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# FBI SUPPRESSED LIKELY CAUSE OF TWA 800 CRASH FOR MONTHS, SENATOR SAYS.
Within six months of the crash of TWA Flight 800 in July 1996, investigators
from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had decided that mechanical
failure, not terrorism, likely brought down the New York-to-Paris flight.
But it wasn't until 10 months later that the FBI withdrew from the case,
a formal admission that the plane wasn't brought down by a criminal act,
according to U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa). Senate subcommittee will
hold hearings Monday: http://cnn.com/US/9905/09/twa.800.report/index.html
: Would you rather conspire to 1) suppress the existence of a conspiracy,
2) suppress the nonexistence of a conspiracy, 3) promote a nonexistent
conspiracy, 4) expose your own conspiracy of type (1),(2) or (3)? For such
meta-conspiring, would you rather be paid, elected, appointed, immortalized,
lobotomized, implanted, mummified, transmogrified? Is good sex sufficient?
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*** China sees threat in secret sect. BEIJING (AP) - Shocked by throngs of
meditating protesters on their front door, Chinese leaders are preparing a
methodical campaign to discredit and rein in the martial arts sect they now
see as a threat to Communist Party power. President Jiang Zemin has formed
a high-level task force to monitor the group, and gov't agents have started
taking names and infiltrating the sect. The swift preparations underscore
how rattled senior leaders were by the sudden sight of thousands of silent
practitioners of Falun Gong, the Wheel of Law, outside party HQ on April 25.
All at once, the group was transformed from an obscure school of Yoga-like
exercises and meditation into a challenge to the communist hold on China's
future. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559462955-efc
: Would you rather conspire to overthrow a gov't, a sect, a major religion,
an economic system, an artform, a sport? Have you overthrown/undermined any
lately? Have you taken over a political party, a fraternity, an industry?
Have you diverted any existing conspiracies? Which? Was it hard, slow, fun?
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# RUMORS OF MOBILE PHONE VIRUS PANICS LEBANESE. The virus never hit, but the
system crashed anyway. A fast-traveling rumor that the Chernobyl computer
virus would wreak havoc on cellular phones in Lebanon on Saturday tangled
telephone lines and briefly shut down Lebanon's telephone network. Lebanese
flipped off their mobiles, picked up traditional telephones to warn friends
and family to do the same. The panic in this cellular-loving country over-
loaded the network, disrupting service for a few minutes. Parliament may
investigate: http://cnn.com/TECH/science/9905/09/lebanon.cell.hoax.ap/
: Do you panic over rumors? Is your panic worse than the rumored event? What
are your favorite rumors, non-rumors, events, non-events, facts, not-facts?
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*** Hollywood to grovel? LOS ANGELES (AP) Pres. Clinton says Monday's summit
on youth violence is about finding answers, not assigning blame. But partic-
ipants from the entertainment biz will be feeling more pressure than anyone
else on the guest list, particularly since the gun lobby wasn't invited;
they'll be met with growing calls for gov't intervention. Dispute whether
movies, music video games shape a culture of violence among young people:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559484231-0ab
*** Also: Reno, Rockers fight teen violence. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559467900-c3d
: Does entertainment program you to kill? Can a kill-crazy gov't deprogram
you, or will it just assign you to other targets? Would you rather shootup/
bomb schools in the US, Serbia, Iraq, Eire, Borneo, Burundi, Zeta Reticula?
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# Khmer Rouge torturer found - now a "born-again" Christian, praise Jesus!
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) An admitted Khmer Rouge mass murderer was found by
Cambodian security forces and is now under government protection. Kaing Khek
Iev, the Khmer Rouge prison chief known as Duch, has said he is ready to go
on trial and testify about the movement's genocidal policies. Taste blood:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559485907-f5b
: Do politics/economics/faith program you to kill? Can a kill-crazy church
deprogram you, or will it just assign you to other targets? Would you rather
kill atheists, Xians, Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists, Pagans, Jews, Sikhs, me?
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*** Microsoft plans virtual clinic. REDMOND, Wash. (AP) Jim Pittman woke one
morning with a strong squeezing sensation in his chest. Fearing the worst,
the 42-year-old Microserf wasted no time driving 10 miles to his doctor's
office only to be told - after "a 2-second diagnosis" - he'd pulled a back
muscle, probably while painting his home the previous day. "I don't know
what a heart attack feels like," he said. "And I completely forgot that I
was painting the house." Next time Pittman feels the urge to see the doc,
he may have another option. Instead of driving across town on a workday,
he could fire up his computer, make sure the small camera atop the monitor
is correctly angled, then point and click to a Web site for "virtual"
treatment. www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559482793-02a
: Would you accept virtual treatment for your physical, mental, spiritual
ailments? Does your computer monitor your implants? Can MS read your mind?
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SkeptiLinks:
@ World Of The Strange: http://www.jb-graphics.com/thestrange/
@ The Paranormal Research Primer: http://www.tje.net/para/main/
@ EON MAGAZINE - Science Fiction & ShowBiz: http://www.eonmagazine.com
# Turkish Islam movement may regroup - preemptive strike against ban:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559474937-525
# Pope embraces Romania's Orthodox patriarch but won't go "all the way":
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559484521-a0e
# Y2K party canceled out of fear - millennium stages preemptive strike:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559484029-2db
# Japanese embrace tell-all TV shows - public group therapy sweep globe:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559462366-d28
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MILAB (Souled out) By Terry Kimbrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] copyright 3/20/99
The alien implanted within my soul,
Deep and dark in my mind and in control.
Lost in the vacuum of your abode,
My life in turmoil, in your hold.
Deep in the bunker of deceit,
Your own kind you gave them to reap.
To you we are a token of your fear,
Seduced by power, now you are weak, and they are here.
You are the cursed ones,
Who gave them power our lives to run.
They will be coming for you soon;
And at the end of the line, this same fate awaits you.
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