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@ UFOs in Fire Officer's Guide to Disaster Control. Chapter 13 of the 1994
Fire Officer's Guide to Disaster Control: "Enemy Attack and UFO Potential".
"Widespread blackouts, communication disruptions, and other potentially
disastrous conditions have been linked directly to UFO sightings." Support
your local UFOlogist: http://www.comdac.com/~geibdan/news/fire.html
@ Who Takes ETs Seriously? How about every fire and police dept. in America!
http://x43.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=484729519.1&CONTEXT=928671431.212402182
: Do UFOs start fires? Do the voices in your head tell you to start fires,
to cut crop circles, to mutiliate/humiliate/agitate humans? Are you fiery?
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# Net strike to bite in Europe. (BBC) Internet users across Europe are being
asked not to go online on Sunday in protest at high telephone charges. Bite
monopoly: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_361000/361235.stm
# Malaysia takes on websites. (BBC) Malaysia is studying legal ways of
shutting down Internet websites abroad which are critical of the government.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_362000/362275.stm
# China slaps Internet cafes. SHANGHAI (Reuters) Chinese boomtown Shanghai
has disciplined 278 unregistered Internet cafes in a crackdown on uncontrol-
led forays into cyberspace. Political news limited, access "standardized":
http://www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,56247-89863-639407-0,00.html
: If a gov't bites your net.access, how can you bite back? What if it's not
your gov't? Do boycotts work? Will you wage cyberwar? Will you fry links?
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# HACKED HACKERS VOW VENGEANCE ON FEDERAL WEB SITES. Hacker groups angry at
FBI investigations into computer intrusions have declared cyber war, vowing
that every Web site with an address ending in ".gov" will be a target. The
FBI's Web site has been inaccessible for most of the past 5 days. Git them
goobers: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/05/feds.v.hackers/index.html
# Netwar: F0rpaxe Claims Credit For Government/Corporate Computer Attacks.
A person or group calling itself "F0rpaxe" is today claiming credit for more
than 75 attacks on government and corporate computer systems in the United
States and abroad. Revenge on FBI: www.emergency.com/1999//fonetwar.htm
# Also: Hackers target more federal computers:
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/01/hackers/
# Hackers retaliate by invading FBI, Senate Web sites:
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9905/28/senate.hackers/
: Are you all or part of "F0rpaxe"? Are you good at cyberwar? Do you limit
your attacks to the US gov't or are all nations targets? D'ya want any help?
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# Casting Doubt on Chinese Spying. (ABC) The recent congressional report
accusing the Chinese of stealing U.S. nuclear secrets has inaccuracies that
raise doubts about the report's credibility. Many blatant factual errors:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/oberg990602.html
# Are We Hard-Wired for War? (ABC) Waging war is nothing new. Our history is
filled with tales of blood-soaked battles. Which raises questions: Is such
behavior simply part of human nature? Is war our favorite entertainment?
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/peace_warbiology990602.html
: Do you prefer warring, spying, plotting, fucking, eating, farting, lying?
Is your preference based on biology, doctrine, mind-control rays, implants?
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# PM's appeal over GM foods. (BBC) Prime Minister Tony Blair has appealed
for people to "keep an open mind" on GM foods, saying that imposing a ban
on them now would be a mistake. He has also metamorphosed into a shiitake
mushroom. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_362000/362318.stm
# Medicinal hopes for mushrooms. (BBC) UK scientists say research into mush-
rooms could make them a popular medical treatment in future. Better than GM
PMs: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_362000/362332.stm
: Do you like gene-modified mushrooms? Can psilocybe be enhanced? Does Tony
Blair eat psychedelic mushrooms? Is he run by CIA rays or ET implants? How?
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SkeptiBriefs:
@ NASA Continues Ritual Pattern as Discovery Docks with IS(I)S. As we have
shown repeatedly in the past, NASA has had an ongoing obsession with the
celestial representations of the highest Gods and Goddesses of ancient
Egypt, (Isis, Osiris, and Horus). www.enterprisemission.com/isis.htm
# Chat Users Get Voicemail. If your chat pal isn't online or answering the
phone, a new service will send a voicemail to his inbox. Although the call
is free, the Fone427 service isn't. Like you wuz expecting a free lunch too,
maybe? Hah. http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20032.html
# Landlords face millennium bug headache. (UK Landlords have been warned
they face expensive lawsuits if they fail to make lifts, fire alarms and
heating systems millennium bug-proof. Not to mention the threat of final
apocalypse: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_362000/362223.stm
# Digital Artists Can Starve, Too. Techno-savvy art school graduates have a
variety of options that boil down to one hard choice: Make money, or make
art? Survivalism: http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/20039.html
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SkeptiLinks:
@ Explication for crop circles on http://www.rael.org
@ ERRI Y2K Resource Page: http://www.emergency.com/y2kpage.htm
@ ERRI Kosovo News Page: http://www.emergency.com/1999/kosopage.htm
@ UFO REALITY SHIFT? http://www.comdac.com/~geibdan/news/boylan.html
@ Anti-Gravity in Your Future? www.comdac.com/~geibdan/news/antigrav.html
@ Roswell Fragment is Bogus: http://www.comdac.com/~geibdan/news/fake.html
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Parked at the scenic overlook, Buffy, already quite guilt-ridden, gapingly
stared at Max in disbelief as he stood, shouting gleefully out the moon
roof of his father's BMW 318i to all with the shadow of Make-out Mountain:
"Trousers 'round my ankles, buns shimmering in starlight, she couldn't
understand why I was howling into the night." --Frank R. Adams III
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