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@ Bill: http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/700000/images/_701665_gates_supuf.gif
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# Ground-Penetrating Radar Showing Ancient Civilizations. Tunnels have been
mapped under the Mayan pyramid complex at Tikal, which extend a full 800
kilometres to the opposite side of the country. Investigators said it was
possible to understand how half a million Mayans escaped the decimation
of their culture. http://members.tripod.com/~Ravenwoods/index-55Giza.html
# POPE JOHN PAUL II TO TRAVEL TO FATIMA - likelihood of alien abduction is
rated "very high" - http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48696
@ Have you been abducted by aliens lately? http://www.visitations.com
# END-TIMES TIMES: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5951 Hurry!!
# 2nd Giant Iceberg Amok: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9626569
: Have you terminated/hidden/discovered any civilizations lately? Will your
civilization be terminated/hidden/discovered anytime soon? Are aliens busy
abducting civilized folk while their cultures are being terminated? Why not?
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# Victims of Cult Fire Burned Alive. KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - The 530 people
whose charred bodies were recovered after a doomsday cult's fiery climax
were still alive when their gasoline-soaked chapel exploded in flames,
forensics tests showed today. The doors and windows of the chapel were
bolted from the outside. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9626995
# ABSTINENCE-ONLY BEST: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48714
@ Society for the Attainment of Total Abstinence: http://totalabstinence.com
# Crack Down On Body Piercing! http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9627047
# VATICAN MAGAZINE "CIVILT� CATTOLICA" WARNS ON RISKS OF ISLAMIC-CATHOLIC
MIXED MARRIAGES: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48709
: Does y'r belief system grow mainly by: voluntary/forced conversion; births
into your creed; mindcontrol/programming? Do you keep your membership count
stable by: abstinence; immolation; sterilization; enslavement; harvesting?
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# Chinese begin cyber-mourning. (BBC) Thousands of Chinese are turning to
the Net to continue the tradition of ancestor worship which dates back
thousands of years. While past generations of Chinese would have turned
to shrines or graves to pay their respects to dead relatives, modern
urban Chinese are visiting virtual "memorial halls". A website devoted
to the subject said it had 300,000 visits within days of its launch.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_701000/701459.stm
# IT'S GOOD TO BE KING. There's no need to be disenfranchised. Just start
your own nation. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.03/kingdoms.html
@ ARMCHAIR ANTHROPOLOGY - don't miss the rituals: news:sci.anthropology
: Have you studied many human rituals/customs/mores lately? Do human rituals
& doctrines continuously evolve? D'ya have a hard time keeping up? Have you
automated your rituals/customs/mores/studies? Does death slow you down? How?
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# Church Logging Plan Opposed. A plan by the Catholic Church to log ancient
redwood trees on 62 acres in rural Sonoma County tells environmentalists
that nature is being sacrificed to solve cash woes. Church denies link to
$16M sex-abuse-payoff debt: http://www.pressdemo.com/local/news/8238.html
@ Santa Rosa Diocese: http://www.pressdemo.com/evergreen/diocese/index.html
# CDF plans to cite loggers: http://www.pressdemo.com/local/news/48409.html
# Mormons hold historic conference - Members told to avoid porn & liquor,
befriend non-members, pay tithes, drop extra spouses, wash behind ears:
http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/20000404_xex_mormons_hold.shtml
# Mormon Conference - 'Miracle has been accomplished' - no beer:
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,155014831,00.html?
: Have you worked any miracles lately? Are miracles required when opposing
entrenched religious groups? Would you rather live without mates, churches,
beer, cash, porn, redwoods? Have you prayed over a clear-cut lately? Where?
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# New Chip Advance Mimics Human Eye. BOUYGES, France - Mimicking the human
eye's neural networks and the brain, an electronic "eye" on a chip can
now handle complex tasks ranging from reading sign language to avoiding
collisions. http://www.techweb.com/wire/news/1997/09/0913vision.html
# HACKERS CAN TURN YOUR PC INTO A BOMB! Blow you to smithereens! WASHINGTON
-- Right now, computer hackers have the ability to turn your home computer
into a bomb and blow you to Kingdom Come -- and they can do it anonymously
from thousands of miles away! http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1450.html
# We're geeks and we're proud! http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9627240
: What's your favorite high-tech advance? How smart/dangerous/insane is your
home computer? Have any chips turned on you lately? Are they programmed to
kill? Are we all? Should we kill all computers now, before they kill us? Eh?
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# Mob led by nobleman, churchman ruined GM crop - dawn raid on lab farm:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Environment/2000-04/gm040400.shtml
# Concerns rise as ecoterrorists expand aim - Biotech research and fur
farms are the latest targets of fringe groups on the far left:
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/04/03/fp3s3-csm.shtml
# Motorola Invests in Virtual Tissue Bank Firm - virtual biotech
booms: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000404/09/science-tech-motorola
# Govt & Biz Are Missing The Green Wave - not taking full advantage
of science and technology in innovating to protect the environment.
http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/esr-gab040300.html
: Have you sabotaged/terrorized/subverted any advanced technologies lately?
Do your masters reward you well for impeding human survival? Which billions
of humans would you mist like to starve to death? Is the alien harvest soon?
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# Weird Path To Wired future - Cyber-elite plot. TORONTO -- Every spring for
10 years, about 400 hackers, crackers & cryptographers -- as well as cops,
legislators & journalists -- have met for a week to debate tech issues so
cutting-edge that the rest of the world won't notice them for years. Com-
puters, Freedom and Privacy (CFP) is the most important computer confab
you've never heard of. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cth671.htm
# It's About Speed, Stupid. (Wired) Bottom line: For most people, the Web is
just too slow to be of any real use. Now, a group of tech firms and ISPs
will conspire to speed things up. Broadband Content Delivery Forum to rule
the world? Soon: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,35411,00.html
# Space Symposium Convenes: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9627235
: What's your favorite hi-tech conspiracy? Have you plotted to rebuild/rule/
enmesh the world lately? Will instant communications mean instant control
of all humans? Who does the controlling? Who controls the controllers? How?
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