-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991206b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 bloated druids were drowned to produce this bulletin. They bobbed up. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Contest to remix 57 Beck loops: http://www.launch.com/promotions/beck/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Seahenge dated to spring 2050 BC. (BBC) Seahenge, the remarkable ring of oak timbers recently uncovered on a UK beach, is exactly 4,050 years old. Scientists working with English Heritage have come up with the age by combining a number of techniques, including complex mathematics. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_544000/544947.stm # ALSO - Seahenge gives up its secrets: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_388000/388988.stm # 'Seahenge' moves on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_353000/353337.stm # Facing up to the Stone Age: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_511000/511452.stm : Do you make circles? Would your rather make circles in sand, crops, rock, water, air, snow, lava, brains, ants? Are your circles monumental? Why not? @ LINKS - Council for British Archaeology: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ @ Norfolk Arch.Unit: http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/tourism/museums/arch_unt.htm @ Druids 'Woodhenge News': http://druidry.org/obod/text/news/woodhenge.html @ English Heritage: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/ @ Flag Fen: http://www.flagfen.freeserve.co.uk/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Project Dark Vadar; Coils & ETs. "Since then I've taken something off my leg that looked like a bump with a hair in the center of it coiled up and on the tip of the coil it went straight up. I tried to pull the coil out but it was like pulling on wire even though I pulled on it with my finger- nails, the coil went back to its original position every time. The bump was hard like a piece of glass" - see http://www.caus.org/pc120499.htm : Have you checked your implants lately? D'ya have more implants in y'r leg, head, genitals, elsewhere? Are y'r implants fun to play with? Do they move? # NASA prepares to save Hubble 'scope - Reptilioids may not cooperate: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562416744-bc8 # Craft may yield clues to sinking - Grissom's Mercury 7 capsule puzzles: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562432230-1a7 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Castro says Seattle police "worse than Pinochet". HAVANA (Reuters)- Cuban Pres. Fidel Castro branded US police action against protesters at the WTO meeting in Seattle as worse than repression by Chile's former military ruler Augusto Pinochet. The fiery 73-year-old communist leader, often accused of repression at home, suggested that had such scenes been seen in Cuba, there would likely have been a NATO-led invasion of the island on grounds of human rights abuses. U.S. police's "brutal methods" - see http://news.excite.com/news/r/991205/12/cuba-usa-police : Should NATO invade Seattle? Did they already? Is the WTO a fascist tool? Are the Seattle cops? Should Cuba be invaded? Where d'ya most wanna invade? # Protest vigil continues in Seattle - downtown streets blocked again: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562437995-92e # Also: Seattle recovers from WTO meetings - provokateurs sneak off: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562417903-d3c # Also: Seattle faces criticism for WTO woe - Bill Gates is unmoved: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562416635-5f6 # And: Keyes says WTO threatens liberty, has bad dreams: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562416889-221 # Buchanan condemns WTO, globalism, transnational corporations, food: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562421491-c97 # Will WTO Hurt E-Commerce? http://usatoday.com/life/cyber/invest/in132.htm # WTO heir sees hope for talks - the NWO shall prevail: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562432409-845 # Nations call for WTO reforms - democratization necessary: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562416794-4fd # Protesters, WTO nations claim win - but fat lady ain't sung yet: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562416688-e63 # Also: Talks collapsed amid protests, greed, abuse, lust: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562445374-fd2 # And: Protesters' idealism survives, but it may be irrelevant: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562398094-fc3 : Are you a NWO/WTO agent/manager? Do you control the world yet? Is running the planet fun, tiring, necessary, sexy, ennobling, godlike, filthy, boring? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # What Company Spies Really Want. (Wired) The cold war is history. These days corporate spies are after such mundane stuff as customer records. Tech companies are particularly vulnerable and should take precautions, say FBI agents who specialize in economic espionage. They're all out to get you: http://wired.lycos.com/news/business/0,1367,32672,00.html @ Openrecords.org provides us with the disturbing combination of petty <http://204.251.21.22/cgi-bin/complaints/most_recent_complaints.cgi> consumer complaints, searchable records of sexual offenders and gory <http://www.openrecords.org/specials/davis1.jpg> photos of executed criminals. O boy. And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Law/ : Is all your information online? Is privacy irrelevant, as well as being impossible? Do you want your sexual offenses to be publicly viewable? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AUDIOMINING - Relief at hand for the terribly overworked staff at NSA. New AudioMiningT Technology Uses Award-Winning Speech Recognition Engine to Quickly Capture & Index Info Contained in Recorded Video Footage, Radio Broadcasts, Phone Conversations, Call Center Dialogues, Help Desk Record- ings, and More! New advanced technology to retrieve specified information contained in hours of recordings was demonstrated by Dragon Systems. Spies everywhere are grateful: http://dragonsystems.com/products/audiomining/ : Would you like to capture and index everything you say, everything that is said to you, every word that anyone says about you, ever word ever spoken?? # Email Privacy Hole: Who Knew? (Wired) The latest e-privacy problem was caused by the tangled intersection of Net software functions. 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