-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991130c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No Russian librarians were forcibly kissed to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Aazudian goddess: http://web.utk.edu/~blyons/xfresco.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Here Come 'The Naughties'. (WIRED) Forget the "Millies" and the "Double- 0's." There's a grassroots campaign to name the first decade of the new millennium -- something smart and slightly subversive. Why not "Zippies"? http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,32769,00.html?tw=wn19991130 # Don't Talk Sex, Politics, Religion. LONDON (Reuters) British taxi drivers were told by a local council not to talk with their passengers about sex, religion or politics. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991130/12/odd-taxis : What do you want to call the next decade? Do you give a good rat's ass? Do you talk more about the millennium, sex, politics, religion, aliens or food? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Entering the Heart of the Alien Mystery. "The most important truths for our culture," sez John E. Mack, MD, "may lie in the extraordinary nature and power of the abductees' experiences, the opening these experiences provide to other deeper dimensions of reality, and what they may mean for our culture and the human future." http://www.caus.org/pn113099.htm : Have you had an alien experience lately? Can you show that your alleged experience isn't a hallucination, dream or lie? Does reality have deeper dimensions? What's deeper than reality? Can reality be abducted? By whom? # Daylight Sighting of Silver Metallic Cigar-Shaped Craft In Mountains Near San Diego: http://www.caus.org/mu113099.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Viral clue to American settlers. (BBC) Ancient inhabitants of the Andean mountains were infected with the same virus as modern-day Japanese people, suggesting travellers from Asia colonised South America thousands of years ago. http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_542000/542201.stm # ALSO - 'Perfect' mummies found high in Andes http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_312000/312846.stm # First Americans were Australian: http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_430000/430944.stm : Where are your ancestors from? What lands have you colonized? Who did you exterminate when you got there? Is human expansion all about genocide? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Seattle-Battle: # Taking Media to the WTO Streets. The World Trade Organization summit has galvanized a group of independent journalists who seek to counter the high-level negotiations with the power of grassroots communication. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32781,00.html?tw=wn19991130 : Which terrorists will nuke Seattle during the WTO confab? Will the loss of economics/politics wonks, MicroSerfs and the KingDome bother anyone much? Do you want to nuke a trade conference, political convention, Millennium party? # WTO MEETING: IN-DEPTH REPORT: http://www.cnnfn.com/news/specials/wto/ # Anti-WTO Protest In Seattle Biggest Civil Disobedience In 30 Years? http://www.sightings.com/politics5/antiwto.htm # World Trade Talks Start Amid Protest Chaos: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991130/18/news-wto-leadall # Pepper gas fired at WTO protesters - open warfare in streets: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562335823-400 # The Microsoft Meditation Begins - Om, Om On The Range: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32760,00.html?tw=wn19991130 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cursor software spys on users. (AP) Popular software used by more than 16 million people to change a Web browser's cursor into cartoon characters & other images is quietly tracking victims across the Net, recording which Web pages they visit. Comet Systems Inc.'s free cursor software reports back to its own computers with each customer's unique serial number each time that person visits any of 60,000 Web sites, including dozens aimed at young children. Computer privacy experts expressed dismay over the behind- the-scenes communications, which are sent without warning. We're watching you: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562334464-f6d : Have you spied on anyone lately? Are digital cartoons good for spying? Do all cartoons infect your mind, taking control, monitoring you, changing your behaviour, enslaving you? What cartoon are you thinking of at this moment?? # Lawmaker Wants Probe of Pokemon. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) A Puerto Rican lawmaker called for an investigation into the Pokemon craze after he heard reports of U.S. schoolkids brawling over the Japanese cartoon char- acter trading cards. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991130/12/odd-pokemon _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Police Search Home 300 Times, Find Nothing. CIUDAD NEZAHUALCOYOTL: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991129/07/odd-crime-mexico # Israeli Woman Wins Right to Dead Husband's Sperm. JERUSALEM: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991126/08/odd-health-israel @ Militia Of Montana: http://www.montana.com/militiaofmontana # Arafat's Involvement in Terrorists Who Have Killed Americans: http://www.ourjerusalem.com/documents/summer99/1126docs.htm # Gypsy families leave Czech Republic following a skinhead attack: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562333887-a56 @ Fighting poverty with the classics: http://expressnews.com/pantheon/news-bus/greenberg/28greenberg11-28.shtml @ Source-code lit: http://salon.com/tech/feature/1999/11/30/lions/print.html @ A sexy librarian named Natasha and other surprises of the New Russia. I go 5000 miles to learn that God is in the weiners & William S. Burroughs is a cult star. http://www.salon.com/travel/diary/pott/1999/11/13/siberia5/ @ Christ Conspiracy Links: http://www.truthbeknown.com/christcon.htm # Gulf War, brain damage linked - brain scans evidence: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562335450-ef0 # DEPRESSIVE ILLNESS COSTS UK ECONOMY 2 BILLION POUNDS ANNUALLY. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13548.rhtml # STUDY SAYS PHYSICAL INACTIVITY COSTS U.S. $24 BILLION: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=22624 # SMOKING BEGINNING AT YOUNG AGE LINKED TO NEGATIVE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13553.rhtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "What kind of dumb thing is THAT?!?!?" --kid pointing at my BikeE http://www.bikee.com [the highly-evolved human-powered vehicle] * Rev. 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