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# In Memoriam - Comet Lee: Comets can discharge the solar capacitor and
create electromagnetic effects on life-bearing planets, their magnetic
fields, power grids, electrical infrastructure. Comets act at a
distance. That's why the ancients said: Planets augur change. Comet
Lee and Nostradamus: http://www.ecologystore.com/econews14.htm
# COMET LEE - NEWS STORY: http://www.ecologystore.com/econews13.htm
# ROSWELL CONSPIRACIES is a UFO conspiracy-minded show similar to X-Files,
but with a few different twists. For one,Blaze is a banshee. But according
to the storyline, banshees, and all monsters like werewolves and vampires,
are in fact aliens that have been living among Earthlings for countless
years. http://headline.gamespot.com/news/00_02/16_vg_redstorm/index.html
: Would you rather confront prophets, aliens/monsters, advertisers, lawyers,
UFOlogists, robots, me? Does your conspiracy include any of the above? Have
your prophesies/conspiracies failed, but you keep going anyway? Why bother?
@ They're Here - Get ready for a showdown between space creatures & human-
kind in the Aliens Among Us: UFO Screen Saver. For fun than SETI@home??
http://www6.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=0012KH
# THE END OF THE WORLD AS I WANT IT: http://ecologystore.com/econews10.htm
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# INVESTIGATORS SUMMONED TO SITE OF EMERY DC-8 CARGO PLANE CRASH NEAR
SACRAMENTO. A DC-8 cargo plane carrying a crew of three crashed late
Wednesday, after taking off from Sacramento Mather Airport. The Emery
Worldwide cargo plane crashed into a wrecking yard which contained
hundreds of vehicles; thick black smoke billowed from the site. All
three crew members died: http://CNN.com/2000/US/02/17/calif.crash.03./
: Who downed this plane? Was the USAF testing beam weapons? What was so
important about the cargo this plane carried that it had to be destroyed?
Was it deliberately downed into a junkyard to make debris recovery harder?
# PILOTS STUDY FINDS HIGHER RATES OF SKIN CANCER. Airline pilots have up to
25 times the normal rate of skin cancer, and it may be due partly to dis-
turbed sleep patterns: www.CNN.com/2000/HEALTH/02/16/cancer.pilots.reut/
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# Attempt To Seize Kids Criticized. Albuquerque, NM. The children of an iso-
lationist religious sect remained in hiding early this week, more than 2
weeks after state authorities went to the group's compound south of Gallup
and tried to take two of the children into protective custody. Some local
cops are criticizing the action by the state Children, Youth and Families
Dept. as ill-advised. The attempt to remove the children from the Aggres-
sive Christianity Mission Training Corps followed a series of television
news reports. http://www.abqjournal.com/news/3news02-16-00.htm
: Has your cult/agency/firm seized any kids lately? Should kids be mentally
(re)programmed by cults/sects/factions, church/state/business bureaucracies,
aliens, robots, me? Should kids be left online for safekeeping by Net Gods?
Is your cult more aggressive than govts, businesses, other cults? How so??
# MORE TIME ONLINE, LESS TIME WITH 'REAL PEOPLE.' As Americans spend more
time on the Internet they are not only seeing less of friends & families,
but also spending less time stuck in traffic, shopping in malls & watching
television. http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/17/internet.study.01/
# Study Dissed as Junk Science: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9389622
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# Chinese Site Sina.com Suffers Hacker Attack. BEIJING (Reuters) - Sina.com,
a top Chinese Internet portal, suffered a hacker attack around the same
time several popular U.S. Web sites were crippled by online raids. Tell
Janet Reno: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000217/06/net-china-hacker
# Has your PC been hijacked? Do you subscribe to a cable modem or DSL
service? You're at risk. A growing awareness of the dangers of unsecured
home PCs leads to a boom in firewall downloads. And broadband providers
are finally getting the message, too. It's 3 a.m. Do you know who's on
your computer? http://zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2439985,00.html
: Do you have sufficient firewalls around your communications complex? Have
you been penetrated/manipulated lately? Do security firms/agencies attack
you secretly to scare you into buying their services? Do your firewalls have
trapdoors allowing security firms/agencies to scan/change/delete your data?
# DoubleClick subject of inquiries - privacy practices are fucked:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564339226-a94
# EPA's Computers Said Vulnerable - website shut down:
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000217/04/epa-computers
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# Troops asked to get chip implants? Spokane, WA. Troops at nearby Fairchild
AFB were recently asked to voluntarily have microchips implanted in their
bodies for "identification" purposes. For the military, "voluntary" usual-
ly means mandatory. http://geocities.com/Area51/Hollow/8827/takechip.html
# Implants may aid tremor victims - better than burning out their brains,
see: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564325777-230
# SF Legend Envisions Worldwide Warning System. WASHINGTON - Space visionary
Arthur C. Clarke sees in the 21st century a world that is globally networ-
ked and geographically transparent -- one that blends satellites, telecom-
munications & information technologies to solve global problems, including
an early alert system to both plan for and react to such catastrophes as
floods, earthquakes, hurricanes and volcanic eruptions. But how about wars
& slaughter? http://www.space.com/space/technology/clarke_warn_000215.html
: Should implants monitor your environment, your health, your movements, y'r
thoughts? Do they already? Do you enjoy being watched over by machines of
<http://www.cs.unca.edu/~davidson/grace.html> loving grace? Are you happy?
@ RB: http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/b/brautigan21.htm
# Terror & the Constitution: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9386667
# Smile for the (Intraoral) Camera: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9389020
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that 1) automagically set the PCs system clock to an accurate timekeeper on
the Net; and 2) automagically send a message to email and to newsgroups in
text mode, while sending the same message in HTML format to a web URL? --Ric
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