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SkeptiNews 000408c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 pyramids were vandalized during production of this bulletin. I hope. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Science Made Stupid: http://www.moonboy.com/sms/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # THE WANAQUE, N.J. VORTEX. Bryan Williams has discovered and photographed a 'vortex' in New Jersey. He claims to be in contact with 'interdimensional aliens' that use this portal to gain entrance into our (3rd) dimension. He provides stunning photographic evidence for his claims, including a 'rept- ilian being sticking it's head out of it's light body.' Other pix include the Jersey Devil, demons, angels, robed grey aliens, a dinosaur-type crit- ter, orbships, much more: http://zsurfingtheapocalypse.com/endor1.html @ SOUTH AFRICA WEIRD VORTEX: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/savortex.htm # IS 'MONSTER' CHILD PART E.T.? http://cosmiverse.com/paranormal040701.html @ Toltec God, Man of War: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/990816/maya.htm : Have you photographed a vortex lately? Did you fall in, fly out, get hot?? Are vortices controlled by aliens/angels, deities/demons, robots/ranchers?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A solution in place of evolution - Hunting for God on a 'creation safari.' The excursions, which each attract between 30 and 100 people, "handle a lot of the falsehoods in the newspapers, and National Geographic, and on TV." Go get'em: http://www.usnews.com./usnews/issue/000410/creation.htm # Also - Astounding discoveries about the Bible's historical basis. But just *which* Bible? http://www.usnews.com./usnews/issue/991025/bible.htm : Have you been on a theological safari lately? Were you almost devoured by skeptical lions, trampled by Papal bulls, swept away by floods of reason? Were you only saved by Faith? Is she cute? Is science irrelevant? Are you? # Plants of the Bible. You've heard of victory gardens, organic gardens and herb gardens. Now "Bible gardens" gardens filled with plants found in the Bible have taken root as a U.S. fad. Holy hot-house, Batman! http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,155015956,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # "Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience." Important tendencies in German 'ecologism,' with deep roots in 19th-century nature mysticism, fed into the rise of Nazism in the 20th century. During the Third Reich, Nazi 'ecologists' even made organic farming, vegetarianism, nature worship, and related themes into key elements not only in their ideology but in their govt policies. And Nazi eco-ideology was used to justify the destruction of European Jewry. Yet some themes that Nazi ideologists articulated bear an uncomfortably close resemblance to current ecologically thought. http://spunk.etext.org/texts/places/germany/sp001630/ecofasc.html # DESERT SCOURGE: Tourists are destroying prehistoric sites in Egypt; Sphinx is ground to a stub: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223329.html : Have you destroyed any cultures/peoples/artifacts/histories lately? Do you have a solid ideological underpinning for your actions, or do you do it for entertainment, or money, or because your masters insist? Do they reward you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ PLANETARY ACTIVATION ORGANIZATION - Peace And Inner Strength Thru Unity. Planetary Activation Groups - Starseeds - Galactic Federation Members - The Mission - PAO Products - Who Is Sheldon Hidle? http://www.paoweb.com/ @ The Nibiruan Council - Serving the Worlds of the Galactic Federation... welcomes Lightworkers, Starseeds, Walk-ins, and all who seek the higher perspective of universal mankind's history...who desire to recode their DNA, and become multi-dimensional again. What is Nibiru? Accelerated DNA Recoding- Ascension Tools- Who is Jelaila Starr? www.nibiruancouncil.com/ : Does your conspiracy consort with the Galactic Federation to enslave, er, 'liberate' Earth/humankind? Has your DNA been recoded lately? Who are you?? # Planet X: Is a Runaway Wrecking Ball Part of Our Solar System? Nibiru set to smite us again: http://members.aol.com/alhidell/paranoia/23Article.htm [Caution: this site may trigger flashbacks, crash your browser, or fume]. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ECHELON BITES - Flaw In Human Rights Uncovered. Proposals for a new defin- ition of human rights now before the European Parliament would ban ECHELON and update data protection rules to latest developments in telecommuni- cations technology. http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/co/6724/1.html # ECHELON BABIES: http://thetruth.ac/newevil.html#wave RATTING ON WEIRDO KIDS FOR DOLLARS! Get the W.A.V.E. http://www.waveamerica.com/ # BIG BROTHER IS THE
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000226c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 sympathetic robots were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ChangeSurfer: http://www.changesurfer.com/eventhorizon/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFO News Roundup: POLICE MOBILIZED AS UFO HOVERS OVER MEXICO CITY; WOMAN SPOTS A UFO IN ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA; DISC-SHAPED UFO SEEN IN NORTHERN ITALY; FALLING CHUNK OF ICE HITS A MOVING TRUCK IN CANADA; 4 UFOs SIGHTED IN ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS; STAR DUST--THE MYSTERY DEEPENS; ROUNDUP MYSTERY VAN SEEN AGAIN IN TUCSON; MTN UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP: http://ufoinfo.com/roundup/ # Filer's Files: UFO REPORTS DOWN NEW PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF ABDUCTIONS - JUPITER'S MOON EUROPA MAY BE INHABITED? - VERMONT FLYING TRIANGLE - NEW JERSEY UFO ANOTHER WITNESS REPORTS IN - NEW JERSEY BOOMERANG SHAPED HOVER- ING UFO - ILLINOIS UFOs CAUGHT ON VIDEO - NEW MEXICO TWO HUGE MOTHERSHIPS SPOTTED - OREGON LOW LEVEL SPRAYING CONTRAILS - CALIFORNIA SPRAYING - HOODED ROBED BEINGS - NAZI DISC AIRCRAFT RESEARCH - US AIR FORCE PREPARES TO BATTLE IN SPACE - UFO RADAR OBSERVATIONS - MAGAZINE POLL SAYS UFOs ARE HERE: http://www.filersfiles.com/files/2000/FilersFiles08.htm : Of what are poll results evidence? Would you rather be sprayed by agribiz tools, military officers, Illuminati operatives, aliens, robots, me? Do you prefer motherships, fatherships, sisterships, brotherships, cousinships? Eh? @ IS ET CAPTURING OUR MARS SPACECRAFT? http://www.filersfiles.com/mars.htm @ We Are All Sheep: http://awaken.org/sutra/ [ via http://camworld.com/ ] @ Spirit Survey: http://www.latimes.com/news/state/2226/t18557.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # There's Gold in That E-Casino. A new online casino is the first to use a gold-backed Internet currency that lets gamblers collect winnings instantly. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34555,00.html : Do you trust gold-backed currencies over those that are only backed by the full faith and credit of the [your country here] people? Will a gold-backed currency drive all other currencies from international financial markets?? # CyberCrime: http://fastcompany.com/online/32/futurist.html [ via: http://www.robotwisdom.com/ ] # IRC-origins of DDoS-bot model (Cringely) http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit2224.html # A fan-letter to the DDoS hacker (The Nation) http://www.thenation.com/issue/000313/0313klein.shtml : What's your favorite cyber-crime? Are you a cyber/ordinary criminal? D'ya prefer crime in digital/physical/spiritual/logical realms? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Duke's Rhine Research Center criticized. (U-WIRE) DURHAM, N.C. Many can think of times we followed our intuition or experienced something oddly coincidental. Most wouldn't necessarily label these as psychic experiences or think twice about why they happened. But what if we could tap into that ability to get ahead on Wall Street or to find a missing kid? Researchers at the Rhine Research Center believe these experiences are more than coin- cidental and hope that some day, their research can be applied to help businesspeople and police officers. They also believe monkeys can fly out your ass: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000223/university-education-213 : Have you experimentally verified the actual existence of paranormal powers lately? Can these powers be commercially/militarily/politically/artistically exploited? Are rich, powerful, greedy institutions funding your work so they can skim off the cream of your results? Why not - don't they believe in you? # Nuns send up cyber-prayers - Women collect requests worldwide via e-mail: http://express.lineone.net/express/00/02/26/news/n0320nuns-d.html # Religious Persecution In America - Unregistered Churches Attacked By Feds - Kentucky, Ohio Indiana Militia Vows To Defend Church! "First we'll kill all the lawyers!" http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/religiouspers.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Robotics-R-Us: # Dana, teens tackle robot competition. (TOLEDO) Tony's motors spun, trying to turn the hard rubber wheels, but the robot was stuck. The problem was a sheared metal pin. http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/news/0b22dana.htm # Students create basketball-playing robot for contest - Dennis Rodman will be obsolete, redundant: http://insidedenver.com/news/0220robt5.shtml # Interactive Tech: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000225/university-260 # Wearable Software, Accessibility and Voice Browsing: http://userpages.chorus.net/aaronl/articles/wearsoft.html # IBM: Your Handheld Will Hear You. Speech Fair shows off sci-fi- style research, from voice-enabling the Web to talking robots:
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000205c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 creationist fantasies were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ SHATNEROIDS! http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~aardvark/java/Shatneroids2/Shatneroids.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Worms in Gulf of Mexico long-lived. STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Giant worms living 1,700 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico have been found to be up to 250 years old - a record for creatures without a backbone. The tube worms [scientific name: Lamellibrachia] do not eat; they survive by absorbing energy from chemicals that seep up through cracks in the sea floor. They grow to lengths of 10 feet or more and party infrequently. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563886499-a9d # CANDYMAKER TOUTS HEALTH BENEFITS OF CHOCOLATE - Snickers, MMs are good for you: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=26496 # FISH OIL MAY BE GOOD FOR ARTERIES, PROMOTE HEALTHY HEARTS - devour more salmon: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=26746 # TAXING FATTY FOODS MAY TRIM HEART DISEASE RATES - McTaxes on McFood for McHealth: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=26522 # VEGETARIAN DIET IN PREGNANCY LINKED TO BIRTH DEFECT: 5x risk of defective penis: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=26907 : Do you wish to live long and prosper? Would you rather absorb chemicals, eat chocolate/fishfat/turnips, soak up good vibrations? Are you defective due to your parents' diets? Are your kids defective due to your diet? How? @ If Desmond Morris's mother hadn't so enjoyed vast plates of greasy, fatty meat, she might have lived to be 100 -- instead of only 99: http://www.sirc.org/articles/desmond.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # U.S. Official Concerned On N.Korea Nuke Potential, China Likely Supplier. WASHINGTON (Reuters) The director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency said he was concerned that North Korea and Iran will develop long-range nuclear missiles in the next several years. Give us a lot more money so we can blow the suckers away: http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=132214 # Nato: modernise. (BBC) Nato chief Lord Robertson says they must modernise its armed forces to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. More money: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/despatches/europe/newsid_631000/631972.stm : Does your econo/politico/military conspiracy absorb vast amounts of money preparing to wage wars that never occur? Do you promote war fears, to scare the public into funding your lavish lifestyle? Are you successful, happy?? # Senate wants ex-CIA chief to testify - public flogging inevitable: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563903666-5ef @ "Why strength of character is needed to lead a good life" http://radicalacademy.com/adlerstrengthcharacter.htm # ECHELON - Exposing the Global Surveillance System: http://www.mediafilter.org/caq/CAQ59GlobalSnoop.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Paradise Lost: Can Mankind Live Without Its Utopias? Utopia may be "no place" (as the word's original meaning suggests), but when imagined, it is always some place. Just not here. It is across an ocean (like Sir Thomas More's noplace that was the first to be called utopia), atop a mountain (like H. G. Wells's) or in interstellar space (like SciFi'er Ursula K. LeGuin's). http://www.nytimes.com/library/arts/020500utopia-library.html @ CIA. Cannabis in Avalon came into being in early 1999 in order to spread Cannabis consciousness from the Heart Chakra of planet Earth. Cannabis is the most beneficial and versatile plant resource known to humanity. Through the use of Cannabis we will reverse the effects of Global Warming, Save the Rain Forests, feed, clothe and shelter the World's population entirely. http://www.isleofavalon.co.uk/local/h-pages/cia/ : What's your favorite paradise? Can paradise be brought to Earth? Can/will/ should humanity be saved, fed, clothed, sheltered, nurtured? Are we better in adversity, which builds character, challenges us to improve, evolves us? @ Isis Unveiled: http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isis/iu-hp.htm @ Messenger From Y'HW'H Sez: http://w3.tvi.cc.nm.us/~shawnk/#Awareness @ New Testament Gateway: http://www.bham.ac.uk/theology/goodacre/links.htm @ Bible Study Tools: http://www.biblestudytools.net _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Evolution disclaimer extinct - State official prevents 'theory' attachment on science book http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/search_get?ID=441570 $ Shooting holes in Darwinism - Get the brain-dead video 'The Triumph of Design'
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000122c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 ETs contacted the editor during production of this bulletin. Bother. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ DOOMED! http://www.howardstern.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ CONTACTED. I have often been asked whether I have ever been "contacted." My answer is always, "I believe so," for what is the truth other than our individual beliefs? But my "contact" was not one of the typical types that one reads is told about. No face-to-face encounters for this UFO lawyer. The awareness began with a telephone call. http://caus.org/cc012200.htm : Have UFOs/ETs been in touch with you? Do they phone, write, email, broad- cast, stir your thoughts/emotions/bioneurochemistry? Do they touch, probe, caress, hurt, fuck, whisper, shout, stare, blink? How do you react/respond? @ SCIENCE AND RELIGION: http://www.stcloud.msus.edu/~lesikar/Einstein2.html @ Structure of Sci. Revolutions: http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~jdowell/KuhnSSR.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Bibles in the Classroom. Fundamentalists would have you believe there's zero tolerance for Scripture in the schoolhouse. Not so. In fact, you can legally teach the Bible in US public schools -- but only if you're very, very careful. http://altreligion.about.com/library/weekly/aa012100a.htm : Would you rather teach religion in schools, or science in churches? What is your favorite bible? How is it different from all the other bibles? Why? @ Mystery Religions in the Roman Empire: http://hermes.richmond.edu/students/dave/cults/ @ Mithraism: http://www0.delphi.com/theol/mithras.html @ Demise of Paganism http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/texts/demise.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Branch Davidians Remains Sought. (AP) The special counsel re-investigating the government's conduct during the 1993 Branch Davidian siege asked a federal judge to grant him temporary custody of tissue and bone samples. The human remains are needed "to verify the toxicological work previously performed" - see http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000121/18/waco-military : Would'ya like to exhume the Waco dead? What would you do with the remains? Something kinky? Did the FBI/BATF/CIA/NSA manipulate the remains already? Is the cover-up seamless? Will Waco remain as unsolvable as JFK's termination? @ Some Reported CIA Fronts: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/fronts.htm @ Chinese Secret Police In The US: http://sightings.com/politics2/chin.htm @ AIR WARFARE: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1918richthofen.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Quantum Memory: U-M Physicists Show It's Not Just For Theorists Anymore. Using ultrafast lasers and a beam of cesium atoms, University of Michigan physicists have created a database that stores retrieves data in atomic quantum phase, instead of the bits and bytes used by today's computers. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000120141812.htm : How good is your memory? How good are dieties' memories? Do deities have quantum memories? Is that how they can remember everything? If deities can know remember all that happens in this universe, where do they store the memories? Does the universe function as its own memory? Is the universe a computer that computes itself? Are your deities computers? Apple or WinTel? @ Plumbing in Ancient Egypt: http://www.theplumber.com/egypt.html @ Babylonian and Egyptian Mathematics - methods of calculation: www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Babylonian_and_Egyptian.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New Orleans: The New Atlantis? With predicted sea level rise,wetland loss, subsidence, and the absence of restoration programs, the future of New Orleans is bleak. Research examines the processes driving catas- trophic coastal conditions and the breakdown of the Mississippi River Delta. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000121071306.htm : Will deities reclaim NOLA as they did Atlantis? Will anyone notice? Will legends arise about the great, vanished civilization there? Will Mardi Gras be remembered as a sacred ritual celebration? Will corruption be forgotten? # Islandization: Nature's Next Crisis? www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9266203 # MTBE Contamination Epidemic: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9265491 @ FrogProj: http://www-itg.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/Whole.Frog/Whole.Frog.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tan Now; Pay Later. Nuke yourself to bronzed perfection in a high- tech tanning booth -- you'll look like a million shares of Yahoo. But don't come crying to us when you develop skin cancer. http://womenshealth.about.com/library/weekly/aa041299.htm # Why some people like painfully loud music. Wild Thing - You Move Me!
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991127c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 eruptions buried Quito during production of this bulletin. Just wait. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Happy Holidays from SpOOk Central! http://www.watchingyou.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # More on Rumanian UFO Video. The object was not detected by the radars; Rumanian DoD asked for a copy of the videocassette for further investiga- tion in a attempt to identify the provenience of the object. On the video footage it can be seen that the object is round and on it's central area there were some erratic moving elements. http://www.caus.org/mu112699.htm : Do you have videos of erratic moving objects? Has anyone investigated or suppressed you? Were you allowed to keep your videos? Were you abducted?? # The New Armageddon: http://www.msnbc.com/news/armag_front.asp _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Your Food, Nourished by Toxins. (Wired) California lab tests are showing that some fertilizers used by farmers contain toxic waste, and proposed laws would legalize the practice. Well, the French feed herds garbage... http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32741,00.html?tw=wn19991126 : What's your favorite edible toxin? Do you feed toxins to your family, friends, clients? Do they savor the spice? Have you written a cookbook? # Uncle Sam's Arms - Jonestown the Politics of Genocide: http://www.konformist.com/1999/jonestown.htm http://www.konformist.com/vault/jnstwn.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MORE THAN A WHEELCHAIR, IBOT IS ON THE MOVE. Inventor Dean Kamen insists his IBOT ain't a wheelchair. Nobody pushes you around in an IBOT. You wear it, like Kamen wears his helicopters. Of course, being post-PC-plus, IBOT doesn't run on MS Windows. The IBOT is amazing, more so even than Windows struggling to reboot. It's something you don't believe until you see it. "How can I use Pentiums?" http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/26/ibot.idg/ : Do you like to wear transportation devices? Would you like to be built into a moving machine? Would you like to be a tank, jet, sub, starship? Do you want to be reincarnated as a girl's bicycle seat? Are you a perv? Eh? @ A century ago, Thorstein Veblen deconstructed the consumer culture of his age and discovered that man has an unslakeable thirst for status: http://www.seattletimes.com/news/entertainment/html98/thor_19991122.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Volcanic ash shower continues. QUITO, Ecuador (AP) New eruptions from the Pichincha volcano sent heavy showers of ash raining down onto the capital city Quito, prompting officials to close schools keep the airport shut. Doomed: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562273058-e60 : Do you like to visit volcanoes? What's your favorite volcano? Have you remote-viewed an eruption lately? Is it stimulating? Does lava get you hot? @ Globalization is unfair to rich tourists: why travel the world if all you ever see are people living a clean, healthy life much like your own? Bother - http://www.slate.com/Dismal/99-11-23/Dismal.asp _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'POKEMON: THE FIRST MOVIE' - CHEESY KID STUFF. There's no inherent harm in allowing your kid to be entertained in unproductive ways. Yes, learning is fundamental, but it's not hard to imagine little Bobby or Susie eventually getting fed up with endless rounds of counting, reading memorizing. But there must be a limit on how deeply their brains should snooze, and that limit is established in amazingly rinky-dink fashion by "Pokemon: The First Movie." http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9911/26/review.pokemon/ : Is POKEMON a Japanese strategy to turn US kids into brain-dead zombies so they'll be no threat, economically? Is POKEMON a mental disorder? Should all learning be suppressed? Are health, sanity, knowledge unnecessary? Where? @ Heal Be Healed: www.healerskolen.dk @ Prisms Of Reality: http://www.prismsofreality.com/ @ MACHINE PSYCHOLOGY and the politics of everyday robots: http://users.uniserve.com/~culturex/Machine-Psychology.htm # DEPRESSED ELDERLY RISK SUICIDE: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/14337.rhtml # HEADACHE COMMON IN SCHIZOPHRENICS: www.psychiatry.medscape.com/14342.rhtml # DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN OLDER AMERICANS AS GREAT A RISK FACTOR AS SMOKING FOR DEVELOPING NEW DISEASES: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/14395.rhtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Don't let Fox TV hear about this! A controversial Brit TV station is about to debut the world's 1st nude adventure game show. "The Naked Jungle" will have butt-naked contestants doing things like rowing lilypads across a swamp to grab fig leaves. It's about naturism, not just softcore porn, ya sure: http://www.lineone.net/express/99/11/26/news/n0720naked-d.html : Do you
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990911c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 controlled minds were burnt during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 200 years later, Rosetta Stone still disclosing secrets. LONDON (AP) The Rosetta Stone unlocked one of the world's great mysteries by providing a key to the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics. And 200 years later, there is still much to learn about the slab of rock that is one of the world's cultural icons. "The wretched thing springs surprises on us all the time." http://www.cnn.com/NATURE/9909/09/britain.rosetta.stone.ap/index.html Rosetta Stone http://encarta.msn.com/index/conciseindex/4B/04BB1000.htm ROSETTA STONE http://www.humanities.ccny.cuny.edu/history/reader/rosetta.htm Rosetta Stone http://134.74.216.129/history/writing/cartouches2.htm British Museum http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/local/museums/BritishMuseum.html : Have you talked to the aliens who inscribed the Rosetta Stone? How were they trying to help us? Is the stone a cultural IQ test? Have we passed yet? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Drug war enlists covert gov't websites. (VVoice) You'd never know it, but Freevibe.com is pure govt issue, spawn of the Office of Nat'l Drug Control Policy in the White House. They're known for (para)military ops. But Free- vibe is as much a part of The War On Drugs as the copters crop eradica- tion routines. It's just a more covert salvo, and the war here is for the mind of America's teens. http://villagevoice.com/columns/9936/boal.shtml : Have you worked on any major propaganda campaigns lately? Are you after the minds of America's teens, or just their bodies? Do they notice you? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE JAMES CAMERON CONSPIRACY. This century saw the creation of techniques for mind-control by the CIA's implementation of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron's mind experiments and MK-ULTRA technology. The "consortium" employed James Cameron to use subliminal imagery and emotional manipulation on mass audi- ences, preparing them for an engineered future. James Cameron's career entered the world of Roger Corman. The studio owned by Corman was named "New World Pictures". The "New World" was short for "New World Order", a phrase that embodies the idealism of Freemasonry, a global government. http://www.terminator3armageddon.com/conspira/jcct1.html : Does cinema reprogram your mind? Are you now a willing slave of the NWO? Will you do anything we tell you? Will you dance naked atop Eiffel Tower?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Evidence for microwave-induced cerebral speech perception. (NASA) A decoy deception concept being considered is to remotely create the perception of noise in the heads of personnel by exposing them to low power, pulsed microwaves. When people are illuminated with properly modulated low power microwaves the sensation is reported as a buzzing, clicking, or hissing that seems to originate (regardless of the person's position in the field) within or just behind the head. http://home.nas.net/~raven1/v2s-nasa.htm : Does your microwave oven talk to you? Does it tell you what to do? Do you follow orders? Is that why you nuked the Chihuahua? Do you feel any remorse? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ HIGH TECH HARASSMENT. With today's advancements in technology, uncon- ventional methods have been discovered that are very effective and possibly dangerous. http://members.aol.com/ultra21753/ultra.htm @ SOUND AS A WEAPON: http://members.aol.com/ultra21753/sound/sound.htm @ US Military Non-Lethal Weapons: http://www.cdsar.af.mil/apj/mcgowan.html @ Infrasonic weaponry waves: http://members.aol.com/ultra21753/weapon2.htm : What's your favorite (infra)sonic weapon? Have you killed with sonics? Are you hooked on sonics? What have you learnt from dolphins? What shape is a sphere with a radius of the square root of negative one? Is it dimensional? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Cryptography Manifesto. This is about much more than just cryptography. It is also about everyone in the U.S.A. being fingerprinted for a de facto national ID card, about massive illegal domestic spying by the NSA, about the Military being in control of key politicians, about always being in a state of war, and about cybernetic control of society. http://www-douzzer.ai.mit.edu:8080/cm/cm0.html : Do you cybernetically control any societies? Are you a cryptomeister? Is your ID card blank? Are you an alien, demon, robotic? Do you hallucinate? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SWAT NATION. In the post-Columbine hysteria, every town will arm its cops with assault weapons. Where's it all going to lead? FOR A SNEAK PREVIEW of the new American police state, travel south from the comfortable illusions of the San Francisco Bay Area into the dirty air of California's Central Valley on
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990904c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 inconsistencies were expunged during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Deadly, Insect-Borne Virus Hits New York. An unprecedented outbreak of mosquito-borne encephalitis has hit New York City, claiming at least one life and making more than 30 other people sick. Run for your life! Flee! Flee! http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990904/sc/health_newyork_1.html : What is your favorite insect-borne disease? Have you created any insect- vectored diseases lately? Can bugs infect us with an engineered virus that will boost intelligence, extend life, render us susceptible to mind control? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Delusional Somatoform Disorders: An Evolutionary Hypothesis. Delusional Somatoform Disorders (DD, SD) may be psychological adaptations, evolved to mitigate the dangerous consequences of social exclusion ostracism. In the same way that fever is a healthy reaction to infection, such disorders are actually healthy reactions to extreme social threats like ostracism: when we lived in small, kin-based groups, DD and SD would have functioned to combat social exclusion by closely mimicking conditions, like external threats or illness, where fellow group members were likely to cooperate and provide assistance. http://www.sscf.ucsb.edu/~hagen/dd.html : Are you delusional? Are you obvious? Has anyone come to your assistance? Did you go nuts by being ostracized, ridiculed, abducted/implanted, doped? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mining the Genome. (TechRev) The Human Genome Project piles up Everests of data. But getting new drugs out of it requires sophisticated software to sniff out patterns - one of the most crucial tasks of the hot field known as bioinformatics. http://www.techreview.com/articles/oct99/regalado.htm : What's your favorite genetic pattern? Have you replicated it in any crop circles yet? Is music encoded in your genes? Have you listened to y'r genes? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ TRAJECTORY OF THE SUN. In the Book of Revelation, Jesus Christ refers to himself as the Amen (Rev 3:14. ) Amen Ra is the name of the Egyptian Sun God. The life of Jesus duplicates the trajectory of the Sun. Coming down from Aries the Ram (The Highest Point), Crucified on the constellation "The Southern Cross" on Dec. 21st, entombed in the bowels of the earth, 3 days and 3 nights on Dec, 22, 23 24 (Winter Solstice), Born Again on Dec 25th. Out of the constellation Virgo (The Virgin) returning to the highest point Aries ( Spring Equinox), in the northern sky sitting at the right hand (Eastern Sky) and summer comes. In addition, in the Bible, Jesus dies and there is an eclipse and he rises at Sun Rise and his day is Sun Day. He is the Sun God. http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/hidden.html#TRAJECTORY : Do you worship the sun? Does the sun worship you? How about other suns? Do all stars have associated deities? Do they talk with each other? Are they a gang, a committee, a disputatious mob, a clusterfuck, a conspiracy, a band? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Russian Space Junk or Major UFO Event? Although a rash of UFO sightings reported recently would seem to be evidence of a major wave of unexplained paranormal activity, at least one researcher has warned investigators to check their facts before jumping to conclusions. Not that anyone bothers with verification anyway... http://www.space.com/area51/sep_sighting.html : To which conclusions do you prefer to jump? Do you jump head-first, feet- first, sideways, rolled up in a ball, randomly? Are Space Junkies better or worse than other junkies? Are you spaced? Should you be? Do aliens laugh?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Gravity Measured by Dropping Atoms. Galileo once dropped stones from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to show that objects of different sizes fall at the same rate under Earth's gravity. More than 400 years later, researchers say they got the same result by dropping atoms. The findings confirm that the rate at which something falls is independent of its mass - whether it be an atom or chunk of glass used in modern experiments or a rock dropped from a tilting building in Italy. Jump off the roof and see for yourself. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19990827/sc/dropping_atoms_2.html @ AntiGravity Propulsion Experiments. A number of experiments have been per- formed over the last several years, which have seemingly shown some form of gravity control or closely related phenomena. A practical AntiGravity propulsion system? http://members.tripod.com/~antigravitypower/exper.html : Does gravity work for you? Have you built any antigravity devices lately? Do they work? Have you dropped anything lately? Did if fall? Is gravity a pull or a push? Does the Earth
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990821c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 fretful Malthusians reproduced during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # State comic books lampoon Chinese meditation sect. The government describes its campaign against the group as a "political struggle" and accuses Falun Gong founder Li of plotting against the Communist Party. http://www.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,84138-132934-928600-0,00.html : Have you plotted against the Communist Party lately? Has the Communist Party plotted against you? Have either of you plotted against anyone else? Are your plots comical? Does your belief system communicate with comix?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China 'arrests church leaders' - Worship is allowed but not behind closed doors. (BBC) 8 Christian leaders have been arrested in the central Chinese province of Henan for holding an illegal gathering. Cops raided a house in the city of Wugang and took away eight Protestant "home church" leaders. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_426000/426840.stm @ Links: Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs: http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ @ Amnesty International China: http://www.amnesty-usa.org/asa/china/ : Should/have/will the leaders of your belief system be busted? Should/have/ will your belief system take capture the leaders of other belief systems? Do you wage war on other belief systems? Is yours a dominant heresy? Of what?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AFT finds plot to bomb utilities during Y2K scare. Albuquerque (AT) US and Canadian authorities are probing a New Mexico connection in a strange plot to cash in on the Y2K scare by blowing up utility systems. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms has filed charges on a 50-year-old Canuck man who solicited an American citizen to bomb and disrupt various energy systems in the US and Canada. http://abqtrib.com/news/082099_bomber.shtml : What utility systems would you most like to bomb? How can you profit? Do the voices in your head provoke Armageddon? Do CIA mind-control rays direct your bombings? Why would the CIA want to promote Y2K scares? Or why not??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Communist shrine defies demolition. (BBC) An attempt by the Bulgarian authorities to demolish the most prominent symbol of the country's communist past has ended in failure. Can't keep a good icon down: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_427000/427068.stm @ Georgi Dimitrov: http://www.bulgaria.com/history/rulers/dimitrov.html : Does your belief system build sturdy shrines? Should your sacred sites be demolished? Can they be? Are you protected by higher powers, aliens, robots? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ 10,000 Mummies Found In Egypt- Many Covered In Gold. "They lay as though expecting us. Lined up in rows, heads toward the aisle and faces up, they waited for the laborers to lift the protective plastic sheets that a few months ago they did not need. Now they stretched impassively on... sand- stone shelves as we stomped discourteously into their forever- disrupted home. Yet they bore it gracefully. Their crumbling gilded face masks (and sometimes, just crumbling faces) betrayed no embarrassment as we photogra- phed them with flash cameras, and talked about them like objects in lang- uages that did not even exist during their former lives. And then we left, as clumsily as we came. http://www.projectduat.com/bahareya-mummies/ @ Also: David Icke's Bestseller: 'The Biggest Secret' - Excerpt: http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/icke.htm @ Egyptologist Responds To David Icke's August 11 Giza Update: http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/response.htm : Have you mummified many humans, animals, aliens, robots, deities, demons? Do you enjoy mummification? Is it a job, a calling, a hobby, a necessity?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The Single Factor Fallacy. Did Bill Clinton's childhood trauma cause the Lewinsky affair? A brain scientist explains why that's the wrong question to ask. http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es244_master.html?alert : Were you traumatized in your youth? Were you abducted by aliens? Do mind- controllers direct y'r actions? Does y'r implant misfire? What's y'r excuse? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ How Stuff Works: http://www.howstuffworks.com/ @ Nasa Discovery Program: http://discovery.nasa.gov/ @ Museum of Unnatural History: http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/unmuseum.htm @ The Human Brain: A Mystery to Itself: http://library.advanced.org/26463/ @ Krakatoa blows: http://www.irfamedia.com/lampung/krakatau.htm @ America's Jazz Heritage: http://www.si.edu/ajazzh/ @ Pink Alien: http://www.colinstevenson.free-online.co.uk/warning.htm $ The Greatest Story Never Told * Opening the Seven Seals of Revelations * 2 Books that implant new religion memes:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990807c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 artificial lifeforms were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ from "Cool Web Sightings:" @ Solar Eclipse - Stories from the Path of Totality. The next total solar eclipse will be this coming Wednesday, August 11, 1999. The eclipse will move across most of Europe and part of Asia. Live elsewhere? Look here. Watch a live webcast of the solar eclipse, find archived footage of a solar event that occurred over the Caribbean in 1998, learn more about the myths and superstitions concerning solar eclipses, and get some great tips on how to view a total eclipse safely and what to watch out for during the event. http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/ @ Atomic Archive. Explores the complex history surrounding the invention of the atomic bomb - a crucial turning point for mankind. Follow a timeline that takes you down the path of our nuclear past, from the 1920s to the present. Read biographies of A-bomb father Robert Oppenheimer and other key scientists of the nuclear age. See the Trinity Test through Enrico Fermi's eye as you read his first hand account of that history making event. Examine maps of the damage to Hiroshima Nagasaki, and summaries of arms-control treaties. View the gallery of exclusive photos and animations of nuclear physics. http://www.atomicarchive.com/main.shtml @ MESOWEB. Mesoweb is an exploration of Mesoamerican cultures. Mesoweb is devoted to ancient Mesoamerica and its cultures: the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Teotihuacano, Toltec, Mixtec, Zapotec and others. We try to reserve the word Mayan for the language and the word Maya for the people and their culture, ancient and modern. http://www.mesoweb.com/ @ NATIVE AMERICAN NAVIGTATOR. The Native American Navigator is an interface for geographical, historical, topical and keyword-based student inquiry on topics related to Native American history culture in the United States. Clickable maps, an extensive timeline, a web of topics pages and a site network-wide search page make the four corners of the Navigator's Medicine Wheel. http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/naha/nanav.html @ Nova Online - Mysteries of the Nile. Take a fascinating excursion through the wonders of ancient Egypt. To see for yourself the enormous energies the pharaohs devoted to erecting their soaring monuments -- particularly obelisks -- you will travel first to Giza, site of the Pyramids and that enigmatic half-man, half-lion, the Sphinx. You then head south to Luxor, site of the archaic capital of Thebes, to examine some of the great tombs and temples of the New Kingdom. Finally, you'll visit Aswan, where a NOVA team will try to raise a multi-ton obelisk using tools and techniques the pharaohs themselves might have used. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/egypt/ @ The Virtual Mummy. Learn all about Mummies here. Computerization not only helps scientists in non-destructively examining mummies, but it also makes it possible to create virtual mummies, a sample of which can be seen by the visitors of the exhibition "The Secret of the Mummies - Eternal Life at the Nile", and by yourself on screen, with reduced functionality. The object is a 2300-year-old mummy of a female, aged about 30 years. http://www.uke.uni-hamburg.de/institute/imdm/idv/forschung/mumie/index.en.ht ml @ BUSHIDO ONLINE. Bushido Online is a visually striking Web encyclopedia of the martial arts. Taking its name from the Japanese term meaning "Way of the Warrior," this site traces the evolution of the fighting arts from ancient beginnings to contemporary practice. Starting with detailed histories, pictures, and links covering Chinese kung fu and Japanese karate, the site also documents almost 30 other forms whose widespread origins range from Brazil to Europe to India. http://www.bushido.ch/ @ The Museum of Unnatural Mystery. A slightly bizarre, cyberspace, science museum. Are there really flying saucers? What killed the dinosaurs? Is there something ancient and alive in Loch Ness? Take a scientific look at these, and other, questions. http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/unmuseum.htm @ ONLINE SURGERY. Online Surgery broadcasts LIVE surgery over the internet, using the latest techniques and technology. Past surgical procedures are available in the Surgical Archives. See cosmetic surgery, child birth, brain surgery, and orthopedic procedures. http://www.onlinesurgery.com/ @ Gallery of Regrettable Food. For folks who would like to drop some weight but don't have the willpower to diet and hate to exercise: The Gallery of Regrettable Food is guaranteed to cut your calorie intake. Unless you're a food-obsessed perv.
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990717c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 genetically modified crops were harmed to produce of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Gene-Mod-O-Rama: # World May Go Non-GM Says Campaigner. LONDON (Reuters) World agriculture may still reject biotechnology, says a leader of the organic movement. And pigs could fly if they only had wings, especially gene.mod pigs, eh? http://news.excite.com/news/r/990717/01/science-environment-gene # Stunted GM crop may 'help feed world'. (BBC) The plant gene behind the 1960s "green revolution" of dwarf varieties has been revealed and could benefit farmers again. Anti-GM activists prefer mass starvation, plague: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_394000/394616.stm @ Links: John Innes Centre: http://www.jic.bbsrc.ac.uk/ @ Food Future: http://www.foodfuture.org.uk/ @ Friends of the Earth: http://www.foe.org.uk/ @ Biotechnology/BiologySci Research Council: http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/ # UK Minister Tells GM Firms Public Comes First. LONDON (Reuters) British Environment Minister Michael Meacher warned genetic food manufacturers Saturday he would not be pressured into "riding rough-shod" over safety procedures designed to protect the public interest. Then he hacked up a hairball: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990717/09/science-britain-gm : What's your favorite genetically engineered food? Was the bioengineering done by selective breeding, hybridization, or more invasive means? Is there a qualitative difference between such different biological technologies??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Chinese sect's protest leads to apology - Secretive movement that disturbs Beijing dislikes `cult' label. (NYTimes) BEIJING - Nearly 1,000 members of a spiritual movement known as Falun Gong held a 2-day protest inside gov't headquarters in a southern Chinese city last week. Undeterred by a recent crackdown on Falun Gong in Beijing, where China's leaders appear alarmed by the size, organization secretive nature of the movement, the members entered the inner courtyard of Communist Party HQ in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi province for two days and demanded the retraction of an article in an official publication that likened Falun Gong, or Buddhist Law, to a superstitious cult. Ignoring the danger implied in official warnings, they refused to leave until a gov't official finally disavowed the article. Victory: http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/world/docs/china11.htm : Does your cult intimidate the Chinese Communist gov't, or any other gov't? How much power do you wield? Do you use your power for good or evil? Why?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiBriefs: # US Firm Warns Of Y2K Scams. WASHINGTON (Reuters) A research firm predicted that someone will steal more than one billion dollars in a scam linked to year 2000 computer upgrades and that companies may lose billions. Watch out: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990717/01/science-yk-fraud # PIN-HOLE GLASSES DON'T CURE VISION PROBLEMS. These novelty "pin-hole" glasses will help you see - due to the "pin-hole" effect - but they won't permanently cure a vision problem. So save your money. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14312 # Russian journalist denies treason. (BBC) A journalist says treason charges against him have been fabricated in revenge for his exposure of environ- mental pollution by Russia's Pacific fleet. They're out to silence him: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_396000/396336.stm # THIS WEEK ON THIS WAY OUT - Best-selling gay African-American novelist E. Lynn Harris invites you to "Abide With Me", award-winning gay journalist Bruce Mirken about how he beat an Internet sting, and Utah lesbians gays declare war on the Mormon Church for declaring war on them. In NewsWrap, Sir Elton John recovers from heart surgery, New Hampshire high schoolers sue to establish a Gay Straight Alliance, Norway's World Cup team captain comes out on the front page: http://www.planetout.com/radio/programs/two/ # Frenchman Found Penicillin First. PARIS (Reuters) A Frenchman may have discovered penicillin 30 years before Scotsman Sir Alexander Fleming, sez author: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990717/09/science-health-penicillin # US ALLOWS WIGGLE-ROOM FOR STEM CELL RESEARCH. Federally-funded researchers may have been given a loophole so they can use human embryo stem cells for research. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14314 # Crystal Chip Uses Chemistry For Speed. WASHINGTON (Reuters) Techno-nerds have taken a big step toward making tiny, super-fast molecular computers. Whizzing by:
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-Caveat Lector- US: Silver Bullet Or Poison Chalice: The Biowar Against Drugs Newshawk: Tom O'Connell Pubdate: June, 1999 Source: Scientific American (US) Page: 75 Copyright: 1999 Scientific American, Inc Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.sciam.com/ Note: This short article appeared as a side bar on a longer article, "Biologicel Warfare Against Crops," by Paul Rogers, Simon Whitby, Malcolm Dundo, all biological warfare experts from Bradford University in England. SILVER BULLET OR POISON CHALICE: THE BIOWAR AGAINST DRUGS Last year the U.S. Congress approved a $23-million antidrug program that includes research on plant pathogens. Among the target plants are those that produce narcotics such as cocaine, heroin and marijuana. Advocates of the program hail it as a potential breakthrough. Representative Bill McCollum of Florida, one of the co-sponsors of the legislation, said, "All of the indications are that this has the potential for making a big difference in the drug war This could be the silver bullet." Article I of the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) bans the development, production and stockpiling of biological agents intended "for hostile purposes or in armed conflict." Also outlawed are biological weapons "that have no justification for prophylactic, protective or other peaceful purposes." Proponents of the use of plant pathogens against drug crops therefore point out that they would be used in cooperative proqrams with states in which the drugs are produced. Opponents of the plans have three concerns. One is that induced epidemics might, in some circumstances, spread to other plants. Another is that plant pathogens could be used in drug-proclucing regions without the consent of the state in question. Whereas such use might be popular with antidrug agencies, it would almost certainly breach the BTWC and also set a dangerous precedent. The greatest concern, however, is that the development of a capability to destroy drug crops with plant pathogens will inevitably provide a wealth of knowledge and practical experience that could readily be applied in much more aggressive, offensive biological warfare targeting food crops. - - Paul Rogers, Simon Whitby, Malcolm Dundo DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990710c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 flirtatious phonesexers were called during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DOES CHIROPRACTIC MAKE THE GRADE? Did you know to get into medical school you need a grade point average of 3.56 - but you can get into chiropractic school with a GPA of 2.90? This and many other fascinating facts are found in "Inside Chiropractic: A Patient's Guide." No overeducated chiropractics eh? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14113 # HEALTH CLAIMS OK FOR WHOLE GRAINS. While food supplement makers can make all kinds of unsubstantiated claims about their products, cereal makers had to struggle for the right to say their stuff can help prevent disease. Ironic: http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14060 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FBI: SUSPECTS KEPT LIST OF SACRAMENTO SYNAGOGUE MEMBERS. Two men have been arrested in California in a "major break" in the investigation of 3 arson attacks on synagogues in the Sacramento area. The arrests were made in Shasta County on unrelated charges, but subsequent searches "yielded evidence of potential involvement in or knowledge of" the arson attacks. "These individuals had compiled a list of names in a notebook. Access to ammunition - see http://cnn.com/US/9907/09/synagogue.fires/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SEX AND THE SINGLE FETUS. Want proof we are all sexual beings? Then read about the ultrasound two Italian researchers got of a 32-week female fetus masturbating in utero. There's something titillating to talk about over dinner. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14058 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NASA CHIEF REMEMBERS CONRAD AS 'CUTTING-EDGE PIONEER' Flags at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Johnson Space Center in Houston flew at half-staff Friday in memory of the third person to walk on the moon -- former Apollo astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. -- who died in a motorcycle accident. Death by internal injuries, the highway patrol said. http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9907/09/conrad.obit.04/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FEAR AND LOATHING PART I: THE INTERNET. It's no surprise that the Internet is becoming an object of delusions paranoia in those prone to psychosis. The Internet, with its vast reach and dark rumors of security and privacy breaches, is ripe for such things. But even paranoics have enemies, eh? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14112 # FEAR/LOATHING PART II: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. Fear of science can interfere with serious research - as it did in Los Alamos, New Mexico, recently. Scientists there had to cancel a test of a bacteria-detecting device, because of community fears of "biological experiments" even though the test involved no risk to the community at all. Or is that disinformation? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14109 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # LENSLESS CAMERA CAPTURES THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES. Using principles gleaned from radio astronomy and medical X-ray tomography, researchers at the University of Illinois have assembled an optical system that produces three-dimensional reconstructions of objects without using a lens. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/990709083019.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # THE ORIGINAL HEALTH NAZIS. Here's a touchy subject - positive public health contributions made to the world by Nazi Germany. We are so used to viewing things in black and white, it might be hard to accept the regime did have a couple of good ideas - like screening for cancer and campaigning against tobacco smoking. So anti-Nazis get lung cancer, eh? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14107 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # NATO Bombing Left Serbian City in Toxic Nightmare http://www.commondreams.org/kosovo/kosovo.htm # Pentagon to study NATO air war - what worked and what didn't: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560233603-60e # UN gets report of Kosovo mass grave - up to 350 bodies: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560238152-8a6 # Guatemalan graves excavated - up to 200 dead in convent: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560234041-672 # Saddam: UN waging germ warfare - locust eggs to harm Iraqi crops. Also: UN staff stealing archaeological treasures for sale abroad: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560236528-909 @ World's Richest People 1999: http://forbes.com/tool/toolbox/billnew/ @ All about the Trojan horse danger: http://www.commodon.com/threat/ @ Anti-hacking warez: http://www.leechsoftware.com/netmon/index.html # TAKE A SEXUAL FLIGHT OF FANCY - 90% have pleasant sexual
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990605c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 carnivorous invertebrates were flagellated to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiBriefs: # Spirituality in the workplace. It gets hot in there, wearing that heavy suit of invisible armor many people climb into each morning before leaving for work. Some workers never seem to be able to take the armor completely off, building up emotional defenses that keep their true "personhood" at bay. If any: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,15301,00.html # Icons head home to Russia. In among the child pornography, illegal drugs and other contraband stored in Salt Lake City's U.S. Customs evidence vault are 34 icons depicting Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and various Russian Orthodox saints. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,15255,00.html? # Santeria stirs suspicions - and belief. Climb on the Internet, punch in the word "Santeria" and prepare for a tidal wave. Santeria (San-ter-EE-a), once a shadowy spiritual movement, is now a growing American religion found on nearly 2,000 Web sites. Santeria has become a force. Is it just like duct tape? http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,15300,00.html # Earth Day rites at school draw criticism. Plant a tree, make the world a better place. It may not sound like religious propaganda, but could it be? Get a grip. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,15291,00.html # LDS foundation donates $25,000 to Krishna temple. With a focus in recent months on building small temples worldwide, the LDS Church has had no lack of projects on which to spend money. Mormons are more open-minded than you thought, eh? http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,15292,00.html _ _ _ _ _ # DIGITAL CAMPFIRE TALES. An artist wraps technology around the age-old practice of storytelling, in a performance benefiting a group for art and science. www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/culture/story/20034.html # NEITHER ART NOR PORN. Skinonskinonskin, an online event spawned by the enigmatic Hell.com site, is soon to be available as a pay-per-view multi- media experience. But it's not for everyone. Especially not poor folks. www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/culture/story/19908.html # ADULT SITES 'GET' THE WEB. Now you've got an excuse to visit Persian Kitty. New Media pros meet to discuss adult sites making money on the Net. www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/culture/story/19930.html # Yanks want sex ed. WASHINGTON (AP) A survey suggests Americans reject the debate between teaching abstinence and sex education. They want both. Ambiguous: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559784776-3dd _ _ _ _ _ # ROBOT TO MONITOR CHERNOBYL. The US sends a robot to the Ukraine to monitor a dangerous room near the core of the meltdown. The remote-control machine will spare humans the task of analyzing the structural damage. 'Bot torture: www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/19931.html # Shuttle launches 'disco ball'. (BBC) The space shuttle Discovery has launched a spinning mirrored ball which will reflect light visible on Earth. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/iss/newsid_361000/361661.stm # Predicting monsoons. (BBC) Scientists say they might soon be able to fore- cast monsoon rains like those that brought heavy flooding to Asia last year. Dry out: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_361000/361632.stm # International interest in marijuana inhaler. (BBC) There now is growing interest in giving marijuana to patients suffering from painful long-term illnesses in an asthma inhaler-like device. Personally, I prefer brownies or soup: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_361000/361181.stm # NO MORE MICKEY MOUSE RESEARCH. Identical mice react differently to identi- cal laboratory conditions, leading scientists think that genes aren't always destiny. www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20028.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiProgs: * BOUNCE SPAM MAIL. Fool those spam mailers. Send a fake bounce message back to them, making their targeted mailing list manager think your address was invalid. Works in a lot of cases where you can't get to the real sender of the message. http://www.pcworld.com/r/shw/1%2C2087%2C5402%2C00.html * GHOST MAIL. Send mail or newsgroup messages with near-complete anonymity. Just set up your rules for fields, copy and paste for your recipient list if necessary, and post quietly and with little risk to your email box's integrity. http://www.pcworld.com/r/shw/1%2C2087%2C5198%2C00.html * HOTMAILER 98. Use this add-on to your HotMail mailbox account to turn the Web-based e-mail system into a full-fledged e-mail program, complete with Read and Reply functions. Your HotMail account will continue to use the
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990403c - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SWAZIS SWEAR BY POTATO SAID TO CURE EVEN AIDS. It is the local answer to cod-liver oil - it looks and tastes like hell but is said to cure anything that ails you. People in this small southern African kingdom swear by the miraculous powers of the "African potato," a wild tuber that grows in the rugged Swazi countryside. The vaunted vegetable is said to cure everything from the common cold to AIDS. And that's why the locals live so long - see http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9903/29/BC-SWAZILAND-POTATO.reut/index.html : Would you like to try an experimental regime of African Potatoes? Can we get a grant? Is anything that tastes awful, food for you? Is this tuber the result of natural evolution, genetic manipulation, alien seeding, thunder? # ANTLER VELVET: MORE USE TO THE DEER THAN TO PEOPLE. Here comes another "miracle medicine" - deer antler velvet. Though it's been used in Asian cultures for centuries, there is no scientific proof that it enhances athletic performance, cures impotence, or does anything else - for people, that is. I think the deer probably got some good from it. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10991 : What forms of animal excreta do you take for your physical, mental and/or sexual well-being? Are they tasty, awful, OK, useful, expensive, endangered, remote, exotic, mundane, sterilized, validated, traditional, modern, alien? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Climate threat to coral reefs. (BBC) Earth's coral reefs, already under threat, are thought to be at further risk from growing levels of carbon dioxide. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_309000/309805.stm @ Links: Science Magazine: http://www.sciencemag.org/ @ Global Coral Reef Monitor Net: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/icri/gcrmn.html # And: Coral crusade: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_296000/296972.stm # Iron helps combat climate change: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_286000/286839.stm GLOBAL WARMING MAY INCREASE OZONE HOLE. Despite international measures to reduce atmospheric concentrations of ozone destroying halogens to protect the ozone layer, global warming may lead to a weakening of the ozone layer. While future climate change is expected to heat up the lower atmosphere it is likely to cool the air at the altitude of the ozone layer in the strato- sphere. http://cnn.com/NATURE/9903/29/global.warming.enn/index.html : Are CO2 output and global warming the inevitable consequence of humanity? Must we mutate into another species for Earth life to survive? What species would you like to be? Would it withstand increased ultraviolet radiation? Would it eat coral? Are corals extraterrestrial? Are you? Is there hope? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Lawn mowing may cause air pollution. WASHINGTON (AP) The sweet scent of a freshly mowed lawn may really be the smell of air pollution. Scientists studying the sources of chemicals in the air have found that injured grass gives off volatile compounds. "Wounding, cutting and drying of leaves and stems occur both naturally and by human activities, wound-induced and dry- ing-induced... compounds are expected to be significant in the atmosphere." But do not panic. While total emissions from cutting grass and crops world- wide may seem large, it does not mean grass cutting is dangerous for indi- viduals. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559028733-802 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Private investors back Mir. MOSCOW (AP) Several private investors have agreed to keep the aging Mir space station in orbit after gov't money for the 13-year-old station runs out in August. A Canadian citizen of Russian origin has already donated $100,000 to finance Mir's operation. Some inves- tors had asked that their money pay for scientific experiments aboard the craft, while others will contribute money toward its $250 million yearly maintenance fees. Hopefully the Russian Mafia won't take over Mir, eh? See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559032492-41b : Is buying/supporting Russian space technology a cost-effective way to get off-planet? Would you like to beam mind-control rays at Earth from Mir? Or launch missiles at somebody? How much would you pay? Would Mir be a good base for smuggling drugs, info, gems, NBCwar items, porn? Anything else? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Mysterious death of former intelligence agent: http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/19990314suicide1.asp # Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin killing ordered by Israeli security: http://www.infoburger.freeserve.co.uk/Rabin.htm # Increasing Evidence - Gulf War Syndrome due to Chem/Bio Warfare Experiments: http://www.infoburger.freeserve.co.uk/BioBlackMagic.htm @ There exists cures for
