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@ U R Where U Live! U.S. ZIPcodes/Lifestyles: http://yawyl.claritas.com/
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# Violent, Deadly Video Games Coming Home To Roost. (MSNBC) Violent video
games, blamed by many as part of a cultural malaise that encourages youth
violence, are a reality of the Computer Age that parents no longer can
ignore. Recent hearings in Congress have focused on helping parents
understanding new ratings systems designed to keep adult games out of
children's hands: http://www.msnbc.com/news/338354.asp?cp1=1
: What's your favorite killer videogame? Did it make you kill anyone? Do you
enjoy killing? Would you kill anyway if the only game you had was Parcheesi?
# India fighting brain fever outbreak. HYDERABAD (AP) Hundreds of pigs have
been slaughtered in south India to fight an outbreak of brain fever that
has killed 138 children in a month. At least 660 other kids suffer from
Japanese encephalitis in govt hospitals in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
Doctors say pigs carry the encephalitis virus and is spread to humans by
mosquitoes. Children are most vulnerable, and hundreds die in India each
year. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562226084-71f
: Are pigs or videogames more dangerous to kids? Should pigs be banned? Do
videogames cause brain fevers? Do pigs cause cultural malaise? R U piggy??
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FBI wants "Y2K secret Army briefing" video yanked. The FBI has demanded that
a web site with a video purporting to be a Y2K military briefing be removed.
The ISP has complied. The grainy 6-minute video clip shows a plan to ignite
race riots - complete with staged assaults on women - after the Times Square
ball drop. Nobody sez the video, placed online by artist Mike Z, is illegal
to own or distribute. The FBI did not ask for a court order to shut down the
site and probably could not have obtained one. But the clip is annoying to
the US govt, which took action to censor it. What are they afraid of? Why?
# Report: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/9947/boal.shtml
@ Talk: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/11/24/013232&mode=nested
@ Mirror sites: http://moxy.wtower.com/mirrors/timesq.ram
http://www.angelfire.com/ma/mauicool7/timesq.ram
http://www.rumormillnews.com/
: What information would you like to suppress? Do you have a real reason to
suppress it, or just a knee-jerk reaction? Have you squashed any annoyances
lately? Do you have armed agents to help you squash annoyances? Where???
# Rioting For Times Square? - Latest Net Conspiracy Makes Rounds:
http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/rounds.htm
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# DANGERS OF X-RAYS OVERBLOWN. Don't let news of "Dangers From X-rays" scare
you. One prof has published some questionable research that he says proves
that x-rays contribute to deaths from cancer and heart disease. He doesn't
prove his case at all, and the medical community has long discounted his
research. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=22489
: Have you died from Xrays lately? Did they hurt? Should we avoid Xrays? Did
aliens Xray you? Did you Xray aliens? Did you find anything? Do they melt??
@ TODAY'S QUESTION - FIRST BRAIN TRANSPLANT. The first recorded transplant
recipient was a dog, on whose brain was placed a piece of cerebral cortex
from a cat. When did it happen? http://psychiatry.medscape.com/14313.rhtml
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# The Man Who Keeps the FBI's Secrets, Oversees Skeletons in U.S.'s Closet.
WASHINGTON (APBnews.com) John Kelso Jr. stares out from behind a pile of
papers that may - or may not - hold the truth to JFK's assassination, UFOs
or any mystery your mind can conjure up. "People want to know what their
government is doing," he said, "and rightfully so." The Real X-Files are
here: http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/1999/11/22/kelso1122_01.html
: What secrets would you like to reveal? Have you hacked/cracked any secret
files lately? Were you caught, tortured, disposed of? Where is your body??
# Covert Government Control Of Cyberspace- The Coming Showdown:
http://www.sightings.com/politics5/gov.htm
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# China enslaves Falun Gongers. BEIJING (AP) - Chinese authorities have sent
another 12 members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement to labor
camps. The 12 were sent away for doing Falun Gong meditation exercises in
public in defiance of a govt ban on the movement. The number of Falun Gong
practitioners sentenced nationwide to labor camp terms may exceed 2,000.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562223427-6f5
: Do you buy Chinese products? Are they made by Falun Gong or other slaves?
Are slave-made products better than those made by unionized workers? How??
# China deploys new missiles - short-range nukes aimed at Taiwan:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562229261-b97
# Retired admiral warns of China takeover of Panama, attack on US:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562230697-834
# China Celebrates 5,000 Years Of Uninterrupted Civilization: [HA!]
http://www.sightings.com/politics5/5000.htm
@ MEDITATION: WHERE DO I START? (be subversive):
http://www.vow.com/musetools/tfdl_start.html
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# Major Media Sneers At Chemtrail Controversy. GOOD NEWS! Those black heli-
copters that threatened to take over America for years have vanished. The
folks who spend their time warning us about such things have discovered a
new menace: jet contrails. As menaces go, this is a pretty good one. While
hardly anyone you know has ever seen a black helicopter, a UFO or a giant
man-eating squid, practically everyone's seen a contrail. You just know
they're there. http://www.sightings.com/politics5/chembe.htm
: Have you eaten or been eaten by a giant squid lately? Do telepathic giant
squids make us think about contrails to distract us from their conspiracies?
# PSSST! WANNA HEAR A SECRET? Sordid whisper campaigners cannot become
successful character assassins on their own. They need accomplices.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/Nov1999/112499/whisper112499.htm
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