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SkeptiNews 000624b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/23_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No cyberwarriors were hot-wired during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Metal Dogbone Asteroid: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pictures/kleopatra/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GORE 'SURE AS HELL' HE DIDN'T KNOW OF TEMPLE FUND-RAISER - Buddhist bucks beautiful: http://CNN.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/06/23/gore.finance/ # BUCHANAN COURTS MUSLIM VOTE - Catholicism and Islam share so many vital values: http://CNN.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/06/23/buchanan.muslim/ # Hindu man accused of killing missionary to seek public office in India: http://www.worthynews.com/news-features/newsroom-india-missionary.html # Singing candidate: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000623/08/odd-singer-dc @ So, maybe you've heard of http://www.bigidea.com/ Veggie Tales, the adorable, computer rendered, Christian vegetables. And maybe you've even seen some of the http://www.bigidea.com/products/videos/ videos. But have you played the shockwave games? I'll bet that you haven't helped super-hero cucumber http://www.larry-boy.com/ Larry-Boy complete his http://www.larry-boy.com/mission/default.htm mission, or helped Josh http://www.bigidea.com/kids/games/josh/ and his Israelite vegetable army overcome the slushee throwing guardians of Jericho, or played their frighteningly cute http://www.bigidea.com/kids/games/pile_up/ tetris knock-off. Now worship me at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Religion/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Recombinant DNA For The Home Hobbyist. How to amplify and isolate DNA chains in your kitchen, using the tried-and-true Polymerase Chain Reaction technique. Use it for massively parallel computing experiments; to ID friends, pets, and favorite houseplants; or to help eliminate epidemics. But what'll happen when enterprising teenagers start playing with plasmids and recombinant DNA? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/18/1316258 # New Theory Proposes Strong Gravity and a Universe at Your Fingertips. How much of the universe can you pinch between your thumb and finger? Maybe a lot more than you think. Far reaches of the cosmos may lie less than a millimeter away. Whole other universes may be within your grasp. Be here now: http://enews.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/multi-d-universe.html # The Amazing Bend-o-Nanotubes. A new discovery in the nature of carbon na- notubes may be a key contribution to the realization of nanotechnological dreams. Revolution: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/20/1343204 # Dowsing thrives into 21st Century. A professional well-driller says he has found water by dowsing maybe 200 times over 33 years, with a 90% success rate. http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/06/22/water.dowsers.ap/index.html : Have you done any home gene-splicing lately? D'ya use nanobots to rebuild y'r genes/brain/cat/phone/planet? Have you doused any universes lately? Are they gooshy? Do you feel God-like? Are you divine? Has anyone noticed? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ANCIENT UNDERGROUND TUNNEL MAZE FOUND IN IRELAND. The discovery of an ancient maze of underground passages in south Armagh has solved a vast centuries-old mystery: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/tunnel00.htm # Suffolk site throws up new treasures. (BBC) An Anglo Saxon cemetery has been uncovered at Sutton Hoo. Coroners seek cause of death of Galahad: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_802000/802819.stm # SUBMERGED EGYPTIAN CITIES. An underwater archaeological survey of the Med- iterranean off Egypt's north coast has revealed the remains of two 2,500- yr-old cities (Menouthis Herakleion?), which served as trading hubs in the Late Dynastic Period. http://archaeology.org/online/news/negypt.html # Ancient Contacts in the Americas. Maya had memories of white gods... Roman coins found in Venezuela Maine... Roman pottery in Mexico... an ancient Sicilian coin in Alabama... http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/evidence.htm # Ancient Egyptians in the New World? 2 statuettes found in Mayan ruins that depict the Egyptian gods Isis and Osiris! How did Egyptian artifacts get to the New World? http://www.knowledge.co.uk/frontiers/sf098/sf098a01.htm : Have you uncovered any ancient mysteries lately? D'ya prefer mazes, sunken cities, anomalous artifacts, blasted heaths/plains/deserts/hills, forbidden knowledge, me? Do the voices in your head guide your explorations? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # How many people does it take to change the world? With six billion people and counting, Planet Earth faces crossroads on coming to terms with popu- lation growth. Cutbacks:
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SkeptiNews 000415b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/14_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No simulated civilizations malfed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ 15 April 1912: RMS Titanic sinks in No. Atlantic http://www.titanic1.org/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MIRACLE CURES OF THE FLOATING NUN! BANGKOK, Thailand -- A remarkable Buddhist holy woman known as the floating nun miraculously heals even the gravely ill and dying, say those who have witnessed and felt her awesome power. http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1477.html @ Excuse #203 - Psi-Missing: http://www.skepdic.com/psimiss.html @ Spirits or Drugs? http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?13@@.ee9e569 @ CHURCH OF EUTHANASIA: The Church of Euthanasia was inspired by a dream in which Rev. Chris Korda confronted an alien intelligence known as The Being who speaks for inhabitants of Earth in other dimensions. The Being warned that our planet's ecosystem is failing, and that our leaders deny this. The Being asked why our leaders lie to us, and why so many of us believe these lies. Rev. Korda awoke from the dream moaning the Church's infamous slogan, SAVE THE PLANET--KILL YOURSELF!. http://www.enviroweb.org/coe/ : Are you ill/well/indeterminate? Would Earth be better off if you were dead /alive/indeterminate? Should you be cured/killed/cloned? Are you a leader? D'ya lie you others/yourself/me? D'ya make excuses for your failures? Yeah? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Artificial Anasazi: DigiIndians Farm Computerized Landscape in Prehistoric Arizona. Computer modeling allows us to recreate prehistoric landscapes environments populate them with virtual people digital creations with some of the needs, independence, and capabilities of real-world humans. We can establish rules of conduct replicate social units. Then we can turn down the rainfall or turn up the population and watch how this cyber- culture and its artificial people react. "The Sims" circa CE 1200: http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0800toc/8feature2-anasazi.shtml # 3000 YEAR OLD GOLD MINE DISCOVERY CALLED 'AS IMPORTANT AS STONEHENGE'! Pagans Druids are flocking to the site - sacrificing archaeologists? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/wales/newsid_71/710466.stm # Indus Valley Mystery: One of Earth's First Great Civilizations is Still a Puzzle: http://discoveringarchaeology.com/0800toc/8feature1-indus.shtml : Have you simulated any ancient/middle/recent environmental/cultural rela- tionships lately? Was your civilization started/helped/destroyed by aliens/ angels/robots/me? Do you live inside a simulation? Are you artificial? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The KV5/Theban Mapping Project: http://www.kv5.com/ @ EXPLORING THE WONDERS OF ANCIENT EGYPT. The technology and benefits of the pyramid form was being taught to humanity by beings from galaxies worlds outside our solar system. It was their intent to assist our world in an emerging new culture. http://spiritweb.org/Spirit/atlantis6-diandra.html # Study: Did Fossils Inspire Mythology? -- The legendary beasts of classical mythology may have been inspired by fossil remains of prehistoric species. "Ancient authors turned to myths about heroes and giants to explain skeletons of amazing size that they observed firsthand in Asia Minor and Greece." http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/2412/history_myths.html : Have you explored any ancient worlds lately? Have you found traces of ETs, monsters, deities, nonhumans, robots, me? D'ya make up wild tales to account for your findings? Are you believed, marketed, honored, worshipped? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ARE YOU WILLING TO BE AN ANGELIC EMMISARY? Messages From Archangel Michael Beloved masters, some time ago we asked you to envision yourselves moving back through the energetic skeins of times past, transmuting all the neg- ative memories along the way, as you also move in an upward spiral toward the future. http://www.spiritweb.org/Spirit/angelic-emissary-herman.html @ Mobile Software Agents for Control in Telecommunications Networks: http://www.bt.com/bttj/vol18no1/today/papers/s_appleby/abstract.htm @ Towards Human-Centred Intelligent Systems: The Intelligent Assistant: http://www.bt.com/bttj/vol18no1/today/papers/d_djian/abstract.htm @ Using Genetics To Extract Information - Genetic Programming Queries: http://www.bt.com/bttj/vol18no1/today/papers/j_martin/abstract.htm : Are you an agent for one or more paranormal entities? Have you willingly enslaved yourself to their will? How do you differ from a cyberslave toiling endlessly on the Web, extracting/parsing/transmitting information? D'ya spy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000408b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/07_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No retiring UFOlogists were defenestrated to produce this bulletin. Yet. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ GREETINGS, HUMANS! http://www.voltaire.net/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFOs Over San Juan, Puerto Rico. What's going on in Puerto Rico? Under a clear blue sky, an aerial show was mounted over San Juan, Puerto Rico by two high flying objects. http://www.sightings.com/general/puerto.htm # Illinois UFO Sighting Of January 5 Still Making News - no new material lately: http://www.riverfronttimes.com/issues/2000-04-05/feature.html # UFO investigator sails into sunset - Lack of extraterrestrial sightings prompts retirement: http://news-observer.com/daily/2000/04/07/tri03.html : When the news on UFOs runs thin, are you surprised that old UFO reports are recycled? What happened to all the crop circles? Have you been abducted /probed/implanted lately? Where are the MiBs when you really really need'em? @ Paranormal sounds, earthquakes http://www.teleport.com/~bfryer/cking.shtml @ Electromagnetic Heresy: http://www.teleport.com/~bfryer/heresy.html @ Subtle Connections: http://goertzel.org/dynapsyc/1996/subtle.html @ The Fogal Transistor: http://www.eskimo.com/~ghawk/fogal_device _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ VACUUM SPIN FIELDS. Spin waves in condensed matter are well-studied in modern physics. But there is a less-known backwater: Torsion Fields, the quantum spin of empty space; the large-scale coherent effects of the spin of the particles in the virtual sea. http://www.amasci.com/freenrg/tors/ @ Subtle Energy: http://webcom.com/hrtmath/IHM/Research/SubtleEnergy.html @ Biological Antigravitation: http://www.sinor.ru/~che/grebennikov.htm @ "Water Memory" sent over wires: http://www.amasci.com/freenrg/digibio.html @ "Spin Doctors": A New Paradigm Theorizing Mechanisms of Bioenergy Healing: http://www.journaloftheoretics.com/Archived%20Articles/1-2/benford.html @ Recent PSI research: http://resonate.org/places/writings/larissa/sciwi.htm @ Vacuum: A New Paradigm: http://www.dataforce.net/~binhi/Shipov/shipov.html @ Planetophysicality: http://millenngroup.com/repository/planetary/pfvd.html @ Models of polarized states of the physical vacuum and torsion fields: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/7919/torsion1.htm : Have you spun any vacuum fields lately? Have you derived any antigravity? Is it alive? Does your water remember, or d'ya remember water? D'ya subtly spin in empty space, healing? Are you Planetophysical? [Thanks, Unit4!!] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Indonesian Muslims PROTEST - denounce Israel, communism, atheists: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565501262-e39 # INDONESIA MUSLIMS PREPARE TO SEND JIHAD ARMY TO MALUKUS, wage holy war against Christians: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48878 # MI6 vs Libya: Qadahfi overthrow plot: http://cryptome.org/qadahfi-plot.htm @ NSA's Subliminal Posthypnotic Scripts. Subliminal implanted posthypnotic suggestions and scripts using acoustically delivered and phonetically accelerated posthypnotic commands without somnambulistic preparation in the subject for intelligence and counterintelligence applications by the U.S. National Security Agency. http://www.kimsoft.com/2000/NSA-psy.htm : Have you waged any holy/mental/economic wars lately? Are wars best waged by hypnotized puppets? Are police/priests/politicos/puppets waging war on you? Do you fight back in kind? Are wars ceaseless, inevitable, habitual?? # YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE. Police seek to expand surveillance - 'An attempt to roll back an important protection for the citizens' - ever vigilant: http://www.seattletimes.com/news/local/html98/wtoo07m_2407.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UN SAYS DEVELOPING WORLD AT RISK FROM UNSAFE BLOOD - millions could die from tainted supplies: http://CNN.com/2000/HEALTH/04/07/health.blood.reut/ @ WHY HAVEN'T YOU SAID MUCH ON THE DANGERS OF POWER LINES? There isn't much to say: http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=31351 @ NOW WILL YOU AGREE THAT VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM? Research has found no con- clusive evidence of a connection between autism and the measles vaccine. The vaccine theory is Quite low on the list of possible suspects as the cause of autism. Genetic theory intrauterine events are the top conten- ders now. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=31356 # Fen-Phen cover-up? FDA reviewer: Maker knew about problems before drug pulled: http://cbsnews.cbs.com/now/story/0,1597,181616-412,00.shtml # Hijacking The Gods - Of Hoagland, Cayce,
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000311b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to notices, excuses, overflow, links: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No cryptozoologists were sexually exploited to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Devil Woman: http://www.halcyon.com/cyber/misc-pics/bettyblue.png _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Chinese e-commerce site attacked. (BBC) Police are attempting to track a hacker who shut down a leading Chinese e-commerce web site. The fiend: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_674000/674038.stm # Also - Web hackers strike again - nobody is safe - run and hide: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_657000/657783.stm # A-Z: Hack attack - when the world is hacked, will society fall? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_639000/639248.stm # Beating the hacker attack - a good offense is the best defense: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_638000/638166.stm NET-NANNY CRACKED - The Breaking of Cyber Patrol® 4. Several attacks are presented on the "sophisticated anti-hacker security" features of CP4, a "censorware" product intended to prevent users from accessing Internet content considered harmful. Motivations, tools, and methods are discussed for reverse engineering in general and reverse engineering of censorware in particular ... Excerpts from the list of blocked sites are presented and commented upon. A package of source code and binaries implementing the attacks is included. http://hem.passagen.se/eddy1/reveng/cp4/cp4break.html [ this brilliant work was forwarded via http://www.politechbot.com/ For more info see http://www.politechbot.com/p-00994.html and http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=censorware http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=loudoun ] : Have you uncovered any ill-kept secrets lately? Have you demonstrated the moral corruption and/or incompetence of authoritarians? Has retaliation been swift and deadly? Will the conspiracies re-group and proceed to their goals? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Yowie hunters head for the hills near Gympie. AAP -- To some it's just a huge, hairy joke, but 12 deadly serious men plan to search for that large, ape-like and always elusive creature, the yowie. "There were thousands of yowies up and down the eastern seaboard of Australia, and they had terro- rised people over the last few years, usually in less densely populated areas." http://news.ninemsn.com.au/05_technology/story_15992.asp # Not every mystery has a paranormal explanation - just the interesting ones: http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/stories/000311/3740391.html # ETs INVADE USA! http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upidetail.cfm?QID=68304 @ VIRUS CULTURE: http://www.mtsu.edu/~english/weinstock.htm : Have you experienced anything paranormal lately? Are you sure it's really paranormal? Just because *you* couldn't figure it out, does that make it mystical? Have you chased any elusive creatures? Have they chased you? Why? # Pollster: Americans put high priority on spirituality. DENVER - This is a "bull market" in spirituality as more and more Americans seek their own mystical experiences. http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0311n.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Eve Is Again Listening to the Voice of the Serpent. Eve fell for the fruit but Adam fell for Eve. There is a replay of the garden incident in the end time. Satan's plot is to corrupt woman and ruin the race. Womanhood of America is running headlong to harlotry. Instead of the Bible, movie stars set American standards. http://members.aol.com/libcfl/woman.htm # Natural Passion. Rape is as much a feature of the normal landscape of sex as flirting or courting. Power is not the issue: spreading genes is. So sez: http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinion.jsp?id=ns222611 # Outrage as professors claim rape is natural - "cut off their scrotums!" www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000343180237640pg=/et/00/3/9/ecnrape09.html : Is your sexuality evil/natural/neutral/boring/odd? Do y'r belief/knowledge systems inform you of proper/normal/acceptable sexual behaviors? D'ya ignore the teachings and just do whatever the hell you want to do? Have you bred?? @ I'M YOUNG BURNING WITH SEXUAL DESIRE SEXUAL TORMENT. WHEN DO I HAVE TO MARRY? WHEN MUST WE MARRY? WHAT OF PORN? WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT THE BURNING? http://www.etext.org/Religious.Texts/Polyamory/UnderageSexBurning.txt _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Crows Wield Beak-Crafted Tools. It was dogma for decades, but the notion that tool-making distinguishes humans from other animals turned out to be a flattering delusion. But of all the animal artisans, only humans seemed to shape tools according to a set pattern and with a favored hand. Now,
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000304b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to notices, excuses, overflow, links: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No were harmed to produce of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ DitchWitch http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/ditch/witch/2302/nmalt101 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HUMAN GENOME SCIENCES ANNOUNCES MAJOR NEW INITIATIVE IN HUMAN GENE MAPPING, GENE POLYMORPHISM, AND GENE ORGANIZATION -- Partnership with Compugen Provides New Data Mining Muscle - Building Better People From The Ground Up: http://www.hgsi.com/news/press/00-03-02_compugen.html @ Americans for Cloning Elvis - Sign the petition to get scientists to do something useful - clone The King. http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/1673/ # Human Embryo Cell-Cloning Technology Developed in Hunan - China to clone billions: www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/23/03/eng2303T102.html : D'ya sing "Clone, Clone On The Range" as you herd your mutant wildebeeste/ bison/alligator chimerae across the clover/maize/human-covered steppes, with DukeNukem9D playing on y'r right-ventral implant a smile on y'r four lips? # Frito-Lay Admits Use Of GM Crops In Products - "If we don't, the Chinese and Indians will" -- http://www.jeffrense.com/politics6/fritonew.htm # Scientists teach cells to line-up; can be trained to grow along a chemical trail. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_665000/665338.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ensuring the Past's Future. COLLEGEVILLE, MINN. In an Ethiopian mountain- top monastery. In a stable on the island of Malta. In the ancestral castle of a German prince. In every remnant of our medieval past, the manuscripts are sought. They are wrinkled, some of them, and smudged -- page after ancient page of parchment scribbled in a cramped and crabby script. Others are gorgeous, afire with art, shimmering with golden ink. All are eagerly hunted: http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/1/living/docs/030128.htm # Document limits scope of apology by Vatican. ROME. In preparation for Pope John Paul II's plan to deliver a sweeping apology this month for the Roman Catholic Church's historical failings, a Vatican document was released Wednesday outlining the conditions and limits to the Holy Year act of repentance. http://pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/1/living/docs/017861.htm : What are your favorite religious documents? Have you drafted any religious docs lately? Are you inspired, controlled, channeling? What sort of entity sends messages through you? Do you produce aesthetically pleasing documents? Are they meaningful to anyone but you? Do you force others to regard them? # God speaks to each of us in 'code' - NSA hasn't decrypted it yet: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,155006946,00.html # Kentuckian who can't read hand-copies the entire Bible - so? http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,155007077,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hacking in Russia Is Serious. MOSCOW (AP) Unlike counterparts in richer countries, most Russian hackers are not just motivated by the subversive thrill of cracking code embarrassing corporate titans or govt agencies - they're driven by empty pockets. http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9473359 @ It's hard to price a piece of information until you know what the info is, after which you can't return it. That's why ideas make bad commodities: http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/highlights/sounds_silence/index.html : What is your information/interpretation/intuition worth? D'ya auction it on the open market? Does your conspiracy/cartel control its supply/demand? Is control just a game to you? Has your control been simulated yet? Where? # How about a B.A. in Quake? Educators to offer advanced degree in games. Dr. Doom: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2455068,00.html # PlayStation2 Fever Grips Japan: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9473505 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_665000/665765.stm # High-End Hex Hits Nocturne: www.dailyradar.com:80/news/game_news_2034.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # TRUTH-RAKGOTHO (ANC) Masemola was suspected of having baboons and a tokoloshi in her house. She was called to the meeting, during which she "agreed again that she was a witch and she had a tokoloshi and baboons in her house." http://www.anc.org.za:80/ancdocs/briefing/nw2229/25.html # FastFood Shooting Suspect Kept 'Satan List' - Satan denies responsibility: www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/03/03/restaurants0303_01.html # Psychic Gives Her Spin on Utah Sports - pictures are projected into her mind: http://www.sltrib.com/2000/feb/02272000/sports/29855.htm # Boyfriend allegedly sets Hialeah psychic on fire - she didn't see it coming:
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000226b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to announcements, disclaimers, quirks: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No mutant fruitflies were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # RoboDog: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/japan/apple/2218/tok105 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mysterious 'Z Ray' Cripples Plane Engines Over NYC. New York - Airplane pilots flying in this vicinity have asked the Dept of Commerce to probe a supposed radio-ray device which they believe stops the motors of airplanes passing over New York city. http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/zray.htm # Francis Gary Powers Exhibit. (AP) An exhibition on the legendary U.S. U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers whose plane was hit by a Soviet anti- aircraft missile, is opened in the Berlin Allied Museum. What, me spy? http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/germany/u2/legacy/2220/ber104 : Has your aeroplane been crippled by ground-based interference? Were you hit by waves, rays, missiles, beams, birds, pebbles, ennui? Are you frantic? # Orange Triangles Attack: http://somethingawful.com/spam/icq-pete-01.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ozone layer 'thinning over Europe.' (BBC) Scientists are warning that the ozone layer is becoming severely depleted over a large part of northern Europe, including the UK. Dig out your parasols, mates. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_656000/656014.stm # Global warming hit London early. (BBC) Archaeologists have found evidence that southern Britain's climate was far hotter 250,000 years ago. Blimey. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_657000/657130.stm : Is Europe a waste, a write-off? Was it a write-off 250,000 years ago? Did aliens restore Europe? Will aliens devastate it? Is this just a sick game?? # Mars Weather - Snow, Dust Devils, Wind Confirmed. WASHINGTON - Signs of Martian snowfall,avalanches, http://space.com/space/surveyor_images.html "dust devils" evidence for ancient oceans from the Mars Global Surveyor http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/ are profoundly changing how we see the Red Planet. It's a far cry from the dry, dead world imagined by previous gene- rations. http://www.space.com/science/solarsystem/mars_weather_000223.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FLY FACTORY - We're just a few genes short of the instruction manual for fruit flies: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns222730 @ PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN. What's the greatest scourge of the twenty-first century? My friends, I'm talking about mutants. http://mutantwatch.com/ : Have you built any flies/humans/mutants/models lately? Are you threatened by mutant flies? Do you threaten mutant flies? Are you intimidating? Where? # Rate of Bad Mutations on the Rise According to New Government Study: http://mutantwatch.com/story_rateofbad.html # Freak Tornado Outside Flagstaff Linked to Teen Mutant Activity: http://mutantwatch.com/story_freaktornado.html # Health Coverage Denied to Patients with Advanced Genetic Mutations: http://mutantwatch.com/story_healthcoverage.html # Do You Know Your Neighbors? Mutants in Your Backyard: http://mutantwatch.com/story_neighbors.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Watch the search for alien signals - Astronomers monitor skies while world watches on Web. (MSNBC) -- SETI researchers are back at the worlds biggest radio astronomy dish, looking for signals from alien civilizations. This time, the whole world can literally watch over their shoulders via the Internet. http://www.msnbc.com/news/374378.asp # The phenomenon of synchronized clapping by audiences in Eastern Europe can tell us something about fireflies, the ticking of clocks on a wall, and the beating cells of our hearts. All together now, a-one-and-a-two... http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/clap000223.html : Have you received any synchronization signals lately? Are you in time now? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Leap Day Tuesday Last Y2K Worry. (Wired) An esoteric calendar rule created hundreds of years ago should offer the last of potential Y2K computer glitches for programmers who will staff Leap Day Tuesday crisis centers. Oh yeah? http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34586,00.html # Firm Reprogramming Itself To Adapt to Life After Y2K - We Will Survive: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/feed/a32224-2000feb25.htm # Reality? http://www.somethingawful.com/articles/article-simrealism.htm : Are you prepared for the new millennium? Have all Y2K bugs been squashed? What about quarterly/semiannual/other systems; sabotage; divine/demonic tem- per-tantrums; gross incompetence; alien intervention; manic depression; me? # Pro-Pot E-mail Threatens White House - Bomb Message Sent From High
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000219b - - - - - - - - - - - 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? * The latest bulletin is now viewable at: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/x.htm * No malaria victims orgasmed during production of this bulletin. Too bad. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Lagoon Nebula Detail: http://ftp.seds.org/messier/Pics/Jpg/m8detail.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # California Nevada Face Serious Radiation Risk: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000218/nv_agency__1.html # High tides threaten Tuvalu. (BBC) The island nation of Tuvalu in the Pacific Ocean is being threatened by record high tides this weekend. Much of the main island, Funafuti, may be flooded for up to six hours. One of the lowest-lying countries in the world, Tuvalu would be most at risk from rising sea levels were they to result from a major warming of the planet. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9403336 @ links: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: http://www.ipcc.ch/ @ South Pacific Regional Environment Programme: http://www.sprep.org.ws/ @ CIA - Tuvalu: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/tv.html : How much global warming is enough? D'ya have a boat? Which nations/coasts/ islands are expendable? Which would you like to drown? Would you rather be flooded, irradiated, smothered in volcanic ash, abducted by aliens, bored? # Will Yellowstone Blow As A Supervolcano In 2070? (BBC) If this giant were to stir, the United States would be devastated and the world would be plunged into a catastrophe which could push humanity to the brink of extinction. http://www.bbc.co.uk/horizon/supervolcanoes_script.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Episodic memory...without it human civilization would not have evolved. We ARE evolved, right? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9403411 @ A VOYAGE TO KNOWLEDGE OF THE AFTERLIFE. Do the many levels of conscious- ness that we can access in 'out-of-body' travels, prove the existence of life beyond this one? Really? http://www.altnews.com.au/nexus/bmoen.html @ The Larger Part of Each of Us: The Physiology of Religion: http://www.academic.uofs.edu/student/osmanskim1/bandit.html @ Microtubules: http://cellbio.utmb.edu/cellbio/microtub.htm @ Quantum Brain: http://www.reed.edu/~rsavage/qbrain.html : How is your consciousness working today? IS it working? Did you surrender your will to anyone lately? When you get "out-of-body" do they let you back in? Do they let you remember the past, present, future? Do they take bribes? # Burandanga. (WSJ) If you thought cocaine was bad news, wait until you hear about Burandanga. Burundanga is a kind of voodoo powder obtained from a Colombian local plant of the nightshade family, a shrub called barrachera, or "drunken binge". Used for hundreds of years by Native Americans in rel- igious ceremonies, the powder when ingested causes victims to lose their will and memory, sometimes for days. But don't all religions do that? http://www.morethanconquerors.simplenet.com/MCF/barrfavs.htm#Article4 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ No Connexions, No Questions: # Tribe demands meteorite at center of new planetarium. NEW YORK (AP) A group of American Indians says a 16-ton meteorite that will be the main attraction at the Museum of Natural History's new planetarium is a holy tribal object and should be returned to Oregon. The meteorite gives holy water and songs: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap2218_1579.html # Taking on the malaria bug. At the start of the 21st Century, malaria kills more people than Aids. The world's top medics have been unable to stop the humble mosquito from transmitting the deadly disease. Now BillGates throws money at the dilemma: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9403581 @ Malaria Foundation International: http://www.malaria.org/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # REMOTE VIEWING: ESP Spies: www.altnews.com.au/nexus/ESPionage.html # The True Adventures of a Psychic Spy. Former military intelligence remote viewer David Morehouse shares his insights into accessing multi-dimensional reality, and reveals disturbing details on the downing of TWA Flight 800. http://altnews.com.au/nexus/psispy1.html # TWA 800 Probe Rips Government's Story To Shreds: http://www.twa800.com/ # THE ORIGINAL MEN-IN-BLACK: http://altnews.com.au/nexus/meninblack.html # The Biggest Govt Scam: http://209.207.224.161/docs/welcome/burien.html : Have you psychically spied on any persons/firms/churches/nations/armies/me lately? Have you watched any airliner crashes? Have you psychically caused any crashes? Is it rewarding work? Is it easier than building/using rockets? # Missile can hit US, says defector. SEOUL. A North Korean defector claims Pyongyang has finished building a missile that
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000205b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 five-toed dragons were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Oni Demons! Flee! Aiiee! http://www.pasar5.com/NOH_MASK/oni/onimas_e.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GOD TO SPEAK TO IRAQIS. A hush falls over Baghdad as a huge shimmering face materialises in the sky. Soldiers citizens prostrate themselves as each hears the voice of Allah, commanding them to overthrow treacherous, evil Saddam Hussein. Within minutes an angry mob storms the palace, guards flee ... This highly imaginative scenario was proposed by USAF planners for a bloodless victory in the Gulf conflict. The idea of putting words in God's mouth is not new. In the 2nd century CE Lucian described a statue of the god Aesculapius that spoke to believers, aided by a hidden priest with a speaking tube. http://www.smh.com.au/news/0002/05/world/world17.html : Have your deities spoken to you lately? Are you sure they were your gods? Could they be impersonated? Could all divine voices be impersonated? Have you impersonated any deities lately? Is it fulfilling, tiring, sexy, needed? @ Allah is All-Knowing: http://www.enteract.com/~jwalz/Eliade/041.html @ Allah is First Last: http://www.enteract.com/~jwalz/Eliade/042.html @ Allah is Light: http://www.enteract.com/~jwalz/Eliade/043.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BigBugs 1999: http://zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2413514,00.html # Hackers Find Easy Target In Japanese Web Sites. "Welcome, Japan, to the world of cyberwar." How does it take for easy targets to harden, bristle? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-02/02/152l-020200-idx.html # Congress mulls ban on new Web taxes, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563869059-ba9 http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563888463-f5d # FCC chief pushes wireless Internet, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563873214-bc3 : Would you rather attack the Net via virus/worms, taxes, rumors, technical difficulties? Does the Net threaten your way of life? Would you like to kill the Net, all Netizens, all humans, all life? Are we all parasites? Are you? # Japan cult sites searched. TOKYO (AP) Cops used new powers to intensify their crackdown on the Aum cult, staging raids on five of the group's properties. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563903365-817 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Iran clerics back minister's death. QOM, Iran (AP) - Thousands of Iranian clerics called for the execution of moderate Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani, saying his agency's relaxed stance toward the media allowed a senior cleric to be insulted. "Death to Mohajerani," about 4,000 clerics chanted in a protest in the holy city of Qom. The clerics are angry over the recent publication of a cartoon in the reformist daily Azad depicting Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah Yazdi, a hard-line cleric, as a crocodile. In Muslim cultures, crocodiles are associated with treachery deception. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563899751-5a4 : Does your belief system dictate violence toward dissidents? Should all who disagree with you die? Have you executed any dissidents lately? Is this the best way to ensure orthodoxy? What's y'r favorite doxy? Are you crocodilian? @ Islamic Thought: http://wings.buffalo.edu/sa/muslim/isl/thought.html @ Life of Muhammad: http://fordham.edu/halsall/source/muhammadi-sira.html @ Muhammad's Last Sermon: http://fordham.edu/halsall/source/muhm-sermon.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Dawn of the dragon. (BBC) Chinese people across the world celebrate the start of the lunar new year with fireworks, dragon dances and parades. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_632000/632099.stm # China prepares for Year of Dragon - streets of Beijing eerily quiet: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563896950-7dc # Indonesia Chinese mark Dragon year - fireworks scare off evil spirits: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563903762-46b # Britain welcomes year of dragon - fish chips with soy sauce: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_631000/631940.stm # Picture gallery: Enter the golden dragon - watch for droppings: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_632000/632107.stm # Falun Gong arrests in Tiananmen Square - the start of another fun year: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_631000/631793.stm # BEIJING POLICE STOMP CULTISTS AT START OF CHINESE NEW YEAR. Police beat kicked Falun Gong members at a Tiananmen Square demo marking the Year of the Dragon:
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000122b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 robots massaged the editor during production of this bulletin. Darn. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ EarthWeek Map: http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/01/21/diary.planet/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Bovine Intervention. Are alien ETs swooping down on cattle ranches in our Western states, pouncing on unsuspecting cows, cutting out their vaginas other interesting body parts, and carrying them back to their home planets for weird science experiments? The http://accessnv.com/nids/ National Institute for Discovery Science isn't ready to say yes, but they're not throwing out the possibility, either. The privately funded research group is conducting a serious study of what it calls the "controversy regarding the alleged connection between cattle mutilations and UFOs." And they like cow anatomy too: http://www.metroactive.com:80/metro/slices-0003.html : Are you alien, human, divine? Do you like cow vaginas? How much? D'ya take samples? Do you have a large collection? When humans explode into the galaxy explore other planets, what animal parts will we fixate on, collect? Why? @ Even tho Hello Cthulhu http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~kimuchi/cthulhu.html will take a vacation off the web, it pleases me to no end that I can still buy Hello Cthulhu merchandise http://www.cafepress.com/timmyt/ online. But will they take my http://www.emunix.emich.edu/~winterh/ccc/ Campus Crusade for Cthulhu discount? See http://memepool.com/Subject/Conspiracy/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Japan robot for consumers debut. TOKYO (AP) - It missed its cue to go on stage, but robot Tmsuk IV debuted Friday on the Japanese consumer market, ready to give back massages and run simple errands. The 4-foot robot costs $47,600, but its manufacturer sez it plans to sell 10 of them in the first half of this year. People can control the 220-lb robot by using handheld remote-control and foot pedals to send electronic signals via a computer and mobile telephone. A company videotape showed a boy using the robot to give his grandmother in a distant city a back massage. Don't touch me there: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563530709-f93 : What's y'r favorite robot? Is it sensuous? Do sensual robots teledildon- ics have great commercial potential? Would you rather be massaged by humans, robots, aliens, beasts, deities/demons, me? Does y'r grandma need massaging? @ Ask the Love Engine(tm) - Our AI sexpert makes love a little less difficult. http://go.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/sex.html/mg20004 # Sex warning to vegetarians, elderly. Elderly and vegetarian men are being warned about the effect of low protein diets on their sex lives in later years. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_613000/613396.stm @ Some people love their http://www.algonet.se/~giljotin/fressie.html guillotines a little http://www.algonet.se/~giljotin/engagem.html too much. And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Sex/ if ya dare. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Bizarre' Group Seeks Ransom for Indian Pottery - 'Liberation Army' Claims It Robbed Museum. SAN DIEGO -- In a bizarre twist to a burglary case, a "liberation army" is claiming responsibility for stealing several rare valuable pieces of Native American pottery from an exhibit at an anthro- pological museum. Cops are baffled by of an unsigned ransom letter sent to the media by the so-called Poway Liberation Army, named after an upper- middle-class suburb of San Diego known more for its horse farms than resistance to authority. The organization was previously unknown. Why? http://apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/01/19/poway0119_01.html : Has your sect stolen any pottery lately? Have you demanded ransom? Did you issue territorial demands? Will pot.theft force geopolitical realignments?? Did the voices in your head tell you to do this? Is your ET implant buzzing? # Black-Clad Figure Once Again Visit Poe's Grave. BALTIMORE (Reuters) Under the glistening stars of a winter`s night, a mysterious black-clad stranger made his yearly pilgrimage to the grave of Edgar Allan Poe, leaving 3 red roses and a bottle of French cognac. http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/poes.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # JFK Report: Oswald Acted Alone - Tests Find No Shirt Material on Bullets: http://apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/01/21/kennedy0121_01.html # Nixon 'Smoking Gun' Tapes Released - Recordings Forced Resignation: http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/2000/01/21/nixon0121pm_01.html @ Yes, that http://ufomind.com/area51/desert_rat/1996/dr34/nixon_full.jpg is Nixon, the original's apparently at
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991127b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 alien probes flew by Earth during production of this bulletin. Maybe. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ MAD - now Y2K compliant: http://www.dccomics.com/mad/smad388.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Old new messages for E.T. - 25 years after Arecibo signal, entrepreneurs get on the beam. (MSNBC) Its been 25 years since humanity first sent a signal intended for civilizations on other planets. In that time, the mes- sage has traveled only a thousandth of the way toward its intended target, but other efforts are afoot to transmit signals and this time theyre toll calls. Dialing for dollars: http://www.caus.org/pn112699.htm : Can/will/do you make money sending signals to ETs? Do ETs pay well? Do they use 1-900 numbers a lot? Do you? Do you have sex chats with ETs? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 21 killed in religious rioting. AMBON, Indonesia (AP) - At least 21 people were killed dozens injured as fresh Muslim-Christian clashes broke out in Ambon, the capital of Indonesia's eastern province of Maluku, plagued by religious fighting since January. Squash those heathens FLAT - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562267584-8e0 : Do you prefer to kill/maim/torture/beat Xians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, me? Would you rather attack Reptilioids, or are they your friends? Do they tell you who to attack? Did Reptilioids plant religions in our brains so we'd be easier to control harvest? Have Reptilioids harvested your town lately?? # Why Israel Pissed-Off the Vatican Over Nazareth. (TIME) Domestic politics prompts Israel to allow the building of a mosque next to a Christian holy site: http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/0,2960,35011-101991124,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Ruth Montgomery's Remarkable 1979 Earth Changes Prophecies. Her guides told her to look for an absolutely unavoidable shift in the earth's axis crust around the beginning of the next century. The shift will have its warnings. The revolutions of the earth will be slowed in the last years of this century. The weather will be worsening in most areas. The storms will grow increasingly violent, with heavy snowfalls, strong gales increased humidity. There will be rumblings beneath the earth the trees will sway. Shortly before the actual shift, there'll be 2 specific types of warnings. The eruptions of ancient volcanoes in Mediterranean islands, South America California will result in pestilence; shortly thereafter, earth tremors of major proportions, affecting wide land-masses in northern Europe, Asia, and South America, will provoke tidal waves of monumental scope. And the politicians will lie: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/pred.htm : Have you predicted any earth changes lately? Did/will/can they happen? Do you have a track record? Did you ever predict The End Of The World before? Were you right? Are your doomsday predictions often right? Are you sure?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China detains foreigners. SHANGHAI (AP) Cops busted an American, a Swedish student two Australians in south China at a gathering of the banned sect Falun Gong. Thousands of Falun Gong practitioners have been jailed since the communist government banned the multimillion-member meditation group in July, fearing it as a threat to government power. Meditate elsewhere: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562269572-aa6 : When will China start assassinating FalunGongers around the world? Have they already started? Will they start on other believers next? Should China be destroyed before it decimates meditators worldwide? Should they continue? @ SCIENTOLOGY - the biggest fraud ever! Read the proof why it is a THREAT TO THE NET! Operation Clambake: http://www.xenu.net/ # Iran quake damages homes - Allah mildly rebukes fundy regime: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562272192-99f _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Spaced-R-Us: # GALILEO SURVIVES 'WHITE KNUCKLE' IO FLYBY. NASA's sturdy Galileo space- craft completed its closest encounter with Jupiter's fiery moon Io, but only after what officials called "a Thanksgiving white knuckler" for earthbound controllers. The craft dipped through intense radiation bombardment: http://cnn.com//TECH/space/9911/26/galileo.02/index.html # Spacecraft Galileo overcomes setback - most of mission salvaged: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562268017-64f # By Jupiter! Confusion over planet. (BBC) A new analysis of data collected by the Galileo spacecraft's atmospheric probe has thrown into confusion the accepted ideas of how our Solar System was formed. Gas giant Jupiter has 2 to 3 times more of the heavy gases
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@ The Cask of Amontillado:
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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.
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990925b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 effete Eastern elites equivocated during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ Urban Decay Makeup: http://www.urbandecay.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Alien Earths. OUR FIRST GLIMPSES of Earthly worlds beyond the Solar System may be coming into focus, say two teams of astronomers. Independently they have found two promising candidates for low-mass planets that could play host to life. http://www.newscientist.com:80/ns/19990925/newsstory8.html : What's your favorite low-mass planet? How much life can you take? How much effort would residents of other low-mass planets expend to take ours away?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Y2K: Buckle Up - What To Do If Lights Go Out. Don't worry about looters, electric failures, or martial law. Nope, it's those darned traffic lights that might just bring society to its knees on 1 January 2000. Darkness, darkness: http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21948.html : Do you look forward to the fall of civilization? Will it come 1/1/2000 or must we wait longer? Are you impatient? Will you sabotage traffic lights?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SCI-BUY. Industry funding fuels perception of science for sale - Dilemma growing over how to sort science from self-interest. http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/scitech/docs/sciforsale21.htm # Perils of Ideological 'Science'. Scientific theories have statements that can be used to confirm predict natural phenomena. To date, evolution has done both; creationism has done neither. We need to learn from the Soviet experience of Lysenkoism the dangers of applying ideology to science. http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-09/25/015l-092599-idx.html : Is any science pure? Are you? Is any science for sale? Are you? Is science corrupt? Are you? Is perception of corruption more damaging than reality?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Spirits in the Silicon World - MIT theologian looks to smart robots for insight into religious questions. For thousands of years, mythical robots have been used to explore the question of what makes humans human. In the Middle Ages, Jewish cabalists spun myths about golems, clay creatures animated by the secret name of God. The ancient Greeks sought to create a homunculus, a tiny proto-person servant. More recently, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" creature and the android "Star Trek" crew member Commander Data have raised the question: "Can man-made creatures have souls?" Anne Foerst's job is to ask that question, but not about mythical creatures. As resident theologian at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, Foerst has spent the past 4 years pon- dering how increasingly smart machines may affect our sense of humanity. http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/1/living/docs/034386.htm : Do you have a 'soul'? How can we tell? Are you robotic? Is a sufficiently complex robot theologically indistinguishable from a human? Are some humans robotic? Must robots evolve souls, just like humans? Is 'soul' a gift? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Very early musical links - Chinese flutes are 9,000 years old. (Newsday) They won't be tooting music from Mozart's "The Magic Flute" on them any time soon, but Chinese researchers have found what might be the oldest playable musical instruments on Earth. Made from wing bones of red-crowned cranes: http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/world/docs/flutes23.htm : What animals would you like to kill to make musical instruments? Would you dry hollow-out a snake to use as a dijiridu? Would you turn blowfish into rattles? What would you kill to make guitars, saxophones, tubas, xylophones? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NASA-Rama: # NASA Abandons Search For Orbiter. With the Mars Climate Orbiter almost certainly destroyed, NASA is calling off the radio search for its where- abouts. http://www.space.com/news/planetarymissions/mars_mission.html # Safeguarding the Next Mars Probe. The loss of the latest Mars probe won't affect its sibling mission already en route to the red planet. But will NASA scientists ever get over the loss? Don't cry for me, Canaveral: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21947.html # NASA Chief to Space Business: Loss of Orbiter Illustrates Risk: http://www.space.com/news/goldin_990924.html # 'Privatize NASA Now'. A space exec sez the govt should divest part of its operation to business so NASA can concentrate on the outer limits: http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/21955.html # Congress to NASA -- 'Safety is Good, But What Does It Cost?' http://www.space.com/news/spaceshuttle/shuttle_hearing_990923.html # One Giant Step for Imaging. It was do-or-die for Space Imaging's Ikonos II, and
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990911b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 secular heretics were burnt during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Voice of Allah 'appears' in British tomato. (Nando) Hundreds of Muslims flocked to a small house in northern England to view a tomato that was believed to contain a divine message from Allah. Shabana Hussain, 27, of Bradford said she was preparing a meal when she chopped into the tomato and found the words "There is no God but Allah" written in Arabic in the veins. "It's very clear. Everyone has been able to make the message out." http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_09_10item=#937008593 : Do your deities communicate to you in vegetables? Are tomatoes veggies or fruits? Do y'r gods talk in fruit? Are y'r gods fruits? Are y'r fruits gods? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SPRAYING THE BIG APPLE - WITH MALATHION. New York City is being sprayed with malathion to prevent the spread of mosquito-borne encephalitis. I doubt that New Yorkers, who seem to let nothing bother them, will object - unlike if this were to happen in California. Again. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=16557 # All Of NYC To Be Sprayed: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/nyc.htm @ DID MALATHION SPRAY CAUSE MY BRONCHIAL DIFFICULTIES? We cannot draw any conclusions. After Malathion spraying, we did not see higher rate of bronchial problems among hundreds of thousands of Californians; so it's likely that Malathion spraying does not cause bronchial problems. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=16547 : What's your favorite non-toxic pesticide? What's your favorite toxin? What chemicals would you like to spray over a major metropolis? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Worm Shows Science Why We Need Sex. LONDON (Reuters) A tiny unremarkable worm has given scientists a clue about why we need sex, boosting the medical world's view that it has nothing to do with love. Aw shucks: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990910/09/science-britain-worm # Want To Feel Frisky Again? Try Blueberries. WASHINGTON (Reuters) Forget Viagra. Forget red wine. Anyone seeking to really feel young again should try blueberries, research on rats suggests. Oh boy, more horny rats... http://news.excite.com/news/r/990910/18/science-health-blueberries : Would you rather study sex in rats or worms? Would'ya rather have sex with rats or worms? Are you a rat or worm? Do you have sex with researchers? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AFRICAN BOYS ARE BEING CIRCUMCISED BY FORCE. IS AIDS PANIC THE CAUSE? Boys from a certain tribe are being kidnapped and forcibly circumcised because of fear that uncircumcised men spread AIDS. This fear is based on a report that is shoddy and full of holes. But people will believe whatever they want: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=15656 : Do you like to mutilate people to prevent the spread of disease? Have you prophylactically mutilated anyone lately? Have you been mutilated? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Philosopher ponders End of The World. Prof. John Leslie lists potential threats to human existence and discusses the possibility of what he calls "doom soon" - the extinction of humanity within the next few centuries. He estimates the possibility of doom soon at 30 per cent or higher. Kiss your ass goodbye: http://www.uoguelph.ca/atguelph/96-01-10/endofwor.html : Have you prepared for doom? Are you preparing doom? Do you write about doom? Do you practice what you preach? Have you gained a following? Who? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Will The Rapture Take Place This Week? Sept. 7, 1999 - Sandwiched between this year's unlikely computer failure date of 9/9/99, and an eclipse on September 11th, Israel's Rosh Hashanah will occur. Rosh Hashanah is also known as "The Feast of Trumpets," and is considered by many Bible scholars as an appropriate, or even likely time for the Rapture to occur. http://www.bible-prophecy.com/rapture.htm#990907 : Are you Rapture-bound? Do you hope you aren't Raptured, so you can move into the house of someone who IS Raptured? Will you take their car too?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Party At The End Of The World. Nostradamus predicted it. So did the Bible. It's obvious we are in the last days. This train we call civilization is headed full-speed, toward a cliff and there is nothing anyone can do to stop it! But you don't want to be reminded of this, and neither does anyone else. That's why, collectively, the human race has thrown a global party! It's called the 20th century and it is certainly one HELL of a bash!! http://www.theschwacorporation.com/text/prom/partyend.htm : Will you party-down during the apocalypse? Do you have any better ideas? _ _ _ _ _ _
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990904b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Libertatians were defenestrated during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Destruction of the Individual: Slavery, Child Abuse, and the Neolithic Revolution. Our concept of the "person" is rooted in slavery; slavery is best understood, not legally or economically, but psychologically; the psychology of child abuse is an excellent model for the psychology of sla- very. Is slavery a post Pleistocene phenomena, i.e. does it have a relati- vely recent history? http://www.sscf.ucsb.edu/~hagen/courses/slave.html : Are you enslaved? Do you enslave? Are you abused? Do you abuse? Are you controlled? Do you control? Are you or your controller(s) Neolithic/alien? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Computing After Silicon. How will computers keep getting smaller, cheaper? The chemist who heads Hewlett-Packard's laboratory has an unusual answer. : Are you ready for post-silicon reality? How many computers will you have implanted in your body? Will you become omniscient? Will you have a choice? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Spooks in the machine: the CIA's most successful spy was a Xerox repair- man. The CIA's Xerox Spy-cam: Remember the chatty, irritating "copier guy" from Saturday Night Live skits a few years back? The character drove his office-mates mad in the copy room. The exploits of the CIA's "copier spy" would have exasperated Soviet diplomats in the United States even more, had they known of the espionage equipment stashed under the glass of their Xerox machine. http://www.parascope.com/articles/0197/xerox.htm : Is every document you've ever copied stashed in NSA/CIA/FBI files? Are all faxes monitored too? Will all you've ever said or done be used against you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ TEMPEST. Across the darkened street, a windowless van is parked. Inside, an antenna is pointed out through a fiberglass panel. It's aimed at an office window on the third floor. As the CEO works on a word processing document, outlining his strategy for a hostile take-over of a competitor, he never knows what appears on his monitor is being captured, displayed, and recorded in the van below. http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/tempest.html $ Data Hacking Publications: http://www.technibooks.com/books.htm : Who is spying on you? Who isn't? Is your every keystroke recorded? Do your monitors laugh at your words? Should they? Is TEMPEST technology everywhere? @ TEMPEST stands for 'Transient Electromagnetic Pulse Standard', and the way one eavesdrops is referred to as 'Van Eck' monitoring. http://www.thecodex.com/c_tempest.html http://defcon.org/TEMPEST/tempest.html http://www.codexdatasystems.com/datascan.html http://jya.com/bits.htm http://hackpalace.com/hacking/general/cracking%20pgp.txt http://hackpalace.com/e-zines/harmless%20hacking/vol4.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Who Owns _NSAKEY? Debate flares over MS 'Spy Key'. Security experts aren't satisfied with Microsoft's denials that it had left a back door open in Windows for a US spy agency. That's plain nuts, others say. The NSA isn't talking: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21589.html # MS Denies Windows 'Spy Key'. Experts have discovered a hidden key in Microsoft Windows that they say grants high-level access to the most powerful spy agency in the United States. Hogwash, says Redmond. http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21577.html : Have you installed your own crypto software to forestall the NSA? Has the NSA cracked your system yet? Have they cracked everybody's systems? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # May the Micro Force Be With You. (TechRev) After a decade of hype, micro- scopic mechanical systems are poised to make major changes in the size of our cell phones, the reliability of our communications systems -- even the way "Star Wars" is shown. http://techreview.com/articles/oct99/amato.htm : When will nanotech make all previous mechanical technologies obsolete? Do nanobots swarm thru your body yet? Will they soon? Will they take over? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ OURANUS IS URANUS IS HEAVEN! URANUS, THE KINGDOM IS AT HAND! Uranus is the ruling planet of the age of Aquarius that we are now entering. As we look around we see that Uranus is true to its reputation, to shake traditional aspects of life cause things to turn upside down. It's right on schedule isn't it? In the Bible Jesus says, " The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." The New Testament was written in Greek and the Greek word for heaven is Ouranos. Uranus. What was actually being said was, " The Kingdom Of Uranus is at hand," and we are witnesses to its changing power. Keep watching. http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/hidden.html#KINGDOM : Does Uranus upset you,
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990821b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : Only a few narcissists were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Secret Military Information. Do you know what hanger number the real Alien craft parts are stored at Wright Patterson AFB ? They have been stored in building 50 51 up until the mid 1970's. http://caus.org/mc082199.htm @ Failed Polygraph Yields Unexpected Benefit. The recently leaked Top Secret MJ-12 UFO documents from Mr. Timothy Cooper have undergone a series of authentication tests. What do you believe? http://caus.org/pn082199.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GAS PUMPS PLUG INTO THE NET: hi-tech "gas pump of the future." Gas pumps run by BP Amoco PLC are getting wired: The firm announced that it will use a Windows-CE-based system to link pumps to the Internet. The "Millennium Dispenser," developed by Radiant Systems, uses the Windows CE operating system to access the Internet for traffic updates, weather reports and more. http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/20/gasnet.ptech.idg/index.html # LOOK, MA! NO COMPUTER! SBC Communications is about to roll out the latest gadget: a US$180 machine that does email, email, and nothing but email. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/21353.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ CYBERMIND. Discussing "the philosophical and psychological implications of subjectivity in cyberspace," Cybermind is an ambitious elist, with Serious Thinkers thinking Serious Thoughts. Among the issues addressed, according to the online charter, are the emergence and/or disappearance of the body in cyberspace, phenomenology of the terminal screen, sex/gender/sexuality theory electronic subjectivity, and (uh-oh) psychoanalysis of lurking. What's that famous quote? "Gaze too long into the abyss, and the abyss also gazes into you." Something like that. For a slightly creepy meta- freakout, send e-mail to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with a message body of: subscribe cybermind [your name and e-mail here] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Into the Big Blue Yonder. A few years ago, IBM's vaunted Research division went through a stormy upheaval. But the labs have bounced back, and the future looks bright. (TechReview) "What's more, the rise of the Internet and the fusion of communications and computers play perfectly into decades of research raw computing power, storage, chips, displays, speech recogni- tion, 'data mining' and electronic security that few companies, if any, can match." http://www.techreview.com/articles/july99/buderi.htm @ Links: IBM Research home page: http://www.research.ibm.com/ @ IBM Research facilities worldwide: http://www.research.ibm.com/worldwide/ @ Semiconductor research: http://www.research.ibm.com/topics/serious/chip/ @ Human-computer interactions: www.research.ibm.com/topics/innovate/hci/ @ Deep-computing projects: http://www.research.ibm.com/topics/deep/scalable/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Biometrics Breaks Into Prisons. Sophisticated technology allows inmates to be ID'd by scanning their irises or taking their voice prints. Corrections officials say this is more reliable than fingerprinting, but privacy advo- cates worry. http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21362.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Jack Parsons The Curious Origins of The American Space Program. Starts as a lighthearted look at JPL the origins of the "Space program" with a little OTO Scientology thrown in for good measure - probably inspired by the Discordian offshoot "Church of the SubGenius" - careful 'cuz it'll try to sneak some sense in under the radar while it keeps you entertained and off balanced with a "Gravity's Rainbow" meets Douglas Adams sort of sense/ nonsense stutterstep. Hard-R http://zolatimes.com/JparArt/JackParsons.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ BONDAGE AND DOMINANCE AND SM DISCUSSIONS. Eloquent, articulate, well- versed, and an occasional sidetrack of "niggling etymological issues," the postings in this newsgroup may not excite you, but it is pretty funny when the adolescent finger-pointing gets going. I am frightened of the Capture and Chloroform threads. news:soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Black Box Crooks Finger Buyers. Scads of people who bought illegal cable descramblers on the Web may soon get unexpected - and unwanted - visits from the cops. http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/21370.html # Porn Shop Raided by Mounties. Thursday, Net porn-and-casino firm Starnet was merrily planning its move onto the Nasdaq. Friday, it got nailed by Canadian cops. http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21376.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ British monarchy Jews of Amsterdam, Bank of England, CFR, RIIA. "The doctrine of British-Israelism and
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990807b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 ectoplasmic entities were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DISCOVERY NET PLANS LIVE ECLIPSE COVERAGE. The Discovery Network plans 3 hours of live TV coverage of something Mom warned you never to look at directly -- a solar eclipse. The cable channel's cameras will follow the 60-mile wide path where Sol is totally obscured by Luna, from its start in southern England, thru France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania to the Middle East its conclusion in India. May be the most detailed eclipse coverage ever: http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/TV/9908/06/eclipse.tv.ap/index.html : Would you rather view the eclipse in one spot in person, continuously in a space- or air-craft, or continuously/virtually via TV or virtual reality? Do the Reptilioids plan to absorb all those who experience the eclipse? How?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Top Muslim cleric prohibits looking at sun during eclipse. BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) A senior Shiite Muslim cleric issued a religious edict prohibiting his followers from looking at the sun during Wednesday's total solar eclipse. Sheik Mohammed Mehdi Shamseddin said watching the event is contrary to Islamic law. http://www.foxnews.com/news/wires2/0806/n_ap_0806_261.sml : Does your belief system prescribe/proscribe observational activities? How detailed are your holy laws? If you avoid watching eclipses will you escape being harvested by aliens? Do disobedient unbelievers deserve harvesting?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE GENTLE SURVIVALIST. When holistic hankerings meet millennial anxiety, you get The Gentle Survivalist newsletter. Generally, it covers the kind of things less charitable types might call "New Age-y." Sez the mission statement, "TGS respects and supports all efforts to throw material and emotional ballast overboard; to live lives of simplicity, dedicated focus, and joy. Although our interests are all-encompassing, we shun all forms of darkness, substances, and media bombardment that would pollute our inner natures and erode the spiritual progress we have achieved thus far." So there's discussion about nature-based Y2K preparedness, including how to forage for food and store water and wheat. http://infowest.com/gentle : Would you rather survive holistically, technologically, militarily, trium- phantly, spiritually, randomly? Have you achieved spiritual progress? Does it show? Are your inner resources polluted? Is simplicity a dead-end? Why?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Hiroshima-a-Rama: Photos of the Century - A column of smoke billows 20,000 feet... http://www.activedayton.com/news/1999/photo1.html Events leading up to the Hiroshima A-Bombing (1945) http://www.city.hiroshima.jp/C/City/ABombDamage/events.html History of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation http://www.rerf.or.jp/eigo/historic/histtoc.htm The Atomic Bomb - Truman's Decision http://www.pomperaug.com/socstud/stumuseum/web/msrhome.htm The Bombing of Hiroshima - Revisionist History http://corax.org/revisionism/misc/ar/hiroshima.html The Fascinating Story of the Bomb Stamp http://www.intermountain.com/~mccore/bombstory.html The Costs of the Manhattan Project http://www.brook.edu/FP/PROJECTS/NUCWCOST/MANHATTN.HTM _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS AND DISABILITY IDENTIFIED IN BOSNIAN WAR REFUGEES. A study of Bosnian refugees in a refugee camp shows those demonstrating psychiatric symptoms had increased risk for disability. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/10796.rhtml # WAR AND HEALTH IN BOSNIA AND KOSOVO. Despite a century of technologic pro- gress, war and political violence continue to undermine health and well- being worldwide. Today, 90 percent of war-related deaths are civilians. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/10797.rhtml : Do our alien masters prefer to harvest traumatized humans? Would ya rather traumatize humans, aliens, animals, vegetable, minerals, robots, me? How?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ART AND CONSCIOUSNESS (thanks, Gene) Art and consciousness relationships are discussed from both a theoretical viewpoint and by psychobiograpical analysis. A special edition of the Journal of Consciousness Studies is devoted these issues. http://www.imprint.co.uk/art/jcsmainframe.html : Are you artistic? Are you conscious? Do you consciously create artistic crop circles, saucerian events, alien manifestations? Is art a disease?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Fingerprint of Life - Scientists Find Direct Evidence of Ancient Bacteria. NEW YORK (Fox) Earth was hardly a hospitable place more than three billion years ago. Geologic records suggest the skies were constantly cloudy, the air was thick with noxious gasses, a shallow layer of watery muck covered the ground and volcanoes
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990717b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Hey, SkeptiChat subscribers: let's see some responses, some discussion!! : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : Some celebs may have been assassinated during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Japanese cops raid cult over forgeries. Japanese police yesterday swooped on the Aum Supreme Truth doomsday cult - responsible for a 1995 sarin gas attack on Tokyo's subways - raiding 27 properties around Japan. Among the sites raided were the home of two children of cult leader Shoko Asahara, who is on trial on 17 charges including masterminding the nerve-gas attack that killed 12 people and injured thousands. Cops said the raids concerned suspected forgeries over land purchase in Kawakami, near the mountain city of Nagano, home to the 1998 Winter Olympics. Gov't ministers are trying to ban the group. http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/1999/0717/wor3.htm : Does your doomsday cult own much property? Are you influential in social/ political/economic circles? Will you continue whether the world ends or not? Is a gov't trying to ban your cult? Is your cult trying to ban a gov't? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # JAPAN ILL-PREPARED FOR SUICIDE EPIDEMIC. Japan is facing an epidemic of suicide, and the government seems to have no clue as to how to confront the problem. It seems to me that they will need to overcome a cultural bias against talking about emotions to really deal with the crisis. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14310 : Is the Japanese suicide pandemic a cultural artifact, the result of mind- control experiments, or merely aliens harvesting humans expeditiously? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Company Hopes Gene Trawl Will Bring In Big Catch. ROCKVILLE, Md. (Reuters) When a fisherman goes out to sea, he may have an idea of what kind of fish he would like to catch but he will usually take whatever turns up in the net. But when Human Genome Sciences Inc. (HGS) computers trawl through the human genome, they know precisely what they want to find. "We ask first what disease we want to cure." Many groups are racing to sequence, or map, the mass of genes other genetic material that makes up the human genome. One reason to search is to find causes of diseases possible new ways to treat or prevent them. But unlike others, HGS sees no reason even to look at the small fry. The firm's future is staked on the premise that they can pick a disease -- say, cancer -- think of a way to fight it -- maybe by stopping uncontrolled cell growth -- then find a gene that will do that. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990716/01/science-health-genome : How much money could you make by developing a new disease and its cure at the same time? Isn't that easier than finding cures for existing diseases? Wouldn't that help the aliens harvest more humans too? Do they give bonuses? Which new diseases are entrepreneurial efforts? Are AIDS ebola blackmail? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PRAYERS VS. PROTESTS. Tehran (UPI) Iran's religious leaders used prayer services to blame the U.S. and "Zionist circles" for the recent string of nationwide protests, and called on the populace to show support for the gov't. Official sermons in Tehran said defending the Islamic revolution is "an irrefutable obligation." "All of us who accept the supreme religious jurisprudence and the leadership should define the limits through under- standing before the norms are breached, the sanctities transgressed upon and the very principles of the Islamic revolution are put under question, all of which would lead to making the enemy jubilant," a prayer leader said. http://news.excite.com/news/u/990717/00/international-prayers : Do your deities politically support your self-appointed leaders? Are your political foes damned to Hades? Is theocracy fun, especially for theocrats? Would you rather breech norms, transgress sanctities, jubilize enemies??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Space-O-Rama: # Ukrainian Rocket Blasts Off From Kazakh Space Base. MOSCOW (Reuters) A Ukrainian rocket launched from Kazakhstan's Baikonur space base Saturday, the second launch after the Kazakhs lifted a ban on blast offs. Sufficient bribes: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990717/03/science-space-kazakhstan # Vital Mir mission lifts off. (BBC) A supply mission vital to ensuring the Mir space station does not crash to Earth has launched from Baikonur base. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_396000/396349.stm # Also: Mir finds its leak: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_39/390965.stm # Crash warning over Mir: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_393000/393011.stm # Proton worry for space station:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990710b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 felonious financiers were jailed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mormon humor? Get serious. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A new book of Mormon humor? The very idea draws horselaughs from some members of the faith known for seriousness sobriety. Yet it's true- and the publisher is the LDS Church itself. "We tried hard not to offend anybody" in "Best-Loved Humor of the LDS People" this spring. An example: "Question: How are bishops chosen?" "Answer: The stake leaders find the most righteous, spiritual, most loved person in the ward - and then they call her husband." Head for the Improv: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560232362-de7 : Is your belief system funny? Is your humor gentle, vicious, absurd? Does your belief system generate many comedians, as Catholicism and Judaism do? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Alternative Medicine's Explosive Growth. (WebMD) Alternative medicine is big business. Consider this analysis of data from 1997: 40% of Americans used some type of alt.medicine. Total visits to alt-med practitioners increased by almost 50% from 1990 and exceeded visits to all primary-care physicians. We spent about $21.2 billion on alternative health care, more than half paid out-of-pocket. But the New England Journal of Medicine has lambasted alternative remedies as being irrational, insufficiently tested and sometimes dangerous. "There cannot be two kinds of medicine." Either it works or it don't: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/alternative/9907/08/alt.savvy Do you prefer medicinal treatments that have or haven't been shown to work? Do you make a good living fleecing suckers with ineffective treatments? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ALTERNATIVE FUNDING: STONY BROOK DEBATES ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE. SUNY Stony Brook, already under fire for its controversial Center for Complementary/ Alternative Medicine, is now debating establishment of an Independent Practice Association composed of alt.med practitioners. Members of the IPA would be credentialed by SUNY and could negotiate with managed-care firms. Promoters argue that since people already use alt.medicine you may as well certify practitioners. But critics cry foul: How can a state university endorse treatments with no scientific basis, especially when the idea for the IPA comes from the owner of a line of herbal products? ### : Should gov't certify faith-healers, homeopaths, Xian Sci practitioners, Psychic Surgeons, phrenologists, iridiologists? Do you trust gov't that far? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # THIRD VOICE RIPS HOLES IN WEB. Web utility Third Voice not only lets users open their minds through lively debate -- it can also open their browsers to security risks. And you thought is was just about interactive empower- ment, eh? http://wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20636.html # Back Orifice - it's baaak! The malicious Back Orifice (B.O.) Trojan-horse virus is on the loose. B.O. gives hackers unauthorized access to desktops of victims' Win95 Win98 PCs that are connected to the Internet. "Cult of the Dead Cow," which makes B.O., announces the release its new Back Orifice 2000 on July 9. The new, improved version of the virus enables hackers to write plug-ins. And, unlike its predecessor, B.O. 2000 works on Windows NT also. To protect yourself, make sure you're running a good anti-virus program and updating it regularly. Or put a condom on your modem, eh? http://www.winmag.com/people/melgan/winletter/45.htm : Do you like to penetrate remote desktops and servers? Is it a sexual act, or violent assaultive behavior, or just good clean fun? Do you have B.O.? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Napoleon's footsteps echo in Israel. JAFFA, Israel (AP) The bloody battle for Jaffa's twisted alleyways ended. As cannon smoke drifted away, Muslim defenders of the ancient port surrendered. French troops prodded 3000 POWs to a beachfront. Napoleon gave his order: shoot them, bayonet them, drown them. The sea turned red. For modern Palestinians, the 1799 invasion and massacre are symptomatic of 200 years of sometimes catastrophic European meddling in the Holy Land. Memory of Napoleon is still alive for Arabs in Jaffa: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560234055-59e : Does your belief system promote the slaughter of your opponents? Are you surprised that their descendants may look unfavorably upon you? Do you care? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiBriefs: # THIS WEEK ON THIS WAY OUT: Reflections on 30 years of liberation battles yet ahead at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade ... and in NewsWrap, Hormel is finally sworn for Luxembourg, but Davies loses his Welsh Labour leadership and an
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990703b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 anti-neutrinos were annihilated during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Eclipse 'invasion' fears over monuments. (BBC) An operation designed to protect Cornwall's ancient monuments during the solar eclipse has begun amid fears of an invasion by New Age groups. Pesky pagans are everywhere: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/eclipse99/newsid_384000/3 84999.stm : Does your NewAge cult intend to invade any ancient monuments/megaliths for the eclipse? Will you perform sacrifices, dance naked, whoop and sing, have too much fun? Are the rest of us invited? Will you run off any competitors? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Milk fat knocks out sex diseases.(BBC) A fat found in milk and coconut oil could offer protection against sexually-transmitted infections including HIV, herpes and chlamydia. The compound was found to destroy such viruses and bacteria when dissolved in a gel. An AIDS cure in ice-cream - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_38/380926.stm : When AIDS is cured, when herpes and chlamydia are cured, will you have any excuse not to go on a fuck-fest, having sex as often as you can with as many partners as are willing? Are STDs artificially imposed social control tools? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Coke scare blamed on mass hysteria. (BBC) Illnesses linked to Coca-Cola in Belgium may have been largely caused by fear rather than impurities in the drink: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_383000/383337.stm : Would you rather be poisoned intentionally, accidentally, hysterically, experimentally, tragically, magically? Are mind-control drugs in Pepsi? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Officers having a blast at ATF bomb classes. Only a heartbeat expired between the last shout of "fire in the hole" and the boom of the first explosive detonated in the dusty sagebrush landscape. Cops with noisy toys: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,19491,00.html : Do federal agents brainwash local police under the guise of 'training'? Do you fear the complete militarization and takeover of your local cops? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Temple Riders cruise the high road. They don't drink or smoke; they carry extra copies of the Book of Mormon in their saddlebags. But the Temple Riders are as proud of their big bikes and black leather as any other motorcycle gang. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,19490,00.html : Do you know of any black-leather biker gangs of Buddhists, Taoists, Xian Scis, Atheists, Unitarians, Sufis, Baha'is, Quakers, Scientologists, Pagans? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Enlightening others, celebrating the past are part of Buddhists' spiritual journey. Sitting silently, like a meditating monk between the commotion of the Salt Palace and the Delta Center, is an 87-year-old temple. Like many of Salt Lake City's sacred spaces, it has provided a refuge for people who came to Utah seeking freedom. Or even those who just want to get in out of the sun: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,19205,00.html : Have you embarked on a spiritual journey? Did you reach your destination? Was your luggage lost? Was the flight turbulent? Did you crash-land? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Jehovah's Witnesses lose in court. MOSCOW (AP) A Moscow court rejected an appeal by Jehovah's Witnesses, saying a panel of experts would study the group's literature and recommend whether it should be banned. Russia's religion law gives courts the power to ban religious groups found guilty of inciting hatred or intolerant behavior. But are any churches REALLY tolerant? http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,19355,00.html : What religions would you like to ban? Does your belief system destroy families, foster hatred, threaten lives? Is your sect merely annoying? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Welcome to Lliar's of London: http://www.truthaboutlloyds.com/ * Solar system live: http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Solar # Slip-up may have confirmed existence of secret U.S. spy plane: http://telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000343180237640pg=/et/99/7/1/ecndaro01.html @ Mental Fluorosis: Brain Damage from Fluorides: http://www.trufax.org/fluoride/ment.html @ Processed Foods May Damage The Developing Brain: http://www.sightings.com/health3/bdam.htm @ AI Resources: http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/ai_top.html @ The Alife Database: http://www.aridolan.com/ad/adb/adib.html @ BotSpot (Bots Intelligent Agents) http://www.botspot.com/ # Artificial Intelligence: AI and A-Life: http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/ai/ai.html # Smart Agents: Agents of Cooperation: http://www.sciencenews.org/Sn_arc99/1_2_99/bob2.htm # The Great Quantum Number Cruncher:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990626b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 habitual sex-criminals were rehabilitated to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sorcerer Intervenes In Presidential Bid. LA PLATA, Argentina (Reuters) An Argentine sorcerer has cast a spell to lift a long-standing curse on the governors of Buenos Aires which, legend has it, stops them from becoming president of Argentina. The magic aims to help governor Eduardo Duhalde win the presidency. Hundreds of Duhalde's Peronist partisans from the pro- vincial capital La Plata gathered around a bonfire after midnight to watch self-styled "Peronist psychomentalist" Manuel Salazar exorcise the curse. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990625/07/odd-curse : Should sorcerers interfere in politics? Should politicians interfere with sorcery? Is your political system cursed? Are your politicians demonic? Who? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China: Superstition May "Endanger Realm". BEIJING (Reuters) Superstition is popular among Chinese communists and may "endanger the realm" unless science takes over, the Communist Party newspaper said on Wednesday. "The major reason behind the rampant superstitious activities in many areas is quite a lot of Party members are hankering after it." China's atheist Communist Party regards unorthodox religion, fortune telling, astrology, cults, blind worship and beliefs that are not justified by science as superstitious activities. http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=75013 # Marxism Must Replace Cultism: http://insidechina.com/news.php3?id=74363 : Is faith in communism more|less dangerous than faith in fortune telling, astrology, religion, UFOs/ETs, crop circles, conspiracies, psientology, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Compulsory games for students. (BBC) A university is offering a degree course in computer games to satisfy the demands of an expanding market. The computer dept is taking down notices saying it is forbidden to play games - and replacing them with signs saying that it will be compulsory. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_377000/377341.stm @ Link: Teesside University: http://www.tees.ac.uk/ @ Games don't kill people - do they? Both bad and good in blowing up pixels. http://www.salonmagazine.com/tech/feature/1999/06/21/game_violence/ : What games should be compulsory for Chinese communists, fundamentalists, economists, psychotherapists, aliens? Is life a game? Is life compulsory? Should you get ROTC credit for designing wargames? Is gaming virtual murder? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BEWARE OF 'MIRACLE CURES' THAT 'DETOXIFY AND ENERGIZE'. The National Coun- cil for Reliable Health Information tells how to spot fraudulent claims made for health products. Some words to watch for: "magical," "miracle," and "secret cure," to name just a few. And nothing "burns" or "melts" fat: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13605 # HERBAL VIAGRA CLONES A 'NATURAL' WASTE OF MONEY. There are many herbal, "natural" Viagra clones on the market now. Don't be fooled by the adver- tising: http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13610 # VIAGRA MAY BE HELPFUL FOR WOMEN, TOO. The latest study of women and Viagra says that maybe it does have some benefit for women's sexual satisfaction. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13611 : What's your favorite miracle cure? Have you been detoxified, energized or sexualized by herbs lately? Has your fat melted away? From between y'r ears? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Roswell Ready for UFO Invasion - Varied lineup of events planned for out- of-this-world festival. Like the story of the Roswell Incident, the festi- val commemorating the event continues to evolve and change. While the pur- ported crash of 1947 is still the organizing principle behind the event, this year's festivities will include a much more varied range of events, some only marginally related to UFO lore, like concerts and puppet shows. ROSWELL, THE MUSICAL: http://www.abqjournal.com/venue/family/1fam06-25.htm : Is the Roswell UFO Encounter festival a cover for CIA mind-control experi- ments? Will the attendees all be abducted and implanted? Are you going? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ SPECIAL REPORT: A CURE FOR CANCER? Our best hope for curing the disease: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13566 # SURFING NET FOR HEALTH INFO? START WITH A DOSE OF SKEPTICISM: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13604 @ Aspartame tests on infants, fetuses: http://www.medscape.com/misc/FormToxlineInfLive.html # If the Sun is exceptional, alien life may be hard to find: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/ns-its062399.html # Investigation Finds Design
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# Global warming solution hopes dampened. (BBC) Experiments carried out from
a submarine three kilometres under the ocean have poured cold water on an
ambitious scheme to deal with global warming. The idea was to store carbon
dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels under the ocean, stopping it
from getting into the atmosphere and adding to the greenhouse effect. In
theory this would reduce the rate of global warming, but now a report in the
journal Science suggests that putting the idea into practice may not be so
simple. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_338000/338745.stm
# Also: Antarctic ice crumbling rapidly -- Bangkok overheating -- Climate
threat to coral reefs -- Greenland ice warning -- Climate change a real
worry -- Can iron cool the world? -- Saving the world's climate --
: Who'll gain most when Terrestrial greenhouse changes become irreversible:
Tibetans, Reptilioids, Bilderbergers, jellyfish, ants, gerbils, snakes, me?
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# Pentagon confirms depleted uranium use. (BBC) The US Dept of Defense has
confirmed that its aircraft are using depleted uranium weapons in the Kosovo
conflict. DU is both radioactive and toxic, though Nato insists that it is
no more dangerous than any other heavy metal. Linked to Gulf War syndrome?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_337000/337855.stm
@ Links: The Military Toxics Project: http://www.miltoxproj.org/
@ Department of Defense News Briefing
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/docs99/t05031999_t0503asd.htm
@ The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe
http://www.rec.org/Default.shtml
@ The Institute for the Protection of Nature of Serbia
http://www.natureprotection.org.yu/intro.html
: Does dropping radioactive munitions qualify the Kosovo mess as a nuclear
war? If DU hit the Chinese Embassy, is that the same as nuking China? Are
somebody's alien implants misfiring? Is NATO possessed by demons? Are you?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# Pope prays for murdered Catholics. (BBC) Pope John Paul II, on the second
day of his visit to Romania, has visited a Roman Catholic cemetery at Bellu
in the south of the capital Bucharest to pay homage to people murdered for
their beliefs. Later, the Pope celebrated a Greek Catholic mass. Party on,
dewd: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_338000/338577.stm
: Does the pope give a sh!t about murdered Atheists, Pagans, Baha'is, JWs,
Freemasons, Moslems, Buddhists, Abductees? Do you? Do you pray for anyone?
Does it help? Do they spring back to life? Is that what you prayed for? Why?
@ Links: The Holy See: http://www.vatican.va/
@ Orthodox Christian Information Centre: http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/
# And: Analysis: A 1,000-year divide:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_337000/337784.stm
# Pope calls for Christian unity:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_337000/337942.stm
# Mission to heal religious rift:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_337000/337579.stm
: Is Xian unity possible, desirable, fantastic? Who would run a unified Xian
church? How long would it last? Would it be taken over by fundys, humanists,
Reptilioids, Republicans, advertisers, Nestorians? Who would be purged? How?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
@ Interception Capabilities 2000 ("IC2000"). The IC2000 report on communica-
tions interception and ECHELON was approved as a working document by the
Science and Technology Options Assessment Panel of the European Parliament
(STOA). Key findings of the IC2000 report: Comprehensive systems exist to
access, intercept and process every important modern form of communications.
... The report is available at http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan/stoa_cover.htm
: Who intercepts your communications? Do you purposefully generate random
noise to confuse them? Does it work? If coherent, are you compromised? How?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
SansComment:
# Did the CIA Drug Paul Robeson?: New documents suggest that the black
actor, singer, lawyer and activist may have been a victim of the Agency's
MK-ULTRA program. Poisoned: http://www.counterpunch.org/robeson.html
# Pope and Orthodox patriarch appeal for end to Kosovo conflict. (CNN) Pope
John Paul II and Romania's Orthodox Christian patriarch combined their moral
authority Saturday in a joint appeal for an end to the Kosovo conflict, con-
demning both forced expulsions and "murderous bombings." Totally ignored, of
course: http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9905/08/romania.pope.02.ap/index.html
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SkeptiLinks:
@ UFO Mind: Area 51: http://www.ufomind.com/area51/
@ Area 51 Random Link: http://www.nauticom.net/users/ata/random.html
@ Area 51: Top Secret:
[CTRL] Skeptic News Saturday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990403b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Pope hears Good Friday confessions. VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope John Paul II heard confessions from nine people in St. Peter's Basilica on Good Friday, hours before a solemn procession at Rome's Colosseum. For a fifth year, the pope walked for only a short stretch with others carrying a wooden cross in an evening procession that symbolizes Christ's suffering before his cruci- fixion. John Paul reduced his participation following hip surgery. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559030766-3bb *** And: High desert holy place, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559027544-030 : What would you confess to a Pope? What would you confess to a Popess? Will they turn you in? Into what? Would you carry a papal cross? Would you rather do that in Rome or a high-desert holy place? Have you ever been to a high- desert holy place? Did you get high there? Did aliens speak to you? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Jerusalem pilgrims mark Good Friday. JERUSALEM (AP) Thousands of pil- grims, some clutching large wooden crosses, walked through the rosemary- scented alleys of Jerusalem's Old City in a Good Friday procession, retra- cing Jesus' steps to crucifixion. Franciscan monks led pilgrims from around the world along the Via Dolorosa, or Way of Sorrows, starting at the tradi- tional site of Jesus' trial and ending at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, believed to be built over the place of his crucifixion and burial. Worship- pers sang hymns and read prayers in Arabic, Italian, English and other lan- guages. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559031286-9e8 : Is pilgrimage necessary/useful for salvation, or are a good justification for tourism, or good exercise, or suggested by alien mind-control, or what? Would you travel to the alleged site of the alleged life/torture/death of an alleged nonhuman spawn? Would you spend money there? Would it be worth it? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Filipinos crucified in ritual. SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines (AP) - At least 10 Filipinos were nailed to crosses in a village north of Manila and scores of others flogged themselves as they walked shirtless and barefoot in annual Good Friday rites of penitence. Hundreds of tourists and journalists flocked to San Pedro Cutud to watch the Easter week celebrations in Asia's only predominantly Roman Catholic nation. Stainless steel nails soaked in alcohol are used in the re-enactments of Jesus' crucifixion. In the more than 40 years that the ritual has been held in the village, no serious injuries have been reported. Filipinos observe Lent with fasting and acts of repentance. See www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559030752-a55 : Do you want to re-enact torture? Do you want to be tortured or torturer? Would a real reenactment of Easter have guys dressed as Romans killing Jews? Who benefits from these reenactments? Is this your favorite form of theatre? Who else should be tortured/killed? Does your belief system promote torture? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 'RAVENOUS' STARS SEE CALIFORNIA IN CANNIBAL FILM. The makers of "Ravenous" are betting a black comedy about cannibalism won't leave a bad taste in aud- iences' mouths. The movie, set in the 1850s, stars Robert Carlyle as a psy- chopathic mountain man with a taste for rare meat and Indian legend. Carlyle says he saw in the movie a link to today's California lifestyle: Just as his character is "is struggling for eternal life, for health and physical prow- ess and virility and vitality," so are many in California today. Well done - see http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9903/29/review.ravenous/index.html : Does your belief system promote physical or symbolic cannibalism? Do you like long-pig tartare? With wine? Should such entres be added to the usual California cuisine? Would you visit California for such specialties? When? Would a joint stimulate your appetite? What's your favorite sacrament? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks - Conspiracy/MindControl-arama: http://www.cuttingedge.org/fmcorner.html http://www.brotherblue.org/libers/templars.htm http://www.harvest-trust.org/majestyt.htm http://www.harvest-trust.org/artbsbell.htm http://www.hourofthetime.com http://www.cuttingedge.org/n1040.html http://www.cuttingedge.org/n1081.html http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1164.cfm http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1165.cfm www.webzonecom.com/ccn/cults/newageov.txt www.teleport.com/~odd/tsw/wwwboard/messages/18.htm http://www.ametro.net/crownrights/fbs/naziism.htm http://www.unm.edu/~hrommel/cooperNWO.html http://www.ametro.net/crownrights/fbs/masonry_main.html http://www.cth.com.au/corp/despatch/worship.htm http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1072.html
[CTRL] Skeptic News Saturday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990313b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for merit, accuracy or meaning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Contraceptive in a cuppa. (BBC) A male contraceptive based on traditional Indonesian herbal tea has been discovered by Australian scientists. Tea for two: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_296000/296140.stm # Also: A short history of the pill: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_25/250337.stm # Male 'pill' in pipeline: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_201000/201217.stm @ Links: University of Western Australia: http://www.uwa.edu.au/ @ Contraception: www.bbc.co.uk//education/health/womens/sexual.shtml#contra : What's your favorite reproductive technology? For contraception, do you prefer drugs, surgery, alien implants, abstinence, masturbation, bestiality? # Genetic clock runs slow. The "African Eve", from whom all women are thought to be descended, could be twice as old as first thought. Two new pieces of research challenge the widely accepted view that modern humans are descended from a common ancestor that lived about 200,000 years ago. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_294000/294808.stm : Is your genetic/reproductive timing off? Can you be resynchronized? Have our genetic clocks been tampered with by demons, aliens, insects, worries? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y2K: THE HUNT FOR GLOBAL GLITCHES. The good news: The scope of the year 2000 problem has forced a few industries to work together to obtain and share information, develop resources and provide help around the world. But a report from the World Bank estimates that only 21 of 139 developing coun- tries had taken concrete steps to address the year 2000 problem, which could mean impacts on power, telecommunications, energy, food distribution and medical care in developing countries. Analysts see burdens for U.S. firms abroad: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/10/global.y2k.idg/index.html # Millennium bug bites both ways. (BBC) Beating the millennium bug in Russia could be the springboard for firms there to enter the world of e-commerce, says one of that country's key Y2K experts. But it will only happen if the money can be found. If not, further economic strife may lay ahead. See the future: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_294000/294912.stm @ Links: UK Action 2000: http://www.bug2000.co.uk/ @ Relativity Technologies: http://www.relativity.com/ : Do you look forward to The End Of The World As We Know It? Will 1-1-00 be the big transition? Can you profit from Armageddon? Is this a problem, a challenge, an opportunity, the final chapter, just another date, irrelevant? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MEXICO VOLCANO: MT. POPOCAPEPETL. Latest activity updates are always at: http://www.cenapred.unam.mx/cgi-bin/popo/mvolcan.cgi - After the moderate explosion which occurred yesterday (01:40 GMT, Mar. 12, 1999) ejecting incandescent fragments over the North flank and producing an ash emission http://www.cenapred.unam.mx/popo/1999/mar/p0311993.jpg, the activity of the volcano returned to similar levels recorded on previous days. : Would you like to live next to a volcano? Would you mind if you and your civilization were buried by lava ash? Would you rather be firmly embedded in epoxy? How much longer until Mexico City becomes Pompeii? Will you visit? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Animal abuse by Taiwanese Buddhists is cruel irony. TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) To animal lovers, Taiwan poses a cruel contradiction: A profoundly Buddhist society that reveres life in all its forms but that treats its large popu- lation of stray dogs quite literally like garbage. Belief inadvertently promotes neglect: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,70001176,00.html? : Does your religion have any specific positions on animals? Should animals be worshipped, neglected, eaten, mutated, tortured, washed, vivisected? Why? # Christian diets grow in popularity. TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Many food worshippers struggling to shed pounds are coming to a new revelation: They are losing weight through prayer and the Bible. Not just fasting - see http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,70001327,00.html? : Does your religion offer a weight-control program? Does it work? Would you rather be a fat sinner, a skinny saint, a well-rounded atheist, worm food? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Dyed In The Silkworm: Researchers Develop Novel Way To Produce Colored Silk. Scientists in Kyoto Japan have developed a technique to produce genetically altered, green fluorescent silk fibers that are spun by the silkworm. The development of an insect system to produce foreign proteins has significant potential applications for silk or other economically important proteins. Infectious color: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/cshlab-dit031299.html : Do you prefer silk, cotton, rayon or coolmax? Would
