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@ Forgotten New York: http://www.forgotten-ny.com/
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@ ELEUSIS PROJECT: Re-empowering ritual; rediscovering ancient techniques
for living in harmony with the Earth: http://www.eleusis.org/main.html
@ Visions for the future: http://www.thedreamkeeper.freeservers.com
@ Re-Earthlng the Cities: http://www.merlin.net.au/~arachne
: What's your favorite ritual? Does if focus you? Are you otherwise numb? Do
you go on many pilgrimages? Are pilgrimages, floating rituals, seeking out
centers of cosmic power, good excuses for travel? Do you write-off expenses?
@ Mayan Pilgrimage plans: http://www.kachina.net/~alunajoy/pilgrimages.html
@ 13 year Mayan Astrology: http://www.kachina.net/~alunajoy/2000feb.html
@ Center of the Sun News: http://www.kachina.net/~alunajoy/articles.html
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Conspiracies-R-Us:
# Special counsel seeks tests on Waco recordings - Sect lawyers ask if FBI
tapes given to court had been altered. The Waco special counsel's office
asked a federal judge for permission to perform independent testing on
tape recordings made from FBI surveillance devices on the crucial last
day of the 1993 Branch Davidian siege. Originals or altered copies?
http://dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/23374_WACO28.html
: Has your conspiracy altered much evidence lately? Do you have expert tech-
nicians who can do undetectable editing/fabrication? Do your techies doctor
some 'evidence' sloppily so it'll be seized upon, distracting us from other
stuff that's more incriminating? Do you have complete control over what we
think is 'evidence?' Is everything we 'know' wrong? Is there any truth? Why?
@ After Littleton: http://www.salon.com/news/special/littleton/
# Update: Canada had eyed bombing suspect, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563696564-3ed
# Also: Report links bin Laden to Algerians, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563688617-242
: What's y'r favorite violent conspiracy? Are the best conspiracies violent,
nonviolent, mind-controlling, invisible, inevitable, all-enveloping, fluid?
# SMALL SWISS TOWN DRAWS BIG NAMES TO WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM: NWO conspirators
descend on Davos: http://CNN.com/2000/WORLD/europe/01/27/world.forum.02/
@ MicroSoft Vs. The World: http://www.salon.com/tech/special/microsoft/
# Break Up MS: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33939,00.html
: Does the interlocking ownership of major corporations who fund politicians
in all nations already constitute a world govt?If an appendage is apparently
"broken up", does that significantly affect the matrix of control? Why not?
# MANY ATLANTA FLIGHTS CANCELED IN SUPER BOWL STORM - weather conspiracy
targets national rite: http://CNN.com/2000/WEATHER/01/28/winter.storm.01/
# Whitewater Webb seeks revenge - Webb Hubbell may sue "vast right-wing con-
spiracy": http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2000/1/28/80310
# Killing Me Softly: http://www.reason.com/0003/fe.ml.weapons.html
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# Rabbi spins Pope. JERUSALEM(AP) Putting a political spin on JP2's upcoming
visit,Israel's chief rabbi sez the pope's planned stop at the Western Wall
is de facto Vatican recognition of Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563689022-c4e
# Holy smoke: US House leadership picked a Presbyterian chaplain over a more
popular Catholic priest. Then all hell broke loose. Capitol Hill holy war:
http://www.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/01/27/chaplain/index.html
: What's your favorite religious-political conflict? Are all religions poli-
tical? Is all politics religious? Does your belief system strive to control
all religious/political/economic/artistic realms of human endeavor? Why not?
# GOD'S ARMY FLEES. BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Twin 12-year-old boys who lead
the fringe Myanmar rebel group God's Army were reported on the run through
the jungle after their headquarters was overrun by Myanmar govt forces.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563688926-bd7
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# Japan hits at hackers protesting attempted whitewash of wartime atrocities
-- hacks/cracks spotlight country's vulnerability to cyber crime.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563698315-ef0
# Great New Crypto: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000127-000025.html
# Greater Hack Threat: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000127-000005.html
# MS Win2K Anti-Piracy Tools: http://theregister.co.uk/000127-000019.html
# US Pans China Crypto: http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33950,00.html
# Crypto Retrial: http://zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2428386,00.html
: Have you cracked any govts lately? Do they fight back? Are they deadly? Is
MicroSoft deadlier than Japan? Is it more powerful? Do corporations crack
govts? Do they need to bother? Are govts cheap to by? Which would you buy?
# Neo-Nazis Nab Net. STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) The Internet gives neo-Nazis a
dangerous tool to spread racist propaganda worldwide, a top Swiss official
told a Holocaust confab, urging international cooperation to prevent the
transmission of racist theories, hatred & discrimination across national
borders. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563689116-fa5
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# 2nd Gringa nears sainthood. VATICAN CITY (AP) The Vatican OK'd the final
step needed for conferring sainthood on Katharine Drexel, a Philadelphia
woman who abandoned the life of a socialite to start an order of nuns
dedicated to the poor. Already beatified, Drexel is now eligible to be-
come the second saint born in the USA. Official recognition of miracle:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563687643-0bb
# Also: Pope John XXIII miracle approved, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563688609-2db
: What's your favorite miracle? Have you turned any water into wine lately,
or do you mostly go the other way? Have you verified any miracles lately?
How? Do you have a miracle-generation system running yet? Is it in Beta??
@ Of the Religion of Deism Compared with the Christian Religion:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/paine-deism.html and see
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/paine-essaysreligion.html
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