[CTRL] Skeptic News - Sunday #2

[Ric Carter]

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@ Cheap Travel Hint: http://www3.sympatico.ca/donna.mcsherry/airports.htm
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# SOHO CATCHES COMET CROSSING SUN? If it intercepts Earth, we may be smashed
  to wee bits: http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2000/0625soho.htm
# OBJECT PHOTOGRAPHED BREAKING UP NEAR SUN? Where did the pieces go then?
  Where are they now? http://members.aol.com/rubie2zday/index.html#object
# THE SUNCRUISER - What Is This Strange Object Orbiting Our Sun? Where
  is it from? http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/space.html#suncruiser

@ Dr. Alexander Abian ,
  respected Professor of Mathematics and Usenet kook par excellance, died
   a year ago today. We should
  mourn his passing by BLOWING UP THE MOON AND REBORBITING VENUS TO MAKE A
  BORN-AGAIN EARTH. 
  And see more of his ilk over at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/

: Have you captured/crushed/confused any comets/planets/galaxies/UFOlogists
lately? Is your world born-again? Are you? Has your world/mind/controller/me
been born over and over again? Got any photos? Are they blurry? Are you sad?
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# THE VISION THING. The young activists who went to Seattle to shut down the
  WTO and to Washington DC, to protest the World Bank and IMF were hammered
  in the press as tree-wearing, lamb-costumed, drumbeating bubble brains.
  Our mission was to whip that chaos on the streets into some kind of struc-
  tured, media-friendly shape. http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos04549.html

@ Mayday wasn't the end of modern protest.Not even the beginning of the end.
  But it was the sad end of the beginning www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n12/grif2212.htm
# Upside Down World: http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=1638

# Americans Rule the Web -- for Now. U.S. influence is inevitably waning:
  http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2000/jun/24/062400616.html
# In historic 'Webside chat,' Clinton unveils era of U.S. 'e-government' --
  BigBro: http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/06/24/clinton.webcast/
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_804000/804601.stm

: Do US firms control all global/national/local economic/political/religious
institutions? Is protest possible/sufficient/laughable? Do you have a vision
of a better world? Is your vision achievable/viable/virtual/mindcontrolled??
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# PRESBYTERIANS TO DEBATE CHURCH'S ROLE IN SAME-SEX UNIONS. Presbyterian
  leaders gathering here this week will debate whether to ban blessings
  of same-sex unions even if the ceremonies stop short of marriage, the
  latest ecclesiastical conflict over recognition for gay and lesbian
  couples. http://CNN.com/2000/US/06/25/presbyterians.gays.ap/index.html

# Muslim 'porn site' changed. (Ananova) Strict muslims in Pakistan were
  shocked to find pornographic links on a government web site. But Mohammad
  had HOW many wives then? http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_8042.html
# Happy Hookers: Sexy Outfits OK: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10015863

# Iran forges links with China's Xinjiang Muslims - revolt against Beijing:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_805000/805065.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_804000/804004.stm
# Demon China? www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37070-2000Jun21.html

# Civil war in Moluccas? (BBC) Fighting between Christians, Muslims & army:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_805000/805209.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_803000/803916.stm

: Is your belief system more violent about land/sex/diet/govt/dress/spiders?
Would you rather make love/war/other with a heretic/prophet/alien/spider/me?
When you make love/war/other, are you blessed? Does anyone see? Do they pay?
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# "SKIN EQUIVALENT" HELPS ULCERS HEAL. A human skin equivalent, layering new
  skin cells over wounds, can quickly heal ulcers. Made of circumcised fore-
  skins: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=36296&src=n3

# Farmer jailed for BSE scam. An Irish farmer has been jailed for deliber-
  ately introducing the cattle disease BSE, better known as mad cow disease,
  into his herd in order to collect compensation. Could have ruined Ireland:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_803000/803629.stm

# Modified HIV may be effective for delivering and regulating gene the

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[Ric Carter]

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$ Buy my wisdom teeth: http://page.auctions.yahoo.com/auction/29155211
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# Strange Encounter In Italy - 1927 - Morning, Corbola (Rovigo), near the Po
  river. 11-year-old Francesca was taking water from the Po river when she
  saw a round, shining thing coming down into the river. A few minutes later
  it came out of the 'boiling' water and sped into the sky, but not before
  the girl noticed a small man within it, visible from the neck up. A sound
  was also heard. http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m17-006.shtml

# The mission: spend a week searching for evidence of paranormal activity.
  Patrolling haunted areas: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/26160006.cfm
# The First Italian Abduction - 1954 - The x-file of Gricignano d'Aversa -
  why stop now? http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m17-005.shtml
# Those elusive ETs: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/u/26160007.cfm
@ Hundreds of UFO photos: http://www.ncircus.com/ufo/uphoto.htm

: Have you been abducted/haunted/manifested/bothered lately?Would you rather
be abducted/abused/abstracted in Italy, France,Japan, England, Transylvania?
Do paranormal/extraterrestrial entities jump in/out of rivers in your area?
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# BOTH GENETIC AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RISK FACTORS MAY CONTRIBUTE TO ANXIETY
  DISORDERS. Start worrying. Now. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/23312.rhtml
# NO DIRECT CAUSAL LINK FOUND BETWEEN FAMILY SIZE, BIRTH ORDER, IQ. Contrary
  to popular belief, having more children born into a family does not neces-
  sarily result in lower-IQ kids. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/22917.rhtml

# SPACE ALIEN POOP IS MAKING US SICK, SICK, SICK! WASHINGTON -- Millions of
  people around the world have contracted a strange and potentially fatal
  virus -- from space alien feces! And at least one expert predicts that by
  the year 2002, one in every two Americans will have had the debilitating
  illness. I feel giddy: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1989.html

: Are you sickened by genetics, society, psychology, friends, angels/aliens,
deities/demons, parents/children/cousins/inlaws, robots, me? Did your family
lower your IQ our would you have been a moron anyway? Are you anxious? When?
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# A step nearer to fish on bicycles. In another triumph of science, resear-
  chers have created a fish on wheels. Actually, they took part of the brain
  of a lamprey, an aquatic parasite, and connected it to a mobile robot: the
  "artificial animal". http://www.smh.com.au/news/0006/17/text/world14.html

# The future arrives, but without a rocket. For we who were born around the
  midpoint of the 20th Century, who viewed the coming of the 21st as some-
  thing both wonderously distant and yet within the reach of our lifetimes,
  it is not merely a question, but The Question: Where are our jetpacks?
  I want my atomic cat: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/26160004.cfm

@ Everything is up for grabs. The grand sweep of intellectual landscape lies
  before us, and profound changes are afoot. You change the world with your
  every move. Be careful: http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge70.html

: Are you disappointed with the past/present/future? Have'ya changed reality
lately? Does y'r imagination/intellect/instinct transcend the limitations of
the mundane universe? Are fish on bicycles a reasonable goal? Who's paying??
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# 'HOT' FUEL CELLS GET COOLER AND COOLER. Fuel-cell technology is cool. It
  offers the promise of low-emission power generation for everything from
  cars to entire metropolitan areas. And Japanese researchers say they have
  built a fuel cell that runs efficiently at temperatures as low as 932
  degrees Fahrenheit. http://CNN.com/2000/NATURE/06/16/fuel.cells.enn/

# Lethal leaks - Wigner energy trapped in damaged nukes could scupper plans
  to dismantle them. Yow: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_224334.html
# Hidden power - Low-maintenance wind turbines can be tucked away out of
  sight, out of mind: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_224335.html

# A tired 'sky is falling' premise: It will be hot because of the sun, not
  because of manmade gases. WASHINGTON. Here we go again. Now that summer is
  here & temperatures are rising, environmental scaremongers are raising the
  rhetoric that man-made global warming is dangerously heating the planet
  and we must make economically drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to
  halt it. Well, why not? http://www.alienzoo.com/news/n/26160002.

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@ Another Damn Personality Test: http://www.ullazang.com/personality.html
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# So.Korea Prepares for UFO Landings. A monk is volunteering to help pay for
  a landing strip for Unidentified Flying Objects. Incoming UFOs in South
  Korea will be greeted by a fluorescent sign which reads "!Welcome UFO!" in
  English & Korean. Experts are being called in to install automatic cameras
  and recording equipment. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/ufokorea.htm

# Mexico celebrates giant tortilla - supernaturally/extraterrestrially huge:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_731000/731290.stm
# Spaced out in Canada: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/24290002.cfm
# Robot Envy: http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000427/ca-galaxyonline.com
# Computer bra boob shuts shops: www.theregister.co.uk/000428-16.html

: Are you prepared for UFOs? Are UFOs prepared for you? Are UFOs really just
giant flying tortillas? Are tortillas really just small, flat UFOs? Do you
envy robots? Do robots envy you? Does your computer wear a bra? Do you? How?

# Christ-Like Image Appears in Newspaper Photo - saviour rides tornado into
  Midwestern town, gloats: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/p_chrikn.htm
# PLAYING GOD - revolution: http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es327_master.html
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# Bigger scopes Seek Killer Asteroids. An Earth-bound asteroid or comet can
  still kill us but thanks to powerful telescopes slated for addition to the
  worldwide detection effort, we might be able to see it coming. Bend over,
  kiss your ass goodbye: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/y/24280006.cfm

# Gaming and Violence: http://www.feedmag.com/daily/dy042500_master.html
# A New Rex - The Biggest Meat Eater of Them All Bolsters the Theory of
  Pack Hunting: http://www.sciam.com/2000/0500issue/0500scicit5.html

# Uganda Cops Check Cult House.Police,again complaining about lack of funds,
  poked around a house in a Kampala suburb that had been rented by another
  cult leader: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000428/16/uganda-cult-deaths

: Who/what/where are your favorite killers? D'ya prefer killer dinos/robots/
asteroids/cults/bugs/gods? Have you seen any killers lately? Have they seen
you? Are you in jeopardy? Are we all? Is there anything we can do about it?

@ Directed Energy Weapons. This course describes science & current practice
  of directed energy weapons; the evolution & current state of the art; and
  the predicted course of their deployment and their projected configuration
  over the next 5 years and beyond. http://www.pms.se/seminars/energy.htm
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# Free, anonymous information on the anarchists' Net. A growing alliance of
  anarchic programmers are creating a parallel Internet called "Freenet,"
  where censorship is impossible, surfers are anonymous, and content is
  moved and hosted automatically to points near the people who want it.
  Liberation Now: http://home.cnet.com/category/0-1004-200-1765097.html
# Censor THIS! http://www.theregister.co.uk/000428-01.html

# The destruction of capitalism is the aim of protesters set to riot in
  London tomorrow. Reporters dye their hair in order to find out why:
  http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/04/30/stirevnws02002.html

# Target London: http://news.tao.ca/article.pl?sid=00/04/28/0354254
# BOSTON MAYDAY 2000: ANTI-CAPITALIST FESTIVAL OF RESISTANCE - successful
  days of action against capitalism: http://ainfos.ca/en/ainfos04199.html
# Reclaim Mayday in New York City: http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos04194.html

: Have you (d)evolved any systems lately? Have any systems (d)evolved you?
Do your and other conspiracies interactively (de)construct each other? Can
systems ever die? Does power ever dissipate? Is real autonomy possible? How?

# Report Faults Seattle Police in WTO Violence - Poor Planning, Clueless:
http://apbnews.com/cjprofessionals/behindthebadge/2000/04/29/wto0429_01.html
# ANARCHISTS REPRESSED WORLDWIDE: http://ainfos.ca/en/ainfos04198.html
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# Echelon: WASP Conspiracy? "This is an Anglo-Saxon Protestant conspiracy.
  So much for Britain’s commitment to European solidarity; its real union is
  with America." Sez a Frog: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/echeurop.htm

# US Clueless On Privacy: www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35979,00.html
# PRIVACY'S a funny thing. http://feedmag.com/daily/dy042800_master.html
# Spying, Prying and Lying: http://www.newdawnmagazine.com.au/54a.htm

# EXPERT DIES WHO SAID FBI FIRED WACO SHOTS- n

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FIRE! http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/germany/holy/week/2422/hbg101
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# Area 51/Groom Lake Color 1-METER Resolution Photos Coming. WASHINGTON --
  Call it Area 51, Part 2. SPACE.com will showcase the latest and greatest
  images of the super-secret area from the high-tech IKONOS satellite. These
  color, 1-meter resolution images show in detail anything on the base that
  is at least 3 feet wide. The exclusive photos may not show evidence of
  aliens, but they do show a runway that is about 2 1/3 miles, or about 42
  football fields long. This is longer than the runways for the world's
  largest commercial aircraft. The images also show a burgeoning growth in
  the area, including a doubling in size of workers' residences over the
  past 30 years. A geometrically-shaped munitions storage area is also
  identified. http://www.space.com/news/area51_teaser_000421.html

# Astronomers Show Prototype of New SETI Telescope. BERKELEY,CA. Astronomers
  unveiled a small-scale prototype of a proposed giant radio telescope that
  will be dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
  The Rapid Prototype Array: http://www.spaceviews.com/2000/04/20b.html
@ UFOLOGICAL MAGAZINE: http://www.revistaufologica.com.br/xhome08.htm

: Have the Illuminati released false Area51 images to distract us from their
real operations? Have aliens infiltrated SETI to direct the search away from
their real operations? How much disinformation surrounds us? Are you sure??
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# Conspiracy Theories Rise Over Elian Photos. WASHINGTON (AP) - Some point
  to a missing tooth. Others say it's the hair. Still others allege signs of
  government-induced drugging. In the hours since young Elian Gonzalez was
  taken from the home of his Miami relatives,conspiracy theories abound over
 photos of the child released after he arrived at a military base to be with
  his father. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000423/18/int-cuban-boy-photos

# Female Agent Employed Pokemon And Play-Doh After Elian Extraction - mind-
  control revealed: http://english.hk.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world
# Janet Reno, MindController: http://www.sightings.com/general/darkone.htm
# Easter Bunny Visits Elian - implants eggs, fertility symbols, crosses into
  his brain: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000423/19/int-cuban-boy-easter

: What's your favorite Elian conspiracy? In your favorite theory, who gains?
Who loses? What's at stake? Why is so much heat being generated? From what
is the Elian affair distracting us? Who's hiding what? Are they succeeding?

# Latest On The Removal Of Elian: http://www.newsmax.com/
# US Gestapo & Elian: http://www.sightings.com/general/gest.htm
# Elian & Dark Side of Govt: http://www.sightings.com/general/el.htm
# Pleading: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000423/16/int-cuban-boy-relatives
# Blame the U.S. Left for It: http://www.sightings.com/general/left.htm
# Elian's Deadbeat Dad: http://www.sightings.com/general/deadbeat.htm
# E. quotes: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000423/16/int-cuban-boy-quotes
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# Ten Men And One Woman Nailed To Crosses In Philippines - orgasmic ritual:
  http://www.canoe.ca/NationalTicker/CANOE-wire.High-Tech-Schools.html
@ Was Jesus Christ Put To Death At The Beginning Of The World? (Part One)
  How can a god be killed? http://www.sightings.com/general/jesus.htm
@ The Jesus Mysteries - Was the `Original Jesus' a Pagan God? Really?
  http://www.pentelikon.freeserve.co.uk/bookreviews/r/freke-gandy.html

# Arrest in N.M. Pilgrim Deaths. ALCALDE, N.M. (AP) A man was arrested early
  Sunday & charged with murder in the deaths of two teen-agers killed during
  a Good Friday pilgrimage to a church where thousands of people hope for
  miracles. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000423/11/news-pilgrimage-deaths

: Can we ask/say anything more about death cults? Do you worship Death? Why?
Is Death a necessary part of worship? When we're gene-spliced for immortal-
ity, will you bother worshipping anything? Will Death be needed anyway? Why?
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# The Torture Chambers Of Bear Bile Milking. NAIROBI, Kenya (ENS) - Bear
  bile, used for Asian medicinal and cosmetic preparations, is removed
  from caged bears on 247 Chinese bear farms in a painful process known
  as milking. http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2000/2000L-04-19-04.html

# DRUG FIRMS DON'T DO FDA-REQUIRED STUDIES, GROUP CHARGES - slacking for $$:
  http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=31809&src=n3
# Malaria

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@ Beware Bird Bangs: http://www4.50megs.com/fuckedup/chickenexplode1x1.gif
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# Dead Harvested for Products. SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP)  Donated human remains
  are processed into medical products that generate hundreds of millions of
  dollars for U.S. companies despite laws barring profit from body parts.
  Give me my cut NOW! http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/4/16/145954

@ Clone of Silence - How did replicating humans mutate from sci-fi nightmare
  to sentimental dream? Genetic Savings & Clone joins a cultural mainstream:
  http://www10.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/2416mag-clones.html

# Bloodsuckers of Old Are Poised for a Comeback. ODNIKI, Russia -- At the
 International Center for Medicinal Leeches here, Gennadi Nikonov has a true
 evangelical fire about bloodsucking & is determined to restore to the leech
 its good medieval name. http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38f7511a574d.htm

: Have you harvested/cloned/leeched anyone lately? Can you make good money?
Are you motivated by altruism, curiosity, greed, fear, aliens? What's your
favorite harvested/cloned/leeched body part? Do you have a full collection?
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@ Channeling by The Assembly of Light. There are many 'linkings' going on.
  There are many connections being made between now and the time of August.
  This is a very important time in which many energies and connections are
  forming. Many new paths or grids are being laid down here at this time.
  The energy patterns and alignments that are taking place now and for the
  next two to three months will be setting forth intentions and openings.
  It is laying a foundation for new experience to be brought forth. It is
  important at this time and particularly during the first week of May as
  well as the whole month, to bring forth new ideas and framework for the
  consciousness that you wish to see expanded. Et cetera.
  http://www.spiritweb.org/Spirit/teacher-within-haydon.html
@ Your Complete Guide To Life: http://rinkworks.com/brick/

: Have you channeled (m)any paranormal entities lately? D'ya deal with their
energy patterns, picking'em up and laying'em down and dancing'round? Do your
entities keep you hopping? Do they make you babble all sorts of odd stuff??
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# Church Offers Holocaust Apology. VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Lithuania's
  Catholic Church issued an official apology for not doing enough to prevent
  the massacre of some 220,000 Jews during the 1941-44 Nazi occupation. Ah,
  sorry: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000414/20/int-lithuania-apology

# The other children of Moses. 'Jews are totally shocked because the people
  I show in the film, who are Burmese, Chinese, Indian and Afghani, do not
  conform to their stereotype of what a Jew should look like... this really
  bothers them.' http://nationalpost.com/news.asp?f=000415/260606&s2=world

@ TABOO claims to offer proof that black athletes are aided by better
  genes, but it spares us the ambiguities of data that conflicts with
  its thesis: http://www.sciam.com/2000/0500issue/0500reviews1.html

: Have you made any assumptions about groups of people lately? D'ya base y'r
assumptions on physical/scientific/historic/literary evidence? D'ya exploit/
eradicate/ignore people due to your assumptions? Should you be so judged???
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# CASE STUDY: A documentary on violinist Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg raises
  questions about the relationship between manic depression and artists.
  "I think that people who suffer from depression may be able to use
  their creativity to help themselves out of it," says one doctor.
www.postnet.com/postnet/stories.nsf/ByDocId/E21B751FFE1134D2862568C2004E9C1F

# SERTRALINE EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
  (PTSD) - http://psychiatry.medscape.com/20149.rhtml
# WOMEN AND SCHIZOPHRENIA: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/20140.rhtml
# DEPRESSION LINKED IN MOMS/KIDS: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/19980.rhtml
# VIOLENT SUICIDE LINKED TO HIGH SERUM CHOLESTEROL LEVELS:
  http://psychiatry.medscape.com/19941.rhtml

: Have you or others exploited your madness lately? When all neurobiological
aliments are treated/cured, will art/creativity disappear? Does are require
mental disturbance? Should psychopathologies be promoted, for entertainment?
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# MOSSAD warns of attack on Vatican. AS the Pope led Palm Sunday ceremonies
  before 10 people in St Peter's Square, police were on high alert after
  a warning to Italy & the Vatican that there c

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@ Zap Your CD: http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~wwl/cdzap.html
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@ Control Rodents, Not Humans! http://www.caviesgalore.com/
# Simulated: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,35161,00.html
# Applying Personality Tests To Networks - how does your net think
  and feel? http://serverwatch.internet.com/articles/myersbriggs/

# Former University Professor Was Soviet Spy. Prof. Lopez spied on the
  United States for Soviet military intelligence, passing on secrets for
  a decade until the FBI caught up with him and quietly forced him back
  to Mexico. http://www.wcco.com/news/stories/news-2407-024053.html

@ Alleged NSA Mind Control Methods: http://www.raven1.net/wjf.htm
@ Mind Control Forum http://www.morethanconquerors.simplenet.com/MCF/
@ Government Mind Control: http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/index.html
@ Neuro-Influence Device Victims: http://www.glasscity.net/users/1927
@ Three Mind-Control Technologies: http://www.raven1.net/3techs.htm

: Would you rather control rodents, humans, dogs, networks, nations, aliens,
galaxies, all of observable reality? Is constant surveillance necessary for
control? What're your favorite surveillance/control/simulation technologies?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# A cool trick - How Chile could help save the world and get credits for it.
  Fertilise the sea with nitrogen to boost biological activity and increase
  the ocean's capacity for absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. If
  nothing goes wrong: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns223327

@ New Weather Modification Research Papers: SYSTEMS CONSIDERATIONS OF WEA-
  THER MODIFICATION EXPERIMENTS USING HIGH POWER ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION.
  MESOCYCLONE DIAGNOSTIC REQUIREMENTS FOR THUNDERSTORM SOLAR POWER SATELLITE
  CONCEPT: http://www.borderlands.com/newstuff/research/HPEMRAD/Eastlund.htm
@ Dr. Bernard Eastlund's website: http://www.eastlundscience.com

# UFOs Over Germany Caused By Aurora Borealis - Fear of toxic gas clouds
  and nuclear accidents: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_arbor1.htm
@ SPACE AND ELECTRONIC WARFARE LEXICON: http://www.sew-lexicon.com/
@ ECHELON key-words: http://www.geocities.com/wtmick/echelon.htm

: Would you rather totally control atmospheres, hydrospheres, lithospheres,
ionospheres, ideospheres, observable reality? Have you manipulated any phys-
ical/virtual environments lately? Do you fight for control of such realms?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Meltdown in the Alps - Global warming is having a dramatic effect on the
  Alps. (BBC) Scientists have discovered that Europe's permafrost, the
  frozen earth covering mountain areas like the Alps, is melting.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_703000/703075.stm

# New route breaks the ice. (BBC) A time-saving new shipping route connec-
  ting Europe to the Pacific may be navigable thanks to global warming. The
  North Eastern Passage, which cuts through the arctic waters along Siberia,
  was until now locked by ice. However, the steady rise in temperatures over
  the last 20 years has seen the ice thin and retreat substantially. Hotcha!
  http://news2.thls.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid%5F705000/705320.stm

# BigThaw http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_669000/669051.stm
# ThinIce http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_523000/523065.stm

: Have you engineered any climate changes lately? How much hot air is requi-
red? How much can you generate? What's your favorite climate modification??
When all the ice has melted, how will you keep your drinks cold? D'ya care?
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# Conjure & Gris Gris. Kongo minkisi & Fon bocio are two of the African
  sources which inform a New Orleans gris-gris aesthetic. They share a
  common impetus of revelation & concealment, sensuous surface & mystical
  presence: http://www2.msstate.edu/~amc11/achupa/vodun/conjure.html

@ GET BACK. Find your own way to Higher-Self development/liberation using a
  specially designed program of spiritual development based on Yoga,Buddhism
  & Transpersonal Psychology: Return to Spirit. http://www.spiritsong.org/
@ MYTHS AND EVERYTHING: http://geoinfo.amu.edu.pl/wpk/pro/TOC.HTM#MYTHOLOGY

# GOOD FORT, BAD FORT. Could forteans be to blame for an historic reversal
  of the Enlightenment? Well, no, of course not. Fortean beliefs and anti-
  rationalism: http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/coward/goodfort.html
  [via BiRivets: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Lindsay/weblog/latest.html ]

: What's your favorite revelation/manifestation/liberation/c

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# Magnetic Fields Hold Key To Malaria Treatment - could prove revolutionary
  in controlling disease: http://eurekalert.com/releases/uwsh-mfm033000.html
  (Note - This is another example of electromagnetic medicine beginning to
  emerge from nearly 100 years of enforced oblivion at the hands of the evil
  medical-pharmaceutical cartel. http://www.sightings.com/general/mag.htm )

# Getting warm: Heat treatment works on tumours - burning your way to better
  health: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_696000/696242.stm
# 55% Of Americans Overweight - 23% Are Obese - fattening-up for harvesting
  by Reptilioids? Who's rewarded? http://www.msnbc.com/news/380705.asp?cp1=1

: Would you rather be treated with drugs, surgery, magnets, Xrays, heatbeams
or prayer? Have your lifestyle & behaviour contributed to your medical woes?
Do cartels control your health? Are you succulent enough to devour yet? Eh?

# Virus worry - "I didn't know if surgeon had infected me" - or on whose
  orders: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_695000/695985.stm
@ Operation Raindance - Hanta Virus: www.rumormillnews.com/archive/43098.txt
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# Bishop called followers to prayer - Leader told members 'they would go and
  see Jesus' http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2401/ts/uganda_cult_3.html
# Cult mastermind still alive - Witnesses portray woman as greedy religious
  huckster - what else is new? http://foxnews.com/world/040100/uganda.sml

# Test analysis to delay trial in Branch Davidian suit. DALLAS - The federal
  wrongful-death case arising from the Branch Davidian siege will be delayed
  until mid-June to allow more time to study results from a field test aimed
  at determining whether govt agents fired at the end of the 1993 incident.
  Stalling tactics? http://dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/57450_WACO31.html

: What's your favorite doomsday cult? Has your sect slaughtered many of its
own members or others lately? D'ya prefer fire, bullets, poison gas/pudding/
koolade, impalement, McFood? Is killing believers good population control??

@ For some, only genuine questions have answers. But the trouble with
  questions is precisely the need for answers. Do you prefer questions
  or answers? http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/phillips_sp00.html
@ Isis Unveiled & Forged Christianity: http://apollonius.net/wheless.html
@ The Official Website Of Zecharia Sitchin: http://www.sitchin.com/
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# Cockroaches plague G8 summit. Fast-breeding giant cockroaches reportedly
  threaten to plague world leaders at a Group of Eight summit to be held in
  Japan. It said the pests were breeding at an accelerated rate, threatening
  to overrun the G8 summit in Nago on Japan's southern island of Okinawa
  from July 21-23. http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newsdaily/rael-2apr2000-3.htm

# NATO Kosovo plan leaked on Net - Document on computer in publishing firm:
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001612468322797&pg=/et/00/4/2/nato02.html
# NSA seeks to balance security, privacy - wants 'global key infrastructure'
  for crypto users: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35331,00.html

: Have you disrupted/empowered/manipulated any (inter)national agencies lat-
ely? Do you engage in biological/informational/artistic warfare? Is it fun?

@ Malthus was wrong. Though populations may grow faster than food supplies,
  ideas can grow even faster -- and they create endless resources. Most of
  us aren't starving: http://nationalinterest.org/issues/59/Baileyextr.html
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# SURVEY: NASA WORKERS AMONG MOST SATISFIED FEDS. Federal workers who help
  explore space or protect the environment are among the most satisfied with
  their jobs, while those who enforce immigration and food safety rules are
  the least happy. http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/space/03/31/federalworkers.ap/

# Art Bell Announces Retirement From Radio:
  http://www.sightings.com/general/artretires.htm
# Japan's PM Obuchi Hospitalized From Overwork:
  http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2402/wl/japan_obuchi_4.html
@ Chock-full of teenage angst it's... i am not a goth:
  http://www.darksites.com/souls/pagan/rants/

: Are you happy with your work? Are your alien/Illuminati/CIA masters happy?
Will they ever let you go? Do they use mind-control rays to keep people at
their jobs? Who controls the mindcontrollers? Can propagandist

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# SATAN! http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/bruins/sabres/2309/bfx101
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# More UFO Sightings, Some Recorded On Video. NEW JERSEY HOVERING UFO; MARY
 -LAND UFO VIDEOS; GEORGIA INVESTIGATION OF LIGHTS; GEORGIA CIRCLE OF LIGHTS
  FROM UFO - ILLINOIS PHOTO GETS UFOs ON FILM - ARKANSAS FIRE FROM SPACE -
  SO.ARIZONA UFO SIGHTINGS - MALAYSIA CRATER IS CLAIMED TO BE UFO LANDING
  SPOT - UK BLACK TRIANGLES: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/filers31200.htm

@ MKULTRA Docs; may be triggering: http://209.207.141.249/ds/mkultradocs.htm
# Recent BC And Yukon UFO Sightings: http://www.ufobc.org/recent.htm
# Firefighters And UFOs: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/fire.htm

@ It's A Great, Big, Wonderful World We Live On... And Some ETs Are Trying
  To Help. We live on one of the great jewels in the universe and that is
  one of the main reason we are being visited. The visitors have been giving
  us a message, but many cannot see it or understand it. The blind fools...
  But they'll learn. THEY'LL learn!! http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/big.htm
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# Robot reduces spinal surgery risk. Scientists are developing a robot that
  can reduce the risks associated with extremely delicate surgery on the
  spine. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_672000/672815.stm

@ Links - Spinal Injuries Association: http://www.spinal.co.uk/
@ Spinal Cord Injury Resource Center: http://www.spinalinjury.net/
@ National Spinal Cord Injury Association: http://www.spinalcord.org/

: Are your favorite surgeons human, alien, robotic, spiritual, mental? Are
your paralyzing injuries divine will? Should surgeons be allowed to muck
around with you? Do surgeons conspire against you? Have they chopped you up?

# Are you smarter than a robot? The world's largest experiment on
  artificial intelligence starts today. Test yourself and see, hu-man.
  www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000343180237640&pg=/et/00/3/9/ecftur09.html
# New Law for Quantum Computers Disclosed - stricter enforcement urged:
  http://www.alphagalileo.org/fetchpn.asp?id=3182&accept_language=en
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# Pope In Historic Plea To Pardon Church Sins. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) In one
  of the most significant acts of his papacy, Pope John Paul asked forgive-
  ness for the *many* past sins of his Church, including its treatment of
  Jews, heretics, women and native peoples. But apology for fish on Friday.
  Ewww. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2312/ts/pope_forgiveness_4.html

# The Inquisition - Catholic Church's 700 Years Of Mass Murder. VATICAN CITY
  (AFP) - The Roman Catholic Inquisition, for which Pope John Paul II sought
  forgiveness Sunday, was a 700-year campaign of persecution of heretics in
  which hundreds of thousands of people were tortured and killed. Suppressed
  many dissidents, reformers: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/inquiz.htm

: Have you apologized lately? Should you have? Did you go far enough? D'your
operatives smile grimly and continue towards their goal? D'ya prefer child
molestation, mind-control, dissident-incineration, granting indulgences??

# Giordano Bruno - Philosopher & Scientist Burnt At The Stake 400 Years Ago.
  (Sun) "I cleave to the heavens,  and soar to the infinite. What others see
  from afar, I leave far behind me." http://sightings.com/politics6/gio.htm
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# Einstein Experiment Faces Crucial Test This Summer. Gravity Probe B (GPB),
  a half billion-dollar space mission designed to prove Einstein right or
  wrong, is struggling with technical difficulties, rising costs and a
  receding launch date. http://space.com/science/grav_probe_b_000310.html

# Also: Gravitational Waves: Einstein's Elusive Children:
  http://space.com/science/astronomy/ligo_waves_991116.html
# The World's Largest Gravitational-Wave Observatory Goes Online:
  http://space.com/science/astronomy/ligo_open_991116.html
# How Gravitational Waves Lead to Space-Time Ripples:
  http://space.com/science/astronomy/LIGO_works_991115.html

: Have you probed gravity lately? Has gravity probed you? Have you struggled
with gravity? Who won? Have you detected/generated/manipulated any gravity
waves lately? Was it difficult? Should you change your diet? Should we all?
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# Failed rocket plunges into ocean - British hopes dashed. (BBC) A rocket
  takes its telecoms satellite payload to a watery grave after a failed
  launch from a converted oil platform in the Pacific. Yanks retain domin-
  anc

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@ Flattened: http://www.nerve.com/scripts/photoday.plx?48
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# "When Planets Attack..." Something flew over Southwestern Illinois in the
  wee hours of 1/5/2000. Was it Venus, as the debunkers claim? Was it alien,
  military? http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/weekly/mcurrent.htm

# "Reader's Sightings" A new batch of sightings every week, from YOU! See
  it now: http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/blguidea.htm
@ *SEND ME YOUR SIGHTING!* For inclusion on the "Reader's Sightings" page.
  Be sure to include the date and location of the sighting. Your name won't
  be used, only initials. Send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

: Have you sighted/reported/hallucinated/faked any UFOs lately? Have you
contributed to any UFO forums? Did you gain fame/fortune/infamy/scrutiny?
Will you keep your mouth shut next time? Will there be a 'text time'? Why?

# "In The News" - Did General Roger Ramey admit that he lied about Roswell?
  http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/blnews.htm
# "The Disappearance of Frederich Valentich" He Vanished after reporting a
  UFO... http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/weekly/aa033098.htm
@ "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About UFOs..." ..But didn't know who
  to ask. http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/blguidea.htm
@ "U.S. UFO Sightings" A continuously updated database of UFO sighting
  reports: http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/blsight2.htm
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# AURORA WARNING. (NASA) Residents of Canada and the northern United States
  should be on the alert for aurora borealis during the night of March 5 and
  morning of March 6.  The best time to view aurorae is usually around local
  midnight.  Tonight's new moon will make even faint activity easy to see.
  Early on March 5, 2000, the interplanetary magnetic field in the vicinity
  of Earth developed a significant southward-directed component.  This con-
  dition often means that solar wind plasma can penetrate Earth's magneto-
  sphere and trigger auroral activity.  Data from NOAA's polar orbiting
  meteorological satellites late on March 5 show an expanded auroral oval.
  If this high level of activity continues, auroral displays could be
  visible as far south as the Great Lakes states and in New England.
  Continuing coverage of aurora: http://www.SpaceWeather.com

: Have you been irradiated lately? Do aurarae trigger your subconscious? Do
you have a strong compulsion to worship the sky gods? Do you have animal/
human/alien sacrifices ready? Will the sky gods be please with your gifts??
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# The Amazing Splitting Of Van Tassel's 'Giant Rock' - A Prophecy Fulfilled?
  Or too many rock-climbers?  To
  UFO researchers, Giant Rock is significant for other reasons. It was the
  home & workplace of the enigmatic George Van Tassel. Van Tassel allegedly
  made contact with extraterrestrials and was tutored by them on a variety
  of subjects, including human, cellular rejuvenation. And that led to the
  building of a structure called the Integratron. http://tcoto.da.ru

# Contactee Van Tassel's 'Giant Rock' In Mojave Desert Breaks Apart - gift
  shop operators bereft: http://www.emissaryoflight.com/giant_rock.htm

: Have you seen many/any spirits/UFOs/drunks from atop Giant Rock? Was Van
Tassel's daughter really impregnated by a Martian there? Did concussion from
the nearby USMC artillery range crack The Rock? Are powers of Mentalphysics,
focussed through The Rock, now dissipated, free-floating haphazardly from
the Morongo Basin towards Los Angeles, to ignite a further catastrophe? Were
UFOlogy gatherings at The Rock fine examples of performance art? Thrilling?

@ The Rite of Spring provoked riots in Paris in 1913. In America, it gets
  nothing more than a lusty ovation. Where were those Parisian hooligans
  raised?... http://www.harvard-magazine.com/jf00/firstnights.ssi
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# "Flatulent Irish cows are anything but great gas" - "The extent of flatu-
  lence among Irish cows, not to mention their belching, will soon force
  farmers to change the way they do business, it has been predicted. This
  factor is a major contributor to Ireland's growing greenhouse gas emis-
  sions problem" http://ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2000/0301/hom33.htm

# "Clean Air Trust Names 'Republicans for Clean Air' Villain of the Month" -
  e. http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/0303-113.html
# "World obese catch up with starving" - "For the

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# Expert Says Y2K cult activity not over yet. (U-WIRE) MARIETTA, Ohio --
  Although Jan 1, 2000, has passed uneventfully, it's too early to breathe
  a sigh of relief regarding potentially dangerous millennial cult activity,
  according to cult expert Rick Ross. Or is he just trying to scare up some
  clients? http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000211/university-education-215

@ FREEDOM OF MIND: Common Psychological Problems in Victims of Cult Mind
  Control; Spiritual Responsibility; Mind Control: The B.I.T.E. Model; Post-
  Traumatic Stress Disorder; PTSD in Cult Victims; Extensive Information on
  Moon Organization; more: http://www.freedomofmind.com/resources.htm

: Is your cult preparing to engage in dangerous millennial activities? What
do you have planned? Are you numerate? Are your doomsday scenarios scheduled
for 1/1/2001, the real start of the millennium? If you're so smart, why are
you cultic? Do you want to spread global doom just for the hell of it? How?

@ The Center for Millenial Studies. The world may not end, but major
  changes are coming. Prepare to meet your...??? http://www.mille.org/
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# WIZARD WAR - Web in modern age is arena for activism, terrorism, even
  war. Winston Churchill called the rise of electronic warfare in World
  War II the "Wizard War." Half a century later, the Wizard War has moved
  to the Internet.  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150012823,00.html

# Terrorism at the touch of a keyboard - Possible targets: anything run
  by computers: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/980713/13cybe.htm
# Smart Cards Will Soon Contain Biometric Data - BigBro is Carding You:
  http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/09/biometrics.card.idg/index.html

# HACKER HUNTERS TRACKING TO GERMANY. Cyber detectives tracking hackers who
  launched an electronic offensive on several top Web sites have followed a
  lead to Germany. http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/13/hacker.trail.01/

: What are your favorite electro/info/cyberwar tactics/strategies? Is cyber-
war more/less fun than nuclear/biological/chemical or conventional warfare?
Can cyberwar be waged/won by disembodied intellects? Would they really care?

# Chernobyl Closed After Malf: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/chern.htm
@ Modeling the Chemical Warfare Agent Release at the Khamisiyah Pit:
   http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/gulfwar/555/425055597.html
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# "Oceans could rise by 8 metres" [~27 ft.] - "The world's oceans are likely
  to rise by seven to eight metres over the next 1,000 to 2,000 years... but
  drastic change is unlikely in the next few centuries." What a relief:
  www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Environment/2000-02/APrising100200.shtml
@ ACRC: http://www.antcrc.utas.edu.au/antcrc/about/Position_Statement_2.html

# Chinese "Dragon" Nears Extinction. As Chinese communities worldwide cele-
  brate the Year of the Dragon, China’s true dragon, the Chinese alligator,
  teeters on the brink of extinction, with fewer than 150 remaining in the
  wild. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000211083646.htm

: What's your favorite biocatastrophe? How many species have you driven into
extinction? How many island nations have you drowned by melting icecaps? Are
such endings inevitable? Should we just think of it as evolution in action?

# Frankenfoods & Biodevastation: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/franken.htm
@ How was Darwin so right overall, despite being wrong about what underpins
  his theory? Easy: he let the facts speak for themselves:
  http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n03/berr2203.htm
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@ From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Subject: The Skeptic James Randi & his enemies.
  I found this site posted on Sci.skeptic: The Truth about James Randi and
  others  - Not quite sure what to
  think of this site but take a look and see what you can find. Also here
  is the official James Randi Site - James Randi Educational Foundation
  homepage 

@ Human Spontaneous Involuntary Invisibility. People can become invisible.
   Not just go invisible
  while being abducted by aliens, but just disappear while going about their
  normal business.  One minute you're frosting a cake and the next minute
  the kitchen looks empty except for the words "Happy Birthday" appearing
  in pink handwriting. [ via http://www.ratbags.com/loon/ ]

: Are you a[n] [i

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# Hundreds of priests have died of AIDS. KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - AIDS has
  quietly caused the deaths of hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in the
  United States although other causes may be listed on some of their
  death certificates: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9300742

: Is it better to be HIV+ than never to have loved at all? Should priests
die quickly, slowly, anonymously? Do you falsify records for your religion?

# Formal split for Presbyterian Church - divorcing over gay clergy:
# Methodist Men glad Scout case is under review - no gay scoutmasters:
# Number of Lutherans rises to 63.1 million worldwide - breeding like mink:
# Jim Bakker back in the pulpit preaching forgiveness, taking collections:
  http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150009433,00.html
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# U.S. Admits Radiation Sickened Workers. NEW YORK (Reuters) In an about-
  face, U.S. officials now say nuclear weapons workers exposed to radiation
  and chemicals experienced higher-than-expected rates of cancers. Not our
  fault: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000129/14/science-health-radiation

@ The US Govt has very strict standards on just how much filth you may eat:
  http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dalbook.html#CHPTA and look around carefully.
  [ Via http://www.camworld.com/ and see http://www.obscurestore.com/ ]

: Is your govt sickening you for fun, experimentation, bribery? Is your govt
killing you quickly, slowly, secretly? Have you overthrown your govt lately?

# The cosmos has the big bang and evolution has Darwin. But climate
  has no big idea: the weather is just one damned thing after another:
  http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/highlights/millennium_briefing/
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Degree program combines Bible & basketball - dribbling for Jesus:
  http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150009747,00.html
# Remains of saint revered in Utah - cute little reliquary:
  http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150008813,00.html

@ Empresses of the North. In Russia's north -- an area forbidden to
  Western visitors throughout the cold war because of its strategic
  military facilities -- an astonishing trove of Orthodox Church
  architecture survives precariously in the wake of depopulation and
  economic collapse: http://www.civmag.com/articles/C9912F02.html

: Does your belief system go to great lengths/expense to attract followers?
Do you cross-fertilize your Religious Game with aspects of Artistic/Athletic
Games? Do your Game Masters carefully design mind-control strategies? How??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Mars Polar Lander Found? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9300245

# Shuttle Discovery Flew With Faulty Part. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters)
  The space shuttle Discovery flew six times with a faulty part in its main
  engine, one that should have been sent to the scrap heap, NASA admitted:
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/000129/20/science-space-shuttle
  http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000129/21/space-shuttle

: Can complex systems be built that don't contain faulty components? Do UFOs
have faulty components? Is that why they crash? Are all journeys dangerous?
Will you go anyway? Is DESIRE the most dangerous component of any endeavor?

@ "Men wanted for Hazardous Journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months
  of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and
  recognition in case of success." - Ernest Shackleton - Don't forget about
  certain death: http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/shackleton/
  And travel over to http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Travel/
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ Hecatohedra 
  anyone? Dehn  invariants?
  Polygons  as
  projections of polytopes, dear friend? The Geometry Junkyard can help you
   decipher the
  mysteries of polyhedra and polytopes. Maybe. Maybe not.
  And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Reference/

: What's y'r favorite geometric mystery? Have you shifted dimensions lately?
Do demons/deities/aliens hide in the corners? What's your favorite polytope?

# Artroversy: http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/feat/0a23cult.htm
# Stuck In Your Head: http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es287_master.html
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# Going Online for Virtual Mobility. (Wired) The Net opens a world of
  resources & like-minded communities to people with spinal cord injuries.
  http://www.wired.com/news/technolog

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@ Scarlet Letters: http://www.scarletletters.com/current/index.html
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# OOPS! Nuke Secrets Disclosed by Mistake - DoE Releases, Retracts Weapons
  Data. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government's aggressive push five years ago
  to declassify historic papers led to about 1,000 documents containing
  nuclear weapons secrets to be mistakenly declassified. Is our face red!
  www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/01/22/nukesecrets0122_01.html

: Have you released any nuclear secrets lately? Was your leak intentional,
accidental, un-conscious, other-directed? Are you, like, rilly, rilly sorry?
Are you afraid of what will happen next? Should you be? Should WE be? Why?

@ Disco Nervoso - At Club Phobia, the only thing left to feel is fear
  itself. http://go.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/phobia.html/mg20004
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Kinkel Tells Cops He Had 'No Choice' - Oregon School Killer's Actions:
  http://apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/01/22/kinkel0122_01.html
# White Supremacist Campaigns on Campus - NWU Grapples With Hateful Message:
  www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/01/22/supremacist0122_01.html

: Do you have choices? Do you choose to hate? Is it a good, useful, workable
choice? D'ya mind if others hate you? D'ya thrive on their hate? D'ya feed
on violent emotions? D'ya get an adrenaline rush? Are you addicted to hate?

@ ED. Meet Ed Testy. He's a right-thinkin', God-fearin', gub'mint-hatin'
  American patriot! Oh yeah, there's one little thing: Ed also happens to
  be a small gray alien. But don't tell him that, or he'll plug you full
  o' buckshot. http://www.mediatrip.com/per/House_Picks/Ed_Testy.html
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# Kidnapped Son of Cult Leader Found. TOKYO - Police on Sunday found the
  kidnapped son of a former cult guru who is on trial for the 1995 sarin
  gassing on Tokyo subways. The 7-year-old boy had been abducted Friday by
  several people believed to be members of the Aum Shinri Kyo cult. It was
  unclear why the child, the son of Shoko Asahara, was kidnapped. Japanese
  media reports said it was probably related to infighting within the
  cult. http://www.usatoday.com/aponline/212309/212309393400.htm

: Does y'r cult have serious factional disputes? Do all cults? Do all belief
systems tend to fragment into incompatible factions? Is that how ya can tell
you're dealing with beliefs, not reality? What's your favorite schism? Why?

# Bahai leader buried. The last survivor of the holy family of the Bahai
  faith, Madame Ruhiyyah Rabbani, is buried in Israel - the end of an era.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_615000/615654.stm

# "I never knew that there's actually a duct tape fad. Sometimes I feel so
  old." http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58675-2000Jan17.html
  --from http://www.rc3.org/ -- and see http://www.robotwisdom.com
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# UK Catholic Cardinal Likens Gay Lobby to Nazis. EDINBURGH (Reuters) -
  The leader of Scotland's Roman Catholics provoked an angry reaction
  from gay rights groups on Sunday by comparing the threat from the
  homosexual lobby in Europe to that of the Nazis during World War Two.
  http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2123/wl/scotland_gays_1.html

: Who has burnt more people: ActUp, Nazis, the Vatican's Holy Office [the
Inquisition]?? Is the Cardinal using the Big Lie technique? What's your fave
Big Lie? Do you lie big? Do you control minds? Do you practice a lot? How?

@ Deeper Insights into the Illuminati Formula:
  http://mercury.spaceports.com/~persewen/deeper_insights_index.htm
@ Chechnya: http://www.fieldingtravel.com/df/dplaces/chechnya/index.htm
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Pornography: an epidemic. Easy access on Net spurs religious intervention.
  Ever-beckoning and always available, Joe's computer seemed to call out
  every time he walked past his home office. Where others saw a dark, blank
  screen, he saw the tawdry images dance through his mind, even when he
  wasn't wired into the Internet. The secret obsession was affecting his
  work, his family, even his relationship with God. He was hooked. What a
  pickle: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150007699,00.html

: Are you addicted to sex, porn, gods, food, drugs, ETs, TV, me? Does porn
address more basic drives than religion? Are the most successful religions
pornographic? D'ya prefer sex.porn, god.porn, war.porn, celeb.porn, robots?

# Couple seeks double sex change: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9267943
@ Sex Slavery: http://www.washtimes.com/op

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@ The shower project: http://www.theshowerproject.com/index.htm
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# War With U.S. 'Inevitable' Say Commie Chinese Defense Minister. "Seen from
  the changes in the world situation & the United States' hegemonic strategy
  for creating monopolarity, war is inevitable." Bend over, grab y'r ankles,
  kiss your ass goodbye: http://sightings.com/politics6/warwithchina_p.htm

# Moscow Helping China Build Cruise Missiles And Nuclear Warheads - Fun
  And Profitable: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/moscowchina_p.htm

: Is U.S. policy hegemonic, enveloping, smothering? Can China resist? Should
the U.S. just nuke the shit out of China now, get it over with? Would that
be bad for business? Whose? Will the war be nuclear, economic, cyber, dirty?

@ Earth Climate Predictions: http://www.earthfiles.com/earth108.htm
@ Predictions'R'Us: http://www.room101rat.com/webdesignca/iris.html
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# 2 new translations of King David story - vastly different. (AP)  By
  happenstance, two American Jews have simultaneously produced new
  translations of 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel, the Bible's great narrative
  about Kings Saul and David. And the treatments couldn't be more
  different. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,145019400,00.html

: Are your deities sloppy in their proclamations? Are divine words too easy
to misunderstand, misinterpret? Do your deities have fun with confusing you?

@ Jesus 2000 Contest: http://www.fadetoblack.com/jesus2000/
# Foot washing at shelter touches hearts:
  http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,145019081,00.html?
# Catholic Church opposes teen crime plan:
  http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,145019397,00.html?
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# WOMEN: 21st Century Relationships. The “baby-boomers” are retiring, women
  are becoming more powerful, single-parents are more prevalent, and the
  Internet is creating a global village. Our expert offers you consolation
  for handling the minefield of relationships in the 21st century. Buck up:
  http://woman.iafrica.com/relationships/counselling/7644.htm?src_id=tmp0401

: Are you ready for new relationships? Would you rather relate with women,
men, aliens, animals, robots, CIA mind-controllers, Bilderbergers, aphids?

@ Build your own frog: http://www-itg.lbl.gov/vfrog/builder.info.html
@ Why the FDA won't approve Hypnosis Tapes for generating hair growth:
  http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/devadvice/21oo.html
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# Bright red moon expected during Thursday eclipse. ATLANTA, (Reuters) Luna
  will turn bright red on Thursday night during a total lunar eclipse that
  should be easy to see throughout the Americas. "We're kind of expecting
  that this eclipse will be very bright and probably very bright red."
  Bloody: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000115/11/space-eclipse

# New Jersey Disc Caught On Digital Camera - 3 Cylinders Over Pennsylvania:
  http://sightings.com/ufo6/filers1152000.htm & see http://filersfiles.com/

: How many people will think the eclipsed moon is a bright red UFO? Have you
seen any bright red UFOs lately? Did they coincide with a smoggy moonrise?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Men with 80-pound crosses are Mardi Gras-bound. Sandal- and robe-wearing
  Richard Martin and Brian O'Connell are tying up traffic along U.S. 19 as
  they drag their cedar crosses (with wheels attached for easier mobility)
  toward New Orleans. Their ambitious goal is to save the deviants at Mardi
  Gras. "It's a drunken party," says a disgusted O'Connell. What a blast:
  http://sptimes.com/News/011500/NorthPinellas/Crossbearers__path_to.shtml
@ Witness Mardi Gras depravity yourself: http://www.sordid.com/mardigras2/

: Would you rather be depraved or saved? Is salvation worth the boredom? Are
you a party animal? Do motorists honk and curse at you?

# Japan Doomsday Cult to Sell Assets. TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Aum doomsday
  cult, accused of the 1995 fatal nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway, will
  sell its assets to offer compensation to victims & their families. We're
  sorry: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000116/21/international-japan-cult
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Study Shows Bratty Behavior Makes Boys Popular. WASHINGTON (Reuters)
  Psychologists said they had helped explain why some boys become bullies
  because aggressive behavior may make boys popular with their playmates.
  Hello there: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000116/18/science-health-brats

: Are you aggressive, popular, sociopathic? Do your negative characteristics
receive positive social reinforcements? Are you wire

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@ 100 Things I'll Do If I Ever Become An Evil OverLord:
  http://www.angelfire.com/ar/arislyn/overlord.html
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# Believers expect Second Coming to occur on outskirts of Edinburgh. One of
  Britain's most mysterious churches, which is said to house the Holy Grail,
  has become the focus of speculation about the imminent second coming of
  Jesus Christ. Believers have lately been visiting the tiny 15th-century
  Rosslyn chapel on the outskirts of Edinburgh, convinced that it is the
  site where Christ will reappear, as predicted in the Book of Revelation.
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/This_Britain/edinburgh311299.shtml

: If Jesus doesn't return to Rosslyn, should Scotland be burnt down? If He
does return, what'll we do with all the empty cars? Do you have insurance??

@ Advocacy Committee for Human Experimentation Survivors & Mind Control,
  known as MC-ACHES: http://www.aches-mc.org
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Head of foot cult steps down - God told him it was time to walk away.
  (Tokyo) THE leader of a Japanese cult who read his followers' fortunes in
  the soles of their feet said yesterday that he was resigning on advice
  from God. The cult, Hono Hana Sanpogyo - the Flower of Law and the Three
  Law Practice - is facing lawsuits totalling £337 million over fraud
  
  allegations. The leader, Hogen Fukunaga, 54, denies the charges. He said
  he heard "a voice from heaven" on New Year's Day which told him to resign.
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000271261842766&pg=/et/00/1/8/wjap08.html

: Do your deities provide good legal advice? Have you broken any divine laws
lately? Are they harder to follow than mundane laws? Are they hard on feet?

@ Paranormal Voices Say: Death No End: http://xs4all.nl/~wichm/deathnoe.html
@ Longdendale - The Haunted Valley: http://www.hauntedvalley.com/index.htm
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Old cells give new clones. (BBC) Six cloned calves are created from
  cells kept in the lab for three months, much longer than ever before.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_593000/593121.stm

: Do you have any old cells you'd like to have cloned? Do you carefully dis-
pose of your hair & nail clippings so malefactors can't clone you? Do you
spread old cell around, hoping you WILL be cloned? Are you worth cloning??

@ Urban Legends - the complete reference: http://www.snopes.com
# Biotech advances spook Canucks - GM foods top list of techno-fears:
  http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/000108/3405758.html
# Georgia could become a world leader in cloning research:
  http://www.accessatlanta.com/news/2000/01/08/cloning.html
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ Reptoids.com - "...dedicated to studying the reptilian image within the
  UFO phenomena." This site should not be viewed by young children. "There
  are good humans. There are evil humans. There are good reptilians. There
  are evil reptilians." this web site is guaranteed to scare the corprolite
  out of you. Is that a good thing? R U nervous? http://www.reptoids.com/

: Have you encountered any Reptoids lately? Did they loan you money? Much??
How many humans are really disguised Reptoids? Have you dissected them all?

# UFOs In China, New Zealand, SoCal, And Maine:
  http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/filers192000.htm
# China Enters Millennium On Serious UFO Quest:
  http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/quest.htm
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# Clinton Scandal Documents to Be Put on Internet. NEW YORK — Documents from
  the sex scandal that led to the impeachment of Pres. Clinton in connection
  with his affair with Monica Lewinsky will be posted in their entirety on
  the Internet next week. Random House said that the documents, used exten-
  sively for a new book on the scandal, would be available next Tuesday,
  Jan. 11, at www.vastconspiracy.com. [sorry, no link to story available]

: Do you want to know more about the Clinton/Lewinsky thang? Don't you ever
get enough? Shouldn't you be ashamed of yourself? Do you still smoke cigars?

@ Yeltsin: End of an era: http://www.cnn.com/yeltsin
# Genealogical Experts Link Elvis To Jimmy Carter:
  http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/elvis.htm
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# Successful AIDS Treatment In Canada Said Suppressed For Over Two Years -
  AIDS Cure Invented By Oklahoma General Practitioner. What NIH did not
  know at the time was Precious had stopped taking the drugs it prescribed
  her under its protocol. What has the NIH discovered since, that it hasn't
  disclosed? http://www3.50megs.com/medical/aids/aidscure.html

: Have you developed any cheap cures lately? Have they been suppres

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@ Museum Of Bad Art: http://glyphs.com/moba/ and more: http://badart.com/
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$ John A. Logan College in Carterville, Ill. offers all-Internet classes.
  "UFOs: An Alien Connection?" will examine the history of the UFO phenome-
  non and speculate on the possibility of alien life.  It's a continuing
  education course, taught totally on the Net. The class utilizes threaded
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: How much do you want to learn about UFOs? Are you qualified to teach a
course yourself? Are you alien? Will you be a guest speaker? Are you paid?

@ America Da Irrational: www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba991103.htm
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Hope for solo flying. A SUPER-LIGHTWEIGHT flying machine that straps on to
  the pilot's back has been developed in America. Devised by a former jet
  fighter pilot, the Solotrek Exo-Skeletor Flying Vehicle, or XFV, takes off
  & lands like a helicopter, using a custom-built 120 horsepower two-stroke
  engine to drive two ducted fans above the pilot's head. Up, up and away:
  www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000140326706927&pg=/et/99/11/18/ecnbak18.html

: Do you want to fly? Will the skies fill with idiots in personal flyers,
zooming around crazily, crashing into each other & whatever trees & hills &
buildings get in their way? Should personal flying be outlawed? If winging
is outlawed, will only outlaws take wing? Will they get lost? Do you care?

@ Plane Crash Info: http://www.planecrashinfo.com/
@ Mad Scientists: http://www.badastronomy.com/mad/
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@ If you wondered why those USGS topographic maps 
  you tediously downloaded seem to be scanned crooked, here's why:
  http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/drg/mercproj/index.html
  And see: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Cartography/

@ Ever wonder how GPS http://utexas.edu/depts/grg/gcraft/notes/gps/gps.html
  worked, or wanted to use the raw digital data to do the position solution
  yourself? Everything you need to know, and even some example code, in Java
 www.ualberta.ca/~norris/gps & C http://vase.essex.ac.uk/projects/gps/djjweb
  as well as the original author's code, are here, where GPS equations are
  explained. http://callisto.worldonline.nl/~samsvl/software.htm
  And see: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Reference/ or stay lost.

: Would you rather map the world, the solar system, the universe, the seas,
alternate dimensions, your consciousness, your genome? Can GPS help you find
your way around your dreamscapes? Do aliens map us better than we humans do?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# SENATOR OPPOSES CHINA IN WTO. (AP) Bucking most US agribiz groups & farm-
  state politicos, radlib Paul Wellstone (D-Minn) is waging a lonely fight
  against China's entry into the World Trade Organization despite promises
  of expanded trade for US producers. He cites Beijing's "deplorable human
  rights record" and does not believe that "political liberalization follows
  economic liberalization." http://cnn.com/US/9911/27/china.trade.senate.ap/

: Do you work for the internationalist/corporate/Bilderberger conspiracy to
engage China in the world economic system, despite catastrophic effects on
the economies of developed nations? Do Chinese agents pay you well for your
efforts? Can lone dissidents like Sen. Wellstone be marginalized, rendered
irrelevant, or are they so threatening that they must be terminated? When?

# MAKE MONEY FAST!!! Four conmen told victims that their money could grow
  with a chemical agent. People believed them, too. Pour this on and watch
  those hundreds multiply: http://www.arabia.com/article/0,1690,6140,00.html

@ Have you ever used the phrase "moral fiber"?
  http://www.rpi.edu/~kuurem/republican.html
@ The Mahir Portal: http://kiss.to/mahir
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Nukes-R-Us:

# Y2K & Nuke Arsenals - A Final Report http://basicint.org/y2k99part1.htm
# US Produces 3000 Tons Of Deadly Nuclear Waste Yearly - New Solution?
  How much can you drink? http://www.lightparty.com/Light/RoyProcess.html
# Chernobyl Reactor Finally Restarted After Several Delays - Commies Are
  Determined To Nuke Us All: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/cherob.htm

Waco-Bits:

# Waco - Special investigator Danforth gets shell casings:
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# Gene Repair Shows Promise for Genetic Disease. NEW YORK (Reuters)  Through
  the use of a novel technique termed 'chimeraplasty,' researchers repaired
  a specific genetic defect. "We developed a system whereby we could go in
  and literally rewrite the genetic sequence in a specific gene of interest"
  - see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/health/daily/sept99/gene10.htm

: What gene sequences would'ya like to rewrite? Have you rewritten any genes
lately? D'ya use an online editor? D'ya make typing mistakes? What happens?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ First three AIDS cases in 1959? THE RIVER - Tracing the source of AIDS.
  (CNN) Based on over a decade of research, "The River" examines the myriad
  theories about the origin of the AIDS epidemic - and reaches a stunning &
  startling conclusion. "It appears that this tiny amount of blood, taken
  in 1959 from an unknown man living in the city now known as Kinshasa...
  Congo, represents the oldest specimen of [HIV] in existence." Whodunnit?
  See http://www.cnn.com/books/beginnings/9909/the.river/index.html

: Have you engineered any diseases lately? Did your start fresh, or modify a
pre-existing disease, or accept help from aliens/CIA/Illuminati/deities/me?
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# FLUORIDATED WATER MAY PROVOKE LEAD POISONING. Chemicals commonly used
  to add fluoride to public drinking water supplies may make children
  more susceptible to lead poisoning, a new study suggests. More research
  is needed, of course: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/sep99/1999L-09-09-09.html
# Your bionic future: http://sciam.com/1999/0999bionic/0999quicksummary.html

: Have you chemically modified/enhanced any water supplies lately? Did you
add fluorides, chlorides, LSD, sugar? Can you take over the world this way?
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# KU KLUX KLAN KORRECTED. To the satisfaction of many, it was a klansman's
  worst nightmare. K.A. Badynski woke up one day last week and found his Ku
  Klux Klan Web site hijacked. Visitors seeking white pride information were
  instead automatically sent to an organization devoted to fighting online
  bigotry. Bother!! http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/21687.html
# Branding Bigotry: http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/13682.html

: Have ya hacked any bigots lately? Do bigots hack you? Do you have a multi-
ethnic hack-fest? Is mutual hacking fun? Is it better than burning crosses?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Columbine Dad Says Hatred Abounds. SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (Reuters) The father
  of the only black victim of the massacre at Columbine High School in which
  15 people died said the Littleton, Colorado, school was still "saturated"
  by hateful students. Michael Shoels said Littleton and Colorado are in
  denial over the continued hatred at Columbine. New swastikas serve as
  warning: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990911/16/news-shooting-columbine

: Who/why/how do you hate? Should/can/will you ever stop hating? Do you love
symbols of hatred? Do you hate symbols of love? Are you ignored? By whom??
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# CHARGING TO ATTEND JEWISH SERVICES SPARKS DEBATE. During Judaism's high
  holy days, Jews are individually asked to embark on a journey of intro-
  spection. But there is also a self-examination underway within the faith
  itself over whether people should have to pay to attend services at
  synagogues.  Critics say custom a barrier to practicing faith:
  http://cnn.com/US/9909/11/high.holy.days.costs/index.html

# Synagogues Boost Security for High Holy Days:
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/990910/18/ca-state-news-13

: Does your belief system charge admission to ritually-significant events?
Does anyone scalp tickets? How does Rosh Hashana differ from the Super Bowl?
Do bombings & shootings & threats raise the costs of your events? How much?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Waco-Rama:

# CORONER WANTS TO REEVALUATE WACO SHOOTING DEATHS. As an independent probe
  of the govt's role in the 1993 Branch Davidian standoff begins, a medical
  examiner wants to reexamine the cases of at least 23 sect members who died
  from gunshot wounds. And congressional probers of the Waco siege weren't
  given an FBI report showing military tear gas canisters at the scene. Page
  missing in report to Congress: http://cnn.com/US/9909/11/waco.evidence/

@ FBI SET FIRE: http://users.erols.com/igoddard/wacofire.htm

# Rangers' Report on Waco Siege Remains Secret. (AP) Texas officials
  said a new report on evidence collected at the Branch Davidian compound
  could not be made public because it contained military secrets. Huh?
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/sept99/waco12.htm

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# Asia awaits 9s on calendar. TOKYO (AP) In Japan, nine is bad. Usually. In
  China, it's good. Most of the time. In Myanmar next week, it could spell
  trouble. For computer specialists around the world, the string of nines on
  the calendar next Thursday, 9 Sept 1999, is being watched as a potential
  Y2K-style bug that could prompt some older programs to shut down automat-
  ically. But for many Asians, computers are hardly the concern. It's luck -
  or the potential lack of it. Four Nines Day, 9-9-99, presents a bit of a
  paradox for the superstitious in Asia. Nine, pronounced "ku" in Japanese,
  is a homonym with the word for pain and suffering, and is thus a very
  inauspicious number, especially at hospitals. "Dressed to the nines" is
  bad: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560990844-9fd

: What're your most/least favorable numbers? Are you affected by 8s, 9s, 13s
or zeroes? Would you switch calendars to avoid inauspicious dates? To which?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Internet encryption divides America - Civil libertarians and the US Gov't
  are at odds over encryption. (BBC) you might associate encryption with the
  German Enigma machine and its decoding at Bletchley Park during WWII, but
  these days it has become a hot Internet, and even, a civil rights issue.
  More and more Internet communications are being encrypted, but governments
  worldwide worry that encryption also gives criminals safe communications.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_43/430384.stm

@ Links - US Department of Justice: http://www.usdoj.gov/
@ Federal Bureau of Investigations: http://www.fbi.gov/
@ Centre for Democracy and Technology: http://www.cdt.org/
@ Electronic Privacy Information Centre: http://www.epic.org/
@ International PGP Homepage: http://www.pgpi.org/
@ PGP US: http://www.nai.com/asp_set/products/tns/intro.asp

: Are you in a criminal group? Has your encryption been broken yet? Have you
penetrated the cops' security? Who has better crypto? Do Reptilioids help??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Virus threatens Microsoft Word users. NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new computer
  virus has been found that infects Microsoft Word documents and threatens
  to wipe out computer hard drives on Dec. 13, but experts agreed the threat
  has been caught early enough to prevent its wide-scale spread. The "Thurs-
  day" virus has the potential to destroy information stored on hard disks
  on computers running Microsoft Corp.'s Word 97 word processing program.
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560985462-2b3

# NSA Builds Security Access Into Windows:
  http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990903S0014
# "Microsoft, the NSA, and You":
  http://www.cryptonym.com/hottopics/msft-nsa.html
# More on NSA Key: A Mysterious Component Roils Microsoft
  http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/09/biztech/articles/04soft.html
# Crypto expert: Microsoft products leave door open to NSA
  http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/03/windows.nsa/
# Who Has A Back Door Into Windows?
  http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/twokeys990903.html

: Have you ever trusted MicroSoft? Are you insane? Wanna buy a nice bridge?
Wanna test a nice virus? Wanna give up all your secrets? Wanna be violated?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Canada to test-burn US nuke waste. WASHINGTON (AP)  Researchers will use a
  shipment of reactor fuel from New Mexico's Los Alamos lab to test whether
  Canada's nuclear reactors are suitable to dispose of weapons-grade pluto-
  nium. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560989729-1fd

: Are you overloaded with radioactives? Where would you like to send them?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ THE SEDONA VORTEX. I asked [the motel worker] if he knew about the vortex
  activity in Sedona. He said he's lived all of his life at the place where
  there is supposed to be the most active & biggest vortex. I asked him what
  his experience was from the vortex. He said. Nothing, I have never experi-
  enced anything. But he said, its good for the tourists. We hear a lot from
  them about experiences. http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/sedona.html

: Have you ever experienced the Vortex? Was it transcendent? Have you ever
sold anything to anyone who experienced the Vortex? Is it good for bizness?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# PARANORML NEWS NETWORK (P3N) - When aliens come abducting, ask for warm
  probe. IF YOU GET abducted by space aliens, you're going to get probed.
  You might as well face it. That's why they abduct you. Not that you can
  do anything about getting abducted. If they want to abduct you, they'll
  abduct you, right? http://caus.org/pn090499.htm

: Have

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# Spy 'betrayed' stealth fighter. A spy may have leaked the flight plan of
  a US stealth fighter shot down by Yugoslav forces during the Kosovo war.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_431000/431408.stm

: Have you betrayed any military operations lately? Who are you working for?
Have you betrayed humanity to any aliens/demons/deities lately? Which ones?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Marooned In A Maze? Use Your Cellphone. LONDON (Reuters) People lost in an
  old English hedge maze have found a new way out: calling for help on their
  mobile phones. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990828/20/odd-britain-maze

: Do you call out for help when you're lost in mazes, malls, ancient tombs,
UFOs, the Pentagon/Kremlin/Langley/Microsoft? Have you been rescued yet??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Afrikaner brotherhood embraces new SA. (BBC) A secretive white nationalist
  group which played a key role in implementing South Africa's former apart-
  heid policies says it wants to co-operate with the new government.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_431000/431409.stm

: Can your terrorist group reach an accommodation with authorities? Do you
really want to subvert from within? Are bullets cheaper than ballots? How?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Diving Into the Inky Depths - Search for Drugs Leads Nearly 1,800 Feet
  Down. (ABC) Researchers are turning more and more to the ocean's depths
  in search of new drugs. "We just can't grow enough coca and opium" - see
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/exped_flkeys990827pt4.html

@ Links - @Sea: http://www.at-sea.org/
@ Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution: http://www.hboi.edu/

: How far down would you go for drugs? Do you smoke frog sweat? Do you eat
raw fish? Do you suck out squid brains? Do aliens suck out your brains? How?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Sabbath row settled. (BBC) Israel's secular & religious pols compromise in
  a row over the transportation of a huge electrical turbine on the Sabbath.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_431000/431529.stm

# Burger boycott bites in Bank. (BBC) Burger King avoids a worldwide boycott
  by closing a controversial outlet in the Israeli occupied West Bank.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_431000/431308.stm

: What's your favorite religious/political confrontation? Are doctrinaire
fights caused by subtle mental reprogramming caused by crop circles? How?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# The Great Wired North. (ABC) Canada has fashioned a ultra-fast fiber-optic
  Internet-style computer network. Trouble is, nobody knows what to do with
  it. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/CuttingEdge/canadanet990827.html
# And Satellite phones haven't caught on.  Yet.  If ever.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/satellitephones990827.html

: What's your favorite mode of comunication? Is telepathy the ultimate wire-
less technology? Would you like to be wired into a broadband circuit? When?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Suicide prompts Vatican security fears. (BBC) Security at the Vatican is
  under the spotlight after a pensioner shoots himself near the high altar
  in St Peter's Basilica - the latest in a series of suicides there. Yow.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_431000/431723.stm

# 'Advanced' bomb targeted Taleban leader. Afghanistan's Taleban group says
  a bomb aimed at its supreme leader contained sophisticated components.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_431000/431425.stm

: Would you rather kill or be killed for doctrinaire reasons? D'ya wanna do
suicide/homicide at the Vatican, Kremlin, Pentagon, White House, Downing St,
Disney World, Roswell, Golden Gate Bridge, Kabul? Who do you want to bomb??
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SkeptiLinks:

@ UFO CoverUp: http://inetport.com/~one/mlufocvr.html
@ Real Or Hoax? http://www.angelfire.com/yt/CropCircle/
@ World Of The Strange: http://www.jb-graphics.com/thestrange/
@ All Paranormal, All The Time: http://www.paranormalnews.com/
@ Lord Weÿrdgliffe: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9879/index.html
@ Necronomicon Page: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9879/necpage.htm
@ Earth Shall Inherit The Meek: http://ornl.gov/hgmis/project/progress.html

@ The 20th Century: http://abcnews.go.com/century/
# SHOOTING RAMPAGES IN U.S. SPARK GUN-CONTROL DEBATE IN BRAZIL:
  http://cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9908/28/brazil.gun.control.ap/
# Scientist Says Racism Plays Role In AIDS Death Rate:
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/990829/00/news-aids-racism

# HIV CAN'T BE SWEPT FROM BODY: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9908/28/aids.therapy
# Neutron bombs in US cities: http://users.

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@ Development of Surveillance Technology and Risk of Abuse of Economic
  Information (an appraisal of technologies of political control):
  http://cryptome.org/dst-1.htm
@ The legality of the interception of electronic communications: A concise
  survey of the principal legal issues and instruments under international,
  European and national law: http://cryptome.org/dst-2.htm
@ Encryption and cryptosystems in electronic surveillance: a survey of the
  technology assessment issues: http://cryptome.org/dst-3.htm
@ The state of the art in Communications Intelligence (COMINT) of automated
  processing for intelligence purposes of intercepted broadband multi-lang-
  uage leased or common carrier systems, and its applicability to COMINT
  targeting and selection, including speech recognition:
  http://www.iptvreports.mcmail.com/stoa_cover.htm

: Have your messages been intercepted? Do you intercept communications? Do
you use advanced alien technology? Do you mindread? What am I thinking now?
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# Biotech goes Wild. Genetic engineering will be essential to feed the
  world's billions. But could it unleash a race of "superweeds"? No one
  seems to know. And nobody's in charge of finding out. No centralized
  monitoring: http://www.techreview.com/articles/july99/mann.htm

: Will Frankenplants sweep the world accidentally or deliberately? Are you
working to wipe out humanity with GM plants? Is biotech Satanic, alien, fun?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# RussMuslim boss nixes Dagestan uprising. (CNN) A top Russian Muslim leader
  condemned an uprising by Islamic militants in Dagestan, after discussing
  the crisis with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. "The gunmen who attacked
  Dagestan have committed a crime against their Muslim brethren," said Sheik
  Ravil Gainutdin, the chairman of Russia's council of muftis, or Islamic
  religious leaders. http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9908/21/russia.dagestan.03/

: Does it matter that the muftis are Sunni and the rebels are Shi'ite? Does
it matter that PM Putin runs the security forces? Does it matter that the
rebels are controlled by Reptilioids? Does anything matter? Is it futile?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ The 'circlemakers' have been given a pre-release copy of Lucy Pringle's
  forthcoming book 'The Greatest Mystery of Modern Times' which is due to
  be published in September by Harper Collins. Rod Dickinson has written a
  review for our site [ http://www.circlemakers.org ] and an abbreviated
  version of the review will be published in the next issue of the Fortean
  Times. You can find the full review at: http://circlemakers.org/lucy.html

: Do you make crop circles? Do you have help? What creatures help you? What
sort of entity are you? Do you communicate much with humans? Why bother??
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# Navigation bug fails to bite. (BBC) Navigation systems widely used by
  sailors and aircraft seem to have survived the threat of a time bug -
  but Japanese motorists lost their way. 600 Pioneer systems failed:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_427000/427204.stm

# No US trouble from navigation tool glitch. (CNN) It appeared to be smooth
  sailing for boaters and aviators who rely on a satellite-based navigation
  system that reset itself this weekend, an event expected to cause problems
  with older units. The US Coast Guard and Federal Aviation Administration
  reported receiving no calls for stranded boats or planes having problems
  in determining their coordinates by using the Global Positioning System,
  or GPS. http://cnn.com/US/9908/22/gps.glitch.ap/index.html

: Is this an omen of a smooth Y2K transition, or is it misleading, or irrel-
evant? Were no crisis reports received because the victims were all abducted
and transported to the Mothership for implantation/experimentation/breeding?
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STRONG CONSPIRACY - THE NEW WORLD ORDER

@ Dawn of the New Light: The Occult Calendar * The Occult Character
  of the U.N. * http://watch.pair.com/un.html
@ The Third Way: Politics of the Radical Center:
  http://watch.pair.com/thirdway.html

% The British-Israel Movement:
@ The Rhodes~Milner Round Table: http://watch.pair.com/roundtable.html
@ The John Birch Society & The CNP: http://watch.pair.com/jbs-cnp.html
@ The Discernment Ministries: http://watch.pair.com/discernment.html

@ Heeding Bible Prophecy - The Discernment of Good and Evil:
  http://watch.pair.com/prophecy.html
@ The Rise of the Fourth Reich - The Rockefeller/Heritage Connection:
  http://watch.pair.com/cnp.html
@ The Rosicrucian Connection - The Vatican vs. The Prieuré de Sion:
  http://watch.pair.com/priory.html
@ The Masonic New

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# PLUTONIUM-POWERED SPACECRAFT TO ZOOM BY EARTH ON WAY TO SATURN. A 2-story,
  $3.4 billion spacecraft loaded with of deadly plutonium will zoom within
  725 miles of Earth this week to gain momentum for the final leg of its
  meandering, seven-year voyage to Saturn. Cassini's return, two years after
  NASA launched the largest and most expensive unmanned spacecraft ever,
  poses virtually no risk, mission officials say. Closest point over South
  Pacific: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9908/15/cassini.spacecraft.01.ap/

: Will Cassini bash into Earth, spreading a biosphere-killing load of Pu238?
Is http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/rtg/power.htm all a lie? Are you ready to
die? Is it The End? Is your will made out? Did you bother with a will? Why?
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# Fans Celebrate Elvis Week. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Reuters) In Memphis some locals
  call it "Dead Elvis Week," and it was in full swing once again as zillions
  of Elvis Presley fans poured into town to mark the 22nd anniversary of the
  rock and roll king's death. Presley was found dead Aug.16 1977 at Grace-
  land, the white-columned southern mansion that is the focal point for the
  celebration. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990815/00/news-people-elvis

: Is Elvis really dead? Or was he abducted by Grays, imprisoned by fascists,
elevated to a higher dimension, morphed into a salamander, or lost in space?
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# LIFE IS DUCKY WHEN MRS. MALLARD CHOOSES HER MATE. Offspring do better
  when the female is allowed to choose her mate - in the mallard duck
  family, anyway. But it makes sense, doesn't it? Or does it?
  http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14239

# WOMEN CLUELESS ABOUT THEIR SEXUAL AGGRESSION. According to this new study,
  women engage in aggressive sexual behaviors that are usually associated
  with men - but when asked about it, they don't own up to it. Why bother?
  http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14242

: Are choice & aggression two sides of the same coin? Are you an aggressive
female mallard? Who do you choose? Are you candid about your behavior? Why?
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# China Blasts US Over Dalai Lama Visit. BEIJING (Reuters) China accused the
  United States of meddling in its internal affairs after a State Dept wonk
  met the Dalai Lama in New York, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader. Played
  poker: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990814/06/international-china-tibet

: Whose internal affairs would you most like to meddle with? Who's your fave
spiritual leader? Do you bankroll any spiritual leaders? Are spiritual lead-
ers useful propaganda purveyors? Are they controlled by humans, Reptilioids,
deities, demons, robots? Are spiritual leaders honest? Do they stay bought?
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# Psychiatrist Legally Amasses Huge Gun Arsenal. (Reuters) - A Philadelphia
  psychiatrist, reportedly legally blind, legally amassed an arsenal of 287
  assault rifles, shotguns & pistols plus 50,000 rounds of ammo, valued at
  $300,000. Cops seized the firepower from Dr. John Ingui's two apartments
  in an upscale city high-rise but later declared the collection to be quite
  legal. Among the collection the psychiatrist is now expected to get back
  are 61 assault rifles, including 29 AK-47s, and 150 semiautomatic pistols,
  including a number of powerful Desert Eagle handguns. Just hunting mice
  and pigeons: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990814/10/news-guns-arsenal

: Should all blind psychiatrists be well-armed? Do pshrinks need protection
from disgruntled patients? How many AK-47s do you need? Are you prudent???
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# RESEARCHER BUILDS INEXPENSIVE, ASPIRIN-SIZE INTERNET COMPUTER. The latest
  from the cyberworld: an aspirin-size computer that, embedded in household
  appliances, could let people on the road or at the office use the Net to
  cool their homes, heat coffee & tape TV shows. Thought to be the smallest
  such computer ever built, the inexpensive device could help usher in a
  new generation of connected home appliances, from VCRs to coffee makers to
  small cameras, controlled over the Internet from almost anywhere. Costs
  just 49 cents: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/14/tiny.computer.ap/

: What appliances would you like to control? What appliances would like to
control you? When will everything be enmeshed in a huge seamless web? Why?
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# Shootings Latest In Crimes Tied To Separatists. SEATTLE (Reuters)  The Los
  Angeles shootings that left one person dead & five wounded were the latest
  in a string of racist attacks tied to a movement that dreams of creating a
  whites-only natio

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# Dentist's New Tie Line Is Infectious. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) Nice tie, man.
  Is that pattern Gonorrhea? Malaria? Black Plague? Herpes? An Encino Calif.
  company, Infectious Awareables, has introduced a line of silk and cotton
  garments featuring the patterns as seen under a microscope of more than 15
  different infectious diseases and bacteria. They come in bright colors.
  And so will you: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990806/14/odd-life-ties

: What disease would you most like to wear? Should the fibres be embedded
with cures? Is disease a fashion statement? D'ya want a bacterial tattoo?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Romanian eclipse: Pavarotti, Dracula and scientists. (AP) When the moon
  glides across the sun, church bells will toll in rural Romania, thanks to
  peasants atoning for their sins. They'll also be watching out for rivers
  running with blood. But in the cities, Luciano Pavoratti will sing, and
  scientists and tourists will be ready to view the celestial event longer
  than anywhere else in the world. For the less scientific minded, a fashion
  designer has brought out an "Eclipse" collection of clothing in gold, for
  the sun, and white, for the moon. The traditional peasant explanation for
  the eclipse has it that a wild animal eats the sun to punish men for their
  sins. Peasants ring church bells to appease evil spirits. And in Romania,
  you can never forget Dracula. To help conjure a spooky eclipse mood, TV
  stations already have started airing films about the vamp king, inspired
  by the bloodthirsty native prince Vlad the Impaler. One woman, according
  to local media, called off her wedding, which her fiance had thoughtlessly
  scheduled for Wednesday. It would have been a bad omen. And the werewolves
  are loose: http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_08_7&item=#934070006

: Would you rather ring bells, listen to Pavoratti, or be eaten by vampires?
What's your favorite eclipse fashion statement? Do you appease evil spirits?
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# Workers To Get Solar Eclipse Break. MUNICH (Reuters) German car maker BMW
  AG will stop production at its plants in Munich and Regensburg for half an
  hour on August 11 so their 19,000 workers can observe the solar eclipse.
  They'll all go blind: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990806/14/odd-eclipse

: Does your employer pay for eclipse breaks? Will the Mitsubishi ECLIPSE car
do anything strange on 11 Aug 99? Will you? Are you eclipse-crazed yet? How?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Eclipse Pilgrims Get Early Start On UK Roads. LONDON (Reuters) Thousands
  of solar eclipse pilgrims poured into Britain's southwest Saturday as they
  sought to stake out prime observation areas four days ahead of the rare
  cosmic event. Buoyed by weather reports that promise a near-perfect day
  Wednesday some 25,000 travelers headed for the counties of Devon and Corn-
  wall, where the moon will completely eclipse the sun. ET harvesters await
  eagerly: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990808/01/science-eclipse-britain

: Have you staked out an eclipse-viewing position yet? Did you pay for it?
Would you rent it out for a profit? Can you make much money with eclipses?
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# Preacher Delivers Message Of Doom And Armageddon - He Talks With God And
  End Is Near. GALLUP, N.M. (AP) - Under the din of high-wattage lights and
  against the background of electric gospel music, David Terrell waves his
  hands wildly as his face turns red. "We are about to go into the most
  horrible time since man has been created on this earth," he yells. Jesus
  appeared to him and told him the world will end soon. "God's judgment is
  fixin' to come quick. We are now facing the end of the end. God told me
  we're gonna have a war with China. God told me over 100 million people in
  America is going to be dead carcasses," bellowed Terrell at a 350-person
  audience, most of them American Indians. The Birmingham, Ala., native said
  the U.S. has become a "baby-killing, pervert, homosexual, lesbian, dope-
  pushing, drunk nation," and "God is going to punish us." Then his implant
  misfired. http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,110002012,00.html?

: Should Native Americans or anyone else believe anything a preacher says?
Do you preach? Does anyone believe you? Have you prophesied The End? Were
you right? Does your face turn red? Do you talk with God? Which one? If the
US and China don't go to war and Terrell is proved wrong, should he be torn
to pieces and fed to the coyotes? Do your gods lie to you? Should they? Why?
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@ The End/New Beginning. The End of the World is NOT Near! Balanced Biblical
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@ Pohnpei and the Curse of the Pacific. The late Spanish ufologist/crypto-
  archaeologist Andreas Faber Kaiser arranged visited the island of Ponapé
  (or Pohnpei, in local parlance) on a quest to unveil the mystery of Nan-
  Matol, a city hewn out of raw basalt, with magnificent harbors, streets,
  and habitation for tens of thousands, spreading out over ninety artificial
  islets. Natives shun the ruins, which have been reclaimed by the mangrove
  swamps, believing that the lost city is evil in nature and that those who
  remain beyond sundown in its interior never emerge alive. Non-Polynesian
  construction - see http://www.inexplicata.com/samples/pohnpei.html

: Was Ponapé home to Lemurians; to a cannibalistic race of giants called the
Kona; or to three distinct races of giants: a human-like species, capable of
flight; a simian race of giants who could also fly, and lived beneath the
sea; and a third strain of "megagiants", worker-drones who labored beneath
the sea? Who are your favorite giants? Are they sexually active, cute, shy?
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# New space plane project takes off. (CNN)  NASA and Boeing have agreed on a
  US$173 mln project to develop an experimental space plane called the X-37
  to serve as a test bed for new reusable rocket technologies. Airplanes and
  rockets that get the X-designation are experimental, high-speed vehicles,
  but most of them are incapable of achieving orbits in outer space, re-ent-
  ering Earth's atmosphere and autonomous landings. The X-37 could achieve
  those feats and more. http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9907/15/space.plane/

@ Links: NASA Homepage: http://www.nasa.gov/
@ X-33: http://www.highway2space.com/stpweb/x33/index.html
@ X-34: http://www.highway2space.com/stpweb/x34/x34home.html
@ Boeing - Space Systems: http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/
@ Boeing - Future X: http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/futurex/

: Have you designed/built/bought any experimental aerospacecraft lately? Are
they expensive? Is it cheaper to reverse-engineer alien technologies? Much?
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# NASA's 'Star Wars' Robots. NASA is developing tennis ball-sized floating
  robots that will zoom around spacecrafts, acting as personal assistants to
  astronauts. Resembling a floating orb that tested Luke Skywalker's light-
  saber skills in Star Wars, NASA's personal satellite assistants, or PSAs,
  may buzz around spacecraft to monitor life-support systems, take pictures,
  and fixing minor problems. But what if they turn to the Dark Side of the
  Force?  http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20794.html

# Also: Resident Robots, Take Two:
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/15192.html
# Good Bots, Bad Bots:
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/14147.html

: Would laser-armed PSAs be useful in zapping your enemies, clearing clogged
plumbing, reheating cold coffee, lighting hookahs/hibachis, searing vermin?
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@ An Aeronautical History of Flying Saucers. The concept of "flying saucers"
  has become synonymous with that of UFO, and by extension to "extraterres-
  trial spacecraft." The truth is that these concepts are not necessarily
  related. Long before Kenneth Arnold initiated the modern age of the social
  phenomenon known as UFO, there were already "flying saucers" that had
  little in common with spacecraft from other planets. Back to Leonardo
  da Vinci: http://www.inexplicata.com/issue1/aeronautical_history.html

: Are flying saucers from inner earth, outer space, other dimensions, human
imagination, divine emissions, clever engineers, abstract realizations, me?
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# FAA reviews in-flight prayer incident. DES MOINES, Iowa (UPI)  The Federal
  Aviation Administration is probing an incident aboard an AccessAir flight
  that led to the removal of nine Muslim passengers, many of them doctors.
  AccessAir says the nine men were disruptive, but the men claim they were
  only trying to pray, and that crew members overreacted. Airline officials
  said the Muslim medical men stood before the plane reached a safe altitude
  and blocked the aisle, and that they were out of their assigned seats. In
  Allah's heart: http://news.excite.com/news/u/990717/15/news-passengerpray

: Does your belief system require specific postures for prayer or other rit-
uals? Do you assume the posture whenever necessary? Have you ever done your
dervish dance on an escalator? Is it fun? Have you ever sacrificed a chicken
or other animal while on an airplane, train, bus, jetski, skateboard, bike?
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# Pictures on the radio. (BBC) A new way to transmit pictures has been deve-
  loped that could hugely cut costs of sending information around the world.
  The same technology used to transmit shortwave radio signals could be used
  to send images without the need for expensive cables or satellites.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_373000/373810.stm

: Do you want to feed images to the world? Will this break the grip of media
elites? Will The Conspiracy try to suppress this technology? Will they fail?
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# Christian Identity booming around Kansas City. Christian Identity, a race-
  based religious movement that teaches that Jews are satanic and that non-
  whites are inferior, is undergoing a revival in the buckle of the Bible
  Belt. The resurgence of the belief system -- Identity churches or groups
  now number 16 in Missouri and three in Kansas -- is a concern because
  authorities say the movement has a track record of spawning violence.
  http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/home.pat,local/30d9ff10.402,.html

: Does your belief system rate peoples by their ethnicity? Are you superior?
Are you sure? If you're so great, why are you wasting your time here, huh?
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# 60,000 Kosovar Albanians held in Serb 'concentration camps':
  http://telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000216397642768&pg=/et/99/6/20/wcon20.html
@ War crimes - Kosovo Crisis Centre
  http://www.alb%2Dnet.com/warcrimes%2Dimg/warcrimes.htm
@ War Criminal Watch - Coalition for International Justice
  http://www.wcw.org/wcw/
@ Kosovo: Focus on human rights - Human Rights Watch
  http://www.hrw.org/hrw/campaigns/kosovo98/
@ International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia - UN
  http://www.un.org/icty/
@ Kosovo Crisis - Amnesty International
  http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/kosovo/index.html

@ Serbian Ministry of Information
  http://www.serbia%2Dinfo.com/
@ Press centre - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
  http://www.gov.yu/presscvj/index.htm
@ MY FAVORITE ATROCITY STORIES - the woof and warp of war propaganda:
  http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a376bc54c6789.htm
@ Look before you leap into propaganda web of NATO spinners:
  http://orlandosentinel.com/opinion/columnists/reese/062099_reese20_21.htm

: Which ETs have been harvesting Albanians, Serbs, Bosnians, Croats? Should
they be satisfied with their hauls? How many more humans will they harvest?
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# Tempers Flare Over Reality Stutter. In the three years since Prof. Morgan
  Mughouse of Bristol startled ontologists worldwide with his first paper on
  the detection of irregularities in the flow of reality, few outside the
  ontological community took the quickly evolving crisis seriously.  But now
  most governments around the world are now swiftly, if quietly, mobilizing
  to solve the problem. http://freerepublic.com/forum/a376bdfcf7a6f.htm

: Is your reality fluttering, shaky, impaired? What steps are you taking to
correct this? Do you have alternate realities prepared as refuges? Where???
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# Pretender To French Throne Dies. PARIS (Reuters) - The Count of Paris, 90-
  year-old heir to the French throne who combined fidelity to his ancient
  heritage with a modern vision of French monarchism, died at his home west
  of Paris. Henri Robert Ferdinand Marie Louis-Philippe of Orleans died as
  his grandson Eudes took his marriage vows not far from the family home.
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/990619/15/international-france-count

: Are the death & marriage just more steps in the international monarchist
plot to regain control of Europe and the world? Are royals better than you?
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@ Stonedisks of Baian-Kara-Ula. On an expedition to the hardly accessible
  mountains of Baian-Kara-Ula between Tibet and China, Chinese archeologist
  Chi Pu Tei discovered several cave burial sites  containing strange, small
  (about 4 feet 4 inches tall) skeletons, with heads oversized in relation
  to their otherwise slender frames. In each of the total of 716 graves he
  found a stonedisk with a diameter of about 1 foot and a thickness of 1/3
  inch. The disks were engraved with inscriptions of so far unknown origin.
  Chi Pu Tei's findings that the skeletons were those of mountain gorillas
  and that the disks were added by later cultures, lead to his ridicule by
  the Chinese archeological community. New ethnological evidence:
  http://www.in-search-of.com/frames/stonedisk/stonedisk_nf.shtml

: If you were an ET, which primates would you most like to civilize? Would
you inscribe stone disks to educate them? Are these the basis of floppys?
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@ Advice for Evil Overlords - For those of you who wanted Absolute Power
but don't know how to keep it. If I ever become an Evil Overlord I'll do
this: http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~nv91-asa/madsci/eviloverlord

: Would you like to be an Evil Overlord? Are you now or have you ever been
an Evil Overlord? Is it fun, rewarding, tiring, painful, necessary, boring?
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@ Doomsday Comet - "Ball of Redemption" [photo] "The miraculous photo above
was taken during the Vigil of the Ascension, 1975. It depicts a red ball
hovering over the Statue of Our Lady of the Roses which symbolizes the 'Ball
of Redemption'. What is interesting to note is the image is translucent in
certain parts, which allows the trees in the background to be seen through
the image. This is only one of numerous photos which have been taken over
the years depicting the comet." http://www.roses.org/messages/domcomet.htm

: Can/will/should you be redeemed by astral phenomena? Would you rather be
redeemed by vapors, liquids, solids, energy, animals, vegetables, minerals?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Alien Bob's Command Post. "Our race has been studying your species since we
arrived on your planet in the year 1944. In 1923 one of our research ships
detected interesting low-frequency electromagnetic radiation emanating from
this star system. Several research ships and an armed escort were dispatched
to investigate the source of the signals, and to possibly make contact with
whatever life forms were discovered. After the discovery of semi-intelligent
life it was determined to be inappropriate to make more than limited contact
with the hostile species. However, several bases were constructed from which
the planet and it's life forms could be studied. This digital information
represents the first official contact of our species, the Sinoel Roc, with
humans." Learn our truths at: http://www.pnn.com/~boba/alien1.htm

: Who are your favorite aliens? By which alien race would you most like to
be conquered/studied/implanted? Would you like to become an alien yourself?
Are you an Alien Bob? Sah na Sinoel Roc edam uoy na reffo uoy t'nac esufer?
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@ THE CULT CONSTRUCTION SET - "Build your own Religious Cult within minutes"
Is the glass half empty of half full? That all depends upon who is looking
at it. The case is similar with the Bible. For thousands of years man has
been putting his own spin on Religion and the Scriptures and now so can you.
Simply select the beliefs that are most advantageous to you and The Cult
Construction Set will generate actual Bible scriptures to support these
beliefs. Now you too can start your own Cult in the comfort of your home!
Just seven easy steps to immortality: http://www.fadetoblack.com/cultkit/

: Have you ever started your own cult? Do you share secrets? Has your cult
committed suicide yet? Why not? Are suicide-cults a growth industry? Why?
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@ FUTURE QUEENS OF THE WORLD. Ever wish you could run the world? Queen for a
day, as it were? Well, so do we. And since the job was open, we volunteered.
The rules listed herein give you an idea of what the world will be like once
we're in charge. Take your throne: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/3888/

: Would you like to rule the world? What would you do to achieve that goal?
Who would you kill, blame, sabotage, molest, exploit, vanquish, indemnify?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ THE GREAT GOD CONTEST. The rules are simple. Any religious organization in
the world is invited to enter their god. Each god will be given 3 challenges
to fulfill. These challenges have been chosen because they represent typical
accomplishments of most of the present day gods, as well as historical ones.
In light of the various literary records, these challenges should be very
easy for any god to accomplish. http://www.islandnet.com/~luree/contest.html

: How do your deities rate on a scale of 0-99? Would you switch to a higher-
ranked god? Is this contest rigged? What's the punishment for cheating here?
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SkeptiLinks:

@ Ask Sister Rossetta: http://www.rossetta.com/
@ Necronomi.Com Wants Your Soul: www.necronomi.com/
@ Deal With The Devil: http://www.inconnect.com/~ace/
@ The Bastard Son of the Lord: http://www.trog.com/jesus/
@ Killer Cults: http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/cults.html

$ FEM FATALITY: http://www.rustyrazor.com/liz.html
$ ARMAGEDDON CIGARETTES: For People Who Know The Future And Don't Want
  To Be There When It Happens: http://www.rustyrazor.com/arma.html

@ Cruel website of the day: http://www.cruel.com/
@ "I Think, Therefore Life Sucks!" http://www.lifesucks.com/
@ Cannibals Anonymous: http://www.

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@ UFOs in Fire Officer's Guide to Disaster Control. Chapter 13 of the 1994
Fire Officer's Guide to Disaster Control: "Enemy Attack and UFO Potential".
"Widespread blackouts, communication disruptions, and other potentially
disastrous conditions have been linked directly to UFO sightings." Support
your local UFOlogist: http://www.comdac.com/~geibdan/news/fire.html

@ Who Takes ETs Seriously? How about every fire and police dept. in America!
http://x43.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=484729519.1&CONTEXT=928671431.212402182

: Do UFOs start fires? Do the voices in your head tell you to start fires,
to cut crop circles, to mutiliate/humiliate/agitate humans? Are you fiery?
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# Net strike to bite in Europe. (BBC) Internet users across Europe are being
asked not to go online on Sunday in protest at high telephone charges. Bite
monopoly: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_361000/361235.stm

# Malaysia takes on websites. (BBC) Malaysia is studying legal ways of
shutting down Internet websites abroad which are critical of the government.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_362000/362275.stm

# China slaps Internet cafes. SHANGHAI (Reuters) Chinese boomtown Shanghai
has disciplined 278 unregistered Internet cafes in a crackdown on uncontrol-
led forays into cyberspace. Political news limited, access "standardized":
http://www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,56247-89863-639407-0,00.html

: If a gov't bites your net.access, how can you bite back? What if it's not
your gov't? Do boycotts work? Will you wage cyberwar? Will you fry links?
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# HACKED HACKERS VOW VENGEANCE ON FEDERAL WEB SITES. Hacker groups angry at
FBI investigations into computer intrusions have declared cyber war, vowing
that every Web site with an address ending in ".gov" will be a target. The
FBI's Web site has been inaccessible for most of the past 5 days. Git them
goobers: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/05/feds.v.hackers/index.html

# Netwar: F0rpaxe Claims Credit For Government/Corporate Computer Attacks.
A person or group calling itself "F0rpaxe" is today claiming credit for more
than 75 attacks on government and corporate computer systems in the United
States and abroad. Revenge on FBI: www.emergency.com/1999//fonetwar.htm

# Also: Hackers target more federal computers:
  http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/01/hackers/
# Hackers retaliate by invading FBI, Senate Web sites:
  http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9905/28/senate.hackers/

: Are you all or part of "F0rpaxe"? Are you good at cyberwar? Do you limit
your attacks to the US gov't or are all nations targets? D'ya want any help?
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# Casting Doubt on Chinese Spying. (ABC) The recent congressional report
accusing the Chinese of stealing U.S. nuclear secrets has inaccuracies that
raise doubts about the report's credibility. Many blatant factual errors:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/oberg990602.html

# Are We Hard-Wired for War? (ABC) Waging war is nothing new. Our history is
filled with tales of blood-soaked battles. Which raises questions: Is such
behavior simply part of human nature? Is war our favorite entertainment?
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/peace_warbiology990602.html

: Do you prefer warring, spying, plotting, fucking, eating, farting, lying?
Is your preference based on biology, doctrine, mind-control rays, implants?
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# PM's appeal over GM foods. (BBC) Prime Minister Tony Blair has appealed
for people to "keep an open mind" on GM foods, saying that imposing a ban
on them now would be a mistake. He has also metamorphosed into a shiitake
mushroom. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_362000/362318.stm

# Medicinal hopes for mushrooms. (BBC) UK scientists say research into mush-
rooms could make them a popular medical treatment in future. Better than GM
PMs: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_362000/362332.stm

: Do you like gene-modified mushrooms? Can psilocybe be enhanced? Does Tony
Blair eat psychedelic mushrooms? Is he run by CIA rays or ET implants? How?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

SkeptiBriefs:

@ NASA Continues Ritual Pattern as Discovery Docks with IS(I)S. As we have
shown repeatedly in the past, NASA has had an ongoing obsession with the
celestial representations of the highest Gods and Goddesses of ancient
Egypt, (Isis, Osiris, and Horus). www.enterprisemission.com/isis.htm

# Chat Users Get Voicemail. If your chat pal isn't online or answering the
phone, a new service will send a voicemail to his inbox. Although the call
is free, the Fone427 service isn't. Like you wuz expecting a f

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@ PAX GERMANICA & U.S. OF EUROPE, OR A NEW WORLD ORDER? A debate has emerged
within the sabbatarian groups about the nature of the end-time Beast and
Religious system. Traditionally we have understood that the Roman system has
revived from time-to-time in the form of the German-led European Holy Roman
Empire and that this system is poised to rise again. But some now teach that
American bankers are working toward a Beast system, a world gov't or New
World Order, and this is the system prophesied in the book of Revelation.
www2.dynamite.com.au/quokka/hrp/resources/research_papers/pax_germanica/

: Is Revelation/Apocalypse an accurate model of metadimensional events? Do
you have a better model? Do you prefer Roman or Beast systems? Any others?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# TROUBLED TITAN IV ROCKET FINALLY GETS SUCCESSFUL LIFTOFF. After 3 previous
costly failures, the US Air Force finally successfully launched a Titan IV-B
rocket into space. The rocket carried into orbit a classified spy satellite
for the National Reconnaissance Office. "We always feel relief... when we
have a successful payload separation and the satellite gets into orbit."
Well, like, duh, dewd.  Largest booster rocket in U.S. space arsenal - see
http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9905/22/space.launch.02/index.html

: Which aliens/humans interfered with Titan launches? Why? Did these launch
'failures' sufficiently enrich the tax-leeching cabal of space contractors?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# CITY FOLK WORRIED ABOUT Y2K BUG HEAD FOR THE HILLS IN VIRGINIA. Dozens of
Y2K refugees have moved to Floyd County, a sparsely populated area of the
Blue Ridge Mountains that has welcomed social dropouts for generations,
including the hippies of the '60s and the New Agers of the '90s. There are
at least a dozen small communes where people share the work and earnings.
Most of the communes grow their own food and are not connected to the
commercial electrical system. There is also an established barter system for
obtaining necessities. Around the country, some preparing for the worst -
see http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9905/22/y2k.refugees.ap/index.html

: When Y2K hits, will you invade Floyd County to pillage those who prepared?
If you're prepared for Y2K, do you want your story reported in the media so
laggards and slackers know where to find you? Do you have enough guns? Huh?
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# Scientists mounting search for Earth-like planets. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)
Somewhere, in a star system perhaps not too far away, lies a "pale blue dot"
which could be a planet much like Earth. Scientists plotting the search for
that planet met this week to coordinate research aimed at probing the skies
for alien worlds which could support life. New realms for pollution, taxes:
www.nandotimes.com/healthscience/story/0,1080,51474-82665-586849-0,00.html

: What would you do with a pale blue dot if you found one? Would you see it
as an opportunity, a threat, exciting, irrelevant? Who would you send there?
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SkeptiLinks:

@ Start of the Beat: www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/1999/0522/fea5.htm
@ The Royal Line - From Adam to Queen Elizabeth II:
  http://www2.dynamite.com.au/quokka/hrp/resources/royal_line.html
# Think tank hopes to alter the U.S. - but don't we all?
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,13289,00.html?

@ IF ALIENS DRIVE FORD TAURUSES, DO SKEPTICS DRIVE MINIVANS?
  http://www.salonmagazine.com/sept97/columnists/illhumor970918.html
# Is Someone Trying To Silence Art Bell?
www.pigdog.org/auto/jabber_streams_Is_Someone_Trying_to_Silence_Art_Bell_.ht
ml

# Hurricane forecasters predict unusually active season - batten down:
  www.nandotimes.com/healthscience/story/0,1080,51546-82800-587205-0,00.html
# Recent developments offer insight into age-old magnetic mystery:
  www.nandotimes.com/healthscience/story/0,1080,51649-82980-585057-0,00.html

# NO PLANS FOR KOSOVO INVASION - it'll happen by accident instead:
  http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9905/22/kosovo.03/index.html
# GADHAFI ORDERED PAN AM BOMBING - Sunday Times says it's no surprise:
  http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9905/23/lockerbie.britain.01/

@ Ancient Ethiopian Obelisk: http://www.casema.net/~spaansen/south.htm
  - picture: http://www.casema.net/~spaansen/south02.htm#obelisk
@ Sacred Places: www.arthistory.sbc.edu/sacredplaces/sacredplacesintro.html

# CHRONIC DEPRESSION IN EPILEPTICS. Depression is the most common behav-
  ioral disturbance among patients with epilepsy, and it is primarily
  chronic depression. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/3999.rhtml

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# Aftercare and Clinical Characteristics of People With Mental Illness Who
Commit Suicide: Researchers reviewed nearly 150 patients who committed
suicide within 5 years after being discharged from a psychiatric hospital,
compared to a matched group of discharged patients who had not suicided.
Patients committing suicide were more likely on their last visit to have
been notified that either their dosages of medication would be reduced or
that they would see doctors less frequently from then on. Most suiciding
patients had been considered well at the time their dosages were reduced
and/or their appointments were cut back. Not quite well enough, obviously:
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/Medscape/features/JournalScan/psychiatry/1999
/js-psy0205.html

: Have you suicided lately? Were you told your care would taper off? Did an
implant misfire? If you didn't suicide, do you need more drugs anyway? Why?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ CANOLA OIL PERILOUS? Studies with lab. animals were disastrous. Rats de-
veloped fatty degeneration of heart, kidney, adrenals, and thyroid. When
canola oil was withdrawn from their diets, the deposits dissolved but scar
tissue remained on all vital organs. No studies on humans were made before
money was spent to promote Canola oil in the USA.  www.1999.com/canola/

: Would you rather be immersed in canola oil, lemon jello, Reptilioid jism,
homeopathic water, Akavit, the sea of love, ectoplasm? Have you been tested?
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# CIA, Contras and Cocaine: Since the mid-1980s, the CIA has been accused
of tolerating drug-running by its allies and surrogates in Central America.
Always, the charges have been dismissed as "damnable lies" by the Agency.
Predictably, the mainstream intelligence reporters have taken the Agency's
word for it. But now the truth is out in the CIA's own words. A report by
the CIA's own inspector general reveals that the Agency knew the leadership
of the Contras planned to import cocaine into the US as early as the summer
of 1991. And they called it sugar: http://www.counterpunch.org/ciadrugs.html

: Have you helped the CIA and/or its minions import/market heroin, cocaine,
ibogaine, or any other controlled substance? Was it fun? Was it worth it?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ THE NEW MILLENNIUM AND THE MIND-CONTROL CRISIS. Is our government using us
as human guinea pigs? Is our government drugging us, brainwashing our kids
in the schools and implanting microchips in us? Are they using nonlethal
weapons on us; are they using radiation on us; are they using psycho surgery
and electronic mind-control methods on us? Are they reprogramming peoples'
whole personalities? It seems hard to believe, but I'm sorry to say that the
answer to all of these questions, and more, is YES. http://www.psychops.com

: Have you recently been tested, drugged, brainwashed, implanted, assaulted,
irradiated, cut, and/or reprogrammed by your gov't? Was it fun? Do it again?
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SkeptiShorts:

# A GLASS OF WINE A DAY MIGHT KEEP HEART DISEASE AWAY. Regular, moderate
drinkers of all types of alcoholic beverages have a lower risk of coronary
heart disease than non-drinkers. And wine seems more beneficial than beer
or spirits. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=12149

# ALLERGIC PET OWNERS: LOVING THROUGH THE SNEEZES. A new study found that 44
percent of pet owners who are allergic to their pets keep them, and most of
them don't bother keeping a "pet-free zone." Proof of the unconditional love
that people have for their pets. If only we could all treat people this way.
Right. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=12141

@ "The Bible Code is a prime example of the Gestapo school of science:  If
you torture the data long enough, it will tell you want you want to hear."
http://www.csicop.org/si/9711/bible-code.html
http://www.csicop.org/si/9803/bible-code.html

@ Jack Sarfatti and Albert Einstein in a Vulcan mind meld of post-quantum
teleportation. UFO CARTOON SHOW -- Who are we? -- Space-Time and Beyond
Electronic Book -- Mind-Matter Physics Debates between Jack Sarfatti and
the Laputan Pundits -- Quantum-Mind Archive -- Conventional Physics
Research -- "Making Star Trek Real" -- Advanced Physics Updates --
Strange Stuff -- yada yada yada: http://www.hia.com/pcr/
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

SkeptiLinks - Kosovo:

. Kosovo Info: http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/1998/10/kosovo/related.sites/
. Kosova Crisis Center: http://www.alb-net.com/index.htm
. Kosova Liberation Peace Movement: http://www.klpm.org/
. Kosovo: http://www.albanian.com/main/countries/kosova/

. Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: http://www.gov.yu/facts/facts.html
. Kesovo and Metohija facts: http://www.gov.yu/kosovo_facts/
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# Polygamist Compound Perfect Place For New Church. (THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE)
For more than a decade, the four-acre estate was the former home of Rulon
Jeffs, the 89-year-old prophet of what is believed to be America's largest
polygamous church, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints (FLDS). http://www.sltrib.com/1999/may/05011999/religion/102003.htm

: Would you rather build a church in a former polygamist compound, military
compound, nudist compound, industrial compound, colonial compound, dogpound?
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@ WHILE MJ12 - THE SEMI-SECRET BODY ALLEGEDLY OVERSEEING THE ALIEN 'PROBLEM'
- AND AREA 51 - THE SUPPOSED ALIEN HQ ON EARTH - ARE NOW WELL KNOWN, FEW
PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF THEIR ORIGINS IN THE LATE 1980'S. And you thought you
knew everything: http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/122/disin2.html

: Do you have inside information on US gov't dealings with aliens/UFOs/tech?
Why haven't you been killed yet? Are you one of the manipulators? Which one?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Cult figures - Experts ponder why people keep following the leader. (Ed-
monton Sun) Husbands prove their devotion to a small cult in Rocky Mountain
House by delivering their wives to their leader for sex. And the small town
is not the only Alberta community harbouring such a manipulative body. "I
believe there are between 300 and 500 cults operating in Alberta, some as
small as two people," said Dr. Norman Costigan, who helped organize a cult
awareness conference in Edmonton. www.canoe.com/CNEWSLife9905/02_cult.html

: Does your cult deal with sex, death, drugs, music, politics, aliens, gods?
Are you part of a network of cults? How small is your cult? Are you alone?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ ALTERNATIVE 3 (A3) WAS A 1978 TV DRAMA FEATURING A SCIENCE DOCUMENTARY
TEAM'S INVESTIGATION OF A CONSPIRACY BETWEEN THE SUPERPOWERS TO PLANT
COLONIES ON THE OTHER PLANETS. MANY VIEWERS TOOK IT FOR A FACTUAL DOCUMEN-
TARY. A LATER NOVEL BY LESLIE WATKINS BASED ON THE SCREENPLAY, EXTENDED THE
CONFUSION AND ENSHRINED A3 AS A MAJOR STRAND OF MODERN CONSPIRACY THEORY.
Truth behind truth: http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/121/a3.html

: Were you part of a superpower conspiracy to of extraterrestrial coloniza-
tion? Were you well rewarded? How many folks did you send off-planet? Where?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ John Banion's very alien and weird experience. John Banion, a tedious but
covertly sweet Washington pundit in his late 40s, is out golfing one day
when he finds himself jiggered up into a flying saucer, poked, prodded and
"stretched" in a most unsettling fashion... But when it happens again --
this time, out on the road, on the way to a speaking engagement -- the
"alien" experience sinks in. What else can Banion do but talk about it?
Banion's speeches, talk shows and syndicated columns become informed by a
wholly new subject matter: What do Congress and the administration plan to
do about these aggressive superterrestrials? All due to MJ-12 - see
http://www.herald.com/content/sat/entertainment/books/digdocs/071531.htm

: Do you talk about your abduction(s)? Does anyone believe you? Do you know
any abductees? Did you join a club? Do you party hearty? Would you go again?
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# Alzheimer's can't break a connection with God. (SALT LAKE CITY) So
many things elude her now: She can't remember the names of her nieces
and nephews, what kind of car she bought two years ago, sometimes even
where she lives. She has Alzheimer's disease, and many of her memories
are patchy, tattered or missing. But she remembers God.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,80001847,00.html

: Are you brain-damaged? How many and which deities do you remember? Do you
talk to them? Do they talk back? Does brain damage strengthen you faith?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ Confessions of a perpetual foreigner. I realized that I am an example of
an entirely new breed of people, a transcontinental tribe of wanderers that
is multiplying as fast as international telephone lines and frequent flier
pro-grams. We are the transit loungers, forever heading to the departure
gate. We buy our interests duty-free, we eat our food on plastic plates, we
watch the world through borrowed headphones. We pass through countries as
through revolving doors, resident aliens of the world, impermanent residents
of nowhere. Nothing is strange to us, and nowhere is foreign. We are
visitors even in our own homes. www.utne.com/lens/cs/81societypico.html

: Are you a resident alien of the world, the solar system, the galaxy, the
universe, of observable reality? How many border do you cross daily? Why?
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SansComment:

> BLASTS GO OFF NEAR TWO MOSCOW SYNAGOGUES - "This was not done by a
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# Online sex carries health risk - Many surfers admitted to visiting sex
sites. (BBC) Too much time spent surfing Internet sex sites can damage your
mental health. A study found that individuals who spend 11 hours or more a
week visiting such sites are more prone to psychological difficulties such
as sexual compulsivity. Not to mention carpal-tunnel syndrome, neckache,
etc - http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_305000/305106.stm

@ Internet Index - Net statistics: www.openmarket.com/intindex/index.cfm

: Do you get much or most of your sex online? Is it clean? Is it fun? Do the
aliens monitoring your implant enjoy it too? Do CIA mind-control rays cause
net.impotence? Are the NSA agents monitoring your net.sex all perverts? Why?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Karaoke singing monk faces the music in Cambodia. PHNOM PENH (Reuters) A
Cambodian monk was expelled after he was caught sneaking out of his temple
at night to indulge his secret passion-- karaoke singing. By day Kung Bunch-
hoeun, 22, wore the simple orange robes of a monk but at night he would don
ordinary garb and slip out of his Phnom Penh temple to croon in karaoke
bars. http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=2825902

# ON THE TRAIL OF A BRONZE BUDDHA IN NEPAL. Mention that your itinerary
includes the Katmandu Valley, and someone will likely put in a shopping
request. "Bring back one of those beautiful copper Buddhas," my friend
said. "Try and get an original." And so the quest began... see
http://CNN.com/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/9902/nepal.bronze.lat/index.html

: Does your spiritual guide haunt karaoke bars? Is your spirit quest for tin
or bronze or gold or plutonium? Does your spirit quest lead to karaoke bars?
Would you prefer your spiritual leaders sing karaoke, embezzle, molest kids?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# FINALLY - JUDGES CAN BAR 'JUNK SCIENCE' TESTIMONY. Finally, non-scientific
'expert witnesses' will be held to the same tough standards that scientific
experts must meet in court cases. Maybe this will stem the tide of "junk
science" that has influenced many environmental cases and product liability
suits. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10916

: Is junk science better than no science at all? Are junk religions, junk
politics, junk thoughts, junk arts, better than none at all? Do you care?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# School board members quarrel over 'black magic'. BROWNSVILLE, PA (AP) A
Pennsylvania school board is having some black magic moments. It started
when board member Peggy Gursky brought a black candle to a meeting of the
school board. She says she wanted to ward off what she calls "negative
vibes." http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=2928108

: Do you ward off vibes of any sort with burning materials? What works best?
Should black candles be burnt at all public/political/legislative meetings?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# MORNING COFFEE COULD LEAD TO STRESS ALL DAY. Unfortunately for those of us
who love coffee, researchers find that drinking 4 or 5 cups of coffee a day
can raise your blood pressure a little - and your stress level a lot. They
even find that test subjects reported feeling anxiety and stress well into
evening. It reminds us how powerful this drug, caffeine - my drug of choice
 - can be. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10719

: Would you rather be stressed-out by stimulants, financial problems, sexual
anxiety, political concerns, fears of alien abduction, or existential angst?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Peruvians wallow in 'miraculous' mud allegedly touched by aliens. CHILCA,
Peru (AP) A lot of ailing Peruvians are turning up in Chilca, a dusty desert
town on the Pacific coast 40 miles southeast of Lima. They come to wallow in
the mud of three small ponds thought to have healing powers. But there's a
twist to these mud baths -- locals claim their purported miraculous powers
are brought by alien space ships. E.T., HeaL Me: see
http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=3475921

# Nature's body-boosters. Herbal supplements are being lauded as the new
fix-it for problems like PMS, fatigue, poor concentration and lazy immune
systems. Here's a run-down on popular alternative treatments. Avoid feeling
run-down: http://fashion.iafrica.com/beauty/index.htm?src_id=tmp0313

: Would you like to wallow in alien poop? Would it improve your complexion?
Has all hot mud been 'processed' by aliens, deities, demons, earth.spirits?
Are herbal supplements better than proper nutrition, exercise, exorcisms?
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SkeptiLinks:

# Iraq Bribed Russian Prime Minister Primakov For Nuclear Weapons:
  http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990329/00/news-iraq-russia-report
@ Hitler: A Psycholo

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# 'Nude Raiders' face legal action. (BBC) When Lara Croft did the Net with-
out even the trademark hotpants and rubber vest, her makers threatened legal
action. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_299000/299040.stm

# And: Lara Croft - cyber celebrity, cyberbabe:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_32000/32939.stm
# Licence to thrill - Lara Croft to be an ambassador for UK sci/tech:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_225000/225615.stm
@ Links: Tomb Raider Fan Site: http://www.eisa.net.au/~astro/
@ Tomb Raider - Eidos Interactive: http://www.tombraider.com/
@ Nude Raiders WebRing: http://www.bomis.com/rings/nudegamering/

: Do nude cyberbabes make good ambassadors? Are nude cyberbabes authentic
cultural artifacts, or products of alien or commie or CIA mind-control work?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

*** Finnish firm warn of April 26 computer virus. HELSINKI (Reuters) Finnish
encryption software and computer virus protection group Data Fellows warned
that a malicious virus threatens computers worldwide on April 26. The April
26 activation date is the 13th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
and the eve of a major European information security exposition in London.
The CIH 2.1 virus - also called CIH. 1003 - can destroy a computer's hard
disk and the contents of Flash-BIOS memory chips. Still another damn bug -
see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558868982-13b

: Can/will you be immunized against CIH.1003? Against all the other viruses
around? Have you ever been attacked by a computer virus? How? Do they itch?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# NASA team says other meteorites contain fossils of bacteria. HOUSTON (AP)
The NASA team that says it discovered microbial life in a Martian meteor now
claims two other meteors contain similar fossilized remnants. Life all over,
see http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/mars990319.html
and http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9903/19/mars.life.ap/index.html

@ Links: Exploring Mars: http://www.exploringmars.org/
@ Mars Global Surveyor: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/index.html

: If we searched all meteors and asteroids, how many would contain bacteria?
How many would be from Mars? What would be the other sources? How d'ya know?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Chip Off the Old Rock? (ABC) Data from the Lunar Prospector spacecraft
supports the theory that the moon broke away from Earth in a massive
interplanetary collision. Similar mineral compositions was one clue.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/moonsplit990316.html
and http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_298000/298157.stm

@ Links: Lunar Prospector: http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/
@ Lunar FAQ: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/moonfact.html
@ The origin of the Moon: http://www.psi.edu/projects/moon/moon.html
@ Moon origin simulation: http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/Outreach/origin/

: Was Luna smashed off from Terra, or did it break off of its own accord, or
did it ooze off, or did deities or demons or aliens separate the planetoids?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# When we were worms. (BBC) A curious group of flatworms are helping to
explain the evolution of animals like humans that have a left and a right
side. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_299000/299010.stm

# Also: Small worm makes history:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_232000/232608.stm
# Mechanism for evolution described:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_222000/222096.stm
# Fossil evidence of worms over one billion years ago:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_183000/183596.stm

: Are humans, biologically, spiritually, morally superior to worms? Does
being a worm mean never having to say you're sorry... or anything else?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Ancient tomb captured the winter sun. (BBC) A mysterious prehistoric tomb
has a "light box" cut into its roof which allowed a shaft of light to herald
the start and end of winter. Solar-powered time/date reckoning mechanism -
see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_298000/298999.stm

# Also: The sound of the Neolithic:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_72000/72494.stm
@ Links: The Crantit dig: http://www.orkneyislands.com/crantitdig/index.html
@ Newgrange: http://www.stonepages.com/stones/Ireland/Inglese/Newgrange.html
@ Council for British Archeology: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/index.html

: Who thought this up: ancient Britons, Picts, Celts, Atlanteans, Lemurians,
Egyptians, Reptilioids? Could *you* have thought of this? Would you bother?
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# IRISH YOUTH SUICIDE SOARING. (NY Times) "Ireland has the fastest-growing
rate of youth suicide in the world, and almost one

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# Scientists Say Life Possible on Pluto's Moon Charon. (MSNBC) Although it
seems unlikely, Charon (generally pronounced like the name Karen) just might
be capable of harboring life, said Douglas Lin, an astrophysicist at the
Lick Observatory. The possibility was raised by data from the Hubble Space
Telescope. http://www.msnbc.com/news/233408.asp

@ Links: IAU - Pluto: http://www.ss.astro.umd.edu/IAU/div3/pluto.shtml
@ Pluto-Kuiper Express: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ice_fire/pkexprss.htm
@ Pluto, the Ninth Planet: http://www.lowell.edu/users/buie/pluto/pluto.html
@ The Nine Planets: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/
@ Views of the Solar System: http://spaceart.com/solar
@ Planetary Photojournal: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/
@ Your Weight on Other Planets:
  http://www.it.hq.nasa.gov/~amato/Work/Java/Amato/Weights/Weight.html
@ Tour the Solar System:
  http://www.msnbc.com/onair/msnbc/TimeAndAgain/archive/solar/default.asp

: Will you join in the glorious colonization of Charon? Under what duress?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Get Your Y2K Gear! Hurry! (ABC) Come take a walk with us through a Year
2000 preparedness trade show. Marvel at the solar generators, pedal-powered
grain mills and bulk food storage systems. Listen to vastly different Y2K
scenarios. Are you prepared? Pay your money and take your chances - see
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/y2kexpo990205.html

# And: Russia Y2K Program Behind Schedule
  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/russiay2k990129.html
# Developing Countries Face Y2K Crisis
  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/worldbank990126.html
# Businesses Trail Feds on Y2K Planning
  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/y2k990121.html
# MILLENNIUM BUGGED - Countdown to Y2K:
  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/y2k/y2k_intro.html
# Feds Plan Y2K Spin Control
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/17527.html
# Bankers: Prepared for a Panic?
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/16618.html
# TV SHOW 'IRRESPONSIBLE' SAYS ACTION 2000
  http://www.excite.co.uk/news/news_story/technology/tech7.txt

: How much have you spent on Y2K preparedness? How much more will you spend?
Are you ready for a panic? Have you panicked already? Are you over it yet?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# El Niño Secrets in Old Egypt: Early Nile Records Valuable to Scientists.
WASHINGTON (AP) Scientists trying to unravel the mysteries of El Niño are
studying floods on the Nile, using data collected by instruments from the
days of the pharaohs. The annual Nile floods were vital to Egyptian agri-
culture, so ancient pharaohs introduced the nilometer, a device to measure
the height of the river flood. Now MIT researchers are finding those records
useful in estimating the frequency of the El Niño climate phenomenon in the
past. They have discovered a period, just over 1,000 years ago, that had
relatively frequent El Niños, similar to the pattern of the past 20 years.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/elnino_egypt990205.html

@ Links: Egypt Country Profile:
  http://www.abcnews.go.com/reference/countries/EG.html
# El Nino Remains a Mystery:
  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/elnino990107.html

: Is the dead past ever really dead? Is not every moment, every action, the
result of the sum-over-time of every event that precedes it? Do you care?
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News Shorts: Contrails

# Contrails: Poison from the Sky
http://www.islandnet.com/~wilco/investsky.htm
# A Skeptic's View of Contrail Mystery
http://www.sightings.com/ufo2/contrainsskeptic.htm
# Radar Expert Speaks Out on Anomalous Weather Radar Images
http://www.borderlands.com/newstuff/research/nexrad/Radarexp.htm
# Contrails Mystify, Sicken Americans
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jan99/1999L-01-08-05.html
# Mystery Contrails May Be Modifying Weather
http://www.ens.lycos.com/ens/jan99/1999L-01-12-01.html
# Mystery Contrails: Secret Military Operation?
http://www.sightings.com/political/contrails2.htm
# Jet Contrails May be Sickening People Across the US
http://www.sightings.com/health/contrails.htm

: Have you been sickened by contrails yet? Has anyone you know? Who? How?
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HotLinks:

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- Air Disasters: http://www.cyberview900.com/air_disasters.htm
- Natural Disasters: http://www.cyberview900.com/natural_disasters.htm
- Predictions: http://www.cyberview900.com/predictions.htm

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- http://www.tinaja.com/glib/resbn86.pdf
- http://www.tinaja.com/resbn01.html
- http://www.tinaja.com/barg01.html
- http://www.tinaja.com/info01.html

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