-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991213a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 phat, singing, dancing hamsters were harmed to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ INTERPENETRATIONS: http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/cultronix/tenhaaf/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # THE EARTH IS FLAT. "The known inhabited world is Flat, Level, a Plain World and 'Science' today and 'scientists' consist of witch doctors, sorcerers, tellers of tales, and 'Priest-Entertainers'. You can't orbit a flat earth. The Space Shuttle is a joke,and a very ludicrous joke." And an expensive one: http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/fe-scidi.htm. : Have you orbited in any ludicrous jokes lately? Are all space programs part of a vast, interconnected conspiracy to drain your tax dollars down the gullets of greedy politicos/corporations/networks/artists/scientists? # NASA ONE STEP CLOSER TO HUBBLE TELESCOPE REPAIR MISSION - but not quite yet: http://cnn.com/1999/TECH/space/12/11/shuttle.goldin/ # Mars Lander cast ready to try again - NASA: "Mars or Bust": http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562554918-bad _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFO Markings & Jets Chase UFO. 1) A 100 foot long by 15-18 foot diameter, bullet shaped, aluminium coloured object was sighted by the witness. 2) We saw a saucer shaped object flying toward us {westward} right down the middle of I-44. It was very, very low and was being followed by two USAF Jets, at a high rate of speed. They were followed some distance behind by two huge green or black helicopters. http://www.caus.org/mu121199.htm : Do the black helis usually attack or support the UFOs? Who was chasing whom? Have you seen any big bullet-shaped aluminum objects lately? Where? # ALIEN MUD & UFO. 1) PERUVIANs WALLOW IN "MIRACULOUS MUD" - Allegedly Touched by Space Aliens. 2) UFO OVER SHANGHAI - Widely witnessed UFO reported. Mass consternation: http://www.caus.org/pn121199.htm # Believers, Infidels, Blind Chickens, And Broken Clocks - tearing the UFO/abduction community apart: http://www.caus.org/mc121199.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mexico honors Virgin of Guadalupe. (AP) Millions of Roman Catholics poured into Mexico City capital to honor the land's most potent religious symbol - the Virgin of Guadalupe, patron saint of the Americas. Crowds continued to arrive Sunday, the traditional anniversary of the Virgin Mary's 1531 appearance to Juan Diego, an Indian. Mexico City police estimated that by midnight Saturday, 5 million people, some arriving on their knees, others on bicycles, had already mobbed the vicinity of the immense basilica where the virgin's image hangs. Some of Mexico's most famous singers joined with the multitude at midnight Saturday to sing the traditional Mexican birthday song, "Las Mananitas," in honor of the dark-skinned virgin. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562579156-8e8 : Who's your favorite virgin? Have you seen her lately? Does she appear in person, in rust, fungus, crops, cookies? Has your belief system co-opted any indigenous spirits/deities lately? Believers in the old paradigm who convert to your system - are they empowered? Have any of them taken control yet?? # Chavez attacks ex-Vatican official. CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Pres. Hugo Chavez stepped up his attacks on the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy, saying the Vatican's former representative in Venezuela is allied with the country's corrupt political elite. Cardinal Rosalio Castillo Lara a crook: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562581342-628 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Singing Hamsters top UK Music Charts As The Millennium Ends - despair! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_555000/555087.stm # Hamsters Rule! http://foxnews.com/etcetera/wires/1209/e_rt_1209_22.sml @ Become One With Singing, Dancing Hamsters: http://www.hamsterdance.com : Are the Singing Hamsters fronting for a vast, interconnected mindcontrol conspiracy, sapping the intellects and wills of all those who view them?? @ THE SINGAPORE ZOOLOGICAL ADVENTURE: http://cyberfair.gsn.org/tchs98/ # LIFE FOUND IN ANTARCTIC ICE: http://cnn.com/1999/NATURE/12/10/vostok.ice/ # Venezuelan wildlife being destroyed - Amazon rainforest doomed: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562573943-526 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE: http://www.magonia.demon.co.uk/arc/90/sra.htm @ THE LESSONS OF FOLKLORE. Alien abductions, Satanic Ritual Abuse, Faerie Kidnappings, phantom clowns; they all share common roots in the rich history of folklore. http://www.magonia.demon.co.uk/arc/90/folklore.htm : Have you been abducted lately? By aliens, phantom clowns, ritual abusers? # Was it a Dream or Something Else? http://www.caus.org/pc121399.htm # Phantom Panthers and Corn-Eating Big Foot: http://caus.org/pn121399.htm @ The Hickman Report: The Time's They Aren't a Changing - suppressing the truth about aliens for fun and profit: http://www.caus.org/mc121399.htm : Have you suppressed any truths lately? Is it fun, dirty work, necessary? @ Mythology Background of the UFO Abduction Phenomenon. In biblical times, the prophet, Ezekiel, reported what would probably be deemed a variant of a CE-4 (close encounters of the fourth kind) UFO experience, had it been reported today. http://www.the-spa.com/thirteen/ufo's/ufomyth.htm : Have you had any close encounters lately? Are they worth recording? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ MEA CULPA: OK, I lied - some questionable things DID happen yesterday - but it's not like I was too lazy/stoned/abducted to report/question them. I've been slaving away on a web site dedicated to a major inspiration for this Bulletin - Harry Oliver <http://www.sonic.net/~ric/hofc/oliver.htm> and his DESERT RAT SCRAP BOOK <http://members.xoom.com/0rpheus/hofc/index.htm> -- without an early inoculation of this stuff, I'd never have done my NEWS FROM SONOMA COWNTY bulletins, nor found the Area51 subculture, nor posted snide questions to fringe news items for all to read -- none of this would have happened. I'll write up the story of that someday soon, and I'll let y'all know when major advances on the Oliver Project transpire. Cya --Ric PS: If you have copies of the DRSB available for sale/trade/scan, RSVP. * Rev. 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