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@ Oni Demons! Flee! Aiiee! http://www.pasar5.com/NOH_MASK/oni/onimas_e.html
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# GOD TO SPEAK TO IRAQIS. A hush falls over Baghdad as a huge shimmering
face materialises in the sky. Soldiers & citizens prostrate themselves as
each hears the voice of Allah, commanding them to overthrow treacherous,
evil Saddam Hussein. Within minutes an angry mob storms the palace, guards
flee ... This highly imaginative scenario was proposed by USAF planners
for a bloodless victory in the Gulf conflict. The idea of putting words in
God's mouth is not new. In the 2nd century CE Lucian described a statue of
the god Aesculapius that spoke to believers, aided by a hidden priest with
a speaking tube. http://www.smh.com.au/news/0002/05/world/world17.html
: Have your deities spoken to you lately? Are you sure they were your gods?
Could they be impersonated? Could all divine voices be impersonated? Have
you impersonated any deities lately? Is it fulfilling, tiring, sexy, needed?
@ Allah is All-Knowing: http://www.enteract.com/~jwalz/Eliade/041.html
@ Allah is First & Last: http://www.enteract.com/~jwalz/Eliade/042.html
@ Allah is Light: http://www.enteract.com/~jwalz/Eliade/043.html
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# BigBugs 1999: http://zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2413514,00.html
# Hackers Find Easy Target In Japanese Web Sites. "Welcome, Japan, to the
world of cyberwar." How does it take for easy targets to harden, bristle?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-02/02/152l-020200-idx.html
# Congress mulls ban on new Web taxes, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563869059-ba9
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563888463-f5d
# FCC chief pushes wireless Internet, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563873214-bc3
: Would you rather attack the Net via virus/worms, taxes, rumors, technical
difficulties? Does the Net threaten your way of life? Would you like to kill
the Net, all Netizens, all humans, all life? Are we all parasites? Are you?
# Japan cult sites searched. TOKYO (AP) Cops used new powers to intensify
their crackdown on the Aum cult, staging raids on five of the group's
properties. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563903365-817
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# Iran clerics back minister's death. QOM, Iran (AP) - Thousands of Iranian
clerics called for the execution of moderate Culture Minister Ataollah
Mohajerani, saying his agency's relaxed stance toward the media allowed a
senior cleric to be insulted. "Death to Mohajerani," about 4,000 clerics
chanted in a protest in the holy city of Qom. The clerics are angry over
the recent publication of a cartoon in the reformist daily Azad depicting
Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah Yazdi, a hard-line cleric, as a crocodile.
In Muslim cultures, crocodiles are associated with treachery & deception.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563899751-5a4
: Does your belief system dictate violence toward dissidents? Should all who
disagree with you die? Have you executed any dissidents lately? Is this the
best way to ensure orthodoxy? What's y'r favorite doxy? Are you crocodilian?
@ Islamic Thought: http://wings.buffalo.edu/sa/muslim/isl/thought.html
@ Life of Muhammad: http://fordham.edu/halsall/source/muhammadi-sira.html
@ Muhammad's Last Sermon: http://fordham.edu/halsall/source/muhm-sermon.html
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# Dawn of the dragon. (BBC) Chinese people across the world celebrate the
start of the lunar new year with fireworks, dragon dances and parades.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_632000/632099.stm
# China prepares for Year of Dragon - streets of Beijing eerily quiet:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563896950-7dc
# Indonesia Chinese mark Dragon year - fireworks scare off evil spirits:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563903762-46b
# Britain welcomes year of dragon - fish & chips with soy sauce:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_631000/631940.stm
# Picture gallery: Enter the golden dragon - watch for droppings:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_632000/632107.stm
# Falun Gong arrests in Tiananmen Square - the start of another fun year:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_631000/631793.stm
# BEIJING POLICE STOMP CULTISTS AT START OF CHINESE NEW YEAR. Police beat &
kicked Falun Gong members at a Tiananmen Square demo marking the Year of
the Dragon: http://CNN.com/2000/ASIANOW/east/02/04/china.dragonyear.ap/
: Do you like to begin your festivals with revelry, fireworks, repression?
Are your repressed, repressive, repulsive? Will your religious sect/plot
overcome the govt sect/plot? Are you allied with other subversive sects?
Once you've overthrown the govt sect/plot, will you devour each other??
# Young refugee lama gives blessings at the start of the Tibetan new year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_631000/631824.stm
# Freedom: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563898610-9bf
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Crash-a-Rama-Lama:
# NOISES HEARD BY CREW BEFORE ALASKA AIRLINES CRASH:
http://www.CNN.com/2000/US/02/05/alaska.airlines.01/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_631000/631661.stm
# Masonic Ring surfaces, gives comfort to daughter of crash victim:
http://www.seattletimes.com/news/local/html98/ring_20000204.html
# AK 261 DataPage: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/alaskadata.htm
# Alaska Airlines Jet Was Flying Upside Down:
http://www.sightings.com/politics6/upsidedown.htm
# Alaska Airlines Flight 261 - Oddly Haunting Questions:
http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/questions.htm
# Alaska Airlines Crash - More Serious Issues:
http://www.sightings.com/politics6/serious.htm
# Was Pt. Mugu/Navy Doing Weapons Testing At Time Of Crash?
http://www.sightings.com/politics6/crash.htm
# Alaska Airlines Flt 261 And EgyptAir Flt 990 Anomalies And
Inconsistencies: http://www.trufax.org/w12.html
# EGYPTAIR PILOT WITH INFO ON 990 SEEKS ASYLUM IN UK:
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=1436
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_631000/631789.stm
# Kenya Airways black box recovered - witnesses heard no explosion, saw no
flames: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563901130-252
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