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@ Retro Toys: http://www.kconline.com/kurtkelsey/toys/
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# RETURN OF THE BLACK DEATH. (BBC) Climate changes & increasing globali-
sation could bring back the diseases of the Middle Ages. The bacterium
responsible for the Black Death which ravaged Europe and Asia between
the 14th and 17th centuries could find its way back to Britain. Yow.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_456000/456831.stm
: What's your favorite pestilence? Have you ever been prosecuted for pesti-
lence? Have you developed a treatment for bubonic plague lately? Why not?
@ A proper utopia has great food (fruit and veggies) and no money to
cause strife. Reason governs all and the sex is as fine as the weather:
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/09/26/stibooboo03003.html?999
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@ Pink Swastika <http://home.earthlink.net/~lively/pinkswastika/> explains
how homosexuals were largely responsible for Nazism. The Annotated Pink
Swastika <http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Barracks/8706/> is a good
guide to all the errors, mistakes, and lies therein. Get it right, eh?
: Does your belief system attribute blame to humans due to their biological
makeup? Does your faith attract members with specific psychopathologies? Do
you fixate on other people's gender preferences, iconography, word patterns?
# Even before Deep Blue, computers were cleaning up at chess and checkers.
But crossword puzzles require a subtle human touch, don't they? Really?
http://www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/issues/Sciobs99/sciobs99-09verbalistic.html
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# Cult to claim gas attack. (BBC) Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese doomsday cult
that carried out a deadly nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995,
ponders an apology. Sarin victims ponder mortality, retribution, shame.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_459000/459920.stm
@ Links - American Family Foundation - Aum Information:
http://www.csj.org/infoserv_groups/grp_eastern/grp_aum/grouptopic_aum.htm
@ Aum chronology: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/news4-96/chrono4-24.html
@ Aum Shinrikyo homepage: http://www.aum-shinrikyo.com/english/index.htm
@ Japan's National Police Agency: http://www.npa.go.jp/
: Do the leaders of your doomsday cult practice mindcontrol in members? Are
you a member, a leader, a deity? What's your favorite nerve gas? Is it fun?
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@ The Cosmic Itching Powder - The effects of electromagnetic pollution
on the health of humans. Appendix: suggestions for limiting your
exposure to EMF. http://www.visitations.com/mindnet/MN112.HTM
@ Effects of 6-10 Hz ELF on Brain Waves - Effects of ELF on brain waves
(EEG) and entrainment. http://www.visitations.com/mindnet/MN111.HTM
@ PhilDick: The Other Side. Was SF writer Philip K. Dick mind-controlled
and do his books reflect this? http://visitations.com/mindnet/MN113.HTM
: How much mindcontrol is enough? Have you ever tried hypermindcontrol? Do
higher levels of mindcontrol produce vivid results? Are you, like, buzzed?
@ If normal coffee http://www.peets.com/ just doesn't have enough of the
good stuff <http://www.cs.unb.ca/~alopez-o/Coffee/caffaq.html>, maybe
you should try Shock <http://www.shockalots.com/> brand hypercaffinated
coffee, with 200 mg of caffeine per serving. Get the buzz on, eh?
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# Monuments of the world in danger. (BBC) War, the collapse of Communism
& tourism are the most serious threats to historic monuments worldwide.
@ Links - World Monuments Fund: http://www.worldmonuments.org/
@ 100 Most Endangered: http://worldmonuments.org/html/programs/watch.html
: Have you vandalized any historic/cultural/artistic monuments lately? What
monuments would you most like to destroy/deface/defile? Does your belief
system promote the destruction of your competitors' monuments? Should they
destroy yours? Would the world really be a better place without you? When?
@ Bruno Bettelheim, liar & fraud, not only blamed the Nazis' success on
their victims, but claimed that autism was caused by "refrigerator
mothers": http://www.best.com/~tikkun/bkbettel.html
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@ Temple Grandin <http://www.grandin.com/> is perhaps the world's foremost
designer <http://www.meatpoultry.com/archives97/bestoftg.htm> of cattle &
hog slaughter houses. <http://grandin.com/design/blueprint/blueprint.html>
She's also autistic <http://www.autism.org/> & has written several books
about it. http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/query/(keyword="temple%20grandin")
: Have you designed any slaughterhouses lately? Do you prefer architecture
for killing birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, humans, insects, aliens, me? Do
you care much that your work produces death? Is death necessary for life??
# The French gladly swallow all that hops, slithers, or crawls, so long as
it does so on French soil. As for Idaho beef and Florida tomatoes - well
hell, not so fast: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/99/1004/6408122a.htm
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# Record rise in gold price. Gold prices post their highest one day rise for
17 years to breach the US$300 level, closing at US$301 an ounce. Gold has
now gained around US$50 an ounce since it hit a 20-year low in early May
when the UK Treasury said it would sell more than half its gold reserves.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/the_economy/newsid_460000/460068.stm
: Do you conspire to manipulate gold prices? Do you have enough gold? Do you
suppress transmutation technologies? Have you gold-plated anyone lately??
@ It's been said that Stalin's terror had nothing to do with communism.
But as Isaac Babel declared, communist ideology was essential to it.
He too was shot: http://www.art-bin.com/art/amosc_preeng.html
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$ Gay? Want rough trade? <http://rough-trade.com/> Wealthy (or desperate)
enough to fly to Germany http://worldfetish.com/shopping/studiogum/ba1.htm
for it? Then let Mike & Thorsten http://snafu.de/~gayskins/our_fees_en.htm
give you the hardcore rodgering you crave. But don't blame me, eh?
: Is bad sex better than no sex at all? Is there no such thing as bad sex?
Do you like it rough? Does this satisfy repressed childhood needs? Really?
# Clinton-Gore To Give Blanket Endorsement To Electroshock:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/electro.htm
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