away from porno on my monitor?!? Man,.. someone got a couple of
quarters?

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[ric carter]

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SkeptiNews 990920d - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question

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@ Fireball Or UFO? http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/fireball.htm
$ Want kinky phone talk? Only 50 cents per minute! 1-888-700-WHIP
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ ROSWELL FOR THE MASSES. Blurb for an upcoming TV show: Roswell (WB, 9 pm)
  From veterans of X-Files and My So-Called Life comes this swell, spooky
  show about Liz, happily going about her teenage business waiting tables in
  Roswell NM in a uniform with the universal alien symbol stitched on it,
  when blam! she's shot in the tummy. Fortunately for her, Max, the boy she
  fancies, happens to be there  happens to be an alien with magic healing
  powers. This gets Max in trouble with the other aliens, who are identifi-
  able only in that they consume a great deal of Tabasco sauce and are very,
  very attractive. Tune in to find out whether Liz will dump the sheriff's
  dull (albeit human) son and try out romance with an ET before the shrewd,
  steely-eyed sheriff and his long-haired deputy expose the mutants." ###

: Are you an attractive alien? Are you an alien or a mutant or both? Do you
have magical healing powers? Do you use them prudently? Do you like Tabasco?
Isn't that a giveaway in New Mexico - shouldn't you stick to jalapenos? Eh?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# School's scary tiger logo bumped. Fearful that their "violent, angry
  tiger" logo would inspire kids to do something awful, Minnesota elementary
  school bosses had students pick a new thing to represent the institution.
  Images that kill: http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/mtc_docs/004412.htm

# Students kill dean's cat in prank gone overboard. Cops say three former
  students of a prestigious boarding school stuffed Bella the cat into a
  pillowcase, beat her with a bat, then buried the animal in the woods.
  Says a cop: "It was an end-of-the-school-year prank that got out of
  hand. The original idea was to take the cat and then release it."
  http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-09/18/073l-091899-idx.html

: Have you killed any cats lately? Did images of scary tigers provoke you?
Do voices in your head roar, meow, whine? Have you ever gotten out of hand?

# Also: Cheerleader won't stop praying at football games:
  http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/0918met8celina.htm
# And: Post-game handshakes prompt football foes' brawl:
  http://www.al.com/sports/mobile/Sep1999/15-a315754b.html
# Coach says: I support my parrot-roasting son. And why the hell not?
  http://jsonline.com/wi/082799/wi%2D%2Dalvarez%2Dparrotkil082799.asp

: Is US football among the strangest belief systems around? Do you worship
in a stadium? Do you roast parrots? Do you pray compulsively, endlessly??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ After falling down a rabbit hole, you seem to have stumbled upon a whole
  new world. The first hint is the axe wielding man wearing a battered
  Stetson hat alongside a fourteen foot ferrotti, battling a horde of cute
  bunny rabbits. They fight valiantly, but without hope of success against
  the fluffy odds. In a flash of insight you realize you have fallen into
  the reality of: news:alt.devilbunnies - see http://www.devilbunnies.org/

: Have you been attacked by devilbunnies lately? Have you killed any rabbits
lately? Were/are they Satanic? Were you overwhelmed, underwhelmed, whelmed?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

SkeptiLinks:

@ WolfCam: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/1846/pages/wc1.html
@ Earth Alert  http://www.discovery.com/news/earthalert/earthalert.html
@ SW Volcano Research Centre: http://www.goodnet.com/~ej76707/cerupt.htm
@ VOL. KUCHINOERABUJIMA: http://hakone.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/vrc/erup/kuchi.html
@ VOLCANO SAKURAJIMA: http://hakone.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/vrc/erup/sakura.html

@ Are reefs doomed? http://www.motherjones.com/coral_reef/
@ Disasters-R-Us: http://www.disasterium.com/
@ The Halifax Explosion: A Catastrophe Lost In The Mists Of Time?
  http://www.sightings.com/politics4/halifax.htm
@ Biblical manuscripts hidden by the churches for centuries:
  http://www.immunotex.com/books/religious.html

# CLINTON SAYS READILY AVAILABLE GUNS CONTRIBUTE TO KILLINGS - points finger
  at NRA: http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/09/18/clinton.guns.ap/
# Tapes, letters reveal gunman's chilling actions, thoughts:
  http://www.cnn.com/US/9909/17/church.shooting.03/index.html
# DAY 'OF PHENOMENAL SADNESS' FOR CHURCH MASSACRE MOURNERS - culling of
  Xians deplored: http://cnn.com/US/9909/18/church.shooting.03/index.html

@ Pleiadian: http://www.immunotex.com/books/pleiadian/marciniak.html
@ Montauk: http://www.immunotex.com/books/pleiadian/montauk.html
@ Spiritual: http://www.immunotex.com/books/pleiadian/spirituality.html
@ Bill Cooper: 

Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #4

[Tenorlove]

 -Caveat Lector-

@ After falling down a rabbit hole, you seem to have stumbled upon a
whole new world. The first hint is the axe wielding man wearing a
battered Stetson hat alongside a fourteen foot ferrotti, battling a
horde of cute bunny rabbits. They fight valiantly, but without hope of
success against the fluffy odds. In a flash of insight you realize you
have fallen into the reality of: news:alt.devilbunnies - see
http://www.devilbunnies.org/

: Have you been attacked by devilbunnies lately? Have you killed any
rabbits lately? Were/are they Satanic? Were you overwhelmed,
wnderwhelmed, whelmed?

NOW I understand the whole Jimmy Carter thing!! Thanks Ric!

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# Probing mechanics of memory. WASHINGTON (UPI) New research has uncovered
  the flash of brain activity that allows people to store memories. German
  scientists have discovered a two-step process that encodes memory in the
  space of two seconds. Researchers describe tracking not the "footprints"
  of memory but the shadows of those footprints. Rhinal cortex, hippocampus:
  http://news.excite.com/news/u/990903/17/health-memory

: Do your memories have footprints, shadows, reflections? Do you store the
right memories? Are your memories misplaced, replaced, fragmented, molded?
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# Musical Code for 'Miracles'  World Healing Found in Bible; Ancient Tones
  Intrigue Scientists, Musicians and Religious Scholars. SANDPOINT, Idaho.
  An ancient musical scale called Solfeggio, that according to authorities
  includes tones for "miracles" and possibly world healing, has been report-
  edly discovered in the Bible by an Idaho physician and minister of the
  gospel. The repeating six tones, electromagnetic frequencies, include the
  mathematical code recognized by experts to help repair damaged DNA -- the
  genetic blueprint of life.  http://news.excite.com/news/pr/990902/books

: Do you work miracles with music? Have you performed any musical miracles
lately? Have you healed the world yet? Why not? Is the world worth healing?
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@ THE PLANET FINDERS. Amazing things have happened with the discovery of new
  planets. The discoveries have closely followed the movement of Kundalini
  energy through the spine giving rise to speculation that the universe is
  actually undergoing a cosmic kundalini which has culminated with the disc-
  overy of Supernova 1987a, the eye in the sky. And these discoveries have
  lined up strangely consistent with Biblical scripture. This is reasonable
  since both the astronomical and Biblical concepts arose from the Greeks.
  http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/enlighten.html#FINDERS

: Does cosmic energy flow up your spine? Does sexual/orgone/kundalini energy
flow up the universe's spine? Is sex the answer? Are planets ovaries? Where?
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# WORRIES ABOUT BALTIC CHEMICAL SOUP. (MSNBC) MORE THAN 50 years ago, the
  Allied forces dumped almost 300,000 tons of chemical weapons in and near
  the Baltic Sea. Now environmentalists are worried the weapons, mostly
  filled with highly toxic mustard gas, are on the verge of rupturing. They
  warn that this could spell disaster for the region's fishing industry and
  environment. "It could destroy all life": http://msnbc.com/news/304036.asp

: What strange new lifeforms will evolve in the Baltic Chemical Soup? Will
they devour DNA-based life? Will they ignore us and build a new reality??
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@ National Capital Area Skeptics (NCAS) has placed the 1989 report of the
  Cold Fusion Panel of the US DoE's Energy Research Advisory board (ERAB)
  on-line. The conclusions and recommendations of the panel represented the
  consensus of mainstream science at that time, and continue to do so today.
  The ERAB report is not a quick read, but close study of the evidence con-
  sidered by the panel, as well as the reasoning employed by the panel in
  evaluating that evidence, is well worth the effort for anyone attempting
  to evaluate cold fusion claims being put forward today. www.ncas.org/erab/

: Have you developed any cold-fusion systems lately? Do they work, producing
significant amounts of energy? Did aliens help you? Have you sold any cold-
fusion power systems? To whom? Have you bankrupted any energy corporations??
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# British Telecom eyes wireless home. (CNN) British Telecommunications is
  set to roll out a line of networking products aimed at turning UK homes 
  small businesses into a wireless wonderland in which laptops, printers 
  other digital devices "talk" to one another over invisible voice and data
  lines. Catching up - see http://cnnfn.com/1999/09/06/europe/bt/

: Are you enmeshed in a wireless webbing of words/data, caught in invisible
strands like Gulliver roped-down by Lilliputians? Can you break free? How??
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# Radar images capture big, slowly tumbling asteroid. (NASA/JPL) Astronomers
  have used the world's two most powerful radar telescopes to make the most
  detailed images ever obtained for an asteroid in a near-Earth trajectory.
  With an average diameter of about 3.5 kilometers (2 miles), 1999 JM8 is
  the largest near-Earth asteroid ever studied in detail. Altho this object
  can pass fairly close to Earth in celestial terms, astronomers concur
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# Scientists show off robots. PITTSBURGH(AP) Scientists are learning to make
  robots that do what they're supposed to do when they're supposed to do it.
  Now if only human beings would play along. One common problem: making the
  programmed machines work alongside unpredictable human nature. Damn bio
  units: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560929622-3f7

: Do you work well with robots? Do your robots work well with humans? Who
fucks up more? Who are more easily trained, controlled, implanted? Would you
rather be a human, a robot, an alien, an animal, a demon, a deity, or me??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# New Sensing Device Reads Chemical Makeup In Real-Time. W.LAFAYETTE, Ind.
  When Capt. Kirk on the Starship Enterprise wanted to know something about
  a nearby planet, he simply requested a "sensor reading" and immediately
  got info on the chemical makeup of the planet's atmosphere and surface.
  Researchers have brought this "Star Trek" technology down to Earth with
  a new tool that can chemically analyze a wide variety of materials in real
  time. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990830072406.htm

: Does a sensor aimed at you reveal any life-signs? Do alien implants inter-
fere with sensor readings? Do you generate a masking field? Do you vibrate?
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# Maize maze amazes - who needs crop circles? STIRLING, Ont. (AP)  A local
  farm family has created what they believe is Ontario's largest corn maze.
  More than 200 visitors have already wound their way through the labyrinth
  at Haggerty Farms. They began devising the maze in their corn field last
  May, claiming the maze is as educational as it is entertaining. The paths
  that make up the maze total over 3,000 meters and take between 45 minutes
  and an hour to complete. "It's actually divided into three sections so
  it's three mazes in one." Visitors can complete one section, then return
  to a rest area inside a former cheese factory on the farm, or walk through
  all three sections together. Then the Reptilioids abduct them. ###

: Are crop circles just anonymous maize mazes? Have you built any good mazes
lately? Have you negotiated any? Do you collect mazes? Do they collect you?
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# UFO GEOMETRY 101 - Triangles  Rectangles. 1) Pennsylvania Triangular UFO.
  2) Pennsylvania Rectangular UFO. 3) Indiana Triangular UFO. 4) Ohio Trian-
  gular UFO. 5) Brazilian Triangular UFO. http://caus.org/ft083099.htm

# PERSONAL CONTACT EXPERIENCEs (PCEs): UFO Under Attack. Have you heard from
  any other abductees that have a memory of being on board a "ship" in which
  there was an incident of being "shot" at by someone or something? I have
  just such a memory: http://caus.org/pc083099.htm

: What's your favorite UFO shape? Are you shot at inside UFOs? Do you shoot
back? With what? Are you treated differently inside different-shaped UFOs??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# HOTMAIL ACCOUNTS OPEN TO ALL. More than 50 million Hotmail accounts have
  been exposed. This  may be the most serious -- and definitely the most
  widespread -- Net security breach yet. What, you were expecting privacy?
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/business/story/21490.html

# WANT SECURITY? FORGET WEB MAIL. Security holes are inevitable in Web-based
  email, experts say. So, if you want to sue MS, go ahead, but don't expect
  to win. http://www.wired.com/news/news/tip/business/story/21498.html

# DID MS DIG ITS HOTMAIL HOLE? Microsoft may have created the massive Hot-
  mail security hole by leaving a backdoor script up on its servers. That's
  an all-too-common flub, according to experts. Just not paranoid enough:
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/21495.html

: Do you trust Net security? Do you break Net security? Have you penetrated
any accounts lately? Do your alien masters insist? What do they wanna know?
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Psych-O-Rama:

# ALCOHOL HAS NO DIRECT EFFECT ON SOCIAL ANXIETY - placebos are equally
  effective: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11349.rhtml
# ANIMAL DATA SUGGEST WHY ALCOHOLICS FEEL PERSISTENT STRESS, DEPRESSION -
  alcohol ingestion depletes the monoamine neurotransmitters dopamine,
  serotonin and gamma aminobutyric acid, and it depletes levels of opioid
  peptides in the brain. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11395.rhtml

# COCAINE immunization possible: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11443.rhtml
# METHADONE EQUIVALENT SHOWS PROMISE FOR COCAINE ADDICTION - dopaminergic
  compound blunts the symptoms: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11479.rhtml
# DEPRESSION, IMPULSIVITY COMMON AMONG ADOLESCENTS WHO TAKE OVERDOSES:
  

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# GEEKS IN TENTS = CHAOS. Veteran hackers at Chaos Communication Camp try to
  convince youngsters that cracking ain't sexy. Encryption-for-all looms.
  http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/culture/story/21174.html

# CHAOS AROUND THE CAMPFIRE. Hackers embrace new sport: lock-picking. Also:
  One hacker repents; Another pulls latrine duty; Space waffles are campfire
  fare. http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/culture/story/21176.html

: Do you prefer to crack hardware or software? Why? What have you penetrated
lately? Are there any secrets left? Are there any safe places? Where? How?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# ARE WE FROM MARS? Science fiction's most dire predictions - that beings
  from another planet might take over Earth - may have already come true.
  It just may be that the invasion and colonization of Earth by Martian life
  forms has already happened. According to world-renowned British physicist
  Paul Davies, it is entirely plausible that all life on our planet has its
  origins on Mars. "Not only is it possible, but I think there's a good case
  to be made that we are," he said. He wiggled his antennae mischievously
  and blinked. http://edmontonjournal.com/news/stories/990807/2697447.html

: What planet are you from? When are you going back? Who are you taking with
you? Are they going willingly? Are you? Can I go along? Must I? Do you care?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# A TREKKIE'S DREAM. Actors, Klingons, and the occasional Orion slave girl
  mingle amid merchandise  memorabilia at the annual Star Trek convention.
  http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/business/story/21167.html

# THE FINAL SALE FRONTIER. Trekkies enjoy the stars and the scene at the
  annual Star Trek con. But the marketing types make out like bandits.
  http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/culture/story/21168.html

: Has STAR TREK successfully prepared humanity for aliens, interstellar fed-
erations, interspecies sex, abandonment of money, forced PC, embedded chips?
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# Museum store pulls a-bomb earrings. KIRTLAND AFB, NM(AP) Souvenir earrings
  with tiny silver replicas of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan will no
  longer be sold at the National Atomic Museum. Friday's decision to pull
  the earrings comes on the 54th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
  The earrings - shaped like "Little Boy," which was dropped on Hiroshima on
  Aug. 6, 1945, and "Fat Man," which was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945
  - had drawn protests from Gensuikyo, an anti-nuclear group in Japan. See
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560608458-186

: What're your favorite nuclear/holocaust memorabilia? Do you collect death-
camp trinkets or wear weaponry jewelry? Do you sell such stuff? Is biz good?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Last solar eclipse of century looms. LAND'S END, England (AP) At 11:10 am.
  Wednesday, the small island of Bryher in the Scilly Isles off southwestern
  England will go dark as the moon slides across the sun's face. It will be
  the first landfall of the millennium's last total solar eclipse, an event
  that is stirring eclipse fever from Europe to South Asia. See
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560613528-2a2

# Also: Eclipses sometimes bring fear, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560613533-70c
# And: Romanians superstitious on eclipses, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560613938-3a1

# THE TWO-MINUTES.COM MYSTERY. While US audiences fall prey to The Blair
  Witch Project, a UK team serves up a Web site of eclipse-chasing druids.
  http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/culture/story/21151.html

: Have you had enough of eclipse stories yet? Would you rather be eclipsed,
druided, bewitched, projected, preyed-on, marketed, implanted, fucked, dead?
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# Secessionists hold inaugural rally. FLAT ROCK, NC(AP) The Southern Party's
  inaugural rally drew 150 supporters, many in Confederate gray, while party
  leaders pledged to work for a separate Southern nation. Leaders said this
  time their struggle would be a peaceful one, and short-term goals were to
  win elections. "We expect the struggle for Southern independence to be a
  long and tedious battle," said George Kalas of Houston, the party chair.
  He condemned violent means and likened the party's efforts to independence
  struggles in Quebec, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Considering themselves
  the philosophical heirs to the Confederate States of America - see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560619570-e66

: Is the US well rid of the South? Should the US break up into 

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# MAGNET FOR MADNESS? London 'Dome opening will spark Millennium madness'.
  The approaching Millennium is already triggering psychotic behaviour, and
  the opening of the Millennium Dome is likely to make it worse, say psycho
  experts. The agency dealing with mental health problems in the Greenwich
  area is preparing for a great rise in psychosis cases. Staff are already
  reporting an upturn in the numbers of incidents connected with the Millen-
  nium: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_398000/398222.stm

@ Links: Royal College of Psychiatrists: http://www.ex.ac.uk/dmh/rcp.htm
@ BBC Millennium Bug information: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/cdb/bug/
@ BBC Online DomeCam: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/domecam/

: Are you psychotic yet? Will you be by the millennium? Do you have a few
psychotic episodes already planned out? Do this take careful preparation??
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# ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTICS CUT SCHIZOPHRENIA RELAPSE RISK. Schizophrenic
  patients receiving atypical antipsychotics are less likely to be
  rehospitalized than those who are given depot forms of conventional
  neuroleptics. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/5440.rhtml

# UNSTABILIZED SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS NOT HELPED. Augmenting a fluphenazine
  decanoate regimen with lithium does not reliably relieve psychosis in
  patients with schizophrenia. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/5538.rhtml

: What's your favorite treatment for schizophrenia? Does your belief system
allow the administration of medications? Would you rather pray, cut, leave?
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# ABUSED CHILDREN AT RISK OF PERSONALITY DISORDER IN ADULTHOOD. Childhood
  maltreatment and neglect may be important factors in the development of
  adult personality disorders. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/5543.rhtml

# GENETIC LINK FOR DUAL ALCOHOL, NICOTINE DEPENDENCE. A new study suggests
  that there may be a common genetic basis for dual nicotine and alcohol
  dependence in men. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/5544.rhtml

: Are you a dually-dependent man? Did abuse contribute to your personality
disorders? Are you perpetuating abuse, disorders, dependence, in your kids?
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@ The Top 12 Signs You've Been Misled by a Health Myth (c) Chris White

  12 The "Caveman Diet" is good in theory, but YOU try to find lean
  brontosaurus.
  11 You've eaten so much spinach your teeth are green, but you still
  have trouble lifting anything heavier than a remote.
  10 It turns out you were supposed to be drinking your *own* urine.
  9 Colonic irrigation *has* reduced my stress and increased my wealth
 -- thanks to all those fools who keep coming to my clinic.
  8 You lost fifteen pounds on your all-protein, no-sugar diet, but
 gained it back in the form of a massive goiter.
  7 You've really begun to despise that dork loser who does positive
 affirmations in your mirror each morning.
  6 You learn too late that sanding of the cornea should *only* be
 done by a trained professional.
  5 Eating 50,000 calories of fat-free food each day has not made you
 at all slimmer.
  4 The ER doctor had to explain that you can't cure hemorrhoids by
 inserting magnets *there*.
  3 Hey, you're paying $29.99 for Ginkgo -- *someone* sure is getting
 smarter.
  2 You should have known that "Doin' Shots to the Oldies with Jose
 Cuervo" weight loss plan sounded WAY too good to be true.

and the Number 1 Sign You've Been Misled by a Health Myth...

  1 You take a job washing dishes at Denny's so you can score all that
 free parsley.
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@ THE NEW WORLD ORDER'S TEN COMMANDMENTS

1. Thou shalt have no other gods which you obey before the state.
2. Thou shalt not attempt to recover your lost rights, or dignities,
   through political views based upon religious principals.
3. Thou shalt not object to tyranny for it is established for your own good.
4. Thou shalt not advocate biblical morality or absolutes for that is
   forcing your morality upon others.
5. Thou shalt not oppose abortion
6. Thou shalt not oppose homosexuality
7. Thou shalt not oppose pornography
8. Thou shalt not be tolerant of all false religions
9. Thou shalt be silent
10. Thou shalt be slaves.
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# CONFESSIONS OF THE CROP CIRCLE CON MAN:
  http://www.manchester.com/nojava/features/crop.html
# PLOT TO ASSASSINATE VICE PRESIDENT GORE?
  http://www.konformist.com/skolnick/1999/ss071599.htm

# Shedding Light in the Dark:
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20663.html?wnpg=2
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# ET life sought. HAT CREEK, Calif. (AP) On a high desert plain, astronomer
  Jack Welch looks at the sky and wonders. For years he's studied the stars,
  uncovered the secrets of their distant fire. Now, as the 1st professor to
  hold a new chair dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
  at the University of California at Berkeley, Welch is embarking on a new
  venture - listening for the alien civilizations that may lie beyond the
  stars. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560262401-7e6

: Do ETs represent a new frontier for marketers? What can we sell them? Do
we have anything aliens are interested in, other than our flesh? Why not??
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# Klingons Take It Off. Online voyeurs feeling the ennui of seeing the same
  old naked humans again and again might consider sneaking a peak at some
  Klingons in the buff.  Warriors of the Empire http://hotink.com/warriors/
  offers an intimate look at the private lives of Klingondom's sexier babes
  and studs. http://www.wired.com/news/news/tip/culture/story/20651.html
# Trekkies: Get a Life: http://wired.com/news/news/culture/story/19830.html

: Which aliens do you most/least like to see naked? Do you mind if they see
you naked? Do you practice/prefer/demand rishathra? Which Klingon's hottest?
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# Supremacist group probed. EAST PEORIA, Ill. (AP) A white supremacist group
  linked to a 4th of July weekend shooting spree is under investigation for
  possible violations of state tax and charities regulations. The group's
  leader says it needn't pay taxes because it's a church. Illinois agencies
  launched probes into the East Peoria-based World Church of the Creator.
  Suspected gunman Benjamin Nathaniel had been a member of the group. See
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560267321-fc0
# Also: Hate crimes summit planned - increased pressure for legislation:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560265027-d15

: Does your church pay taxes? Should all churches pay taxes? Why not? Are
taxes certain, like death? Would you rather die, pay taxes, or both? Are
death  taxes divine will? Is failure to pay taxes disobedience to a deity?
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# THE DEBATE OVER DNA EVIDENCE. A federal commission says it's too soon for
  authorities to begin collecting DNA samples from everyone charged with a
  crime. Privacy advocates say it's just a matter of time. Sample me now:
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/20670.html

# WOUND-UP DEFCON WINDS DOWN. DefCon 7 wraps with media-hacker showdowns and
  high-energy presentations. Next challenge: hacking the fed DNA databases:
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20671.html

: Do you prefer to hack electronic or genetic data? Do you prefer silicon or
carbon-based virus design? Is your DNA tamper-proof, V-Chip protected, old?
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# Egyptian temple moving to new site. CAIRO (AP)  Egypt will move a 2,600-
  year-old Pharaonic temple to a new site to protect it from the ravages of
  rising ground water. It will be the largest project of the kind in Egypt
  since the temple of Ramses II in Abu Simbel was dismantled and reerected
  in 1968 to protect it from flooding by the creation of Lake Nasser behind
  the Aswan High Dam. The temple, 310 miles south of Cairo, was first built
  by King Bsmatik II of the 24th Pharaonic dynasty around 660 B.C. See
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560268580-f54

: Should any of your temples be moved? Is anyplace on Earth safe from meteor
strikes, solar flares, alien devastation? Why not just build a new temple??
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# USSR PLANNED TO ATOM BOMB MOON. HAD SOVIET astronauts been first to land
  on the Moon, they might have done more than just plant a flag. They had
  considered detonating an atom bomb, in an explosion that would be visible
  from Earth, to prove they were there before their rivals. Nuke the moon:
  http://www.independent.co.uk/atp/INDEPENDENT/NEWS/P5S2.html

: What planet or satellite would you like to nuke? Do you need to file an
environmental impact statement first? Is this considered a hostile act??
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@ Nazi Moon Bases - HALF A CENTURY OF THE GERMAN MOON BASE, 1942 - 1992. The
  Germans landed on Luna as early as probably 1942, utilizing their larger
  exoatmospheric rocket saucers of the Miethe and Schriever type. The Miethe
  rocket craft was built in diameters of 15 and 50 meters, and the Schriever
  Walter turbine powered craft was designed as an interplanetary exploration
  vehicle. It had a diameter of 60 meters, had 10 

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SkeptiNews 990607a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 hallucinogenic toads were sucked during production of this bulletin.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Pope admits Earth orbits Sun. LICHEN, Poland (AP) Nearly four centuries
after the Vatican condemned Nicholas Copernicus' discovery that the Earth
revolved around the sun, another Pole - Pope John Paul II - visited the
astronomer's birthplace and praised his scientific achievements. But the
pope noted that science and religion are still grappling to find common
ground in the "service of truth." Then he retreated into fantasy again.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559836807-7cd

: Does your belief system work "in the service of truth?" Is truth relevant
to your faith? Would you rather sing with Copernicus or JP2? Who's cooler?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# COOKING WITHOUT THINKING. A smart microwave oven will read cooking instr-
uctions and alert consumers to hazardous ingredients. Now those sumptuous
TV dinners can be automatically cooked to perfection. Nuking for nerds:
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/20040.html

# RENAISSANCE STUDENTS. Are they scientific artists or artistic scientists?
The University of Florida requires painters and coders to cross-pollinate.
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/culture/story/20044.html

: Are the links between science, art  technology created by humans or ETs?
Will robots cook creatively? Will TVs decide your viewing habits? D'ya care?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Sick tarantula gets top-notch care. CATONSVILLE, Md. (AP) - When tarantula
No. 79011 gets angry, she rears up, shows her fangs and shoots barbed hairs
from her rump. It's a good thing she's been a perfect patient so far. The
Goliath tarantula, the largest spider species in the world, underwent a
second CAT scan in hopes of saving her from a nasty infection oozing from
her side. Giving a CAT scan to a spider is not a regular event, but this
spider is worthy of saving, say those who know her. "She has a robust, loose
personality." The prognosis wasn't good. Doctors are planning to perform a
lifesaving operation next week to try to save the eight-legged creature.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559810111-a8d

: Do you operate on insects? Do insects operate on you? Earthly or ET? Why?
Could you make a profit running an HMO for insects, for ETs, for robotniks?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# EUROPEAN NET STRIKERS DIG IN. Organizers of Sunday's pan-European telecom
strike said that close to a million people left their phones on the hook to
protest metered Internet access. Fortunately they had soccer on TV to watch.
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/20059.html

# STRIKING FOR CHEAPER PHONE RATES. AOL and a Web founder drive a European
protest seeking flat-rate local phone fees to spur wider use of the Net.
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/20055.html

# NET HOOKUPS DOUBLE IN EUROPE. Online connexions still lag behind US rates,
but a new study shows the Net is making deeper inroads in Western Europe.
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/business/story/20056.html

: If Europe and the rest of humanity go online, will humans have a chance to
resist the Reptilioids and Republicans, or are we more vulnerable to them?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# How to get people to exercise? WASHINGTON (AP) Getting nonexercisers off
their couches begins with getting them to put exercise on their minds. How
to do this still puzzles researchers. But they do know it is not easy. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559823313-5f9

# And: 1,100-pound man returns to hospital, fat pig forklifted out of bed:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559836496-119

: Is human obesity encouraged by Reptilioids to fatten their harvests? Who
are the tastiest humans? What's the best sauce to put on humans? Al dente?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

SkeptiLinks:

# China flood threat forces 2 mln to move; Yangtze River to overflow:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559834897-b0c
# Tropical storm shuts down Hong Kong and southern China - crops blasted:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559834529-c1a
  http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9906/07/PM-TropicalStormMaggie.ap/

# Vietnam clamps down on free speech by Communist party members:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559834748-321
# China aerospace co. denies spying, says it bought secrets fairly:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559835460-a48

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@ Seven Major Approaches to Prophecy: 

Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #4

[Dr Byron Weeks]

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Hnnn Caveat Lector? Any relation to Hannibal Lector?

ric carter wrote:

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 SkeptiNews 990607a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 hallucinogenic toads were sucked during production of this bulletin.
 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

 # Pope admits Earth orbits Sun. LICHEN, Poland (AP) Nearly four centuries
 after the Vatican condemned Nicholas Copernicus' discovery that the Earth
 revolved around the sun, another Pole - Pope John Paul II - visited the
 astronomer's birthplace and praised his scientific achievements. But the
 pope noted that science and religion are still grappling to find common
 ground in the "service of truth." Then he retreated into fantasy again.
 See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559836807-7cd

 : Does your belief system work "in the service of truth?" Is truth relevant
 to your faith? Would you rather sing with Copernicus or JP2? Who's cooler?
 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

 # COOKING WITHOUT THINKING. A smart microwave oven will read cooking instr-
 uctions and alert consumers to hazardous ingredients. Now those sumptuous
 TV dinners can be automatically cooked to perfection. Nuking for nerds:
 www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/20040.html

 # RENAISSANCE STUDENTS. Are they scientific artists or artistic scientists?
 The University of Florida requires painters and coders to cross-pollinate.
 www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/culture/story/20044.html

 : Are the links between science, art  technology created by humans or ETs?
 Will robots cook creatively? Will TVs decide your viewing habits? D'ya care?
 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

 # Sick tarantula gets top-notch care. CATONSVILLE, Md. (AP) - When tarantula
 No. 79011 gets angry, she rears up, shows her fangs and shoots barbed hairs
 from her rump. It's a good thing she's been a perfect patient so far. The
 Goliath tarantula, the largest spider species in the world, underwent a
 second CAT scan in hopes of saving her from a nasty infection oozing from
 her side. Giving a CAT scan to a spider is not a regular event, but this
 spider is worthy of saving, say those who know her. "She has a robust, loose
 personality." The prognosis wasn't good. Doctors are planning to perform a
 lifesaving operation next week to try to save the eight-legged creature.
 See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559810111-a8d

 : Do you operate on insects? Do insects operate on you? Earthly or ET? Why?
 Could you make a profit running an HMO for insects, for ETs, for robotniks?
 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

 # EUROPEAN NET STRIKERS DIG IN. Organizers of Sunday's pan-European telecom
 strike said that close to a million people left their phones on the hook to
 protest metered Internet access. Fortunately they had soccer on TV to watch.
 www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/20059.html

 # STRIKING FOR CHEAPER PHONE RATES. AOL and a Web founder drive a European
 protest seeking flat-rate local phone fees to spur wider use of the Net.
 www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/20055.html

 # NET HOOKUPS DOUBLE IN EUROPE. Online connexions still lag behind US rates,
 but a new study shows the Net is making deeper inroads in Western Europe.
 www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/business/story/20056.html

 : If Europe and the rest of humanity go online, will humans have a chance to
 resist the Reptilioids and Republicans, or are we more vulnerable to them?
 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

 # How to get people to exercise? WASHINGTON (AP) Getting nonexercisers off
 their couches begins with getting them to put exercise on their minds. How
 to do this still puzzles researchers. But they do know it is not easy. See
 http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559823313-5f9

 # And: 1,100-pound man returns to hospital, fat pig forklifted out of bed:
   http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559836496-119

 : Is human obesity encouraged by Reptilioids to fatten their harvests? Who
 are the tastiest humans? What's the best sauce to put on humans? Al dente?
 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

 SkeptiLinks:

 # China flood threat forces 2 mln to move; Yangtze River to overflow:
   http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559834897-b0c
 # Tropical storm shuts down Hong Kong and southern China - crops blasted:
   http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559834529-c1a
   http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9906/07/PM-TropicalStormMaggie.ap/

 # Vietnam clamps down on free speech by Communist party members:
   http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559834748-321
 # China aerospace co. denies spying, says it bought secrets fairly:
   http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559835460-a48

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Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #4

[Ric Carter]

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[ric carter]

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# Worm enzyme may help extend life. (AP) Scientists have found an enzyme in
worms that helps them live longer - a discovery that raises hopes of finding
treatments for Alzheimer's and other human diseases associated with aging.
The next step is to determine whether a similar enzyme exists in humans.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559522635-0a1

: What's your favorite worm enzyme? How long do you want to live? When will
you want to stop living? What are you willing do to adjust your lifespan?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Makah Indians kill gray whale. NEAH BAY, Wash. (AP) For the first time in
more than 70 years, Makah Indians seeking to re-establish their whale-hunt-
ing tradition harpooned and apparently killed a gray whale off the Pacific
coast. The whaling crew, in a traditional, hand-carved cedar canoe, struck
the whale under gray and misty skies. Support crews in motorized boats moved
in with guns to apply the coup-de-grace to the unsuspecting cetacean victim.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559578995-5a8

: Does your culture/faith/society demand live sacrifices? Are you diminished
or damned or degraded if you can't kill? Who/what would you like to kill for
traditional reasons? For any other reasons? Can you develop traditions fast?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Philippine folk hero mummy returned. MANILA Philippines (AP) The 500-year-
old mummified remains of a tribal folk hero were turned over to a Philippine
governor, who is still seeking the return of about 80 mummies stolen from
the northern province. Gov. Raul Molintas of Benguet province said a short
tribal prayer after National Museum officials presented him with the elabor-
ately tattooed mummy of Apo Annu, a revered leader. Residents who belong to
a tribe called Kankanay believe its return will lift a curse that brought
droughts, earthquakes and famine to their land after the mummy was stolen.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559543708-898

: Who is your favorite mummy? Do bad things happen when s/he's gone? What?
Whose remains do you want returned? How will your life improve? Really?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

*** Justices to rule on nude dancing. WASHINGTON (AP) The US Supreme Court
agreed to decide how far govt's can go in banning nude dancing in barrooms,
a case that may clarify the line between protected expression and unlawful
lewd behavior. States and local governments may ban erotic entertainers from
appearing totally nude in barrooms and other adults-only establishments. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559578920-27d

: Does your belief system prescribe/proscribe nudity, including but not lim-
ited to dancing, in ceremonies, barrooms, fire circles, bedrooms, beaches,
parks, hospitals, theatres, schools, feasts, sports, politics, streets? Why?

*** Wesleyan reviews porno course. MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) The president of
Wesleyan U. will review of a class that he says may be too liberal for the
liberal arts college. The course, "Pornography: Writing of Prostitutes,"
examines pornography as a cultural and political practice. Its reading list
includes the Marquis de Sade and academic critiques of Hustler magazine. As
a final project, students must produce their own work of pornography. Gaze
upon http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559530015-b2f

: Does your belief system prescribe/proscribe erotic expression and/or the
teaching of same? If you're not taught, how do you learn? Do implants help?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Sacred Oxen Are Bullish on Thailand. BANGKOK (Reuters) Two sacred oxen
made a bullish forecast for Thailand's 1999 harvest at a ceremony televised
live nationwide. Religious poobahs at the annual Brahmanic Royal Ploughing
ceremony presented the oxen with offerings, and interpreted their behavior
to divine the farming outlook. When the oxen made their selection, the holy-
men declared it a good omen, prompting a round of applause from assembled
farmers and politicos. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990514/10/odd-harvest

: From what animals do you derive omens? Do you kill and eat them if they
forecast in/correctly? Should all forecasters be treated like this? When?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

SkeptiShorts:

# Infant gets cow neck valve in heart. EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) A 13-month-old
boy has become the first person in the United States to have a bovine neck
valve transplanted in his heart. Shows no signs of going "mooo..." - see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559579245-e5e

@ DAWKINS AND PINKER DEBATE "IS SCIENCE KILLING THE SOUL?" Scientists and
authors Richard Dawkins and Stephen Pinker debated the