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Charles Krauthammer on Pat Buchanan: "So off to dance with Ross Perot - and
to lunch with Lenora Fulani, self-described (former?) 'militant black
nationalist ... Marxist and social therapist,' now a power in the Reform
Party. Buchanan's association with Fulani, once head of the
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Every time I see this story turning up, it traces back NO FURTHER than Allan
Eckert's novel *The HAB Theory*. IMHO, it classifies as an Internet myth at
this point. The novel is indeed "interesting fiction;" it was my first
contact with pole shift hypotheses. However, Eckert
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Er, Kite-flying is a hazard? To whom or what? Is Rudy afraid his cape is
going to get caught in the kite-strings when he's doing his Superman shtick?
Has his ego gotten so big that he thinks if a kite hits it his head will
explode?
-Original Message-
From:
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OTOH...see Neal Stephenson's *Cryptonomicon*, which speculates that gold
could be used as the basis of a transnational cybercurrency independent of
national currencies. The intrinsic value of a substance, in any event, has
no necessary relationship to its use as a medium of
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As it happens, I was talking last night with my sister, whose husband died
last year of lung cancer...or rather of the effects of the chemotherapy
which killed the cancer. He had had his left lung removed; when the autopsy
was done after his death, they discovered that there was
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These are all hoaxes. Please check things like this out before passing them
on.
-Original Message-
From: earthman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 5:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CTRL] Virus warnings - please read ...
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Andrew, I would prefer articles from mainline, peer-review journals.
Pictures can be, and often are, faked or doctored. I know that just because
something appears in a professional journal is no reason to automatically
accept it, but it demands more serious attention than
-Caveat Lector-
From
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa111898.htm?pid=2733cob=home,
Urban Legends and Folklore:
snip
Tampons do not contain asbestos
The claims about residual dioxin in tampons may be debatable, but the claims
about asbestos are pure hogwash. Tampons do not contain
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Weeelll, I do have family in Richland...and the rising radioactive "dough"
is horribly reminiscent of the notorious explosion in the nuclear waste dump
at Chelyabinsk in the late '50s (1958??), which contaminated a wide area in
the Urals. "Indeed do many things come to pass..."
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Peter, this is excellent! This is precisely the kind of material I have been
looking for.
-Original Message-
From: earthman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 3:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CTRL] The Dropa Stones and
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And much of the furor behind the school voucher crusade is coming from the
Catholic church in response to a longstanding demand from the Vatican for
state subsidy of parochial schools, as is the case in Europe. In this, as in
all First Amendment issues involving church and
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Unfortunately, Andrew, geological history is filled with the marks and scars
of catastrophes that *don't* fit the HAB Theory. The flooding of the Black
Sea is fascinating; it has major implications for archaeology, especially
for the quest to understand the origins of the
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Clinton Reassigns 1/3 of FBI's Drug Investigators
I was led down a dark hallway to a back room with only a single light bulb
dangling over a worn table. A man entered the room. The shadow cast by the
large brimmed hat that he wore concealed the features of his face. He asked,
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Democrats Unveil New 'Safer' Tax Scheme
WASHINGTON, DC - With the 'risky' Republican tax cut scheme fading into
history, the Democrats have revealed their plan for a new 'Safer Tax'. "We
all know that it is not safe to give the American people back any of their
money," said
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If this also applies to the U.S., and I assume it does, we begin to see some
of the other factors behind the "war on drugs"...and why the attack on
"binge drinking" on American campuses is a completely cynical publicity
ploy...
"Researchers at the University of Western
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Just interpolate a "fnord" into everything...as in, "Have you driven a Fnord
lately?" Thus, a headline such as "Cohen Warns Indonesian Military on
Timorese Militias" becomes "fnord Cohen Warns fnord Indonesian fnord
Military on fnord Timorese fnord Militias"... Puts things in
-Caveat Lector-
http://unisci.com/stories/19993/0930996.htm
Printer For Invisible Copy Described In Journal Article
It may sound like something out of a James Bond movie: an electronic inkjet
printer that prints with invisible ink. But earlier this month, University
at Buffalo physicists
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Re "Seventy-Year Itch": Okay, folks--you would feel that "menthol-like
tingle" because...the active ingredient in Gold Bond Foot Powder *is*
menthol. I suspect that what's happening is that the menthol desensitizes
the skin of the penis just enough to give you, er, greater
-Caveat Lector-
D.C. always HAS been a corrupt mess. Go back a hundred years and you've got
the same blessed thing. Read *The Gilded Age* by Mark Twain and Charles
Dudley Warner, with its detailed list of bribes spent to get a "private"
bill passed by Congress. (It's also a highly enjoyable
-Caveat Lector-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000343180237640rtmo=0XbxX2sqatmo=
pg=/et/99/9/23/ecfsplit23.html
The crowd inside her head
New research is helping scientists to understand split personalities, says
Raj Persaud
AFTER years of doubt and controversy, multiple personalities
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That wasn't where the error lay. Boeing gave NASA the thrust figures in
pounds/second. NASA did its calculations in newtons/second. They were
underestimating the power of the spacecraft's thrusters by a couple of
orders of magnitude.
-Original Message-
From: earthman
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It's odd. It's NASA. They use a wacko combination of metric and "Imperial"
(British) units. I'm surprised this hasn't caused more problems before now.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 5:27 PM
To:
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Heck, people have been behaving that way behind the wheel since the
invention of the automobile! Cell phones are a symptom, not a cause, of road
rage, etc. This is not to say they don't make matters considerably worse. I
have been nearly run down more than once, while trying to
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http://id.medscape.com/govmt/CDC/EID/public/archive/1999/toc-0504.html
Emerging Infectious Diseases
July-August 1999
Volume 5, Number 4
Article titles without active links (those in plain text) will be available
on Medscape in the coming weeks. Preface
About the Symposium on
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Misinformation/disinformation=no information. Perhaps the American *public*
did not envision a future war with Russia; perhaps the mass media were used
to lull them into a (temporary) state of complacency...but be assured that
the Powers That Were, in the State Department and
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Didn't Wilbur Smith write a novel based on the "Phoenician colony" idea back
in the 1970s? IIRC, it was quite a good historical fantasy. I wonder if
Mutwa borrowed from that book...
-Original Message-
From: Taylor, John (JH) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday,
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As with all of Seeker1's writings, there is enough meat here to chew on for
quite a while. But one curious item leaps out at me, because it relates to
something I looked up last night: the Roman civic religious term 'pontifex',
which was transferred to the Bishop of Rome, is
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Actually, if anyone "wrote the script" for the Apollo 13 incident, it would
have to be Robert A. Heinlein and Jules Verne. Apollo 13 followed the plot
of Heinlein's *Destination Moon*, which was made into a landmark
science-fiction film, to an uncanny degree. The only real
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Thousands Flock to Tiny Village to See Reported Apparition
(Hanoi, Vietnam-AP) -- Catholics say the Virgin Mary has appeared at a
remote spot in southern Vietnam.
Buddhists say no, it's Buddha they're seeing.
Officials say actually, it's just a rock.
Whatever it is, thousands of
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San Francisco Calls for Mormon IRS Probe
(San Francisco-AP) -- It's San Francisco versus the Mormons over a ballot
initiative.
Next March, California voters will consider a measure to limit marriage to
men and women.
The proposal is not popular in San Francisco's large gay
-Caveat Lector-
Y2K Seen as Possible Cover for Cyberwars
LONDON (Reuters) - If you have been worrying that the worst case scenario
for the millennium computer bug is that your heating could fail for a couple
of days or the traffic lights go on the blink, brace yourself.
Some military experts
-Caveat Lector-
Outrage as S.African Judge Cuts Rape Sentence
CAPE TOWN, Oct 6 (Reuters) - South African women's rights campaigners vented
their rage on Wednesday as a judge cut a mandatory life sentence for the
rape of a minor to just seven years because the man had raped his own
daughter.
The
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CIA Declassified 3,000,000 Pages in 1999
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA has shipped three million pages of
declassified records to the National Archives -- which will make them public
-- including documents on the Vietnam War, Cuba, China and Taiwan and
photographs of the Soviet
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Annan Backs U.N. Blacklist of Non-Democratic Regimes
UNITED NATIONS, (Oct. 4) IPS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan hopes that the
United Nations will one day follow Africa's lead and bar all
"unconstitutional" governments from high-level meetings of world political
leaders.
At a
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Angola: U.N. Peacekeepers Turn a Blind Eye on Abuses
LUANDA, (Oct. 5) IPS - While the Angolan government clamps down on the
independent media and the unexplained murders last month of two journalists
and a Unita legislator send shivers through Luanda, the roots of Angola's
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Environment: WWF Demands Trade Restrictions to Protect Resources
BRUSSELS, (Oct. 4) IPS - The World Trade Organization's (WTO) new
liberalization attempts threaten international actions to protect the
environment, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) warned here today.
The group
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Actually, it's entirely feasible to implant a fetus in a man's abdominal
cavity and allow him to bring it to full term. Obviously, delivery will have
to be by Caesarian section. The "host parent" would need hormonal treatments
to support the fetus during his pregnancy, and
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Charges Identify Rapist only by His DNA
October 7, 1999
Web posted at: 9:23 AM EDT (1323 GMT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- With time running out to file charges against an unknown
rapist, prosecutors have taken the unusual step of using the man's DNA code
to identify him in court papers.
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Well, what did you expect? Crane Brinton's classic *Anatomy of Revolution*
(which by the way I highly recommend) notes that every revolution has gone
through parallel stages, winding up with an imperial stage (vide Cromwell as
"Lord Protector", Napoleon, Stalin, Nixon et al.).
-Caveat Lector-
...And what about the multi-million-dollar condos on Hilton Head? Shouldn't
we deny *them* flood insurance as well? Do I smell an AGENDA here?? Stay
tuned...
===
S.C. Lawmaker Wants Farmers Moved from Coast
SUMTER, S.C. (AP) -- A South
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Space Command Given Responsibility for Computer Defense, Attack;
New "Joint Forces Command" to Support FEMA
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a sign that the Pentagon sees a growing threat from
cyber-warfare, it is assigning to U.S. Space Command the responsibility for
defending the
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Russian Scientologists Face Moscow Teaching Ban
MOSCOW, Oct 7 (Reuters) - A Russian branch of the U.S.-based Church of
Scientology is threatened with closure after a court found it guilty of
teaching without a licence, a judge said on Thursday.
The Hubbard Humanitarian
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"'Jesus Christ is going to take you to a place so nice you can't imagine,'
said the preacher, one of a team from Nairobi's Church of the Maximum
Miracle. 'Now the Lord is going to provide for you and you will never be the
same again.' ... Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi,
-Caveat Lector-
It *might* be coincidence...BUT: the greatest growth in the AIDS mortality
rate has come in the regions with the greatest rate of *population* growth,
namely Africa and Asia. Cultural differences account for some of the
increase in HIV infection; lack of medical care is a
-Caveat Lector-
Well, they've been feeding us (or trying to!) polyester fat substitutes like
Olestra...plastic from plants is a logical next step. ("Billy! Don't throw
that pop bottle away, go plant it in the garden!") What interests me is that
animals, including cattle, pigs, and even wild
-Caveat Lector-
Now this is *real* mind control... ;^)
=
http://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,92573-146794-1016849-0,00.ht
ml
Scientists try to cultivate decaf coffee bean
Copyright © 1999 Nando Media
Copyright © 1999 Associated Press
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Smedley Butler was hired by Philadelphia as Public Safety Director (which
included both police and fire departments) essentially as a publicity stunt,
designed to divert the attention of the newspapers away from the blatant
corruption in City Hall. What the Republican City
-Caveat Lector-
You know, there's only one problem with this sort of "heads-up" cockpit
display: because it relies on input from GPS satellites, there is a lag like
the one experienced with satellite-phone communication. This means that a
pilot relying on his VR display would in fact be roughly
-Caveat Lector-
A friend of mine commented about this "advance":
One more foundation stone for both dreams of omnipotent healers and
Orwellian nightmares.
From the hairy thunderer and Santa Claus to Lamont Cranston and Big
Brother, we've balanced our need for privacy with the mystery
-Caveat Lector-
Sorry, folks, this is an ancient Internet hoax...debunked many, many times
before...
-Original Message-
From: earthman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 1999 7:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CTRL] INTERNET MAIL FEES COMING?!
-Caveat Lector-
Thank you. I agree. If you *must* send it as a file, save it in TEXT FORMAT.
I DO NOT open document attachments in other than text format. I use Outlook,
but do not have Word enabled as email editor. Remember that macro viruses
travel in Word documents, and that an email message
-Caveat Lector-
http://www.msnbc.com/news/321786.asp
Terrorist link to virus downplayed
Officials call encephalitis outbreak 'Mother Nature at work'
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK, Oct. 11 - The CIA looked into rumors that the recent encephalitis
outbreak was the work of terrorists and concluded it
-Caveat Lector-
Effectively, many corporations are already firing ('scuse me,
"terminating"--let's keep our jargon straight) employees over 40. This is
particularly true in the high-tech industries, but the tendency has
definitely spread to other areas... BTW, yr obed't serv't is 52.
And
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Umm...considering I'm lefthanded myself, I can definitely say it ain't a
lifestyle choice. If you think it is, just try to read something I've
written with my right hand. (Or my left hand, for that matter...I have
horrible penmanship. :^/ ) And no, I wouldn't waste blueberry pie
-Caveat Lector-
Okay, let's see now: the U.S. is the policeman/overlord for the Americas.
NATO gets Europe. (BTW, would NATO intervene if the Spanish and French
Basques were to declare an independent Basque state? What about if the
Northern League manages to split Padania off from the rest of
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Pakistan government 'dismissed' by military takeover
October 13, 1999
Web posted at: 1:55 a.m. HKT (1755 GMT)
(CNN) -- Pakistan's state-run TV reported that the nation's army dismissed
elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his government Tuesday after the
Pakistani leader
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Doctors Warn of Choking Hazards of Peanuts
October 12, 1999
Web posted at: 10:03 AM EDT (1403 GMT)
LONDON (Reuters) -- Doctors called on Tuesday for peanut packets to carry
health warnings to stop toddlers choking to death.
Up to seven percent of all deaths of children under
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Intelligence services have always had a bad habit of inflating their
informer roles with the names of people they *wish* were actually working
for them. This tendency was satirized in Graham Greene's exquisite novel
*Our Man in Havana*, which was made into a marvelous film
-Caveat Lector-
Amen, Jamie. I am a former smoker who now suffers from chronic lung disease
(pulmonary sarcoidosis). Bluntly, other people's smoke makes me cough, and
enough of it can make it difficult for me to breathe. Whenever I enter or
leave an office building nowadays, I have to
-Caveat Lector-
*1984* was, AFAIK, intended more as a satire on Stalinism and the Communist
elite than it was as an attack on bureaucracy in general. Orwell was coming
at the subject from the standpoint of a disillusioned leftist who was not
about to go over to the Right. The book was designed
-Caveat Lector-
This was an extremely interesting post that addresses one of the genuine
mysteries of European folklore and place-lore: namely, the wide distribution
of names such as Dan, Don, Danu, Diana, Tana, Danaan, Danaus,
Danuvius/Danube, and the like. Indo-European linguists derive such
-Caveat Lector-
The prohibition in sharia (Islamic law) on usury, i.e. charging interest to
believers, would be a very large draw to disillusioned European (and
American) Christians if it were to be used as a drawing card...
-Original Message-
From: Das GOAT [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
-Caveat Lector-
: Is Irish Coffee your preferred medication? Do Mexican Coffees work just
as
well? Have you ever fed Irish Coffee to a Reptoid/Republican? Do they
gag??
A long, long time ago, I discovered Irish coffee (which is of course an
*American* invention, like the Saint Patrick's Day
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Er...all I found when I opened this attachment was a fragment of code...
-Original Message-
From: Joe Feck [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 2:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CTRL] Internetworking and the Threat of Democracy [pt
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All the Supreme Court's decision does is to throw the ball back to a lower
court. Mumia and his attorneys have so many petitions before Federal court
that the guy will likely live to a ripe old age behind bars. This is
precisely why it's been noted by more than one observer that
-Caveat Lector-
Thought you might be interested...
-Original Message-
From: Common Courage Political Literacy Course
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 3:44 PM
To: List Member
Subject: As the Millennium Churns
Information about this email course
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No basic disagreement...I was paraphrasing from *Celtic Heritage*, where the
authors propose this speculation in a note, admitting that it is highly
speculative. There *is* general agreement about IE scholars that river names
such as Don, Danube, etc., derive from PIE *dôn.
-Caveat Lector-
I'll bow to what appears to be superior knowledge of Sumerian; given the
role of Sumerian as a trade language, it wouldn't surprise me if loanwords
showed up all over the Fertile Crescent. Your point about a possible
Sumerian origin for the Phoenicians is interesting and
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Gesundheit. Ex pluorque blorbium pluu.
-Original Message-
From: Ric Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 11:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CTRL] Lorem Ipsum Dolor.
-Caveat Lector-
Lorem Ipsum Dolor.
Lorem ipsum dolor
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Well, there's a first time for everything, and I finally find myself
agreeing with Joseph Farah about something--although from the other side of
the mirror. He is absolutely correct about the fascist nature of
"private-public partnerships", otherwise known as the franchising of
-Caveat Lector-
"You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way
down." ...Amen! One of the most succinct statements of what it means to be
human that I've heard in a long time. It reminds me of Bradbury's marvelous
story/poem "Icarus Montgolfier Wright"...
-Caveat Lector-
Or, as a friend of mine remarked when we pointed out to him that he had just
contradicted himself four times in five minutes, "Hey, nobody ever accused
me of being consistent!"
-Original Message-
From: Dale Stonehouse [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October
-Caveat Lector-
http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/bu-brm100899.html
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 11 OCTOBER 1999 AT 17:00 ET US
Contact: Kristen Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED]
401-863-7508
Brown University
Brain releases marijuana-like substance in response to
-Caveat Lector-
http://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500044195-500071973-50016308
7-0,00.html
Pilot study uses brain 'pacemaker' to fight depression
Copyright © 1999 Nando Media
Copyright © 1999 Associated Press
By LAURAN NEERGAARD
WASHINGTON (October 13, 1999 6:35 a.m. EDT) - A
-Caveat Lector-
And the Mexican War was equally a manufactured war, created with the sole
objective of opening the way for U.S. annexation of a significant portion of
Mexican territory.
-Original Message-
From: nessie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 10:41 PM
-Caveat Lector-
Hotmail has been buggy since its creation (1996?). It's notorious for
crashing. All of the Web-based e-mail services have problems, but Hotmail's
historically been about the worst, perhaps because they've been around
longer and have more experience at screwing up. And I can't
-Caveat Lector-
More likely that someone *ate* a monkey which was carrying the Green Monkey
Virus. Apparently the local equivalent of McDonald's in the Congo and Angola
bush country is to shoot and stew a monkey... Yummy!
-Original Message-
From: Tenorlove [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
-Caveat Lector-
That's no science *that you will recognize.* Homeopathy has a 200-year
history of rigorous research and development. And from your tone, it's not
the supporters of homeopathy who are fighting a losing battle, clutching at
straws. *You* may feel comfortable with putting systemic
-Caveat Lector-
Actually, this culinary custom has endangered quite a few species of
primates, including the bonobos. The chaos caused by the ongoing Central
African war (can't call it a civil war any longer) has only made matters
worse, with soldiers and everyone else foraging off the land.
, December 28, 1999 1:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CTRL] Bug at hotmail
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I have had my Hotmail account for 2 years and have never had a problem
with
it...Pennie
From: "Tatman, Robert" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research L
-Caveat Lector-
You don't know Bill? His cousin R.E. Mann has the Persia concession.
-Original Message-
From: Kathryn R Smith [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 1:49 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CTRL] Bill Z. Bubb
-Caveat Lector-
-Caveat Lector-
Smoking is smoking is smoking... Because of the unregulated nature of
marijuana production and sale, marijuana growers have no incentive to
control the amount of tar in their product. In addition, most marijuana
smokers hold the smoke in the respiratory tract far longer than is
-Caveat Lector-
http://my.cnn.com/jbcl/cnews/Go?template=tnmDethd=0sname=Top+News+from+CNN
art_id=5243168sbc_id=7uid=946414751200
Government to Review Y2K-Fix Patent
December 28, 1999
Web posted at: 11:21 a.m. EST (1621 GMT)
by Linda Rosencrance
(IDG) -- In a rare move, the U.S. Patent
-Caveat Lector-
Ah...you're a self-trained authority on...conjugation?
-Original Message-
From: Nurev Ind Research [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 6:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CTRL] Let Them Eat Bush
snip
PS: I consider
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The "nuclear family" as a widespread social phenomenon emerged in the United
States only during the late 1940's, as ex-GI's returning from the war took
advantage of VA loans to acquire their own homes. It flourished during the
1950's and early '60's, but began to disappear in
-Caveat Lector-
If I were infiltrating the United States with the mission of conducting
terrorist operations, I sure as hell would not try to bring my own
explosives across the border in such a way that they would be found by a
routine inspection. I presume that this guy had a network with
-Caveat Lector-
Even granting that he might have been a mule, it still makes no sense to me
to try to bring the explosives into the U.S., when they are probably more
available here than they are in Canada. That's why I think this whole deal
is a snark hunt designed to fuel anti-terrorist
-Caveat Lector-
Naturally D.C.'s Y2K warning is worse than everyone else's--that government
has been incompetent for so long, regardless of who was running it, that ANY
incident, no matter how minor, becomes a major public disaster when it hits
D.C. Just look at the way they handle the one
-Caveat Lector-
http://www.msnbc.com/msn/347663.asp
California explosives theft probed
Second large heist in a month worries law enforcement agencies
MSNBC staff and wire reports
Dec. 29 - As a private New Year's Eve party in Seattle's Space Needle became
the latest victim of millennial
-Caveat Lector-
That's "frumious bandersnatchi," as anyone who has read Larry Niven's Known
Space stories knows! Sheesh. You'd think the toves weren't slithy, and that
they weren't gyre and gimbal in the wabe... And as for the Jub-Jub Bird...
Is *everything* a snark?
-Original
-Caveat Lector-
And *these* are the turkeys who impeached Clinton? Talk about the pot and
the kettle... Or perhaps the mote in your brother's eye and the beam in your
own would be more appropriate, given the GOP's current liking for biblical
morality. Has anyone suggested to them that they are
-Caveat Lector-
Now *this* is exactly the approach that makes the most sense: require mass
marketers to have a specific, affirmative statement that you want to get
junk mail/faxes/phone calls/e-mail...and prohibit them from sending anything
to anyone from whom they do not have such a statement.
-Caveat Lector-
FWIW, in Robert Graves's *King Jesus*, Mary Magdalene is portrayed as the
high priestess of Astarte/Asherah, who attempts to "educate" Jesus about the
reality behind the myths he has been taught. I'm not saying that Graves's
depiction is necessarily accurate, but it presents an
-Caveat Lector-
I'm waiting for everyone in Europe and North America to log on at 12:01 AM
(local) January 1, to see whether the Internet is experiencing any problems,
thereby causing the whole global network to crash... Did someone mention
"self-fulfilling prophecy?"
-Original
-Caveat Lector-
If you can find the books, see also Edward Whittemore's "Jerusalem Quartet":
*Jerusalem Poker*, *Sinai Tapestry*, *Jericho Mosaic*, *Quin's Shanghai
Circus*.
==
The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 31, 1999
you read this)
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Mr. Tatman, If you wish to 'crash' the phone system, then place a call
to a friend between 12:01AM thru 12:15AM.
lol
Bard
"Tatman, Robert" wrote:
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I'm waiting for everyone in Europe and North America to log on at
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There was a story written years ago which suggested that the reason for the
sudden proliferation of amoral, sociopathic behavior in this particular
near-future world was that too many humans had been born, with too few souls
available to inhabit those bodies... IIRC, the story
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Years ago, doing disaster relief in the Finger Lakes region of New York
State following Tropical Storm Agnes, I realized that what we had right
after the storm, in the first day and a half or two days, was precisely
Kropotskian mutual aid. Ideologies, politics, theology, class
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I once heard of an Irish monk who observed, with some bemusement, that Jesus
Christ was born before the birth of Jesus Christ...
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"Tatman, Robert" wrote:
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I didn't say police violence was legitimate. What I am trying to do is
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