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@ Preying Mantis Entity Reports. This is an informal collection of tales
regarding the strangest of possibilities - encounters with praying-mantis-
like entities which occur after ingesting enteogenic compounds. Why is
this so common? Nobody seems to mention spiders or grasshoppers, always
mantids! There is not enough information here to draw any conclusions,
but there is enough to demonstrate something weird and heavy is going
on in the human mind. http://diseyes.lycaeum.org/fresh/mantis.htm
: Have you ever encountered gigantic mantids, arachnids, hoppers? Were they
scarey? Did they talk funny? Did your mind-control rays work on them? How?
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# Try this non-wash, no-iron cyberfuture for size. LONDON (Reuters) Please
step forward into the future for a moment... an android shop assistant is
asking why you want blue trousers when its database says you prefer gray.
Your sleeve communicator beeps - it's your genetically engineered boss at
the spaceship plant - and you just remembered you forgot to order milk on
the shopping net before leaving home this morning. Some things will never
change, but quite a lot will in the next 1,000 years, says a far-reaching
report: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560065608-dda
: Could anyone 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000 years ago have had any idea of what
the world is like now? Do you have any idea how things will change in the
next 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000 years? How can you tell? D'ya read tea-leaves?
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# CASSINI PICKS UP SPEED AROUND VENUS AGAIN. NASA's Cassini spacecraft comp-
leted its 2nd pass by Venus to pick up momentum and speeded ahead Friday
on its 618th day of its seven-year flight to Saturn. Cassini flew within
600 km (370 miles) of the planet at 4:30 p.m. EST on Thursday, with Venus'
gravity giving the spacecraft a speed boost to help it reach Saturn, more
than 1 billion km. (620 million miles) away. Cassini will "slingshot" to
Saturn: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9906/25/cassini.update/index.html
: Will Cassini crash into Earth, spreading toxic plutonium worldwide and ob-
literating life as we know it? Do you look forward to this? Do you care???
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# Keep Lenin's remains on show. MOSCOW (AP) The niece of Soviet founder Vla-
dimir Lenin said the mummified remains of her famous uncle should be left
on display in Red Square and not buried, as many Russians demand. Lenin
had insisted that his body not be put on display. But shortly after his
death, Soviet leaders turned the Bolshevik founder into a communist icon
and put his body on display, to remain as a revolutionary symbol for all
eternity. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560043881-692
: Does your belief system worship its founders' relics? Are relics magickal?
What happened to Lenin's alien implants when he was mummified? Who has them?
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# Alcohol benefits debunked. (BBC) Moderate alcohol consumption has no
positive effect on health - contrary to a number of studies - while
heavy drinking can double the risk of stroke, research has found.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_377000/377381.stm
# Coffee may stimulate epilepsy in newborns. (BBC) Pregnant women who drink
too much coffee may increase the risk of their babies developing epilepsy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_377000/377933.stm
# Cola's knockout formula. (BBC) A rare disorder can cause people to faint
when they have a cold fizzy drink. Pepsi as a date-rape drug?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_377000/377468.stm
: What's your favorite legal drug? Do you care what it does to your body? Do
the voices in your head tell you to take it? Does it mess with your implant?
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# Group seeks India's report on death. NEW DELHI (AP) - A Christian group
demanded the government release a report about the January killings of an
Australian missionary and his sons who were burned to death while sleeping
in their jeep. The report by a commission investigating the deaths should
be made public "so that the conspiracy behind the murders is unearthed,"
the New Delhi-based United Christian Forum for Human Rights said. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560044539-ee8
: Do missionaries promote cultural genocide? Are they fair targets? Does
your belief system proselytize? Should proselytizers be executed? By whom?
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SkeptiLinks:
# Prelate cites Cuba church progress despite gov't crackdowns:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560063909-d6f
# Poland's divisions reappear quickly despite Papal reconciliation call:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560069986-b6b
# Vatican sending envoy to Armenia - Pope & Patriarch both too ill:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560068408-fff
@ ANTI-GRAVITY EXPLAINED: http://www.freez.com/joshua/
@ GUARANTEED CULT-FREE - "UFOINFO": http://www.ufoinfo.com/
@ FORBIDDEN ARCHEOLOGY - The Hidden History of the Human Race:
http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~ghi/fa.html
# China executes at least 71 in a day for drug trafficking:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560069787-1fc
# Bomb injures 50 on Chinese bus - economic chaos drives terrorism:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560067574-ab7
# China seeks smart sperm donors - only college professors need apply:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560064353-f06
@ The Mafia is a Masonic Body: aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:533806
* Space Transportation Programs: http://stp.msfc.nasa.gov/
* Updated information, graphics, and photos about recent landslide events:
http://landslides.usgs.gov/html_files/landslides/newsinfo.html
# Egypt to close 2nd tallest pyramid - repairs to take one year:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560043096-f21
# German bishops forbid abortions - desperate women ignore them:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560041306-c5f
@ Dark Object Photographed Over AREA 51 prior to People's Rally:
http://www.victor.camacho.com/algo_volo_sobre_victor_camacho.htm
# LARA CROFT COMES TO LIFE. Life is a game is a life is a game is a...
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/culture/story/20406.html
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