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@ NAZI TV. Newly discovered footage reveals why the Nazi propaganda machine
just didn't get television. (Feed) "Most historians have assumed that just
a few samples of Nazi-era television programming remain, but over 30 hours
have recently been discovered on 285 rolls of TV footage stashed away in..
former East Germany... There's a good reason this footage has been seques-
tered: while the Nazis were infamous masters of propaganda in just about
any other medium, particularly film, they didn't know what to do with TV."
Wheel of Fascism: http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es234_master.html?alert
: Do modern Nazis know what to do with TV? Could the old Nazis have used ET
help? Are Nazis better with TV, radio, film, videogames, VR immersion? Who's
your favorite propagandist? Human or alien? Do you produce propaganda? Why?
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# Who'd kiss a giraffe? (BBC) Secrets to new medical treatments for humans
could be found on the wet, slobbery tongue of the giraffe. Researchers are
probing the molecular structure of giraffe saliva to further understand
human mucus and its role in the digestive process. Mucus is active in a
range of human functions and problems, including stomach ulcers and the
potentially fatal disease cystic fibrosis. Gimme a big wet one, bay-bee:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_393000/393622.stm
: Do you prefer mucus from humans, giraffes, slugs, aliens, deities/demons,
me? Can crop circles be cut in sufficiently thick mucus? Ever implant mucus?
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@ TRUE ORIGIN OF CHRISTIAN "FISH" SYMBOL MIGHT OUTRAGE, SHOCK JESUS WORSHIP-
PERS. Modern day Christians claim their "fish" logo, the Ichthus, dates to
the early days of faith. But this symbol is much older, with pagan origins
rooted in fertility & earth goddess worship. Well before Christianity, the
fish symbol was known as "Great Mother," a pointed oval sign, the Vessel
of the Fish. "Fish" and "womb" were synonymous in ancient Greek,"delphos."
Its link to fertility, birth, feminine sexuality and the natural force of
women was acknowledged also by Celts, as well as pagan cultures throughout
northern Europe. A "Cult of the Fish Mother" goes as far back as the hun-
ting and fishing people of the Danube River Basin in the sixth millennium
B.C.E. http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/hawaii2.htm
: Has your belief system absorbed many 'pagan' symbols, doctrines, deities?
Does your belief system acknowledge or deny its paradoxes? D'ya much care?
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# Crusaders Making A Comeback In Holy Land. JERUSALEM (Reuters) Legend: the
Crusaders were chivalrous knights. Reality: they were ruthless invaders,
hacking a bloody trail through the Holy Land in their quest to capture
Jerusalem. With some 4 million Christian pilgrims expected to mark the end
of Christianity's second millennium, Israelis are taking a crash course in
Crusader history. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990713/12/odd-crusades
: Does your belief system promote invading remote lands? Would you rather be
invader or invaded? Have you invaded or been invaded lately? Was it fun????
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# Disorder poses new threat for net addicts. (U-WIRE) COLLEGE STN, Texas --
Imagine browsing the Web, surfing through the endless array of chat rooms
and Websites. Suddenly there is an interruption. It is a Website called
www.virtualaddiction.com. It asks, "Do you use the Internet often? Do you
ever find you remain on it longer than you had intended? Does it give you
a sense of no boundaries? Do you feel that you are out of control, carried
away or emotionally and sexually aroused by it? If so, you could have a
problem: Internet addiction." http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990713/odd-35
: Are you a Net junky? Would you rather be addicted to the Net, heroin, sex,
cocaine, alien implants, MTV? Does the Net control you? Do you control it?
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SkeptiBriefs:
# SHEDDING LIGHT IN THE DARK. Physicists will run tests during a total solar
eclipse next month, hoping to buttress a decades-old argument debunking
one of Einstein's relativity theories. Then they'll orgy in the darkness:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20663.html
# Dutch funerals live on Internet. AMSTERDAM (Reuters) A Dutch crematorium
is offering live coverage of its services on the Internet for those unable
to attend the funerals of friends and loved ones. Live feed from 2 cameras
for those logging in: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990713/13/odd-funeral
# OUT OF AFRICA. African dust does get around. A new study shows that a high
proportion of the dust particles that Americans breathe originated in
Africa. http://www.wired.com/news/news/tip/technology/story/20690.html
# Venezuelan court says beer ads promote infidelity. CARACAS (Reuters) -
Venezuela's Supreme Court has ordered the withdrawal of a series of beer
advertisements urging drinkers to try "the blonde" and to "dare with the
other," arguing that they are sexist and encourage infidelity. Do you
cheat on your beer? http://news.excite.com/news/r/990713/12/odd-beer
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SkeptiLinks:
@ LDS - STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION:
http://www.konformist.com/blasphemy/jerkoff.htm
@ The Grand Tour - Earth Saucers and Star Wars:
http://www.jps.net/drboylan/GranTour.htm
# How 19th-century politics determines the 21st-century:
http://www.feedmag.com/daily/dy070799_master.html?alert
# Humor Quotient - Can software help us understand what makes
something funny? http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es231_master.html
@ The Information Challenge - by Richard Dawkins:
http://www.onthenet.com.au/~stear/dawkinschallenge.htm
@ The Problem of Information for the Theory of Evolution -
Has Dawkins really solved it? - by Royal Truman:
http://www.trueorigin.org/dawkinfo.htm
@ Truman's essay has received its first criticism, to which
he responds: http://www.trueorigin.org/9907.htm
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