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@ Cheap Travel Hint: http://www3.sympatico.ca/donna.mcsherry/airports.htm
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# SOHO CATCHES COMET CROSSING SUN? If it intercepts Earth, we may be smashed
to wee bits: http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2000/0625soho.htm
# OBJECT PHOTOGRAPHED BREAKING UP NEAR SUN? Where did the pieces go then?
Where are they now? http://members.aol.com/rubie2zday/index.html#object
# THE SUNCRUISER - What Is This Strange Object Orbiting Our Sun? Where
is it from? http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/space.html#suncruiser
@ Dr. Alexander Abian <http://orion.math.iastate.edu/abian/homepage.html>,
respected Professor of Mathematics and Usenet kook par excellance, died
<http://www.amestrib.com/news.cfm?num=143> a year ago today. We should
mourn his passing by BLOWING UP THE MOON AND REBORBITING VENUS TO MAKE A
BORN-AGAIN EARTH. <http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~nv91-asa/madsci/abian>
And see more of his ilk over at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/
: Have you captured/crushed/confused any comets/planets/galaxies/UFOlogists
lately? Is your world born-again? Are you? Has your world/mind/controller/me
been born over and over again? Got any photos? Are they blurry? Are you sad?
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# THE VISION THING. The young activists who went to Seattle to shut down the
WTO and to Washington DC, to protest the World Bank and IMF were hammered
in the press as tree-wearing, lamb-costumed, drumbeating bubble brains.
Our mission was to whip that chaos on the streets into some kind of struc-
tured, media-friendly shape. http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos04549.html
@ Mayday wasn't the end of modern protest.Not even the beginning of the end.
But it was the sad end of the beginning www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n12/grif2212.htm
# Upside Down World: http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=1638
# Americans Rule the Web -- for Now. U.S. influence is inevitably waning:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2000/jun/24/062400616.html
# In historic 'Webside chat,' Clinton unveils era of U.S. 'e-government' --
BigBro: http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/06/24/clinton.webcast/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_804000/804601.stm
: Do US firms control all global/national/local economic/political/religious
institutions? Is protest possible/sufficient/laughable? Do you have a vision
of a better world? Is your vision achievable/viable/virtual/mindcontrolled??
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# PRESBYTERIANS TO DEBATE CHURCH'S ROLE IN SAME-SEX UNIONS. Presbyterian
leaders gathering here this week will debate whether to ban blessings
of same-sex unions even if the ceremonies stop short of marriage, the
latest ecclesiastical conflict over recognition for gay and lesbian
couples. http://CNN.com/2000/US/06/25/presbyterians.gays.ap/index.html
# Muslim 'porn site' changed. (Ananova) Strict muslims in Pakistan were
shocked to find pornographic links on a government web site. But Mohammad
had HOW many wives then? http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_8042.html
# Happy Hookers: Sexy Outfits OK: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10015863
# Iran forges links with China's Xinjiang Muslims - revolt against Beijing:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_805000/805065.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_804000/804004.stm
# Demon China? www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37070-2000Jun21.html
# Civil war in Moluccas? (BBC) Fighting between Christians, Muslims & army:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_805000/805209.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_803000/803916.stm
: Is your belief system more violent about land/sex/diet/govt/dress/spiders?
Would you rather make love/war/other with a heretic/prophet/alien/spider/me?
When you make love/war/other, are you blessed? Does anyone see? Do they pay?
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# "SKIN EQUIVALENT" HELPS ULCERS HEAL. A human skin equivalent, layering new
skin cells over wounds, can quickly heal ulcers. Made of circumcised fore-
skins: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=36296&src=n3
# Farmer jailed for BSE scam. An Irish farmer has been jailed for deliber-
ately introducing the cattle disease BSE, better known as mad cow disease,
into his herd in order to collect compensation. Could have ruined Ireland:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_803000/803629.stm
# Modified HIV may be effective for delivering and regulating gene therapy.
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, may be adapted for use in gene therapy
to treat genetic diseases and disorders of the immune system, even inclu-
ding AIDS. http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/uncs-mhm062000.html
# Pig virus found in bats. (BBC) A deadly virus previously thought to mainly
affect pigs, has been found in Malaysian bats. Southeast Asia is doomed!!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_804000/804111.stm
: Have you cured/modified/spread any ailments lately? Do you like to afflict
humans/cows/pigs/bats/aliens/robots/genes/lawyers/me? Have you ruined Asia/
Ireland/Antarctica/me lately? Did Dracula have a pig disease? Do you? Why??
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SkeptiBriefs:
# On Volcanoes, Gases, And Seeing Is Believing. "Why should I believe
something I can't see, especially since I already don't believe so many
things that I can see?" http://unisci.com/stories/20002/0613005.htm
@ Insect Radar: http://www.ph.adfa.oz.au/a-drake/trews/ww_re_hp.htm
# A new world of truth: http://www.civmag.com/articles/C0006F03.html
# Home Alone, With Bear. A US couple left their kids home alone with a
black bear as babysitter. http://ananova.com/news/story/sm_8274.html
# Latest viruses target human frailties - sex, drugs, mind-control, etc.
Masked: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2593514,00.html
# Web privacy technology not so private - P3P not a shield, but a door to
your data: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2591856,00.html
@ Before the first <http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/notes.html>
analog recordings, music was stored in a universal digital format
<http://www.ozemail.com.au/~pianola/rollhist.htm> and played back
by steampunk robots <http://www.amica.org/examples.htm> -- really!!
Love those machines at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Gadgets/
# PanAm blaster's Stasi link. (BBC) East German secret police paid for the
services of the man who supplied the Lockerbie bomb's timer. Communist
dupe? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_803000/803155.stm
# Spy Letters of the US Revolution: http://www.clements.umich.edu/spies/
# SEDITION, DRUGS, AND VINTAGE JEWELRY - the conspiracy is far-reaching -
his intelligence isn't: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hollow/9039/
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