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# Mysterious Blackness in Germany Precedes Crop Formation 2000 - flowering
yellow oilseed provokes consternation: http://www.caus.org/pn062900.htm
# Wisconsin UFO Was A Balloon http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_ufobal.htm
# 14 UFOs Sighted Above Trout Lake WA: http://www.caus.org/mu062900.htm
# Brazilian AF Man Abducted in 1965: http://www.caus.org/pc063000.htm
# Ufo Roundup: SURFACE WATER FOUND ON MARS - "WOLFMAN" TERRORIZES TOWN IN
NORTHERN ARGENTINA - UNUSUAL WINTER STORMS RESTRICT TRAVEL IN CHILE AND
ARGENTINA, HAMPER CHUPACABRA HUNT - BIGFOOT ON THE PROWL IN WESTERN PENN-
SYLVANIA - MULTIPLE UFO SIGHTINGS REPORTED IN FRANCE - ELLIPTICAL BLACK
UFO SEEN IN NEW JERSEY - TRIANGULAR UFO SPOTTED OVER NO.CAROLINA - TWO RED
UFOs SIGHTED OVER DEXTER, MICHIGAN - CROP CIRCLES IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA -
EVOLUTIONARY FLIP-FLOP: BIRDS BEFORE DINOSAURS!? - 1840: MYSTERIOUS
BOOMS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/uforo526.htm
: Would you rather be terrorized by lycanthropes, reptilioids, chupacabras,
mindcontrollers, trianguloids, argentinians, dinosaurs, me? Have you witnes-
sed any mysterious booms/balloons/bazooms lately? Have you abducted oilseed?
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# OPERATION MIDNIGHT CLIMAX - The CIA's X-Rated Science:
http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/conspire.html#midnight
# Sex in Space: http://www.space.edu/public/publications/sex.html
@ EXPLORING THE MOON: http://www.space.edu/moon/ [take a warm coat]
@ Russia Space Science Institute: http://arc.iki.rssi.ru/Welcome.html
# Psychological Support for Long Term Interplanetary Space Missions:
http://www.space.edu/public/publications/abstracts/jensen/makela.html
# Psychology of Isolation: www.space.edu/public/publications/undgrant.html
# Space Suits Past, Present, And Future: Are We Ready for the Challenges of
Tomorrow? www.space.edu/public/publications/abstracts/jensen/mcarlson.html
@ PRACTICAL TIME TRAVEL: http://www.home.inreach.com/dov/ttstrnge.htm
@ HYPER DIMENSIONAL RESONATOR http://www.home.inreach.com/dov/ttskemat.htm
@ THE HYPER DIMENSIONAL RESONATOR http://www.home.inreach.com/dov/tthdr.htm
: Would you rather travel thru space/time/matter/energy/mind/soul/sex/death?
D'ya have the right suit for your journey? Have you hyperdimensionally reso-
nated lately? Does it leave you feeling all warm fuzzy? Does vodka help??
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# Crop Circles and the Matrix. An archaeocryptographer continues work on the
re-discovery of a comprehensive 'Matrix' of Grid Points involving precise
lats/longs of famous ancient monuments, stone circles, mounds, etc. found
to exist on this planet and elsewhere. "We even have structures at Cydonia
[Mars] documented to be in this matrix. It is a CONSISTENT, SUBSTANTIAL,
SPECIFIC body of evidence."Studying this year's crop formations in England
using GPS, it's possible to plot with extreme accuracy the glyphs that
appear in fields in turn their relationship to the matrix. Research has
also shown that the Barbury Castle Crop Formation is precisely-referential
to the Great Pyramid, The Quetzalcoatl Pyramid, and 'The DM Pyramid' at
Cydonia on Mars: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/mlmindex.htm
: Have you cut any crop circles on Mars/Europa/Bigfeets lately? Are pyramids
securely hidden on Venus/Io/Scotland? Are your grid points well documented?
Are Geospatial Runelines the secret of interplanetary/interstellar travel??
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# THE PERFECT WEAPON. Just a normal town... but out of nowhere a wave of
chaos was to wash over that world. In a millisecond it was gone. There
were no phones, no computers, no power, nothing. Yet nobody had died,
no buildings razed to the ground. And then the blind panic set in.
What's going on? E-bombs: http://www.newscientist.com/nl/0701/end.html
# INFECTIOUS DISEASES THREATEN U.S. AND WORLD SECURITY. Infectious diseases
pose a serious threat to global political stability, and therefore to U.S.
national security. http://CNN.com/2000/HEALTH/06/29/infectious.diseases/
# THE RISE, FALL REBIRTH OF ANTI-SATELLITE WEAPONS - Military Applications
of Space. The concept of anti-satellite weapons ("ASAT"s) is nothing new.
The concept was given low priority by the armed services until the launch
of Sputnik I in 1957. http://people.aero.und.edu/~nordlie/papers/asat.html
# ASATs: http://www.space.edu/public/publications/abstracts/wood/tate.html
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SkeptiNews 000623a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/22_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 octopods were sexually abused during the production of this bulletin. Not that we didn't try, but they're just so damn evasive. Maybe tonight... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Rating Games: http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/crates/crates1.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A "JUMPING GENE" being used to genetically engineer organisms has crossed the species barrier at least seven times in evolutionary history, in one instance between flies and humans. If organisms modified using this mobile element are released, there will be a risk of genes spreading to other species. Beware: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns224433 # Shampoo lights up lice. A shampoo being marketed in the US can make head lice eggs glow - making it easier to deal with infestations. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_80/800449.stm # Mouse Brain Self Repairing. Scientists have managed to make new neurons grow in a brain region once thought to lack the ability to regenerate, raising hopes of developing new ways of treating neurological diseases head injuries. http://discovery.com/news/briefs/2622/he_brain.html : Have you rebuilt any genes/brains/lice lately? Should minds/eggs/genes/you glow in the dark? Will suitably engineered genes invade all species, cloning itself worldwide, and drive all other entities extinct? Is this a good idea? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pastor says gun ownership has a biblical basis. With a wall-sized American flag as his backdrop, the Rev. Bryan Sharp used the book that Christians call their sword last night to defend the right to keep bear arms. Pow. Reloading for Jesus: http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/news/0f20gun.htm # 2,000-YEAR-OLD LETTER FROM JESUS FOUND! JERUSALEM -- Fragments of a 2,000- year-old letter have been found in the mountains east of here -- and at least 14 religious experts affirm that the missive was penned by Jesus Christ Himself! "The signature on the letter matches the one on the temple rosters." Proof positive: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2024.html # Life after death. IN JAPAN, a culture where cremation is mandatory, a fun- eral company is about to offer much more than the customary charred bones: it is also offering grieving relatives a way of storing the deceased's DNA in their memorial tablet. www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns224432 : Does your culture/faith/conspiracy promote eternal life/death/other? D'ya worship implements of life/death/etc? Have you eaten a queer fetus for Jesus lately? Will you be resurrected via belief, DNA, magic, literature, gaming? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # WORLD DEPOPULATION IS TOP NSA AGENDA: CLUB OF ROME. Investigations have uncovered a planning apparatus operating outside the control of the White House whose sole purpose is to reduce the world's population by 2 billion people through war, famine, disease and any other means necessary. This apparatus, which includes various levels of the govt is determining U.S. foreign policy. http://home.iae.nl/users/lightnet/world/depopulation.htm # Four Reasons We May See Nuclear War In 1999 - Zero reasons why we didn't: http://www.kreative.net/carolmoore/4-reasons-nuke-war.html # Milosevic still firmly in power - NATO's war was a total waste?? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567567259-3c3 # Castro says socialism will continue - he will too, by cloning: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567549484-313 # The Uninvited - the amazing tale of William Osunde, who survived hardship by chewing leaves, sucking water from sandy mud, drinking his own urine: www.booksonline.co.uk/booksol?ac=002905036320235pg=/00/6/10/boatla10.html # LOS ANGELES MAN HAS EATEN NOTHING BUT LARD FOR 10 YEARS - fitness freak Jack Kasset is no "lard ass" http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2008.html : Have you depopulated any galaxies/planets/nations/islands/villages/brains lately? Have you survived? What do you do to survive? Do voices in y'r head help/hinder/annotate y'r survival? Do they tell you to consume stuff? Whose? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Operation Cloudbuster The Mars Records. During a simple midsummer sol- stice ceremony that took place in Hertfordshire, England on 21 June, we received a clear message from our friends allies on the inner planes. They asked all of us - especially those who will soon be taking part in the Harmonic Convergence on 17 August - to send out daily thoughts or prayers or sounds or music that will pierce the Earth's heavy magnetic and gravitational fields and reach out to the central Sun
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SkeptiNews 000616a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/15_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 e-alligators were sexually abused during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Burning: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/waco/questions/2611/ny119 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Flying Triangles on the Increase. UFO reports in the US were low with less than 200 in April compared to 400 last November. However, Flying Triangle reports have increased inferring these may not be of extraterrestrial ori- gin. It is possible that UFOs are maintaining a low profile while our Sun continues its heavy solar storm activity. http://www.caus.org/ft061500.htm # UFO, Orb, Rod? From: Todd Lemire [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I'd like to get some feedback on a video capture from some Hi8 Video I took while filming "rods". This 2 second video clip shows an astounding maneuver by some type of "orb". Any feedback would be greatly appreciated as I didn't put much effort into the study of "rods" until I started taping these myself. Any ideas what this could be? http://members.home.net/tlemire/rods.html : Have UFOs/orbs/rods/triangles/pentagons/vapors been hiding/flaunting/expo- sing/killing themselves? Is there a relationship with solar activity? D'ya increase/decrease your paranormal activities during solar maxima? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # First Interrogatories. The role of the Virginia National Guard (VNG) in collecting/analyzing/disseminating intelligence reports and other data about the incursion of the so-called "Flying Triangle" craft into the near-space envelope of Virginia skies: http://www.caus.org/pn061600.htm # Misinfo at Space.com - June 13th article, "Mars Face Breaks Under Questio- ning" at http://www.space.com/opinionscolumns/opinions/ford_000613.html was filled with factual errors and opinions disguised as fact. NASA falsi- fication too. http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m15-010.shtml # Lunar mission provokes more questions than answers. Watch the video animation of the Lunar Prospector's crash, and wonder where all the lunar water went: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal061301.html : Does your govt agency promulgate disinfo re: aliens/UFOs/paranormals/space /me? Has your (dis)info been questioned? Should we believe anything you or any other operative says? How can we tell if you're really an operative?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PREVALENCE OF UFO SIGHTINGS, CONTACTS, AND ABDUCTIONS IN AN HMO PRACTICE There have been recent medical gatherings and media publications in which respected psychiatric professionals have supported the claims of people who say they were abducted by UFO's. Some of these people have been found to be suffering from a type of post-traumatic stress disorder. A recent survey found a 2% potential UFO abduction rate in the general population. To discover the prevalence of both UFO abductions and sightings, and to establish the veracity and clinical relevance of these claims, I undertook a survey of my own HMO practice members. http://www.caus.org/pn061500.htm : Have you seriously studied UFOs/ETs? Have they seriously studied you? D'ya tell the truth about what you've found? Do they? Does anyone? Is there any truth? Where? Are the best truths embedded in fiction? Is all truth fictive? # The X-Files Phenomena - abducted away: http://www.caus.org/mc061500.htm # The Death of the Borg: http://www.alienzoo.com/pop/s/26160001.cfm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # First 'space tourist' announced. The world's first "citizen explorer" is revealed - the businessman will pay $20m to visit the Mir space station. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_792000/792292.stm # Also - Mir company looks to the future - because the past is gone: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_763000/763661.stm # Mir spacewalk tests new glue - stick yourself together with ET guts: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_745000/745318.stm # Successful docking for Mir - longshoremen threaten strike over wages: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_703000/703047.stm # IONS DRIVING EVER ONWARD. After nearly 40 years of development and the successful flight of Deep Space 1 in 1998-1999, ion propulsion is ready to go: http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast15jun_1.htm?list : Have you toured space lately? How much will you pay? Should BillGates be sent into orbit? Should he be allowed to return? What's your favorite space propulsion/glue/hallucinogen? Do spacewalks wear out your soles/souls? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ghostbuster - Spooked by spectral visits from Henry VIII's fifth wife, Hampton Court Palace calls in Richard
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SkeptiNews 000609a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/08_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 planetoids were crashed together to produce this bulletin. Next week... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Hyperdimensional Resonator: http://www.futurehorizons.net/time2.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Computers will disturb heat balance of universe. Molecular computation may eventually threaten a cosmic meltdown, thinks Sun co-founder John Gage. He wasn't being frivolous: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11268.html ; Oh my god!!! Aliens doens´t want to invade us, they can just fire up Quake 3 Interdimensional fry our universe.!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Rising temps forecast changes. (AP) - Alpine meadows will disappear, along with many coastal wetlands and barrier islands. Cities will be hotter and more humid. Ski runs will be scarcer, the demand for air conditioners will increase and scientists will have to combat a likely resurgence in insect- borne diseases such as malaria. This is the weather forecast for the late 21st century. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567195585-d8b : Would you rather meltdown your neighborhood, planet, solar system, galaxy, universe? Should molecular/fermionic computation be regulated? Is your heat balance at risk? Should you stop thinking, cool down, get a grip? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Animal-like robots could explore planets. GREENBELT, Maryland -- If the visionaries of today have their way tomorrow, NASA planners in the future could unleash an odd-looking menagerie of robots to explore planets and space in ways that humans never will. Researchers envision things like 3- foot- (1-meter-) long dragonfly-like robots to buzz high above Mars, mech- anical eels and seahorses to swim deep beneath the ice on Jupiter's moon Europa or "self-transforming" plastic explorers that can morph themselves into different shapes -- like the fearsome T-1000 in the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Yowzah: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/26080009.cfm : Do robots/aliens/deities/demons already have free run of the solar system? Can OUR robots beat THEIR robots? Would you like to be a robot, explore/run the solar system, buzz planetoids, have robo-sex with cars/phones/ETs/me?? # Eel-brain successfully implanted in robot body - cyborgs coming - get in line for implantation: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_224233.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # EARTH RITES. (AP) Think of the phrase "Forces of Change" and what comes to mind? A volcano? Erosion? A glacier? They're all present, but a new Smith- sonian exhibition also makes clear that people are also forces that change the Earth. "Ritual Earth," 1/3 of the new photo exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, "looks at the way people project their own con- cerns on nature." One picture,made in 1913, shows a ritual dance by Native Americans. Nearby is a 1988 photo of aboriginal art in Australia's Kakadu National Park. There are photos of a Hindu religious festival in India, stilt dancers in Mali the ancient Callanish Standing Stones on Britain's Isle of Lewis. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567193187-5cb : What's your favorite Earth ritual? Have you changed Earth with your rites? Has Earth changed you? D'ya invoke terrestrial/cosmic/universal powers very often? Is it tiring? Do fertility rites take all your time/energy/juice? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Gold Derivative Banking Crisis' Doc Races Around World. "It ought to be quite the summer for gold!" The "Gold Derivative Banking Crisis" document is being distributed around the world at a furious pace and it is going to the highest levels of the banking world. One of the most prominent bankers in Europe has ALREADY received 4 copies and "the document" was only made public 5 days ago. http://www.sightings.com/general2/gold.htm # OFF WITH THEIR RIGHTS! A bill passing quietly through the House of Lords may mean Brits are now guilty until proven innocent. So why don't they care more? http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,328071,00.html # Everything you ever wanted to know of UK politics but were afraid to ask: http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/theissues/archive/0,6729,184781,00.html : Does your conspiracy control the political/economic futures of (m)any sub- continents yet? Do you publish/promulgate information about your strategies? Are you believable? Is anyone? How much gold is enough? Do ETs eat gold? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ PSIONICS: Brainwave Reciever- Lucid Dream Goggles- Astral Projection Kit- The Wishing Machine- Electronic Mind Control- Crystal Power Rod- ELF Oscillator- Communicate with the Dead- PK
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SkeptiNews 000512a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Last batch of bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/02_05_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 * Several chupacabras were barbecued festively to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ USMC KC-130 prepares to crash suicidally into the Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt: http://dodimagery2.afis.osd.mil/LBOX/mini/185846.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AREA 51 OR BUST! FRACAS! MIND-CONTROLLED CLONES! ANCIENT CANNIBALISM! SAB- OTAGE! ALIENS! BEACONS! ENDLESS WIND! DISINFO! PLANETARY ALIGNMENT! BLACK MAILBOX! CAMO DUDES! AREA51! FEAR FOR SAFETY!LOST IN TRACKLESS WILDERNESS! JAMMED! CYCLOPEAN RUINS! OMINOUS TRANSMITTERS! GHOST TOWNS! CASTLE TOWER! MINDCONTROL, ABDUCTIONS, GAMESMANSHIP! SURGING JET FIGHTERS! BLIZZARD! ESCAPE? IMPLANT! http://www.sonic.net/~ric/adventure/may2k/may2k.htm # SHAPE-SHIFTING ROBOTS - A droid for all seasons - No job is too unusual for a breed of robots that reinvent themselves. IMAGINE an automaton that can design itself, assemble itself and even kill itself. No, it's not the liquid metal robot from Terminator 2--but this droid can certainly build itself to perform a particular task, melt itself down and recycle itself. Be very fearful: http://www.newscientist.com/nl/0513/droid.html : Have you been menaced by protean aliens/robots/deities/agents lately? Have they followed you through time space matter energy emotion? Have you lived to tell the tale? Are you surrounded by shape-shifters? Are you sure? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ GUIDES, GAMES, JOURNALS: The UFOlogy Game -- If Death is a Game Then Here Are The Rules -- THE BORG GAME: If Resistance Is Futile Then Here Are The Rules -- If Alien Abduction is a Game Then Here Are The Rules -- THEOPOLY: The Damnation Salvation Game -- If Paranormal Research is a Game Then Here Are The Rules -- If Spontaneous Human Combustion is a Game Then Here Are The Rules -- ASSASSINOPOLY: Termination With Extreme Prejudice (in preparation) -- Care Feeding Of The Soul, If Any -- DOs DON'Ts for DELICIOUS DEITIES -- How to Design Promote a Conspiracy Theory -- Start Your Own Religion For Phun Prophet! -- CalCac: A Guide To The Cacti Of California (in preparation) -- How To Wrap TinFoil Around Your Head To Keep Mind-Control Rays From Beaming In -- How to Produce Perpetual Motion Without Being Assassinated: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/index.htm : Have you devised/developed/defeated any games lately? Have you changed the rules? Is reality always changing the rules on you? Is this infuriating? Do you wrap tinfoil around your head to keep the rules/radiation/rotifers out? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Carter ET investigation scuttled? Add to the reports and legends of presidential experiences with UFO and ET issues a new book that describes President Jimmy Carter's encounter with government cover-up. "Exopolitics" reports that a White House study of extraterrestrial communication was "secretly suppressed at the behest of Pentagon officials" in 1977-78. The lousy swine: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal051102.html @ Official US Navy UFO FAQ: http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq29-1.htm @ CIA UFO Archive: http://www.foia.ucia.gov/scripts/popdoc.asp?docType=ufo @ NSA UFO Archive: http://www.nsa.gov:8080/docs/efoia/released/ufo.html @ FBI X-Files - Unusual Phenomena: http://foia.fbi.gov/unusual.htm : Has your military/political/corporate/church/artistic organization suppre- ssed any UFO studies lately? Did you need to exercise a lot of influence to do so? How many chips did you call in? What favors did you owe afterward?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Chupacabras Attack More Farms in Chile: http://www.caus.org/pn051200.htm # Louisiana Abduction? Or family squabble? http://www.caus.org/pc051100.htm # N.Jersey Blue Lights - vice squad called: http://www.caus.org/mu051100.htm # New York UFOs Dive into Ocean - Giuliani blamed: www.caus.org/mu051000.htm # UFOS, BEAMS OF LIGHT- ARGENTINA: http://sightings.com/general/argentin.htm @ Detecting UFO Neutrinos. (Lawrence Berkeley Lab) If you watch StarTrek, you will note that they often do neutrino scans of objects, occasionally they find that all the neutrinos are left-handed. If they are, then we'll notice. http://aether.lbl.gov/www/projects/neutrino/UFO.html @ Warp Drive, When? http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/PAO/warp.htm : Have you detected any UFOs/neutrinos/chupacabras/abductees/scams lately? What's your favorite abnormal performance? Have you squabble with/over/for any aliens lately? Are aliens more fun than dolphins? Are they attracted? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Public OKd for Stonehenge solstice. LONDON (AP) The public will be able to greet the dawn of the millennium's 1st summer at the
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SkeptiNews 000428a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/27_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * Not too many free-range chickens were mutilated to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Our Lord Jesus Christ In A Snackful Situation: http://www.catatonic-comix.com/catatonic10.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Expert Rejects Theory Aliens Mutilated Cattle. Edmonton: An Alberta expert on cattle mutilation by aliens dismisses hype about new photos of Nevada's famed Area 51. He says the area is nothing more than a U.S. secret air base and doesn't affect his work of proving alien contact by documenting cattle mutilations. http://www.alienzoo.com/news/u/24270001.cfm @ THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF COWS: News:alt.cows.moo.moo.moo @ The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement - "May we live long and die out." Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth's biosphere to return to good health. Crowded conditions resource shortages will improve as we become less dense. http://www.vhemt.org/ # No 3 Mile Island, cancer link - everything's quite safe - trust us: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566063315-12a : Would you rather be mutilated/manipulated/extincted by humans, aliens, me? Has the press ever totally misrepresented you? Are editors mindcontrolled by conspiracies, Reptilioids, robots? Should they all die? Should we all die?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cloning cattle reverses aging. (BBC) 6 cloned cows show signs of reversed aging, suggesting that biotech could provide a fountain of youth. Mooving tale: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_728000/728088.stm # Debate: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_71/710445.stm # Evidence- cloning harms health: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9746910 # QA: What IS cloning? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9746911 @ Links - Advanced Cell Technology: http://www.advancedcell.com/ @ UK advisory group on therapeutic cloning: http://www.doh.gov.uk/cegc/ @ Nuffield Council on Bioethics http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/bioethics/ @ UK Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child: http://www.spuc.org.uk/ : Are you developing immortal cows/dogs/humans/aliens/robots? How can clones be immortal with damaged health? Will aliens mutilate immortal cattle? Have you cloned/mutilated/devoured any cattle lately? Are you beyond our ethics? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFO ROUNDUP: CHUPACABRA HUNTED BY COPS IN CHILE - MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS HOVER OVER CASEYVILLE, ILL. - UFO APPEARS TWICE OVER HAMILTON, OH - COUPLE SEES "VERY BRIGHT" UFO OVER SO.AFRICA - FRENCH UFO GROUP OBTAINS MILITARY RADAR RECORDS - JACKRABBIT HORDE RUNS WILD IN FARGO, NO.DAKOTA - SCIENTISTS USE DNA TO SOLVE DAUPHIN MYSTERY - NEW UFO BOOK MAKES DEBUT - 1793: BLACK MAGIC IN THE TEMPLE PRISON http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/uforo517.htm # Argentinean Journalist Noemi Molina Sees UFO in City Center. Yesterday, still gripped by strange bewilderment, journalist Noemi Molina told a group of reporters at the Municipal Council building that she had wit- nessed an Unidentified Flying Object. http://www.caus.org/mu042800.htm : What's y'r favorite UFO/alien/paranormal/magickal experience? Have you had such an experience recently? Are you still gripped by strange bewilderment? Are you overrun by rabbits/mages/chupacabras/dauphins/radars/robots/fleas? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SUBLIMINAL CIA. When CIA peered into the power of subliminal persuasion, what did it find? Best available evidence is the surviving documentation on the CIA's research programs. These records have surfaced sporadically since the mid-1970s: http://parascope.com/ds/articles/subliminalCIA.htm # Electronic Mind Control - Brain Zapping. Tense nervous headache? Always run down irritable? Not feeling yourself? Well maybe thats because youre not yourself, rather, you are being controlled from somewhere else by someone or something else. http://www.newdawnmagazine.com.au/59b.htm # Zap: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/intelligence.html#brainzapping @ "TESLA WAVES USED TO READ MINDS AND IMPLANT VOICES IN PRISONERS" http://mercury.spaceports.com/~persewen/mc_21.htm http://mercury.spaceports.com/~persewen/insights_ch6.htm http://mercury.spaceports.com/~persewen/insights_ch6-2.htm : Have you controlled any minds lately? Is your mind (un)controlled? Are you nervous? Should you be? D'ya make other people nervous, nauseous, run-down? Is this a personal/political/spiritual/extraterrestrial problem? Fixable?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists Eye Quantum Theory, Codes. (AP) Researchers in 3 countries are advancing on an unbreakable computer code that harnesses the spooky
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SkeptiNews 000421a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/20_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No inland chemical sumps were drained during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Searchable Graphics Database: http://www.gograph.com/ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MSoft to Take Over Universe? Researchers at Microsoft are working on an ambitious Internet database that will make the data from a massive survey of the cosmos available to anyone with a Web browser. The project is the 1st in a series of initiatives to bring to the public "virtual telescopes" that scientists are saying will herald perhaps the greatest revolution in the history of astronomy. Beware: http://cosmiverse.com/space041801.html # UK INVENTOR PATENTS LUNAR DOME. It's not so much the shape of the struc- ture that he's registered, as its ability to stand up to showers of micro- meteorites without bursting. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_ludome.htm # Olympic torch goes into orbit: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9713205 # Nozumi to Mars on Heels of Express: www.cosmiverse.com/space041902.html : What portion of the universe would you most like to conquer? Will you be satisfied with bits'n'pieces, or do you Want It ALL!?!?!? What will you do to conquer the universe? How will you get there? Who will you have to kill? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Spacecraft snaps close-ups of a lava flow on Io. PASADENA, CA (CNN) -- Belching fissures, lava flows sulfur frost dominate new high-resolution pics of Io, obtained by the Galileo spacecraft during its closest flyby yet of the Jupiter moon. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9713204 # Deep-Space Volcanoes: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/galileo-00g.html # Some Quakes Caused By Sudden Increases In Fluid Pressure - water-saturated faults snap miles underground: http://unisci.com/stories/20002/0418004.htm # Huge Crater Discovered in Western Australia. Scientists say a massive crater in Australia was caused by an asteroid that crashed to earth up to 350 million years ago. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_ozcrat.htm # UPCOMING LYRID METEOR SHOWER: http://www.cosmiverse.com/space042001.html : Have you altered the structures of any planet(oid)s lately? Are celestial bodies easy to snap/smash/poke/squish? D'ya like to throw bodies together?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NEW ZEALAND SIGHTINGS ABDUCTION. I can remember almost everything; they were Greys who froze me. All I could use was my eyes. I tried to speak but I couldn't. One of the Grey's came over and touched my head. I felt a lot more at ease, and I was totally awake. http://www.caus.org/pc042100.htm # STARGATE COALITION Argue Case for US Govt ET Info - Road to intrigue: But is Area 51 more than just a missile range? "The military has been in touch with [ET] civilisations for the past 50 years and has developed an inter- relationship with at least two other civilisations at underground secret bases, including Area 51." http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/starcoal.htm # 'First Authentic' UFO Photograph Analysis By NIDS - late-WW2 photo used German equipment - taken unaware: http://www.nidsci.org/news/lemonde.html # Jersey Boomerangs Penn.Flying Triangle: http://www.caus.org/ft042100.htm : Have your alien/govt/corporate/church agents abducted/probed/implanted any Kiwis lately? D'ya prefer to deal with English-speakers? Have you ever been photographed? Have you tried to suppress the images/information/knowledge?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ "The Octaves: Infinite Cycles of 7 Chakras, Densities or Dimensions" RA: I am Ra. There is past, present, and future in third density. In an overview such as an entity may have, removed from the space/time continuum, it may be seen that in the cycle of completion there exists only the present. http://www2.hawaii.edu/~boyne/ra/densities.html @ The 3rd Density Choice, the Polarities, Positive Negative Beings, Jesus, Hitler, the Orion Group: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~boyne/ra/choice.html # Detainee deaths attributed to Hitler - "The Great Escape" failed: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565859510-fad # MI5 Papers Cast New Light On Hitler's Last Days 'King Kong' Betrayal: http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,212234,00.html # Captured U-Boat Held Revolutionary Aircraft - Jet plane, not uranium, was U-boat's prize cargo: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_uboat.htm : Have y'r channeled entities consorted/guided/manipulated/maddened/devoured any fascists lately? Do they feed on body/soul-deaths? Do the interests of humans and paranormal entities coincide? Are they helpful/trustworthy/evil? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Baby babble 'key to language' (BBC) The
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SkeptiNews 000414a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Most recent bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/12_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No sickened editors were healed during production of this bulletin. Yuk. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Kookogami: http://www.sepulchritude.com/suffer/volumetwo/kookigami.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Large Triangle/Kite-Shaped Craft in Texas http://www.caus.org/mu041400.htm # S.O.S. - Yukon Fireball Mystery Endures: http://www.caus.org/pn041300.htm # SPIRITUAL "FORM-CHANGE" SKY PHOTO RECORD: Galaxy Is Within Consciousness: http://community-2.webtv.net/crownstar/CROWNSTARSCOLLAGEOF/index.html @ People Who Interacted With Space People: http://www.caus.org/pc041300.htm @ Current And Past Antigravity/Gravity Research. Years ago major US aircraft firms mounted research efforts to study the secret of controlling gravity. Some of the DOD contracts were classfied; after initial enthusiastic press releases, the whole subject disappeared from the news. Interest in this subject was spurred by sightings of mysterious flying discs in the 1940s and 1950s. Beam me up: http://www.sightings.com/general/antigrav2.htm : Have you developed any antigravity systems lately? Do they work? Were/are you helped by The Space People? How would you characterize your interactions with The Space People? D'ya have photographic records of your interactions? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Secret Code in Microsoft Software. NEW YORK (AP) Microsoft Corp. engineers included a secret password in Net software that can gain illegal access to hundreds of thousands of Web sites.Contained within the code is a derisive comment aimed at a Microsoft rival: "Netscape engineers are weenies!" http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/2414/tc/microsoft_password_1.html # Crypto-Convict Won't Recant. Before Jim Bell went to prison, he suspected that most govt officials were corrupt. Three years behind bars later, the self-proclaimed Internet anarchist is sure of it. After Bell, a cypherpunk who the United States government dubbed a techno-terrorist, is released Friday at 10 a.m. PDT, he plans to exact revenge on the system that impri- soned him. Beware: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35620,00.html : Are you a techno-weenie? Do you have the skill/motivation/obsession needed to devastate govt/corporate/other entities? Are you a cyber-warrior, techno- terrorist, freelance formbuster, alien agent? Whom will you target for doom? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Science Not enough to allay fears.(BBC) In highly technological societies, govts can no longer rely on science alone to win consent for potentially risky new developments, especially fears whipped-up by media demagogues: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_711000/711753.stm @ DETECTING LANDMINES (or finding lost coins etc) BY DOWSING with a Pendulum or Bobber. Dowsing is an old skill, and Pendulums have been used to locate mines by a number of military authorities. The author was trained in dows- ing as an officer at the "School of Military Engineering, Chatham" and has since improved the skills. http://mypage.direct.ca/j/jliving/landmine.htm : Have you doused for landmines lately? Did you find (m)any? D'ya have any legs left? Is landmine-dousing an Out-Of-Body Experience? Would you rather use dousing to find lost mines,lost coins, lost souls, water, petroleum, me? Is dousing scientific/spiritual/other? Do scientific explanations soothe ya? @ Out-Of-Body Experiences: http://www.caus.org/cz041400.htm @ Question of faith - Should we trust scientists? Who else? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/default.stm @ Martian Domes: http://www.enterprisemission.com/domes.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Robot Helps Docs Give Girl New Ear. BERLIN (Reuters) Doctors at Berlin's Humboldt University said that a robot had helped them attach an artificial ear to a 14-year-old girl in a medical breakthrough. Next: aliens help to restore virginity: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000414/09/odd-ear # Pheromones Strong Influence On Sex Attraction; Don't underestimate power of body chemistry: www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters2412_4164.html # 'Captain Condom' works to educate teens around the world; can say 'condom' in at least 10 languages: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000413/odd-111 # PANDAS ON VIAGRA - hoped to boost their famously feeble attempts to mate: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_711000/711816.stm @ Flights of Passion - Will Sex in the Sky Be an Everyday Reality? http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/WolfFiles/wolffiles.html : D'ya prefer robots for surgery, sex, slavery, songwriting? D'ya wanna have sex with robots, pandas, doctors, captains, aliens, me?
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000407a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/05_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No cognitive structures were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Solitaire: http://www.tasmanians.com/sanecow/lynda/cards.html#solitaire _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Subj: More proof not cosmic rays and the fleets in! Area 1. Echelon Right formation. This set of "stars" appears nowhere in images prior or after this one. Area 2. This "cosmic ray" appears to be leaving or entering coronasphere. Here's the rub. If its a "cosmic ray" its hitting the CCD detectors well behind the occultation disk and should not be effected by the refraction waves caused by the edge of the disk. The fact that it too is rippled by the refraction at the edge of the disk, proves that it is in fact a reflected or self luminous light source outside of the occultation disk.Stray photons? Not likely! http://cyberspaceorbit.com/sun/1806_c2.jpg # Old UFO Sighting: http://www.sightings.com/general/ufoil.htm @ We're Off To See The Wizard: http://www.caus.org/cz040700.htm @ TRIANGLES! [and other stuff] http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/ : Have you seen any cosmic rays lately? D'ya prefer cosmic rays, manta rays, mind-control rays? Have you been hit by stray photons lately? Did you call your boss to say you can't come in to work today because you've been hit by a neutrino and your DNA is unraveling? Are stray particles hazardous? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NEW Mars Cydonia Images Released by JPL! Cydonia: Two Years Later. The recent motion picture, "Mission to Mars," takes as part of its premise that certain features in the Cydonia region of Mars were constructed as monuments by ancient Martians. This idea---widely popularized in books, magazines, tabloids and other news/infotainment media---has its origin in the chance observation (in 1976) by one of the Viking Orbiter spacecraft. http://anomalies.net/ufo/mars/www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/4_5_00_cydonia # Arkansas to be invaded with UFO devotees ready to discuss close encounters for the 12th time. OZARK UFO-CON! Vendors will be on hand with books, videos and related items. http://www.ardemgaz.com/weekend/wbnwufo7.html : What are your favorite UFO/paranormal books, videos and related items? Do you sell/rent/produce such items? Do you make a good living at it? Have you partnered with NASA/JPL/aliens/Illuminati in producing these items? Where? # Monkeys pay one another for work. Primatologists have found evidence that capuchin monkeys cooperate to obtain food and share the rewards of their efforts. The study has implications for understanding the evolutionary basis of reciprocity, a fundamental feature of human society. Communism or Capitalism? http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/emry-mpo033000.html And http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_702000/702754.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # $5 MILLION REWARD POSTED FOR SUSPECTED TERRORIST ABDELMAJID DAHOUMANE - fugitive charged with plotting a New Year's millennium-related terrorist act in the United States. http://CNN.com/2000/US/04/06/reward.dahoumane/ # Failed prophecy shook faith, cult survivor says. KANUNGU, Uganda The unfulfilled prophecy of a Christian doomsday sect cost the faith of loyal followers, and perhaps their lives, as they started to challenge the cult's leaders, a surviving 17-year-old cult member said. Doomsday inevitable: http://deseretnews.com:80/dn/view/0,1249,155015036,00.html # Elian inspires mysticism in Miami - Cuban-Americans see boy as God's gift, Castro as Satan: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/000406/3883469.html : What's your fave millennial/mystical/murderous event? Is it closely timed? Are you surrounded by demons/devils/aliens/assholes? Must they be met with violence? Do voices in your head insist on violence? Must you acquiesce?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Warrants issued in Ugandan deaths - leaders may have survived, gone into hiding: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565480712-5b7 # Religious handbook of Ugandan Christian doomsday cult, Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God: "I wish all to go to heaven." http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000404/18/uganda-cult-handbook-excerpts # http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/uganda/cult/handbook/2404/xbl101 # Cult suspect was LA student priest. (AP) A cult leader wanted for Uganda's doomsday massacre was a student priest who attended graduate school at a Jesuit university in Los Angeles. Preached the world would end Dec. 31, 1999. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565490739-fa2
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000331a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/30_03_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * NEW path to notices, excuses, sightings etc: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No UFOlogists were harmed to produce this bulletin. They self-destructed. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Weight-loss secrets of the Mythological Monsters! http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/7221/myth4.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Presidential Candidate Issues Formal UFO Statement - "UFOs exist and have always existed. You must only view the Nazca Lines in Peru as proof. No amount of Government denial will change my beliefs." Vote for Dr. H.A. Harder: http://www.sightings.com/general/ufopres.htm # NASA Shuttle (STS 75/63) Videos Show ET Craft: www.caus.org/pn033100.htm # Excellent Daytime UFO Photo: http://www.sightings.com/general/braz.htm # New Futures Ahead: Genetics or Microvita? The future might be just what we think it will be. Transformation: http://www.ru.org/93inaya.html : Are UFOs in your past/present/future? Do UFOs exist independent of space/ time/reality? Are UFOs our future/past/transdimensional selves, monitoring/ guiding/draining us? Are UFOs in your dreams? Are your dreams in UFOs? Does your political system embrace UFOlogy? Do ETs devour your politicos? Where? @ Dreams are like the color of blood, or a heart beating. They're like the space between two arches in a cathedral. Or dancing the tango: http://www.nationalpost.com/artslife.asp?f=000328/244323s2=life _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # JUDGE DISMISSES UFO LAWSUIT. A federal judge in Phoenix has granted the government's request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a group of UFO activists for information about a very unusual triangular-shaped aerial object. In Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS) v. Department of Defense (DoD), Chief U.S. District Court Judge Stephen M. McNamee, in an 8-page decision, has ruled that the DoD had conducted a reasonable search even though it did not find any information. http://www.caus.org/pn033100b.htm # LAPD PROBE EXTENDS BEYOND RAMPART STATION - corruption rampant, legal system in shambles: http://CNN.com/2000/US/03/31/police.corruption.ap/ # The Red Chinese Secret Police in the United States - corporate plot: http://www.sightings.com/general/red1.htm via www.skolnicksreport.com # Model 12 Yr Old Student Defends 2nd Amendment - Flagged As Violence Risk - Shoot everyone, let God sort'em out: www.sightings.com/general/flagged.htm : Have your police/legal/govt systems been subverted by foregn/alien/demonic powers? Do you trust in judges/cops/agents/deities to dispense truth/justice /righteousness? Can/should/must justice/power/truth be bought/sold/marketed? Is power only sustainable via weaponry? D'ya prefer physical/mental weapons? @ Preserving high culture is not just to the benefit of the right wing. There's radicalism in Shelley, Tolstoy, and Brecht. But not in Mozart? www.booksonline.co.uk/booksol?ac=002551196250955pg=/00/3/11/boidea11.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NBC cancels "God, the Devil and "Bob" cartoon . LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NBC has canceled its lame new animated comedy "God, the Devil and Bob" but insisted the show was done in by deservedly poor ratings, not the boycott by affiliates or religious groups condemning the cartoon as sacrilegious. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000330/17/television-bob # 'GOD' IS DEAD: http://CNN.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/30/television.god.reut/ @ When Kansas voted to reject evolution, free thinkers got a taste of their own skeptical medicine. After all, if religion is a mere preference, why not science? http://firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0003/opinion/harvey.html : Are knowledge and belief systems equivalent? Have you tested your beliefs lately? Are your knowledge/beliefs televised, cinematic, animated, tawdry? Do you encode secret information in your publicly-viewable emanations? Do you prefer secrecy, publicity, suppression, disclosure? Are you viable? How? @ Taking A Crack At Cracking The Aiwass Code. This week we're going to look at one of the great mysteries Aleister Crowley left for us to ponder and we'll speculate on a connection between that mystery and the idea of levi- tation by sound frequency. No science lessons here. Just some cryptonumer- ology and a pinch of synchronicity. http://www.caus.org/cz033100.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cosmonauts To Re-Open Mir: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9613044 # Software Error Crashed Rocket - programmers to be scourged, burnt: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565310118-46f # SMOOTH SAILING, ROUGH LANDING FOR 'SPACE LIFEBOAT' - but it doesn't crash: http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/space/03/30/x38.tests/index.html # UA
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# POLICE MOBILIZED AS UFO HOVERS OVER MEXICO CITY - it hovered over soccer
field on the grounds of the Center of Technical Research Investigation.
But "when (Mexican police) agents tried to enter the building to reach the
football field, they were kept from doing so by members of the building's
security force." Cops' watches stopped: http://www.caus.org/mu030900.htm
# Malaysia UFO Landing Report. It's UFO, claim Kampung folk. TANAH MERAH,
KELANTAN: A large object emitting rays of light was reported to have lan-
ded on a piece of marshland here 3 days ago, holding some 1,000 people of
Kampung Gobek in a state of high suspense. http://caus.org/mu031000.htm
: Would you rather hover/land your UFO at a university, marshland, military
base, suburb, toxic dump, nude beach, cemetery, desert, insane asylum, coca
plantation, freeway, UFOlogy gathering, crack house, pinball parlor, farm??
@ UFO Enigma: New Review of Physical Evidence: http://caus.org/pn030900.htm
@ "What's Up With This "9" Thing, Anyway?" Synchronicity ("meaningful coin-
cidence") of the number "9" and language: http://www.caus.org/cz031000.htm
@ Myth, Meaning, and Memory on Roman Sarcophagi - An Alien Viewpoint? See
www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/classics/koortbojian
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# Was Evolution Of Life Advanced By Comet Showers? Researchers analyzing the
history of impact cratering on the moon has reported a surprising increase
in the frequency of impacts over the past 400 million years. Those impacts
may have played a central role in the evolution of life on Earth. Were we
seeded by extraterrestrials? http://unisci.com/stories/20001/0310001.htm
# 5-5-2000 Doomsday Planetary Alignment - Scientists Again Say 'No Way'.
Prepare for The End. Or, at least get ready to hear a lot of people tell
you its coming again. This time, a planetary alignment due May 5 is the
purported culprit. The compound effect of gravity would be the means. All
manner of earthly destruction would be the result. Especially to your bank
balance: http://space.com/science/solarsystem/planet_alignment_000309.html
@ ALIGNMENT: http://www.calendersign.ric.at/english/alignment2000random.htm
: Are you aided/doomed/evolved by planetary/celestial events? Does a strong
planetary alignment attract life-giving comet showers? D'ya prefer showers
of comets, acid rain, frogs, angelpiss? D'ya comet-shower with a friend??
# Air pollution stops rain. (BBC) Urban and industrial air pollution can
stop rain and snow falling, satellite data reveal. Human-caused droughts,
see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_672000/672802.stm
# Also - Indonesia faces new smog menace - everyone will suffocate, die:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_672000/672633.stm
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# DID MONKEY SERUM IN A VACCINE CAUSE HIV? Research has traced the origins
of HIV to primates in Africa, and from there it spread to human beings,
but not from a bad batch of vaccines. It is not unusual for a disease to
mutate, enabling it to be spread from one species to another. Now eat an
egg: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=29204
# Over 20% of South African Teen Girls Now Have AIDS - steep rise blamed on
sexual myths: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2308/hl/pse_2.html
# Discovery Re: Feline Leukemia Virus May Shed Light On Mechanics Of Hiv
Infection; no sex with cats: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9507647
# Nearly 400,000 Accidental NeedleSticks To US HealthWorkers Yearly; exposed
to AIDS, Hep BC: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2308/hl/psd_6.html
: Have you engineered any diseases/plagues/pestilences lately? What's your
favorite pestilence? Are plagues a necessary homeostatic mechanism to keep
human populations in balance? If we conquer disease, will Earth be swamped?
# Egypt's Health Campaign Spread Hep. (BBC) Research reveals a link between
Egypt's hepatitis crisis an earlier campaign against parasite bilharzia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_672000/672241.stm
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# Brains grow furiously. (AP) - Children's brains change dramatically in key
areas into puberty, says a new study that contradicts some long-standing
assumptions about brain development. The anatomical changes - described as
"fine-tuning" - surprised scientists doing the study. The changes
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# Alien Implant Removal. The ninth alleged alien implant was surgically
removed from the left forearm of Tim Cullen on 5 Feb 2000. The operation
was performed at a medical facility in Thousand Oaks, California. Removal
of the small, "melon seed" type implant went very quickly, and smoothly.
The operation was videotaped by The Learning Channel for an upcoming
show. The aliens remain unperturbed. http://www.caus.org/pc022500.htm
# The NSA and UFOs: http://www.nsa.gov:8080/docs/efoia/released/ufo.html
: Have you had any implants removed lately? Did the ETs just stick more in?
Did they have govt help? Were you implanted in real/virtual/spiritual ways?
@ Historical Data Regarding the Aliens and the Government
http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/secret.txt
@ The Rockefeller - UFO Connection: An Alien Conspiracy?
http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/rockyufo.html
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# Nanotech Advance. Researchers report a major step forward in nanoscopic
pattern transfer. The findings have implications in paving the way for
still-smaller integrated circuits, magnetic storage in computers, and on-
chip sensors; all of this without the use of chemicals. Memories are made
of this: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000225080330.htm
# New Microscope Can Trap, Observe Individual Atoms. WASHINGTON (Reuters)
Using highly reflective mirrors, scientists said on Thursday they had
created a kind of microscope that can trap and observe a single atom at
a time. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000224/16/science-science-atoms
: Do you need highly reflective mirrors in order to talk? Can you talk with
smudged, dull mirrors; tin cans and string; hand-waving; rhythmic farting?
Can you handle like rilly rilly small stuff? D'ya prefer bigger stuff? Why?
# Revenge of the Supercomputers. Remember the ENIAC, with its rows of wires
and tubes? They're smaller and faster now, and they're changing life as we
know it. Yow. http://1.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin1/flo?x=dAAguAuBgBwhAomuY
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# Allah the Almighty says; "Yaa ayul-insana ma gharaka bi rabikal-Kareem?"
{O Mankind! What has seduced you from your Lord so Generous?"}
Holy Quran 82:6 - He's puzzled: http://www.islamtoday.com/quran.html
# Nigeria religious clashes kill 200 - Xians resist Islamic law:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564550404-6af
# Nigerian mosques under guard - president condemns Sharia law:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_656000/656553.stm
# Islam chief, Farrakhan group to meet - plotting planetary takeover:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564551896-e8a
: Do you resist divine word/love/hope? Have you been seduced by the Dark
Side? Will you conquer the world for Truth Light? Will you kill heretics?
Are your deities delighted/puzzled/saddened/infuriated by your actions? Why?
@ The Q'uran: http://www.etext.org/Religious.Texts/Quran/
@ 500 A'hadith: http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/hadith.htm
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# U.S. Obesity Problem Getting Worse. WASHINGTON (Reuters) Despite education
programs a host of different diet plans, the U.S. obesity problem keeps
getting worse. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000224/18/science-health-diet
: Is culinary fat the most dangerous substance of abuse in the world? Should
McFood be banned, its purveyors prosecuted/punished, its addicts be treated?
# Drugs For 'Mad Cow' Disease. (Reuters) A new class of compounds may be
used to treat and even prevent "mad cow" disease and related diseases.
Maybe. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000224/14/science-health-madcow
: Have you eaten any mad cows lately? If you go vegan, will you be immune;
will you fart constantly/horrendously, like Hitler; will you go insane??
# Brain Injury Vaccine. (AP) An oral vaccine that protects brain neurons
from injury caused by epilepsy seizure or by stroke has been tested succ-
essfully in rats: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000224/14/stroke-vaccine
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Killer-Sun-A-Rama:
# SPACE WIND BLOWS! A gust of solar wind on 24 Feb 2000 at 1430 UT may have
triggered an intense geomagnetic substorm recorded by NASA's Polar satel-
lite. That event is subsiding, but the solar wind velocity is still high
variable. Watch for aurorae. Latest updates: http://www.spaceweather.com
# IMAGE TO COME! (NASA) Aurora other geomagnetic events will be easier to
predict when
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000218a - - - - - - - - - - - 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? * The latest bulletin is now viewable at: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/x.htm * No bloated avaricious ugly portals were hacked to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Clerks! http://www.viewaskew.com/news/jan00/3.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Theologians examine deity - 5 Christians, Jew, Muslim search for common ground. CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) In 16th century Europe, the conversation would likely have resulted in people being burned at the stake. But in 21st century Oregon, it was merely a polite dialogue that drew laughter applause. http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150013915,00.html # Religious and secular Jews clash on daylight-saving time http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150014634,00.html @ Zero was once feared as a sign of sorcery and the devil. For something that stands for nothing, that surely is something: http://www.janmag.com/nonfiction/nothingthatis.html : What are your favorite (anti-)deities? Are they associated with particular numbers, times, places, things? Do they decree that those who disagree with you be burnt? Should you be (sun-)burnt for disagreeing? With whom? When?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Eros-a-Rama: # Beautiful Eros sends scientists into orbit. (BBC) Scientists in the United States say they have been left quite speechless by the beautiful landscape revealed in detailed new pictures of the asteroid Eros. How could they say that? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_647000/647151.stm @ Links - N.E.A.R. http://near.jhuapl.edu/ @ Asteroid tracking: http://huey.jpl.nasa.gov/~spravdo/neat.html @ Asteroid radar research: http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/ # 'Stunning' images hint asteroid broke from a planet. Poring over unprece- dented close-up images of asteroid Eros, including the first one in color, NASA scientists speculated that the space rock may have broken off from a small planet eons ago. Duh. http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/02/17/eros.02/ # Photos Show Old, Cratered Asteroid. WASHINGTON (AP) Close-up photos of Eros, the first asteroid to be orbited by a manmade satellite, show that it is heavily cratered, sprinkled with boulders and slightly yellow in color. Eww. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000218/03/asteroid-rendezvous : Have you long known/suspected/guessed that the asteroids are fragments of a broken-up planet? Who smashed the planet? What civilizations did they zap? If humans become too advanced threatening, will Reptoids smash Earth too? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFOs The Governments Of The USA UK. Researchers who ask for pertinent records from the US Air Force about UFOs are provided with a 'Fact Sheet' which states that since the closure of Project Blue Book in 1974, the USAF has no interest in does not study the subject. The USAF info pack refers inquirers to various non-governmental UFO research organizations which are closely monitored, and, at times, directed by various US intelligence and military agencies. http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/l32ufos.htm # Reverse-Engineering Roswell UFO Technology: http://www.altnews.com.au/nexus/ACCandRoswell.html # BRIGHT SKIES: Fireballs Tesla Weapons Testing: http://www.altnews.com.au/nexus/bskies1.html : Does your govt agency have an intimate relationship with ET aliens? Have they taught you a great deal? Do they support your grip on temporal power? Would you be lost without them? What do they get from you? Are you worth it? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PLAYSTATION2 FANS MOB SONY WEB SITE. PlayStation fever struck again Friday when Sony Corporation was forced to briefly shut down its Web site after receiving 100,000 hits in just a minute when sales of the new version of the popular video game went online. Or was it really just another hacker attack, flooding the site? http://cnnfn.com/2000/02/18/asia/wires/sony_wg/ @ Last week's DoS attack that disabled Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, E*Trade other popular Web sites has already produced some solid results: helpless hand- wringing, http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/is/2209/bs/2209042.html pompous declarations www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34240,00.html and http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/2210/pl/hacker_government_3.html amusingly ineffectual government conferences, to name a few. What it ain't produced is a perpetrator. http://www.suck.com/daily/2000/02/15/ : Is site-hacking ultimately a culture/fashion statement, performance art, provo politics, mind-fucking? Has anyone hacked your mind lately? Was it aesthetically pleasing, socially significant, ideologically grounded? Whose mind-control rays direct your
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000211a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 spacecraft were lost during the production of this bulletin. We hope. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Gates of Heck: http://www.heck.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Nuclear Bomb Risk at Kentucky Plant. WASHINGTON (Reuters) More than 1,600 tons of nuclear weapons parts lie scattered around the DoE's Paducah, Ky., uranium plant, hazards unknown to workers or civilian plant supervisors. Bother: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000211/01/science-nuclear-paducah # Young patients exposed to AIDS. WASHINGTON (AP) A gene therapy experiment may have inadvertently exposed more than two dozen young cancer patients to the virus that causes AIDS. Delayed informing federal regulators: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564131879-425 http://news.excite.com/news/r/000211/01/science-health-aids : Would you rather be exposed to AIDS, radiation, political advertising? Do you have any nuke bomb parts lying about? Have you accidentally disseminated any diseases? Was it really accidental? Did the voices in your head insist? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Did The Romans Beat Columbus To The New World? LONDON - History books may need a rewrite. The Romans may have reached the New World before Christo- pher Columbus. According to anthropologist Roman Hristov, a small black terracotta head unearthed near Mexico City in 1933 is a Roman artifact. This, he claims, is proof that the Romans arrived before Columbus. http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2000/02/09/romans000209 # "LATIN" AMERICA - Roman sailors may have shaken hands with ancient Mexicans: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns222537 : What's your favorite ancient contact story? Did Vikings, Irish, Romans, Egyptians, Atlanteans invade America from the East? Did Japanese, Chinese, Polynesians infiltrate from the West? Did Reptoids descend from above? Why? @ Ancient Contacts in the Americas. Mayans had memories of white gods; Roman coins found in Venezuela Maine; Roman pottery in Mexico; an ancient Sicilian coin in Alabama: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/evidence.htm @ Archaeological Outliers. Photos and text about carvings found on rocks in the New World written in ancient Hebrew; and of New World maize found in India. http://www.econ.ohio%2Dstate.edu/jhm/arch/outliers.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Kamikaze Comets. (NASA) Ninety-two sungrazing comets discovered by the Solar Heliospheric Observatory appear to have come from the breakup of a single gigantic comet more than 2000 years ago. SOHO's 100th - 102nd comet discoveries came just this week. The most successful comet-finder in human history: http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast10feb_1.htm @ NASA May Be Inching Its Way To Disclosure: http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/February2000/0210nasa.htm @ The Millennium Group on comets and other stellar events: http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/cometary.html @ "Third Secret Of Fatima" - "A star, the Asteroid (Comet)" http://www.earthchangesTV.com/breaking/January2000/0125fatima.htm @ Nibiru (Planet X) has a 3600 year orbit which should come back into our solar system right about NOW: http://www.basil.u-net.com/aa/sitchin.html : Do your deities ride comets, asteroids, meteors? Do deities travel between stars on energy-efficient rocks, seeding/manipulating solar systems enroute? Do they 'plant' us for their own benefit? When will we be ready for harvest? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ordinary Air Fuels Futuristic New Engine. YOUNGSTOWN, Oh. A revolutionary engine has been created that produces power by absorbing heat from atmos- pheric air. The engine, patented by Entropy Systems Inc., is designed to run cars, boats, lawnmowers generators. Conventional fossil or nuclear fuels are not needed: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/feb2000/2000L-02-09-02.html @ Entropy Systems, Inc: http://www.entropysystems.com @ Free energy claims of Entropy Systems Inc. Entropy Systems Inc. claim that their "Entropy Engines can operate both as a power plant and as a refrig- erator by converting heat at any temperature to power ..." and that "No scientist has found any logical or mathematical flaw in the Amin Cycle paper." Well, read the opinions of just a few of the countless scientists who aren't fooled by Amin's pseudo-science: http://syc.org/e/z/amin.htm : Have you designed/built/sold any free.energy / perpetual.motion mechanisms lately? Are they well-engineered, attractively styled, profitable? Do evil corporate entities try to steal your technology, or don't they bother? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New Russian Reusable Space
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000204a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 meteorites slammed into Earth during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Cat Exercise Patent: http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn=US05443036__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists Eye New Cell Growth. (Wired) Researchers have discovered a gene mutation that controls photoreceptors in the retina. They hope that more research will lead to creating new cells in the retina. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34040,00.html # NEW BREED OF HEAD LICE BORES INTO VICTIMS' BRAINS. GORONG I., New Guinea. A deadly new breed of "super" head lice has killed 5 people here in the past two weeks - by boring right into their brains! The mystery parasites have so far proved impervious to every insecticide used against them by anxious health officials. http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1726.html : Have you created any new cells lately? Do you need new cells to replace those eaten by head lice? Do you have many head lice? Do you breed them? Are they genetically-modified mutants, tailored to suck brains? Are they cute?? @ Aquatic Ape Theory: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5168/aat_leaflet.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ AntiGravity Underground: http://eskimo.com/~billb/freenrg/antigrav.html @ How2Build a UFO: http://www.concentric.net/~asciiexp/chill/tesla.ufo.txt @ Steam-Engine Aviation: http://firedragon.com/~kap/scd4n40.html @ COMET ASTEROID RISKS TO EARTH. Extinction Survival. IS THIS THE END? It is very unlikely that a major comet will crash into the earth - but not so unlikely that leading scientists around the world haven't begun to plot ways to make sure it doesn't happen. Scattered enclaves of humans may sur- vive a major comet impact but human civilization almost surely will not. http://www.scitec.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/future/comet.html : Are you ready for a major celestial strike? Do you have a stock of oxygen, food, drugs, weapons, water, porno, CDs, frozen embryos, cats? Will you miss civilization much? Is civilization greatly overrated? Whats the alternative? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Now the Ancient Ways Are Less Mysterious. Each June for at least the last 400 years, farmers in 12 mountain villages in Peru and Bolivia follow a ritual that Westerners might think odd, if not crazy. Late each night for about a week, the farmers observe the stars in the Pleiades constellation, low on the horizon to the northeast. If they look big bright, farmers know to plant their potato crop at the usual time 4 months later. But if the stars are dim, the usual planting will be delayed for several weeks. http://www.nytimes.com/library/review/013000traditions-science-review.html @ Yaks http://www.maroon.com/yaks/ are great. You get neato wool garments http://nbpea.com/dongfan/ from them, have some nice butter [especially http://library.thinkquest.org/10131/tibet_butterphotos.html clarified], a http://www.iagora.com/pages/html/articles/culture_shock/yak_tibet.html spot of yak jerky, or just http://www.maroon.com/yaks/yaksfor.htm give in and buy a whole yak. And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Culture/ : Are all your ancient traditions rational, workable, useful? Have you aban- doned any ancient traditions lately? Do your deities punish you for straying from the old ways? Do you eschew genetically-modified yaks? Are they evil?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # In Kentucky, Clerks Ask Couples Who Wed: "Are you related?" State law says they must inquire -- to protect the gene pool, of course. "Most people just look at you like you have three heads," said a town clerk. http://enquirer.com/columns/samples/2000/02/03/ks_clerks_must_ask_if.html # Christians try to pray river's pollution away - Orthodoxi gather for ritual: http://www.starnews.com/news/citystate/2000/jan/0120st_river.html : Have you married your cousin lately? Was it a church wedding? Were your parents cousins too? D'ya have 6 webbed toes, a vestigial tail, big floppy ears, deep faith? Have you prayed for genetic cleansing? Did it work well? # Karmapa Lama to concentrate on studies, girls, videogames, fast cars: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563853410-324 # Duo Indicted In 'Psychic' Scam - Two Suspects Charged on 94 Counts: http://www.wcco.com/news/stories/news-2203-023436.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tracing Origin of AIDS Resurrects Grim African History. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) Somewhere in central Africa, a colonial patrol marches into a small village, demanding its rubber quota. A fisherman who is unable to pay up flees.
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000128a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 transgenic clones were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ?? http://shift.com/shiftstd/SiteMap/frames/features.asp?searchfor=bizdevguy _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Solar Wave - FIRST 24 HOUR SOLAR PRAYER WAVE OF THE NEW MILLINNIUM!!! Equinox Sunrise - March 20, 2000 - If you are like most folks out there, you are spending time to get clear about WHAT'S NEXT in the plane of 3D reality. The world didn't turn into a giant pumkin at the turn of the Millennium, whichs leaves a lot of NEW OPTIONS while old visions fade away like the 20th century. http://www.kachina.net/~alunajoy/solarwave.html : Do you get frothy over equinoxi? Have previous equinoxi/solstices changed your life/world/thought/behavior? Do you always have new options, whatever the ephemeris data indicates? D'ya pray, astrologise, prophesise, exercise? # Bummed out that the world didn't end? "Technotherapist" helps with post- Y2K depression: http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/01/28/y2k_therapy/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Clone-a-Rama: # Geron Tries Cloning Without Using Eggs. LONDON (Reuters) - The scientists who cloned Dolly the Sheep are working on a new method to cut the need for human egg cells cloned embryos. If successful, Geron BioMed's technique can remove a major ethical obstacle to using therapeutic cloning to repair cells or human organs damaged by disease. Luddites will go postal anyway: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2126/sc/science_cloning_1.html : Do moral objections to cloning have any basis in observable reality? What? Would'ya rather be moral or repaired? Is resistance to cloning immoral? How? # Cloning: No Killer App Yet. An Advisory Committee on Human Cloning met to debate the pros and cons of cloning. Opinions differ on when human cloning should be legal, but until we know more about its viability, the issues may be moot. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33943,00.html : Which comes first, the policy or the product? Will actual cloning make the debates irrelevant? Does your conspiracy control the processes, the debates, the conclusion? To ensure legality, must clone(r)s takeover a nation? Which? # GM babes inevitable. GENETICALLY modified babies are inevitable, Lord Winston, the fertility pioneer said last night. But the quest to create a perfect person poses a more profound challenge to society than cloning, he said. "In my view, we will certainly be able to make transgenic humans." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000140326706927pg=/et/00/1/27/nbab27.html : How perfect do you want to be? D'ya want a perfect clone? D'ya wanna have sex with your clone? Would your clone be interested? D'ya prefer chimerae? # GE as bad as nuke.war, sez scientist. Hamilton, N.Z. Genetic engineering could be as horrifying as nuclear warfare, says a consultant ecologist at the New Zealand Dairy Expo. In an address dubbed emotional by AgResearch scientist Dr Phil L'Huillier, Dr Robert Mann urged the industry to resist wholesale acceptance of new genetic engineering technology, and instead focus on organic production. http://www.press.co.nz/2000/04/000128n07.htm : Would you rather nuke cities, re-engineer genomes, sleep late, masturbate? Is opposition to GeneMod tech rational, emotional, hypocritical? D'ya care? # Tasmanian Tiger May Rise From Grave - Scientists hope to recreate extinct beast with sampled DNA. (SYDNEY) The Tasmanian tiger may once again skulk thru the forests of Australia. Researchers are extracting the first tissue samples from a preserved specimen of the beast, extincted 70 years ago. http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,129240,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Links on the May 5, 2000 Planetary Alignment: @ A history of the conjunctions of naked eye planets: http://www.calendersign.ric.at/english/alignment2000random.htm @ Planetary Alignments 2000: http://www.griffithobs.org/SkyAlignments.html @ What is an alignment? http://www.sunspot.noao.edu/PR/alignment.html @ The May 5, 2000 Planetary Alignment And Its Destructive Potential: http://www.teleport.com/~tcollins/conjunct.shtml @ Planetary Groupings and the Millennium: Why Panic? http://www.skypub.com/news/special/whypanic.html @ Bad Astronomy: Planetary alignments will cause earthquakes: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planets.html @ Planetary Conjunctions - a QuickTime Movie of the planets' motions: http://drumright.ossm.edu/astronomy/conjunctions.html : Now that we write dates with zeroes, what mystical disasters/opportunities await us? What's your fave planetary alignment?
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Ric Carter wrote: Clone-a-Rama: # Geron Tries Cloning Without Using Eggs. LONDON (Reuters) - The scientists who cloned Dolly the Sheep are working on a new method to cut the need for human egg cells cloned embryos. If successful, Geron BioMed's technique can remove a major ethical obstacle to using therapeutic cloning to repair cells or human organs damaged by disease. Luddites will go postal anyway: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2126/sc/science_cloning_1.html My best educated guess is that Dolly succumbed to the best "fence jumper" around... And NO, I do not believe they have done this yet... Why? Just a very good hunch, considering that my degree has a minor in genetic engineering that says this is just not possible at this time, regardless of what the media propa- 'ganders' want you to believe. And even if they get close to doing it... so what? Makes me no mind. It just sort of cancels out birth control. eagle 1 - Original Message - From: "Ric Carter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 1:20 PM Subject: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #1 -Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000128a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 transgenic clones were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ?? http://shift.com/shiftstd/SiteMap/frames/features.asp?searchfor=bizdevguy _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Solar Wave - FIRST 24 HOUR SOLAR PRAYER WAVE OF THE NEW MILLINNIUM!!! Equinox Sunrise - March 20, 2000 - If you are like most folks out there, you are spending time to get clear about WHAT'S NEXT in the plane of 3D reality. The world didn't turn into a giant pumkin at the turn of the Millennium, whichs leaves a lot of NEW OPTIONS while old visions fade away like the 20th century. http://www.kachina.net/~alunajoy/solarwave.html : Do you get frothy over equinoxi? Have previous equinoxi/solstices changed your life/world/thought/behavior? Do you always have new options, whatever the ephemeris data indicates? D'ya pray, astrologise, prophesise, exercise? # Bummed out that the world didn't end? "Technotherapist" helps with post- Y2K depression: http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/01/28/y2k_therapy/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Clone-a-Rama: # Geron Tries Cloning Without Using Eggs. LONDON (Reuters) - The scientists who cloned Dolly the Sheep are working on a new method to cut the need for human egg cells cloned embryos. If successful, Geron BioMed's technique can remove a major ethical obstacle to using therapeutic cloning to repair cells or human organs damaged by disease. Luddites will go postal anyway: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2126/sc/science_cloning_1.html : Do moral objections to cloning have any basis in observable reality? What? Would'ya rather be moral or repaired? Is resistance to cloning immoral? How? # Cloning: No Killer App Yet. An Advisory Committee on Human Cloning met to debate the pros and cons of cloning. Opinions differ on when human cloning should be legal, but until we know more about its viability, the issues may be moot. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33943,00.html : Which comes first, the policy or the product? Will actual cloning make the debates irrelevant? Does your conspiracy control the processes, the debates, the conclusion? To ensure legality, must clone(r)s takeover a nation? Which? # GM babes inevitable. GENETICALLY modified babies are inevitable, Lord Winston, the fertility pioneer said last night. But the quest to create a perfect person poses a more profound challenge to society than cloning, he said. "In my view, we will certainly be able to make transgenic humans." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000140326706927pg=/et/00/1/27/nbab27.html : How perfect do you want to be? D'ya want a perfect clone? D'ya wanna have sex with your clone? Would your clone be interested? D'ya prefer chimerae? # GE as bad as nuke.war, sez scientist. Hamilton, N.Z. Genetic engineering could be as horrifying as nuclear warfare, says a consultant ecologist at the New Zealand Dairy Expo. In an address dubbed emotional by AgResearch scientist Dr Phil L'Huillier, Dr Robert Mann urged the industry to resist wholesale acceptance of new genetic engineering technology, and instead focus on organic production. http://www.press.co.nz/2000/04/000128n07.htm : Would you rather nuke cities, re-engineer genomes, sleep late, masturbate? Is opposition to GeneMod tech rational, emotional, hypocritical? D'y
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000121a - - - - - - - - - - - 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? * Nobody was cross-pollinated to produce this bulletin. They're just odd. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ WTO Riot Barbie: http://www.misterridiculous.com/riotbarbie.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Human Lifespan Of 200 Expected. A century ago, people lived only about 49 years on average. Today, it's more like 76 years. But in the future, it could be much, much longer - double or triple the average human life span as we know it. "It's fascinating - the prospect of most people having the ability to live to the age of 150 or 200." Why stop there? http://www.usatoday.com/life/health/genetics/lhgec034.htm : How long do you want to live, work, netsurf, pray, pay? Can you really do anything useful for 150-200 years? Would you accumulate too many memories? Would you need to have your memories purged regularly? Would you be bored? Would you involve yourself in endless conspiracies? Would you go apoplectic? # Fluoride 'does not cause fractures' (BBC) Fluoridation of drinking water supplies does not increase the risk of hip fractures, say researchers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_611000/611805.stm # Fluoridation 'benefits all' - not a Communist conspiracy, probably: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_26/260862.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UK SAVANT ADVOCATES RIGHT TO HUMAN CLONING - Proposal Generated by "Mist- aken Anthropology." ROME - British philosopher and bioethicist Prof. John Harris stated that cloning should be made a human right; the reproduction technique that allowed the birth of Dolly the sheep could be applied to humans without scruples. http://ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=45727 # Study probes GM cross-pollination. ORONO, Maine (AP) - Researchers hope a study showing very little cross-pollination between genetically engin- eered and natural corn plants will ease fears that altered crops could taint conventionally grown crops. Reaction to eco-terrorism - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563521173-769 : Who stands to gain the most from cloning and other reproduction research? Who stands to lose? Whose vested interests are at stake? Who takes control? Should human clones be gene-modified, improved, optimized? Who decides? Do you want to cross-pollinate with chimps, dolphins, cheetahs, squids, me?? @ Frankenstein: gopher://wiretap.spies.com/00/Library/Classic/franken.txt @ OUT OF CONTROL: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World: http://www.well.com/user/kk/OutOfControl/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Japan Cult Causes Stir With Name Change. TOKYO (Reuters) The new name of Japan's doomsday cult accused of a 1995 mass murder attempt has unnerved some Japanese companies unlucky enough to share the same name. You'd feel the same if it was you: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000121/11/odd-cult # Bodies of Two Mummified Children Found. TOKYO (Reuters) Japanese police have found two mummified bodies of children in a house suspected of being used by a fringe religious group in western Japan. At least they're not cannibals, eh? http://news.excite.com/news/r/000121/11/odd-mummy : What's your favorite Japanese cult? How many Japanese cults do'ya know of? Are Japanese cults better/worse than US/UK/Chinese/Korean/alien cults? Why? @ Don't Try This At Home! http://www.yellowstoneinfo.com/Occult/witchcra.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Immune system 'causes miscarriage' (BBC) The mother's immune system may be the culprit responsible for miscarriages, scientists believe. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_612000/612021.stm # Also: Genetic miscarriage risk - if your parents had no children, you probably won't have children either, statistically speaking: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_60/600677.stm # Caffeine blamed for miscarriages - coffee is 'brew of Satan' http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_535000/535377.stm # Miscarriage risk of slow eggs - amphetamine, coffee may be needed: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_365000/365648.stm : What's your favorite cause of pregnancy termination? What happens to souls of miscarried fetuses? Where do they all go? Is heaven mostly populated with little fetus souls? Do adult souls get really bored there? Is hell livlier? # NEXT BIG THING: PENIS ENLARGEMENTS. PLUS: Who's really hung in Hollywood: http://bostonphoenix.com/archive/features/00/01/20/PENIS_ENLARGEMENT.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Taiwan eatery pulls Nazi pics. TAIPEI(AP) Owners of a restaurant decorated with images of Nazi death camps have removed them, saying they didn't know
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000114a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 TV networks were bribed by govt agents to produce this bulletin. Yet. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Ninth Posture Of The Perfumed Garden: http://www.sexualpositionsfree.com/sexualpositions/ninposofperg.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Chandra Resolves X-Ray Glow Into Millions Of Objects. While taking a giant leap toward solving one of the greatest mysteries of astronomy, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory also may have revealed the most distant objects ever seen in the Universe and discovered two puzzling new types of cosmic objects. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000113140443.htm # Which Came First: Black Hole Or Galaxy? Astronomer says black holes formed early, influenced galactic evolution. There could be zillions of them now, everywhere: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000113103114.htm : What's your favorite puzzling cosmic object? Have you fallen into a black hole lately? Did you help shape galactic evolution? Did aliens/gods assist? # SPACE WEATHER: Sunspot group #8824 has developed a complex magnetic field that makes it a candidate for major solar flares. http://spaceweather.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Watch the Skies...In China! PUSALU VILLAGE, China (AP) - Poor farmers in Beijing's barren hills saw it: an object swathed in colored light arcing heavenward that some say must have been a UFO. People in 12 other Chinese cities reported possible UFO sightings last month. UFO researchers, mean- while, were busy looking into claims of an alien abduction in Beijing. Meditating is still prohibited, though: http://www.caus.org/mu011400c.htm # Watch the Skies...In England! YORKSHIRE MOORS -- "My girlfriend and my brother and I were driving slowly due to the fog on A635 from a millennium celebration over the New Year... we heard a sort of blast of noise rather like a ships horn, its lights turned greenish and dimmed slightly before a reddish bluish glow appeared underneath. The lights shot up into the air. No noise no nothing and they were gone!" http://www.caus.org/mu011400b.htm # Watch the Skies...In California! YUCCA VALLEY -- "My mother got a pretty good look at a low flying object on January 2, 2000 at 9:30 PM. She swears that it was not a meteor, but a low flying 'football' shaped silver gray ship... It had a bullet shape with a tail of bright orange fire... . It made a very low deep sounding hum..." http://www.caus.org/mu011400.htm : What's your favorite UFO sighting? Are you a UFO? Have you been sighted lately? Do you intentionally allow sightings? Are these sightings staged to draw people's attention away from other occurrences? What are you hiding?? # Weird compression wave jolts Georgia: http://www.cbjd.net/orbit/project/atmosphere_shock.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PENTAGON TO CREATE 17 MORE TEAMS FOR CHEMICAL/GERM ATTACK. The Pentagon is establishing an additional 17 National Guard teams to help states respond quickly in the event of attacks involving nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. An initial 10 teams were created last year. Each team of 22 full- time members of the Army or Air National Guard will receive 15 months of training before being certified to respond to such emergencies. They are to provide medical and technical advice to local emergency officials under state, rather than federal, control. Hopefully they won't shoot anyone. http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/01/13/pentagon.emergency.response.ap/index.html : Have you controlled/observed/staged any NBC [nuclear/biological/chemical] attacks lately? Did you successfully manipulate the events? To what purpose? # Poisonous Charge Against U.S. Navy. Conflict Deepens Over Uranium Bullets as Navy Denies Danger http://foxnews.com/national/011300/vieques_broder.sml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ During WWII, Japan had a http://copi.com/Articles/Guyatt/Unit_731.html a secret base in Manchuria, housing the infamous Unit 731, where they http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/NanjingMassacre/NMU731.html conducted biological weapons research as well as hideous "medical" experiments http://www.skycitygallery.com/japan/japan.html on Chinese, Korean, and Mongolian prisoners of war. In 1987, T.F. Mous made a grisly film http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/9901/offscreen_columns/ManBehind1.html about it, based on first-hand reports of the atrocities. And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Warfare/ : Have you conducted any medical experiments on involuntary subjects lately? Were the experiments unfortunate, necessary, entertaining? Do you prefer to experiment on male/female/neuter humans/aliens/animals/lawyers? How
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 000107a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 gelatinous blobs were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Constraint: http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/cultronix/vuong/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # IN THIS DAY and age, it's comforting to know that you can get US$10 mln insurance against being abducted by aliens. The UFO Abduction and Casualty Insurance Company, of Florida "has boldly gone where no Insurance Company has gone before". FOR US$19.95, plus shipping, you get a personalised, framed policy which includes a Frequent Flyer Endorsement and claim form "which requires the signature of an Authorised Onboard Alien". You can get double indemnity insurance if "a) the aliens insist on conjugal visits; b) the encounter results in any offspring ever referred to as The Next Missing Link": http://www.smh.com.au/news/0001/04/text/column8.html : Are you insured against abduction? Should/must/will you be? Is it too late already? Is alien abduction a normal risk of modern life? Is it amortized?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFOlogist chronicles Canada's strangest sightings - Early explorers saw 'gelatinous blob' fall from sky in 1792. WINNIPEG. Explorer David Thompson got the ball rolling with Canada's first recorded UFO sighting in 1792, a tale from his Hudson Bay journals that would do very nicely as an episode of The X-Files. http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/000103/3379362.html : Have any gelatinous blobs fallen upon you from the sky lately? How about green ice, frogs, leaflets? Are gelatinous blobs just alien propaganda?? # Red Beam of Light Hits Motorist: http://www.caus.org/mu010700.htm # Florida UFOs Seen Near Shuttle Launch: http://www.caus.org/mu122799.htm # Domed Saucer-Shaped Object Buried in Mexico http://caus.org/mu122499b.htm # Abduction - Family Style: http://www.caus.org/pc122399.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Swedish leader mulls Nazi probe. STOCKHOLM (AP) Caving to political pres- sure, the P.M. said he may name a panel to review Sweden's ties with Nazi Germany. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563096391-ded # Also: Nazi victims, Austria banks settle, see http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563092281-fbb # Also: Nazi Suspect Returns to Australia, see http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000107/06/int-nazi-suspect # Baltic States Should Punish Nazis. RIGA, Latvia (AP) - A U.S. congressman criticized Latvia Lithuania for failing to prosecute Nazi war criminals more aggressively. U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor ser- ving in Congress, said during a 2-day visit to the region that the former Soviet Baltic republics have not kept their promises to bring Nazis to justice. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000105/16/int-baltics-nazi # 3 Skinheads Busted. STOCKHOLM (AP) An alleged skinhead was charged with murder and two others remained in custody in connection with the stabbing death of a 19-year-old Swede of Turkish origin. The suspects admitted neo- Nazi ties. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000103/12/int-sweden-slaying : Who are your favorite Nazis, neo- or otherwise? Who controls the global neoNazi conspiracy? Who gains? What do neoNazis distract us from seeing?? # Protest Over 'Racist' Suntan Ad. BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) Argentine human rights groups have demanded a magazine ad for Hawaiian Tropic sun-tan lotion, depicting a sun-tanned man being dragged off by the Ku Klux Klan, be withdrawn because it is offensive to blacks and other living creatures. Who'd've thunk it? http://news.excite.com/news/r/000107/08/odd-klan _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Uranium on jet 'not a risk' (BBC). Instrument failure is identified as a factor in the Stansted jet crash as emergency services insist depleted uranium on board was not a health risk. And black is white, day is night: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_593000/593649.stm # Also: Boeing's workhorse, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_575000/575679.stm # Crash 747 'had navigational failure' http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_593000/593553.stm # Depleted uranium study 'shows clear damage' http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_431000/431817.stm : Have you developed any useful consumer applications for depleted uranium lately? Is it good for suntan creams, hotplates, nightlights, rat poison?? # Ho Ho Ho, Glow Glow Glow. EDINBURGH (Reuters) A British nuclear energy agency that built a Santa's Grotto from containers that had stored nuclear waste defended itself, saying children who met Santa there had not been exposed to radiation. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000107/08/odd-glow _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cultists
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991210a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 artificial lifeforms were ritually abused to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Earth From Above: http://cnn.com/1999/books/news/12/09/earth.from.above/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists call for life creation debate. (BBC) Researchers call for a public debate on creating life from its chemical building blocks after a breakthrough in the US. The essence of life comes down to about 300 genes. This seems to be the minimum set of molecular instructions required to build a living organism. Expect to see lab-synthesized bacteria soon: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_556000/556984.stm # ALSO - Is life just genes? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_556000/556958.stm # Creating artificial bugs: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech//newsid_262000/262025.stm # Book of life: Chapter one: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_545000/545008.stm # Long road to inheritance: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_545000/545667.stm : Should humans debate creating life, or Just Do It? Will we do it anyway? After humans create life, will Creationists dry up and blow away? Will the synthetic lifeforms be faster, better, cheaper than arduously-evolved life? # The mysteries of creation. (BBC) Is the human being a creator or a creation? The distinction could become blurred if American scientists press ahead with an experiment to build a totally new organism in the lab. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_558000/558194.stm @ LINKS - Institute for Genomic Research: http://www.tigr.org/ @ Celera Genomics Corp: http://www.celera.com/home.asp : What is life? How can you tell? Is a computer virus alive? Are you? Have you been outsmarted by a virus lately? If an entity survives and reproduces within its environment, is it alive? Is terminating such a live, murder?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Melissa virus creator pleads guilty. A US computer programmer admits creating the e-mail virus which disrupted the operations of thousands of companies and government agencies around the world. And it was fun: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_557000/557605.stm http://cnn.com/1999/TECH/computing/12/09/computer.virus.02.ap/ http://news.excite.com/news/r/991209/19/news-crime-melissa # ALSO - Melissa virus goes global: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_307000/307162.stm # Invasion of the killer e-mail viruses: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_143000/143004.stm : Have you created a cybervirus lately? Would you rather create a biological or cybervirus? Which has more potential? Which better suits your talents?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GIRL TROUBLE: Morning sickness `worse for mothers of girls'. (BBC) Mothers are more likely to suffer from serious morning sickness if they are pregnant with a girl. Early abortion is the best remedy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_556000/556895.stm # Girls Make Mothers Sick? LONDON (Reuters) -- Boys may be harder to handle but girls are sickening. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991210/07/odd-girls : What's your favorite gender distinction? Did your deities design humans like this due to preference for one gender or another? What gender is your favorite deity? Are you sure? Did you look? Are most deity-spawned hybrids male, to least discomfit the mother? Are female godlings too hazardous?? # Coming soon, a 'green' Barbie doll - Mattel to make toys from eco-friendly materials: http://www.smh.com.au/news/9912/10/world/world10.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Jupiter gave birth to Uranus and Neptune - bear down and push. (BBC) A new computer model of the early Solar System suggests that Uranus and Neptune were once part of a much larger Jupiter which fragmented. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_555000/555473.stm : Have you given birth to a planet lately? Did it hurt? Is it male, female, other? Is it obstreperous, developmentally challenged, rashy, irascible?? # ALSO - By Jupiter! Confusion over planet: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_524000/524757.stm # Star wobbles under tug of planet: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_459000/459889.stm # Jupiter's supersonic winds: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_341000/341782.stm # A planet beyond Pluto: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_467000/467572.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mysterioso Lands in Dam: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991209/08/odd-ufo # Alien 'Golf' Shot Pretty Dam Forceful. SYDNEY (Reuters) Even for an alien it was a poor shot, a cosmic out of bounds in the water,
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991203a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 delegates were defenestrated during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ A Magnetic Oracle: http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/oracle.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Earth unmoved by millennium babies. (BBC) Only couples in Australia and China are racing to have the first baby of the new millennium - for the rest of the world it's a Y2K turn-off. But the sex part is probably fun. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_546000/546403.stm : Is millennial reproduction important to you? Did voices in your head impel you to breed for 2000? Will the first Y2K kids be harvested by Reptilioids? # China bans condom advert. (BBC) Chinese authorities have banned the country's first television advertisement promoting the use of condoms to prevent the spread of the HIV virus. Let the fuckers die, eh? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_546000/546420.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Seattle-Battle-Rama: # Crunch time for WTO as worldwide demos continue against globalisation: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_548000/548144.stm # Also: Eyewitness: The Battle of Seattle: gas'em all: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_547000/547581.stm # In pictures: Day two of Seattle clashes - see the blood: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_545000/545985.stm # US press advises WTO to heed protests - learn the lessons: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_547000/547087.stm # SEATTLE PROTESTS WIND DOWN, WEARY MINISTERS NEGOTIATE FINAL WTO DEALS Military terrorism experts abound: http://cnn.com/1999/US/12/03/wto.01/ : Who orchestrated the tumult? Who benefits, who loses, who doesn't care? # WTO protests calm down - "festival of resistance," see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562384601-13e # Also: Local officials offer aid, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562386696-beb # Also: Seattle police actions defended, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562377572-a2c # Also: Seattle merchants plan to celebrate, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562386768-a59 # And: WTO protesters refuse to give names, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562381867-13d : Can nonviolent resistance be safely ignored by power structures? Why not? # Mass Abuses Alleged By Seattle Law Enforcement: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/abuses.htm # 'Paid Demonstrator' Claims From Seattle: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/paid.htm # Provocateurs Noted In Seattle Riots - Millions In Damage: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/gasm.htm # Instant Net Coverage Of Seattle Events: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/seat.htm # Corporate America Under Siege: Undeclared State of Emergency: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/stateemerg.htm : Do you prefer global order or anarchy? Who imposes the order? Who benefits from the anarchy? Who selects the negotiators? Which conspirators dominate? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Indians move to guard traditional know-how. (BBC) Developing countries are watching the world trade talks in Seattle with concern, in particular the handling of intellectual property rights, or ownership of knowledge. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_544000/544861.stm : Who owns your traditional knowledge? How much data is encoded in your DNA, your brain, your culture? How much data was revealed by deities/demons/ETs? Who owns info? CAN info be owned? Is info worthless unless it's given away? # EU makes biotech concessions - bring on the clones: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_546000/546384.stm # Clinton drive on labour rights - child-labor treaty: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_546000/546313.stm # WTO 'running out of time' - labour issues divide poor rich states: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_547000/547403.stm # Other Issues: http://www.konformist.com/1999/wto/wto-oped.htm # Other Reports: http://www.konformist.com/1999/wto/wtoreports.htm # Official News: http://www.konformist.com/1999/wto/wto-news.htm # Did Army Train Seattle Cops? http://www.brasscheck.com/seattle/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Iranian clerics back jailed dissident. (BBC) Reformist clerics in Iran question the authority of the religious court which jailed former Interior Minister Abdullah Nouri. Hardliners vow to squash all heathens, heretics: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_546000/546869.stm # Nigerian Muslims to consider more Sharia. (BBC) Nigeria's Muslim leaders have agreed to hold a national seminar on Islamic law (sharia)
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-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 consent are totally alien concepts to them, and therefore they don't know how to deal with nonviolent resistance when they encounter it. Nonviolence, in short, scares the shit out of the bosses. -Original Message- From: Ric Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 10:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #1 - 12/03/99 snip : Can nonviolent resistance be safely ignored by power structures? Why not? snip DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991126a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 cultists were buried to produce this bulletin. Maybe they should be. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ DEATH TO PIKACHU! http://www.mustbedestroyed.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New Buddhist Sect Worries Traditionalists - mass movement caters to Thai middle class. PATHUM THANI, Thailand -- The sheer psychic power of 30,000 people meditating together can make miracles happen, say monks at the HQ of Thailand's biggest, richest and - to the established priesthood - most dangerous new Buddhist sect. www.seattlep-i.com:80/national/thai25.shtml : Do you make miracles happen? Would they happen anyway? Does your belief system threaten established authority? If you can make miracles happen, why don't you just make the establishment accept you? Must you be persecuted? # HOW TO PASS A DRIVING TEST: Items people have brought along to help them pass their driving test in London? Lucky charms including red bras and religious relics, having 'lucky' people sit in the back seat, and a rear seat guru chanting a lucky mantra (survey by British Automobile Ass'n). _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Dad Jailed For Contempt - Sect Buried Sons? (ATTLEBORO, MA) The father of two missing boys was jailed for contempt of court after refusing to tell a judge where his 10-month-old son is. Cops think Jacques Robidoux' infant son Samuel and a newborn boy are both dead, buried in Baxter State Park by members of their parents' religious sect. Two dozen members of the sect, which does NOT believe in modern medical care, have visited Baxter during the past two months. But a search in a remote area of the park where the sect held their retreats has NOT turned up any bodies. They've gone to live with Jesus: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991124/04/me-state-news-3 Previous story: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991122/03/me-state-news-1 : Does your sect eschew heathen medicine for members, kids, visitors? Do y'r deities take many from among you? Are they willing sacrifices? Will you die for your beliefs? Soon? Will others die for your beliefs? Is it divine will? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Children removed in raids on cult. Tokyo: Japan's police removed children from the bizarre Life Space cult, whose members kept a mummified body at an airport hotel and insisted it was alive. With tolerance for such groups already sapped by the 1995 gas attack on Tokyo's subway by the Aum Supreme Truth doomsday cult, police launched multiple raids, taking nine children into protection. http://www.smh.com.au:80/news/9911/25/text/world8.html : Is death just another phase of life? Is it so hard for outsiders to under- stand that? Are you persecuted because of y'r deep understanding of reality? @ Pioneering academic defense of Wicca (and) Moby-Dick revisionism wars: www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Thursday-Times/timbooboo01010.html?1334425 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Peruvians Wallow in 'Miraculous Mud' Touched by Space Aliens. CHILCA, Peru (AP) Many ailing Peruvians visit Chilca, a dusty desert town on the Pacific coast 40 miles SE of Lima. They come to mud-wallow in 3 small ponds said to have healing powers. But these mud baths are different: locals claim their miraculous powers are brought by alien space ships. "Lots of people claim to have seen UFOs and strange lights in the night sky over Chilca. People here believe in UFOs" sez the mayor. Visitors to Chilca are greeted by signs proclaiming the town as "The Preferred Site for Interplanetary Ships and Beings." http://sltrib.com:80/1999/nov/11251999/nation_w/326.htm : Where's your favorite miracle mud, holy hotspring, sacred spa? Do aliens, deities, spirits, robots like to empower dirt/water/mud in your vicinity? Do you see many paranormal entities as you wallow in the mud? D'ya inhale dust? @ IS MY PRIEST HANDING OUT HERPES WITH THE HOSTS? There have actually been studies about how priests handle the Eucharist cup. There are germs there - but herpes is so common, it's nearly impossible to avoid. Infectious faith: http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14268 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ DREAM MACHINES. Most of the machines Id invent the Life Compass, the Emotion Scan, the Physique Dial, the Chutzpah Device already exist in less garish form; writing about how much I wish they existed ignores how much they already do. There is one thing, however. MACHINE THAT ONCE only once in your life, allowed you to send a letter to the past. One that you were able to address to only one person: your teenage self. As if you'd listen... http://www.msnbc.com:80/news/338846.asp?cp1=1 @ Is General Motors ready to build UFOs? -- Detroit
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991112a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 microprocessors were overclocked during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ MST3K - Project E.U.N.U.C.H. - http://totl.net/Eunuch/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Virgin Mary says: Don't fear the 21st century. Speaking through visionary Ivan Dragicevic, the Virgin Mary says stockpiling for Y2K is unnecessary. "Take these out," she says. "You're not going to need them." Dragicevic, whose fulltime job is being Mary's spokesman, says she tells crowds to put God before family. http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/met8visionary.htm : Have you channelled any divine entities lately? Do they offer good advice? Do they sometimes play little jokes on you? Do you trust them implicitly?? @ "YoMama is so fat, when she lays on the beach Greenpeace tries to push her back in the water." http://www.yomama.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Praying 'aids mental health'. (BBC) People who pray frequently are less likely to suffer from depression anxiety, according to a study. Glory! See http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_516000/516350.stm # ALSO - Faith 'good for mental health': http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_462000/462748.stm # Churchgoing improves life expectancy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_401000/401091.stm # Religion tackles mental illness: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_321000/321622.stm : But is there any correlation between praying and dementia? Does it matter which entities are being prayed to, or what is being prayed for? Does "good mental health" include having fantasy relationships with paranormal beings? @ While there may be deep clashes of intuition about the nature of rational inquiry, the so-called science wars are mostly just media hype: http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/99nov/9911sciencewars.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # How 'Chasing the Dragon' Causes Brain Damage. NEW YORK - Heroin users who heat the drug and then inhale it, a practice called "chasing the dragon", risk serious brain damage or death. This form of heroin use is increasing- ly popular, as users think it protects against transmission of HIV other diseases associated with injecting heroin. But the practice carries a risk of untreatable brain damage, with death occurring in about 20% of cases. High 'til the end: http://foxnews.com/health/111099/heroin.sml : Are users of addictive drugs much concerned with brain damage, longevity, viability? Do alien implants cause brain damage? Would you rather "chase the dragon", be abducted/implanted by ETs, watch MTV all day, or live forever?? Is more heroin marketing controlled by the CIA, UK royals, Russian mafiosi, Latin American cartels, Chinese People's Army officers, Bill Gates, aliens? # No Pain... No Brain. Couch potatoes beware, a new study shows that not only are people who exercise healthier, but they also have improved long- term memory as well as an increased ability to learn. The findings are based on research that measures the responses and nerve growth in mice. Off yer butt: http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/tnw/today/ps/ps04we_1.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ You tried the Death Clock http://www.deathclock.com/ but you're unsure of its accuraty. The Sparks http://test.thespark.com/deathtest/death.cgi Death Test just seemed too tongue-in cheek. So try the MSNBC death test. http://www.msnbc.com/modules/quizzes/lifex.asp And go out happy. And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Reference/ or die trying. : Do you want to know when you'll die? Would you like to make an appointment with Death or one of her representatives? Shall I handle it for you? When?? @ Break it up and don't be a bunny. The online Chinese angle on hardboiled slang - click here, it's duck soup. http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Genes'R'Us: # Gene clue to learning disability. (BBC) Researchers investigating children with unexplained learning disabilities found a significant number of them have abnormal chromosome endings. So the little dummies are just mutants? See http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_516000/516427.stm Or http://news.excite.com/news/r/991112/04/science-health-handicap # ALSO - The genetic history of sex: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_492000/492147.stm # Major step forward for gene therapy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_48/480795.stm @ Links - Genome database: http://www.genome.wi.mit.edu/ @ The Lancet (journal): http://www.thelancet.com/ @ Mencap: http://www.mencap.org.uk/home.htm : Do your chromosome endings need burnishing, normalizing, maintenance? Were your
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991029a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 neural connexions went unharmed during interruption of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ LOOK flying saucers: http://www.thule.org/looksaucer.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MESSAGE FROM MARY: "JUST DO IT!" The Virgin Mary told him to build the shrine -- and the city council has told him to take it down. But the 79- year-old one-legged WWII veteran is appealing the ruling. Rotsa ruck: http://www.bostonherald.com/bostonherald/lonw/pepp10291999.htm : Have you received instructions from any divine entities lately? Do you always/often/sometimes/never obey the voices in your head? Are you sorry? # MESSAGE TO GOD: "SHOW ME THE GOO!" With biblical prophecy and creationist geology as his guides, Hayseed Stevens is now only one well short of find- ing the greatest oil field on Earth http://www.csicop.org/si/9909/oil.html : Do divine entities guide your professional activities? Do spirits/demons/ deities lead you to wealth/happiness/orgasm? Are they trustworthy? Are you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The History of Sex. Men and women may have more in common than we ever dreamed. Scientists report that the ancestor of today's human sex chromosomes evolved from an identical set long ago. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32156,00.html?tw=wn19991028 # Why Men Are That Way. A researcher in Texas has created a male mouse with two X chromosomes. His findings call into question the widely accepted belief that gender is determined by the XX or XY configuration. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32162,00.html?tw=wn19991028 : What's your favorite chromosonal structure? Did you evolve from men, women or others? Do you have any Reptilioid genes? How many sexes do they have?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MEDICAL RESEARCHERS RECEIVE THREATS FROM ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS. A group of animal rights activists have sent threatening letters laced with razor blades to researchers at universities across the United States, demanding an end to experimentation on animals. More than 80 researchers have been listed on a Web page as potential victims of violence if they don't release their laboratory animals by the autumn of 2000. Support mental health or I'll kill you: http://cnn.com/US/9910/29/monkey.threats.01/ : Have you threatened anyone lately? Would'ya rather threaten/dissect/devour animals, humans, aliens, robots, me? Are you a lab rat? Are you afraid? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pig Cells Make Great Arteries. (Reuters) Artificial blood vessels from cows and pigs may be the next big thing in heart bypass operations. http://www.wired.com/news/reuters/0,1349,32166,00.html?tw=wn19991028 : Does your belief system preclude you from having animal tissues implanted in your body? Should/will you go extinct? Would you prefer Reptoid tissues? Should animal-tissue researchers be killed? Should PETA activists die young? @ HIV is easy to avoid. But viruses know how to find open sores and exploit folly and the intoxicant of lust. http://www.nationaljournal.com/rauch.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # STUDY FINDS MANY THINK LOTTERIES ARE TICKET TO GOLDEN YEARS. Too many Americans are betting their future on lottery tickets instead of putting aside a regular amount of money in savings accounts or mutual funds, according to a new survey. More than one quarter of Americans believe lotteries are their best chance to have enough money for retirement. Savings rate redefined, rises: http://cnn.com/US/9910/28/savings/ # And: SAVINGS UNDERESTIMATED: http://cnnfn.com/1999/10/28/life/q_survey/ : Are lotteries an effective tax on the illiterate/innumerate? Do Believers buy more lottery tickets than non-Believers? Do they deserve poverty? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MARYLAND TOWN EMBRACES 'BLAIR WITCH' COMMERCE. The Blair Witch believers are back, just in time for Halloween. This time, Burkittsville is ready. Last summer, curiosity seekers overran the startled west Maryland hamlet where the hit hoax horror film, "The Blair Witch Project," is set. They snatched road and cemetery signs and vandalized tombstones, prompting a beefed-up police presence in the quiet farming community. Burkittsville has since wised up -- and cashed in. Townsfolk embracing wave of 'Blair Witch virus': http://cnn.com/TRAVEL/NEWS/9910/28/blairwitch.ap/ : Have you overrun any towns lately? Are you a witch, or do you just play one on television? Have you exploited any believers lately? Do they mind? @ World Of The Strange: http://www.jb-graphics.com/thestrange/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # In universities of the future, the faculty will be software icons: "Click on the professor, and let him take you to the world that he knows" :
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991015a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 flying dinosaurs survived the production of this bulletin. Tasty, too. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Learn Czech, one picture at a time: http://www.czechprimer.org/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Fossils of flying dinosaur found. (AP) - A fierce turkey-sized animal with sharp claws and teeth may have been the first flying feathered dinosaur, a missing link between the lumbering lizards of millions of years ago the graceful birds of today. Fossils of Archaeoraptor liaoningensis suggest it lived 120 million to 140 million years ago when a branch of dinosaurs was evolving into the vast family of birds that now live on every continent. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561634791-d63 : Do you think ancient saurians 'lumbered'? Have you watched too many films? Do flying Reptilioids frighten you? Have you killed any lately? With what?? @ The Chupacabras: A Monster for the New Millennium? http://www.americanatheist.org/win96-7/T2/chupacabras.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Czech intellectuals languish in poverty, while standards of public debate in the Czech Republic are set by jumped-up, semi-literate young journalists: http://www.ce-review.org/99/16/culik16.html : Are you an impoverished intellectual, a semi-literate journalist, a failed /successful media manipulator, a cynical controller, a hapless victim? Why?? # Censorship always censors the wrong things for the wrong reasons and produces, after some delay, the opposite of the intended effect. Yow. http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/18/oct99/bowman.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ancient face found carved on Stonehenge. (BBC) An ancient face has been found carved on Stonehenge. Is it the face of its designer? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_474000/474977.stm # Link - See more faces on Frank Wayman's Megalithic site: http://www.stonecentric.connectfree.co.uk/aveburyi.html : Have you created any ancient megaliths lately? Have you carved you own or someone else's face(s) into any of them? Did you pretty-up yourself? How?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # It Holds Tissues Together. Scientists studying the adhesive properties of cadherin - a protein that binds cells into soft tissue - have found a built-in safety mechanism that may keep cells from ripping apart. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991014080224.htm # Genetic On-Off Switch Found. A researcher studying genetic on-off switches in yeast has found a system that could be useful in human gene therapy. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991014075909.htm : Would you like to apply on-off switches to cell-binding mechanisms? Whose cells would you like to see ripped apart? Would you apply such switches to the brain cells of your ideological opponents? Will your belief system win? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ GHOST-PHOTO. Halloween approaches - check out the spooksters! Ghost-photo is a fun place to start, since many contributors post online and/or swap image files of ghostly images they caught on film. There's a lot of talk about ( pictures of) "orbs," which are faintly visible globular thingies that may be ghosts, aliens, or both. Of course, if you want to be a cranky skeptic, they may be photoprocessing glitches, too. The list is fairly active, 10 to 20 posts per day. To subscribe, send a blank e-mail to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- see the public archives at http://www.onelist.com/messages/ghost-photo : Have you photographed many orbs/ghosts/emanations lately? Do chemtrails affect your film? Do you deliberately fog film to hide the sordid details? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # No Water Ice Detected From Lunar Prospector Impact. The controlled crash of NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft into a crater near the south pole of the Moon on July 31 produced no observable signature of water. Bother. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991014080522.htm # Chemistry Of Comet Hale-Bopp May Offer Clues About The Early Solar System. Astronomers have found that a new molecule, nitrogen sulfide (NS), is con- tained within comets. Altho scientists have long known that the molecule exists within dense interstellar clouds, this is the first time it's been seen in a comet. http://sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991014080325.htm : Did the Mothership exude NS into Hale-Bopp? Did they suck-up all of Luna's water? How will they next despoil our solar system? Who can/will stop them? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Philosophy News: http://www.philosophynews.com/ @ Global Lukewarming: http://www.vision.net.au/~daly/ @ Obscure Store: http://www.obscurestore.com/ @ Junk Science: http://www.junkscience.com/ @ Quackwatch: http://www.quackwatch.com/ @ SciTech Daily:
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-Caveat Lector- The fascists also agree with the liberals and radicals. John _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ CIRCLE SUPPERS. As liberals and radicals, we are trained from day one of our freshman year of college that religion, particularly Christianity, is the most destructive force the world has ever known. It is evil incarnate, inspiring evil deeds the world over. http://www.wench.com/features/circle/ : Is religion evil, good, ambiguous, unknowable? Were you trained to regard religion in any light? Can you be reprogrammed? Do you inspire evil deeds?? _ DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990924a - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : Not many alien abductees were painfully probed to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ PocketMonkey! http://www.minordemons.com/pocketmonkey/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ It has been some time since we have been hearing the expression fin de siecle, the end of the century. Some people say that when we come to the end of the century, many things will take place including perhaps the destruction of the universe itself. What is the Buddhist teaching with regard to fin de siecle? http://www.semui.co.jp/hosshinji/HEfset1.html : Do you worry about the end of the century, the millennium, time itself? Do you get good answers from Buddhists, Taoists, Xians, Discordians, Sikhs, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Banned sect facing prosecution. BEIJING (AP) China issued new regulations to tighten control over the exercises on which the Falun Gong movement is partly based. The widely practiced slow-motion exercises called qigong may not be practiced in govt or military institutions, embassies, airports, train or bus stations, ports, streets or other "important public places." See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561296441-098 : Do you ritually exercise in public? Are you subversive? Would you perform jumping-jacks, push-ups, deep-knee thrusts while standing in line, waiting in an airport or courtroom or consulate? Should there be laws against this? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Jesux (pronounced Hay-sooks) is a new Linux distribution for Christian hackers, schools, families, and churches." It optionally disables logins on Sundays, doesn't include sendmail cause it was written by a homosexual, and doesn't include any encryption... because "Christians have nothing to hide". Sweet Jesus. http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/4081/ # Feds Linux: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/24/linux.for.feds.idg/ : Is your software damned? Can it be saved? Have you rewritten software to accommodate the doctrines of y'r belief system? Does it crash? Is it damned? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ted Kennedy's house to be razed for bad karma. The Hong Kong billionaire who bought Kennedy's Virginia mansion in 1997 sez the feng shui's negative around the place, so it'll be bulldozed. The spiritual balance is fucked: http://www.bostonherald.com/bostonherald/nat/kenn09241999.htm : Does your home have bad karma, unbalanced feng shui, ghosts? Should it be demolished? Should it be demolished anyway, just because you don't like it? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ CIRCLE SUPPERS. As liberals and radicals, we are trained from day one of our freshman year of college that religion, particularly Christianity, is the most destructive force the world has ever known. It is evil incarnate, inspiring evil deeds the world over. http://www.wench.com/features/circle/ : Is religion evil, good, ambiguous, unknowable? Were you trained to regard religion in any light? Can you be reprogrammed? Do you inspire evil deeds?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mayor Rudy's Rant: No Dead Pigs in My Museum! (TIME) A controversial new exhibit once again raises the issue of govt control over publicly funded art. http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/0,2960,31426-101990923,00.html http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/story/21930.html : Do you know art when you see it? Do voices in your head tell you? Do you use dead pigs in your art? Do voices in your head tell you? Are you a dead pig? Do you exercise govt control over art? Does your art control a govt? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Corporate media 99% wrong about Columbine, as it turns out: Sensational comments attributed to the killers - many from single, hysterical students fleeing the building early in the siege - were broadcast on national TV even as events unfolded, and soon took on the authority of fact. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/09/23/columbine/print.html : Do you distort the news? Intentionally/otherwise? Are truth/reality quite irrelevant to the biz of selling audiences to advertisers? How are profits? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ TimeLinks: @ Waco - As Janet Reno reopens an inquiry into the raid, we look back at the events of 1993. http://pathfinder.com/time/daily/newsfiles/waco @ Guns and Violence - The story of America and the gun: http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/daily/special/denvershooting/ @ Campaign 2000 - A guide to the first national political race of the new millennium: http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/special/election/ @ The Genetics Revolution - From cloning to designer babies and plants, the story of the new science set to profoundly change our lives: http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/special/genetics/ @ The Papacy - The state of the Catholic Church and its Pope at
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990910a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 glorious martyrs were resurrected during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FRANCE MAY BAN SCIENTOLOGY. France is considering banning the Church of Scientology, which it regards as a sect rather than a religion. The Justice Minister, Elisabeth Guigou, made it clear that the future of the organisation in France was under close scrutiny. Her remarks came as US officials expressed concern over the growing intolerance shown to minority religious groups in some European countries. Scientologist bribes raise US official sensitivity: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/france.htm : How powerful is your belief system? Over what political structures do you hold sway? Do other belief systems political structures fear/despise you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NUN EXPOSES DIOCESE, DEPOSES PRIESTS BISHOP: Sister Kelly ripped the lid off the Santa Rosa Diocese, opening the local Catholic administration to national scrutiny in the face of a far-flung scandal involving allegations of embezzlement, sexual misconduct, and a role in a billion dollars worth of coverups. http://www.metroactive.com/sonoma/hellraiser-9936.html # REFORM SCHOOL - Scandals move church activists to push for radical changes in clergy. Recent headlines have trumpeted what seems like a never-ending parade of Catholic bishops, priests, and lay clergy entangled in shocking sexual misconduct cases with men, women, and children. Catholicism is "a culture of collusion." Why can't a 2,000-year-old institution with a billion faithful figure out how to clean up its act? Here's an idea: Get rid of the celibacy mandate. Or ordain women as priests. Or talk openly about sex. http://www.metroactive.com/sonoma/hellraiser2-9936.html : Is your belief system manipulative, exploitative, self-protecting? Are all belief systems and hierarchies? How much do you spend on cover-ups? Where?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ YOU EVOLVE AS LIGHT. So the light source which you are leaves in teleport- ation at the death of the body and then moves quickly seeking another body to nest in. But as you do you take with you feelings and degrees of evolu- tion. You hover and then are drawn to another female body and you enter in and nest in another fetus. That fetus is filled with chromosomes and genetics but now you have evolved as light to a higher degree and you can make a difference in this body where you could not make a difference before. http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/light.html#EVOLVE : Have you been reincarnated lately? Into what? Do you make a difference? Do you teleport often? If you're dead, how can you evolve? Do you have a body? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PRAYING LEFT: While the Religious Right has been getting all the press, progressive Christians apply the lessons of the Bible to social activism: http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/12.24.97/religiousleft-9752.html # What happens when the Age of Aquarius meets Jesus Christ Superstar? http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/07.23.98/christ-newage-9829.html : What's your favorite dominant heresy in Xianity? Has your belief system factionalized much lately? Are you a foot-soldier of the culture wars? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Neurotic urban princess converted by Burning Man (Salon) Millennial Brigadoon - The annual Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert invents a hyper-real space, a republic of drugs, nudity and spectacle. http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/1999/09/08/burningman/print.html # Goth teens want to form school-approved Wiccan Club. Put the trenchcoats back in the closet, kids; your timing isn't right. http://www.westword.com/issues/1999-09-09/news.html : What's your favorite counterculture? D'ya prefer wearing a trenchcoat, a sari, a button-down suit, a bike outfit, nothing? What're y'r fave drugs?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Art as Human Sashimi. LINZ, Austria. Once again the boundaries of art were pushed at Ars Electronica, where the Plastinator and fluorescent- dog man provoked thought and elicited stares. Are you trans-human yet? http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/21673.html : Have you been sliced'n'diced, injected with fluorescent dyes glowtubes, rewired, reprogrammed, rebuilt? What's your favorite rebuild? Are you art? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Y2K * WW3 * MARTIAL LAW * NEW WORLD ORDER CRISIS! INVISIBLE SOLDIERS NOW A REALITY. There is currently a world takeover attempt being done under the guise of the UN, NATO and many of our world leaders. It's called the New World Order. FEMA is building concentration camps on American soil as we speak. To divert the public it is called Globalism by mainstream media. The UN NATO are quickly taking over sovereignty of every
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990903a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 old paradigms were shattered during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ONLINE SHOPPERS BID MILLIONS FOR HUMAN KIDNEY. (CNN) Online shoppers who frequent the Internet auction site eBay are used to seeing a wide variety of things for sale. On a given day, anything from a grandfather clock to 40 acres of Wyoming ranch land can be found among the thousands of items up for bidding. Still, the notice of a "fully functional kidney" put up on the site last week created a stir. It also brought in bids of more than $5.7 million before the company intervened to block the sale. Trafficking in human organs is a federal felony. 'EBay has zero tolerance for illegal items': http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/03/ebay.kidney/index.html : How much would you bid on a kidney, lung, pancreas, heart, brain, eye? Do you have any extra organs for sale? Is your lab-grown replacement better?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Soon: Insects In Space? SANTA LUCIA OCOTLAN, Mexico (Reuters) Families in southern Mexico scour the fields in search of things that crawl, hop, fly and generally make for a crispy treat. Grasshoppers, ant and fly larvae, worms assorted other bugs have been a staple for thousands of years and remain an important food source for poor Mexicans. After making the leap from field to kitchen, the insects' next step could be onto the plates of astronauts. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990902/10/science-mexico-insects : What's your tastiest arthropod treat? Do you like'em with legs? How many? Would you rather eat arthropods, aliens, crops, humans, synthetics, robots? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE MOST LIKELY LOCATION OF ALIEN LIFE? SETI and others looking for extra terrestrial life should look to galaxy NGC 4555, in the constellation Coma and the Zodiacal sign Virgo. What we call alien life exists in intelligent abundance on 4555, and it is from there that the light beings who direct the fortunes or future of earthlings originate. You who are reading this also originated from 4555. These are not aliens at all, but neighbors who share with us this magnificent universe. Indeed they are far advanced, having discovered their light bulb 25,000 years ago, while we discovered ours only 100 years ago. http://hiddenmeanings.com/strange.html#LIKELY : Are you from NGC 4555? Is it overcrowded there? Are you here for our own good? Do you have tax-exempt status? Do you make crop circles? Is that fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Early Mammals Lived Alongside Dinosaurs. LONDON(Reuters) Tiny teeth from a prehistoric animal found in a jawbone in Madagascar are proof that mammals and dinosaurs roamed the Earth together more than 100 million years ago. Until now scientists suspected mammals arose after dinosaurs went extinct. But the new finding shows that mammals lived much earlier than previously thought. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990902/03/science-science-teeth # Hominid fossils found in Eritrea. TORONTO (UPI) Paleontologists have found well-preserved hominid fossils along with stone tools estimated to be more than 1 million years old in Eritrea. The team also found well-preserved fossils of elephants, hippos, horses and crocodiles from the same period, showing that Eritrea was a much wetter place in the middle Pleistocene era than now. http://news.excite.com/news/u/990901/22/tech-science-hominids : How far can you trace your ancestry on Earth? Are you from elsewhere? How did you get here? Have you consorted with dinosaurs? Do they stink? Do you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Calif. minister sentenced for fraud. NEW YORK (AP) A California clergyman who used scripture on the goodness of profit to take followers for $1.4 million in a pyramid scheme was sentenced to nearly four years in prison. Charles Groeschel, who ran the Association of Individual Ministries under the name Pastor Chuck, pleaded guilty to mail and wire fraud. The flake ran pyramid scheme based in Palm Desert, Calif. in which he told followers they could make millions of dollars in a year. Bend over, Pastor Chuck - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560985940-db1 : Who/what's your favorite religious fraud? Are all religions fraudulent? Do you defraud suckers, er believers only for the holiest reasons? Is you rich? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ WHO WAS "REVEREND" PRANAITIS AND WHAT DID HE DO? The Rev. I.B. Pranaitis was a turn-of-the-century Russian anti-Semite, "Master of Theology and Professor of the Hebrew Language at the Imperial Ecclesiastical Academy of the Roman Catholic Church" in St.Petersburg,Russia. He also had a criminal record. In 1892, with the support of his Archbishop, he published an anti- Semitic
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990827a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 crop circle makers were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Video Games Train Kids To Kill Says Military Expert. HAMILTON -- A U.S. psychologist who spent 25 years teaching soldiers how to kill says violent video games are turning a whole generation of young people into killers. In a chilling warning to Canada's police chiefs, retired Lt. Col. Dave Grossman said the games have the same desensitizing effect as military killing simulators, which ingrain soldiers with a homicidal reflex. Then he squashed a wombat. http://www.sightings.com/politics4/vid.htm : Have you been trained to kill? Did your training involve videogames, mind- control rays, animal mutilation, bayonets, lasers, napalm? Is it fun? How?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ On 26.Aug.99 in alt.paranormal.crop-circles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i may have an answere,but need more info/crop phenomenon. go back into the archives of the first photograhpic images recorded of the formations, and assemble them all from all over the world in chronological order to present making sure to use only the dated images that are consid- ered unexplained. now assemble them in such a way that all of them may be seen at a glance. now carefully redraw them exactly in a row by the time they appeared. now study the mathematical formulas in their goemetrical patterns. you should find nearly the same if not the exact same re-occur- ing mathematical patterns. i feel that these formations may be some sort of script. maybe an alphebet, possibly whole trains of thought. chu-chu: http://x23.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=517556116CONTEXT=935766320.1834090523 : Do you embed trains of thought in y'r crop circles? Do you only embed y'r thought-trains in crop circles that will be considered unexplained? Why??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Religious in Turkey believe quake is divine warning. (AP) The quake hit the heartland of secular Turkey, but has stoked religious fervor among some Turks looking for reason behind the random devastation. A radical Islamic group, Hezbollah, smashed windows and bottles at a state-owned liquor store in Istanbul, blaming booze peddlers for bringing damnation. http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_08_25item=#935626099 # Hizbullah moving to Europe? Hizbullah is thought to be shifting its base from Lebanon to Europe and has stepped up the recruitment of Europeans to help carry out its operations. Senior sources in Israeli military intel- ligence claim the group is changing its location in anticipation of a possible peace deal between Israel and Syria. Peace is intolerable: http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_08_26item=#935722460 : Do your deities smite the Earth and its inhabitants due to human weakness? Do you wage war for your deity(s)? Do voices in your head insist? What's y'r favorite non/random devastation? Who would you like to devastate? When? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Jolly Lama' spreads message. (U-WIRE) STILLWATER, Okla. "Do you love sinners, Preacher Bob yes or no?" "I love them with a perfect hatred." "What do you think about the guy preaching earlier, Bob?" "I hate his message." "Why?" "He was wearing an earring that already makes him suspicious." http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990826/odd-216 : Do you love sinners? Do sinners love you? Are you a sinner? Are you love- able? Who do you hate? Why do you hate? Are you hated? For good reasons??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Palestinian officials deny Holocaust. The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) urged Sec. of State Madeleine Albright, meeting with PA official Abu Mazen, to pressure him to publicly retract his claim that the Nazis didn't murder six million Jews. Abu Mazen (nee Mahmoud Abbas) wrote a book, "The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and the Zionist Move- ment," which argues that the Nazis really killed less than a million Jews and that "the Zionist movement was a partner in the slaughter of the Jews." http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_08_26item=#935688175 : Who's your favorite Holocaust denier? Are you a Holocaust denier? What's y'r favorite disinformation campaign? Do you promulgate disinformation? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Home-Made Sauna Kills Monk, Followers. BANGKOK (Reuters) An 88-year-old Buddhist monk three elderly women died and five people were hospitalized in northern Thailand after they spent hours in a home-made herbal sauna, police said. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990827/10/odd-thailand-sauna : Do you prefer your monks/priests/pastors broiled, boiled, fried, baked, or BBQ'd? Are they best with an herbal sauce, peppercorns, jalapenos, or Dijon? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: #
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990820a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 cultural watchdogs were alarmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pig transplants 'safe for humans'. (BBC) Research led by UK scientists suggests that pig organs are safe to use in human transplants. Hard on pigs: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_424000/424956.stm @ Links: Compassion in World Farming: http://www.ciwf.co.uk/clear_message_to_meps_on_animal.htm @ Novartis Pharma AG/Immutran Ltd: http://www.transplantsquare.com/ @ UK Xenotransplantation Authority: http://www.doh.gov.uk/ukxira.htm : Does your belief system reject transplantation from pigs or other animals? Would your rather die? Would you be missed? Do you deserve to go extinct?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The Masons Stole My House. An astonishing tale of one woman's battle against corruption in Greenwich council involving a struck-off solicitor convicted for fraud points directly to a conspiracy amongst prominent freemasons to wrongfully repossess properties and throw the rightful owners onto the streets. http://www.scandals.org/articles/swg2511a.html @ Cross-Reference: US Presidents Who Were Or Are Freemasons: http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/daniken/443/uspresidentasmasons.htm : Has a conspiracy amongst prominent freemasons left you homeless yet? Are they in cahoots with Reptilioids? Should freemasons be presumed guilty??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # XMas computer virus found. NEW YORK (AP) A computer virus timed to strike Windows PCs Christmas Day has yet to pose a significant threat because of its low prevalence, but anti-virus software makers are gearing up to help computer users combat it. The new virus, named W32/Kriz.3862, is designed to muck over Windows 95/98/NT machines. Only 2 cases of the virus have been seen: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560781882-10f # US Navy predicts widespread Y2K failure. WASHINGTON (AP) - A Navy report predicts probable or likely failures in electrical and water systems for many cities because of the Year 2000 technology problem - an assessment more dire than any other made by the government. Who ya gonna trust, eh? See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560783567-819 : Will your next computer disaster be caused by design, by fate, by random factors, by gov't agents, by aliens, by me? Why not turn the system off now? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Stunning New NSA Mind Control And Psyops Information Revealed. "Subliminal Implanted Posthypnotic Suggestions Scripts Using Acoustically Delivered and Phonetically Accelerated Posthypnotic Commands without Somnambulistic Preparation in the Subject for Intelligence and Counterintelligence Applications by the United States National Security Agency." Whew. http://www.sonic.net/~west/nsamindcontrol.htm : Has your mind been controlled lately? Is it still controlled? What have you done lately? Is that strange? Do you know why you did it? Was it fun?? # The Spectrum of Dissociative Disorders: An Overview of Diagnosis and Treatment: http://www.voiceofwomen.com/centerarticle.html # A teenage hairdressing student died after eating large amounts of her own hair: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_425000/425609.stm : Have voices in your head told you to eat your own hair? Did mind-control experiments cause your dissociative disorders? Are you one of the successes? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Feds want to crack computer codes. WASHINGTON (AP) The White House plans to ask Congress to give police the authority to secretly go into people's personal computers and crack their security codes. New laws would let cops get a sealed warrant from a judge to enter private property, search thru computers for passwords and override encryption programs. Why? Encryption software for scrambling computer files "is increasingly used as a means to facilitate criminal activity, such as drug trafficking, terrorism, white- collar crime and the distribution of child pornography." And tax evasion. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560786264-8d0 : Can you write uncrackable security codes? Is perfect crypto possible? Are gov't attempts to rape your privacy doomed to fail? Will they try anyway?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Researchers Work On New Propulsion (update) http://news.excite.com/news/r/990819/15/science-corrected # Bicycles Waste Little Energy, Study Shows: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990819/19/science-science-bikes http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990819180058.htm # CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90 - Haines Report: http://www.odci.gov/csi/studies/97unclas/ufo.html # CIA Said To Rue Its Longterm UFO Cover-Up: http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/rue.htm
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990813a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 supercolliders were damaged during the production of this bulletin. LISTOWNER NOTE: Today is 13 August 1999. Reportedly, the Aztec calendar ends today - there's no tomorrow. Some construe this as a prediction of The End Of The World. Others say that the Aztecs plagiarizing the Mayan calendar were too lazy to write down the next cycle. Whatever. If this is The Last Day, I just want to say that it's been fun. Cya --Ric _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Are you a friggatriskaidekaphobe? (CNN) Margaret Downey wants you to limbo under a ladder, waltz with anyone costumed in a black-cat outfit and break as many mirrors as you can. And she says the more superstitious you are, the better - it is, after all, the last Friday the 13th of the millennium. "Friday the 13th is complete bunk, it's nonsense," said Downey, organizer of the Anti-Superstition Carnival in Philadelphia. Those attending will be poking fun at superstitions -- and having fun in the process. http://cnn.com/US/9908/12/Fridaythe13th.ap/index.html : What's your favorite superstition? Do you avoid gatherings of 13 aliens? Do you prefer your black cats curried, BBQ'd or southern-fried? To knock on wood, do you tap your own head? Do mirrors spontaneously break around you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Life on Earth traced earlier. (AP) - Scientists studying Australian rocks have found evidence that primitive forms of life existed 2.7 billion years ago - a billion years earlier than had been previously shown. The finding pinpoints signs of life to the Archean era, the period from the beginning of Earth to about 2.5 billion years ago. That's even older than Bob Dole. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560683347-b73 : Is this evidence real, or was it planted by deities/aliens/agents to trick humans to accept evolution? Where/when would you like life to have begun??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Don't mention the gnaw. (BBC) A man bitten on the calf by a mystery woman while dancing on a table at the Munich beer festival developed the flesh eating bug, necrotising fasciitis. Calf-biting is regularly practiced at the festival as is known by the German name of Wad'lbeisser. Love at 1st bite: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_418000/418803.stm # Laptops mit Lager - The Open Source Beer Hike. Geeks from around the world gather in Bavaria to hike the hills, sip the beer, and talk about Linux. Not necessarily in that order. Watch out for flesh-eating bacteria, calf- biting gals: http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/21249.html Who's behind the plot to wipe out mankind, or at least the smartest program- ming geeks, by getting them beer-drunk and infecting them? Is this another fiendish plan from Bill Gates? Will he stop at NOTHING to stomp Linux? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China accuses Falun Gong leader. BEIJING (AP) China's state media boosted attacks on the founder of a banned meditation group, accusing him of plan- ning and directing a big protest outside the Chinese leadership's Beijing HQ. Hinting that the gov't may put other group leaders on trial, state-run TV also singled out several Falun Gong organizers for their involvement in the silent, daylong protest by more than 10,000 followers seeking legal recognition. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560682567-d7e : When will Communism fall to meditation? Can the Chinese gov't thwart the irresistible force of Falun Gong? How many folks will be executed, tortured? # The Net: Enemy of the State? You can't surf the Net in Tajikistan. A French media group declares that nation, and 19 others, to be enemies of the Internet. http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21240.html : When will authoritarianism fall to Internetting? Can dictatorships thwart the irresistible force of the Web? How many netizens will be persecuted?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Eichmann papers found in Germany. BERLIN (AP) - Adolf Eichmann's apparent first attempt at a prison memoir has been found in files brought to Germ- any decades ago after the Nazi war criminal's trial in Israel. A German Nazi hunter came across the 127 handwritten pages two days ago. The pages titled "My Memoirs" were located in prosecution files brought to Germany after the Holocaust mastermind's 1962 execution. He only followed orders: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560683321-cb1 http://www.bostonherald.com/bostonherald/nat/memoir081299.htm : Does your belief system promote genocide? Do you compose excuses for your place in the system? Are you just a cog in the machine? Who do you grind?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Belgium McDonalds burnt to ground. ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) A McDonald's fast food
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# High level of trauma among Aborigines. (BBC) Aborigines in Australia
suffer levels of trauma usually found only among people who are system-
atically tortured, subjected to genocide or sent to concentration camps.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_412000/412055.stm
: Have you inflicted genocide on anyone lately? Do you monitor your victims'
stress/trauma levels? Have you been systematically tortured by humans, ETs,
robots, me? Are you stressed? Is it a coincidence that stress/trauma levels
are similar in US Indian reservations and inner-city ghettos, Oz aboriginal
communities, Moscow and other former Soviet cities, and concentration camps?
# Hindu group takes on Mother Teresa. NEW DELHI, India (AP) The vice presi-
dent of a radical Hindu group said the Vatican was acting with undue haste
to canonize Mother Teresa. Giriraj Kishore, of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad,
or World Hindu Council, said the Vatican's intention in rushing the canon-
ization was to encourage Christian missionary activity in India. The Hindu
Council campaigns against missionaries, saying they force poor Indians to
convert. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560584354-cff
: Is xian proselytizing a form of cultural genocide? Is forced conversion a
long xian tradition? Is religion just mind-control? Is {JHWH} an ET alien?
Are Hindus justified in violently resisting cultural genocide? Should xian
missionaries be tried for crimes against humanity? Is Hinduism equally bad?
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# Germany urges calm in Ebola scare. (BBC) The German authorities are
urging the public not to panic, after a man was admitted to hospital
with a suspected case of the tropical virus Ebola. He later dissolved.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_412000/412718.stm
# Second man in quarantine from Ebola scare in Berlin. (TheTimes) A second
man was in German quarantine after a friend who accompanied him to West
Africa was hospitalized in an isolation ward with a mystery illness medics
fear may be caused by the deadly Ebola virus. Tribal shamans have been
called in. http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_08_5item=#933882850
# Germans quarantined in Ebola scare. (AP) Rent-a-Cops with dogs patrolled
outside a Berlin hospital as doctors inside - outfitted in astronaut-like
protective clothing - tested if a man quarantined there has the deadly
Ebola virus. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560589485-c04
: Are you panicked over Ebola? Should you be? Are you part of a conspiracy
to spread Ebola worldwide? Do you want humanity to dissolve into slime? Why?
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# OUTDOOR GEEKS MAY VANISH SOON. (Wired) Weekend warriors take to the
oceans, forests, rivers, and skies this month, and they'll get back
home with the help of GPS. Unless the gear crashes. They're doomed.
http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/technology/story/21098.html
: Do you depend on GPS? Will you die when the satellites are reprogrammed?
# A NUTS-AND-BOLTS HOUSEKEEPER. To hell with your Hoover. A new domestic
robot will vacuum your floor and carry the dishes for you. But your new
housemate is far from having a personality. When will it call you Massa?
http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/technology/story/21060.html
: Do you want robot slaves? Do you have some already? Are they satisfying?
# CHAOS IN BERLIN. The Chaos Computer Club's Communication Camp moves from
Amsterdam to Berlin this year, where swimming and real lock-picking are
part of the annual hacker holiday. Even virus-writers need a break, eh?
http://www.wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/culture/story/21104.html
: Do you need a holiday from hacking? Do you promote chaos? Is the pay good?
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# Plant evolution theories challenged. ST. LOUIS (AP) - The plant and animal
kingdoms actually represent five distinct groups, according to scientists
who announced discoveries that fundamentally alter long-standing theories
about the evolution of plants. Researchers showed that green plants, red
plants and brown plants (mostly algae and seaweeds), evolved from three
different one-celled plants, and so deserve to be considered individual
kingdoms. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560581471-23d
: Are you animal, vegetable (I,II,III,IV), mineral, alien, robotic, divine,
or some combination of the above? Are hybrids more vigorous? Will aggressive
gene-splicing eliminate these artificial distinctions between 'kingdoms'??
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# CLOUDS MAY PUT FRENCH ECLIPSE IN THE SHADE. Long-range weather forecasts
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990716a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Hey, SkeptiChat subscribers: let's see some responses, some discussion!! : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No microrobots were sexually abused during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Nostradamus 1999 and the 'King Of Terror' Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 1. What does the famous '1999' prophecy say? 2. What interpretations have been put forward? 3. Does one interpretation involve a asteroid impact? 4. When would the asteroid first be visible? 5. Do any quatrains describe the comet's approach? 6. How big is the asteroid? 7. Which quatrains des- cribe the impact and immediate consequences? 8. Where would the asteroid strike? 9. What would be the physical effects of the asteroid impact? 10. Does Nostradamus give any other clues about the eclipse and the asteroid? 11. Do any other prophetic sources support the idea of an asteroid impact? 12. Wouldn't astronomers have seen the comet by now? 13. Does scientific research support the idea of an asteroid impact? 14. Where can I find out more information? 15. Is this fun? http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/quat.htm : Are you ready for planetary devastation? Do you have an escape pod? Where will you take refuge? Can I come too? Do you have enough food, water, drugs? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Japanese invent world's tiniest robot. (CNN) It's people versus robots in the latest "Star Wars" movie as Jedi knights battle the mechanized minions of the galaxy's Dark Side. But in Japan, robots aren't the enemy. They are the good guys. They are also getting smaller, a lot smaller. Scientists in Tokyo have invented what may be the world's tiniest robot, measuring just 10 millimeters long and weighing less than half a gram. Researchers hope to use the micro-robots to repair equipment in nuclear and thermal plants. Cute, too: http://cnn.com/TECH/ptech/9907/13/japan.microrobot/index.html : Do you want little itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny robots crawling around your per- sonal space, 'fixing' stuff, cleaning up your debris, moving stuff around so you can't find it any more, 'improving' you, messing with your gerbils? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Moon walk anniversary celebrations lift off. 30th anniversary celebrations begin on Friday of the "giant leap for mankind" - the first Moon landing. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_396000/396128.stm @ Links: Nasa: http://www.nasa.gov/ @ Apollo 11: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo11/ # Also: Robot space plane arrives: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_332000/332714.stm # Space Tourism ready for take-off: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_324000/324846.stm : Are you celebrating/mourning/ignoring the first Moonwalk? How are Reptoids reacting? Have you Moonwalked yet? Which moon do you prefer to walk on? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Rights abuses in Sudan cited. WASHINGTON (AP) Defending the appointment of a special human rights envoy for Sudan, a top State Dept official called that country "perhaps the world's worst" rights abuser. US Asst.Sec.State Susan Rice said slavery and religious persecution are widespread in Sudan, and she also cited the horrible consequences of its long running civil war on the civilian population. Military Muslims vs. Christian and animist bushfolk - see http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560305386-6c1 : Does your belief system support enslaving and killing your competition? Do you like slaving? Do you enslave for fun, profit, tradition, duty, strategy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Crusades apology comes 900 years late. JERUSALEM (AP) To most the Crusades are ancient history. Not to Prince Albrecht zu Castell-Castell, descendant of Christian knights who nearly a millennium ago conquered Jerusalem and massacred Muslims Jews in God's name. The old German aristo finally got a chance to apologize to descendants of Muslim warrior Saladin for his an- cestor's crimes, which burdened his conscience for years. Castell-Castell was one of dozens of Western Christians who sang apologies to Israel's chief rabbi, top Muslim clerics, anyone in the streets of Jerusalem who'd listen on the 900th anniversary of the Crusader conquest of Jerusalem, 15 July 1099. Muslim apologies for taking the Balkans haven't been scheduled yet: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560302047-2f4 : Should you apologize for your distant ancestors' mis/deeds? Do centuries- late apologies heal old wounds? Do you resent what some bastards did to your (10x-grand-father)? D'ya wanna kill their descendants? Is blood for blood the only justice? Do you glory in your ancestors' crimes? D'ya really care? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # White House plays down China bomb report,
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990709a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 vivacious nymphomaniacs were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Jellyfish Gum Up Works At Nuclear Plant. TOKYO (Reuters) A nuclear plant in Japan has been forced to slash its power generation after a swarm of jellyfish blocked off its pipes. Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc (TEPCO) cut power generation at its nuclear plant in central Japan after the inverte- brates clustered around an opening which takes in seawater to be used as coolant. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990708/07/odd-life-jellyfish : If the US Navy uses dolphins for military purposes, can/should/will anti- nuke campaigners recruit sealife to attack atomic facilities? What animals do you regularly exploit for your doctrinaire purposes? Have animal-rights activists found you out yet? Do you use mind-control on animals, activists? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Researchers' 'robo-fly' demystifies insect flight. (U-WIRE) BERKELEY, Ca. The mid-air stunts acrobatics of the flying insect that have for decades baffled scientists are now close to being entirely explained - even repli- cated - thanks to a unique device built and designed by UC Berkeley res- earchers, who began discovering the intricacies of flying after making a robotic replica of a flying insect, a device called "robo-fly." "We uncov- ered how insects are able to fly." 3 mechanisms governing insect flight: "Delayed Stall," "Rotational Circulation" and "Wake Capture." Buzz on over to: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990706/odd-67 : Will new human transport devices be based on insect flight? Is the Roswell flying-saucer reverse-engineering system obsolete? Would you rather fly by airplane, flying saucer, helicopter, robo-fly, ornithopter, balloon, angel? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NASA unveils plans for comet. LOS ANGELES (AP) - A spacecraft named Deep Impact will fire a 1,100-pound copper bullet at the nucleus of a comet, blasting out a crater the size of a football field and as deep as a seven- story building. The radical US$240 mln NASA mission may sound more like fiction than science, but its primary purpose will be to study the makeup of comets. It's a coincidence that the project has the same name as last summer's disaster movie "Deep Impact," which was about a comet smacking Earth. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560230671-8b6 # Also - Mission called Messenger will go to the neglected planet Mercury: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_389000/389076.stm @ Links: MESSENGER: http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/MESSENGER @ Mercury: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/mercury.html @ NASA Comet observations: http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/ : Would you rather blast a comet or a planet? Is it moral to blast comets? Will the comet gods blast Earth in revenge? Will the Zetans let us do this? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NASA clears telescope for launch. CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) The largest and most powerful X-ray telescope ever to be launched will leave aboard the space shuttle Columbia July 20, the anniversary of man's first moon landing. The 5-day shuttle mission will be led by Eileen Collins, NASA's first female commander. In development since the 1970s, the Chandra X-ray Observatory will look for faint sources of cosmic X-rays, such as quasars, exploded stars and possibly black holes. And Chandra's military twin can read your mail. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560228654-a7c : Can/should/will/do we use alien technologies to build ever-better observa- tion devices? Will the Reptilioids allow us to get away with this? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mystery of solar wind solved. WASHINGTON (AP) Particles streaming out from the sun catch a magnetic wave and surf across the solar system at almost two million miles an hour, twice the predicted speed, according to new satellite data. The high speed flow from the sun, called the solar wind, has been a mystery to scientists for decades because they expected the particles to poke along at a mere 1 mln MPH. New measurements by 2 science sats have solved the puzzle by showing that the solar wind's speed is boosted by magnetic waves that spiral out from the sun. Riding mag.surf - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560227595-58e @ Images to support this story: FTP://PAO.GSFC.NASA.GOV/newsmedia/SWIND : Do UFOs surf the magnetic waves? Does this support the old contention that UFOs are magnetic craft? Can we build such magnetic craft? Have we already? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Controversy over sun health claim. (BBC) Experts have panned a study which says the health advantages of exposure to the sun outweigh the risk of skin cancer.
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990702a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 perceptions were falsely enhanced during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # "Praise the Lord, Pass the Ammo." If there is any apparent correlation between the prevalence of Christian devotion and law-abiding conduct, it's the opposite of the one claimed by Republicans: Religion and violence seem to go hand in hand. That doesn't mean faith actually causes murder. But it does suggest that when Republicans contemplate the Ten Commandments, they should pay more attention to the ninth, which prohibits false witness. Kill for Krist: http://www.slate.com/Features/godmurder/godmurder.asp : Does adherence to your belief system correlate with violence? Do you want to kill me for bringing this up? What do the voices in your head say to do? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # US Magician Planning To Make Egypt's Sphinx Disappear. CAIRO (AFP) Egypt's Sphinx, which has stood guard by the Pyramids for 4600 years, is scheduled to disappear on Saturday - thanks to the skill of US illusionist Franz Harary. "I'm definitely going to try and make this Sphinx disappear," Harary said. But he has decided against making the Pyramids disappear too, saying that as they are silhouetted against the sky people would think he had merely turned the lights off. http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/magic.htm : What architectural/cultural/historical landmarks would you like to abscond with? Where will you put them? Would ETs be pissed if the Pyramids vanished? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # La Nina Seems to Be Vanishing! The weather-altering La Nina phenomenon has all but vanished from the Pacific Ocean, satellite observations show. The pool of unusually cool tropical water with low sea levels has shriveled and the equatorial Pacific is warming to normal temperatures. Scientists cautioned that like its warm counterpart, El Nino, a La Nina condition will mar global climate and weather until it has completely subsided. search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990630/V000805-063099-idx.html : Is the 'vanishing' of La Nina an illusionist's trick? Is it easier to hide a sphinx or La Nina? Where can you hide La Nina? What else is stashed there? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pope Announces Desire to Make Holy Land Pilgrimage in 2000! Pope John Paul II announced his intention to visit holy sites in Israel, Iraq, and Egypt. He stated that he wants to pray at the holy places, and that he plans to make a personal pilgrimage in the year 2000. There is no doubt that the pope's announcement will add energy and motivation for groups of pilgrims to visit Israel. http://www.israelwire.com/New/990701/9907016.html and http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_06_30item=#930764402 : Will hoards of pilgrims of incompatible sects overrun Israel and provoke a holy war? Will anti-Papal terrorists nuke Iraq during the Pope's visit? Is a Papal 2000 trip the trigger for Armageddon? Are you going, watching, hiding? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Top 10 Things Overheard at Last Week's PC Expo. PC Expo blew in and out of New York last week, leaving a batch of charged ions and confused locals in its wake: http://www.cnet.com/Digdispatch/dispatch459.html What, after all, should we make of Logitech's new force-feedback mouse? Or the ceramic Ladybird, which absorbs electromagnetic fields and thus reduces the harmful radiation emitted from electronic devices? (Or so claims the manufacturer...) In any event, only memories remain, along with ten choice phrases overheard on the show floor: 1. "How's function 6 different from function 837?" 2. "I don't need your GPS device to tell me I'm in the food court." 3. "This'll all be gone in 250, 300 years." 4. "That thing you're holding just vaporized my dog." 5. "One Palm VII, two Zip drives, one StarTAC, one ThinkPad, two Rios, and one mini flashlight. And on this side of my body I've got..." 6. "Some guy over at Philips has a record daisy-chain going." 7. "Isn't that guy in Devo?" 8. "So after I hacked into the school computer, I thought, Why not the Pentagon?" 9. "Smells like stock options." 10. "I'm worth $90 billion." - Original Message - From: huste [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Aliens have landed...Well, Angus has. Yep, Angus the Alien has landed and wants to be adopted by you. If you are looking for something to resell, Angus is it!!! He is the next SEX Symbol of Earth. He is more popular than those Beanies. He has brought good luck to millions of folks already. If you are ready for the most profitable resell item of 1999, just send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: * Earth Alert: http://www.discovery.com/news/earthalert/earthalert.html @ Project Greenglow - Antigravity:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990625a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 clerical underlings went postal during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Global disasters, disease escalate. KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Epidemics and natural disasters are on the rise around the world, especially in underde- veloped countries where expanding urban slums pose health hazards. Global warming, deforestation, poverty and urban crowding in the developing world are escalating the spread of contagious and deadly diseases and have left populations vulnerable to natural disaster. An increasing number of people are being affected by poverty, mass population movements, increasing bact- erial resistance to antibiotics and emergence of new diseases like AIDS. Scientists link global warming and other climate changes to altering dis- ease patterns, including the emergence of diseases in places they hadn't been before: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560059291-664 : What's your favorite disaster? Do disasters/plagues signify The End Of The World; the need to go interplanetary soon; the need for population control? Are disasters caused by humans, gods, demons, reality, aliens, robots, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ My Favorite Lobe. End-of-millennium science has given us a startling new vision of the brain's topography. Eight of the world's leading experts describe fascinating areas: http://www.feedmag.com/brain/favlobe.html @ One Pill Makes You Smarter. Are memory drugs the next over-the-counter revolution? http://www.feedmag.com/brain/shenk.html?alert @ Next: cosmetic psychopharmacology: http://feedmag.com/brain/kramer.html @ FreeWill, Alzheimers ultra-Darwinism: http://feedmag.com/brain/rose.html @ Brain Candy: http://www.feedmag.com/brain/links.html?alert : What's your favourite part of your brain? Do you treat it well, abuse it, ignore it? Do you want your brain to work better? Do alien implants help??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ancient temple factory discovered. JERUSALEM (AP) 2000 years ago, masons working in an underground factory - a cluster of caverns beneath Jerusalem - carved stone mugs, dishes wine jugs for priests serving in the nearby Jewish Temple. Last week, a bulldozer clearing a road near the walled Old City of Jerusalem fell into a hole, unearthing the ancient masonry pro- viding physical proof of ritual purity laws described in the Bible. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560058385-7b9 : Does your belief system have physical proof of the existence of its doct- rines? Do you need proof? Do you need doctrines? Do you need ritual objects? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # RETHINKING TECH EXPORTS. A former Cold Warrior says it's pointless for the US to restrict techno exports. The money would be better spent on spying. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/20396.html # CRYPTO BOUND FOR MUSEUM BINS. Technology marches on. The US government's former gold-standard cipher is now fit only for museums, sez a new report: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20385.html # CELL-PHONE CALLS STREAMED ON NET. Basement webcasters are using an AOL- owned streaming service to pipe private cellular phone conversations out onto the Net. AOL is digging into the issue. We can hear your every word: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20405.html : Can any agency or technology assure or pierce your privacy? Should we just assume that everything we say/do/send can/will be intercepted? Do you spy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Mean Spirit. As the idea of apocalypse looms, the evangelical attitude toward non-believers has changed drastically over the years. "While pred- icting the apocalypse may be a constant, the way evangelicals think about it has undergone massive overhaul. The progression|regression is the move from rural towns to the halls of power. It's the expansion of the evangel- ical sphere of concern from the very local (my friends, my church) to the national and global (my president, my world policy). It's a move from a complex view of the individual to an oversimplification that identifies everyone as good-believer OR bad-heathen. It's also a change in sentiment towards the unbeliever from sadness, caring, and invitation to triumph, judgement, and dismissal. It's a chilling mutation, and has entrenched evangelical Christianity in an antagonism to secular America that borders, at times, on cruelty." http://www.feedmag.com/deepread/dr200_master.html : What realms of humanity do your belief system encompass? Do you embrace binary or complex logics? Do you demonize those you can't absorb? Who sets the agendae in your belief system? Why do you go along with them? When you encounter
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990611a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 cancerous tissues were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BRAIN MAY BE DAMAGED BY BODY'S DEFENSE AGAINST CANCER. Testicular cancer can lead to seizures, memory loss and dementia long before the cancer is detected, shows yet another study linking brain damage to an immune system attack on cancer. Rare brain disorders can provide clues to immunoresponse: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/cancer/9906/10/cancer.brain.attack.ap/index.html : Would you rather be cancerous or demented? Should your health be monitored by humans, aliens, gods, demons, machines? Do you remember being implanted? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # OUTRAGE OVER SEX ABUSE STUDY FORCES RETREAT. The American Psychological Association will weigh the potential consequences of publishing research after criticism of a study that concluded the long-term effects of child sexual abuse are not as serious as many believe. Consider implications before publishing: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9906/10/sex.abuse.study.ap/ : Would you rather be abused by children, adults, aliens, deities, machines, the gov't, animals, random patterns? What research would you like to censor? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Gene map may be completed by 2002. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A federal project to completely map the human genetic pattern could be complete by 2002, a year earlier than last predicted. Researchers around the world trying to catalog all 60,000 to 90,000 genes in human DNA are making fast progress that could speed completion. www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559878671-8bb : Do you have correctable genetic problems? Do you want your genes altered anyway? Without a gene map, do you get lost in sex? Is your gene map torn? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** New e-mail computer virus reported. NEW YORK (AP) A new computer virus swept across the Internet, spread by e-mail like the recent Melissa virus, but causing more damage by ruining computer files. Anti-virus teams were trying to determine the severity of the outbreak of "Worm.Explore.Zip," a virus that arrives by e-mail with an attached file that can infect a system. It isn't clear how many computers or networks had been stricken so far. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559881326-aff : Have you been attacked by a virus or worm lately? Have you created a virus or worm lately? Are you infectious? Shall you be quarantined? Are you rabid? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ROCKET SUCCESS ENDS STRING OF U.S. LAUNCH FAILURES. A Boeing Co. Delta II rocket carried four satellites for the Globalstar worldwide phone network into orbit Thursday, providing a much-needed boost for a U.S. commercial space industry reeling from a string of costly failures. Back in the saddle again: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9906/10/delta.launch/index.html : Why has US space industry been allowed to proceed? Who interfered with it? Have you ever sabotaged a space launch? Was it much fun? Were you well paid? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Bin Laden calls for holy war on U.S. DUBAI, UAE (AP) Millions of Arabs saw Osama bin Laden for the first time Thursday as he called for a holy war on his No. 1 enemy - the United States. In a 90-minute program aired by Qatar-based al-Jazeera satellite channel, bin Laden expressed his admiration for the people who bombed American forces in Saudi Arabia in 1995 and 1996 and said that all Americans are targets. "They violate our land and occupy it and steal the Muslims' possessions, and when faced by resistance they call it terrorism," bin Laden said in an interview with the Arab world's most popular TV channel, watched by millions in the MidEast, North Africa and Europe. See www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559879080-496 # Pope stresses devotion to church. SIEDLCE, Poland (AP) - Pope John Paul II stressed loyalty to the church and cautioned young people not to fall victim to "travesties of religion, or to manipulations of the truth." At a Mass at-tended by thousands of Roman Catholics and Eastern rite Catholics from Bela-rus, Ukraine and Russia, the pontiff urged people to follow the example of 13 martyrs slain in Pratulin in 1874 for resisting conversion to Orthodox Xianity. "These simple people, fathers of families, chose at the critical moment to suffer death rather than yield to pressure in a way untrue to their conscience," John Paul said. "'How sweet it is to die for the faith.' These were their last words." See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559874151-cf3 : Would you rather die for your faith, or kill for it? Would you rather that some other poor sucker should die for THEIR faith? If enough people die for their faiths, will the rest of us finally get some peace and quiet? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # POPE
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990521a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 alien implants were monitored during the production of this bulletin. ** SKEPTINEWS CONTRIBUTORS/EDITORS WANTED NOW ** KEEP THIS BULLETIN ALIVE ** _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Entrepreneur Jim Benson of Space Development Corp. is the apparent leader of the movement to strip-mine whatever celestial objects he can get his rob- otic claws into. Benson plans to make up to $70 million a year by prospect- ing ore from asteroids. "We will... 'own' that body," said Benson, who can't wait to usher in the era of "private property in space" as his firm becomes "the Standard Oil of space." Envision someone seizing the recently discover- ed lunar ice "at gunpoint." www.latimes.com/excite/990519/t44752.html : EARTH FIRST! WE'LL STRIP-MINE THE OTHER PLANETS LATER! Which astral bodies would you like to devastate? For fun or profit or both? Will humans struggle over orbital 'turf' with Reptilioids, Republicans, divinities, space fleas? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # No safety in numbers for clones. (BBC) The safety of cloning is under investigation in labs around the world with scientists concerned at the high rate of deaths and deformities in copied animals. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_348000/348978.stm # GM could 'impoverish poor farmers'. (BBC) A UK development charity says agrochemical firms should study their products' economic impact on developing countries before starting to sell them. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_348000/348947.stm : Are cloning and genetic modifications too unstable economically? Will capitalism evolve past the point where biological tampering is profitable? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cyborg Seeks Community. The originator of a remarkable wearable computing system tells of his lonely years as a Mann/machine, and his quest for a cyber-collective. http://www.techreview.com/articles/may99/mann.htm # 'Artificial muscles' made from nanotubes. (BBC) "Artificial muscles" have been made from millions of carbon nanotubes but are more likely to harness wave power than create bionic humans. Or so they say: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_348000/348915.stm # Seeing is Believing. Artificial vision is within sight as the silicon retina moves from proof-of-principle to prototype device. Another step towards Borg-dom: http://www.techreview.com/articles/may99/chase.htm : Would you rather be human, cyborg, gene-spliced, hybridized? Can/should you be improved? Would you rather be improved by Reptilioids, Republicans, deities, demons, physicians, geneticists, programmers, deprogrammers, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Japan's Friendly Robots. In Japan, a cartoon inspired a generation of engineers to make machines that look - and act - human. Friendly humanoid robots: http://www.techreview.com/articles/may99/johnstone.htm @ Links: Science University of Tokyo http://www.sut.ac.jp/ @ Omron Pet Robot Site http://www.petrobo.com/english/e-index.html @ Honda P-3 Android www.honda.co.jp/english/technology/robot/index.html @ Takanori Shibata's Page at MITI's Mechanical Engineering Lab http://www.mel.go.jp/soshiki/robot/biorobo/shibata/shibata.html @ Waseda University Humanoid Project www.shirai.info.waseda.ac.jp/humanoid/ @ Mighty Atom Site http://www.well.com/user/dragster/mightyatom.html @ Android World (many links to robot sites) http://www.androidworld.com/ @ Ragman's Robotics Links http://www.euronet.nl/users/ragman/link_64.html @ Robotics Information Page, University of Massachusetts http://www-robotics.cs.umass.edu/robotics.html @ Prof. Rodney Brooks, MIT http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/brooks/brooks.html : Do you prefer robots to be friendly or unfriendly, humanoid or inhuman, smart or dumb, happy or sad, tasty or tasteless, loud or quiet, good or bad? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiShorts # The science of Star Wars. Could the science fiction of Star Wars become the technology of tomorrow? A mathematician and astrophysicist explores explains: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/990519/2616351.html # DOES GREEN SKIN GET ACNE? Aliens on TV? Hot. High school? Hotter. Say hello to Roswell, TV's first extraterrestrial-adolescent angst hybrid. The drama, to be beamed by The WB network Wednesday nights this fall, is about ETeensomethings trying to fit in after their craft crashes in Roswell, New Mexico. Gag me with an implant: www.canoe.ca/Television/may19_new.html # Dances with Machines. Interactive artist David Rokeby explores the ambiguous borders between ourselves and our mechanical servants (or masters). http://www.techreview.com/articles/may99/zacks.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Irish Get Free Viagra, But Only Four A Month: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990520/10/odd-viagra # Chocolates Good For
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*** Shotless insulin treatments found. WASHINGTON (AP) Researchers who test-
ed more than 50,000 natural synthetic substances have found a fungus comp-
ound that acts like insulin, raising hopes that diabetics in the future may
take pills instead of shots. Scientists at Merck Research Labs isolated the
insulin-like compound from a fungus found in Congo jungles. When tested on
diabetic mice, it significantly lowered sugar in the animals' blood. The
compound is a mimic of insulin, the natural hormone that allows the body to
metabolize sugar. www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559449464-8a4
: Do you want fungal implants to tune-up your body's operation? Will other
fungi make your brain, heart, nerves work better, as well as your pancreas?
Would you be happy if all your organs were perfect? Would you be god-like?
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*** Pope's historic Romania tour. VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope John Paul II will
break through another iron curtain when he begins a 3-day trip to Romania,
the first papal visit to a state where Orthodox Christians predominate. Not
since the Great Schism of 1054, when the Eastern church split from Rome, has
a pope made such a trip. The Vatican attaches particular symbolic importance
to it. "We're talking centuries here; the overused word 'historic' certainly
applies," said a papal spokesman. The Vatican, with big things in mind, has
made considerable concessions. JP2's stay will be limited to Bucharest, the
capital, keeping him from Transylvania in the north, where most of Romania's
Catholics live. www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559450587-f8b
: Is JP2 really skipping Transylvania to avoid vampires? Are Popes vampires
themselves? Is this trip part of the Bilderberger plot to take the Balkans?
And wasn't it Rome that broke from Orthodoxy, rather than vice-versa? Huh?
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*** Governor refuses prayer day. ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) Gov. Jesse Ventura,
who once officially proclaimed Rolling Stones Day in Minnesota, refused to
sign a proclamation making Thursday a day of prayer. Ventura broke with the
practice of his predecessors, who proclaimed prayer days in conjunction
with a National Day of Prayer. "I believe in the separation of church and
state," Ventura said. "We all have our own religious beliefs. There are
people out there who are atheists, who don't believe at all. They are all
citizens of Minnesota and I have to respect that." The Minn. Family Council
criticized Ventura's decision, saying the prayer proclamation dates to 1795,
when President George Washington declared a day of public thanksgiving and
prayer. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559448931-378
: Is Gov. Ventura a brave proponent of free thought; a stooge of secular hu-
manist atheists; a victim of brain damage; confused about atheism; regular?
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*** La Nina-tornado link eyed. (AP) - Oklahoma's catastrophic tornadoes were
influenced by La Nina, a weather phenomenon 5,000 miles west of the prairie
in the Pacific Ocean. It's in the same widespread weather trend that dumped
a record 91 feet of snow on Mt.Baker in Washington this winter and triggered
severe drought wildfires in Florida. La Nina refers to a large, unusually
cold pool of water in the equatorial Pacific Ocean that develops every few
years and influences weather patterns world-wide. It works in reverse of the
more common better-known El Nino, a warming of Pacific waters. La Nina has
generated a stronger, colder jet stream in the upper atmosphere, while warm,
wet air at lower levels has been pulled from the Gulf of Mexico into the
Plains states. www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559449764-cfa
: Are La Nina, El Nino and {JHWJ} all accomplices in mass-murder and general
devastation? Will these miscreants be captured, indicted, tried, convicted?
Do they collude with Reptilioids, Bilderbergers, Republicans, Atheists, me?
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*** Beer ad in gay magazine draws response. ST. LOUIS (AP) - A Budweiser ad
showing two men holding hands in a free magazine for gays and lesbians has
drawn so much response that Anheuser-Busch Inc. set up special hotlines to
handle calls. www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559452937-c80
: Does your belief system promote positions on alcohol, sexual orientation,
marketing? Are there inconsistencies in these positions? Do you care? Why?
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SansComment:
OKLAHOMA TWISTER DEATH TOLL RISES TO 41 - residents return to scenes
of devastation - divine perpetrator still at large, considered armed
dangerous: http://cnn.com/WEATHER/9905/06/okla.tornado.02/index.html
TURKEY SEEKS TO BAN PARTY - Islamic Virtue Party violated strict limits
on mixing religion with
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990430a - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Canada firm clones goat triplets to make spider silk. QUEBEC CITY, Quebec (Reuters) - News that a Canadian biotechnology company has cloned goat triplets prompted warnings that the technology involved could lead to the cloning of humans. The company, Montreal-based Nexia Biotechnologies Inc., said that the cloning was a first step in its plan to produce spider silk in goat's milk and turn it into a super-strong material for medical use. http://cnn.com/NATURE/9904/28/spider.goats.reut/index.html : Would you like to be cloned to make spiderwebs? Will you drink silky milk? If you take LSD what patterns will you weave in your web? Make it colorful? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Singer-priest Sinead O'Connor withdraws donation. In her first week as a Catholic priest, singer Sinead O'Connor has generated a controversy within her church and has decided to withdraw a 150,000-pound (US$200,000) donation to the bishop who ordained her. O'Connor and Cox have previously said the money was meant to support a healing center in Ireland. But another Bishop in the Latin Tridentine Church, Pat Buckley, says it smacked of simony, the buying of something sacred. Recalling donation 'for protective reasons' - http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/News/9904/29/showbuzz/index.html#story2 : Would you rather bribe a Tridentine bishop, a Pope, an Ayatollah, a Grand Boo-Hoo, a Metropolitan, a Goddess, a Televangelist, a Cuarandero, or me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Dinosaurs more like cows than giraffes. Forget the images of graceful din- osaurs browsing like giraffes among tall trees; it is more likely that they ate off the ground. Biomechanical tests on the bones of such swan-necked creatures as Apatosaurus (a.k.a. Brontosaurus) and Diplodocus show their necks would have worked best when angled slightly downward. Not 'Jurassic Park': http://cnn.com/NATURE/9904/29/dinosaur.necks.reut/index.html : Are you more comfortable browsing on trees or grazing the ground? Are you Jurassic, Cretaceous or Diabetic? Do Reptilioids get sore necks as they eat? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Legendary aphrodisiac draws mobs of Turkish lovers. MANISA, Turkey (CNN) Hoping a centuries-old secret recipe will inject new romance into their lives, more than 14,000 people flocked to the western Turkish town of Manisa this week to grab a piece of a legendary aphrodisiac. Local authorities planned to throw hundreds of kilograms of a mysterious paste, known as Mesur Macunu, from the top of the Sultan mosque in Manisa's main square. See: http://cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9904/26/fringe/turkey.aphrodisiac/index.html : Do you prefer aphrodisiacs that are solid, liquid, vaporous, pasty, icy, boiling, tasty, bland, sweet, sour? Do you prefer ancient or modern recipes? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SansComment: *** Gov't overthrow plot trial nears end. LITTLE ROCK (AP) Nearly 1.5 years after being accused in a violent plot to overthrow the gov't and establish a whites-only republic in the Northwest, two men will have their fates decided by a jury. Chevie Kehoe Danny Lee could get the death penalty. Prosecutors said the men pursued their dream to set up the Aryan People's Republic by stockpiling military-style weapons and robbing and murdering several people. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559360710-520 # Cloning may damage long-term health. (BBC) The type of cloning that produced the sheep Dolly may result in serious long-term damage to health. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_331000/331793.stm # First transatlantic dinosaur found. The same flesh-eating dino terrorised creatures in both Europe and N.America; finding challenges plate tectonic theories. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_331000/331346.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # LOCKHEED: IKONOS FELL INTO SEA - imaging satellite sees only fish: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/19403.html http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559351585-744 # EVIDENCE OF PLATE SHIFTS ON MARS - once contained water maybe life: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/19404.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_331000/331535.stm # BUBBLE BATHS ARE FOR THE BIRDS - dry clean birds caught in oil spills: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/19390.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_33/330616.stm # CIH VIRUS CULPRIT PEGGED? Chen Ing-hau wrote the hard-drive-eating bug: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/business/story/19397.html http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559356880-69a http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_332000/332147.stm # British military convoy gets lost - Greeks hide highway
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990326a - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Egypt cleric opposes belly dancers. CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's top cleric has ruled that belly dancers and actresses should not perform hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage, unless they quit show business. Grand Mufti Sheik Nasr Farid Wasel said that money earned by public performance is illicit in Islam and shan't be used to perform religious duties: "They should give up these sins and return to God." Hajj, a combination of rituals performed in Mecca annually, is a main tenet of Islam along with belief in God, daily prayers, fasting during the holy month of Ramadan and giving alms. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558936134-3e1 : Does your belief system take positions on dancing, pilgrimages, money? Are performers [besides Madonna Prince] irretrievably damned? Would you rather go on pilgrimage, fast, dance, make money, issue edicts, abduct humans, fly? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hackers Seize Control of British Military Satellite - US Experiencing a "Coordinated" Cyber-Attack Against Military Systems. WASHINGTON - Computer hackers have seized control of a British military communications satellite and have issued a blackmail threat to the UK Government. One of four satel- lites used by the British Ministry of Defense was thrown off course more than two weeks ago. Shortly thereafter, the hackers issued a demand for money and said that they would not stop interfering with the system until their conditions were met. News of the problems in Britain come at a time when U.S. Defense officials have announced that Pentagon technicians have identified a coordinated cyber-attack against key Department of Defense systems. http://www.northupcom.com/library/hackers.html : How many cyber-wars are currently being waged, by whom, against whom? How can you tell? Do you want to steal a satellite? What would you do with it? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Strongest explosion ever observed. WASHINGTON (AP) - The most powerful explosion ever observed released in just seconds a burst of energy equal to billions of years of light from thousands of suns. The explosion, called a gamma ray burst, occurred 9 billion light-years from Earth. What caused the explosion is still a mystery. "It is probably something to do with massive stars;" see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558938795-b24 : Are there any coincidences? Is this a divine signal, a Reptilioid warning, a Big Bang aftershock, a wormhole flash, the implosion of the Beta Quadrant? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # IS THIS THE AURORA? One of the most shadowy of the U.S. Air Force's secret projects is the craft known only by the code name "Aurora." Rumor has it the ultra high speed plane (said by some to be capable of Mach 6) is the next generation of high altitude reconnaissance aircraft, replacing aging U-2 and SR-71 planes. Called the "sky splitter," it reputedly uses an advanced PWDE (Pulse Detonation Wave Engine) system for propulsion, which produces the telltale "beads on a string" or "rings on a rope" contrail. Our corres- pondent caught what may be the first daylight pictures of a PWDE powered, high altitude aircraft. Here's his description of the sighting: http://www.parascope.com/nb/articles/auroraPixB.htm : Was Aurora designed with human or alien technology? Does Aurora contribute to global warming? Are high-speed spy-planes worth melting icecaps? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Nuclear waste heads to New Mexico. LOS ALAMOS (AP) - A truck loaded with radioactive waste began a historic journey to the nation's first nuclear waste dump amid the cheers of supporters and jeers of protesters gathered along the route. Fog had delayed the scheduled shipment from Los Alamos National Laboratory, but after sunset the big rig pulled out, beeped its horn twice and began its 270-mile journey south to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad. The driver gave a thumbs-up, and the crowd of about 100 people cheered in response. But down the road in Santa Fe, a hub of anti- WIPP sentiment, dozens of protesters lined the waste route holding up placards that read, among other things, "Stop Nuke Trucks" and "Science or Science Fiction?" www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558943275-d85 : Do nuclear wastes nourish aliens in gov't custody? Will humans evolve and adapt to nuclear wastes? Are nuclear wastes useful in satanic rituals? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: * MAP THE WEB: www.feedmag.com/column/interface/ci190_master.html?alert * The Agony of Victory: Online auctions and the winner's curse. http://www.slate.com/Features/auction/auction.asp @ Psychiatry Destroys Minds: http://www.cchr.org/ect/eng/page00.htm @ MELTDOWN - Russia On The Brink: WWW.cbn.org/news/stories/990325.asp @
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990312a - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION MAY GET CREW 3 MONTHS EARLY. After years of delays on the International Space Station, the United States and Russia are working on a surprise plan to launch the first crew in October, three months earlier than planned, officials said Thursday. "The earlier, the better" - see http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9903/11/space.station.01.reut/index.html : Do we need to prevent occupation of the ISS by Reptilioids or Zetans? Could survivalist militias occupy the ISS, claim it under homestead or salvage law, proclaim independence, hold off the superpowers and ETs? Do you want to control a space station? What would you do there? With whom? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SCIENTISTS IDENTIFY WEIGHT CONTROL GENE. Researchers have identified the first gene known to suppress obesity and regulate the burning of calories, a key step that may help in developing a drug that keeps people trim. The gene, known as "Mahogany" or the MG gene, was discovered in mice. First to regulate metabolism - http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9903/11/fat.gene.ap/index.html : Since 'Mahogany' also controls brain development and function, would you go for genetic slimness if you also became less intelligent? Is slimness, sexyness, worth stupidity? Does your alien implant help you control weight? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $$$ If anyone needs to make any extra cash, the Psychic Place web site is hiring for on-line readings. Get your own psychic chat room on: http://www.psychic-chat.net/psychicplace/employment/employment.cfm : Is going into business as a phony psychic moral because morons deserve to be defrauded? Is this any different that being a minister/priest, economist, UFOlogist, Y2K consultant, decorator, advertiser, abstract artist, rolfer? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Christians launch $21 mln campaign. WASHINGTON (AP) - A fund-raising and voter turnout drive begun by the Christian Coalition is seeking monthly don- ations from church members throughout the U.S. to help meet its $21 million goal. The "21 Victory" campaign is intended to recruit and train more than a million activists who, in turn, will encourage conservatives to vote in the 2000 elections. The campaign also will make the Christian Coalition's voter guide available on the Internet. Executive director Randy Tate called the effort "a combination of old-fashioned shoe leather and handbills, coupled with high-tech technology." Coalition President Pat Robertson said the drive is aimed at getting a record turnout among religious conservative voters. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558769281-44a : Would you vote for Pat Robertson for Ayatollah? Would you like to live in a CC theocracy? Is the CC a front for Nazis, Zetans, Illuminati, or others? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # The phony infowar; and CyberCrime: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/filters/bursts/0,3422,2224945,00.html http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/cybercrime/chaostheory/jump/0,3698,2224814,00.html # The Illuminati Conspiracy: http://www.parascope.com/cgi-bin/psforum.pl/topic=matrixdisc=417mmark=all @ MajestyTwelve: http://www.harvest-trust.org/majestyt.htm @ Freemasonry Corner: http://www.cuttingedge.org/fmcorner.html @ Weather Control: http://www.cuttingedge.org/articles/weather.cfm @ New Age Movement - An Overview: www.webzonecom.com/ccn/cults/newageov.txt @ 1WorldWorship: http://in-search-of.com/frames/WWWBoard/messages/2580.html @ EugenicsMassMurder: http://livelinks.com/sumeria/politics/eugenics.html Enough conspiracy links to drive you totally insane, probably. Enjoy: http://www.cuttingedge.org/fmcorner.html http://www.brotherblue.org/libers/templars.htm http://www.cuttingedge.org/n1040.html http://www.cuttingedge.org/n1081.html http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1164.cfm http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1165.cfm www.webzonecom.com/ccn/cults/newageov.txt http://in-search-of.com/frames/WWWBoard/messages/2580.html http://www.ametro.net/crownrights/fbs/naziism.htm http://www.unm.edu/~hrommel/cooperNWO.html http://www.harvest-trust.org/majestyt.htm http://www.ametro.net/crownrights/fbs/masonry_main.html http://www.cth.com.au/corp/despatch/worship.htm http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1072.html http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8988/famous.htm http://www.balaams-ass.com/journal/warnings/freemson.htm http://shell.rmi.net/~moonman/masons.html http://www.plumbline.org/fmp3-3.htm#A5 http://www.webcom.com/enddays/masonry3.html#Masonry3-Contents http://www.nternet.com/~ripp/twelve.htm http://www.misslink.net/chofgod/luminati.htm http://www.misslink.net/chofgod/masons.htm http://www.iol.ie/~magnific/magnific/fr_mason.html http://mars.he.net/~goodnews/truth/truthrc-10.html http://www3.l0pht.com/pub/blackcrwl/patriot/outcome_based_education.txt
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990205a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with : are editorial comments to provoke discussion. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CDC ISSUES GUIDELINES ON BIOTERRORISM. In response to a series of threats in the US recently alleging use of anthrax as a bioterroristic weapon, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued interim guide- lines to assist public health officials to respond to the "growing threat" of bioterrorism. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=9251 # Race to find key to killer flu. (BBC) Scientists are rushing to find the clues to what caused the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic which killed 40m people before another strikes. Experts fear another one could be just around the corner. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_272000/272081.stm @ Links: Horizon: http://www.bbc.co.uk/horizon @ Influenza outbreak: http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/panfacts.htm @ Flu preparations: www.acponline.org/journals/annals/01apr96/pandemic.htm # Russia gripped by flu during cold snap (UPI): http://nt.excite.com/news/u/990204/17/health-cold : Is flu a better bioterror weapon than anthrax? Is Russia being subjected to biowar right now? Is this a test-bed for the next flu pandemic? By who? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tale of Two Numbers. The difference between year 2000 and the next census? See http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/WhosCounting/paulos990201.html # MILLENIUM BABY: COUPLES, START YOUR ENGINES. Who will have the first baby of the new millenium? If you want to try for this distinction, a New Zealand doctor says you should synschronize your reproductive efforts for April 9, the most likely day to have a baby on Jan. 1 in the year 2000. Ready, set, go... http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=9107 : Will babies born on 1/1/2000 have the Y2K bug? Can they be inoculated? Will the Y2K US census be too buggy to be usable? Is there a connection? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 20,000 BABIES BORN VIA ASSISTED REPRODUCTION. More than 20,000 babies were born in the U.S. with the help of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in 1996. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=9172 : When will all humans be test-tube babies? Will we be better for it? Why? # BABIES SIGN FOR FOOD. Can infants communicate about simple things? Yes. Researchers say infants as young as 9 months can be trained to use American Sign Language instead of crying to let you know theyre hungry or sleepy. See http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=9205 : When do humans start communicating? When do we start paying attention? Do implants improve the process? If telepathy worked, would we learn to speak? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Muslims 'ready for Rushdie sacrifice' (BBC) A leading Muslim cleric says Muslims should be prepared for any sacrifice if Salman Rushdie visits India. "We shall pursue Salman Rushdie relentlessly if he comes to India," said Syed Ahmed Bukhari. "If we have to give our lives, we are ready." Good idea. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_272000/272354.stm @ Links: Salman Rushdie: http://www.crl.com/~subir/rushdie.html @ India Ministry of External Affairs: http://www.meadev.gov.in/ @ Bharatiya Janata Party: http://www.bjp.org/ @ Congress Party: http://indiancongress.org/ # Indian Muslims protest visa to Rushdie (UPI): http://nt.excite.com/news/u/990205/01/international-rushdie : Is ritual murder-suicide an effective way to weed-out religious fanatics? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BARBIE TURNS 40, GETS TATTOO: WILL SHE GET A NICKEL ALLERGY, TOO? Barbie turns 40 next month and faces a mid-life crisis, so her makers are making her hipper by giving her a tattoo. Is a nose ring next? If so, Barbie's chances of getting a nickel allergy are high, along with those of you sporting nose rings and other body piercings. Infection must be cool too - see http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=9230 # The Hacker Gap. (ABCnews) Whats it like for a 30-ish hacker gone corporate to watch a younger, more destructive class of computer vandals emerge? Contempt flows both ways across the hacker generation gap. See http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/hackers990203.html # WHERE CAN I FIND THE "BETTER LOVER" CIRCUMCISION STUDY? The study was on women who had experience with both types of men - and there was no contest. Women overwhelmingly preferred intact men to circumcised men. Read'em and weep - http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=9103 : Is anatomy destiny? Is surgery/piercing mutilation? Are implants sexy? Will age and treachery beat youth and enthusiasm every time? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CHINESE HOT POT: WOULD YOU LIKE OPIUM WITH THAT? A Shanghai restaurant was caught serving opium in its hot pot, in an attempt to keep customers coming back for more. Opium is, of course, officially illegal in
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991119a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 solar mass eruptions fried Earth during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The 20th Century - why it sucked: http://www.dccomics.com/mad/previews/prevw387.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Candles Can Create Health Risk. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vanilla, lavender other scented candles can make a home cozy inviting for the holidays, but such candles may also be hazardous to your family's health, sez the American Lung Assn. Burning candles, particularly the scented and slow- burning types, may release lead, mercury and other toxins into the air. Candle emissions can harm the nervous system, heart circulatory system, particularly in children, the elderly, and people with weakened immune systems: http://www.sightings.com/health3/candles_h.htm : Does your belief system promote burning scented candles? Are y'r spiritual masters slowly poisoning you? Is Martha Stewart in the toxic conspiracy??? # I Was A Human Crash-Test Dummy. (Salon) - For 15 years, a professor gave his body for human impact-survival research - and lived to tell the tale. http://salon.com/health/col/roac/1999/11/19/crash_test/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Still Don't Believe In The New World Order? "We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money." The "old world order" is one based on independent nation-states. The "new world order" involves the elimination of the sovereignty and independence of nation-states and some form of world government. This means the end of the U.S.A., the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights as we now know them. http://sightings.com/politics5/nwo_p.htm : Have you eliminated any sovereignties lately? Is it fun; profitable; too much hard work but somebody's gotta do it? Is nationalism a mental illness? # RACE STILL MAIN HATE-CRIME MOTIVE: www.cnn.com/US/9911/18/hate.crimes.ap/ # AMAZON NIXS "MEIN KAMPF" www.cnnfn.com/1999/11/18/europe/wires/amazon_wg/ + Germans Happy: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562138152-0c3 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Controversy Erupts Over Theory On Solar Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). (Space.Com) As dawn breaks on our understanding of the sun's eruptions a controversial idea has re-emerged that attempts to explain the source of coronal mass ejections -- those periodic enormous releases of energy that threaten satellites, cell phones and even power grids. Could they fry us or just toast us? http://sightings.com/earthchanges/cmecontraversy_e.htm : Have any CMEs fried your infrastructure/satellites/planet lately? Do you just HATE it when that happens? Should coronal control measures be studied? @ Sun-Earth Alert: http://solar.uleth.ca/astroalert.html @ Real-time solar imagery: http://solar.uleth.ca/sunnow _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ART BELL RUSH KASEY KASEM, MOVE OVER. myCaster: Have you ever dreamed of hosting your own radio show? With myCaster, you can set one up online - in minutes! This free digital broadcaster lets you stream your favorite audio files over the Internet, add your own DJ/rant/pundit/god voiceovers, and list your radio station on myCaster's Web site. Send your sounds to the billions: http://1.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin1/flo?x=doAgYEuKgwggohuo : Did you tape an interview with an alien that people MUST hear? Should we listen to your reversed-speech evidence that Clinton's a quisling for ETs? D'ya want to broadcast mindcontrol signals to the world? Try myCaster, eh? @ Lemuria information - http://www.lemuria.net @ Lost subsea civilization: http://eagle-net.org/phikent/japan/japan.html @ Mars and Maldek: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~boyne/ra/origins.html @ Spirituality Conspiracy: http://www.blazing-trails.com @ Operation Terra: http://OperationTerra.tripod.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Fabulous Secrets Said Discovered In Grand Canyon 90 Years Ago. The Phoenix Gazette April 5, 1909: EXPLORATIONS IN THE GRAND CANYON - Mysteries of Im- mense Rich Cavern Being Brought to Light - JORDAN IS ENTHUSED - REMARKABLE FINDS INDICATE ANCIENT PEOPLE MIGRATED FROM ORIENT. And it's all been well covered-up ever since: http://sightings.com/earthchanges/grandcanyon_e.htm : Have you covered up any archaeological finds lately? Are current world- myths threatened by archaeological truths? Is archaeology really run by CIA mind-control agents? Is everything we think we know a fabrication, a lie?? @ You may be a 'wanderer', incarnated here for service during earth's transition from 3-4D: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~boyne/ra/wanderers.html # VR: all in y'r head: http://salon.com/tech/feature/1999/11/19/text_gaming/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991105a - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : No computer networks were hexed/cursed to produce this bulletin. Yet. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ WORK WELL WITH OTHERS: http://www.email.net/work-well-together.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # WACO RE-EXAMINED: Film sequel continues charge of Waco cover-up. WASHINGTON - Your typical movie premiere doesn't include allegations of homicide by the federal government. But that was the theme of Waco: A New Revelation, unveiled reporters and researchers of the 1993 siege that ended in the fiery deaths of more than 80 Branch Davidians. http://www.dallasnews.com/specials/waco/1104waco1waco.htm # ALSO - Back to Waco: http://www.dallasnews.com/specials/waco/ # The standoff: http://www.dallasnews.com/specials/waco/standoff/ # Federal roles: http://www.dallasnews.com/specials/waco/federal/ # Davidians, Koresh: http://www.dallasnews.com/specials/waco/brkoresh/ # Aftermath: http://www.dallasnews.com/specials/waco/aftermath/ # The trials: http://www.dallasnews.com/specials/waco/trial/ : How many levels of Waco cover-up are there? Once you peel back one layer, how many more layers are underneath? What's at the core? *IS* there a core? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ Voodoo will keep you Y2K compliant. Inventor/Priestess Madame Louise claims her kit is all you need to keep your computer Y2K-safe. The kit, called the "Netwanga" (US$12.95) is a satin bag containing voodoo charms and software codes. She says that the bag casts its protective magical spell when placed on a computer or attached to a monitor. Fortunately, the kits are available for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, other operating systems. Madame Louise is also developing voodoo love potions for people using chat groups on the Net. http://www.netwanga.com/ : Do computers work by black magic? Do y'r Net/System operations respond to voodoo procedures? Do you prefer voodoo computing, voodoo economics, voodoo sex, voodoo politics, voodoo art, voodoo robotics? Do Reptoids use voodoo? $ MMs CYBERCENTER OF MILLENNIUM HYPE. D'ya know that MMs are "The Official Candy of the New Millennium"? MM is the Roman numeral representation of 2000, get it? Now you know. Check out this corporate site. Oh yeah, you can also register for a couple contests proclaim yourself the "Darned- Near-Official" something of the millennium. http://www.m-ms.com/ : Do you exploit the Millennia? Did you read the last line of this bulletin? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Falun Gong Members Die In China Custody. HONG KONG (Reuters) At least 6 members of China's outlawed Falun Gong spiritual movement have died in detention since August. One was beaten to death by police, 4 took their own lives to escape persecution one died after 4 days of hunger strike. Since China banned Falun Gong in July, cops have busted hundreds of yjr,. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991104/22/international-religion-china # POPE DEPARTS FOR INDIA AS FUNDAMENTALISTS PROTEST. Pope John Paul II left Rome Friday for a three-day visit to India, where thousands took to the streets of New Dehli to protest his impending arrival. "Pope go back, pope go back" - http://cnn.com/ASIANOW/south/9911/05/pope.india.01/index.html # India trip to test pope's outreach, powers of persuasion - buckle up: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561922877-4c6 : What's your favorite spiritual.movement/religion/cult/sect/ideology? Do you like to impose violence on members of other belief systems? Is it fun? # Pop goes paganism. Many recent Hollywood offerings borrow images, themes and stories from alternative spiritualities - Wicca, paganism, NewAge the occult among them. http://dallasnews.com/religion/1030rel2second.htm # Satanism? http://www.rickross.com/reference/satanism/satanism59.html # The Amish Challenge: http://www.primenet.com/~obscure/amish.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The internet according to the ChurchOfEngland - Pray in for cyberspace. (BBC) It's less a matter of C of E than C of e-. A report published by the Church of England has given Christians advice on how they should behave on the internet. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_503000/503690.stm @ Links - Ship of Fools: http://ship-of-fools.com/ @ Cybernauts Awake: http://www.starcourse.org/sciteb2/starcourse/cyber/ # U.S. vulnerable to cyber attacks. WASHINGTON (AP) Reliance on the Internet has made the nation vulnerable to attacks by terrorists who strike through computers rather than with bombs or bullets, a WhiteHouse security adviser sez: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561923783-076 : Do you promote your ideology on the Net? Can such promotion be seen as an attack on anything? Do we all wage cyberwar, one way or another? Is it good? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ #
