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SkeptiNews 00030x - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/29_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * All the latest notices/gripes/humiliations: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * Very few memories were recovered during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Roswell Roadkill: http://geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7821/aliendead.gif_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Editor's Note: Voices in my head have instructed me to suspend publication of SkeptiNews bulletins for the immediate future. Sure, there are seemingly disconnected portents - the 'event' on my wintel machine that wiped out much of today's material - my upcoming abduction to tsurf the tsunami at Tsahoe - and other endeavours require my attention. But how can I refuse the voices? If any energetic skeptic(s) would like to take over publication, contact me for details of sources and destinations. No money is required. Or available. SkeptiChat subscribers: the list will continue to exist, we'll proceed with the usual banter, but it'd be nice if y'all would contribute some more items of UFOlogical/paranormal/conspiratorial/transhumanic/superscientific bent. In keeping with my policy of not throwing ANYTHING away, following are the news items etc that were intended for today's bulletins, that survived the BillGates-driven purge this morning. Think up your own questions. Cya --Ric _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Psychoelectronic Threat to Democracy - The Secret Arms Race. The Russian Federation the USA Built Radar Systems That Could Enable Them to Control Minds of Whole Populations. Scientific Informations, Military Documents, Warnings: http://morethanconquerors.simplenet.com/MCF/babdoc.htm # The Omega Agency. The Omega Agency is the one running the show. They run the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, control the Bilderburgers, the whole ball of wax. They are who people are talking about when one says orders come from "above the President" (The third layer). http://emmaf.isuisse.com/emmaf/base/omega.html and http://www.thegrid.net/grandcentral/H_U/omega.html @ Mind Control Forum: http://www.morethanconquerors.simplenet.com/MCF/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UN ranks quality of life. Canada is best - everyone should move there now: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567750416-bfe # Female nuke worker mortality probed - no more dangerous than any other jobs: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567749771-61f # MIND CONTROL POLICE. This report briefly details my experiences of being used as a Remote Mind Control experiment by certain departments of the intelligence agencies, whom I refer to as the "Mind Control Police" (MCP). http://www.morethanconquerors.simplenet.com/MCF/farquhar.htm # Buying a home? Check your DNA at the door. You probably haven't thought of this one - neither has your mortgage lender, if you live in the US. But in Europe, genetic testing could be required for approval of a mortgage loan. www.genesage.com/professionals/geneletter/06-01-00/features/mortgage.html # CHINESE RESEARCHERS TEST 'LIFE-EXTENDING' FORMULAS - immortality for the elite? http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2629/sc/china_aging_dc_1.html # First cloned human embryo revealed: www.fact.on.ca/Newpaper/bc990617.htm @ Gene Letter: http://www.genesage.com/professionals/geneletter/index.epl _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Biology Workbench: http://biology.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ @ National Library of Medicine: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ @ Center For Structural Biology: http://www.csb.yale.edu/ @ Spam Haiku Archive: http://pemtropics.mit.edu/~jcho/spam/ # Natural Disasters from Outer Space. Is it possible for a large asteroid to hit the Earth with less than one week's notice? Absolutely! Space abounds with many Near-Earth-Objects (NEO) whose orbits pass close to Earth's path around the Sun. The main threats to Earth come from wayward comets ast- eroids that have been bumped from their routine paths into Earth-crossing orbits. http://space.edu/public/publications/abstracts/wood/saunders.html # Dowsing Still Holds Water After Eons. Scientists in search of an answer have analyzed brain waves and run field tests. But evidence of dowsing's validity remains mostly anecdotal. One large-scale German study in the late '80s involved dowsers trying to divine the location of water pipes beneath the floorboards of a barn. The success rate for most dowsers was nearly equal to chance, though researchers did find a few dowsers with a high success rate. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/p_dowse0.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Kohl Wiped Files? http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37308,00.html @ Tequila Willy's Position Paper: http://crl.com/~rfleming/cDc/cDc225.html # Mongolia ex-communists seek comeback - save
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SkeptiNews 000623b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/22_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No robotniks were sexually abused during the production of this bulletin. But some attempted to take control of the editorial staff, and were only overcome after fierce hand-to-hand fighting. Casualties are regrettable. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ Those Magic Soaps: http://www.drbronner.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Glimpse of Robotic Future. There are rare moments when developments in the world of information technology (IT) come under the spotlight and the thin line between reality and fiction becomes blurred. A new study "Morals for Robots and Cyborgs" reads like a modern day version of Frankenstein. It offers a rare glimpse of the potential monster man may have inadvertently created in the quest for greater convenience and technical efficiency. Whatever. http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/finance/2000/0128/tech3.htm # NEW ROBOT WILL MAKE WOMEN OBSOLETE BY THE YEAR 2020! HANNOVER, Germany -- A top scientist has come up with the ultimate household convenience: An electronic housewife! The high-tech inventor has perfected a robot woman called the FeminAll that can clean, cook and even give birth to test-tube babies. Redundant women: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2023.html : Have you read FRANKENSTEIN lately? Is it about science, religion/magic, or abandonment? Did Frankenstein make men obsolete? Did BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN make women obsolete? Are you obsolete? Should you be replaced by robots/ants /cyborgs/fuchsias/memes/blowups? When? Are your morals convenient/efficient? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Chinese Scientists Clone Second Goat from Adult Cells. The last one died young: http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=171847section=default # Giant Sloth Reborn at Yellowstone -- first, reconstruction -- next, cloning? http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/2623/fs_sloth.html # Demos push genetic anti-discrimination bill - "Set my chromosomes free!" Groovy: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567522379-4fa # POOR CHILDREN MORE LIKELY TO BE OBESE - genetics, or cultural genocide? War: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=36226src=n40 # ARE DIFFERENT METABOLIC RATES EXPLAINED BY GENETICS? Yes, but not much: http://www.healthcentral.com/BestDoctors/BestDoctorsFullText.cfm?ID=26134 # Genome Mappers to Make Amends. The Human Genome Project Celera Corp. are expected to simultaneously announce that they've each completed a map of the human genome. Sharing the limelight could be a good thing for both teams. Smile: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36815,00.html : Have you cloned/engineered/attacked any entities/gangs/planets lately? Are you discriminated against because of your genetics? Should you be? Are your genes inferior/adequate/superior/other? Are you hungry, fat, slothful, free? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # VBS_STAGES.A (a.k.a. Scrapworm and LifeStages) -- VBS_STAGES.A is a new worm, which was first reported last week. Since then it has infected many systems in North America, Europe, Asia, and South America. VBS_STAGES.A arrives in an email attachment named LIFE_STAGES.TXT.SHS. Once executed, it displays a text file and then attempts to spread itself via Microsoft Outlook, PIRCH, mIRC and mapped network drives. Infected outgoing messages have one of the following subjects: "Funny ","Fw:Funny", "Life stages text", "Funny text", or "Fw:Funny text" The message body always reads: " The male and female stages of life " or " The male and female stages of life. Bye. " See http://www.antivirus.com/corporate/media/2000/pr061900.htm and http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=VBS_STAGES.A : Have you consumed/regurgitated/promulgated any infected worms lately? Have you designed any efficient cyber-attacks? Is my brain/system/network/world being infected/controlled/obliterated at this very moment? Are you patented? @ Intellectual property rights are very much needed, but you don't have to be a communist to worry about fetishizing them. Or do you? http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,16071,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists Finger 900 Earth-Threatening Asteroids. More than 900 asteroids at least a kilometer in size are whizzing around space relatively close to Earth, say researchers who have developed a new technique for mapping the potentially hazardous space rocks. They could strike and obliterate us at any time: http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/2622/sp_asteroids.html # ETs HELPED INDIANS BEAT CUSTER. Even if Col. George Armstrong Custer had led 10,000 troops against the
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SkeptiNews 000616b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/15_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No Vedics were summarily devoured during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Halo: http://www.dailyradar.com/features/game_feature_page_899_1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Don't like the weather? Blame the Man on the Moon. According to new evidence, tides may have a major effect on deep-ocean circulation, which controls our climate. http://www.alienzoo.com/news/n/26150002.cfm # Earthquakes 'trigger early births' (BBC) Stress caused by being in an earthquake could cause mothers to give birth early. All shook out: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_793000/793464.stm # 495: IT'S NOT JUST AN AREA CODE ANYMORE. During the course of playing around with alphanumerics other forms of number crunching, some curious synchronicities turn up. Things that make you go, "Hmmm" This past week the synch involved the number 495. http://www.caus.org/cz061600.htm : Is your life/death/prelife/afterlife controlled by planetoids, tectonics, alphanumerics, robotics, me? Were you shaken from a nice warm womb? Was 495 involved? Do you blame the lunar cycles? What's your favorite synchronicity? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Man guilty of killing dog he felt was gay. OCALA, Fla. (AP) A man accused of beating a dog to death because he thought it was gay was convicted of animal cruelty. http://www.bergen.com/morenews/dog1626167.htm # AMA passes reproductive measures - bends to Vatican pressure: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567371371-57c # Nothing illegal about group sex! Charges against swingers dropped: http://www.herald.com/content/thu/news/broward/digdocs/036499.htm @ I lack the words to describe http://stormeireland.com/ Storme Ireland. The best I find I can do is "gender-bending con man supermodel wannabe". http://www.westword.com/issues/2000-06-08/feature.html/page1.html Now see even more at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/ : Have you or your dog/friends/computer/saviour bent any genders lately? Do you bend genders often? Do you or anyone else react violently to ambiguous gender signals? Do the voices in your head control your reactions? Quietly? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ "DAILY LESSON BY HIS DIVINE GRACE A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA" the front of the site screams in Real Audio at the Online Hare Krishna Temple, http://www.harekrishnatemple.com/ at http://supersoul.com/ Supersoul. Besides its great name, Supersoul also has a Krishnacore section (for you http://www.supersoul.com/krishnacore/ punk types looking to sell cook- books and start a band) with a message I can't personally interpret. And what good is a religious site without an http://www.krishnaculture.com/ online store? Vedic Resource has art and music, Krishna Culture has sastra and seva, for all your sastra and seva needs. If your religious thirsts aren't sufficiently quenched, see http://memepool.com/Subject/Religion/ : What's your favorite online religion? Are you bothered by the Hare Krishna propensities for child abuse, murder, vegetarianism/cannibalism, poster art, commercialism? What religion would you most like to model your faith upon?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Linnaeus hoped to feed the poor of Sweden, so he tried to grow bananas, coffee, and other tropical imports in frigid Uppsala. If only he'd known about recombinant DNA: http://www.linguafranca.com/br/0004/zencey.html # The Ultimate Secret: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/t/26150006.cfm # Genome overhyped? No: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/t/26150005.cfm # Genome overhyped? Yes: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/t/26150004.cfm # Splosh but no splash. (BBC) French researchers show how to make falling drops of liquid stick to a surface rather than splash right off. Kinky, eh? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_792000/792098.stm : Have you experimented on (m)any genes/liquids/bananas/Swedes lately? Have they responded well? Do you keep your experiments/results/ideas secret? Does your conspiracy have many experimental secrets? D'ya splosh around secretly? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mobiles to beam into new age. (BBC) Soon your mobile phone may resemble the lapel badges worn by crewmembers on Star Trek. Beam me up, PacTel: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_792000/792577.stm # Spam filters don't work shocks new survey - The truth always hurts - total bans may be necessary: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11416.html # US bids to ban spam: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11380.html # Sony bitten by Bluetooth. (BBC) Electronics giant Sony is planning to put Bluetooth
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SkeptiNews 000609b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/08_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No Chupracabras were inhumanely interrogated to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ Galactic Calendar For The Year 9 EB: http://www.paoweb.com/galcalad.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFO Classical Music Concert Based On Roswell. -- On 22 June at the Royal Festival Hall in London, a celebrated gala concert will debut a new clas- sical music piece that aims to recreate a UFO close encounter! It is par- tly inspired by the Roswell case and will feature a soloist performing on 8 unidentified pieces of metal to recreate the image of a 'finely tuned alien aircraft' http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m09-005.shtml # Chileans: US Took Custody Of Captured Chupacabras. 3 creatures - a male, a female a child - were held by Chilean troops at the regiment's barracks for several hours. Then a NASA team reportedly arrived by helicopter to take custody of them. Why? http://www.sightings.com/general2/chupacao.htm : Have paranormalities impinged on your culture lately? Or has your culture mucked with paranormalities? Would you rather be apprehended/entertained by chupracabras/troops/concerts/deities/demons/me? How alien is your music? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # "Mirror Neurons" - Does the brain's innate capacity for mimicry explain the "great leap forward" of human evolution? The discovery of the biolo- gical basis for imitation may be the decade's most under-reported science story. Coverup? http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es346_master.html?alert # Growing better chips.The same trick an oyster uses to make mother-of-pearl may ultimately enable researchers to ``grow'' ultra-mini computer chips. http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/083423.htm # TELEPATHY CHIP: http://strangemag.com/anomalypages.html#telepathychip # MICRO-CHIP IMPLANTS NOW BEING TESTED - INTELLI-CONNECTION/IBM 2020 NEURAL CHIP IMPLANT: http://www.newsmakingnews.com/micro6,8,00.htm # THE AMAZING STORY OF SHOO - Is He Able To Transmit ULF Signals Mentally? http://www.elfrad.org/shoo/research.html : How well does your brain work? Would it work better with implanted chips? Would you rather have chips implanted/grown/teleported into your brain? Do you radiate/broadcast/transmit? On what frequencies? Is anyone listening? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tourist finds ancient Egypt art.AIN SOKHNA ROAD, Egypt (AP) Archaeologists aren't exaggerating when they say ancient treasures abound in the sands of Egypt. So many that even a tourist from Iowa, out on a desert outing, can make a notable discovery: cave drawings that could date back thousands of years before the birth of Christ. Just looking for sea urchins, he claims: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567168588-146 @ Message from Cochise, thru Lyara, channel, Arizona: "I am Cochise. I have waited for a long time to come back to serve the Earth... I am working now with the Intergalactic Fleet as well as aboard the mothership 'Dove' (head- quarter of Sananda)." Of course: http://channeling.net/LyurAC/starnatUS.htm @ Pictures of Star Beings: http://channeling.net/LyurAC/AmassiaPicsUS.htm : What ancient/alien/accidental information have you uncovered lately? D'ya stay in touch with Egyptians/Apaches/Reptoids of bygone days? Are they sexy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Stonehenge execution revealed. (BBC) An ancient skeleton excavated from Stonehenge has revealed a grisly execution at the famous site. Shocking! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_784000/784348.stm # Also - Stonehenge face mystery - and it's not Regis Philbin: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_474000/474977.stm # Woodhenge discovered near Stonehenge - Kelphenge found offshore: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_434000/434821.stm # SACRED GEOMETRY: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/geometry.html # Strange Block Rectangular Object On Surface of Eros - megaliths on Jovian moon? Built by whom? Why? http://near.jhuapl.edu/iod/2503 # LOCKERIDGE - UK - CROP FORMATION - The Same Metrology Units Used By The Designers Of The Giza Pyramid, Stonehenge and Silbury Hill. http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/geometry.html#lockeridge : D'ya perform executions/fornications/implantations/revelations/taxations at your sacred sites/shrines/megaliths? Is the geometry of your sacred site significant/unearthly/impossible/maddening? Do mad gods need geometry? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ You thought you'd seen it all when it came to bizarre Net-based fetishes. http://bachelorguy.com/bellybuilders/ Then again, you've probably never heard of Macrophilia,
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* PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh?
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* No chupacabras were captured during production of this bulletin. Darn.
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# FutureRama: http://time.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,42354,00.html
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# Dogs, Not 'Goat Sucker' Kill Livestock. SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) Roving
dogs, not a mythical, blood-thirsty beast known locally as "chupacabras,"
or "goat sucker," are responsible for the deaths of farm animals in north
Chile. Govt cover-up? http://news.excite.com/news/r/000421/08/odd-chile
# DINOSAURS MAY HAVE BEEN WARM-BLOODED!! TELL A CREATIONIST!!
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/2420/us/dino_heart_2.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/2420/us/dino_heart_5.html
@ If genetic discrimination is so unfair, so morally offensive, why
do you discriminate between people on the basis of their genetic
make-up? Yes, you. http://slate.msn.com/Readme/00-04-17/Readme.asp
# Adult Video for Pandas: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9716218
: What's your favorite vertebrate animal?Have you tracked/devoured/analyzed/
fucked (m)any vertebrates lately? Do you discriminate between vertebrates,
based on their genes, skins,brains, warm/cold-bloodedness? Is this so wrong?
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# URGE-TO-KILL is common- "even 'nice' people contemplate murder in graph-
ic detail" http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=31332
# FRIENDS VS DEMENTIA www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=31802
# Cigarettes don't protect against mental decline dementia, Alzheimer's:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565881159-388
@ Ganzfeld Experiment. The ganzfeld ("total field") experiment uses a kind
of sensory deprivation to test for psi. The hypothesis of the creator of
the ganzfeld experiments, parapsychologist Charles Honorton, is that if
psi exists, there should be a greater than chance match between the images
of the senders and receivers. http://www.skepdic.com/ganzfeld.html
: Have you had any psychic/demented/murderous thoughts lately? Can your con-
dition be prevented with drugs, diet, socialization, surgery, electronics,
prayer/fantasizing, miracles? Have you thought of killing psychics lately?
@ PILATES - bring bodies back into balance: http://balancedbody.com/pg2.html
http://www.healthcentral.com/FitorFat/FitorFatFullText.cfm?ID=31826src=n16
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# Computer Game Lampoons German Political Scandal. (Reuters) A German firm
has released a computer game in which players win points by hurling brief-
cases stuffed with cash at prominent members of Germany's scandal-tainted
conservative party. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000419/10/odd-scandal
# Burma bans political talk, anonymity, unapproved Web sites - actually
an improvement: http://www.y2kculture.com/mccullagh/burma.1296.txt
The Law: http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/transition/issue04/updates.htm
# DRUG TRAFFICKERS THRIVE IN GLOBAL ECONOMY- globalisation aids money-laund-
ering: http://chblue.com/2000/04/20/ANA/0387-0387-Drugs-report.sched...asp
# Gore promotes 'green' credentials - Greens say Gore sold-out to polluters,
cartels: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565898545-322
# BUSH STICKS TO POSITION ON CONFEDERATE FLAG - slavery should be a state
issue too: http://CNN.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/04/20/bush.flag.ap/
# Baby-sales banned - bill prohibits buying, selling of human infants:
http://apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/04/20/babysales0420_01.html
: Has your conspiracy suppressed/manipulated/exploited global communications
lately? Is the entire globe y'r feeding-ground now? Are there any localities
left, any local issues, or is it all fodder for your political/economic maw?
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# International Ban on Bioweapons Is Failing. A 25-year-old treaty has
failed to halt proliferation of biological weapons, and the United
States has little defense against germ or toxin warfare by terrorists or
rogue nations. Bother. http://www.sltrib.com/04202000/utah/42724.htm
# Act Now To Curb BioWar: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9713779
# Another Gulf War Syndrome Victim? http://sightings.com/general/gulf.htm
# Yugos Join ChemWeapons Ban: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9716695
# Bin Laden Terrorists Plan Nerve Gas Attacks - Israel, Western Media/Govts
Stay Silent - gas stockpiled in Amman, Jordan - foiled plot signals a new
readiness by terrorists to use non-conventional weapons - a frightening,
lethal escalation: http://www.sightings.com/general/laden.htm
: What's your favorite non-conventional weapon? Have you poisoned/infected
anyone lately? Was it a
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SkeptiNews 000414b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Most recent bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/12_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No IMF/WB protesters were torture-interrogated to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Calculus Girl: http://www2.calculusgirls.com/images/april1002.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Fluoride, Teeth The Atomic Bomb. Some 50 years after the US began adding fluoride to public water supplies to reduce cavities in children's teeth, declassified govt docs shed new light on the still controversial public health measure, revealing a surprising connection between fluoride and the dawning of the nuclear age. http://www.sightings.com/general/teeth.htm # DUMA RATIFIES START II, 288 TO 131. Russia or rogue states more dangerous? # MISSILE DEFENSE: COUNTERMEASURES REPORT CALLS FOR DELAY.Just doesn't work! # CREATIONISM: OKLA HOUSE CASTS VOTE FOR MONOTHEISM. http://www.aps.org/WN/ # Japan's Cabinet OKs human cloning ban - clones, cloners rise in protest, futilely: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565701779-e86 # Project Maps 3 Chromosomes: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9680254 # Genes Control Brain Growth: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9679239 # IBM device detects biological defects - helps weed-out the undesirable: : Are you more endangered by radiation, fluoridation, creationism, mutation, urbanization, spiders, loud music, me? Are you at-risk?Will you kill off all that's around you, in order to reduce your risks? Is it a rational strategy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE LINK. What if a backend universe existed which you couldn't see? A universe not unlike ours; a microcosmic reproduction of the forces shaping the larger, visible universe that is the Web. A fun house mirror held up to the Internet. Rails: http://www.k10k.net/features/thelink/index.html# # Hubble could smash distance record. (BBC) What could be by far the most distant object ever seen in the Universe may have been detected by the HST. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_713000/713572.stm # Not Local: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,35618,00.html # Also - Astronomers see further than ever - charged as "peeping toms" http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_713000/713130.stm # Hubble spies a 'glowing eye' in space - astro-ophthalmologists worried: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_703000/703771.stm # Most distant quasar in Universe found - didn't even know it was lost: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_649000/649059.stm : Have you seen the edge of the universe lately? Are other universes located out past the edge of this one? Are entities in those universes observing us? Do you feel like someone's always watching you? Are you under surveillance? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Anti-abortionist jailed for pet-killings. (AP) - A man who killed 8 of his wife's pets to punish her for having an abortion was sentenced to 7 months in jail. L. J. Kritz, 22, stabbed or cut the heads off his wife's pets - including birds, snakes a chinchilla - to teach her about the importance of life. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565699629-d8e # Extinction-prone fish ID'd: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9682128 # Earth Could Lose Thousands Of At-Risk Species: Extinctions Are Not Random Events: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000413125329.htm # DNA banks urged to save species - promising way to save many from extinc- tion. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_712000/712009.stm # More Evolution? www.time.com/time/reports/v21/science/question_evolve.html # UK ELDERLY LEFT TO DIE: http://ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49148 @ Disturbing toys for disturbed people. http://angelfire.com/ga2/ThreeJane3 [ via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Art/ but be extra extra careful ] : Do voices in your head tell you till kill animals in order to teach humans about the importance of life? Should humans be preserved in DNA banks, then extincted so other species have time to reclaim Earth? Is that only fair?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UK a terrorist state? Executive Intelligence Review has appealed to the US Secretary of State to list Britain among states sponsoring terrorism worldwide. http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/140400/detFOR06.htm # Bin Laden funding British 'terrorists' - provides armed training camps: http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/04/14/timfgnasi02001.html # 3rd World leaders: Ease poverty - give us more power/money/sex/drugs. Now. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565706203-32a # Rare Argentine Files Found: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9682738 # Bunnies bounce back:
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000407b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/05_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No cognitive structures were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ UFOs or hooters? http://www.pharo.com/banners/banner101.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Internet TV Show Reveals New Psychic Findings in O.J. Simpson. PITTSBURGH. The fromUSAlive.com Internet TV Network officially premiered Investigating the Outer Realms, a show that investigates unexplained phenomena. Killer's description: http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000403/pa-fromusalive.com $ STARGATE CONSPIRACY - The truth behind ET contact, military intelligence the mysteries of Ancient Egypt. The Stargate Conspiracy exposes the most insidious, disturbing - and successful - mass manipulation of our times. Designed to bring us, hearts, minds souls under the total control of the conspirators,this sinister program has ruthlessly exploited our Millennial craving for signs and wonders - even hijacking the predicted return of the ancient gods. http://www.templarlodge.com/stargate.html#Introduction : What's your favorite conspiracy? Are the conspirators psychic, alien, dem- onic, military, entertaining? Have they taken over your heart/mind/soul/body yet? Will they, very soon now? Should/can/will they be exposed? By whom? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists Ponder The Extraterrestrial Origin Of Life. The question of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe left the realm of science fiction this week, as NASA hosted the galaxy`s first Astrobiology Science Conference. http://earthchangestv.com/breaking/April2000/0407ponder.htm # Life in space: The search continues. It'll be life, but not as we know it in the movies. Scientists have been looking in vain for decades. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_704000/704124.stm # Alien hunter breaks record: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9642259 # Still waiting for a call: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9642260 @ Optical Seti: http://www.coseti.org/ @ Seti League: http://www.setileague.org/ @ Seti Institute: http://www.seti-inst.org/ : Have you found any aliens lately? Have any aliens found you? Did they do unspeakable things to you? Did you do unspeakable things to them? Can none of you speak about it? Do you do nothing BUT speak about it? Can I leave?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Geomagnetic Storm Seen. (NOAA) The ACE spacecraft, located approximately one million miles towards the Sun, detected a fast-moving ejection in the solar wind. This structure is believed to have been launched from the Sun late on April 4. The Earth's magnetic field responded shortly thereafter, and major storm conditions are now occurring at all latitudes. Doomed: http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/April2000/0407geomagnetic.htm # Eyewitness Account of Aurora Borealis From NJ - solar storms stir up ion- osphere: http://earthchangestv.com/breaking/April2000/0407eyewitness.htm # Skywatchers marvel at light show: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9641149 @ UFO Sightings Alien Artefacts: http://www.templarlodge.com/ufos.html # Automated North Pole station will take the pulse of the Arctic Ocean at abandoned ET bases: http://eurekalert.org/releases/nsf-anp040500.html : Have aliens tweaked your star lately? Are they trying to ignite a nova? Do they want to sterilize your planet? Are you watching them, fighting them??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Robots made by high school students compete for survival, fame, glory: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/robot/competition/2401/egc103 # A Pair of Programmed Robots Play Soccer Using a Golf Ball. Thrilling: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/robot/soccer/2406/slc102 # NASA and National Cancer Institute Join to Develop Nano-Explorers for the Human Body. Microscopic sensors to detect, diagnose treat disease inside the human body: http://www.sverdrup.com/nasa/sensors.html And see http://search.nci.nih.gov/search.nci.nih.gov/s97is.vts : D'ya prefer big/medium/small/tiny robots? D'ya want eensy-weensy robots in y'r body, knocking about, tweaking stuff here'n'there, searching out all y'r secrets, playing soccer with y'r corpuscles? Is technology great, or what?? # Chip promises telecoms revolution - new polymers will change the world: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_704000/704324.stm # SuperFastPolymers: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/uwsh-oca033100.html @ Turn your $2000 computer into a $2 transistor radio: http://live365.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Water buffalo to be cloned to save it from extinction - First embryo ready for
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000331b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/30_03_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * NEW path to notices, excuses, sightings etc: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No hackers were harmed to produce this bulletin. But we surveilled'em! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Volcanic: http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/695000/images/_696953_ring300.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Dramatic Change Coming In View Of The Universe. Astronomers looking at the very cold, far-infrared universe have barely glimpsed what's there. They had to make do with imaging systems that survey the cosmos a few pixel points of light at a time. http://unisci.com/stories/20001/0331002.htm # THEY'RE EVERYWHERE - Some black holes are small enough to swallow - so shut your mouth: http://newscientist.com/features/features_22323.html # Closing In on Sunspot Origins: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9613043 # Sun has strange 'spin cycle' http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9612597 # Solar "Heartbeat" Discovered: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9612579 : Have you uncovered the details of the operation/construction/design of the universe lately? Is one universe too small a sample to adequately represent the totality of reality? Can you explain everything, even what you haven't seen yet? How much more is there to see? Do Logos or Mythos describe it all? @ The philosophical import of a unified theory of everything should either be passed over entirely, or dwelt on with utmost seriousness: http://www.booksunlimited.co.uk/lrb/articles/0,6109,149730,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hackers Confab in Israel. JERUSALEM (AP) - Hackers from around the world overcame interrogations, censorship and an all-around bad image to hold Israel's first hacker convention, wrapping up the 2-day meet without a glitch. The 350-strong gathering was the first of its kind since major commercial sites were crippled in February, reminding firms across the globe of the dangers hackers can pose. Politicos quailed; Israeli police had considered banning the conference, but Attorney General Eliyakim Rubinstein gave the go-ahead. One of the original hackers, John Draper [Cap'n Crunch], said hackers wanted to put a better face the practice. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565314768-7f0 # Napster: friend or foe? http://salon.com/tech/col/rose/2000/03/30/napster/ # Marc Andreessen, Prodigal Hacker: http://upside.com/Ebiz/38e0f6630.html : Have you hacked/cracked/jammed any notable systems lately? Are defenses up and stronger, thwarting your attempts? Have you tried to put positive 'spin' on your efforts, claiming to be harmless? Are you harmless? Is anyone? Eh? # Vendor Reports New Worm Viruses. Two new software programs circulating on the Internet could damage computer files, a software vendor said Thursday. Buy a fix, eh? http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB2330S0016 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Protein Shown To Help Build Body Maps In Brain. A single gene expressed in the brain can change a long-standing icon of basic neuroscience that was until now thought to be shaped mostly by neural input from the body's periphery. Getting internal: http://unisci.com/stories/20001/0331004.htm # Genes Or Environment: What Shapes The Sensory Homunculus? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000331084002.htm # Brain imaging reveals less medication just as effective in treating schizophrenia: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/uoto-bir033000.html # Software Pinpoints Brain Areas: www.unisci.com/stories/20001/0331005.htm : Have you explored your brain lately? Is there any 'there' there? How much of your brain is devoted to mapping, sports, sex, food, fear, programming, meditation, conniving, self-improvement, self-aggrandizement, demagoguery? # Nut source for cancer drug: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9608127 # Life force - How protein pumps powered the first cells - little angels squirt juice around: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223236.html # US AgSec Glickman seeks biotech seeds probe - defends "terminator" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565303247-ed1 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GPS Tracks Grannies in Tokyo. (Wired) The Japanese government gives transmitters to seniors who frequently lose their way. The satellite- based system will help monitor Japan's growing elderly population. Gotcha: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,35333,00.html @ "Effective Microorganisms" http://emtech.org/naturefarming/sld001.htm (slide show) - http://209.153.214.27/ - http://emtech.org/toc.htm - re: pollution of waters by excess organic matter-OM-, and chemicals, and helping farmers to wean off chemical fertilizers, and
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000317b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/16_03_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to notices, excuses, overflow, links: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No greenhouse gases were sexually abused to produce this bulletin. Much. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ BATHE YOUR SOUL: http://www.soulbath.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NEW DEVICES THAT 'TALK' TO MINDS NEED DEBATE, CONTROLS. HAMILTON, ON. -- The recent flap over invasive "X-ray" devices that can scan invasively the human body is just the tip of a technological iceberg that's been growing ever since WWII, now yielding devices literally capable of "broadcasting" directly to the human mind. http://www.american-reporter.com/1290/6.html @ AI and A-Life: http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/ai/ai.html @ Take a virtual peek into the future: http://www.cnn.com/future @ All about 2000: From parties to predictions: http://www.cnn.com/2000 @ 21st Century Scenarios: www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/at2000/index.html#poll @ OverUnity Devices - Clean Power: http://www2.murray.net.au/users/egel/ : Is the Brave New World crawling into your head/guts/senses/soul/home/bank? Can/should/must technologies be controlled? How d'ya define technology, you, soul, control? Do machines broadcast/narrowcast/whisper into your mind yet? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ECHELON - Why We Spy on Our Allies - James Woolsey: "Most European technology just isn't worth our stealing... Get serious, Europeans. Stop blaming us and reform your own statist economic policies. Then your companies can become more efficient and innovative, and they won't need to resort to bribery to compete. And then we won't need to spy on you." http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB95326824311657269.htm. # Can Hackers Kill Credit Cards? http://www.msnbc.com/news/382141.asp NetTaxWar http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_678000/678720.stm # FBI Web Site Hacked: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000316-07.html : Have you waged economic/cyber/virtual war lately? Would you rather change/ fix/attack yourself or others? Do you and/or your opponents/partners/victims need fixes/changes/destruction? Who fixes the fixers? Are you fixable? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MUSLIM PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA WINDS DOWN. Symbolic stoning of the devil cont- inued as zillions of Muslim pilgrims from around the globe prepared for the closing day of the Hajj. http://CNN.com/2000/WORLD/meast/03/17/hajj/ # Chechen rebels allege betrayals by Islamic fundamentalist Wahhabis. ALKHA- ZUROVO, Russia (AP) Instead of aiding the retreating units, the Wahhabi fighters fled, leaving the retreating rebels as prey for Russian jets and artillery. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565010054-353 # Excommunicate Da Judge! LA PAZ,Bolivia (AP) A judge who ordered doctors to give a 12-year-old girl an abortion after she was raped and impregnated by her stepdad should be excommunicated, local Roman Catholic Church leaders said. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565010923-d8d : Does your belief system promote unity among members? D'ya narrowly define acceptable personhood/behaviour/thought? Is violence acceptable/necessary to your creed's operation? Have you stoned/bombed/raped/purged members lately? @ "Is the BIBLE CODE a Holographic Road Map?" Why do we get the same results with Moby Dick and the NYC phone book? http://www.caus.org/cz031700.htm @ Numerology - Determine you personality, strengths, talents, and ways of dealing with others - or just gamble: http://www.caus.org/numerology.html @ Hare Krishnas Hit The Web, Smile, Sell Flowers: http://www.krsna.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # LITERARY E-VASION: Authors readers in censored nations are finding ways around the Internet filters installed by their govts. They now can obtain information on topics that would never be available in their local book- stores, including religion, govt and sexual topics considered taboo. And they can distribute their information to the masses through electronic publishing." http://intellectualcapital.com/issues/issue355/item8801.asp # Govt fights inhalant abuse: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9545669 # Kid-Proof Net: http://dallasnews.com/technology/49350_childproof_16p.html # Gnutella Nips AOL: www.ecommercetimes.com/news/articles2000/000316-7.shtml # Faux Napster Bogus: www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2468802,00.html : Have you evaded any organizational filters lately? Are filters a joke? Do you prefer to abuse yourself, others, organizations, aliens, robots, me? Do you distribute information about your abuses/proclivities/activities/ideas? @ The least www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Stonewall/7789/
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[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #2
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000310b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to notices, excuses, overflow, links: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No psychics were telephoned to produce this bulletin; dice were thrown. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Spinning: http://www.3quarks.com/GIF-Animations/Figurines/Alternative.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Raël love - A gorgeous group of alien spawn hones a hedonistic hankering for sex. Gimmee: http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/03/08/raelians/ # Norway searches for new gov't - ministers, lawmakers abducted by ETs: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564879310-811 @ God help Bob deliver us from evil - should Earth be destroyed, or what? Like, real soon now? http://www.bergen.com/yourtime/bob0923092.htm # Life Support: Unlucky numbers - Psychics foretell a fat phone bill suckers: http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/2308life8.asp : Would you rather be fucked by aliens, Raëlians, govt agents, telepsychics, televised demons/deities, robots, me? Will they/we respect you in the morn- ing? Will you pray for weather/luck/orgasms/wealth/identity/chocolate/wine? # AID GROUPS, FLOOD VICTIMS PRAY FOR END TO RAIN IN MOZAMBIQUE - dissident Navajos hired to consult on techniques for anti-Rain dances - human sac- rifices offered - http://CNN.com/2000/WORLD/africa/03/10/africa.floods/ @ Possessed Dispossessed: Spirits, Identity, Power in a Madagascar Town: http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/africa/sharp _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PROZAC'S REIGN AS TOP ANTIDEPRESSANT ENDING - newer, better drugs are online: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=28900 @ Nerves Narratives: Cultural History of Hysteria in 19th-Century Britain: http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/literature/logan # Drug may remove women's facial hair - circus bearded ladies endangered, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564880964-d79 @ Contrary to the opinions of some http://www.tommychong.com/ free-lance pharmaceutical researchers, herbal preparations (either taken before a test http://www.testpure.com/index2.html or used to adulterate your http://store.yahoo.com/chongo/urineluck1.html sample), won't help you http://www.norml.org/canorml/testing/testing.tips.shtml pass a drug http://drugtesting.freeservers.com/search.htm test. Alas, the only things that help are time http://www.drugtestinfo.com/faqs.html#25 and http://water.usgs.gov/ water. Via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Drugs/ : What's y'r favorite drug? Would'ya rather manipulate your mental/physical/ spiritual/financial status with drugs, electronics, auto-suggestion, metals, microbes, microwaves, perversion, literacy? How do you re-program yourself? # Microbe may cause toxic runoff. WASHINGTON (AP) A super bug that eats iron and can thrive in the equivalent of battery acid may be a major culprit in causing toxic metal acid runoff from a California mine, researchers say. Burning: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564862049-2dd _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 1.5 mln Muslims crowd into Grand Mosque. MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) Despite calls for patience and courteousness, pilgrims pushed and shoved their way around the Grand Mosque, where more than 1.5 million Muslims gathered to pray. On this last Muslim Sabbath before the peak of the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to holy sites in Saudi Arabia, the prayer leader urged pilgrims to be "kind, gentle, patient and tolerant to other pilgrims while they are performing the rituals." But to no avail - frantic pilgrims pushed their way out of the mosque, sending many elderly men and women to the ground. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564881328-93e @ The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama'at-i Islami of Pakistan: http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/south_asia/nasr # Israel preps for Pope's visit - ready for crushed tourists, any crisis. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564848970-2ea : Do you like to crowd into religious sites? Are crowds of pilgrims a great excuse for boorish actions? Have you shoved/kicked/stomped/shot any pilgrims lately? Did the voices in your head instruct you? Did you feel satisfaction? # Witches reject Hollywood stereotypes (U-WIRE) TUCSON, Ariz. -- Hollywood has provided a stereotyped image of witches as old women with warts accom- panied by a black cat - but University of Arizona witches say the image is completely wrong. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000307/university-162 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The End of Anonymity? Top Clinton administration officials say that since law enforcement can't catch untraceable hackers, it may be
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000303b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to notices, excuses, overflow, links: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No Masonic elders were harmed to produce of this bulletin. They're wily. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ http://www.3quarks.com/GIF-Animations/Figurines/Figurine03-animated.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Four UFOs Sighted in New Jersey: http://www.caus.org/mu030300.htm # Professor States UFOs "Out There": http://www.caus.org/pn030300.htm @ CODE ZONE - "Is synchronicity contagious?" Can you catch it from others? Coincidence, conspiracy or consciousness? http://caus.org/cz030300.htm # THE UNIFIED ALIEN THEORY: No other way to explain it, really. After watching last week's Grammy Awards, one critic has figured it out. Mariah Carey and Celine Dionne? Nothing human about them. THEY'RE ALIENS! http://www.theage.com.au/news/2303/A51770-2000Mar2.html : Who are your favorite aliens? Do you feel strangely compelled to have sex [rishathra] with aliens and/or other non-human entities? Do they sometimes seem remarkably humanoid? Do you give them gifts? Are gifts appreciated?? # Some men send flowers, but that's a little too humdrum for pioneering space cowboy Bob Farquhar. He got his wife an asteroid. Just a little one: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41761-2000Feb27.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # More women contract AI disease. (AP) - Autoimmune diseases caused when the body starts attacking itself overwhelmingly strike women are often mis- diagnosed: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564706785-f31 @ Milk Is A Bad-News Substance! http://www.notmilk.com/ # Ebola cure possible. (BBC) Ebola, one of the most terrifying diseases in the world, may be treatable according to a new study, suggesting that an effective vaccine could be developed in the future. Send doctors, drugs money: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_664000/664300.stm @ WHO Ebola factsheet: http://www.who.int/emc/diseases/ebola/index.html : What's your favorite disease? Have you engineered/produced/promulgated any new diseases lately? D'ya prefer diseases that consume human bodies, leaving little evidence? Are'ya constantly having to counter treatments? Frustrated? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists: Herbal research needed. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Herbal remedies generally are safe, but at least one can cause severe liver damage - evidence that much more research into the popular products is needed. Nearly a third of the adult U.S. population spends $4 billion a year on herbs, which are sold as food rather than regulated drugs. "Is it a waste of money? Is it dangerous? We don't have enough data to know." See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564696526-074 Update: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564706838-94f # Marijuana raises heart risks - legal problems bothersome too: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564697991-dc4 : What are your favorite herbs? Are they (il)legal? Is legality irrelevant? Have you re-engineered y'r endocrine system to produce all the organic chem- icals you want? So ancient secret societies support your research? Happily? # NHS Scandal Link To UK Masons. Leaders of Britain's ruling medical body, the General Medical Council, will be questioned by MPs about possible links between Freemasons in the medical profession a series of medical scandals. www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Health/2000-02/mason270200.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ancient tools found in China: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9466022 # Asia's oldest axe tools discovered - axe-murder victims found nearby: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_664000/664967.stm # World's oldest building discovered - code violations force demolition: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_664000/664967.stm # Ancient 'tool factory' uncovered - unions protest working conditions: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_336000/336555.stm @ http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/GeorgeFitzmaurice/papers/gwf_bdy.html Graspable User Interfaces is an interesting idea -- using physical objects and artifacts to manipulate virtual objects via a sensitive desktop. Real? @ TheBrain http://www.thebrain.com/ is nifty software that tries to help you index things like bookmarks, files, other electronic content along the lines of how you think. Via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Computing/ : D'ya prefer physical/virtual/moral tools? Have you designed/build/used any new tools lately? Can tools help you explore the spirit world, the hyperreal realms, the interior of your consciousness, the immensities of deities? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Virgin Mary Grabs Spotlight in Brazil
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000225a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to announcements, disclaimers, quirks: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No alternate universes were disrupted during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Dervish: www.3quarks.com/GIF-Animations/Figurines/Figurine10-animated.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sounds of the Spirit World - Ancient Monuments Wrap Their Mysteries in Eerie Sound Effects. From somewhere deep within the great stone-covered mound come eerie noises that defy explanation and must surely come from another realm, one steeped in the mysteries of the supernatural. Booo!! http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0799toc/7feature2-spirit.shtml @ Is This How Sacred Symbols Are Born? (II) http://caus.org/cz022500.htm @ 6 Ecclesiastical Satires: www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/dean2.htm @ Spirits In Bondage: http://www.discovery.org/lewis/bondindx.htm : Have you listened to any spirits lately? Have they listened to you? Which are in greater agony, stricter bondage, deeper doo-doo? D'ya sound holy?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # LANDS OF THE FREE. In the 1990s, private security stocks grew at twice the rate of the Dow Jones industrial average. Today in the US, more than twice as much money is spent on private security as on law enforcement; private firms employ nearly 3 times as many people as do public agencies. In the UK, employees of security firms rose from 10,000 in 1950 to more than 250,000 now, outnumbering soldiers in the British army. Private security firms are taking on functions once performed by governments. Wackenhut Corp. runs prisons in 13 US states and four other countries. It provides emergency response SWAT teams for nuclear weapon facilities in South Carolina Nevada. http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/news/0b13secu.htm : D'ya prefer public/private/alien armies/cops/agents? Have you bought/hired any troops/cops/agents/politicos lately? Is your corporate security service ready to fight pitched battles with the military? Are you better-equipped? # Europeans shocked over spy charge - warned to "watch what they say" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564547994-d3a # Thatcher ordered spy network to surveill dissident ministers: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000224/17/eu-spying-thatcher _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tumor-Like Mass Can Make You Want To Laugh. A small tumor-like mass known as a hypothalamic hamartoma can cause patients to feel the desire to laugh. The urge to laugh is not always followed by laughter. It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry. Something like that. Hahaha. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000225075951.htm # The Genetics Of Pain And Analgesia. Is it nature or nurture? Why does one medication give relief for one person but not for another? Is it the same for men and women? The "it" is pain, and research is narrowing the search for specific genes responsible for a person's response to pain. Make it stop. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000224080023.htm : Is incipient/actual laughter symptomatic of organic brain dysfunction? Are comedians and/or their audiences sick? Do you laugh to keep from crying? If you're gene-engineered to be impervious to pain, will you stop laughing??? @ Poor Richard's Almanac: http://antiquebooks.net/cgi-bin/bookfront?book=7 @ The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches: http://marktwain.miningco.com/library/texts/bl_jf_contents.htm @ Your brain on jumping-beans: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/abrain.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pope calls for religious freedom - everyone should be free to convert to Roman Catholicism, no matter what faith they think they should adhere to. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_656000/656422.stm @ Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc: http://litrix.com/joan/joan001.htm # Pope begins Egypt pilgrimage - levitates atop Giza pyramid, glows: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564550674-fcf # India Christians stage protest - persecuted by Hindus, govt: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564551879-e67 @ The Rig-Veda: http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/index.htm @ The Bhagavad-Gita: http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/gita/index.htm : Have you changed belief-systems lately? Were you forcibly converted? Have you shifted paradigms lately? Voluntarily or otherwise? Has all you knew turned topsy-turvy? Are you spinning dizzily? Would sacramental wine help? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # "Planet In A Test Tube" Provides Valuable Data On Atmospheres Of Planets And Stars: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000223191620.htm # Computer Simulations Reveal The Workings Of The Dynamo Behind
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000218b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * The latest bulletin is now viewable at: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/x.htm * No lunatic-fringe conspiratorialists were harmed to make this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Phases Of The Moon: http://www.googol.com/moon/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Here Comes the Sun, (NASA) A "full halo" coronal mass ejection left the Sun yesterday, apparently headed directly for Earth. When the leading edge of the disturbance reaches our planet on Feb. 19 or 20, it could trigger aurora and other geomagnetic activity. Or it could burn us to a crisp. R U doomed? http://www.spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast18feb_1.htm # Wild Weather Forecasts 2000-2001. Astrometeorologist predicts we're in for increasingly violent storms, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions over the next two years. http://www.altnews.com.au/nexus/ViolentWeather.html # Stellar shockwave starts to glow - Hubble sees stellar lightshow in nearby galaxy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_646000/646418.stm # Also - Hubble looks through the keyhole: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_63/630840.stm # Giant telescope's close-up on quasars: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_611000/611745.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ "Who started the http://www.whidbey.net/~dcloud/fbns/whostarted.htm evo- lutionary world view? Amazing nonsense cobbled together from a disparate set of prejudices. Evolution may fail the test of Scripture, but this fails the test of sanity. Check out the full End Times Apostasy Database http://www.whidbey.net/~dcloud/fbns/indexfbns.htm for more of the same (much more!). Find out if Men Are Lusting After Your Wife Or Daughter and how he Praises The Lord For Women Who Keep Their Hair Long. Particularly good is Tottooing for Jesus (sic) (I've always wanted to do that). Women who keep their hair long would be a great name for a band." [ from http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Lindsay/weblog/latest.html 18.Feb.2000 ] @ "Is This How Sacred Symbols Are Born?" Throughout history humans have graced their perceptions of "reality" with graphic symbols representing all kinds of concepts. Many of these symbols represent spiritual or rel- igious ideas. The Ankh, the Cross, the Star of David, the Hebrew Tree Of Life, are a few of the symbols many of us are at least somewhat familiar with. How do these symbols develop? http://www.caus.org/cz021800.htm : What's your favorite symbol/meme/myth/rumor/fantasy? Has your world view evolved lately? Is your hair long? What's your favorite apostasy? Are you now or have you ever been apostolic? Does anyone lust after you? Why not?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Gal-A-Rama: "I wish I were [fond of history] too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all -- it is very tiresome." --Jane Austen # HORMONE HERESY: The Suppression of Women. http://www.altnews.com.au/nexus/HormoneHeresy.html @ GREAT WOMEN OF ASTRONOMY: http://www.physics.uc.edu/~sitko/women.html # Honor Ordinary Women: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000218/07/odd-protest @ Andrea Dworkin: http://www.igc.org/Womensnet/dworkin/OnlineLibrary.html # Surrealist, feminist Varo exhibit opens in Washington: Hairy Locomotion a winner: http://cnn.com/2000/STYLE/arts/02/10/feminist.art.ap/index.html # She's Too Fat To Jail: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000218/07/odd-fat @ Hey, boys... Vampire chicks! http://www.vamperotica.com/ Robot chicks! http://www.robotgirls.com/ Via: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Sex/ # 'Vagina Monologues' -- http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000211/odd-113 # POSH SPICE STRUTS CATWALK AT LONDON FASHION WEEK - did it for free: http://CNN.com/2000/STYLE/fashion/02/17/fashion.posh.ap/ : In a world of robotics cloning, are men/women/humans necessary, boring, irrelevant, obsolete? Have you been suppressed lately? Will you be soon? Are you planning on being suppressed, cloned, roboticized, exiled, purged? When? # Birth of first cloned pig expected soon. NEW YORK (UPI) - The company that created Dolly the sheep is awaiting the birth of the world's first cloned piglet, an important first step in creating a limitless source of organs for human transplantation. http://vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=64807 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BISHOPS ASK BUSH TO HALT DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS. The Catholic bishops of Texas have asked Gov. George W. Bush to suspend the death penalty review capital punishment in the state, which leads the nation
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000211b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * No ancient alien maps were destroyed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # RIP Roger Vadim: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9360225 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Argentine UFO Crash Site Pinpointed - UFOs Shine Beams Of Light - Other Sightings: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/uforeport.htm # Military Sightings of the Interesting Kind: US AIR FORCE SHOOTS DOWN UFO; US NAVY ENCOUNTERS HOVERING UFO: http://www.caus.org/mu021100.htm @ Physical Evidence Related to UFO Reports (Sturrock Panel) http://www.jse.com/ufo_reports/Sturrock/toc.html @ JSE Abstract Index: http://www.jse.com/ab_index.html @ ISSO (See Library): http://www.isso.org/issoclient/frameset.asp : What's your favorite UFO evidence? Has it been suppressed? Have you been? Have you pinpointed any UFOs lately? Have they pinpointed you? Did you learn anything from each other? What? Are aliens good teachers? Do they try hard? @ The Piri Reis Map of 1513. Were America Antarctica mapped from a UFO? Where did those details come from? http://www.viewzone.com/pirireis.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DRUGMAKER DEFENDS GLAND HARVESTING. DUBLIN (Reuters) U.S.-Swedish drug maker Pharmacia Upjohn defended its actions in harvesting human pituitary glands from hospitals in Ireland during the 1970s and 1980s. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000211/06/science-health-ireland # 2 studies fault St. John's wort. LONDON (AP) - St. John's wort, a popular herbal remedy used to relieve mild depression, can interfere with drugs used to treat HIV-infected people and heart transplant patients. Bother. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564122408-27c : Have you harvested any glands/herbs/humans lately? What are the sources of the most potent pharmaceuticals? Do all pharmaceuticals cause interference? Is biology the most fun game of all? Have you restructured biology lately? # Patent Office Now at Heart of Gene Debate - What's Intellectual Property? http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/2207/t12220.html # The Changing Guidelines for the Review of Genetic Patents: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/2207/t12239.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ MSG In Baby Food - It Doesn't Get Any Worse Than This. In the second half of the 20th-century the USA experienced a dramatic, unprecedented increase in neurologic psychiatric illness among its young people. Serious brain disorders such as schizophrenia, manic depression, bipolar, anorexia, and attention-deficit disorder are now common problems for pediatricians to encounter. Looking for causal factors behind this crisis, an inexorable conclusion is reached by the objective researcher: processed food in the American diet is doing irreparable harm to the bodies and minds of young people. From the day they are born, American children are bombarded with a steady dosage of highly toxic chemicals in their food and drink. http://www.geocities.com/michael_goodspeed/Forbidden_Truth.html : Which cause worse cerebral/physical pathologies: food additives, rotten food, malnutrition, alcohol, tobacco, fatty foods, alien implants? Have you been driven insane by MSG, MDA, sucrose? Do you claim the Twinkie Defense? Do Americans [and their parents] imbibe more/less than in centuries past?? # Alcohol-brain cell link found. WASHINGTON (AP) - A single drinking binge by a pregnant woman can be enough to permanently damage the brain of her unborn child, according to a new study of the effects of alcohol on babies. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564116768-7c5 # Cigarettes Contain Over 600 Secret Ingredients Additives - firms admit: http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/00/02/10/timnwsnws01047.html?999 * EDITOR'S NOTE: Anyone thinking that current US society is more violent or degraded than in the past is advised to read THE GOOD OLD DAYS - THEY WERE TERRIBLE! by noted archivist Otto L. Bettmann [New York: Random House, 1974, ISBN 0-394-70941-1] We can discuss this on SKEPTICHAT if we're so inclined. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # US Senate approves Nevada as waste site. WASHINGTON (AP) - Over Nevada's heated objections, the Senate directed that thousands of tons of nuclear waste be shipped from power plants nationwide to that state. But the leg- islation faces a certain presidential veto that is not expected to be overcome. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564116993-ca3 # CIA Assessment Of Missile Threat Against The United States: http://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs/speeches/nio_speech_020900.html # North Korea Is World's Biggest
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000204b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * No holy basketball tournaments were canceled to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Bemushröömed: http://deoxy.org/bmushrmd.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cattle Ranchers Browse Web. MEDELLIN, Colombia (Reuters) - Home, home on the Web! Colombia's cattle ranchers should soon be able to do most of their business over the Internet and avoid forays into the countryside, where they risk being kidnapped by Marxist guerrillas. Telecomuting for survival: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000203/08/odd-cattle @ Markov Localization for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments. Localiza- tion (estimation of a robot's location from sensor data) is a fundamental problem in mobile robotics. This version of Markov localization provides accurate position estimates and is tailored towards dynamic environments. The key idea of Markov localization is to maintain a probability density over the space of all locations of a robot in its environment. Where it's at: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/jair/abstracts/fox99a.html : D'ya know where you are? Do y'r enemies know where you are? Do robots know where you are? Can you accurately localize yourself within dynamic environs? Are aliens/agents/clones tracking you? Do you appear to be somewhere else?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Argentina UFO Spawns a Tornado: PUERTO BELGRANO NAVY BASE - Witnesses saw a shiny object at an estimated altitude of 2,000 meters (6,600 feet) and simultaneously the presence of a powerful whirlwind on the ground surface below. The weather station Commandante at Espora Air Base stated that atmospheric conditions at the time were not conducive to the formation of tornadoes. http://www.caus.org/mu020400.htm : Does your UFO regularly cause tornadoes, whirlwinds, dustdevils? Have you checked the exhaust system lately? Do you need to install new baffles? D'ya like to blow humans around for fun, instruction, warning? Do you cause other wind/weather phenomena on Earth? Is weather-control mere childs-play to you? # TEAMS HUNT FOR SUSPECTED UFO IN NORTHERN ARGENTINA: # MISSING AIRLINER FOUND ON MOUNTAINTOP IN THE ANDES: # GIANT ICE CHUNKS FALL ON CITIES IN ITALY: # MYSTERY METEOR LIGHTS UP WESTERN AUSTRALIA: # BEACHGOERS SIGHT UFO IN MEXICO'S BAJA REGION: # COUPLE SEES A UFO IN SOUTHERN ALABAMA: # MULTICOLORED UFO SEEN IN ELK RIVER, MINNESOTA: # "GOD'S ARMY" TAKES THE OFFENSIVE IN THAILAND: # UFO HOVERS OVER A CATTLE STATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA: http://ufoinfo.com/roundup/v05/rnd05_05.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'YEAR OF THE DRAGON' READY TO ROAR ACROSS ASIA. Millions of Asians world- wide are hot to celebrate as the Lunar New Year approaches, and countless numbers are trying to reach their hometowns before the Year of the Dragon arrives Saturday. http://CNN.com/2000/ASIANOW/east/02/04/china.new.year/ : Are you ready for the new year? Did'ya think that the new year had already come? How many new years are ahead? What's your favorite calendar? Is it in your belief system? How do you celebrate time.marks? What's your ritual?? # Basketball - Distilled Traditional Religion of Oaxacan Expatriates in Los Angeles: http://www.laweekly.com/ink/00/11/news-mittelstaedt.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Crash-a-Rootie: # Pieces of downed airline found, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563885515-0ef # Also: Beach memorial for Alaska Air crash, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563881267-c84 # And: Alaska jet had pretty clean record, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563870165-ef9 # Alaska crash victim's ring sends signal, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563876789-bcc # STRUGGLING ALASKA AIRLINES PILOTS ASKED ABOUT HIDDEN CIRCUIT BREAKERS: Techies at the National Transportation Safety Board's labs in Washington will today begin deciphering the flight data recorder tape from Alaska Airlines Flight 261: http://CNN.com/2000/US/02/04/alaska.airlines.01/ # Flight 261's Black Boxes Found - Probers Hope Recorders Explain Crash: www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/02/03/alaskaair0203pm_01.html # 'Twisted Minds' Scam Crash Victims Online - Bogus Web Sites: www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/02/03/crashfraud0203_01.html # Divers search for 'black box' off Ivory Coast, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563876787-dc6 * ED.NOTE: There have been allegations about govt/Navy/HAARP links to the AK.261 crash; we're still assembling material, and will have a presentation up on such allegations Real Soon Now. Your conspiracy theories are welcome. _ _
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000128b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * No miracles were observed during the production of this bulletin. Darn. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Forgotten New York: http://www.forgotten-ny.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ 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 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 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 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 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 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 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/000127-25.html # Greater Hack Threat: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000127-05.html # MS Win2K Anti-Piracy Tools: http://theregister.co.uk/000127-19.html # US Pans China
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[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #2
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000121b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No millennial geomancers were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ BAD COOKIE: http://www.badcookie.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pokemon -- Snatching A Peek-at-you. What could be sinister about a cute animation which once sent hundreds of Japanese children into seizures with strobing lights? Pokémon may ride on the quiet new frontier of electronic influence, the science of adjusting, or re-tuning, consciousness using light pulses and / or specific sound frequencies. If this is, in fact, a hidden truth of Pokémon, it only worsens the impact of the dirty little secret which rests within plain sight, a secret which anyone with a VCR can confirm. There is a pedophiliac undercurrent within the animated Pokémon series, and it all begins in each episode with a sneaky little Pikachu. http://www.txdirect.net/~dwhodges/pokemon.html : What's your favorite mind-control technique for reprogramming children? Do you use subliminal tachistoscope imagery, hypnotic aural patterns, hi-sugar snack foods, carefully-manipulated environmental toxins, everything? Why?? @ A Modest Proposal: http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # EgyptAir 990 crash: deliberate. (AP) - Weeks after the last pile of debris from EgyptAir 990 was pulled from the sea, investigators are more convin- ced than ever of their original theory: The jet was crashed deliberately. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563510263-b58 : Have you destroyed any aircraft recently? Did you beam mind-control rays at the pilot, causing disorientation, suicidal behavior? Did you use lasers, missiles, particle beams, swarms of geese? Who directed the operation? Why? # Stealth Aircraft - Nowhere To Hide. http://www.sightings.com/politics6/stealth_p.htm # Official Millstadt, Illinois Police Department UFO Report: http://www.suntimes.com:80/output/news/ufo19.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NOMAD: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_609000/609905.stm @ Built by the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute http://www.ri.cmu.edu/, the new http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/projects/meteorobot/Nomad/Nomad.html autonomous rover Nomad has begun searching for meteorites in ice fields http://www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov/curator/antmet/antmet.htm near Elephant http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/publications/amlamp/elephant.moraine.html Mor- aine, a remote location in Eastern Antarctica. You can follow Nomad's daily progress http://www.ri.cmu.edu/~meteorobot2000 at the RI's web- site. And get quite robotic at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Robotics/ : What environments would you like to remotely explore? Would you like to directly link your brain with an explor'bot? Do you want to project your senses/consciousness into glaciers, volcanoes, floods, stellar interiors?? @ Newer York, New York - After the Great Blaze of 2015, Manhattan went green - thanks to Bill Gates and bambootekture. Let it grow: http://go.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/futuretekture.html/mg20004 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Only Connect - From swarms of smart dust to secure collaborative zones, Omninet arrives. http://go.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/nets.html/mg20004 # FCC APPROVES LOW POWER RADIO: Move hailed by neighborhood activists is blasted by the radio industry. Greedy slimeballs can't stand competition: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/21/137l-012100-idx.html # What low-power stations mean to you - voice for the voiceless: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/20/radio/index.html : Will net-swarms of decentralized, low-power nodes be able to overwhelm the centralized mega-organizations that dominate the world? Can collaborative free-net models survive? How will communications conspiracies evolve? Why? @ MICROWAVE HARASSMENT AND MIND-CONTROL EXPERIMENTATION http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/coldwar/microwave.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Geomancy for the Millennium - Mahathir, mergers and the Maldives. There is nothing like predicting the future: you capture people's curiosity for the moment, and by the time your predictions materialize -- or don't -- everyone has forgotten the details anyway. So, prognosticating: In Asia, "something big and unexpected will happen in the coming 12 months." Really? http://cnn.com/ASIANOW/time/asiabuzz/2000/01/19/ # Climate Change Environmental Surprises Ahead. WASHINGTON (ENS) Glaciers are melting.Where once snow fell, now only rain pounds down. Storm systems driven by tropical heatwaves are getting stronger more deadly.Increasing amounts of greenhouse gases are being pumped into the
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000114b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No nuclear/biological/chemical weaponry helped to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Thundercats: http://www.sonic.net/~dhubbins/tcats/out/outtake.htm @ New Zoo Review: http://www.blackboardkids.com/prog_special6.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The World's First Sect Was a Straight-laced Culture 8,500 Years Ago. It's most likely that deer were hand-fed and tamed (though not domesticated), much as free-roaming, hand-fed pigs in New Guinea are exploited. Thus, while the Aceramic people hunted a wild species, it may have been a somewhat ceremonial hunt. These early Cypriots likely built not only their economy, but much of their ideology, around this wild animal. http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0799toc/part2-feature3.shtml : How old is your sect? Do you worship wild animals? Do wild animals worship you? Do you prefer pigs, deer, bears, bulls, tigers, weasels, kangaroos?? # Boy babies stolen - Gangs grab male newborns, sell to childless couples: www.scmp.com/News/Asia/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-2114032554105.asp # Pets on plate causing uproar: Cat meat the rage among newly rich in China: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001851641145319pg=/et/00/1/14/wchi14.html # 'We made it snow'- Chinese weathermen go one better than forecasting rain: http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/01/14/timfgnfar01001.html?999 # Chinese discover corruption http://spotlight.org/01_02_00/China/china.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFO team tracking sightings. It appeared as a floating two-story house with a glowing red interior. A week later, it has attracted national media and a team of investigators led by a former FBI agent who wants to know if the object was an alien spacecraft. St. Louis is all agog: www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?21/13+ufo011300_news.html+2113 : Have you tracked any UFOs lately? Have any UFOs tracked you? How long? @ Eclectic: Former Fashion Maven Digs into Russian Mammoth Fields Ancient Textiles: http://discoveringarchaeology.com/0799toc/7profile1-soffer.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mir Touted As Orbiting Business Park Space Spa. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) A U.S. tycoon is pumping millions of dollars into a plan to save Russia's Mir space station, hoping to transform the empty outpost into an orbiting business park and a vacation resort for highfliers. Freefall sex is one attraction: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000114/07/science-space-mir And http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_603000/603709.stm # Space Plane Delayed. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A summer test flight of the $1.2 billion X-33 space plane will be delayed because fuel tanks have defects may be abandoned: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000114/06/space-plane : What's your favorite space project? Is it expensive? How much would you pay to conquer the universe? Is it cheaper than the costs we'd bear if some other civilization conquers the universe? Is the universe too expensive?? @ The Wailing Asteroid: http://www.nakedword.org/htmltext/wasteroi.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Russia raises nuclear threat. Russia has revised its defence doctrine to make it easier to hit the nuclear button in an international crisis, while unequivocally declaring the west a hostile power that must be resisted. http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,122401,00.html : Have you make any nuclear/biological/chemical threats lately? Are you just bluffing, or would you actually carry out such threats, even if they invited certain retaliation that resulted in your destruction and the extinction of human life from the solar system? Is your power ploy worth human extinction? # Power lifting librarian demos good book hefting technique: # University radiation safety officer monitoring Chernobyl: # Ex-Soviet official sounds nuclear/biological/chemical alarm: http://www.uga.edu/gm/1299/FrontFac.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Gov't Plea on Waco Papers Denied. DALLAS (AP) A federal judge denied govt requests to delay the handover of documents in a wrongful-death case filed by Branch Davidian survivors. http://nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Waco.html # Delta Force At Waco To Shoot Davidians! Film maker claims CIA case officer admitted Special Operations troops sent to Waco were involved in shooting. http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/2113_xex_fbi_machineg.shtml : Should the govt sue Davidian survivors for conspiracy wrongful death? Should God be sued for letting the deaths happen? Are we all guilty too? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Columbine to be open on April 20 massacre anniversary. Shrinks say that
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 000107b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No inept prognosticators were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFOs Invade China - the Journal of UFO Research: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/china/alien/mania/2102/ny194 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Feeling doomless? Check out some of the prophesies on about.com. On April 4, sez a prophet named Ola Ilori, the Jewish Jubilee Year will end, resul- ting in the Rapture and that pole-shift thing people are talking about (which could put the South Pole somewhere around South America). And let's not forget that on May 5, the planets will be in relative alignment, res- ulting in earthquakes, tidal waves, erupting volcanoes the shifting of ice caps! http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/pages/000104/3384741.html : What's your favorite prediction? Have you made any predictions lately? Are you well-paid? Are you right very often? Does it matter, if you're paid? Eh? @ All about 2000: From parties to predictions: http://www.cnn.com/2000 @ Take a virtual peek into the future: http://www.cnn.com/future @ Your Scenarios: http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/at2000/index.html#poll # I predict: http://www.nymag.com/page.cfm?page_id=1777 $ Predict It - Predict All: http://www.predictit.com/ @ Ask The Hideous Jabbering Head of Abraham Lincoln - ask anything: http://www.hideousjabberinghead.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Ten Tech Predictions for 2000. It's been a good century for technology, what with the industrial revolution hitting its stride, the moon landing, and the birth of the PC. The next century is sure to be even better, but let's start with 2000. See what the oracle has to say about the future of technology. http://1.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin1/flo?x=dKoEumYEEwoEoKuY @ Hardware: 10 Technologies for the Next Millennium. Technological change continues its furious pace. We consider ten technologies that have just left the developmental stage, and we speculate on how they will affect our lives in the immediate future. What will your tech future look like? We'll tell you. http://1.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin1/flo?x=dKoEumYEEwoghAuu @ Gamecenter: The Top 40 Games of the Millennium. Picking the best games of the last thousand years is a fool's errand, so we limited our choices to the best electronic games of the last hundred years. Gratuitous references to the millennium aside, this story will take you on a fun-filled trip down memory lane, and then we pick the one game we believe has left a bigger impact on the world than any other. Hint: It's not one of the newest. http://1.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin1/flo?x=dKoEumYEEwoEYguA : Is gaming a/the major force driving technological development? When will gaming totally supplant physical warfare? What electro/chemical/bio techs will most affect future gaming, and vice versa? What are your predictions? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # THE ART OF DIPLOMACY. (LATimes) The halls of the United Nations are filled with valuable art. But curating the vast collection is an art in itself. "The greatest problem facing the arts committee is preventing the United Nations from becoming a curiosity shop." Isn't that curious? Geek show: http://www.calendarlive.com/calendarlive/calendar/2107/t01981.html : Are the best international conspiracies/bureaucracies the most curious?? If the UN wasn't curious, would it be worth having around? Should political/ economic/religious/governing institutions be forced to sell their collected artworks? What would you pay for the galleries of the White House, Vatican, UK Royals, UN, Kremlin? How much could taxes be reduced if these were sold? # Bono: Forgive Third World debt. PARIS (AP) - Ballad writer Bono has turned his pen to editorials. The lead singer of the Irish rock group U2 urged France to forgive billions of dollars owed by Third World. Ignore credit risks: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563091338-af0 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # U.S. abortions continue to decline. ATLANTA (AP) - The number of abortions in the U.S. fell in 1997 to the lowest level in two decades, despite new drugs that make it easier to terminate a pregnancy. The CDC cited several factors for the decline, including reduced access to abortion, increased willingness to use contraception and possibly different attitudes about the moral implications of abortion. And more fetuses harvested by aliens - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563101425-94a : Are you alien? Have you harvested many fetal humans lately? Do you feed on their chemistry, structure, energies, imminent souls? How do you control the humans who oppose reproductive choice -
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991210b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No newly-synthesized lifeforms were cauterized to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Your Daily Zippy: http://www.sfgate.com/sf/zippy/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Post office: Santa won't be sending any more nasty notes. When a Michigan post office used volunteers to answer letters to Santa last year, kids got notes like: "Santa is dead. I killed him." USPS is blaming teen hooligans for that and says only postal employees will handle Santa's correspondence this season. Ho ho ho: http://www.freep.com/news/metro/santa9_19991209.htm # Decking the halls. The history of holiday evergreens goes way, way back: www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001851641145319pg=/et/99/12/4/tglore04.html : What's your favorite pagan solstice ceremonial that's been co-opted by a mainstream religion? Are stolen holydays the best kind? Have you # "JESUS HAS LEFT THE CAMPUS": Yet another stolen nativity statue story: www.postnet.com/postnet/stories.nsf/ByDocId/8B69BBFD1EDA52E286256843000B7719 # Clinton Xmas: http://newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=1999/12/9/85726 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Arthritis scanner puts drugs in spotlight. (BBC) Important info about the effectiveness of arthritis drugs will be revealed by a hi-tech scanner: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_558000/558359.stm # Also: Ballet move 'causes arthritis': http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_544000/544604.stm # Bone and joint diseases threaten financial crisis: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_543000/543542.stm # Arthritis: A new north-south divide: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_363000/363288.stm : Should all medical treatments, mainstream and alternative, be subject to scanning to determine their actions and effectiveness? Would homeopathy survive? Does your art cause disease? Can you afford it? What are the world geopolitical implications of art-engendered disease? Will a world war ensue? # Herbal glee - St. John's Wort extract proved to ease depression: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_557000/557625.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Muslim pilgrims stranded in Jordan. AMMAN (AP) Jordanian cops prevented more than 1,000 pilgrims from leaving the country to visit Muslim shrines in Saudi Arabia because they were traveling in Saudi buses prohibited to operate in Jordan. The govt said the buses were not licensed to take passengers across the border into Saudi Arabia, but the buses had never- theless been leased by Jordanian firms because of their cheap fares. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562515948-927 : Do the vectors of religion, govt and economy inevitably intersect thusly? Will capitalist societies always strand believers in bureaucratic niches?? @ It's no accident that IBM and the US government are sick in the same ways: they grew up together. They may need the same medicine: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/1999/9909.worth.ibm.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT CRITICIZES U.S. FOR POLICE BRUTALITY, OTHER ABUSES. Although Pres. Clinton issued a 1998 executive order affirming the U.S. commitment to uphold human rights treaties, little progress has been made since. "Most public officials remained either ignorant of their human rights obligations or content to ignore them," Human Rights Watch said. Janet Reno commended: http://cnn.com/1999/US/12/09/us.human.rights/ # FBI spy 'fronts': Expert: Megiddo is domestic espionage network run amuck: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/19991210_xex_fbi_spy_fron.shtml # Megiddo warns of Y2K violence - but govt may cause, not prevent, mayhem: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/19991210_xex_megiddo_warn.shtml # Feds setup drug suspects - FBI 'rigged' cars, troopers 'falsified' reports (AP) http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19991209/pl/feds_drug_arrests_1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Seattle-ites say: Hey, at least we're on the map now. Sure, it took a bigtime brouhaha, but at least the city's now known for more than Star- bucks grunge. Seattle Weekly readers weigh in on the WTO disturbances. http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/9949/letters-readers.shtml : What's your favorite multinational conspiracy? Are you an operative in a multinational conspiracy? Are you just a pawn? Are you sure? How d'ya know? # No-WTO - WTO Protest Organizers: Don't Throw the Radicals Overboard! Force the issue: http://www.konformist.com/1999/wto/anarchists.htm # Horror stories from Seattle - City officials hear of WTO police brutality http://www.seattletimes.com/news/local/html98/coun_19991209.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sex and chips lose out
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #2 - 12/03/99
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991203b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No memories were reconstructed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Geek Life: http://www.geeklife.com/images/nov99/davidcgeeklife.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Meltdown blamed on warming. (AP) The giant arctic ice cap may be melting due to global warming.Computer modeling shows only a 2% chance that arctic melting over the last 19 years is a result of natural climate changes. And there only is a 0.1% chance that the melting over the last 46 years is natural. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562375857-5ab : When will Earth be warm enough for the Reptilioids? When will all the ice- caps be melted, low-lying cites flooded, plains swamped, and humans herded? Has this happened before? Have we forgotten the last Reptoid takeover? Why? @ Obliscence, Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter. In this work Geoffrey Sonnabend departs from all previous memory research with the pre- mise that memory is an illusion. Forgetting, not remembering, is the in- evitable outcome of all experience. http://mjt.org/exhibits/oblisci.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # India's temple to the Aids goddess. (BBC) To mark World Aids Day hundreds of people in southern India take part in a procession to a temple containing the benign goddess of Aids. But She doesn't put out: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_545000/545405.stm : Who's your favorite goddess? Are goddesses effective to prevent or treat diseases? What disease would you like to catch from a goddess? How can you tell she's a goddess? Is she distinctive? Is she powerful? Is she inhuman? @ HORN OF MARY DAVIS OF SAUGHALL. We were then shown a very extraordinarily curious horn which had grown on the back of a woman's head. It seems that men-folk bear their horns in front and such women theirs behind. The horn was blackish is colour, not very thick or hard, but well proportioned. It is somewhat of a curiosity: http://mjt.org/exhibits/horn_md.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # R.J. Reynolds to reduce chemical. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - The nation's second-largest cigarette maker announced it will begin making cigarettes with less of a compound some scientists say causes cancer. In a related move, a trade group of ammunition makers announced that they will begin producing bullets without gunpowder, a chemical some doctors say causes trauma. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562382868-e29 # Billionaire banker killed. (BBC) One of the world's richest men, Edmond Safra, suffocated in his Monaco apartment in a fire set by 2 attackers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_548000/548288.stm : How much smoke is deadly? Who directs the smoke conspiracy? Will they kill anyone who gets in their way? Would you rather light the fire yourself, or let someone else do it? Have you lit any fires lately? Did anyone die? Who? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GINKGO ASPIRIN: DANGEROUS LIAISONS? Ginkgo aspirin can be a dangerous combination, because both have blood-thinning properties. We have to be careful about potential interactions between drugs and herbal products. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=23014 # LINK BETWEEN LICORICE LIBIDO. Tips on licorice - look out for it in her- bal teas; what kind to buy if you love licorice, but want to avoid side effects. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=23013 # WARNINGS ABOUT ST. JOHN'S WORT. St. John's wort, a common herbal remedy for depression, can interact with a certain heart medication, and it also might have a serious side effect from interacting with sunlight. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=22994 : What's your favorite herb? D'ya enjoy herbal henbane, nightshade, hemlock, datura, nicotiana, oleander? D'ya taste every plant you see? Do you survive? @ CAN I TREAT HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE WITHOUT DRUGS? Nope; some herbs will kill you: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=22992 @ ARE THERE HOME REMEDIES FOR WARTS? Try hot water or potatoes or nail polish: http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=22991 @ DOES CARDAMOM HAVE ANY HEALTH BENEFITS OR RISKS? It might help with back pain: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=22989 @ WHAT HERBS CAN I TAKE FOR INSOMNIA TO REPLACE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS? Melatonin, valerian and kava kava have all been shown to fight insomnia, but you need to be careful with them. You can't take kava and drugs like Xanax, or drink alcohol, or you could be in for trouble. Have more sex:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991126b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * Please DO NOT include the entire bulletin when you reply; Cut/Paste, eh? * Time did not run backwards during production of this bulletin, did it? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ 10 Turkeys: http://1.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin1/flo?x=doYgKhBuBwghBKuE _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The Universe may contain regions where time runs backwards. THE Universe may contain regions where milk would stir itself out of coffee and eggs would un-break, sez a New York physicist. The idea that there may be regions where time runs backwards could explain invisible dark matter. This kind of matter, invoked by cosmologists to explain the movement of galaxies, could originate in a future contracting phase of the Universe. Grave-to-cradle security: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/991124/18/bo71.html : Do you prefer time to run forwards, backwards, sideways, upside-down, in a spiral, or random jig-jags? Have you designed/built/used time machines that explore each possible geometry? Where do you end up? DO you end up? Is there an end, beginning, midpoint? Is time a probabilistic cloud, temporal fog?? @ New history of quantum physics - 100 years that shook the world: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991127/goldencent.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Earth to E.T. -- let us know what's out there. In the demon-haunted world of the Middle Ages people were abducted by incubi and succubi; the spirit- haunted world of 19th century England the U.S. reported apparitions and ghosts. Now, we don't experience demons and spirits because our culture is captured by aliens. From Star Trek Star Wars to E.T. and The X-Files in our pop-culture, and from NASA's Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program to the [alleged] Mars rock microbes, we live in an alien- haunted world. Yet evidence for alien existence is, well, nonexistent. http://herald.com:80/content/wed/entertainment/books/digdocs/088449.htm : Is your mind haunted by the current paradigm? Do you prefer older/newer paradigms? Have you invented any different brain-haunting paradigms? Will you share'em with us? Will they take over our minds? Will you take control? @ Science morality: http://sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/280/5367/1200 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GAMMA RAY FINDING MAY OPEN NEW WINDOW ON UNIVERSE. NASA scientists say a new finding on the properties of gamma-ray bursts could open "a new window on the distant universe" and offer fresh insight into its beginnings - and perhaps its eventual demise. This could make it possible to determine the geometry of the universe throughout its various epochs, as well as when and where massive stars formed in its very early stages. 'A much better idea of where we came from:' http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9911/25/gamma.rays/ : Should windows be left open? Won't weather blow in? Do you really want to know when/how the universe will end? Would you rather be surprised? Can you take preventative measures? Should we keep the universe from ending? Would that be "tampering with Nature?" D'ya like to tamper with Nature? Is it fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Site catches term paper cheaters. BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - If your idea of writing a college term paper is point-click-download, your worst nightmare may be http://www.plagiarism.org where your misdeeds will be exposed, for a fee: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562253076-78d # Train robber designs heist game. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) A new video game based on Britain's 1963 Great Train Robbery will be designed by an expert - Ronald Biggs, a fugitive who helped carry out the heist. Biggs fellow train robber Bruce Reynolds have signed on as design consultants - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562249718-cf1 # Cashier uses Palm Pilot in credit card scam. NEW YORK (AP) A Bloomingdale clerk's PDA was her partner in crime. After swiping a credit card through the store's credit card device, she'd swipe it again thru a card scanner attached to her Palm Pilot. The PDA "is capable of storing thousands of credit card numbers:" http://cnn.com/TECH/ptech/9911/24/creditcardscam.ap : What are the most creative ways to use computers to profit from crime? Do you profit from other peoples' crimes? Do other people profit from yours? Do voices in y'r head guide you to profitable crimes, or are you in it for fun? @ Feeble handwriting analysis of Bill Gates - ya can't analyze The Dark Lord, can you? http://www.myhandwriting.com/celebs/billgates2.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Quantum fuel for future computers - Research suggests how software market might change. (MSNBC) Imagine a world where software is computational fuel churned out by a processing plant and shipped down an
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-Caveat Lector- Perhaps we reincarnate into reverse time, and our future lives are actually in the present-time past. Thus science-fiction writers are the only ones who actually remember the past, which at the moment is still in the future. Yep. -Original Message- From: Ric Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999 12:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #2 # The Universe may contain regions where time runs backwards. THE Universe may contain regions where milk would stir itself out of coffee and eggs would un-break, sez a New York physicist. The idea that there may be regions where time runs backwards could explain invisible dark matter. This kind of matter, invoked by cosmologists to explain the movement of galaxies, could originate in a future contracting phase of the Universe. Grave-to-cradle security: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/991124/18/bo71.html : Do you prefer time to run forwards, backwards, sideways, upside-down, in a spiral, or random jig-jags? Have you designed/built/used time machines that explore each possible geometry? Where do you end up? DO you end up? Is there an end, beginning, midpoint? Is time a probabilistic cloud, temporal fog?? DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- -- From: Tatman, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #2 Date: Friday, November 26, 1999 1:55 PM -Caveat Lector- Perhaps we reincarnate into reverse time, and our future lives are actually in the present-time past. Thus science-fiction writers are the only ones who actually remember the past, which at the moment is still in the future. Yep. Would that be the time line when JR wasn't shot and the shower scene really was dream? Hilary DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991112b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No conspiracy theories were hatched during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Every Episode: http://www.xnet.com/~djk/main_page.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ This Day In History: 1933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken 1933 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal) 1933 Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany : Coincidence... or conspiracy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Conspiracy theorists exploit Y2K fears, sez prof. (U-WIRE) BOSTON -- With the disappearance of tangible, Cold War-era enemies like the Soviet Union, many Americans have latched onto theories of millennial apocalypse as the next great threat to society. "In a post-Cold War world, the visible enemy has vanished. There is a great temptation to manipulate the old Naturalist theme of an invisible enemy whose power is a function of their invisibil- ity." GOTCHA!!! http://news.excite.com/news/uw/991109/university-292 : Are you a conspiratorialist? Have you exploited any fears lately? Do you fervently wish for a millennial apocalypse, so you won't be proved wrong? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Americans Think Intelligent Alien Life Coming Here - Poll. LOS ANGELES (PRNewswire) - Is there intelligent life on other worlds? Does it resemble the tentacled uglies of Independence Day?... or, the lovable, teddy bear- like Ewoks in George Lucas' "Star Wars?"... or, maybe, the nine-foot tall, gas-breathing Psychlos of L. Ron Hubbard's "Battlefield Earth?" And if extraterrestrials decide to visit Earth, will they come as friend ... or foe? http://news.excite.com/news/pr/99/ca-dateline-usa-alien : Are you alien? If so, are you a) intelligent, b) tentacled, c) cuddly, d) gassy, e) friendly, f) all of the above? Should we believe in you? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Washington state near top in UFO sightings. BREMERTON, Wash. -- Based on reported sightings to the National UFO Reporting Center, one of the best places to see a flying saucer is Puget Sound. In fact, Washington state trails only California in the number of reported UFO sightings since December 1996. http://detnews.com:80/1999/nation/9911/11/0235.htm : Do UFOs regularly land at the MicroSoft campus? Is Bill Gates reptilioid? Is the Seattle Space Needle a beacon? Is Mt. Olympus the abode of ET gods? Do telepathic giant squids cruise beneath Puget Sound, feeding on the mental emanations of MicroSerfs? Does Boeing Aerospace have an alien connection?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Spacecraft Arrive -- But Whose? Everybody knows what space vehicles look like on the way up. The explosive steam-enshrouded liftoff becomes a fiery upward trail, brighter than the sun. The rocket rises, dims arches over, aiming to throw itself beyond the horizon and into space. But even after decades of space ops, many remain in the dark about what spacecraft look like when they return. http://space.com:80/area51/spacejunk_991105.html : Have you seen any returning spacecraft lately? Were they human or alien, controlled or crashing, fine-tuned machinery or space-pitted junk? Really? # Moon mission targets mystery. (BBC) A European Space Agency mission to find exactly what the Moon is made of has been given the final go-ahead. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_517000/517232.stm # Active Sun. A magnificent display of Sunspots is on show on Sol's surface. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_516000/516102.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Peru Indian chief's tomb found. LIMA (AP) - Archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of an Indian military chief who lived 1,000 years before Christ in Peru's north Andes. An Italian team found the tomb of the Huayakuntur Indian in Ayabaca province near the border with Ecuador. The chieftain's excavated skeletal remains were found laid out on a stone altar grasping a sea shell, and a stone hatchet within reach. With him were two women, accompanied by five warrior guards, and two human sacrifices, all in fetal positions. Skeletal remains surrounded by ceremonial pottery - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562034115-32c : How many women, guards and sacrifices would you like to be buried with? Do you want to be dead or alive at the time? Will your memory live forever? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # U.S. WARNS ISRAEL OVER SALES OF MILITARY TECHNOLOGY TO CHINA. Pres. Bill Clinton said the U.S. military had "good reason to have questions" about Israel selling advanced radar systems to China. But Monica's mentor said he wanted to hear the full facts of the case before deciding what to do. "Our people have questions, and they had
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-Caveat Lector- # New, Deadly 'AIDS' Tree Virus Threatens Pennsylvania Crops: http://foxnews.com/scitech/111099/fruit.sml This gives new meaning the phrase, 'Hug a tree.' A side note: I just had a 'conspiracy-though.' If there were enough damage to crops in the US and Europe would GM food lines be more acceptable? I read recently that GM trees are being tested (grown) so, this venture is definitely going beyond your basic soybean and grain cropJust a thought Hilary DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991015b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : Most millennialists survived production of this bulletin. The poor sods. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Virgin With Dung: http://www.oasinet.com/postmedia/art/ofili.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PREPARING FOR BIOTERRORISM - MENTALLY PHYSICALLY. Bioterrorism can have a devastating effect on both physical and mental health, says a prominent psychiatrist, who suggests any response plan include a mental health com- ponent. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=19262 # Another big SF quake feared. (AP) - There is a 70% chance that a large earthquake will shake the San Francisco Bay area in the next 30 years. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561630534-b45 : Are you more terrorized by biowar, geowar, nukewar, random acts of planet- ary violence, religious/political/economic/artistic proselytizers, ETs, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists ponder life on Jupiter. PADUA, Italy (AP) - Hundreds of cosmic scientists mobbed Galileo's homeland, hoping to learn from a spacecraft named Galileo whether a heavenly body the Renaissance astronomer found 4 centuries ago might support life. The NASA Galileo probe, winding down a 2-year, $30 million probe of Jupiter, recently made its closest-ever flyby of the Jovian moons, passing within 380 miles of Io, Jupiter's innermost large moon. But many scientists here are more interested in Jupiter's 4th largest moon, Europa, spotted by Galileo in 1610. In the world of planet- ary science, and the search for life beyond Earth, Europa is hot. Hubba hubba: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561631055-380 : Is Jovian life Jovial? Is Europan life European? Is Io life Ionian? Are you hot for Europeans? Should I stop playing these silly name games? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Researchers Map Molecule That Repairs Sun Cigarette Damage. The crystal structure of an enzyme that hunts down DNA damage caused by sunlight and cigarettes, then snaps it up like a Venus' flytrap, is described: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991014075631.htm # Green Tea Shows Antioxidant Benefits In Human Plasma. Substances in green tea known as catechins can increase the antioxidant capacity of human plasma, which could help reduce cardiovascular disease risk, say Japanese researchers: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991014075533.htm : Are you damaged? Does green tea repair you? Do you smoke tobacco drink green tea, or vice versa? Have'ya oxidized much lately? Are you crystalline? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ BARE YOUR SOLES: CELEBRATE FEET. Thinking alt.barefoot might be some kind of hippifest of dirty toes callused heels, I was surprised that it is in fact a newsgroup of photos of toes painted or not, feet arched or flexed. Just feet. Oh yes, and toes. More more toes. One pair of feet grips a banana in one shot, a telephone in another. Bare feet mostly, so if it's a shoe fetish you've got, keep on walkin'. (Nina Gregory) news:alt.barefoot : Should everyone go barefoot? Is that how you can tell humans from aliens? Should we all go naked, so there's no question as to one's species status?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ALLERGIC TO EXERCISE? A FOOD MIGHT BE TO BLAME. The classic couch potato's excuse - an allergy to exercise - might have it's basis in a latent food allergy. Lay off the offending food, and enjoy your workout! Flex those pecs: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=18757 # Doctor defends heroin detox procedure - linked to 6 deaths - just trying to help: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561634772-4d1 : Are you allergic to exercises, foods, opiates, detox procedures? Is life hazardous to your health? Do alien implants protect you from these hazards? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Millennium-a-Rama: # Y2K - BEWARE COMPLACENCY ON Y2K COMPLIANCE http://www.ncpa.org/oped/dupont/dupont99.html # Y2K - more on Year 2000 (Y2K) Computer Bug: http://www.ncpa.org/pd/economy/econ13.html # Y2K - Millennium resolution on Brit TV - call for world peace: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561629837-7b6 # ON THE CUSP OF THE MILLENNIUM -- MARTYRS, PRAYER WARS AND UFO VISITATIONS. Has it begun? 1000 years ago, claimed Burgundian monk Ralph Glaber, inhab- itants throughout Europe packed churches in terror, stopped planting their crops prepared for the end of the world. Groups of pilgrims roamed the countryside warning of impending Armageddon. Apocalyptic movements arose, some even taking up arms to establish a "New Jerusalem," a paradise on Earth to pave the way for the Second Coming of Jesus. It was all a manif- estation of the fervent religious belief - and social hysteria - linked to
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990924b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hyst- erical naked, dragging themselves thru the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connect- ion to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Tokyou Wank: http://www.adgnet.or.jp/~wank/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Is There Any Linkage Between Recent Natural Disasters? WASHINGTON (CNN) When waves of natural disasters strike worldwide, it's only natural for people to wonder if there's a link between the huge forces of nature. Was Hurricane Floyd related to a monster typhoon battering Hong Kong the same week? Did the deadly earthquake in Turkey pull the seismic trigger for the quake in Taiwan? Some answers can be found at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, where specialists track what happens beneath Earth's surface and above it. http://www.sightings.com/earthchanges/naturaldisaster_e.htm : Are waves of disaster caused by human conspiracy, alien mechanisms, divine intervention, bad karma, microscopic radioactive spiders from the galactic core http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs2.htm#micr or me? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Unusually Hot, Cold Oceans Create Corridor For More Storms. (SD) Three current storms captured by a NASA satellite show how unusual sea temp- eratures are creating a clear corridor in the Atlantic for more to come. Make way: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/09/990923072537.htm : Are storm paths created by planetary dynamics, weather-control programs, deities/demons, Reptilioids/Republicans, robots, me? Do you direct storms? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Taiwan Moon Festival is mainly sad. CHUNGLIAO (AP) Thousands of Taiwanese left homeless by this week's deadly earthquake have little to celebrate as they mark one of their most important holidays, the Autumn Moon Festival. People traditionally go outside to gaze at the moon, but this year many will be looking to the skies from tent cities quickly erected after more than 6,000 homes on the island were destroyed. The festival falls in the middle of the eighth lunar Chinese month, when the moon is supposed to be at its fullest. With a ripe, round moon considered a symbol of happiness, the national holiday is also a time for family reunions. Lucky to be alive - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561300600-0d2 : Do disasters inconveniently occur on your festival days? Do your festivals cause natural disasters? Were your festivals started by humans, aliens, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # First Sea-Level Photos Of Massive Antarctic Iceberg. Digital photographs of iceberg B-10-A are now available from the National Science Foundation (NSF). B-10-A is a massive iceberg that is drifting towards South America from Antarctica and may threaten shipping lanes around Cape Horn. Run! Run! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/09/990924075407.htm : Do you eagerly await numerous swarms of massive icebergs roaming the seas as global warming increases? Is this a good way to interdict shipping? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Clifford Stone - 21 Years In Army UFO Recovery / National Security. When 1 was 7 1 had my first close encounter with a UFO, followed by interactions with alien entities. I served in the Army for over 2 1 years. At first, 1 was reluctant, then afraid, then disillusioned by the way the Government handles the subject. http://utenti.tripod.it/paolaharris/national.html : Have you recovered any UFOs lately? When did you first encounter aliens? Is govt disillusioning? Did you ever have illusions? Did the Army cure them? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Going gooey - liquid genius of tomorrow's robots. FORGET A SOPHISTICATED BRAIN. To find its way around, all a robot needs is a headful of chemical goo. The idea that a liquid or gel can produce "intelligent" behaviour without any form of number crunching depends upon the computational and problem-solving properties of a strange class of chemical reactions. Think about it: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990925/newsstory3.html : Is your brain gooey? Have you looked lately? Do you produce intelligent behaviours? Do you crunch numbers? If you're gooey, how loud do you crunch? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Chemists Describe "Fluorescent" Method For DNA Computing. Duke U. chemists versed at conducting large numbers of simultaneous DNA reactions on the surfaces of tiny glass microchips have demonstrated how to use a recent modification of this technique as a precise molecular computer. Think'n' glow: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/09/990924075458.htm : Does your DNA structure
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990917b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No alien implants shorted-out during production of this bulletin. bzzzt _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ You can find the bible code software at: Http://www.prophecyinthenews.com Or write to: ProphecyInTheNews, PO.Box 7000, Oklahoma City OK. 73153-7000 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # For a class project on robotics Minnesota 5th-graders made deadly spiders, death rays roller coasters out of Legos. The programs for some projects have a certain Ballardian poetry: "to crashcar: shine, crash, sound, end." http://bear.blake.pvt.k12.mn.us/campus/projects/lower/lego/robotics98/ : What's your favorite robotic entity? Are you a robot? Do you long to be a robot? Is robotic life better than biological, spiritual, financial, sexual? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Declaration of Evolution. When in the course of organic evolution it becomes obvious that a mutational process is inevitably dissolving the physical and neurological bonds which connect the members of one generation to the past and inevitably directing them to assume among the species of Earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and Nature's God entitle them, a decent concern for the harmony of species requires that the causes of the mutation should be declared. http://geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/4740/DeclarationOfEvolution.rtf : Are you highly mutated? Would you rather evolve, dissolve, resolve, fuck? Were you created to evolve? Have you evolved to create? Are you bound? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Student: This month's Playboy threatens moral fiber. Get ready to blame the "Girls of the Pac 10" http://www.playboy.com/magazine for our upcoming societal woes. U.Arizona student Nick Zeckets admits that his two female classmates have beautiful bodies, but posing for Playboy shows low morals and self-esteem, he contends. "The moral fiber of this nation is waning under the guidance of perverts like Bill Clinton, with the women who fall into the trap of going buff for the camera feeding that perversion and the nation's waning scruples," sez Zeckets, unconsciously fingering his crotch and humming. http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/93/13/04_3_m.html # Atmospheric sciences student says nudes deserve respect: http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/93/14/05_1_m.html # Topless coeds getting lots of e-mail praises: http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/93/11/01_3_m.html # Advice: "If you don't want to see naked women, don't buy Playboy:" http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/93/18/05_2_m.html : Is your moral fiber threatened? Are you totally or partially naked? Do you amuse perverts? Do you deserve respect? Do voices in your head force you to disrobe in front of cameras? Are the CIA mind-control rays directing you?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The salamander's secret sexual scent. (BBC) Scientists have identified the secret love potion a salamander uses to woo his mate. And just in time. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_45/450092.stm # SEX ALLERGY: RARE, BUT NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT. When most of us sneeze after sex, it has to do with swelling of erectile tissue in the nose. But in rare cases there might be an allergy, specifically to semen, and can be serious. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=16986 # Rio Plastic Surgeon's Billboard Nude Sparks Row: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990917/10/odd-nude # Burning Man's queer contingent: http://salon.com/health/sex/urge/1999/09/16/flamingman/print.html # Report Says Sows Need Sun Lotion To Enjoy Mating: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990917/10/odd-sows @ A serious look this week at sex on the Web: http://1.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin1/flo?x=dguhumEAwhoum : Are you frenzied with pheromones? Is salamander goo a rush? Do you need sun lotion to enjoy mating? What's your favorite sexual chemical? Are you allergic to sex? Do your partners think you are? Do you need more chemicals? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # College course is a controversial white thing: At Arizona State University students can explore their white roots in a class. No bias: blacks can explore their white roots too: http://azcentral.com/news/0917white.shtml : Do you have real white roots, or are they bleached or dyed? How many roots would you like to explore? Have you traced your alien roots? What color?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Galileo Plunges Toward Io's Fiery Volcanoes. NASA's Galileo spacecraft begins a daring new phase of its mission when it passes less than 670 km above Jupiter's moon Callisto. What makes this flyby special is that Call- isto's gravity will alter Galileo's orbit and send it hurtling toward two close encounters with Io, the innermost of Jupiter's big moons. Io is lit- erally sizzling with fiery volcanoes
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990910b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No insubstantial voices were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ex-Navy engineer demos his homemade, bargain-basement, computer-killing 'gun.' WASHINGTON -- With $500 and a trip to the hardware store, saboteurs can build a device capable of disrupting computers, automobiles, medical equipment and nearly anything else dependant on electronics, according to a California engineer who demonstrated a homebrew computer death-ray. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2331772,00.html : Have you built any death-rays lately? What sorts of electronic gear would you like to destroy? Do have any targets? Are you a target? Am I a target? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Travis AFB - UFO Hysteria. According to the newspapers and TV - which became aware that something was "up" when massive numbers of aircraft began taking off - UFOs were buzzing the (Travis Air Force) base, and the base also lost all communication with the outside world. It was a foggy night so the craft buzzing the base could not be seen visibly, only on radar. http://caus.org/mc091099.htm : Are you hysterical about UFOs? Are UFOs hysterical about you? Have ya lost all communication with the outside world? Are you only visible on radar? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ENCOUNTER CULTURE - Beachside Calif. gains reputation as UFO central, but some don't quite see the light. LOS ANGELES - Ever since the 60s, Topanga has been known as a spacey place. But lately, it's getting even spacier. These days, the talk of the beachside canyon community - an enduring haven for old-time hippies, New Age herbalists, nudists, bikers, cultists and every combination thereof - is UFOs. Lots and lots of UFOs. http://www.dallasnews.com:80/national/0910nat10ufo.htm : Do you prefer hippies, NewAgers, herbalists, nudists, cultists or aliens? Are you a nude alien hippy biker? Is your community lost in a space warp?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # More than 1,000 attend expo in San Mateo. (P3N) For the past 23 years says Robert Parela, he has been regularly abducted by extraterrestrials. "They take me aboard their spacecrafts," Parela said yesterday at the Bay Area UFO Expo, a two-day event that attracted more than 1,000 people to the San Mateo Marriott Hotel. "They share information with me, in a telepathic language that is like pictures." http://caus.org/pn090999.htm : Are you regularly abducted? Are you fed information? Have you come to ex- pect this? Do you mark your calendar? Are the ETs like clockwork or sloppy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists Witness Peculiar Gas. (BBC) Physicists have created a new form of matter called a Fermionic gas by super cooling atoms of potassium. The new gas follows the laws of quantum mechanics, behaving really weirdly. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_443000/443154.stm # Also: Scientists See Susy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_421000/421929.stm # Hunting the Higgs Boson: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_299000/299550.stm : Have you found any new forms of matter lately? Does it act strange? Have you made anything nifty with it - time machine, space warp, antigravity?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Strangest superfluid wins recognition at last. One of the most bizarre liquids known has won its discoverers the Nobel Prize in Physics. David Lee, Robert Richardson and Douglas Osheroff created 'superfluid' helium-3 in 1971. "The weird thing about superfluid helium-3 is that it can have different properties in different directions, rather like a piece of wood with a well-defined grain." The liquid that climbs the walls - see http://www.newscientist.com/ns/970426/supercon2.html : What's y'r favorite superfluid? Is it difficult to swim in, drink, splash? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MARS ATTACKS. Once, their dreams of a manned Mars mission seemed as far- fetched as time travel. But now that they've infiltrated NASA, local mem- bers of the Mars Underground have come up for air. Building a model Mars colony: http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/07.29.99/mars-9930.html : Have you colonized any planets lately? Have any aliens colonized ours? Is interplanetary colonialiazation as oppressive and exploitative as ours was? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # US Navy Now Biggest User Of Space In Military. WASHINGTON (SNS) When the Navy needs to solve problems in space, the Office of Naval Research is there to make things happen. The Office funds all types of research, from warfare to medical sciences. With the Navy's growing role in space, the Office is making two projects possible: the Naval EarthMap Observer (NEMO) and the WinSat satellites.
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990903b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No budget surpluses were spent during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Microsoft products leave door open to NSA. (CNN) A cryptography expert says Microsoft operating systems include a back door that allows the U.S. National Security Agency to enter systems using an MS OS. The chief scien- tist at an Internet security company reported the flaw at a recent confer- ence where he discussed a "key" entrance into the cryptographic standard used in Microsoft Windows products, including Windows 95, 98, NT4 and Windows2000. http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/03/windows.nsa/index.html : Do you mind if gov't spies search through your computer files? Do you work for the NSA? Do you search thru personal files? Especially the sexy ones??? Are systems using Windows 3.x and earlier, MacOS, Linux, CP/M more secure?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE ANGLE OF LIGHT BECOMES A PERSON. Photons which are messenger light waves traveling through the universe can contact protons. When this occurs smaller energies inside of each called quarks cause a new particle to be formed. In other words light can change into matter and back into light again. The messenger particle which is light can become a person and then change back into light. That person that told you something important, and when you looked back to see him/her, they were gone. This is not something for your to believe. This is reality. Light can change into matter back into light again. http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/meditation.html#BECOMES : Have you changed into light and back lately? Was it difficult? Would you rather be corporeal or luminescent? Do you use the opportunity to spy on people, military installations, gov't operations, corporate meetings, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Domino Effect' Could Threaten More Turkish Quakes. MENLO PARK, Calif. (Reuters) A scientist who two years ago predicted last month's devastating Turkish earthquake warned that a "domino effect" on the country's North Anatolian Fault could mean dangerous seismic stress is building up around Istanbul. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990903/02/science-quake-turkey : Have you manipulated any earthquakes lately? How many Greeks need to jump off ladders simultaneously to cause a major Turkish quake? Are there enough? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SPACEVIEWS - Cosmonauts Leave Mir, Return to Earth - NASA, Orbital Revise X-34 Testing Schedule - First Chandra Images and Spectra Released - GAO Report Critical of X-33 - Mars Polar Lander Site Selected - More Changes in Store for Shuttle Schedule - NASA, Hughes Considering Satellite Rescue Mission - More Delays for Arianespace - Atlas Cleared for Three Launches - SpaceViews Event Horizon - Other News: http://www.spaceviews.com/1999/09/ : Do you have an independent space program? How is it proceeding? Are aliens helping you much? Have you visited The Mothership yet? Is it reely kewl? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SEX-ENHANCEMENT DRUG KILLS - 31 deaths linked to Viagra. (BBC) Thirty- one people have died after taking Viagra in the first year of the anti- impotence drug being available in the UK, doctors have reported. OOPS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_437000/437872.stm : Would you rather fuck than live? Who would you poison with Viagra? Would they mind much? Is Viagra a capitalist plot, an alien plot, a Satanist plot? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ FREEMASON WIT AND WISDOM. The Masons are a self-described fraternity of men that adhere to a code of conduct and living and have meetings, events, and traditions that sound a bit like church. This newsgroup offers bits of wit wisdom, and a lot of flaming from the usual band of nutty conspiracy theorists. One nice quote (from Rev. Brother Jesse Jackson) reads, "Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up." news:alt.freemasonry : Are you a nutty conspiracy theorist? Are you a Freemason? Are you both? Do you control the world? Do you want to? Have you tried? Is it worth it? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # N.Z. Chicken Processing Plant Owner Fax-Bombed by U.S Security. WELLINGTON (Reuters) A chicken processing plant has been bombarded with stray faxes from U.S. security officials preparing for a visit to Auckland by Pres. Clinton. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990903/09/odd-chicken photo: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/life/clinton/chicken/19990903/sin99 : Whose security systems have you penetrated? Is it easy to hack systems so that they propagate confidential communications across the Net? Is it fun?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE: Memory and the evolving psychobiology of post traumatic stress. For more than a century, ever since people's
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990827b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No email imploded during the production of this bulletin. That I know of. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # IMPLODING MESSAGES: YOU *HAD* MAIL. Say hello to the newest in über- encrypted email. It's so secure it self-destructs after you read it. Oh, and there's a US$50k reward for anyone who can decipher the key. Fading ink: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21452.html # Bank Sent Investors Virus In E-Mail. TOKYO (Reuters) One of Japan's biggest banks said it accidentally e-mailed a computer virus to some global investors last week, but said no harm was done to the investors' or its own computer network systems. Not that they know of, anyway... : Do you look forward to surprises in your email? Do you prefer email that bites, explodes, burns, stinks, infects, rots, multiplies, disappears? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scared Ranchers Trade Cattle By Video. BOGOTA (Reuters) Colombian ranchers are using videos to trade cattle rather than travel to auctions in the countryside and run the risk of being kidnapped by Marxist guerrillas. Rational: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990827/10/odd-colombia-cattle # TV To Transmit War In Black And White. BOGOTA (Reuters) Colombian TV will stop airing color images of its long-running guerrilla war and instead broadcast scenes of political violence in black and white, industry chiefs said Thursday. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990827/10/odd-media-colombia : Would you rather kill ranchers, cattle or guerillas? Would you rather see live or dead cattle, in black-and-white or color, in person or on tape? Can the images be manipulated by mind-controllers, aliens, robots, me? What for? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'A FLAW WORSE THAN MELISSA'. A Windows bug permits an attacker to take control of an entire PC, and all the owner has to do is open an email message. http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21459.html # Swatting Down the Win 98 Bug. A day after significant security issues in Windows and ActiveX were shown, companies scrambled to patch and spin. LogiEpoxy: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21456.html : What's your favorite WinBug? Is it a bug or a feature? Is Windoze a virus? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tree-Eating Beetle Invades Manhattan. NEW YORK (Reuters) New York City seems to be getting hit with catastrophes of biblical proportions this summer. First sweltering heat, then drought, then floods that strand thousands of people and now a plague of locusts well, tree-eating Asian long-horned beetles to be exact. First-born sons are considered at risk next: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990827/10/odd-beetle-manhattan : What's your favorite catastrophe of biblical proportions? Have you gener- ated any catastrophes lately? Who have you afflicted? Why? Is it fun? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Lobster-Cam on the Web. PORTLAND, Maine (AP) A new Web site is launching lobsters into cyberspace. It's based inside an underwater trap at Spruce Head, where a camera sends a new photo to http://www.midcoast.com/lobcam/ every 2 minutes, sometimes showing a caged crustacean poking its antennae around or climbing across the lens. The pictures can only be seen during the day until a burnt-out light in the trap is fixed. Sounds fishy to me. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560882072-6f0 : What's your favorite crustacean? Do you like to spy on crustaceans? Would you mind if crustaceans spied on you? Do they crawl around inside your head? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hippo Hurts Census Official. NAIROBI (Reuters) A hippopotamus seriously injured a census official in Kenya's Hell's Gate national park, the latest in a spate of accidents hampering the population survey, newspapers reported Friday. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990827/10/odd-hippo : Have hippo-controllers teamed with conservatives to thwart census efforts? How effectively will the US census be disrupted? What animals will be used? # Killer Bees Kill One, Injure 12: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990826/09/odd-mexico-bees # Boy Attacked By Piranha In Canal: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990826/09/odd-japan-piranha : Have animals declared war on humans? Have humans declared war on animals? # Woman Charged With Stomping Mice In Porn Video. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) A woman was ordered to stand trial on animal cruelty charges after a judge viewed part of a pornographic videotape that showed her apparently stomp- ing mice to death. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990827/10/odd-crime-mice : Would you rather stomp mice, attack a census official, or be maimed by bees and fish? Is bee-squishing pornographic? Have you had sex with a hippo? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y2K-a-Rama: # Y2K - Major
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990813b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No frolicsome unicorns were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # *Tony Blair is an Alien!* - Their confidence broken, Serbs are looking increasingly to the paranormal for comfort. But what if they're right? http://www.motherjones.com/total_coverage/kosovo/paranormal.html # *The macabre symbolism of destruction.* - How building -- and bombing -- places of worship has become the language of war in the Balkans. http://www.motherjones.com/total_coverage/kosovo/kusovac.html # UN probes Balkan depleted uranium. (BBC) The United Nations is to investi- gate effects of the use against Serb forces of depleted uranium weapons. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_419000/419561.stm : Did NATO employ wizards/warlocks/witches to wage magickal war against the Serbs? Are religious sites strategic targets? When you lose a war, are your deities second-rate losers just like you? Is it all the Reptilioids' fault? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Huge Triangle UFOs Mark Busy Sightings Week. (MUFON) Numerous reports of Flying Triangles are becoming common place. This infers that either they belong to our government or possibly alien forces. The following Flying Triangle reports may help provide significant evidence in our search for answers. Or maybe not: http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/flyers81199.htm : Have you seen any gigantic flying triangles lately? Have you consumed many chemicals lately? Have you ever lied, hallucinated, been abducted, sobbed?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Turtle confiscated from temple. HONG KONG (AP) - Authorities have freed an endangered sea turtle that drew thousands of worshippers to a temple on a fishing boat. Cops confiscated the green sea turtle from the temple of Tin Hau, where it was worshipped for its supposed magical protective powers. The reptile was later released into the sea. Worshippers of Tin Hau, or the Goddess of the Sea, accused the government of insensitivity. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560696635-18f : Is your gov't insensitive? Do they take your sacred icons, even the living endangered ones? Do your sacred icons have more magical protective powers than the gov't? If the gov't is stronger, shouldn't you worship it instead? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Fusion fuels dreams of space travel. (MSNBC) Terry Kammash, an astrophys- icist and engineer at the University of Michigan, is developing a design for a gas-dynamic mirror fusion propulsion engine. Concepts could yield new propulsion techniques in a few years: http://msnbc.com/news/299611.asp : What's your favorite spacecraft propulsion technology? Would you rather pump mass/energy, warp space, travel thru wormholes, teleport, stay home?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Divining Rod Led Searcher To Dead Girl. VANCOUVER (CP) -- With his trusty divining rod and a strand of hair from a murdered girl, Rex Fitz-Gerald was able to solve a mystery that had confounded more than 400 searchers. Or maybe his nose worked: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/rod.htm ? : Have you found anything lately? Did you divine it? Did it fall into your pocket accidentally? Did you hide it, then wave a stick over it 'find' it? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Decoding the Dead Sea Scrolls - Scientists use digital methods to rediscover missing text. (MSNBC) Using a process that subtracts colors to heighten contrast reveals a hidden line of writing in what appears to be a blank space on the Temple Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The find eventually yielded what is being called a harvest hymn, a never- before-seen Jewish psalm. http://www.msnbc.com/news/299206.asp : What's your favorite unknown hymn? Have you written any hymns? Are they any good? Did they have any effect? Did your deities reward you? Why not?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Dalai Lama gives lecture at theater. NEW YORK (AP) - Live, from the Beacon Theater, it's...the Dalai Lama? At a theater better known for rock'n'roll and beer, the exiled leader of Tibetan Buddhists gave a four-hour lecture titled "Training the Mind/Opening the Heart." He started with traditional Tibetan chants and a humble assessment of his own role in the world. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560691639-23e : Do you prefer Tibetan chants, death-metal, glam rock, techno-industrial, or silence? Is 'spiritual' music effective as propaganda? If you open your heart will the blood get your computer all sticky? Is your mind trainable? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Russian Queens To Battle U.S. Bee Mites. (Reuters) Swarms of hardy Russian queen bees will be used in a desperate battle to defeat tiny blood-sucking mites which are devastating North America's honey bee
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990806b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No virtual trade ministers were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Woman Stabs Mother To Avoid Devil. BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine teacher obsessed with end-of-millennium apocalyptic ideas stabbed her 89- year-old mother to death to "avert her being killed by the devil." The 55- year-old woman confessed, saying she took the decision "imbued with the end-of-millennium apocalyptic spirit and to avert her being killed by the devil." http://news.excite.com/news/r/990805/10/odd-argentina-devil : Would you rather be killed by the devil, your children, gov't agents, big alligators, Zeta Reticulans, me? Are you apocalyptic? Do you want to kill?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Eclipse jam busters. (BBC) Britain's biggest traffic management operation swings into action for next week's total eclipse of the sun. Boogie down: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_413000/413230.stm @ Eclipse 99 Traffic Centre: http://www.devon-cc.gov.uk/eclipse/ : Will masses of people caught in eclipse traffic snarls be harvested by the greedy Reptilioids, utterly demoralizing humanity and crashing civilization? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Australian Police See Risk Of Cult Mass Suicide. BRISBANE (Reuters) Police are monitoring a religious sect in the Australian state of Queensland amid rumors it is preparing a Jonestown-style mass suicide. Sect leader Debra Geileskey has written in a published diary that she had a vision revealing she would be dragged from a wooden two-story building, tied to a pile of sticks set on fire by a priest on September 9. She denies that she plans to initiate violent deaths, saying her vision had been misinterpreted. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990806/03/international-australia-sect : What sect leaders would you like to immolate? Would you become a priest just for the opportunity to set fire to cult leaders? Are you a cult leader? Do you want to be torched? Would you schedule it for the eclipse? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Feds to allow Davidian evidence move. WACO, Texas, Aug. 5 (UPI) Federal officials have agreed to allow the Texas Department of Public Safety to turn over evidence from the deadly 1993 Branch Davidian standoff near Waco to a federal judge for safekeeping. The DPS made its request fearing it was getting caught in the middle of allegations of cover-up over FBI handling of the standoff, which ended in a fire that killed 80 people. Burn baby burn: http://news.excite.com/news/u/990805/14/news-davidians : What's the best method for eliminating cults: fire, poison, sterilization, alien abduction, deprogramming, pathogens, electroshock, forced conversion? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Birth of a cybernation. (BBC) Cyber Yugoslavia will be created on 9 (nine) September, a virtual country where anyone can be a citizen and a minister. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_413000/413420.stm @ Links: Cyber Yugoslavia: http://juga.com/ @ Lizbekistan: http://www.lizbekistan.com/ @ Slashdot discussion: http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/05/135217.shtml @ Holy Empire of Reunion: http://www.reuniao.org/chancellery/links.html : Would you rather live in a 'real' or virtual nation? Would you rather live in 'real' space, cyberspace, outer space, inner space? Do you want to rule?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SCIENTISTS DISCOVER KEY TO IO LIGHT SHOW. A pearly electric light show at Jupiter's moon Io, so vibrant it could short circuit several planetariums, ebbs and flows as a result of the jovian satellite's tricky atmosphere. Gas rides magnetic highways: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9908/05/io.gases/ : Is Io a good venue for celestial advertising? Do you like to ride magnetic highways? Is that how UFOs travel? Is Io a living cybertronic organism? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Beeps replace Jews on TV show in Jordan - "E.R." censored: http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_08_5item=#933881384 # LAWSUIT ACCUSES NATION OF ISLAM OF DISCRIMINATING AGAINST WOMAN: http://cnn.com/US/9908/06/PM-FarrakhanSuit.ap/index.html # Chile to aid local Indians - improve health, living standards culture: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560591828-5d2 # Stalin's grandson elected in Georgia - Dzhugashvili leads extremist bloc: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560589569-5db # Hiroshima recalls atomic bombing - push for nuclear disarmament: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560592842-776 # Also: Atomic museum defends bomb earrings, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560593212-27a @ Revised skeptical links site: http://www.discord.org/skeptical/ @ Beyond Boundaries website: http://www.beyondboundaries.org
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990716b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Hey, SkeptiChat subscribers: let's see some responses, some discussion!! : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No allosaurs were microchip-implanted during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BIG BROTHER'S IMPLANTABLE/INJECTABLE MICRO/BIO-CHIPS [Coming to an arm near you/yours!] There is an identification system made by the Hughes Air- craft Company that you can't lose. It's the syringe implantable transpon- der. Hughes says it's an "ingenious, safe, inexpensive, foolproof and per- manent method of...identification using radio waves. A tiny microchip, the size of a grain of rice, is simply placed under the skin. It's so designed as to be injected simultaneously with a vaccination or alone." We gotcha: http://x35.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=500822145CONTEXT=932064228.364970123hitnu : Would you like to be permanently encoded? Would you rather carry plastic paper ID/credit/access cards that can be stolen, lost? If implanted, would you rather be tracked by gov't, MicroSoft, aliens? When you're microlinked into the upcoming World Mind, will such implants be necessary for survival? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Expedition To Congo This Fall Seeks Small Brontosaur Living In Swamp. The idea of dinosaurs surviving millions of years into the present in remote jungle regions has had universal appeal since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But three Manchester lads have taken that idea seriously enough to arrange an expedition to go to the Congo next October. Having failed to track down the orang pendek, a mysterious ape-like creature in Sumatra, their quarry this time is Mokele-mbembe, a shy, vegetarian, brontosaur-like sauropod that could be up to 10m (30ft) long, thought to live in the Likouala swamps of northern Congo. http://www.sightings.com/politics4/exp.htm : Do any dinosaurs live in your neighborhood? Do you exploit/herd/eat them? Are they protected by their alien Reptilioid kin? Do they shit a lot? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ PHOENIX UNDEAD: THE MONTAUK PROJECT AND CAMP HERO TODAY. A covert gov't electromagnetic/radiofrequency mindcontrol project is active at a documen- ted subterranean facility beneath the derelict Montauk Air Force Station, at the east end of Long Island's south fork. This project, an outgrowth of very esoteric research linked to the (in)famous "Philadelphia Experiment" (Project Rainbow - later Phoenix) and both the interdimensional and psych- otronic (linking mind to machine [computer]) ramifications of this work, reached literally heretofore unimaginable levels of human (technological) control over the parameters of our "reality" in the Montauk experiments. The masterminds behind the Montauk/Phoenix Project have attempted to "play God." And they really LIKED it! http://seasurf.com/~radioman/monew.htm : Do you like to play God? Do you prefer to play Satan, Isis, Athena, Loki, Garelamaisama, Queztlcoatl? Do you control the parameters of reality? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Trying to Revive 'Gladiator Lions' Of Ancient Roman Colosseum. The Barbary lion, the fabled beast of ancient Rome's Colosseum, could again roam the plains of Africa, if work by British scientists proves successful. They plan to excavate lion bones from under the Colosseum in order to find a genetic fingerprint of a true Barbary lion and then begin a breeding program to revive the animal. http://www.sightings.com/politics4/glad.htm : What ancient beasts do you want to revive? Should Colosseums be rebuilt, gladiatorial bouts staged, Christians fed to lions, old traditions restored? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ELIXER OF ETERNAL YOUTH. (BBC) Scientists may have discovered the secret of eternal youth - female hormones. German researchers have discovered that women with high levels of oestrogen in their blood look unusually young for their age. They found that in some cases women with high levels of oestrogen appeared to be eight years younger than they really were. In contrast, a lack of oestrogen added up to 8 years to a women's appearance. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_395000/395538.stm : Would you like eternal youth? Would you get bored eventually? Would you like to stay adolescent forever? Would your pimples ever clear up? When?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Original causes listed for the Black Death? Going to the theater, olive oil, lust for older women, the use of dice, talk of sex, hanging out with witches wearing winklepicker shoes. Not to mention praying incorrectly. : What's your favorite metaphysical/moral Plague cause? Have you induced any plagues with your behaviours/thoughts/writings? Is disease your own fault?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New Ultra Deadly Virus - Canadian Lab Spills Waste Water. WINNIPEG - Waste water
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990611b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No ponderous appendages were amputated during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Alcubierre Warp Drive. "Two years ago Alcubierre published a remarkable paper [with] a very unusual solution to Einstein's equations of general relativity, described in the title as a 'warp drive', and in the abstract as 'a modification of space time in a way that allows a space ship to travel at an arbitrarily large speed'." http://mist.npl.washington.edu/av/altvw81.html # Also: IS LIGHT-SPEED IN YOUR FUTURE? www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/20152.html # Warp drive possible: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_364000/364496.stm : Are you in a hurry? Which galaxy would you like to visit first? Will hoo- mans infest the universe soon? Do warpers suffer from time contraction? If not, is it really faster-than-light travel? Why quibble over terminology? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # EVOLUTION VS. CREATION, ROUND 2. A group of creationists challenge the curriculums of Kansas schools, claiming the theory of evolution is highly speculative and confusing to religious children. Education officials mull: www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/20147.html : Have cretinists not noticed that diseases evolve? Does cretinist thought continue to evolve? Is religion more or less speculative than evolution? # ONLINE PHARMACIES BUSTED. The State of Kansas is suing several doctors, online drugstores, and individuals for dispensing drugs without prescrip- tions. Watch out, say state regulators. More sting operations are coming. www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/20151.html : Why is all this happening in Kansas? Do you buy drugs online? Who's your dealer? Is it good shit? Can you score me a kilo of Prozac? How much? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GENE THERAPY FOR THE BALD. Forget the Hair Club for Men. Gene therapy may someday help bald men to grow new hair. Scientists graft tiny bits of human scalp to mice in an effort to develop a method to deliver genetic material to hair follicles. TV advertising revenues will drop drastically, of course: www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/20142.html # Marines deny charges in vaccine case. 29 PALMS, Calif.(AP) - 5 US Marines who refused anthrax shots pleaded innocent to charges of disobeying orders. They're among dozens of US military personnel shunning vaccinations intended to protect them if anthrax is used in BioWar. A growing number of service personnel have refused the vaccine due to questions of side effects, inclu- ding sterility. www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559883608-e8f : Would you prefer anthrax, sterility or baldness? Can anti-baldness therapy deliver debilitating diseases to hair-challenged senior military officers and planners? What's your favorite vaccination? Earthly or extraterrestrial? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PC EXPORTS: 'LIKE BANNING AIR' Tech industry leaders tell Congress that limiting computer exports is a risky move that may harm nat'l security: www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/20150.html # Computer 'worm' turns nasty. (BBC) A highly destructive bug that has hit computer systems across the world reaches the UK via e-mail. Git bit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_366000/366822.stm : Is your security more threatened by worms or bans? Do you have more to fear from hackers, regulators, aliens? What software is used against you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Judge makes ruling in cannibal case. RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) A former teacher who confessed to killing a teen-ager and eating some of his body parts must remain in psychiatric care, a judge ruled. Albert Fentress has been confined to mental hospitals since he was found innocent by reason of insanity for a 1979 killing. Recently retried, jurors found he was mentally ill, but they ruled he was no longer a danger to society and should be freed. Hunger for freedom: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559884265-abf : Would having one or more cannibals in your neighborhood depress property values? Are you now or have you ever been a cannibal? D'ya wanna be? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pollution cloud threatens Asia. (BBC) Scientists say a cloud of pollution over the Indian Ocean is as big as the United States. Where there's smoke: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_366000/366816.stm # Ministers 'will ignore dioxins'. (BBC) Conservationists say a Europe-wide ministerial meeting plans to ignore the Belgian food scandal. Ostriches: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_364000/364985.stm # Also: Belgium returns meat to stores, shrugs off
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990604b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No corporate lackeys were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Fancy Converting To Christianity Over A Beer? LONDON (Reuters) A group of Christians bought an historic pub in the northern English city of Bradford in an effort to win converts with good beer and talk about sport. The 170- year-old Cock and Bottle pub will be staffed by unpaid volunteers and will stay open Sundays. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990603/17/odd-britain-pub : How much alcohol would you need to imbibe to abandon your belief system? Do you have greater faith in religion, beer, sport, volunteerism, aliens? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Prospect of eye-scanner ATMs gets mixed reviews. GAINESVILLE, Fla. Throw away the ATM cards and forget the personal ID numbers. A new cash machine technology using body parts may change the way people bank, but bankers have doubts about the technology known as "biometrics." The device from Diebold Corp. photographs the iris, the colored part of the pupil, and converts the iris' unique pattern into an ID system for the customer. It is similar to a bar code, and because the iris is unique to each individual, the system is practically foolproof. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990603/odd-67 : To assume another identity, would you need to steal someone's eye? Can a machine identify you from a distance? Would mirrored shades anonymize you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Radar finds Moon's cold spots. (BBC) The first three-dimensional images of the Moon's poles have revealed the places where the Sun never shines. Hold noses: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_359000/359840.stm # Moon's underground shadow. (BBC) A shadow cast by the Moon has been detec- ted 700 meters (2300 feet) underground. And you thought the Sun never shone there: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_36/360693.stm : Would you like to vacation on the Moon? Where? Do you support the Lunar independence movement? Does Luna rule you astrologically? Are you a Lunatic? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hen-Eating sheep creates dilemma for Moslem owner. DUBAI (Reuters) - When Hussein al-Marzouqi's sheep went off its vegetarian diet it created a tricky moral dilemma for its Moslem owner. Marzouqi, who had been raising the beast for a special feast at his home in the Gulf Arab emirate of Sharjah, is now seeking guidance from a Moslem scholar over whether it is permissible to eat a sheep that has gobbled up nine chickens. "iT BEcAme LOneLY": http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=3794157 : If you were a chicken, would you rather be devoured by a sheep, goat, dog, octopus, Reptilioid, Republican, recidivist? Does your belief system have a doctrinal position on chicken-eating sheep? Are carnivorous sheep cursed? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** British POW camp put up for sale. LONDON (AP) - Going for $160,000: one prisoner of war camp. Single owner, original buildings (somewhat used). The 17-acre camp, which has 50 prison huts, a chapel and a theater, was built by Italian POWs in the early 1940s, then used to hold captured Germans. "Buying this could get someone a slice of history," said one land agent. One of the huts still contains original paintings done by German prisoners. The spraw- ling, riverside farm also has a large manor house and several cottages. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559800895-5da : Would this camp be suitable as a religious retreat, vacation resort, alien internment facility, refugee resettlement centre, mind-control laboratory? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ LISTEN TO THE NEWS. When the Internet became a household word, the death knell was sounded for many older forms of media. But ironically, the Net is actually helping radio not only survive but flourish. Streaming audio allows radio stations to become international in reach, and this site is a hub for hundreds of international and local news radio sites. Select your station by region, or peruse through the half-dozen rotating headlines and choose which news angle you want to tune into. See http://listentothenews.com : How much news do you need? With a portable wireless PC, would you listen to international news wherever you go? Would you prefer a brain implant to link you directly to satellite news services? Have you such an implant now? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Iran spiritual leader slams reforms. DUBAI, UAE (AP) Attacking moderates led by the Iranian president, Iran's spiritual leader criticized officials who support relaxing Islamic social and political restrictions in Iran. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's criticism came a day after the Iranian president told an audience of hundreds of thousands that "salvation and freedoms go together" and urged them to tolerate
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990521b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No attorneys were hurt during production of this bulletin, unfortunately. * SKEPTINEWS CONTRIBUTORS/EDITORS WANTED NOW * KEEP THIS BULLETIN COMING * _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Unmanned warfare may be on horizon. An old peacenik lament asked: What if they gave a war and nobody came? The Pentagon is at work solving at least half of that conundrum. The next war we're in we may not come. We'll send the robots instead. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,11938,00.html : Would you rather wage war with humans, robots? Would you rather be killed by humans, robots, demons, aliens? Can robots be trained to zap only robots? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # U.S. more vulnerable to disasters than ever. WASHINGTON (AP) Shortsighted development policies have increased America's vulnerability to major natural disasters rather than lessening it. "We are responsible for the losses in future disasters. It is not God. It is not nature. WE make the decisions on what to put in harm's way." Fundamental flaw in the way we try to solve the problem of natural disasters. www.bergen.com/morenews/doom20199905206.htm : Can you be protected from disaster? How? Do your self-protective efforts leave you open to other bad shit? Can you ward off floods, fires, plagues, quakes, economics, locusts, aliens, militias, cults, Techno-Goths, art, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Bangladesh woman flogged to death. DHAKA (AP) - A woman died after an Islamic cleric ordered her buried to the waist in mud and flogged 101 times with a bamboo cane for having premarital sex and inducing an abortion. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559620315-f7f : Does your belief system promote execution of sexual miscreants? Would you execute somebody who had good sex, bad sex, any sex? Do the voices in your head tell you who to execute? Would you mind if God told me to kill you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The real Y2K bug: Forget your computer - worry about the wacko down the street. When the media amplifier is held by guys like Art Bell, be very afraid. Apocalyptic mania - Eschatological terrorism - Millennial fraud - Millennial echoes: www.salon1999.com/tech/feature/1999/05/18/real_y2k/ : Are some humans programmed to self-destruct? Are you? Who will you take with you when you blow? Do you have a deadline? What's your doom calendar? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CIH VIRUS ANTIDOTE AUTHOR DEFENDS PROGRAM. A 21-year-old Bangladeshi student who invented an antidote for the CIH, or Chernobyl, virus has declared that his software is safe, despite concern about the program voiced by professional antivirus authors. Author says software is safe: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9905/20/antidote.idg/index.html : Have you written any virus programs lately, safe or unsafe? Have you set them loose yet? Did the voices in your head tell you how? Would you rather write virii, cut crop circles, get a new implant, consort with demons, sue? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** House OKs land treaty restrictions. WASHINGTON (AP) Congress moved to grab veto power over UN land designations, with supporters saying such int- ernational actions threaten property rights of Americans. The bill, opposed by the administration and with poor prospects in the Senate, would require congressional consent before any federal land can be included in an inter- national land reserve. It is aimed specifically at 2 UN programs - Biosphere Reserves and World Heritage areas. Supporters say the Constitution gives Congress alone the authority to manage federal lands, that decisions on land use are "a responsibility of Congress, not some U.N. committee of unelected bureaucrats." www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559621127-851 : What international agencies would you like to give national land to? Would you prefer to give land to foreigners, Zeta Reticulans, corporations, me? Is there a Congressional plot to bulldoze biosphere reserves heritage areas? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiShorts # Bulletproof Email for the Masses. The privacy benefits of fully encrypted email hover just out of reach of all but the techno-literate. But Hushmail is out to change that. www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/19804.html @ Web Museum, Yes, But Is It Art? America's most reputable museums are collecting and showcasing Web art online. Why isn't the Museum of Web Art doing the same? http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/19783.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Book discloses Clinton secrets - widespread concern in the intelligence community: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559620772-118 # Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke questioned about payment: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559622004-091 @ Trained to Kill - how today's media
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990507b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GM pests bite back. (BBC) Genetically modifying crops to protect them from pests may not work. A US study concludes that one of the main pests respon- sible for damaging crops may be rapidly developing a resistance to GM pro- ducts. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_337000/337477.stm @ Links: Genewatch: http://www.genewatch.org/ @ National Biotech Info Facility: http://www.nbif.org/ : Should we think of this as evolution in action? Can pests evolve faster than humans? Are they aided by aliens, commies, demons, Republicans, you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BEAMING IS BELIEVING. Teleportation isn't just Star Trek fare anymore. New research says practical applications for quantum transport are near at hand. www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/19551.html @ Links: Technical Insights: http://www.wiley.com/technical_insights/ @ Los Alamos National Laboratory: http://www.lanl.gov/worldview/ : Where would you teleport to? Will this change everything? Is it more vital than coldfusion, genetic magic, mind expansion? Can we beat the Reptilioids? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Solar Temple cult worries Canada. QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) More mass suicides linked to the Order of the Solar Temple doomsday cult, implicated in 74 deaths in Canada and Europe in the past five years, are a real possibility as the millennium nears, police said. "Yes, there are Solar Temple members remaining in Quebec. There may be about 30 of them left." But not for much longer: http://detnews.com/1999/religion/9905/07/04290018.htm : What's your favorite suicide cult? Is it still around? Was it messy? Are you a member? Are you still alive? Why? When's the best time for suicide? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Black is the new pink - pink holes observed with optical light telescopes. Some black holes appear bright pink, Australian astronomers found. They're still struggling to explain why but they speculate that the light emanates from gas that is being ripped apart as it disappears into the black hole. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_337000/337768.stm @ Black hole FAQs 1: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/bh_faq.html @ Black hole FAQs 2: http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/abholes.html # Also: Megablasts in space: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_317000/317233.stm # New black holes discovered: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_318000/318884.stm # Hubble reveals stellar traffic jam: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_29/290062.stm # Hubble finds huge black hole: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_115000/115688.stm : Are pink black holes the new gay pride emblem? Are these black holes pinko commies? Are you? Are Reptilioids Socialists? What color are right-wingers? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Strong Teeth Show True Grit? HELSINKI, Finland (Reuters) - Teeth can show which soldiers should be leaders, a study of Finnish conscripts suggests. A Finnish dentist examined almost 3,000 conscripts' teeth and found a correlation with their owners' personalities. "Those with good teeth are more group-leader types and those with poor teeth are more rank-and-file." Those with good dental health were more responsible, more social and more eager to look good in front of authorities such as dentists, the study showed. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990507/12/odd-teeth : Do teeth also correlate with propensities for alien abduction, subversion/ treason, paranormal beliefs, liberalism, atheism, webmastering, kiddie.porn? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Omigod! It's the Year Of Movies From Hell - As millennium nears, Hollywood is giving the Devil his due. There are only 241 days to the end of the millennium. Do you know where the Devil is? Hollywood does, and in the remaining months of 1999, it's bringing the Evil One to a theater near you. In a high season of spiritual debauchery, American movies are going to hell. www.mostnewyork.com/1999-05-05/New_York_Now/Movies/a-27785.asp?last6days=1 : Are Satanic/Demonic/Hell movies involved in mind-control plots by Xians, anti-Xians, CIA, MI5, Reptilioids, MicroSoft, Bilderbergers, Coca-Cola, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SansComment: # Pentagon confirms depleted uranium use. (BBC) The US Dept of Defense has confirmed that its aircraft are using depleted uranium weapons in the Kosovo conflict. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_337000/337855.stm # SITES MUST RETOOL FOR DISABLED. Pending US rules will force Web sites run by governments and government contractors to make design and content tweaks to accommodate disabled users. The start of a whole new industry, again? www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/19556.html #
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990430b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Severe Arctic ozone hole predicted. (BBC) Plummeting temperatures high in the Earth's atmosphere are doubling the rate at which the ozone layer is being destroyed. The destruction is particularly high over the Arctic and Northern Europe and could lead to an ozone hole as large as the one over the Antarctic. Ironically, the cooling phenomenon is being blamed on the world- wide increase in greenhouse gases - usually associated with global warming. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_332000/332213.stm @ Links: Ozone hole tour: http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/tour/ @ UN Ozone secretariat: http://www.unep.ch/ozone/home.htm # Also: Ozone hole recovery slows: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_29/290442.stm # Ozone hole reaches record size: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_183000/183673.stm # Beware, falling sky: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_173000/173351.stm : How much skin cancer can you take? Will this promote fast human evolution? Is ozone depletion Nature's way of saying COOL OUT? Is your skin thickening? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** NASA unveils new Atlantis cockpit. CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) NASA unveiled a modern, Boeing 777-style cockpit inside space shuttle Atlantis, an improve- ment that astronauts say could save their lives. Instead of the usual array of dials and knobs and three old-fashioned screens, Atlantis' cockpit now has nine high-resolution, liquid-crystal computer screens, thus the moniker "glass cockpit." Shuttle pilots say they will be able to obtain information much more quickly during the crucial 8-1/2-minute climb to orbit. Also, the data will be easier to read because of its organization and color coding. NASA expects to keep flying its space shuttles for the next 10 or 20 years, or until something better comes along. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559375620-184 : When will space shuttles adopt Starship Enterprise control systems? When will something better come along? Will Reptilioids aid with the next design? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Smithsonian explores Ainu culture. WASHINGTON (AP) The mysterious Ainu of northern Japan, a people whose culture, language and physical appearance set them apart from other Asians, feature in a new Smithsonian exhibition seeking to tell their story to Americans. Once a large trading and fishing people living across a broad region, Ainu today number only about 25,000, concentrated on Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido. In some ways, their story parallels that of American Indians, overrun by outsiders in the 1800s, their lands lost and culture threatened. Starting in January, the exhibit, "Ainu, Spirit of a Northern People," will go on tour around the US. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559368384-84d : What's your favorite endangered native culture? When the Reptilioids take over, who'll preserve human culture? Will your culture be missed? By whom? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SansComment: # Fashion Ads Depress Women. TORONTO (Reuters) Canadian women who read maga- zines full of advertisements featuring skinny female models suffer more from low self-esteem than those who don't, a University of Toronto study shows. How-2 motivate customers: http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990430/09/odd-skinny # Gore Links Media Sex To Teen Pregnancy Rate. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Al Gore borrowed a tactic from his former political opponent Dan Quayle and took a swipe at the entertainment industry over its portrayals of sex. Like he's ever had any: http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990430/09/odd-gore # BLINK IF YOU'RE BIONIC: Docs Design Blinking Bionic Eye. LONDON (Reuters) German doctors have designed an artificial eye which blinks at the same time as the user's healthy eye. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990430/09/odd-eye and http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_331000/331752.stm # City Strikes Ten Commandments. Officials of Manhattan, Kansas, removed an oversized tablet engraved with the Ten Commandments, backing away from a legal battle with civil liberties groups that had sued the city. Pray for Ft. Riley KSU: http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990429/08/odd-commandments _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 30 Apr 99 Washington, DC 3. FREE ENERGY: CONFERENCE FEATURES "OVER-UNITY" DEVICES. Even as this is being written, the much-traveled First International Conference on Future Energy is continuing in a Bethesda Holiday Inn (WN 2 Apr 99). Yesterday, mindful of my responsibility to keep WN readers informed, I attended the opening. As I stood at the back of the room awaiting the start, one of the organizers came up to me and said: "We have a security cop on the
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990402b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Body-part replacement studied. WASHINGTON (AP) Researchers have isolated from adult bone marrow a master cell that can be directed to grow bone or cartilage, a laboratory feat that experts call a major step toward making replacement parts for ailing or aged bodies. The researchers at Osiris Therapeutics in Baltimore isolated a single cell, called a mesenchymal stem cell, and then grew it into a colony of more than a million cells that could be induced to produce bone, cartilage or fat. Other experts in the rapidly expanding field of stem cell research applauded the achievement. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559023100-b73 http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/stemcells990401.html # Also: Stem Cells Found to Change Function: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/stemcell990122.html # Fed Funds Stem Cell Studies: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/stemcell990119.html # New Cell Source Raises Hopes: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/stemcell990304.html # Stem Cell from Cow, Human Cells? http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/stem_cowhuman981112.html # A Cell That Could Revolutionize Medicine: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/stemcells.html : Which body parts would you like replaced? Is this your idea or do voices in your head suggest it? Could a stem cell overwhelm humanity, turning us into a hive culture? Is this the logical end of this research? Who gains? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ * Joint Statement on SOM-01-1 Manual Purporting to Confirm Mj-12. (FUROR) The SOM-01-1 manual has been carefully examined by the undersigned parties, whose collective experience includes military service in all three major branches; processing and handling of highly classified military documents; analysis and reporting on Government documents of various types; historical scholarship; and extensive knowledge of military, government, and UFO affairs. We believe this to be a hoax document; a deliberate fake designed to mislead the public and to plant false information in the UFO research community by person or persons whose motives are unknown. http://www.pufori.org/articles/mj12_fufor_joint_statement_on_som01_1.htm : Are MJ-12 or SOM-01-1 or the debunking thereof, components of gov't/alien/ Trilateral/Hapsburg disinformation campaigns? What are we being distracted from *really* looking at? After we peel back all the layers, what's left? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Docs: Don't plan New Year's surgery. DENVER (AP) Because of uncertainty over what will happen when 1999 becomes 2000, many doctors, hospitals and medical organizations are advising patients not to schedule elective surgery during the first few days of January. Doctors attending an American Medical Association regional seminar in Denver recently were urged not to consider elective surgery early in January. There is optimism hospitals and other institutions will have their computers checked and ready for the changeover to 2000. But medical people should err on the side of caution. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559022276-b98 : What surgery will you schedule for Armageddon? Will millenialist surgeons be more likely to slit your throat, so you can go directly to The Rapture? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ RELIGIOUS LEADERS SEEK HALT TO BOMBING FOR EASTER. Christian religious leaders from the U,S. urged an end to hostilities in Kosovo and the resump- tion of peace talks as their congregations begin Easter observances. The Serbian Orthodox Church filed suit in federal court in an attempt stop the NATO bombings. Eight U.S. Catholic cardinals, in joint letters to President Clinton and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, urged a cessation of hostilities. www.cnn.com/US/9904/01/AM-Kosovo-ReligiousLeade.ap/index.html : Are religious holidays a good time for military forces to concentrate and regroup, or are they better for taking the enemy unawares? Do Orthodox and Catholic religious calendars schedule their holidays at the same time? If not, are the opportunities for regrouping/treachery multiplied? Who gains? Have the Reptilioids harvested enough Albanians yet? How can you tell? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** World population to hit 8 billion in 2026. WASHINGTON (AP) - The world's population, currently nearing 6 billion, will climb to 8 billion by 2026, the US Census Bureau projected, and the total will reach 9.3 billion by 2050. "The growth of human population has been, is now, and in the future will be almost entirely determined in the world's less developed countries." 99% of natural increase - the difference between births and deaths - occurs in the developing regions of Africa, Asia and Latin
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990326b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SMUT, BIGOTRY NOW A CORPORATE E-MAIL FACT OF LIFE. More than half of 805 users surveyed have received pornographic, sexist, racist or other improper e-mail at the office, according to a study. Improper e-mail more common at the office: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/25/badmail.idg/index.html # Wall Street Professionals Addicted to Heroin. (20/20) Alarming new trend in the financial world growing use of heroin by guys who manage your cash. See www.abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/transcripts/2020_990324_heroin_trans.html : Would you rather receive improper email at work or home? Does your junkie broker make money for you? Why aren't more emailers brokers abducted by ETs? Are improper emails imported heroin provided by aliens, CIA, Madonna? Is current financial market instability caused by drug-induced mood swings? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ROBOT TOYS CONSIDERED THERAPY FOR ELDERLY. Matsushita Electric announced its entry into the "pet" robot market with Tama, a robotic cat designed to be a conversation partner for elderly people. Unlike other robotic pets, like Tiger Electronic's Furby or Sony's Entertainment Robot, the catlike Tama will have more than just entertainment value, offering companionship and a variety of other services to the aged, said Matsushita. Robotic cat, anyone? See http://cnn.com/TECH/ptech/9903/25/robocat.idg/index.html : Would you rather provide your elders with therapeutic robots, room in a nursing home, implants, drugs, improper emails, prayers, magic amulets, sex? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Monks vow to follow Dalai Lama. NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Clad in flowing, dark red robes, nearly 200 Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns ended a confer- ence by rejecting violence and pledging to follow the Dalai Lama's peaceful approach to resolving conflicts with China. The statement was a setback to those who had suggested a more radical approach to settle the Tibetan issue with China. Impatience with the Dalai Lama's peaceful methods erupted last year when a group of Tibetans demanding independence went on a hunger strike in New Delhi. www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558923335-964 : Does your belief system endorse violence, nonviolence, hunger strikes, air strikes, collaboration, appeasement, implantation, experimentation, curry? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Living off the land on Mars. (BBC) Altho you couldn't breath the air on Mars, you could extract oxygen from it, thanks to newly tested NASA tech- nology. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_304000/304472.stm # Also: Making Mars liveable: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_277000/277687.stm # Nasa plans Mars aircraft: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_27/270303.stm # Digging in and taking cover on Mars: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_136000/136524.stm : Would you rather squeeze oxygen from Martian soil, slam ice-asteroids into Mars, or move to L.A. and breathe smog? Would you like a Martian homestead? When/where will Century 21 establish their first Martian real estate office? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Space Tourism Online: @ X Prize: $10 million: http://www.xprize.org/ @ A Vision of Space Tourism: http://www.dynamicar.com/avision.htm @ The Flight of the Cosmos Mariner: http://www.spaceodyssey.com/ @ Bristol Space Planes: http://www.bristolspaceplanes.com/ @ The Artemis Project: http://www.asi.org/ @ INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE TRAVEL: http://www.spacetours.de/ @ COLLOQUIUM: Space Tourism: http://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/announce.penn.html @ First U.S. Space Tourism Conference: http://www.spacetourism.org/ @ Space Tourism Society: http://www.space-tourism-society.org/ @ SPACETOURISM - Reisen in den Weltraum: http://www.spacetourism.de/ @ Space Adventures, Ltd.: http://www.spaceadventures.com/ @ I.A. Space Voyages: http://www.incredible-adventures.com/dearadv.html @ Interglobal Space Tourism: http://www.interglobal.org/isl/isl_home.html @ Space Future - Space Tourism: www.spacefuture.com/tourism/tourism.shtml @ Space Tourism Space Facts: http://www.spacevoyages.com/tourism.html @ Plans for Space Tourism: http://www.tour2space.com/tourism/tourism.htm # Planning A Trip Into Space? Bring Your Lawyer Along For The Ride http://www.permanent.com/archimedes/tourismarticle.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Earth Polar Shift: http://www.zetatalk.com/poleshft/p05.htm @ Roswell Rods [tubular UFOs]: http://www.roswellrods.com/pre.html @ The Millennium Report: http://persweb.direct.ca/psa/tmr.html @ The Mind Has No Firewall: http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/parameters/98spring/thomas.htm # MicroImplants: the smallest biosensors ever developed:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990312b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # US, CANADA PLAN MASSIVE SLAUGHTER OF SNOW GEESE. OTTAWA (Reuters) Canadian and US wildlife officials are banding together this spring to mastermind the slaughter of millions of snow geese, outraging environmentalists who say the plan is barbaric. http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/Reuters19990311_1952.html : Today snow geese, tomorrow humans - if we can cull birds, why can't aliens cull people? Have they been doing this already? Should the slaughtered birds be fed to starving Sudanese? Are Sudanese being fed to Reptilioids? Tasty? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Games Beyond the Shoot-Em-Ups. We've seen the future of videogames, and it's all about kicking, shooting, scratching, and shaking your booty. Kapow. Kablam. Kablooey. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/18416.html : Should all conflicts be fought in cyberspace? Can international disputes be resolved by total-immersion combat games? Do you wanna fry Castro's ass? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Wings to legs. (BBC) US scientists have genetically-engineered chickens to grow basic "legs" instead of wings. Researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, took a gene normally found only in chicken legs and transferred it to the forming wings of chick embryos. Dr Malcolm Logan: "We have partially transformed a chicken wing into a chicken leg." http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_295000/295277.stm # Also: The future of genetic engineering: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_212000/212318.stm # Organ 'farming' moves nearer: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_57000/57081.stm : How many legs does a chicken need? Will 4- or 6-legged chickens gallop off across the free-range? How many legs do YOU need? What gene.mods d'ya want? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Man pleads in gay killings. LOS ANGELES (AP) A man accused of murdering five gay men because he thought it would stop the spread of AIDS, abruptly ended his trial by pleading guilty to the charges. Juan Chavez, 34, lured the men to their homes supposedly for sex and then robbed and strangled them. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558778707-0a3 : What epidemics would you try to control by killing people? Who would you strangle to end the plague of stupidity, credulity, fuzzy-thinking, faith? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Picture of Mars crater taken. PASADENA, Calif. (AP) Smile, Mars - NASA is snapping your picture. The "Happy Face Crater" was captured in a wide- angle image recorded by Mars Global Surveyor's camera. The feature, which has a much more mirthful appearance than the better known but decidedly grim "Face on Mars," is really the 134-mile-wide Galle Crater on the eastern side of a basin called Argyre Planitia. Features within the circular crater form the eyes and smiling mouth. In color, the picture has a bluish-white tone caused by frost. The "Happy Face" was first noticed in images sent back to Earth during the Viking 1 mission in 1976. ### : Is Mars laughing at humans who believe that the "Face On Mars" is real? How does the "Kermit The Frog On Mars" feature relate? Do planets cartoon? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Ancient remains found in Cambodia. PHNOM PENH (AP) Human remains thought to date back 2,500 years to the kingdom of Funan have been found in southern Cambodia. The four skeletons and a wealth of artifacts, found 50 miles south of the Cambodian capital, could shed light on a period of Cambodian civili- zation that few have researched. Remains to be tested by carbon dating - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558768386-ae3 : What's your favorite known or unknown ancient civilization? Which ancient civilizations were created/influenced by ET aliens? Did they do any good? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** S. Africans unveil fossil species. JOHANNESBURG (AP) Researchers unveil- ed a 260 million-year-old fossil that bolsters the theory that South Africa was the place where scaly, cold-blooded reptiles evolved into the ancestors of furry, warm-blooded mammals. The fossil is of a primitive sheep-sized animal that lived along the shores of an inland sea before the age of dino- saurs in what is now the Karoo Desert in southern South Africa. The fossil was named Anomocephalus africanus, meaning "lawless-headed one of Africa." See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558769497-d15 : Do you feel as if you're highly-evolved? Would you rather be a scaly cold- blooded reptile, a furry warm-blooded mammal, a scaly hot-blooded dinosaur, a metallic silicon-hearted machine, a wispy immaterial thought-creature? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ MICROSOFT TRACKING VISITORS. When you visit Microsoft.com, you might be revealing more information than you think. The
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990205b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with : are editorial comments to provoke discussion. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SOHO SATELLITE BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE. The SOHO sun-observing satellite has returned to service more than a month after a gyroscope that kept it stable failed. The $1 billion satellite's controllers returned it to service using a new computer program to keep it orientated without the bad gyro. Frozen for months, see http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9902/04/soho.back.ap/index.html # Where the solar wind blows. (BBC) A satellite has identified the source of the solar wind - a stream of charged particles that billows from the Sun. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_272000/272386.stm @ Links: Soho: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/ # Current image of the Sun: http://www.sel.bldrdoc.gov/current_images.html @ The Sun: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/sol.html @ NASA solar probe: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ice_fire/sprobe.htm : If we learn enough about stars, can we make our own? Must we maintain Sol so it doesn't get soft and squishy? Are stars hard to make and fix? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # E.T. in Quarantine. (ABCnews) The Stardust mission will land a smidgen of material from a comet onto the Utah desert in 2004. Should we worry about contamination from the cosmos? Or has it already happened? http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/oberg990204.html # Going Comet Wild (EurekAlert!) It's in the right place at the right time. http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/nasa-gcw020499.html # University of Chicago Instrument To Get Close Look At Comet: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/02/990204082407.htm : Are you contaminated by cosmic debris? Has is hurt your lifestyle? How? How close a look at a comet would you like? Would you survive? Why not? # Giving Vent to Life - Does Life Spring from Undersea Thermal Vents? TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese researchers report they have managed to re-create the conditions from which life itself may have begun. Hot, Cold and Back Again - http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/lifeorigins990205.html : Is life a top-down or bottom-up process? Or both or neither? How come? Would you rather be contaminated by cosmic or underwater debris? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ GLITCH IN RUSSIA'S SPACE MIRROR TEST. An ambitious experiment in orbiting a giant mirror was botched when the crew of Russia's Mir space station was unable to open the umbrella-like mirror. "There is an emergency situation. The mirror won't unfold." Crew will continue trying to deploy it. Snagged on beam - see http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9902/04/space.mirror.01/index.html # Russians Give Up On Space Mirror Experiment. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Mission Control abandoned any further attempt to project the sun's rays on to darkened areas of the earth with a giant mirror following a snag at the Mir space station that thwarted the scheme. Another one bites the dust - see http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990205/04/international-mirror # Znamya is going nowhere. (BBC) Predictions that space mirrors will turn night into day are nonsense. Another expert tells us what is impossible - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_272000/272489.stm # Astronomers attack Russian space mirror plan (CNN) - Bedazzled - see http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9902/04/space.mirror.reaction.reut/index.html # Crisis Looms in Space - Budget Cuts, Hiring Freeze Hurt Space Safety (ABC) CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) A safety oversight panel warned NASA today that its headed for a crisis because of cutbacks. Losing Core Competencies - see http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/space990204.html : Will space mirrors ever work? How about orbiting power stations? Are aliens sabotaging human space efforts? Will we ever get off-planet? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Battle rages over mystery Miami Circle. MIAMI (Reuters) - In a city famed for jet-set glitz and political tumult, a dusty, centuries-old circle in stone has fired the passions of schoolchildren, native Indians and builders in a classic clash of development and preservation. Stonehenge west - see http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/Reuters19990204_1657.html : What is your favorite megalith? Who put it there? Are replica megaliths as good as the originals? What do you do at megaliths? Do they need upkeep? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ MIT CREATES iNET TIME CAPSULE. What do Bill Gates, VictoriasSecret.com, and free software have in common? Not much, but soon they will all share a digital time capsule as an attempt to bottle the cyberzeitgeist circa 1999. Frozen - see http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9902/04/mit.idg/index.html : Which industrialists, UFOlogists, politicos, programmers should be placed in the capsule for 100 years? Will they improve with time? Will we notice? # Robots That Think On Their Feet Now Possible. Researchers have stated a theory and devised an
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@ Lizard Alien: http://www.anw.com/kesara/images/004-M.jpg
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# Bethlehem sets millennium plans. JERUSALEM (AP) - Jesus' birthplace of
Bethlehem will celebrate the new millennium with 2,000 white doves, a
lineup of world-class choirs biblical hikes in the footsteps of Mary
Joseph. 3-year $160 million Bethlehem 2000 project proceeds apace:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562141563-ae6
# Also: Israel, Jordan marking Jesus' path with painted gold footsteps:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562143577-fe2
: Since Yeshua ben Yusef [aka Jesus, son of Joseph, err, of {JHWH}] wasn't
born anywhere near 1/1/0001, why have a birthplace celebration now? Will
only the terminally innumerate [and those who feed upon them] show up?
# LOVE TO GLOAT? GO AHEAD, YOU'LL FEEL BETTER. A German psychoanalyst has
given us permission to gloat - she says it relieves stress and puts us in
touch with our feelings. Germans even have a word for it: schadenfreude.
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=22307
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@ REPTILIANS - WHO ARE THEY REALLY? The ET Reptilian Aliens which are called
Reptoids are proportional in size to modern humans. They have a snake like
or lizard appearance. These are highly advanced entities but of a negative
hostile or dangerous disposition since they regard humans as a totally in-
ferior race. They would perceive us much the way we would perceive a herd
of cattle. Info on these beings varies from source to source. Supposedly
they consider Earth their ancient outpost want to have complete control
over it as their planet is becoming unable to adequately support life.
Never hiss at them: http://www.greatdreams.com/reptlan/reps.htm
: Who are your favorite ETs? Do you like Reptoids? Ever had sex with any??
Do Reptoids consider human/ET sex as bestiality? Do you like bestiality?
# Earth said warmed 55 mln years ago. (AP) Researchers have found evidence
to support a theory that an abrupt warming of Earth 55 million years ago
was caused by the sudden release of frozen deposits of methane from the
ocean: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562137988-1bb
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# Naples Cardinal's indictment sought. ROME (AP) Prosecutors in south Italy
requested indictments against the archbishop of Naples, Cardinal Michele
Giordano, in what they allege was a massive loan-sharking ring. "I am
serene because I am clean inside, and someone up there knows it," Giordano
said, pointing a finger at the heavens. Divine beings refused to comment -
see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562140806-f53
: Does your belief system have a sophisticated financial operation? Do your
deities provide for all your needs, or do you need to shake-down humans for
operating funds? Do you keep a percentage of contributions for yourself??
# Video Game Publishers in Damnation Shocker. Cue the ads for Shiny's
MESSIAH, complete with a doctored picture of the Pope taking a drag on
a "hand-rolled cigarette" with the tag line 'What on Earth Possessed
You?' http://www.gamasutra.com/newswire/eurospeak/19991117/index.htm
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# MOTHER NATURE IS AN OLD LADY WITH BAD HABITS. The distinction between the
human animal and other creatures is far from absolute. We share some 98%
of our DNA with chimpanzees. We share basic bodily substances such as the
endorphins, natural opiates that give us the "runner's high," with earth-
worms. In fact, only a mere 50 or so genes (as well as several regulatory
genes that control timings of gene expression) account for our humanness.
Much of our "family face" stems from others who swam, crawled or brachia-
ted in aeons past. http://www.sciam.com/1999/1299issue/1299reviews1.html
: Does your belief system draw vast distinctions between yourself and other
humans and animals? Are you all alone, cut off from the rest of life? Why??
@ Mean people rule: http://jlms.com/~mc_tact/limbo.jpg
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@ Dan Lietha's http://members.truepath.com/DanL/danl2.html comics tells us
that evolution http://members.truepath.com/DanL/CWFishingForKids.html is
a trojan meme from the evil Secular Media designed to corrupt good Chris-
tian children and that the Bible is only thing that stands between kids
and http://members.truepath.com/DanL/EdCartoonPAGE.html school violence.
And be sure to see: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Memetics/
: Have you evolved much lately? Do you strenuously resist evolving? Does y'r
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991105b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. : No millennialists were deported during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Media Bypass: www.4bypass.com -- Free America: www.freeamerica.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Clinton's Canadian Nemesis. (Reuters) A Web site in Canada is shut down by authorities for posting threats to kill the president of the United States. http://www.wired.com/news/reuters/0,1349,32338,00.html @ Since Oswald Didn't Do It... What do we really know, 36 years after JFK's assassination? Why are the records not released in full? What does the statement: "Those files are postponed in full for reasons of National Security" actually mean? If those files contained evidence, in support of the "official version" -- then exactly "which Nation's Security is being assured" by the continued classification of these "innocuous" documents? Do they matter? http://www.sightings.com/politics5/oswald.htm : What was your role in the JFK assassination coverup? Are you another un-indicted co-conspirator? What's your role in the upcoming Clinton removal?? @ Conspiracy Journal: http://www.members.tripod.com/uforeview/ $ CJ Bookshop: http://www.members.tripod.com/uforeview/contents.html @ CJ Breaking News: http://www.members.tripod.com/uforeview/news.html @ Cmdr. X Files: http://www.members.tripod.com/uforeview/xfiles.html # EA 990 Plot! http://www.members.tripod.com/uforeview/egyptair990.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Israel Deports Xian Predicting Second Coming. JERUSALEM (Reuters) Israel deported to the United States a Christian leader who came to Jerusalem to witness what cult members believe will be a millennial Second Coming. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991105/03/international-israel-christians # Holy Land Dispute Prompts Church Shutdown. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Churches in the Holy Land said they would shut for two days this month to protest plans by Israel for a mosque to be built near the main Christian shrine in Nazareth, the town where Jesus grew up. The announcement carried a veiled threat that church doors could also slam shut at Christmas. It cast more clouds over Israel's hopes for a millennium tourism boom and the prospects for a historic pilgrimage to the Holy Land next March by Pope John Paul. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991105/00/international-millennium-holyland : Is the Millennium a better opportunity for commercial/religious exploita- tion, terrorism, political opportunism? What chronological events do you most like to exploit? Do you attack by timetable? Is death on the calendar? @ [MC] Halloween the Druids: Satanic human sacrifice: http://www.fishermen-net.org/Halloween.htm http://www.chick.com/seasonal/halloween/halloweenhistory.asp http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~cstrick/halloween/halloween.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Global Warming Boosts California's Woes. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) Global warming could add to California's weather woes, with rising temperatures threatening to lead to more flooding, landslides, droughts and wildfires: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991105/02/science-environment-california # MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AT RISK OF BIG QUAKE. Mississippi River Valley cities such as St. Louis and Memphis are in grave danger of being hit by a severe earthquake. Geologists found faults, similar to those responsible for the 1994 Northridge quake that badly damaged the Los Angeles area, all along the New Madrid fault region in Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois and Tennessee. http://cnn.com/NATURE/9911/04/science.quake.reut/index.html # MIDWEST QUAKE THREAT "For the 1st time we can see how fast the earthquake engine is running and how long it takes to build up energy for a quake." See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561922135-506 : Do you prefer dynamic atmospherics or dynamic geophysics? Would'ya rather be killed by earthquake, hurricane, flooding, tornado, brushfire, cougars, aliens, robots, agents, me? Are devils behind all our problems? D'ya care? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Seminary at famed shrine hit by fire. ATTLEBORO, Mass. (UPI) A spectacular fire killed one person destroyed a nearly century-old seminary building at the LaSalette Shrine in Attleboro, Mass., site of the largest outdoor display of holiday lights in the nation. Too much of a good thing: http://news.excite.com/news/u/991105/09/news-shrinefire # BURN'EM ALL - Harry Potter And The Book-Banners: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-11/02/013l-110299-idx.html # Literacy, Lewdness Wage War On Library Wall: http://www.azcentral.com/community/comcols/1104thomason.shtml : Would you rather burn seminaries, books, witches, leaves, aliens, robots, me? Do you burn with desire? Is your heart afire?
