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# ONLINE SHOPPERS BID MILLIONS FOR HUMAN KIDNEY. (CNN) Online shoppers who
frequent the Internet auction site eBay are used to seeing a wide variety
of things for sale. On a given day, anything from a grandfather clock to
40 acres of Wyoming ranch land can be found among the thousands of items
up for bidding. Still, the notice of a "fully functional kidney" put up
on the site last week created a stir. It also brought in bids of more than
$5.7 million before the company intervened to block the sale. Trafficking
in human organs is a federal felony. 'EBay has zero tolerance for illegal
items': http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/03/ebay.kidney/index.html
: How much would you bid on a kidney, lung, pancreas, heart, brain, eye? Do
you have any extra organs for sale? Is your lab-grown replacement better??
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# Soon: Insects In Space? SANTA LUCIA OCOTLAN, Mexico (Reuters) Families in
southern Mexico scour the fields in search of things that crawl, hop, fly
and generally make for a crispy treat. Grasshoppers, ant and fly larvae,
worms & assorted other bugs have been a staple for thousands of years and
remain an important food source for poor Mexicans. After making the leap
from field to kitchen, the insects' next step could be onto the plates of
astronauts. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990902/10/science-mexico-insects
: What's your tastiest arthropod treat? Do you like'em with legs? How many?
Would you rather eat arthropods, aliens, crops, humans, synthetics, robots?
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@ THE MOST LIKELY LOCATION OF ALIEN LIFE? SETI and others looking for extra
terrestrial life should look to galaxy NGC 4555, in the constellation Coma
and the Zodiacal sign Virgo. What we call alien life exists in intelligent
abundance on 4555, and it is from there that the light beings who direct
the fortunes or future of earthlings originate. You who are reading this
also originated from 4555. These are not aliens at all, but neighbors who
share with us this magnificent universe. Indeed they are far advanced,
having discovered their light bulb 25,000 years ago, while we discovered
ours only 100 years ago. http://hiddenmeanings.com/strange.html#LIKELY
: Are you from NGC 4555? Is it overcrowded there? Are you here for our own
good? Do you have tax-exempt status? Do you make crop circles? Is that fun?
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# Early Mammals Lived Alongside Dinosaurs. LONDON(Reuters) Tiny teeth from a
prehistoric animal found in a jawbone in Madagascar are proof that mammals
and dinosaurs roamed the Earth together more than 100 million years ago.
Until now scientists suspected mammals arose after dinosaurs went extinct.
But the new finding shows that mammals lived much earlier than previously
thought. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990902/03/science-science-teeth
# Hominid fossils found in Eritrea. TORONTO (UPI) Paleontologists have found
well-preserved hominid fossils along with stone tools estimated to be more
than 1 million years old in Eritrea. The team also found well-preserved
fossils of elephants, hippos, horses and crocodiles from the same period,
showing that Eritrea was a much wetter place in the middle Pleistocene era
than now. http://news.excite.com/news/u/990901/22/tech-science-hominids
: How far can you trace your ancestry on Earth? Are you from elsewhere? How
did you get here? Have you consorted with dinosaurs? Do they stink? Do you?
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# Calif. minister sentenced for fraud. NEW YORK (AP) A California clergyman
who used scripture on the goodness of profit to take followers for $1.4
million in a pyramid scheme was sentenced to nearly four years in prison.
Charles Groeschel, who ran the Association of Individual Ministries under
the name Pastor Chuck, pleaded guilty to mail and wire fraud. The flake
ran pyramid scheme based in Palm Desert, Calif. in which he told followers
they could make millions of dollars in a year. Bend over, Pastor Chuck -
see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560985940-db1
: Who/what's your favorite religious fraud? Are all religions fraudulent? Do
you defraud suckers, er believers only for the holiest reasons? Is you rich?
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@ WHO WAS "REVEREND" PRANAITIS AND WHAT DID HE DO? The Rev. I.B. Pranaitis
was a turn-of-the-century Russian anti-Semite, "Master of Theology and
Professor of the Hebrew Language at the Imperial Ecclesiastical Academy of
the Roman Catholic Church" in St.Petersburg,Russia. He also had a criminal
record. In 1892, with the support of his Archbishop, he published an anti-
Semitic tract in Latin called "Christianus in Talmude Iudaeorum," or in
English, "The Talmud Unmasked, The Secret Rabbinical Teachings Concerning
Christians" which was translated into English by American anti-Semites
around 1939. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Cyprus/8815/pranaitis.html
: What's y'r favorite hate literature? Have you written any hate literature?
Has it been well-received? Who pays you for generating hate literature? How?
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# Muslims claim Moscow bombing. MOSCOW (AP) - A previously unknown Islamic
fundamentalist gang claimed responsibility for bombing an upscale shopping
mall near the Kremlin in which 41 people were injured. The claim, made by
telephone, said the bombing was over fighting between Russian troops and
Islamic militants in the southern republic of Dagestan. Writers off the
hook? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560984749-b0b
: Does your belief system promote bombing, terrorism, violence, slaughter?
Do your deities drink human blood? Do you willingly supply it? Who's next?
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SkeptiLinks:
# MORE DETAILS ON WACO PROBE: http://cnn.com/US/9909/03/fbi.waco.01/
# EX-SEN. DANFORTH TO HEAD PROBE: http://cnn.com/US/9909/03/waco.danforth/
# More FBI-Waco evidence found - previously undisclosed video footage:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560988876-d5c
# Also: Transcript of Waco tape, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560988919-f5e
# Black actors who portray slaves at Colonial Willamsburg complain that
they are being typecast, underpaid and denied advancement. Tradition:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560984077-74b
@ IS HIV A MAN-MADE VIRUS DESIGNED TO KILL BLACKS AND GAYS? Research
Suggests the AIDS Virus Has a Racial and Sexual Preference - see
http://www.konformist.com/1999/aids/cantwell1.htm
@ Alternative AIDS Views: http://www.konformist.com/1999/aids/aids.htm
@ Pentagon Budget Requests for Synthetic Biological Agents - see
http://www.konformist.com/1999/aids/aidsdod.txt
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