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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
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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
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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
-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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
, 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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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]]
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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
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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.
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Well, I can understand why you're hanging up your horns...but the list sure
ain't the same without you. GOAT, you are a gentleman and a scholar, in the
best sense of those words, and I consider it both a privilege and a pleasure
to have been both your sparring partner and your
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Just one question, Bill: have you yourself ever *tried* homeopathic
remedies?
-Original Message-
From: William Shannon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 11:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CTRL] Homeopaths vs quackbusters,
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The human brain has receptors for an astounding number of substances and
phenomena, which science is just beginning to realize. There are receptors
for morphine, Prozac, nicotine, alcohol, for ecstasy, both physical and
aesthetic; there are receptors that are so
-Caveat Lector-
One does wonder why, if modern artillery, both land-based and naval, is so
highly computerized that what passes for "cannoneers" today might just as
well be sitting in a video parlor in a mall in Dubuque, Iowa, as on a
destroyer escort in the North Sea, why the hell do they need
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Definitely! Some of Acharya's points are interesting, such as the assorted
attributes of Osiris...but on the whole I'd be more inclined to trust Das
GOAT's scholarship than hers.
reaches into backpack and pulls out hoagies and steak sandwiches for
all...
-Original
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There are at least two genuine churches of Elvis, the First Presleyterian
Church and I forget the second one. It seriously wouldn't surprise me to
see Elvis resurrected with Diana in the coming NWO New Age religious
thingy... "There is no Goddess but Diana, and Elvis is Her
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Careful, Joshua...there might be children watching... wink
-Original Message-
From: Nurev Ind Research [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 12:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CTRL] Let Them Eat Bush
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Is that
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Fortunately this worm, W32.NewApt.Worm, (which is NOT a virus) is "only"
annoying. The answer to all virus issues is ALWAYS: KEEP YOUR ANTI-VIRUS
DEFINITIONS UP TO DATE. If your AV program allows you to opt for automatic
updating, select that. If you have to update manually,
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Bill, if you have a very large item to send to the list, save it as a text
file and then split it into two or three separate messages. Sending stuff
from AOL is a problem anyway; when I am using MS Outlook Web Access to read
mail from my company's e-mail server over the Web, I
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http://www.marxist.com/Theory/worldrelations.html
The New World Disorder
World Relations at the dawn of the 21st Century
"Just as the 19th century came to a close with the outbreak of the first
world war in 1914, the war that has started in Kosovo, Europe's first since
1945,
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Thanks, Nessie! A very cogent explanation. Of course, where the worshippers
of the marketplace go wrong is that they define "property" in terms of
*private* property and extend the statement that "property is liberty" to
include General Motors, Bertelsmann, and
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In light of the current threads on prehistoric migration and exploration and
their implications for history, here's a piece arguing that the Araucanas of
Chile are of Greek origin.
-Original Message-
From: m [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999
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Plus which, the entire marriage was a metaphor, symbolizing God's continuing
convenant with Israel despite the people's habit of whoring after false
gods. Hosea was typical of the Yahwist prophets in seeking to focus worship
solely on one supreme deity. While Eagle1's point is
-Caveat Lector-
You're assuming that both "Israel" and "Phoenicia" were nations as we know
that concept today. They weren't. They were a collection of cities (i.e.
trading stations) loosely held together by cultural ties and fealty to a
"high king." As we've discussed in other threads, there is
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On a different tack, but generally agreeing, I used to have a supervisor who
was a quintessential jock--a triathlete, for God's sake! When he had an
all-male meeting in his office, the place smelled like a locker room after
they finished. You could almost *see* the testosterone
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"Religious science fiction," bordering on heresy if it wasn't in the
Bible... ISTM that there are an awful lot of supposed "Christians" who spend
more time contemplating the Devil or angels or saints or anything other than
Jesus Christ.
-Original Message-
From: Kris
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Nessie, you and I may disagree about nonviolence (and BTW, I'm going to pick
up that thread again soon), but here we agree completely. There is no such
thing as "Russian" anarchism (usually described as nihilism), "American"
anarchism, "German" anarchism, etc. That would be as
-Caveat Lector-
Hell, even the distinction between collectivist and individualist is
baloney. The anarchists you name here leaped right out of the political
spectrum and became non-Euclideans. Consider Proudhon:
Property is theft.
Property is liberty.
Property is impossible.
Whenever I
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Well, Tenebrous, aside from it being his brother's *widow*, your remarks are
right in line with standard mainstream theological thinking today. You're
quite correct that there aren't any other references to anything that could
be construed as masturbation, in either the Old
-Caveat Lector-
Of course! Remember, this was the era when Bufferin ads showed those little
A's and B's racing through the sanitized guts of a neuter mannikin, and also
when Disney and the AEC collaborated on *Our Friend, the Atom*--one of the
most effective domestic propaganda pieces since
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ISTR that the primary evidence for Phoenician or Carthaginian landings in
the Americas is a heavily-eroded monument found in Brazil (sorry, can't
remember when or exactly where). IIRC, near the end of his life, the great
Semitic-language scholar and archaeologist Cyrus Gordon
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*No armadillos* were squashed?? But...what will you *eat*??
-Original Message-
From: Ric Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 7:01 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Tue.1 - y2k minus 18
* No
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Scalia is even worse.
-Original Message-
From: Prudence L. Kuhn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 11:12 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CTRL] WHO'S IN JAIL? High court rules states can keep
it a secret
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In a
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I am reminded of a story published in *Astounding SF* (precursor of
*Analog*) in the late 1950's which theorized that the defining factor in the
explosive climb of Homo sapiens toward civilization could be attributed to a
cold virus which became symbiotic with humans, living in
-Caveat Lector-
Wouldn't surprise me at all that Quaker Oats was GE... The name "Quaker
Oats" was originally chosen in the 19th century because "Quaker" had come to
mean "guaranteed quality." The irony is that today it means Cap'n Crunch and
genetically-engineered oatmeal, at least to Wall
ity of us all' (53:6), and 'He was wounded for our
transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: . . .' (53:5). With
all
respect to modern scholars, I don't see how Israel bore my sins, spent
time
in prison, or was punished by God for my failures.
-Original Message-
From:
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All hail Discordia! Hail, She What Done It All! fnord
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From: Das GOAT [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 8:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CTRL] June: Market crash and martial law
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In a
several statements here. Needless to say, I am not of the school
of J, P, Q, or any of that other modern crud. But your last statement
I simply cannot let pass without comment.
-Original Message-
From: Tatman, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 12
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Cute! I guess The Gates really *is* the Antichrist, eh?
-Original Message-
From: earthman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 5:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CTRL] Millennium Wingding
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Love it..
Peter
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Actually, that's our YANKEE cousins...Lyme disease was named after Lyme,
Connecticut, IIRC. Now, if they could develop a vaccine against
Republicans...
-Original Message-
From: Nurev Ind Research [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 6:13 PM
To:
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I gather that Willie Brown will be the best mayor that money can buy.
-Original Message-
From: Das GOAT [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 9:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CTRL] Neo-Liberal Wins Re-Election in SF
-Caveat
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It *is* in Second Isaiah, but I can't remember the exact verse. The verse
forms one of the most striking passages in Handel's *Messiah*: "He was a man
of sorrows and acquainted with grief." It's part of the "suffering servant"
theme, which many modern scholars believe refers not
-Caveat Lector-
Actually, there is a sort of underground tradition, mostly in the later New
Testament apocrypha, that Jesus was in fact an ugly man with one twisted
leg. Paul is also reported to have been a cripple, possibly bow-legged from
rickets; note that while *Paulos* has no specific
-Caveat Lector-
Basically zilch, aside from having all of his privileges as a former DCI
revoked. No criminal charges were filed.
-Original Message-
From: Prudence L. Kuhn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 1:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
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Cooptation. It's the simplest way to neutralize your actual or potential
opponents. We're just lucky that enough good people reject the cooptation
that opposing voices are still heard in the Forum...not enough, but some.
-Original Message-
From: Nurev Ind Research
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Uh-huh...Landmark would be perfectly happy, of course, if the audits were
being done on liberal and progressive groups. To quote Martin Luther, "it
all depends whose ox is being gored."
-Original Message-
From: Tenorlove [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday,
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Hmm. So just who was being trained during Urban Warrior--the grunts or the
"demonstrators"? A very interesting suggestion.
-Original Message-
From: Dave [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 1999 3:05 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CTRL]
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Helluland, Markland, and Vinland are well-attested from the sagas. Please
show me where in the sagas the name "Ommerike" occurs. If there were any
truth to this blatant exercise in North European chauvinism, we would find
evidence for the name's use in the sagas. Q.E.D.
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More like *two* centuries of U.S. military interventions...
IIRC, the first U.S. intervention in Indochina was in *1848*, when U.S.
Marines landed in Tonkin to protect American traders from pirates.
And, of course, by the 1790s, U.S. naval and Marine forces were being used
for
wis's best writing aside
from *The Screwtape Letters*.
-Original Message-
From: YnrChyldzWyld [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 1999 5:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CTRL] Y1K and GERBERT, the First "European"
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On Fri,
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Last month I got mugged on my way to the train after work. I was jumped from
behind and wrestled down, wrenching my (already bad) left arm in the
process. I tried calling for the police, as a police substation is half a
block from there, but they must all have been on a doughnut
-Caveat Lector-
Nessie, in all candor, this is the one case that has caused more serious
debate within the nonviolent community than any other. I don't have an
answer for you. I do know people who genuinely feel that violent resistance,
even to rape or murder, is so totally evil that they
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Uh...doesn't that take it something like half the human race? Are you
offering *this* as the explanation for the War Between the Sexes?
-Original Message-
From: Ric Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 12:12 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The present social order is so firmly rooted in violence--the violence of
property, the violence of greed, the violence of racism, the violence of
capitalism--that only a society which totally rejects violence can have any
hope of truly changing anything. Nessie, tell me, what
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Ah yes, the old revolving door...there's nothing like it...
-Original Message-
From: earthman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 1:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CTRL] Monsanto Government Regulatory Agency Employees
Are The
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Both crimes are crimes of violence. Both have more to do with power and fear
than with sex. Homosexuality in itself surely can't be considered a crime,
any more than *heterosexuality* can. But killing a gay person *because* he's
gay is *two* crimes: first, homicide; second,
it.
Developments concerning Mary only feed that tendency.
-Original Message-
From: Kelly [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 9:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Diana as the Madonna
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Tatman, Robert wrote
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If this report is correct, and assuming that the symptoms described cannot
be attributed to other causes such as stress, the symptoms identified appear
to match those produced by the nerve agents VX (sarin) and GB. It will be
extremely interesting to see if any of the canisters
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ISTR that some archaeologists identify the Jomon culture with the ancestors
of the Ainu, who inhabited the entire Japanese archipelago before the
arrival of the ancestral Japanese, probably from Korea. This is of course
quite controversial in Japan.
-Original Message-
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It is widely expected by Vatican watchers that Pope John Paul II will use
the occasion of the Jubilee Year 2000 with its attendant gigantic
pilgrimages to Rome to formally proclaim the doctrine of Mary as
Co-Redemptrix, the equal of Jesus Christ as agent of human
-Caveat Lector-
Some comments extracted from a personal e-mail from a family member in
Seattle commenting on the WTO foofaraw, edited slightly:
...
[A source] high up in King County government ... had some comments on how
Seattle government handled the mess. [The source] said that the county
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I'll have to dig out my Barry Fell books (*America B.C.*, etc.), which I do
not have readily available. If memory serves me, however, this is an example
of the kind of racist argument I mean (and I am not accusing Fell of racism
himself): the Welsh heroic tradition supposedly
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This is what I'm starting to wonder. Stay tuned...
-Original Message-
From: nessie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 1:40 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CTRL] Another possibility
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Maybe the Seattle nerve gas
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In Gandhian nonviolence, which is the form I hesitatingly try to follow,
this is NOT a valid distinction. Violence is violence, no matter what or who
the target is. We need to be working toward a society where even the thought
of violence simply doesn't enter into the picture.
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No surprises here... I happen to have pulmonary sarcoidosis myself, and am
well aware of the Navy's history of the disease. In fact, the Navy cases
have often been cited as exemplars of sarcoidosis, which is not exactly a
"rare disease": it is at least as common as multiple
-Caveat Lector-
This is absolutely true. Crimes against paperwork (destruction of files,
etc.) and other forms of information are also anathema to the Oligarchs, who
regard information as a vital means of controlling the hoi polloi (i.e,
us'ns). Remember, these are men to whom Property Rights
-Caveat Lector-
See Umberto Eco, *Foucault's Pendulum*, for some very interesting insights
into the hidden (occult) nature of subways, sewers, tunnels, and the like...
-Original Message-
From: Ric Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
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Most of the hard scientific evidence for "non-Indian" or "non-Native
American" origins has been discovered quite recently. Yes, there are many
anomalous sites throughout North America, but there is also an amazing mass
of pure nonsense put out over the past two centuries by
-Caveat Lector-
Hey, when I came outside to start up my car the other day, the windows were
all frosted over, and before I got in to start the engine and turn on the
defroster I could SWEAR, up, down, and sideways that I saw the Goddess Eris
(Hail, She What Done It All!) peering out at me from
-Caveat Lector-
"God made mud. Lucky, lucky mud."
--Kurt Vonnegut, *Cat's Cradle*
-Original Message-
From: Ric Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 10:11 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I never said that *all* of the anarchists were provocateurs. *Some* of them
were provocateurs. Most were just "useful idiots." But provocateurs *have*
provoked violence against property many times in the past, and if people got
injured or killed into the bargain, so much the
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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
-Caveat Lector-
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
-Caveat Lector-
I once heard of an Irish monk who observed, with some bemusement, that Jesus
Christ was born before the birth of Jesus Christ...
-Original Message-
From: Ric Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 2:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
esearch [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 6:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CTRL] COINTELPRO in Seattle
-Caveat Lector-
"Tatman, Robert" wrote:
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I didn't say police violence was legitimate. What I am trying to do is
id
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snort Yup, the spellchecker don't catch that kind of mistake... I guess
them Lawrence Liverpool Labs must be out at that Area 52...
-Original Message-
From: nessie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 10:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
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And how many of those 3,000 bombings were done or instigated by agents
provocateurs? It is MUCH easier for the Establishment to turn violent
protest to its own purposes than for them to coopt a nonviolent movement.
The Oligarchy has too many, and too powerful, weapons for anyone
-Caveat Lector-
This report of ADM, Pepsi, and other multinationals hiring "demonstrators"
to act out for the news cameras in Seattle bears out what I have been saying
all along: the Oligarchy is determined to discredit the progressive
coalition by any means necessary. Forget COINTELPRO--the
-Caveat Lector-
Because violence can easily be manipulated to suit the Oligarchy's
objectives; nonviolence, because it is based on mutual support and consent,
is much more difficult to coopt. The bosses understand violence, because
it's the basis on which they operate; but mutual support and
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_538000/538000.stm
New Zealand approves GM cows
Scientists in New Zealand have been given the go-ahead to raise two herds of
genetically-modified cows - but they cannot introduce any human genes into
the animals.
Instead, the
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000343180237640rtmo=glbYnjkuatmo=
pg=/et/99/12/2/ecnevo02.html
Human evolution slowed down by central heating
By Roger Highfield
HUMAN beings are in the slow lane of evolution, according to a study that
suggests that changes to our
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"Using reverse-transcription PCR (polymerase chain reaction), the scientists
identify the virus as a West Nile virus (WNV) virtually identical to a West
Nile virus that was found in an outbreak in Israel in 1998. It is also very
similar to a virus found in Egypt, they report.
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http://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500064078-500106042-50047933
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Delay in identifying virus raises security questions
Copyright © 1999 Nando Media
Copyright © 1999 Scripps Howard News Service
By LANCE GAY
WASHINGTON (December 3, 1999 12:06 a.m. EST)
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"School boards and science educators need to understand this simple fact: if
students don't learn about evolution, they can't possibly understand modern
biology or medicine."
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I am convinced that at least some of the black-clad "anarchists" in Seattle
are agents provocateurs. However, just whom they work for is another
question altogether. Their assignment is clearly to discredit the legitimate
nonviolent anti-WTO movement, which is one of the most
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I didn't say police violence was legitimate. What I am trying to do is
identify WHY the "anarchists" were ignored by the cops on Tuesday, while the
nonviolent demonstrators were targeted. As a matter of principle, I do not
believe that ANY violence is legitimate. With all due
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FWIW.
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Activist
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http://cnn.com/1999/WORLD/africa/12/01/bc.aids.nigeria.reut/index.html
Nigeria on verge of AIDS explosion, says study
December 1, 1999
Web posted at: 12:26 PM EST (1726 GMT)
LAGOS, Nigeria (Reuters) -- Nigeria is on the verge of an AIDS explosion
that could kill millions and
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