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SkeptiNews 000611c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Last batch of bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/09_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No errors occurred during production of this bulletin. Not like earlier. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Ooh: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/nude/photo/2604/nyr102 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE VATICAN TERMINATOR. Will the Next Pope Be the Last Pope? Satan has chosen a new Pope. This new, chosen vessel will not only inherit the ecu- menical legacy of the aging and increasingly frail Pope John Paul II, he will be endowed with the occult energies to found and organize a stunning New World Religion. What a guy! http://www.texemarrs.com/vatterm.htm # DEMONS FROM HELL KILL 11 IN CHURCH ATTACK! WASHINGTON, DC A top-secret FBI file proves the Devil is stepping up his attack on God's people. The bone- chilling report reveals that an army of demons from Hell overran a small Georgia church late last summer, killing 11 people mauling 9 others! The 174-page file contains shocking photos of the crime scene and sworn state- ments from 57 witnesses. http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1979.html : Would you rather be terminated by priests, demons, aliens, robots, me? Are you ready for the impending termination of yourself,society, religion,Earth, reality? Have you terminated any individuals/organizations/galaxies lately? # Final Curtain: a chain of theme park cemeteries, with holiday tours, gal- leries, neon death notices,and the "Dante's Grill" cafe. Is this for real? http://www.salon.com/business/feature/2000/05/31/deathhoax/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 2,000 Year Old Greek Computer Calculated Motions Of Stars And Planets. In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to have been a device for calculating the motions of stars and planets. Harbored y0k bug: http://www.giant.net.au/users/rupert/kythera/kythera3.htm @ FUTURE MAP OF THE WORLD. During the years 1998-2012, the surface and continents of Earth are destined for a radical transformation. Much of our land is expected to inundate, while new islands will be created, rising from the seafloor. http://earthchanges.com/pages/worldmaps.html @ Jacques Barzun's history of Western civilization is bound to go down as a classic if one day there's still a history for it to go down in: http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/18/jun00/barzun.htm : Have you calculated/mapped/rewritten the past/present/future lately? Does your civilization/planet/universe have a future? Do you? How can you tell?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # EARLY-ONSET DEPRESSION: EXPECT COMORBIDITIES. Childhood depression is likely to be highly chronic and comorbid with other psychiatric disorders, and to severely impair function. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/22589.rhtml # WAS YOUR BABY SWITCHED AT BIRTH? CHICAGO -- Every day, all across America, dozens of new moms are sent home from the hospital with the wrong baby, govt health officials say. But by following your own intuition, you can tell almost immediately whether your infant has been switched at birth. Maternal telepathy: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1978.html # POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY HALVED DEPRESSION IN KIDS. Positive psychology techniques that aim to instill a sense of optimism halved the rate of depression in three studies of young adults and children that included as much as 10 years of follow-up. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/22588.rhtml : Are your children depressed, depressing, alien, missing? Were your babies/ parents/relatives switched at birth? Should they have been? Does your consp- iracy switch many children/parents/neighbors/politicos/entertainers/aliens? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Video Trojan hoax scares up publicity for security firm. Another ambitious startup bangs another empty drum www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11290.html # Building a digital future. What do EU, SAP, DSL, WAP, GSM and B2B have in common? They all converge on Europe: http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/e.europe # Children, Sex, And The Net: http://www.sightings.com/general2/csn.htm @ Prospering in the New Economy: http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/new.economy/ # Computers will disturb heat balance of universe. JavaOne Overclockers, beware... http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11268.html @ It's the pampered comfort of our lives that is making us miserable. That's why we invent illusory threats and dangers for ourselves. Masochism tango: http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/06/04/stirevopn02003.html : What's your favorite technological nightmare? Have you created/promulgated /commercialized any technological nightmares
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000130c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * No channeled messages were discarded during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ KILL! http://johnvanderslice.com/mp3sjv/jv_01_bill_gates_must_die.mp3 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cult Accused in Attack Offers Money. TOKYO, Japan (AP) - As part of its campaign to clean up its image, the doomsday cult accused in the 1995 nerve-gas attack on Tokyo subways offered to pay a total of $1.14 million a year as compensation to the victims. Aum Shinri Kyo's new guru said several tens of thousands of dollars will be paid to the victims immedi- ately. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000129/22/int-japan-doomsday-cult http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_623000/623801.stm # Stop the Congo massacres. (BBC) Another Rwanda-style crisis is looming in the northeast of DR Congo, an aid agency warns after releasing shocking video footage of ethnic clashes. African leaders demand UN deployment. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_623000/623737.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_616000/616516.stm : What's your favorite massacre? Was is triggered by religion, ethnicity, politics, economics, esthetics, athletics? Were reparations exacted? Have you massacred anyone lately? Why? Was it fun, necessary, holy, engrossing? # Neo-Nazis rally in Berlin. Hundreds of neo-Nazis march against Germany's planned memorial to Holocaust victims, sparking counter-protests. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_623000/623805.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Supremes Reject Appeal by Psychics. WASHINGTON (AP) The US Supreme Court refused to revive a lawsuit in which 16 ex-employees of a Calif. psychic hotline accused ABC-TV of unlawfully using a hidden camera to videotape them at work. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000118/11/scotus-abc $ Free Psychics: http://www.800predict.com/cfmfiles/new/readings/main.cfm # Starring in MATRIX II: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000128-14.html # Glasshouse girl - Public shower, toilet sparks uproar in Chile. (BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_623000/623340.stm : How much privacy is too little, too much, enough? Is your whole life perf- ormance art? Do you assume that you're always being watched? R U paranoid? If you're really psychic, can you tell if you're under surveillance? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DoubleClick sued for cookie abuse. Californian seeks prior consent ruling after personal data collected: www.theregister.co.uk/000128-13.html # Privacy Suit Against DoubleClick. The big Net advertising company is accused of tracking and obtaining personal information on Web users with- out their consent. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33964,00.html @ Opt out of DoubleClick, double quick: http://www.doubleclick.net/optout/ : If you don't click banner ads, can DC track you? If you resist ads, will you have more money, more privacy, more security? Who controls your mind?? # Malaria hope. A drug combination could halt the spread. (BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_621000/621290.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GOLDEN MIRACLES: "God is so much bigger than religion has portrayed him" http://www.latimes.com/news/front/2125/t07947.html vs CHRISTER TROLL 97 (trolling for Jesus) http://www.thoughtshop.com/fundiemania.htm and see http://www.ntk.net/ or repent. * GetInTouchWithGod: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Are you surprised to see God in .mil [military] domains? Have you emailed God lately? Is God hard to reach sometimes? Have you tried other Gods? Who? @ Israel/Judaism: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook06.html @ Xian Origins: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook11.html @ Roman Mystery Religions: Demeter Eleusis; Cybele; Isis; Mithras; End of Paganism: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook10.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Protests mar Davos summit. (BBC) Security is ramped up in the Swiss resort Davos after anti-free trade protesters try to disrupt the World Economic Forum: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_623000/623585.stm # Davos: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_621000/621013.stm @ World Economic Forum: http://www.weforum.org/ : Can/should/will the NWO/WTO/WEF
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000123c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * Only a few new species were created during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Da Vinci IS Mona Lisa! http://library.thinkquest.org/13681/data/link2.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Bermuda Triangle of Space: http://persweb.direct.ca/psa/spacetriangle.html # "Castles in the Air" - Are mirages a good explanation for UFO sightings? http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/weekly/mcurrent.htm # "Project Twinkle" - The govt studies green fireballs over New Mexico: http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/weekly/aa080597.htm : What's your favorite explanation for UFOs? Are you in cahoots with ETs? Do they feed you disinformative explanations for you to promulgate? How deeply involved are you in UFO coverups? Are you well-paid? D'ya enjoy ET sex? How? @ "A Guide to UFOs" - An ever-expanding handbook for the novice ufologist: http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/blguidea.htm # "Current UFO News" - Updated and with UFO news items of the week! http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/blnews.htm # "Current SETI@home, Space, and Astronomy News" http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/blseti.htm : How much news about UFOs can you tolerate? Would you rather hear about UFO sightings, watch TV sports, masturbate, eat pizza, canoe across a cool lake, ride the wild surf, carve gods from balsa wood, paint my rafters, sleep??? @ UFO Timeline: UFO events of the 20th Century! http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/bltime.htm @ "UFO Poll" - New poll: When will we make contact with ET intelligence? http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/blpolls.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # First artificial DNA can create new forms of life. SCIENTISTS have made the world's first synthetic DNA - the molecules that form the blueprint for life. The breakthrough means that the first artificial organisms could be "born" within two years and raises the prospect of humans redesigning whole species, including themselves. Back to the drawing board, mates. www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/01/23/stinwenws01049.html?999 # Advanced Life Rare in Universe: http://persweb.direct.ca/psa/liferare.html # Opening cupboards in Pandora's pantry - Govt ignores warnings about GM food: http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JF00/pandora.html @ The Holy War: http://www.bibleclass.com/lib/holywar.htm : What kinds of foods/lifeforms/humans would you like to engineer? How will you be redesigned if you're to compete with everyone else who gets rebuilt? Will you just give up, die? Do you have any evolutionary potential? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # US threatens GM deal. (BBC) The United States is one of six countries blocking a protocol on the import export of genetically-modified foods. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_611000/611848.stm # Also - Brakes put on GM industry: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_506000/506028.stm # Plant losses threaten world's food supplies: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_449000/449096.stm # Charity warns against GM seeds: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_439000/439289.stm : Are gene.mod foods superior, satanic, necessary, invidious, inevitable? Do you prefer traditional foods? Are you fat, fit, faddish, fed, fatal, phony? @ Of Agriculture: www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1650cowley-agriculture.html @ Germs: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1880pasteur-germ.html @ Steam Engine Library: http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mormons are targets of a Baptist crusade - Conversion effort includes Witnesses. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) Two Southern Baptist congregations are preparing a crusade to teach their members how to convert "cult" members, including Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses. The Cult Awareness Impact Crusade: "Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christians." http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150008315,00.html? : Is anybody Xian who calls themselves Xian, or do they have to agree with your Xian sect? Do you wage war on heretics? Are there lots of heretics out there? Is it a challenge? Can you convert heretics? Can they convert you?? # The new believers - Russia's war on God is over, but intolerance persists: http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,125278,00.html # Vigil held for slain missionary - Father, two sons burnt alive in jeep by Hindu radical: http://www.smh.com.au/news/0001/22/update/news2.html @ The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990912c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No chupacabras were wantonly annoyed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Family discovers new dinosaur. (BBC) Scientists say a fossilised bone from a previously unknown dinosaur has been found on a Scottish isle. A holidaying family found the fossilised elbow joint of a previously unknown member of the stegosaur family in sandstone on the Isle of Skye. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_444000/444653.stm : How did you spend your holidays? Have you found any dinosaurs lately? Have any dinosaurs found you? Can we peacefully co-exist with dinosaurs? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE GREAT SOUTH TEXAS CHUPACABRA HUNT. In the wake of reports that dreaded Chupacabras might be on the prowl south of San Antonio Texas, our intrepid reporter Rebecca Schatte decided to join a night expedition to watch for the beast. Here's her story. http://www.cninews.com/Search/CNI.0105.html : Have you hunted chupacabras lately? Have chupacabras hunted you? Do voices in your head tell you where to look? Do chupacabras make crop circles? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Africa confronting doomsday scenario. Harare, Zimbabwe (AP) Aids is the biggest single threat to Africa's development, dwarfing the continent's famines and wars. More than 2/3 of all Earth's people now living with HIV, which causes Aids, nearly 21 million, and 83 per cent of all Earth's Aids- related deaths since the pandemic emerged 15 years ago have been in Africa www.scmp.com/News/World/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-19990911025843728.asp # Coping with Africa's Aids disaster: Aids has run rampant on the continent. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_444000/444974.stm @ Links - UN Aids: http://www.unaids.org/index.html @ Aids Y2K Confab: http://aids2000.com/projects/aidsonline/aidshomepage.nsf/ : Do you prefer local, regional or general doomsdays? Have you promoted or prevented any doomsdays? Are we all doomed? Will we bang or whimper? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # TV boycott call for US minorities. (BBC) US Hispanics and other groups are urged to observe a 2-week boycott of the country's major TV networks in protest at the "invisibility" of minorities in their programmes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_444000/47.stm # `Dracula' draws blood in Pakistan - Christopher Lee's Jinnah film reopens old wounds. Opponents of a film starring Christopher Lee as Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, have sworn to raze cinemas and attack distributors when the movie goes on general release next month. www.newsunlimited.co.uk/observer/international/story/0,3879,81479,00.html : Do media presentations attack/neglect your cultural/ethnic group? Do you take direct action against the media? Do the media perpetuate your troubles? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ukraine Hasidic Jews Mark New Year. UMAN, Ukraine(AP) Thousands of Hasidic Jews wandered the streets of this Ukrainian town prayed at the grave of their 19th-century spiritual leader to marking the start of Rosh Hashana. The pilgrimage to the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav has become a major annual event for Uman, once home to a large Jewish community. Before the Nazi invasion in 1941 about 40 percent of Uman's residents were Jewish but now only a few hundred Jews live permanently in the city of 100,000. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19990910/wl/ukraine_new_year_1.html # Faith, fear for Jewish holidays. (DN) Rabbi Brad Bloom stands in one of 3 arson-damaged synagogues, his voice choked with emotion as he describes a "summer of hate and hope." In the temple's parking lot, a police officer sits in a patrol car. Two private guards stroll the grounds. See http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,115008301,00.html : Does your cultural/ethnic group have high holy days? Are you more likely to be attacked then? Is there any safe refuge in the world? Elsewhere?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Jewish congregations unite to observe law. PHILADELPHIA (AP) In an unusual expression of unity, Conservative and Reform Jews are helping an Orthodox community create an eruv, an enclosure extending the definition of "home". # Bishops report on live-ins. WASHINGTON(AP) - The US Catholic bishops' com- mittee on marriage and family has issued a report on cohabitating couples, which many priests find the most inking issue in premarital counseling. # Patriarch says world is in winter of ecumenism. ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the world leader of Eastern Orthodoxy, says stalled efforts toward Christian unity have "caused many, perhaps rightly so, to proclaim this period to be the winter of ecumenism."
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990829c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No ancient hedge mazes were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 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?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 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:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990606c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No earth goddesses were violated during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Honeybees hunt for land mines. RICHLAND, Wa. (AP) Honeybees equipped with radio tags no larger than a grain of rice may one day be used to detect antipersonnel land mines on battlefields and elsewhere. Researchers seek to train and track entire colonies of bees, conditioned to prefer something other than honey, such as TNT, the primary component of land mines. Ultima- tely, it may be possible to carry a hive to a site and release the bees to search for explosives or other things, such as methamphetamine-making ingredients or nuclear waste. www.cnn.com/NATURE/9906/03/bee.tags.ap/ : What substances would you like to detect? Would you mind being busted by an insect? Will you have to be very very careful about what you do and eat? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Noah's Ark? Or elaborate fraud? Adventurers document astonishing find. (WND) Four east Tennessee men have felt that hope on the trip of a lifetime that led them on a dangerous adventure to Turkey to view what many claim is the final resting spot of Noah's Ark. Only known photos of the Ark site: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/19990601_xex_noahs_ark_br.shtml $ Journey to Noah's Ark: http://www.lakemoor.com/ : Which version of the old Sumerian myth / Noachian 'Ark' legend do you like best? How many animals could you fit onto an Ark? How bad would they smell? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiResources: @ HyperHistory Online. HyperHistory presents 3,000 years of world history with a combination of colorful graphics, lifelines, timelines, and maps. Over a 1,200 files are interconnected throughout the website, providing 5 sections from which to start your exploration. People; History; Events; Maps. http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html @ The Gate of Heavenly Peace. The Gate of Heavenly Peace is a documentary about the protests at Tiananmen Square in 1989, and the resulting Beijing Massacre. The site explores the history of the demonstrations and comments on the "deep structure" of political habits attitudes that have informed public life in China over the past century. http://www.nmis.org/gate/ @ Online Newspapers of the World. Tired of your local newspaper? Want to find out what people on the other side of the world read over their coffee? Online Newspapers of the World has over 4,000 newspapers and magazines sorted by region and country and a proficient search engine as well wrapped up into one excellent, clean, efficient resource. http://www.metagrid.com/ @ Free Education on the Internet. This is a guide to free online courses, tutorials, and study guides. There are no fees for any of the courses, nor do you have to sign-up for anything - they're just free. www.free-ed.net/ @ Time Capsule. Enter a date and the Time Capsule will bring back memories of that year. The site currently has data online for 1900-1997, but not all data are available for 1995-97. http://www.dmarie.com/asp/history.asp @ Funk Wagnalls Online Multimedia Encyclopedia. FW's online version of its 29-volume Encyclopedia, with over 25,000 articles and more than 3,000 "multimedia elements". Updated monthly, it's freely available after regis- tration. There's also free access to the Random House Webster's College Dictionary, Reuters headlines and searchable archive, and a separate browseable index for the multimedia items featured in the Encyclopedia, with links to the appropriate article. http://www.funkandwagnalls.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Vatican City online: http://www.vatican.va/ @ Islam (submission): http://www.discoverislam.com/ @ AA: http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org/findex.html @ Yahoo Skeptics Club: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/skeptics @ Internet Skeptics: http://members.xoom.com/jneedham/skeptics.html # CHILD-ADULT SEX STUDY TRIGGERS UPROAR - Critics Charge Attempt to Legitim- ize Pedophilia: www.apbonline.com/safestreets/1999/06/04/study0604_01.html # MARIJUANA RULING ROCKS DUI DOCKET - 100's of Cases Threatened by GA Court Action: www.apbonline.com/safestreets/1999/06/02/exceptions0602_01.html @ Sayonara, Y2k: Ed Yourdon's Candid Exit: http://www.yourdon.com @ Van Impe Intelligence Briefing: www.jvim.com/IntelligenceBriefing/ @ New World Order Intelligence Update: www.inforamp.net/~jwhitley/bild98.htm # Bilderberg 'Summit' opens under massive security: http://www.the-news.net/ # Current list of Bilderberg participants: http://www.the-news.net/archives/bilburglist05-6.htm @ Women First Healthcare: http://www.womenfirst.com/ @ Chess for Kids: http://tqjunior.advanced.org/6290/ @ The Nobel Channel: http://www.nobelchannel.com/ @ Best US Beaches: http://www.petrix.com/beaches/ # KKK
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*** FTC calls 'Vitamin O' ads deceptive. SPOKANE, WA (AP) The Federal Trade
Commission asked a judge to bar two Washington firms from making unsubstan-
tiated claims for a dietary supplement advertised as a wonder drug that can
cure diseases. FTC alleges the "Vitamin O" supplement is only bottled salt
water sold for $10 an ounce, and would force Rose Creek Health Products Inc.
and The Staff of Life Inc. to refund customers' money. An ad in USA Today
claims Vitamin O "has helped eliminate everything from breathing problems
and lack of energy to life-threatening diseases" such as cancer and heart
disease. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558863017-e3d
: If saltwater "helped" you digest beans without farting, would you buy any?
How much would you pay? Doesn't breathing "help" you fight cancer? Would you
buy some of my Super.Health.Air? It'll *help* you breathe, I promise...
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# The Bell Tolls For Soccer Players. LONDON (Reuters) 8 Birmingham churches
claiming that soccer fans are being encouraged to put the game before God
plan a noisy protest by ringing their bells during a top English club match
next Sunday. Premier League side Aston Villa, which began as a Methodist
church club, had been accused by ministers from the eight churches of
abandoning its roots by playing a home match against Chelsea on the Sabbath.
Godding or gaming - see http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990319/08/odd-soccer
# Flogging and Jail For Dancing In Holy City. TEHRAN (Reuters) Six Iranians
were sentenced to 18 months in jail and 228 lashes of the whip for goading
people to dance in the streets at an annual festival in the conservative
religious city of Oods. The six had blocked roads with bonfires and forced
passers-by to dance during Chaharshanbe-Souri, an ancient Zoroastrian feast
held Tuesday ahead of the Iranian new year, which starts Sunday. A hell of
a good time - see http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990319/08/odd-dancers
: Does your belief system proscribe certain activities on certain days? How
do your deities respond to competition? If {YHWH} really objected to Sunday
football, if Allah was insulted by Zoroastrian street-dancing, wouldn't a
few lightning bolts clarify the situation? Do lazy deities deserve respect?
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*** Tokyo show displays high-tech toys. TOKYO (AP) It doesn't take a rocket
scientist to build a toy - or does it? A group of engineers and scientists
from MIT thinks it does - and proved it by introducing some of their futur-
istic playthings at the Tokyo Toy Show. How about a pair of musical sneakers
that let kids compose their own tunes just by moving their feet? Or a huge
furry bug that imitates a child's movements through a sensor? "Toys aren't
just for playing around," said MIT media/tech professor Michael Hawley.
"They're tools that can help us turn our dreams into reality." Groovy.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558858311-748
See also: http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990319/08/odd-toy
: Could young Mozart have used those shoes? Would he have composed better,
sooner? Do you need toys to turn dreams into reality? Doesn't putty do that?
When will we have gene-modification toys? Should kids build new lifeforms?
Can we stop them? How sophisticated can toys get? Is reality the ultimate?
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# China To Open Its 'Los Alamos' To Tourists. SHANGHAI (Reuters) China will
open a prime nuclear research center to tourists, complete with a real atom
bomb on display. It said the welcome mat would be put out to tourists both
Chinese and foreign at the China Air Dynamics Research Development Center,
home of China's atomic and hydrogen bombs, in Mianyang in western Sichuan
province. They will be able to see a real atomic bomb and watch a video tape
of a nuclear explosion. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990319/08/odd-china
: Which would be better tourist attractions: NBC [nuclear/biological/chemi-
cal] research labs / weapons factories; UFO research labs / crash sites; my
backyard prison filled with captive ETs; a real Jurassic Park; KremlinWorld?
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# Mob Riots Over Bibles. JAKARTA (Reuters) A mob in Indonesia's staunchly
Muslim province of Aceh went on the rampage after a group of foreigners
distributed bibles. A crowd of hundreds stoned a police station where the
foreigners took refuge and burned a vehicle. 4 Americans and 1 Singaporean
handed out bibles in the local Acehnese language and cassettes. When the
crowd realized what they were, they began chasing the four, who ran into
the police station. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990317/16/odd-bibles
: Whose holy books are worth rioting over? Do Indonesian mobs have entirely
too much free time? Do voices in
