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@ The real truth about Crop Circles: Who are they'r creators?, why?, how?,
why in England?, how to read the messages?, where is the proof?... Look
deeply into the crystal ball, here: http://zetatalk.com/awaken/a22.htm
http://zetatalk.com/awaken/a45.htm http://zetatalk.com/awaken/a79.htm
: Have you encoded many messages in the crop circles you've created? Is DNA
better for encoding messages than are crop circles? What do you have to say?
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# Real Estate Mogul Reaches For The Stars. (WSJ) LAS VEGAS - In 1947, Robert
T. Bigelow's grandparents were driving through the desert near Las Vegas
when a glowing red ball hurtled menacingly toward their car before making
a sharp turn and disappearing. That was the story that his grandparents
told Mr. Bigelow when he was a child. And he's sticking to it. Mr. Bigelow
began quietly funding UFO research in 1990, and says he has already pumped
as much as $10 million into the effort. http://msnbc.com/news/303522.asp
: What kicked-off your quest for the unknown? Were you induced, shoved, led
by the nose, tricked? Have you spent a lot of money on your search? Where??
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@ Masonic Beliefs & Practices. "While there probably are some actual stone-
workers who are Masons, Masonry does not teach is membership the literal
techniques of stonework. Rather, it takes the actual 'operative' work of
Medieval Masons and uses it as an allegory for moral development. Thus,
the symbols of Masonry are the common tools that were used by medieval
stonemasons: the gavel, the rule, the compass, the square, the level,
etc. Each of these has a symbolic meaning in Masonry." Same as in life:
http://home.fireplug.net/~rshand/streams/masons/mrituals.html
: What are your favorite symbols? Do the meanings change over time? Did ETs
implant those meanings in your consciousness? Would you prefer new symbols?
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# China vows to punish sect leaders. BEIJING (AP) -- China vowed to punish
leading members of outlawed meditation group Falun Gong in the strongest
indication yet that the group's organizers will be prosecuted. The order
told cops to treat the group's practitioners as victims, unaware of the
"political goals and evil motives." But they'll be firmly re-educated.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560851089-3a4
: Is your sect evil? Is your gov't evil? Are you a perpetrator or a victim?
Do you have political goals, spiritual goals, unreal goals, galactic goals?
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@ Institute of Metahistory. The Institute of Metahistory unites people who
believe that the existing ideas of the past of the human civilization can
be wrong in many respects, since they were evolved on the basis of data
which can hardly be considered exhaustive, and bear the imprint of a vast
number of stereotypes. We think that as a result of closer cooperation
between different sciences, the renunciation of biased opinions and the
arrogant confidence that modern science, at least basically, knows every-
thing about everything, a fuller and more reliable picture of the past of
the human civilization can be reconstructed. http://www.imh.ru/main_e.htm
: Do you know everything about everything, everything about something, some-
thing about nothing, nothing about nothing? Do you accumulate metaknowledge?
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SkeptiBriefs:
# No evidence Ford used slave labor. WARSAW (AP) Auschwitz historians have
proven that Ford vehicles were used at the Nazi death camp, but have found
no evidence that the company used inmates as slave laborers. Rendered for
grease? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560850928-223
# Modified cows could fight MS. (BBC) A human gene could be introduced into
cows in an attempt to find a new treatment for multiple sclerosis. Mooo...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_429000/429096.stm
# PIPE DREAMS. An American arrested in Canada and charged with plotting to
blow up the trans-Alaska oil pipeline on New Year's Day was motivated by
the most American of reasons: profit. Times sabotage to coincide with the
"multiplier effect I'm expecting from the whole millennium effect." Try
cashing in: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/story/21405.html
# Japan cans J-1 rocket program. TOKYO (AP) Japan will scrap its J-1 rocket
program due to cost overruns and build a new rocket using cheaper foreign-
made engines. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560851161-799
# Immune breakthrough aids transplantation. (BBC) Receiving a transplant
organ also means a lifetime of drugs to prevent the body rejecting it -
until now, say US scientists. Pharmaceutical manufacturers despondent:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_429000/429157.stm
# New Cyber Virtual Top Model Makes Debut. NEW YORK (Reuters) Her employers
call her the perfect fashion model, the perfect employee: Webbie Tookay is
never late, never too tired to work and has no personal life to interfere
with her job. Not surprisingly, Webbie Tookay is not real. Nice tits,
though: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/virtmodel.htm
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SkeptiLinks:
# 10,000 followers try stopping Thai monk arrest - busted anyway:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560851144-144
# Y2K suits trickle in, may be start of a flood - hunker down:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560842260-aee
# Magazine prints Unabomber's parable - "a mockery of the left":
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560849846-5c8
@ Drugs and Crime: http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/180/drgcrime.html
@ Social Learning Theories: http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/200/learnin.html
@ The Sociology of Social Control: http://umsl.edu/~rkeel/200/socontrl.html
@ Imitation of Deviance: http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/tarde.htm
@ National White Collar Crime Center (NWCCC): http://iir.com/nwccc/nwccc.htm
@ CORPORATE & GOV'T DEVIANCE: http://www.oup-usa.org/toc/tc_0195094875.html
@ PERPETRATORS IN THE MARKETPLACE http://blue.temple.edu/~eastern/jones.html
@ Gov't, Business & Public Policy: http://www.polisci.ccsu.edu/trieb/Bus.htm
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