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SkeptiNews 000629c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/28_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? * The Thought Leader's words overflow here:: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No Laotian royals were reinstated during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Maxims: http://user.tninet.se/~dfr732s/show-off.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Into the Triangle and Beyond - Flying Triangles their secret stealthy counterparts, developed especially by the US military since WWII -- and a 16th century Spanish account of Cortez's expeditionary force observing "a strange pyramid of light" prior to their landing in Mexico. Area51 is old, old, old, old... http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/jj_itb.htm @ RING THEORY. The ring is a electric motor that produces a voltage, deter- mined by the windings of the coils and rpm of the core/ring. The ring has some unusal advantages to its behavior first the spinning mass produces a stabilizing effect. That's cool because now we have a stable power supply. satalites can be powered stable. Never pay another electric bill because the electric company is paying you. Or a electric car without batteries to charge hell you could power your house with your car. It gets better never plug anything into the wall imagine everything you buy with a wonder power supply built in. Zowie: http://www8.50megs.com/terryhewett/ringtheory.html : Have you been absorbing/fermenting/discharging power for a long long time? Does free energy propel your flying triangle/saucer/quadruped/teacup/squid? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Priest's killer invited to Vatican - shoot a few more liberals: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567737199-c22 # Scientology case judge faces probe - fraud with lost evidence? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567737367-716 @ Is it the real Jesus or is it Memorex? Peter Jennings' search for Christ: http://www.beliefnet.com/story/30/story_3053_1.html # Orthodox flock to relic in Ukraine - saint's head is on display: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567738208-be3 # Court bars Hell's Angels tombstone - epitaph sacrilegious, scary: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567738059-764 # Man charged with stealing urn from President Harrison's grave: http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/06/27/bc.gravethefts.ap/index.html : Is religious ritual always a grave experience? Should epitaphs scare the hell out of everyone? Should your head be displayed? Should the Pope's? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SexaRama: # Do I know you? Socially inept rodents give a clearer picture of how "love hormone" shapes our relationships www.newscientist.com/news/news_224531.html # Naked ballers busted: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000629/11/odd-nude-dc # Vermont preps for 'gay' unions - Some clerks open offices at midnight Saturday for 'people in love' http://timesargus.nybor.com/Story/9335.html # City had 'duty' to stop 'gay' ads - Judge calls hope-for-homosexuals cam- paign 'hate speech' http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/A0011944.html # SOME WON'T LOVE, HONOR OR OBEY VERMONT LAW ON SAME SEX MARRIAGES. Susan Fortunati has no intention of complying with a new state law that requires all 247 town clerks across Vermont to issue civil union licenses to same- sex couples. So lock up the scofflaw: http://chblue.com/Article.asp?ID=381 # Testosterone/cancer? http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/mwc-ita062300.html # WONDER PILL LETS WOMEN CONCEIVE AT SIXTY - just what every woman wants, eh? http://www.lineone.net/express/00/06/29/news/n0100splash-d.html @ Oprah Winfrey has achieved a kind of perfection, slinging truths, half- truths outright nonsense to flatter America with its favorite fallacies. http://www.weeklystandard.com/magazine/mag_5_40_00/skinner_feat_5_40_00.html # Relatively Few Watch Penile Implant Webcast - occupied with Oprah: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000629/10/odd-implant-dc _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New dementia guidelines: http://uchospitals.edu/news/Dement.html # Mental illness 'diagnosed too quickly' (BBC) The mentally ill may be receiving inadequate treatment because of 'quick' diagnoses!!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_809000/809681.stm @ ELECTRONIC MIND CONTROL: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/electronic.htm # Davidian denies sect fired 1st - Survivor testifies: 'There was no plan to commit suicide' http://dallasnews.com/waco/103542_waco_29tex.ART.html # WARNING SIGNS OF TEEN SUICIDE - know the warning signs be on the alert: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=36568src=n2 # NO DRUG TESTS FOR LOUISIANA POLITICIANS, NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY DESERVE TESTING: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567737048-729 # Flush School Drugs:
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SkeptiNews 000622c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/21_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 neutrinos were sexually abused during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Oblique Strategies: http://crystal.palace.net/~llama/oblique/oblique.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Satan' worship in Mizoram worries church. AIZAWL, India. In the dark of night a mixed group of high schoolers huddle in a cemetery, holding hands chanting invocations to Satan. The "worshippers" soon fall into trance; one after another slash their wrists in a ritual offering of blood to the fallen angel. www.indiaserver.com/thehindu/2000/06/19/stories/0219000r.htm # SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL. Death-worshipping church or apocalyptic prophets? The Process Church of the Final Judgement - Accused of being a "black- caped, black-garbed, death-worshipping church" with ranks of mindless "hooded snuffoids," they believed they were visionaries warning of the coming apocalypse. http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/134/process.html # Watch for Ed Gein's gravestone to show up on eBay. The Wisconsin serial killer who inspired "Psycho" is in the news again as thieves grabbed his grave marker and ran. "There are people who would pay big bucks for that," says the sheriff. http://jsonline.com/news/state/jun00/gein20061900a.asp : What's your favorite satanic ritual? D'ya prefer to worship death masked as eternal life; or death straight; or life masked as eternal death; or life straight? D'ya pay a lot for paraphernalia of worship? Is it cost-effective? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # RESTORING THE PATH OF FAITH: This month, Coptic Christians in Egypt are celebrating the 2000th anniversary of the Holy Family's travel thru Egypt. In preparation for the thousands of pious pilgrims who'll come to retrace their path, the Egyptian Heritage Revival Association is pouring millions of Egyptian Pounds into the restoration of tombs, icons, altars... and the installation of restrooms. http://www.egypttoday.com/feat01.htm # Oldest Temple in Egypt: Tell Ibrahim Awad Reveals Temple Upon Temple.Under the rich rubble of a Middle Kingdom temple are ruins of the oldest-known temple in Egypt at Tell Ibrahim Awad in the east Nile Delta. Traces of 5 temples, the earliest dating to 3200 B.C., underlie a 4,000-year old Mid- dle Kingdom temple. http://www.egyptrevealed.com/051500-telibrahim.shtml # Court Bars Sex-Change Dancer From School. CAIRO (Reuters) A Cairo court ruled on Wednesday that a belly-dancer who was once a man may not pursue her medical studies at Egypt's one thousand-year-old al-Azhar Islamic university. Oy. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000622/07/odd-dancer-dc : What're y'r favorite old Egyptian tradition/heritage/ritual/site? Do these interfere with others? Are there natural conflicts among points of heritage? Is any heritage worth more than others? How can you tell - tourist counts?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Heavenly Light: Lasers blaze new path for studying stars in lab. Seems odd to find astronomers working in windowless labs, but that's where some of the best new views are. Instead of gazing at exploding stars,giant planets interstellar blast waves, scientists now replicate such phenomena in the lab. Supernova in a bottle: http://alienzoo.com/news/e/26210007.cfm # Deep focus: neutrino mystery. An observatory sited deep in a Canadian mine could solve a mystery about the nuclear processes going on inside the Sun. Softly: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_799000/799067.stm # Space Weather Predictions Just Got Easier. The arrival from the Sun of billion-ton electrified-gas clouds causing severe space storms can now be predicted to within a half-day, a great improvement over the best previous estimates of two to five days. http://www.cosmiverse.com/space062104.html : What's your favorite form of cosmic radiation? Have'ya intercepted/created /manipulated/obliterated any cosmic rays lately? Do you prefer cosmic/solar storms that are real, simulated, imitation, virtual, miniature, frothy? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Robots in the 21st Century. Where are they? Despite the arrival of year 2000, some folks are disappointed that robots aren't everywhere. After all, isn't that what futurists promised? In reality, robots are around more than many people think. Most simply haven't noticed yet. Mechanical beings are playing soccer, fetching the newspaper, and keeping people company at home. http://www.bergen.com/biz/robot1926192.htm # ET Rover Produces Power. Scientists think they've found a way to generate power from robotic devices placed on the moon other planets. Making its way
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* 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 prophets were resurrected to produce this bulletin. We left'em there.
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@ World's Worst Convenience Foods: http://www.bertc.com/worlds_8_worst.htm
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# ET-SEx (Not what you might think). Forget the New York Stock Exchange, the
NASDAQ hi-tech index, other mundane benchmarks of stock market activity.
Alien Zoo's Jim Dilettoso (www.alienzoo.com) has come up with what might
just be "the" definitive strategy for multiplying your equity capital. He
calls it the "Extra Terrestrial Stock Exchange" (or ETSEx for short.) And
although he calls this fruit of his research "just for fun... for now,"
Dilettoso's newly developed index may be just as accurate as, say, Louis
Rukeyser's. Gimmee: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal061402.html
# Shadow Worlds. It may be all around us, a parallel universe of mirror gal-
axies,mirror plants...even mirror life. THE WORLD on the other side of the
mirror is a favorite of fantasists: everything is subtly twisted; things
impossible in our world can happen. Scores of fictional adventurers, from
Alice onwards,have stepped through into that reflected realm. But it could
be that the world on the other side of the mirror is more than a fantasy.
Reality check: http://newscientist.com/features/features.jsp?id=ns224324
: Do your thoughts/deities/finances exist in paranormal realms? Do you track
the mirror stock market? Do financial markets operate by different economic
rules in mirror/parallel/alternate universes? Are y'r finances just fantasy?
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# Addict deaths pinpointed in Britain. LONDON (AP) Scientists blame a highly
toxic bacteria as the cause of a mysterious illness that's killed at least
35 heroin addicts. Clostridium bacterium - not the next AIDS, just contam-
ination: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567362886-ad3
# A Possible Solution to Cell Phones Causing Hypothyroidism? From: X
I'm using a device on my cellular phone which alters the radiation pattern
on the phone and renders it harmless. I know it sounds strange, but I got
it from my Dr. Marshall and I trust him. I also have devices on my regular
phones, tv's, and computer monitors to do much the same thing with them.
You can get information on it from his office if you call for it. The
number is: 310-320-1132. [ via www.topica.com/lists/ewar ]
# MAGNETS ATTRACT LEGAL JUDGMENT. Prosecutors in Napa and Sonoma Counties in
No.California seem to be the only ones going after bogus health products.
This time, it's magnet makers who're caught making unsubstantiated claims.
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=36051src=n2
: Do magnets/bacteria/cellphones/reptoids/narcotics affect your health? Are
you searching for relief? Is death the greatest relief of all? Should we all
die so we won't hurt anymore? Is your conspiracy working to achieve that???
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# The Code Cracks. "God does not play dice with the universe," Einstein fam-
ously remarked. But he didn't rule out numerical puzzles. (WSJ) The Bible
Code, a 1997 bestseller by Michael Drosnin,argued that hidden messages are
embedded in bible texts. Similar books followed; a movie was even made on
this theme ("The Omega Code"). The popular press, no doubt intimidated by
the code's statistical complexity, wrote of it with cautious respect. To
this day, there is the lingering impression that,no matter how far-fetched
it seems, a code may be buried in the Bible for a computer to discover.
This impression is badly misguided. Recent analysis has done a great deal
to refute the whole idea. http://www.stats.org/statswork/biblecode.htm
# REPUBLICANS JOIN ANTI-HOLY SEE UN CAMPAIGN - conservatives conspiring
against Vatican: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4001
# Rwandan Court Acquits Roman Catholic Bishop Of Genocide - persecuted by
politicos: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567366174-e56
: Do your deities play games, create numerical/cryptological puzzles, enjoy
watching you dangle? Do your politicos play games with your deities? Do your
legal/religious/scientific/mystical codes decode into anything recognizable?
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# UFO Roundup: CHUPACABRAS GO ON THE RAMPAGE IN CHILE - GERMAN POLICE HUNT
FOR LANDED UFO - SECURITY GUARD SIGHTS HUGE DISC-SHAPED UFO IN GLOUCESTER-
SHIRE - CROP CIRCLE DISCOVERED SOUTH OF MILAN, ITALY - DISC UFO KILLS A
CAR'S ENGINE IN WISCONSIN - HOVERING BLUE SPHERE SEEN IN AUBURN, NEW YORK
- BLACK HELICOPTERS AND GIANT DAYLIGHT DISC SEEN IN
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SkeptiNews 000427c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/26_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, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No male belly-dancers were hypnotized during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Californication? http://www.wmin.ac.uk/media/HRC/ci/calif.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ An After-Death Communications specialist helps pierce the veil of death, speaking with both Princess Di http://englishrosepress.com/diana.html and, of course, Chris Farley http://englishrosepress.com/farley.html. Future projects are under construction, and oh-so-so-generous investors http://www.englishrosepress.com/who.html may wish to help spread the light. For now, Princess Di has graciously agreed to provide a newsletter http://www.englishrosepress.com/news.html so you can stay current with post-life events. Specialists: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/ : D'ya like to talk/dine/travel/sleep with the dead? D'ya need professional help to do so? Are you sure they're dead, or do mindcontrollers beam their voices/scents/touches into your sensory-cognitive system? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Miracle' Hi-Tech Crops Causing Widespread Brain Impairment - report says high-yielding rice and wheat varieties that brought about the much-heral- ded "Green Revolution" are among a range of environmental factors under- mining human intelligence. http://www.sightings.com/general/mir.htm # NEW ARSENAL FOR FOOD PROTECTION. Scientists are developing new processing methods to minimize contamination of our food keep the risk of foodborne disease low. But will consumers accept these new processes when they emerge? http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=32521 : Is your brain/body/spirit impaired by what you eat/drink/smoke/think/grow? Is y'r IQ more affected by your ingestion/acculturation/agriculture/implant? # Computerized Map Of Latin Americas Threatened Birds may help save them from extinction. http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000427075524.htm # Fargo - Plague of Bunnies: http://cosmiverse.com/paranormal042702.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Radio Therapy OKd for Heartburn http://www.sightings.com/general/rfs.htm # 9 of 10 Americans Embracing Alternative Therapies - and they're dying like flies. Fortunate to have the 'conventional-medicine' safety net as a backup: http://www.sightings.com/general/aalttherapies.htm # Giuliani has prostate cancer - Treatable condition may affect Senate race against first lady - infected by Clinton operatives? Have they no shame? http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2427/ts/newyork_giuliani_2.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/725000/audio/_728241_devenport1545.ram : What's your favorite medical/cultural/political conspiracy? Is it gender- related? Why do more men than women have heartburn,prostate cancer,baldness, flatulence? Are all health problems/treatments conspiracy-based? Who plots? @ Why on earth would you want to shoot any one with a noisy, nasty old gun http://www.recguns.com when you could use something little less lethal? http://www.middlebury.edu/~jswan/martial.arts/pages/nonlethal.html Now kill yourself with kindness at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Gadgets/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Male belly-dancers dazzle Istanbul. (BBC) Suddenly, Turkish men are chal- lenging women for their dominant position on the belly-dancing stage. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_726000/726807.stm # Vermont House OKs gay unions http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9743869 # Secret Bill-Signing: http://rutlandherald.nybor.com/News/Story/6633.html # BoyScout GayHating Is Legal: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9743863 # Mormon Scout Walkout? http://www.sltrib.com/04262000/nation_w/44434.htm # A finger on sexuality (BBC) http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9709843 # Special Preference: http://www.nationalpost.com/home.asp?f=000426/270754 : Have you crossed any traditional gender barriers lately? Do the same bar- riers exist in all cultures you know of; or most; or a few; or only yours? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New Ugandan cult grave. (BBC) More than 50 bodies are retrieved from a mass grave at a house near Kampala rented by a Doomsday cult leader. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_728000/728266.stm # Quiet cult's doomsday deaths: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9746179 # Analysis: Why East Africa? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9746180 # When devotion means death: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9746181 # Mystery death of Sikh leader's daughter. An enquiry has been ordered in Punjab into the circumstance surrounding the death of the daughter of an influential Sikh leader. Accidental food poisoning?Why the
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SkeptiNews 000420c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/19_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 Skeptichat subscribers were harmed to produce this bulletin. Morally. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Dance! http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/Graphics/dancingalienbaby.gif_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiChat subscriber reply - From: "Al Christians" [EMAIL PROTECTED] # COSMIC RAYS WILL REVEAL UNIVERSAL SECRETS - Argentine telescope may solve mysteries surrounding the Big Bang, black holes ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_719000/719514.stm http://www.sciam.com/specialissues/0398cosmos/0398cronin.html Given the notable tendency of the dominant life forms on earth to hurl things at each other, we should afford due respect to the hypothesis that the cosmic rays are the stray rounds and misses from gazillions billions of star wars. Nothing in these articles to disprove that, is there? Al. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BOSTON MOM LEAVES BABY IN CAR... AND LION EATS HIM! SADA, South Africa. Boston businesswoman Cynthia Ambele and her 18-month-old son Andy were driving in a wild and woolly game park near here when she stopped her car to use a toilet and returned to find that a lion had eaten her baby! Vacation quite ruined: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1846.html # Mystery Big Cat Wrecks UK Garden http://farshore.force9.co.uk/abc_uk13.htm # Uganda deaths ignored: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000418/university-89 # Mountaineer Describes Firsthand Look at Yeti: http://caus.org/pn042000.htm @ Want to know what's going on? http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Nook/1298/ # Heavy Metal 2000: http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000418/co-starz-pictures @ Nazis No! http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/chile/nazis/2418/stg02d : Have you devoured any humans/aliens/animals/robots/minds/futures lately? Which are tastiest? Do you breed/control/torture big cats to devour humans/ vegetables/lawyers? Should the devoured/tortured/perplexed be ignored? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # "Terra" Spacecraft Open For Business. After a picture-perfect launch into space last December, NASA's premier Earth Observing System Satellite, Terra, has completed on-orbit checkout and verification and is "open for business." http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000420074602.htm # World's Largest Astronomical Observatories Now Accessible Over Internet2 Networks. A new high-performance Internet connection announced today will transform the ability of astronomers to access world-leading telescopes located on the peak of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawai`i. Get a faster modem: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000420074012.htm # Museum 'posse' rounds up Colorado meteorites. 75 years later, the boom and smoke of a sizzling fireball are as clear to the witnesses as on the hot July day when it slammed into the ground next to a dirt road. Thick tail of smoke, sonic boom: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_colmet.htm : Have you observed anything spatial/special/spectral lately?Are your obser- vations automated/cybernated/validated? Should the work be left to computers /robots/humans/deities/demons/me? Should the observations be freely shared? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 28 LINKED TO BIN LADEN: www.CNN.com/2000/WORLD/meast/04/20/jordan.trial.ap # Taliban charge two Arabs with spying on Bin Laden for U.S. - could be fed to dogs: http://www.worldtribune.com/Archive-2000/me-binladen-04-20.html # Bin Laden Filipino group beheads 2, wants US to release World Trade Center bomber: http://www.conservativehq.com/chq/displayarticle?articleId=962 # Partial DERA Selloff Worries Pentagon - UK Defence RD agency set for £1bn float - secrets may be revealed: http://farshore.force9.co.uk/n_dera.htm # New B-3 Bomber Faster, Stealthier - Experts Are Designing Bombers of the Future Today. Even before the USAF finishes building its fleet of 21 B-2 Spirit stealth bombers, aircraft futurists are busy designing the nation's next bomber deep inside a secure vault at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. The B-2 may rule the skies for now, but the bomber that makes it obsolete is already on the drawing board. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_steth.htm : D'ya prefer to inflict terrorist attacks on the retail/wholesale level? Is single-target terrorism too slow? Would you rather inflict massive damage on widespread targets simultaneously from far bases? How's your infrastructure? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FBI hold "hostage crisis" drill - preparing for Philadelphia convention. A "hostage crisis" at the former Navy Base ends quietly. The agency said it was planning for a worst-case scenario: some Republicans might survive. Bother.
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000406c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 data structures were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Opera To Love: http://www.phillynews.com/2000/Apr/05/poster.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HARRY GRIFFIN: "THIS IS HOW I WILL CLONE A HUMAN" - Catholic Experts Label Experiment "Intrinsically Illicit" - clones deny illegitimacy, demand full respect recognition: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48804 # When Andrew Sullivan injects testosterone he feels a deep surge of energy: "My wit is quicker, my mind faster, but my judgment is more impulsive." http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/2402mag-testosterone.html # AILING 'SLOTH GIRL' LIVES LIFE IN SLOW MOTION! NEWARK, N. J. -- Brave 7- year-old Martha Cibron suffers from a rare and horrible disorder. Her metabolism is so slow that she eats only about 13 ounces of food a week and must consume seven gallons of coffee and other stimulants every day just to stay awake! http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1443.html : Have you experimented on yourself/others/me lately? Have you made anyone faster/slower/smarter/dumber/holier/damned? Would you rather live slow/long like a redwood; or fast/quick like a shrew; or in-between like a good clone? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE ORIGIN OF WRITING. Introduction: My rediscovery of the world's oldest form of writing. The Origin of Writing: How writing began. North America's First People: Enter into a continent filled with residual species of dino- saurs. Non-Metrical Image Writing: How this form of writing works. A Photo Offer: Ancient reptile who's remains have been mistaken for "grey aliens." A Warning: DO NOT lift these static images and attempt to "animate" them through video. Imparting the dynamics of the screen to such refined visual elements COULD TRIGGER EPILEPTIC SEIZURES in viewers susceptible to such attacks. If you want to try animating these images, USE A GRADUAL, SLOW, TRANSITIONAL FLOW mediated by a neutral gray background density. MAINTAIN THE CONTEXT OF THESE IMAGES. Shift THROUGH a neutral background, NOT dir- ectly between image elements. Easy... http://www.tripleoak.on.ca/mindseye/ : Does your writing cause seizures, nausea, disability, death? Do you hang around with reptiles, gray aliens, UFOlogists? Do their writings cause ill- ness? Have you discovered any ancient/alien writings lately? Have you deci- phered these writings? Say what? [via [EMAIL PROTECTED] - thanks, Al!] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Campfire Casts Doubt on First Americans. Campfire remains found under a Virginia sand dune could be the proof that humans inhabited the Americas as early as 17,000 years ago, fueling the friction over where the first Americans came from and when: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9631226 # Did sharing evolve from group hunting? The idea that co-operation during hunting led to the evolution of human social/moral behaviour has received a boost. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_702000/702754.stm @ BREAKING NEWS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD: http://julen.net/ancient/breaking.html # Sandstorm Eats Army. News in 2500 Years. They think they found the remains of a 5-man Persian Army swallowed by a sandstorm in 524 BC whilst eat- ing lunch. www.discovery.com/news/briefs/2327/history_persianarmy.html : Have you discovered any ancient/medium/recent humans lately? Did you find anything new about human evolution/behaviour/volition? Can we learn anything more about humans? Should we move on to investigating other species? Which? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # TRINITY IS NOT A "THEOREM" BUT REALITY. VATICAN CITY (ZENIT) The mystery of the Holy Trinity is not something distant, or a "heavenly arithmetic theorem," but a reality that is part of our daily life, John Paul II told an exceptionally large Jubilee crowd. Three gods in one - the Pope affirms Catholic polytheism: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48790 # Okla.Lawmakers Pass Creationism Bill; if they eat more beans, they'll pass another soon. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Science books used in Oklahoma public schools would be required to acknowledge "that human life was created by one God of the universe." No consensus as to just which deity that might be: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565460118-c87 # Free Help For Boozers: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9635174 : Who are your favorite deities? Do they come in clusters of 2, 3, 4, more? Did they do a good job of creating the universe, humanity, reality? Were you
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000330c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/29_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 established paradigms were shattered to produce this bulletin. Darn. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Atlantis http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/germany/clock/2329/dus101 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ### CAUS COURT CASE DISMISSED -- NO D.O.D. COVERUP -- DETAILS SOON ### @ Can You See What I See? http://www.caus.org/pn033000.htm @ Try: http://web.pitas.com/skepticon/27_03_2000.html#000327a # SASQUATCH A DIFFERENT SPECIES: http://www.earthfiles.com/earth122.htm # Agony in the garden - A Santa Rosa, California diocese recovers from a sex-abuse scandal, and finds that healing comes through facing the truth. Not that I noticed: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/03/30/abuse/ # New Age Takes Up Residence On Oregon Coast - A California group that lives communally believes in extraterrestrials will move its businesses here. GARDINER -- The former headquarters of a forest-industry giant soon will be home to a New Age religious group from California that espouses love, spiritual power communal living, while selling liquor-license consulting services. Residents of this former mill town don't know quite what to expect. Hopefully it won't be another doomsday cult with mass graves, eh? http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/00/03/nw_ 71love25.frame : Has your cult/sect/plot/firm/govt taken over any small towns lately? Has your small town been taken over lately? Were you swamped with drugs, orgies, chants, vibes, yetis? Did the Space Brothers land? Will they ever go away? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Wife: Man Didn't Control Uganda Cult. KABUMBA, Uganda (AP) - Eight years after Joseph Kibwetere abandoned his family to help form a doomsday sect, his faded black-and-white photographs still adorn his wife's home, along- side pictures of Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Pope. No indict- ments yet: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000330/17/uganda-cult-deaths # Further cult horrors unearthed. (BBC) The extent of the doomsday cult deaths in Uganda is emerging as a fifth mass grave is found. Awesome. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_696000/696254.stm # Also - Priest who 'murdered' his flock - just as all shepherds do: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_696000/696254.stm # Death cult activities 'ignored' - watch out for Scientology now: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_695000/695268.stm @ TALKING POINT - Cult crazy - Are cults a danger to society? Discuss: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/newsid_684000/684006.stm # Pope Says Holy Land Trip 'Unforgettable' - as long as he keeps taking his hormones: http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=00_03_29item=#954362487 : Has your belief system and/or it's leadership amassed incredible wealth? Have any members of your sect survived? For how long? Does your sect provide a spiritual uplift? How much is that worth? How much do you have? Any more? @ Even biblical moralists will now defend their codes of conduct with psychobabble. How did self-esteem become religion's chief objective? http://www.thepublicinterest.com/current/article1.html [Spring 2000] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The Noise of Hate Music: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9607939 # Learning the Songs of Animals: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9610511 @ America is drowning in its own soundtrack. Music crams every inch of public space. You can't even find a bar where you can nurse a quiet drink: http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/2000/03/bottum.htm # DON'T LIKE IT? BLAME THE AUDIENCE: A composer/scientist has undertaken a series of performance in Zurich with his computer-generated music. The computer "reads" the audience - fidgets, coughs, shifting in the chairs - and translates the variables into music. John Cage, eat your ambient heart out! http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223142.html : Are you enveloped in audiovisual/socioeconomic/spiritual noise? D'ya have a quiet place within/without yourself? Can you share the quiet? Does anybody listen to your quiet? Do voices in your head tell you to shut the fuck UP!?! @ AstroHunger: http://www.bobs.com/Recordings/Lyrics.cgi?Meat_On_The_Moon @ The New Economy: http://www.bobs.com/Recordings/Lyrics.cgi?Food_To_Rent @ Sing It Out Loud, Eh? http://www.google.com/search?q=moose+turd+pie _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Author warns of psychological danger of bioterrorism hype. BERGEN, NJ. Publicity given to threats of bioterrorism is almost as disruptive as an actual attack, an expert on
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000309c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 archangels were mischanneled during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ETs Beware: http://www.watchingyou.com/autopsy.jpg [thanks HypCube4D!] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MONKEY BUSINESS. TOKYO -- There's a new ordinance before the town assembly of Nikko: "Don't feed the monkeys." Tourist attractions include a 318-ft waterfall, a shrine that is the burial place of a 16th century shogun and troops of wild monkeys. Problem is the monkeys, while scavenging for food, have stolen bags bitten people. Govt blames it on the tourists' feeding habits. http://cnn.com/2000/ASIANOW/east/03/06/bc.japan.wildmonkeys.ap/ : Are your holy shrines infested with monkeys, tourists, fleas, Reptilioids, Illuminati, secular humanists, robots, snakes, burros, hot peppers, ghosts, vendors, camcorders? Are monkeys, apes, lemurs, other primates, worshipful? # Hello kitties. In a country that favors group-feeling to individualism, two fashion-based subcultures, "egg girls" and "little gals," cause a big stir. http://salon.com/people/feature/2000/03/08/kogaru/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ BAKER BOYS CHANNEL ARCHANGEL GABRIEL. We are now in an unprecedented time in the evolution of our planet, experiencing a great deal of change and challenge. However, the good news is that the shifts that are taking place are ultimately opening us to more powerful opportunities to heal our lives than ever before. Listen up: http://www.childrenoflight.com/welcome.htm # Pope Prepares For Something Big, Perhaps Fatima, Perhaps Armageddon, or assimilation: http://earthchangestv.com/breaking/March2000/0307pope.htm @ Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text and the Sign of Ismailism: www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/middle_east/bierman/ : Have'ya channeled any extraterrestrial/extradimensional/extrareal entities lately? Did they tell you to write a book? Has it sold many copies? Why not? # LORD OF THE RIP-OFF: In post-World War popular lit, Generic Fantasy became the be-all end-all escape device. It was so easy to write. No bothering with grounding your book in reality, with all its annoying demands. Just place your story in a "Secondary World", and you can write anything you want. Behold: http://www.spark-online.com/march00/miscing/yngve.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Judge bans Greek best-selling book. ATHENS (AP) A judge has banned a best- selling book that was condemned by the Greek Orthodox Church because of passages about the possible sexual longings of Jesus Christ. To prevent violence: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564848682-1ea # 'Anti-gay' billboards papered over - Homosexuality condemnations blasted by activists: http://www.msnbc.com/local/WNBC/714903.asp # San Luis Obispo pulls newspaper ads over company policy on gay, abortion coverage: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9501316 : Does your belief-system / deity-cluster / cultural-elite promote/prohibit specific sexual activities/thoughts/feelings? Do they encourage/discourage violence [physical/vocal/mental]? Do you like brutal sex? Are you normal?? # Media Frenzy - Christian author sets off chain reaction of condemnation: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_dougherty/2309_xnjdo_scholars_c.shtml # Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Episcopal leaders usher in Lent together - Mormons, Baptists ignored: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9502033 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Runaway donkey stumbles into treasure. (BBC) When a donkey fell into a hole in the Egyptian desert, it stumbled across one the biggest archaeo- logical finds in the country. The ancient temple of Alexander the Great: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_67/670149.stm # Also - Mummy cemetery discovered in Egypt - duddys not found yet: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_366000/366977.stm # Museum admits 'scandal' of Elgin Marbles - we were only following orders: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_543000/543077.stm # Archaeologists want anti-looting organisation - keep loot for ourselves, bubba: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_482000/482611.stm : Have you uncovered many ancient treasures lately? Are you an ancient trea- sure? If you're buried long enough, will you be worth something? Does your conspiracy bury/excavate/fabricate ancient artifacts? What do they prove? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Spies'R'Us: # FBI says Chinese, Russian spies busier than ever in U.S. http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/03/08/spy.threats/index.html # CIA: China boosts U.S. spy presence - foreign students used as
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000302c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 promiscuous sqrats were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Search The Multimedia Multiverse: http://www.scour.net/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SUN HEATS UP. (NASA) -- Sol appears to be in an unsettled state, possibly Utah. Minor short-lived sunspot groups are appearing at various locations on the Sun's disk and small flares are erupting in many of the active reg- ions. This morning two intense solar flares erupted from sunspot group #8882. Impressive coronal mass ejections followed both flares. Geomagnetic activity could begin in 24-48 hours. Updates: http://www.SpaceWeather.com # SOL ZAP! (NASA) Last week an interplanetary wind storm hit our planet with a gale of energetic particles from the Sun. During the storm a strong gust of solar wind triggered aurora captured by the Ultraviolet Imager on NASAs Polar satellite. http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast02mar_1m.htm : Has your planet been hit by solar flares / comets / black holes / gasbags lately? Are your magnetic fields sizzling; your defensive shields ringing; your supplies running low; your morale deteriorating? What can you do now? # Comet "76/West-Kohoutek-Ikemura" appears to be on a collision course with Mars. Bang. http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/marshit.html @ Comet observation messages: http://earthchangestv.efc-inc.com/Comets/ @ Comet simulator: http://astroarts.com/comets/2000/0076P/java-orbit.html @ Confirmation? http://earthchangestv.efc-inc.com/Comets/indexmesg/8.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ Promiscuity. Contrary to belief, females are remarkably promiscuous have evolved an array of tricks to determine who exactly will be the father of their offspring. This text introduces the world of sexual competition, where males females vie with each other to maximize reproductive suc- cess. http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0571193609/humannaturecom/ # WonderWoman Ropes Cops: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000302/12/odd-police # Death Threat Ends Promo: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000302/12/odd-naked : Are you promiscuous, inventive, survival-oriented? Will you do whatever it takes to exceed your maximum potential? Did you trademark/copyright/patent yourself yet? Are you a threat to others? Are you taken seriously? Really?? # SQRATS! Whaddya get when you cross a New York City squirrel with a rat? "A sqrat!" says an entrepreneur who goes by the name Ivy Supersonic. She claims that such creatures exist and she's got the trademark marketing plan to prove it. http://cnn.com/2000/US/02/29/fringe/sqrats/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Galileo spacecraft may be crashed. TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A NASA spacecraft exploring Jupiter and its moons may be deliberately crashed to avoid any chance that it could hit contaminate the moon Europa, where simple life forms may exist. Galileo, launched in 1989, has traveled 500 mln miles to study the giant planet. NASA is considering crashing the spacecraft into Jupiter or one of its icy moons in 2002 because it might still contain microbes from Earth. Scientists suspect that Europa has an ocean beneath its ice shell that might contain simple life forms, like creationists or Mormons. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564683733-46c # Six Billion Miles And Counting - Pioneer 10 checks in from beyond Pluto. (NASA) Last month NASA received a weak signal from Pioneer 10, twice as far from the Sun as Pluto and speeding toward the constellation Taurus. The hardy spacecraft, so low on power that it can't transmit and maneuver at the same time, is still returning data from the outer solar system. This is also a good time of year to see where Pioneer 10 is heading from your own back yard. http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast02mar_1.htm : Is a spacecraft a terrible thing to waste? Have you wasted any spacecraft lately? Is that just part of the price of conquering the universe? Have the Reptoids wasted many spacecraft? Do they crash them here for tactical gain? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ancient stone tools found in Asia. (AP) 800,000-year-old stone tools that rival the work of ancient African artisans have been found in east Asia, suggesting the widely separated early humans groups had equal tool-making skills. The crafted stone tools, found in southern China near the border with Vietnam, are more refined and older than cutting tools previously found in the East Asian region. Researchers said the discovery disproves a long-held belief that early humans in Asia lagged behind those in Africa and the Middle
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000210c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Egyptians were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ OMISSION: The item on Low-Fat Computing / Forth in the previous bulletin should have been credited to: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Computing/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiScrapings - your turn to ask questions: # French to sue Brits Yanks over spy network. UK US Govts are to be sued in France after claims that they have spied on French firms, diplomats and Cabinet ministers. Lawyers are planning a class action after confirmation that a global anglophone spy network exists. Codenamed P-415 Echelon, the world's most powerful electronic spy system was revealed in declassified US National Security Agency documents published on the Internet, and is capable of intercepting telephone conversations, faxes and e-mails. http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/02/10/timfgneur01007.html?999 # Ben Franklin's 'Secret' Scientific Society Simmers For Centuries: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000209/10/science-science-philadelphia # Muslims prepare for pilgrimage to Mecca. DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. Hanadi Dorra made her first pilgrimage [Hajj] to Mecca two years ago, and as this year's Hajj season approaches, her excitement grows for a return trip. For the 20-year-old Dearborn resident, once was not nearly enough. "It's like you have ascended to heaven and come back," she said. "I won't feel rested until I go again." http://detnews.com/2000/wayne/0002/08/02060012.htm # Flying Cop Protects West's Fossil Heritage - 'Green River Formation' Beat: http://apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/02/08/fossils0208_01.html # Psychic Jeane Dixon Was FBI Stooge - Maligned Civil Rights Movement With Hoover's Approval: http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/dixon/index.html # Be all you can be... forever, in US Army - 'Indefinite re-enlistment' is being likened to slavery - senior NCOs required to sign over their souls: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/2210_xex_soldier_slav.shtml # More Falun Gongers busted. BEIJING (AP) China cops have seized over 2,000 members of the banned Falun Gong sect in the past five days. The arrests began as Falun Gong members staged a protest timed for the start of the Lunar New Year early Saturday. Among those arrested were several members of the People's Liberation Army who had demonstrated in Tiananmen Square. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564094158-d0f # New Rocket Failure for Japan Space Program. TOKYO (Reuters) Japan's strug- gling space program suffered another setback when a rocket failed to put a research satellite into orbit, the 2nd successive such disappointment. Dangitall: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000210/05/science-japan-rocket @ Chemtrails DataPage: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/chemdatapage.html @ Chemtrail Pattern Photos: http://www.sightings.com/health3/chemphot.htm @ Chemtrails - Typical Military Aerial Spray Testing Of Toxins In 1950s and 60s: http://personalpages.tds.net/~kknowlto/typical.htm # X-ray vision. (BBC) Europe switches on its Newton telescope: http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/635000/audio/_636349_xmm.ram # XMM-Newton: Best XRay Pix Yet: http://unisci.com/stories/20001/0210001.htm And see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_636000/636349.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ HackySacky: # Smells Like Mean Spirit. (Wired) Who dunnit? The hacker community is puzzled about the identity of those responsible for the rash of attacks on high-profile Web sites ... and it's scornful, as well. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34228,00.html?tw=wn2210 # NO CLUES TO WEB BLITZ: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9357419 # Hacker Havoc Reveals Risks - encouragement to develop better backup strategies: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34229,00.html # DoS: Defense Is the Best Offense - tech changes can boost the Web's defenses: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34230,00.html # Doing Away with DoS - it's everywhere, and net.managers are running scared: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34249,00.html # Beating the hacker attack. (BBC) Hacking is almost an occupational hazard for internet companies, but what can they do to prevent such attacks? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_638000/638166.stm # Hunt for hackers draws a blank: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_638000/638445.stm # Press questions web security: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_637000/637815.stm # US pledges net safety measures:
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000203c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 extra limbs/organs were amputated during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Secret Synth: http://members.xoom.com/angelsflight/secret/andromeda.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Doomsayers Say Grand Planet Alignment Could Crash Net. MONTREAL (NB) -- Doomsday forecasters have shifted their attention from the Millennium Bug, which didn't bite, to an extraterrestrial occurrence scheduled for May 5, when a cluster of planets will align. Some say this has the potential of creating colossal cosmic forces which could severely impact our planet. Occurring only once every 6000 years or so, the rare alignment of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Earth, Sun, and Moon could cause a magnetic surge with the potential to crash power grids, blind satellites, and seriously disrupt radio landline communications, taking the Internet down in the process. Astronomers call these fears "just a load of crap." Really fine shit: http://cnnfn.com/news/technology/newsbytes/143196.html @ Maniacal Doomsday Predictions by Flaming Airhead: http://www.rnoone.com @ Grand Alignment info http://www.badastronomy.co/bad/misc/planets.html @ Inevitable Apocalypso: http://www.aracnet.com/~atheism/tocapox7.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Workers on cigarette break see UFO. Unbelieved Flying Object. What were 8 Fluor Daniel employees smoking when they spotted a mysterious spectrum of skyward lights during their cigarette break? The workers watched in awe as an object of light moved and rotated above their heads, as if it were a circular prism dangling from a skyward string, slowly turning to reveal another color. http://www.greenvillenews.com/news/7020300.htm : What do you smoke to see UFOs? Will you share it with us? Do you take many cigarette breaks? Do you see many UFOs? Are UFOs attracted to cigaret smoke? # Small Lights Acting Erratically - Perth: http://www.caus.org/mu020300.htm # Eau d'asteroid: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2224183 @ UnNatural Museum: Ancient Astronauts: http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/aastro.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # This Ghost Smears Vaseline On Us. A FAMILY say they are being terrorised by an invisible creature which moves their beds breaks objects in their home. "When we sleep blankets are removed from us our bodies are smeared with lotions which are in the house," said father of four Masite Sejake. "Sometimes Vaseline is smeared on us." Eldest son attacked by a tokoloshe; see http://www.suntimes.co.za/2000/01/30/news/gauteng/njhb16.htm : Have many ghosts attacked you lately? Do they slime you? Where do they get the slime? Are they real ghosts, or are you being experimented on with mind- control rays? Do you live near a HAARP facility? Does your head buzz? When? @ Harness the power of mirrors for evil: Build a disgustoscope, the evil http://www.eskimo.com/%7Ebillb/amateur/dscope.html twin of the nice http://dogfeathers.com/kaleido/index.html kaleidoscope, and turn the reflection of your hand into an "obscenely pulsing wrinkled flesh-ball" with "throbbing organic orifices." http://memepool.com/Subject/Gadgets/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tibetan Pawn backs China. BEIJING (AP) A 9-year-old boy picked by China to be Tibet's 2nd-highest religious figure pledged support for the govt just weeks after another important Tibetan leader fled. "I will be a living Buddha who is patriotic, who cherishes education, who protects the nation and benefits the people," the chubby-cheeked, 11th Panchen Lama said on state TV. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563833608-4a7 # Japan wrestles with sumo scandal. TOKYO (AP) In Japan, the sumo wrestling ring is sacred ground, blessed by priests purified with salt before each bout. But a former wrestler claims Japan's nat'l sport is rife with fixed contests, renewing suspicions that sumo is not as clean as its image might suggest. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563837066-b99 : Are your religious rites/structures/beliefs manipulated? For what reasons, for whose benefit? Are all belief systems [political, economic, religious, artistic, athletic] rigged? Are they all just tools for power and wealth?? @ The Politics of Religion: http://www.aracnet.com/~atheism/tocapred.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NoHand http://www.bme.freeq.com/people/nohand/index.html has amputated his own fingers, hand, half of his foot (since lost entirely), part of his genitals, and has "accidentally" lost his left leg below the knee and his right above the knee. Extreme, yes, but he's not alone in his
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000127c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 fundamentalists metamorphosed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Science Jokes: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scijokes/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The lunar eclipse: What you didn't see. (BBC) Astronomers reveal spectacular images of last week's lunar eclipse. Beauty majesty: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_62/620649.stm @ Links: Juan Carlos Casado: http://www.skylook.net/ @ Stephen Barnes: Skyoptics: http://skyoptics.net/ : Are you a lunatic? Was your soul stolen during the lunar eclipse? Does it happen every time? Do you grow a new soul, or is your old one returned, or do you steal one from elsewhere? How many souls have you gone thru already? # What future for the space station? www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9290730 @ ON TO MARS. What sort of creature are we? It took 100,000 years for humans to get inches off the ground. Then, astonishingly, it took only 66 to get from Kitty Hawk to the moon. And then, still more astonishingly, we lost interest, spending the remaining 30 years of the 20th century going around in circles in low earth orbit, i.e., going nowhere. Where to from here? http://weeklystandard.com/magazine/mag_5_19_00/krauthammer_cov_5_18_00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Drug Resistant AIDS Strain: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/resist.htm # Baltimore embalmer gets TB from AIDS-infected corpse - first known case: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563657424-c98 # FIRST NATIONAL HPV HOTLINE LAUNCHED. In response to growing public aware- ness increasing levels of anxiety about the sexually transmitted disease human papillomavirus (HPV), a national health group has launched the first HPV hotline. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=25946 : What's your favorite STD? Is life a STD? Are all STDs eventually fatal? Is life worth the pain? Is any STD worth it? Where do you go from here? When?? # SoHo Love Goddess: http://www.nymag.com/page.cfm?page_id=1862 # Ancient Greek Curse/Poem: http://www.poems.com/liarhaxt.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # French spies listen in to British calls. FRENCH intelligence is intercep- ting British businessmen's calls after investing millions in satellite technology for its listening stations. The French govt upgraded signals intelligence last year. Now secret service elements are using it to tap into commercial secrets. Plucking GSM cellphone signals from the air: www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/01/23/stinwenws03006.html?999 # NK Using Real Bio-Chemical Weapons in Drills. North Korea is believed to have conducted major nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) warfare drills in Yangdeok-Gun, south Pyungahn every December since 1990. The No.Koreans have added attack drills to its previous defense drills in its NBC warfare drills. http://www.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/21/21230330.html : How real are your practices, your conflicts, your effects? What d'ya have, what d'ya want, that're worth living/dying/killing/spying for? What else?? # RWANDAN FACTORY BOSS IS JAILED FOR LIFE FOR GENOCIDE: http://CNN.com/2000/WORLD/africa/01/27/rwanda.verdict.reut/ # WOMEN, BLACKS, MENTALLY ILL GET INFERIOR HEART TREATMENT: http://CNN.com/2000/HEALTH/01/26/mentalillness.heart.ap/ # WINTER STORM DISASTER TO HIT SUPERBOWL IN ATLANTA: http://CNN.com/2000/WEATHER/01/27/winter.storm.01/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Colonel's secret-recipe hoax: Beakless chickens campaign terrifies Thais: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/2127_xex_colonel_sand.shtml : Do you abhor/prefer/ignore genetically-modified food products? Should all foods be engineered by biofactories? Do chickens deserve to be eaten because they're so stupid vicious? Are you stupid vicious? Should you be eaten? @ For those of you interested in entomophagy, see http://www.eatbug.com/ The Iowa State U. entomology dept http://www.ent.iastate.edu/ is well known for its tasty www.ent.iastate.edu/misc/insectsasfood/ beetle dip. But I find it highly suspicious that our friends http://www.orkin.com/ at Orkin keep a http://www.orkin.com/html/cuisine.html recipe page. And feast your eyes upon http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Food/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Japan cops raid cult facilities. YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) - Police raided four facilities of the doomsday cult accused in the 1995 fatal gassing on Tokyo subways as part of an investigation into the kidnapping of the former guru's son. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563650454-32c : Have you raided any cult compounds lately? Again? Is it
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000113c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 microscopic computers were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Universal Translator: http://www.pvv.org/~davidn/crazy.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mack truck driver goes bonkers; hits 20 vehicles. Angry because the govt supposedly put a behavior-controlling microchip in his stomach, Anthony Diveley allegedly stole a Mack truck and rammed vehicles left and right -- damaging 20 in the end. Says a witness: "Like a broken record, he kept saying he had a chip in his belly and that when a satellite flies overhead, it burns his brain and fries his belly." Just like McFood: http://www.sptimes.com/News/011300/TampaBay/Parking_lot_battlegro.shtml # AND: Man claiming computer chip in head is shot: http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/00/Jan/11/city/PSHOT11.htm # ALSO: Here's why I refuse to touch crack: http://www.bostonherald.com/bostonherald/lonw/push01132000.htm : Do microchips alter your behaviour? Have you implanted microchips in any- body lately? Do you control their actions, thoughts, perceptions? Is it fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Twice as many Americans by 2100. WASHINGTON (AP) A century from now there will be twice as many Americans as today,the Census Bureau predicts. While no one knows what daily life will be like in 100 years, the new population projections being issued conjure images of twice as many cars jostling for position on the highways twice as many shoppers crowding the aisles at Wal-Mart. From an estimated 275 million people today, the bureau projects a U.S. population of 571 million in the year 2100. That might not seem terribly crowded, however, because the nation is so sprawling. The U.S. population density in 2100 would be 161.4 people per square mile, about a fourth the current population density of Germany and the United Kingdom. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563234680-b26 # Also: Projected U.S. population growth - a rapidly-rising curve, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563234679-c56 : How much of that extra population will move to uncrowded areas? How much will be jammed into existing cities 'burbs? How many is too many? How many neighbors can you tolerate before you go postal? Will we all go postal soon? # Scientists report warmer Earth. (AP) Despite conflicts in temperature data, there is strong evidence of an accelerated warming of the Earth's surface during the past 20 years. Greenhouse effect, nature or aliens? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563229571-172 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists Make `DNA Computer' (AP) Scientists have created a "DNA comp- uter" from strands of synthetic DNA they coaxed into solving relatively complex calculations: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000113/01/dna-computer And see http://news.excite.com/news/r/000112/15/science-tech-dna : Do'ya wanna be genetically modified so your DNA is filled with computers? Would you outthink your competition then? Suppose we were ALL so modified? Would we humans think our way out of trouble? Would we be better people?? # SCIENCE OF ART: Until recently picture conservation has been a somewhat sensual, hands-on, medieval craft. No more. New science unlocks secrets. "When Rembrandt painted white preparatory ground on his canvases, little did he realise that some 350 years later a scientist would be interested in the tiny fossils it contained." http://ft.com/hippocampus/q3211aa.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ : Teen Buddhist leader meets devotees. DHARMSALA, India (AP) - The teen-age Buddhist leader who recently fled Chinese-run Tibet met with devotees as he rested at a secluded monastery under tight security. The 17th Karmapa gave red ribbons grapes to his barefoot visitors, who entered the Gyuto monastery in groups of 10 to 20 and presented the 14-year-old lama with white scarves. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563227715-c11 : Are you a religious leader? Do you your flock swap red ribbons white scarves? Are you under tight security? Will your enemies kill or kidnap you? @ "God is an invention of Man, and thus but a shallow mystery. The deep mystery is the nature of Man" - belief and consciousness: http://www.consider.net/forum_new.php3?newTemplate=OpenObjectnewTop=1999122 00036newDisplayURN=199912200036 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CHRISTIANS ARE MORE LIKELY TO DIVORCE THAN OTHERS. Among those surveyed, Baptists were the most likely to divorce. The study surveyed nearly 4,000 adults and found that those who said they were born again had a divorce rate of 27 percent compared to
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 000106c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 new perversions were invented during production of this bulletin. Ah. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Jesus Dance - dance the millennium away: http://www.jesusdance.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Win2K Ban in China? Microsoft and Chinese officials are denying a report that the software giant's latest OS will be barred throughout the govt. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33469,00.html?tw=wn2106 # China will scrutinize Internet - controlled by censorship agencies: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563064716-e95 : Does Win2K have the same old backdoors that allow MS to monitor/control all users? Does Bill Gates already run US Euro govts? Can China resist?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ There's a nice summary of the various Wars, Massacres, and Atrocities of the 20th Century http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/war-1900.htm over at the http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm Historical Atlas of the 20th Century. The most interesting factoid/formula for world peace may be http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/demowar.htm this: "no two countries with a MacDonald's Restaurant have ever gone to war with one another." So: Make McLove not McWar: http://memepool.com/Subject/Warfare/ : Do you prefer wars or McFood? What's your favorite war/massacre/atrocity? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Russ agents 'blew up Moscow flats'. We have obtained a videotape on which a Russian officer, captured by Chechens, "confesses" that Russian special services committed the Moscow apartment-block bombings that ignited the latest war in Chechnya and propelled Vladimir Putin into the Kremlin. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Russia/rusagent060100.shtml : Were the Moscow apt. attacks orchestrated by bin Laden [see TIME], Putin, Chechens, CIA, Bill Gates, Toshiba, demons, deities, aliens, robots, me?? # A'Hacking the Military Will Go. The US Space Command is now on the job of protecting Defense Dept computers from hacker attacks. But its plans to disrupt enemy computer systems raise some thorny policy questions. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33443,00.html?tw=wn2106 http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2105/pl/arms_computers_1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Rivals gather at Holy Land synod. JERUSALEM (AP) Setting aside their power struggles, heads of the world's Eastern Orthodox churches met in Jerusa- lem for the biggest Orthodox synod in the Holy Land, and the first in 60 years. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563067778-4ff # China sentences Falun Gong members. BEIJING (AP) But the court was unable to find evidence to support accusations that the movement's founder, Li Hongzhi, shared huge profits made by sales of Falun Gong books photos. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563080006-eb1 # China Catholic church defies Vatican. BEIJING (AP) China's state-control- led Catholic church defied the Vatican Thursday, ordaining five bishops in a ceremony that underscored the communist government's nearly half-century rift with the pope. The timing seemed an intentional snub to the Vatican. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563079757-08f : What's your favorite religious conspiracy? Should govts control churches? Should churches control govts? Should aliens control govts churches? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Did you see The Miraculous Winking Jesus http://www.winkingjesus.com/ wink at you? No? Tough. But even if you didn't, the Best of Reflections http://www.winkingjesus.com/BORed.html can be enlightening in itself. Then there are the apparitions http://www.apparitions.org/ of Jesus Mary, Bible-Approved vs. Bible-Forbidden http://rossetta.com/970413a.htm Undergarments, the Jesus Dance http://www.jesusdance.com/ [caution: may be harmful to your salvation], and maybe http://memepool.com/Subject/Web/ : Do you have a close personal relationship with your saviour? Close enough to borrow a few bucks? Does your saviour wink at your transgressions? Why? # Yeltsin: Anti-Semitism declining. And vodka is good for you. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563088253-ef2 # Also: Orthodox Christmas Eve celebrated by those with old calendars: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563087276-4a1 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New Clones Bid Goodbye, Dolly. In a breakthrough for cloning research, researchers produce calves from the ear of a prize bull. Going beyond the famous cloned sheep, the new work may yield replacement body parts. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33460,00.html?tw=wn2106 # Human Cells Get Tiny Computers. A visionary scientist
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #3 - 12/02/99
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991202c - - - - - - - - - - - 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? * Little international trade was involved in production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The World Is Bound With Secret Knots: http://mjt.org/exhibits/magnes.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UK ESTABLISHES PANEL TO INVESTIGATE ASTEROID THREAT. In an effort to begin collaboration to protect the Earth from the threat of asteroid impact, the UK Govt has set up a special panel. Science Minister Lord Sainsbury wants to establish the govt's stance on the issue, and has organized a team to give him the answers he needs. It's estimate that an asteroid large enough to end humanity hits once every 100,000 to million years. Any time now: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_541000/541376.stm : Would you like to join the Society For The Prevention Of Earthquakes? Can your committee influence subplanetary motions? Where'd you get that power?? @ Ancient History of UFOs. -- UFO reports date back to the early Egyptians; see paintings statues of alien-like craft occupants. http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/ufo/ufoancient.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # IS THE US CONGRESS ANTI-CATHOLIC? Controversy is no stranger to the poli- tically divided House, but even by recent standards, the latest flare-up is unusual - a battle over the selection of a new chaplain to minister to lawmakers and their families. And they aren't even *considering* Mormons: http://www.capitolhillblue.com/Dec1999/120299/anticatholic120299.htm : What religions would you like to establish in your legislative assemblies? Should all religions be so established? Should lawmakers be ministered by Discordians, Anabaptists, Satanists, preachers of Daniel Christ, Moonies?? @ The Exposed Plan of The Freemasons - FOR ALL TO SEE AGAIN - Concerning the Catholic Church - http://www.iol.ie/~magnific/magnific/fr_mason.html#top _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ In the rain forest of the Cameroon in West Central Africa lives the floor dwelling ant Megaloponera foetens, the stink ant. This large ant - one of the very few to produce a cry audible to the human ear - forages for food among fallen leaves undergrowth of the extraordinarily rich rain forest floor. On occasion one of these ants, while looking for food is infected by inhaling a microscopic spore from a fungus of the genus Tomentella. After being inhaled, the spore seats in the ant's tiny brain and begins to grow, causing changes in the ant's patterns of behavior. The Ant appears troubled and confused; for the first time in its life the ant leaves the forest floor and begins to climb. Driven on by the growth of the fungus, the ant embarks on a long exhaustive climb. Completely spent and having reached a prescribed height, the ant impales the plant with its mandibles. Thus affixed, the ant waits to die. Ants that have met their ends in this fashion are quite common in some areas of the forest. The fungus continues to consume first the nerve cells finally all soft tissues of the ant. After approximately 2 weeks a spike appears from what had been the head of the ant. This spike is about an 1.5 inches long and has a bright orange tip heavy with spores which rain down onto the rain forest floor for other unsuspecting ants to inhale. http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/stinkant.htm : Have you consumed any spores lately? Is a fungus growing in your brain? Are you part of a symbiotic human-fungal cycle? Are alien implants really biotech spores that alter our mental behaviour? Do they evolve further?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Timothy McVeigh's mom: Hey, I didn't do it! The bomber's mom says it's time to move on and she has no words for victims' families in Oklahoma. "What can I say? I didn't do it. I didn't blow the building up." What's the big deal? -- more people die in plane crashes, she says. "Everybody thought it was the crime of the century. Well, it's not." Just ordinary everyday terrorism: http://www.denverpost.com/bomb/bomb120299.htm # Fears of a fascist revival in Europe are unfounded. Our fixation with the Nazis prevents a grasp of a new kind of right wing. Seig heil: http://www.thenewrepublic.com/magazines/tnr/121399/trb121399.html # Hungry hamster invades Shoney's salad bar - teenaged skinhead loosed the beast in the broccoli bin: http://dailymail.com/news/News/1999120122/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # John Travolta's Alien Notion. MONTREAL (WPost) Something otherworldly is happening inside Hangar 12, something they're trying to keep secret. But we can tell you this: John Travolta is involved, and so are space aliens. Soldiers have secured the perimeter. "Warning: This establishment is under permanent
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 99c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 maniacs matriculated during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NOTE: I had problems with mail/news handlers earlier, which may have left you with multiple copies of a prior bulletin pasted before your eyeballs. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. I severely chastized the offending software. I hope this doesn't happen again. --Ric _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Dilbert of the Day: http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/ab.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CROSS-CULTURAL ABDUCTIONS. (PNN) John E Mack has spent the last ten years discussing the the cross-cultural abduction syndrome that seems to have affected a large number of individuals from all walks of life. He has found that their stories are not merely flights of fancy, because even if the beings weren't physical entities, there are cultural connections in the descriptions that span the ages. He has spoken with African tribes- man, North American Indians, and a number of different cultural groups to try and determine if, in fact, there is a common element. And time and time again, there is. http://caus.org/pn99.htm : Are you alien? Are you an equal-opportunity abductor? Do you abduct regar- dless of race, creed, color, gender? Why don't you abduct more attorneys?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ XML IS SATANIC. A new religion, a 1st-generation religion, starts with a basic idea expands it to fill the universe with visions of Beginnings Ends - right wrong, righteousness sin, good evil, Heaven Hell. It may have strict standards to make sure individuals demonstrate reverent compliance. A 2nd-gen religion shifts emphasis, since people's concerns have changed - perhaps with new lands to conquer, less worry of sin. The priests adjust the previous basic idea to grapple with the new situation. But in the 2nd generation, priests must also show fidelity to the language of the earlier age, framing their new concerns amongst the old ideas wherever possible. Everyone is stuck with the concepts already elucidated. SGML is a 1st-gen religion: http://www.xml.com/xml/pub/w3j/s3.nelson.html : Are markup languages tools of devils? Do demons haunt your scripts? Are VRML coders irretrievably damned? Are you a webmonkey? Are you damned? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The first email worm - VBS_Bubbleboy only works with Windows 95/98 2000. VBS_Bubbleboy also requires Internet Explorer 5.0 MS Outlook (or Outlook Express). It does not work with any other email client (such as Pegasus Mail or Eudora). http://antivirus.com/vinfo/security/sa110999.htm # The most prevalent viruses: http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/most_prevalent.htm # Security experts scramble over BubbleBoy. (ZDnet) The new virus ushers in a new challenge for the cyber cognoscenti to find an effective defense. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2391728,00.html : Have you created any new forms of email worm/virus lately? Do you like to attack MicroSoft products especially? Are they easy targets, sitting ducks? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Plum Island Investigation - Dangerous Territory, Indeed. Officially listed as a Level 3 facility, I have deteremined that Plum Island is, in reality, a Biocontainment Level 5 Facility...the only known such facility in the U.S. This was documented at the USAHA (United States Animal Health Assn) website. Biocontainment at Level 5 is partially-dependent upon Plum Island being located where it is, offshore from New York City, with prevailing winds that blow offshore. Unfortunately, the birds and winds from storms tend to blow onshore. http://www.sightings.com/politics5/plumdanger.htm : Have many new diseases blown ashore to NYC from Plum Island? Are you in/ near NYC? Are you infected? Who is waging biological warfare on you? Why? # Salmon Firm Admits Link to Deadly Fish Flu Virus: http://www.sightings.com/health3/salmonvirus_h.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Dynamics Of Earth's Core Reveal Hurricanes Under Your Feet. Once nature finds something that works, it sticks with it. Take vortices for example: from the nearly incomprehensible rotation of galaxies to the familiar swirl of a hurricane right down to plodding rotational characteristics of the Earth's molten core, spinning works. In recent years scientists used computer models to predict that there would be cyclonic systems in the fluid portion of Earth's core. Now researchers have confirmed the presence of a vortex in the Northern Hemisphere. The scientists studied the earth's magnetic field, going as far back as 1870, to make their finding.
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991014c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 purpose for life was found during production of this bulletin. Bother. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ DUMB LAWS R US: http://www.dumblaws.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Think The Internet Stinks? Try This! SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) If you think the Internet is in your face already, you haven't smelled anything yet. Smell-o-video: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991014/11/odd-internet # Rudy vs The Elephant Dung: stock characters hurl abuse and feign hurt, secretly gleeful at the publicity. A well-staged scandal: http://nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19991010mag-art-politics.html : Is your nose more offended by the Internet, politics, your cow orkers, me? Do alien implants cushion you from the worst scents? Do Reptilioids stink?? # COSMIC ANGST. The discovery of more solar systems in the universe just increases the likelihood that space is filled with assholes, morons and goons: http://www.annoyed.com/daryl-lease/cosmic-angst.htm : How many jerks can the universe abide? All of'em? Are deities jerks too? Is jerk-hood a survival characteristic? Did we evolve to be jerks? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Paul Kurtz has been in foxholes under fire and he's still a happy atheist. This apostle of godless morality is now leading a revolution on campus: http://www.linguafranca.com/9910/faith.html # What's striking about today's intellectuals, says Wendy Kaminer, is their utter failure to criticize, much less satirize, America's romance with God: http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/277/living/An_avowed_agnostic_divines_the_ perils_of_piety+.shtml : Are you romantically involved with one or more deities? Do intellectuals mock you? Dare they? Do you mock them? Are you revolutionary? Are they? How? # Despite liberal orthodoxy, Harvard still harbors a flinty right wing: contentious, mordant, and politically incorrect on a cosmic scale. The swine! http://www.harvard-magazine.com/so99/conserv.ssi _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Improving the human race with genetics is a sensitive subject in Germany. Just raise the topic and you may hear shouts of "Fascist!" http://www.philosophynews.com/news/19991001_habermas_vs_sloterdijk.htm # Four Sisters Up For Adoption On Internet. LONDON (Reuters) Authorities in Britain are using a photograph on the Internet to offer four young sisters for adoption in a desperate attempt to bring them together under one roof. Bring on the clones: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991014/11/odd-adoption # If Mozart piped into mother's womb causes baby to kick, what's the kid trying to say? Maybe, Turn off that racket! Let's have some quiet here! www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/280/metro/Discordant_note_little_heardP.shtml : Have you improved anyone lately? Did you use genetic modification, social engineering, personal manipulation, prenatal music, drugs, sex, surgery? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Brain wave: Suppose all that was thought to happen in your left lobe took place in your right instead? Would it make any difference? Would anyone notice? How? http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n19/fodo2119.htm # Since the chance of an election being decided by a single vote is almost nil, why should any citizen bother to vote? Ask a rational choice theorist http://www.thenewrepublic.com/magazines/tnr/current/coverstory102599.html : Is rationality overrated? Are your lobes scrambled? Do ET implants help? Do'ya make a difference? Do differences make you? Do you control the future? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Message from a Mouse. The very notion of a gene "for" something as complex as "intelligence" lapses into absurdity. A Gene for Intelligence? Pshaw!! http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,30590,00.html # RACING TO MAP OUR DNA: http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,17688,00.html # WHO OWNS OUR GENES? http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,17682,00.html : Are y'r genes smart? Do you own them? Do they own you? Is ownership passe? Do mice communicate meaningfully with you? Do you talk back? Do they listen? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Faith isn't omnipotent, writes John Horgan, nor is it always benign. Religion is a fine therapy, but also foments intolerance. And as for science... http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i07/07a07201.htm # Cobra Kills Top Snake Charmer. BANGKOK (Reuters) Thailand's top snake charmer was killed by one of his own cobras which turned on him during a show. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991014/11/odd-snake : Do you have faith? Has faith killed you yet? Have you killed a believer lately? Did they resent it? Do you? Is faith the best therapy? Are you nutz? # Rabbis Excommunicate Assassin. JERUSALEM (Reuters) More than 50 Israeli rabbis signed a decree excommunicating
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990930c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 sacred vessels were cracked during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Map: Tranquil Spots, Ireland: http://homepages.iol.ie/~discover/tranq.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Japan's Nuke Plant Disaster. Several people are seriously injured, tens of thousands are at risk, in a criticality nuclear accident at a Japanese uranium processing plant 90 miles outside Tokyo. Reaction still raging: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/22022.html http://cnn.com/ASIANOW/east/9909/30/japan.nuclear.05/index.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_462000/462090.stm # Ex-cult leader gets death. TOKYO (AP) - A former doomsday cult leader who spread lethal nerve gas in one of Tokyo's busiest subway stations in 1995 was sentenced to hang for his role in the attack, which killed 12 people. It was the 1st death sentence meted out in the Aum Shinri Kyo cult case. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561405142-cee http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_461000/461406.stm : Are you in Japan? Would you rather be killed by hanging, radiation, nerve gas, contaminated sushi, earthquakes, stress? Do ETs force you to remain?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # IO IS HELL (FIRE BRIMSTONE) - IO IS ACIDIC. (Nasa) Sulfuric acid found on Europa: Sulfur from fiery volcanoes on Io may be responsible for a battery acid chemical on Europa with implications for astrobiology. http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast30sep99_1.htm # Confusion doomed Mars Orbiter. LOS ANGELES (AP) A mixup over metric and English measurements likely caused the loss of the $125 mln Mars Climate Orbiter as it circled the planet last week; this caused the probe to fly too close to the red planet, causing the spacecraft to break up or burn in the Martian atmosphere that it had been designed to study. Like, oops. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561411574-072 : Have you probed any inhospitable planetoids lately? Would you rather take a vacation on Mars, Europa, Uranus? If Europa has life, would you kill it? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Lost Dead Sea Scroll Found? (BBC) A religious text, billed by some as one of the "lost" Dead Sea Scrolls, has mysteriously surfaced in Israel. The text uses some of the same phrases imagery as the famous 2000-year-old scrolls. But further study is required before experts can confirm whether the so-called "Angel Scroll" is genuine or an elaborate hoax. If real, it could shed new light on Jewish mysticism and the origins of Christianity. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_459000/459879.stm : Have you faked any religious texts lately? Are all/some/no religious texts genuine? Is authenticity irrelevant to belief? Do you trust me as I channel Sacred Words of the Cosmic Otter? Are old texts more worthy than new ones? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Kenyan prez bashes gays. NAIROBI(AP) Pres. Daniel arap Moi lashed out at homosexuals, saying their behavior is abnormal and contradicts biblical teachings and African traditions. Moi mocked homosexuals as having "a funny way of dressing which included wearing earrings." Moi's comments, at the opening of an agriculture show in Nairobi, came one day after Ugandan Pres. Yoweri Museveni said homosexuality was abominable and urged police to round up and charge homosexuals. Homosexuality is illegal in both countries. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561409202-c07 : Do you wear earrings? Have gays been around longer than arap Moi? If your political/economic situation is crumbling, who do you desperately scapegoat? # "It's rather an interesting, titillating finding" one fine scholar says of a study claiming that gay men have bigger dicks than straight men. http://nationalpost.com/home.asp?f=990928/89154 And what's the careful, rigorous methodology behind the Kinsey Inst. http://indiana.edu/~kinsey/ data this study used? The survey "asked 4,187 heterosexuals and 935 homo- sexuals to measure themselves with a ruler at home mail in the lengths." : Is genital size important to you? Is gender preference significant? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The truth is out there: Scramble! Aliens about!! Get all the news at CNI: http://www.cninews.com/ Aliens control Tony Blair's brain, say Serbian newspapers. Dr Todor Jovanovic says: "[ETs] radiate something diabolical. They have a hold over the brains of Bill Clinton, the British PM and other world leaders." French air force chiefs and space satellite engineers sent a 90-page report to President Chirac warning that, beyond any shadow of a doubt, UFOs have been sighted repeatedly over Western Europe. Nato should prepare for the
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-Caveat Lector- I presume Rev. Castleberry is a Presleyterian. -Original Message- From: Ric Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 4:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #3 snip # IMPERSONATOR PREACHES IN THE CHURCH OF ELVIS. Rev. David Castleberry loves shaking his hips at the altar while he does his Elvis thing. He's credited for bringing "bikers, doubters, and heavy drinkers" to church, reports the Wichita Eagle. Getting his act together wasn't easy, the minister says. "I studied 400 hours of video on Elvis' moves and singing style." http://www.wichitaeagle.com/news/local/community/neighbors/docs/castleberr y0 923_txt.htm snip 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- - Original Message - From: Tatman, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] I presume Rev. Castleberry is a Presleyterian. # IMPERSONATOR PREACHES IN THE CHURCH OF ELVIS. Rev. David Castleberry loves shaking his hips at the altar while he does his Elvis thing. And probably a Frisbeeterian too - always stuck on the roof. But if Elvis has left the building because he was abducted by aliens, and if Whitley Streiber saw Elvis in the UFO the last time he [Whit] was taken/probed, and if Pat Buchanan is really Elvis' identical twin who supposedly died at birth but was actually taken by the Greys and raised/nurtured/programmed at an Antarctic Nazi UFO base, then where does Donald Trump fit in? 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 990916c - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : Several Reptilioids were flash-frozen during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UN warns of global disaster if demands are not met. - UN, in a crackling, muffled, sinister voice, threatens environmental doomsday unless the world community limits consumption. This blatant coercion can't go unchallenged. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_447000/447078.stm : Have you devastated any environments lately? Is ecocide a good inducement for humanity to get off-planet as soon as possible? Wanna muckup Mars next? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Security flaw left WebTV users vulnerable to e-mail bombing. Microsoft sez problem is solved. (ZDNN) - The account info of some WebTV customers could have ended up in the wrong hands, as a result of a security flaw in the set top box's software. Oops. http://www.msnbc.com/news/311928.asp : Do WebTV users deserve to be hacked/cracked/bombed/infected? Should they buy real systems? Have you email-bombed anyone lately? Are you fixed? How?? # LATEST CRACKER CAPER: NASDAQ. The same group that cracked Drudge, C-SPAN, and ABC-TV sites claims responsibility for attacking the Nasdaq-AMEX site. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/21762.html http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561171814-6bd : Have you cracked any sites lately? Has your site been cracked? Is it war? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y2K-A-Rama: # US SUNNY ON Y2K; OTHERS MOPE. "All is well," the White House Y2K liaison tells programmers. "Not so fast," a doomsayer retorts. And so it goes in Washington: http://www.wired.com/news/news/tip/politics/story/21765.html # CRITICS: STATE DEPT. Y2K-TRAVEL REPORTS LACK DETAIL. US State Dept reports on potential Year2000 risks for travelers abroad; critics say the reports lack detail. http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/15/critics.y2k.idg/ # BYE BYE BRAZIL. Thinking of ringing in the new millennium in Brazil? Think again. The US State Department issues travel advisories for Y2K buglands: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/21750.html # U.S. Banks In Great Shape For Y2K, Regulators Say. Warding off panic: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990916/13/news-yk-banks _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 8 dead in Texas church shootings. FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A man spouting obscenities mocking religion walked into a church service for teenagers, pulled a gun and opened fire, fatally shooting 7 before he shot killed himself in a church pew. Police feared the gunman may have wired himself with explosives, so BATF sent in a robot to search his body. No boom. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561180651-3c7 # Also: Prayers turn to screams in Texas, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561179387-0dd # And: List of multiple shootings this year, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561178158-b98 # CHURCH GUNMAN KILLS 7, SELF, IN TEXAS - another mind-control victim? http://cnn.com/US/9909/16/church.shooting.01/index.html : Have you gone off the deep end lately? Were/are you mind-controlled? D'ya like to shout obscenities mock religion? Are you wired for explosives?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Violence site at U. of Texas reopened. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) The observation deck at the University of Texas Tower reopened, 25 years after officials closed it because of the 1966 sniper attack that killed 16 people and a series of suicide jumps. The tower was forever linked with Charles Whitman on Aug.1, 1966, when he lugged a rifle and a footlocker full of ammunition to the observation deck started shooting. And then Lenny Bruce died. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561175375-1aa : Who's your favorite mass-murderer? Do you prefer the pioneers or the come- latelys? Are you a mass-murderer? Do mind-control rays influence you? Where?_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Malaysian students to see canings. KUALA LUMPUR (AP) Video clips of crimi- nals being strapped caned in prison will be shown to Malaysian students to stem growing delinquency. "Drastic and shocking though it may seem, the emphasis for such a move is necessary to overcome indiscipline among stud- ents." Malaysia prescribes flogging with a rattan cane as punishment for various crimes, including drug trafficking, sodomy and spitting on the sidewalk. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561169657-0ff : Have you been caned lately? Have you caned anyone or seen a caning lately? What was the offense? Is it fun? Should kids be programmed with SM? Really? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Ain't nothin' a smooth pimp daddy needs more than a slick computer:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990909c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Aegean cities were devastated during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Deadly Octopus Astonishes Aquarium. LONDON (Reuters) A deadly octopus, whose bite can kill humans in minutes but is only the size of a golf ball, has astonished a British aquarium by hatching a brood of 50 young. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990909/07/odd-octopus : What's your favorite cephalopod? Would you like to have an 8-lobed brain, like cephalopods? Would you think 8 thoughts simultaneously? Would you have great mental powers? Do telepathic giant squid control your mind? Is it fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists make molecular motor. (BBC) Scientists have built a motor using just 78 atoms. It may help us understand fundamental biological processes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_441000/441670.stm @ Foresight Nanotechnology Institute: http://www.foresight.org/homepage.html # And: Lift off for rival DNA technology: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_307000/307081.stm # France win the nano-World Cup: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_271000/271432.stm # New twist for nanotechnology: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_254000/254498.stm : What small stuff should be motorized? Do you work on nanobots? Do nanobots work on you? Would you like to build tiny cars, drills, shavers, factories? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Celestial light show courtesy of Russia. TAMPA, Fla. Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superwoman, it's a meteorite, it's a UFO! No, it was a spent Russian rocket booster that burned up in the atmosphere early Tuesday, leaving a trail of fireworks for anyone lucky enough to see it. Did you see it too? http://www.tampatrib.com/sections/mt090802.htm # Mystery lights turn out to be rocket's red glare. St. Petersburg, Fla. It was a visitor from outer space. Well, in a manner of speaking. What turned out to be a piece of a Russian rocket falling back to Earth had a lot of early risers in Florida rubbing their eyes and staring into the dark sky early Tuesday. "I'm not into UFOs; I'm a realist," said pilot Tim Beachy, 38. "But this was the strangest phenomenon I've ever seen." http://www.sptimes.com:80/News/90899/TampaBay/Mystery_lights_turn_o.shtml : Do you believe official explanations of mysterious sightings? Do you fab- ricate official explanations? Are "rocket fragments" and "swamp gas" your favorite clichés? Are your alien masters pleased with your efforts? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ LOC is back again with a new collection in American Memory. This one is Early Virginia Religious Petitions. From the announcement: More than 400 petitions submitted to the Virginia Legislature between 1774 1802 have been added to the American Memory collections now online, revealing the breadth fervor of public opinion on a wide range of religious issues in early Virginia. Other topics covered include the historic debate over the separation of church state championed by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson; the sale division of property within the established church; and the dissolution of unpopular vestries. Images of the petitions are available, and a searchable database. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/repehtml : Have you ever written a religious petition? Have you ever framed/distorted any religious issues? What're y'r favorite religious issues? D'ya demagogue? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Task Force Considers Recruiting On Campus - Religious Freedom, Fear of Cults Collide. (WashPost) Student Steffi Rausch was asked by her resident adviser to join International Churches of Christ (ICOC), an Evangelical Christian group that has been banned on several college campuses in the country, allegedly for using mindcontrol tactics on its followers. See http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-09/08/025l-090899-idx.html : Does your cult use mindcontrol tactics to recruit members? Are you succes- sful? Do you recruit on campuses? Are they fruitful? What's your favorite? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Waiting for Apocalypse, Militia Falls on Hard Times - Confrontations With Authorities Have Faded Along With Followers. (WashPost) BOIS BLANC ISLAND, Mich. These are not easy times for Norman Olson and his splinter group of self-described patriot guerrillas, the Northern Michigan Regional Militia. http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-09/09/171l-090999-idx.html : Is your militia group losing members? Does enthusiasm fade when armageddon delays? Has your guerrilla band been successfully suppressed? By who? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Millennium-a-Rama: # 9/9/99: Don't hold your breath. (BBC) Some computer systems may experience
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990902c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 flagellants were anesthetized during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mars mound might have been built by microbes. (NewScientist) If life ever existed on Mars, it may have left behind a massive calling card in the shape of a white rock mound covering over 200 sq.km. According to resear- chers, the mound looks very like those built by bacteria over 3 bln years ago here on Earth. http://explorezone.com/archives/99_09/02_ns_mars.htm : Did Earth bacteria infect Mars? Did Mars bacteria infect Earth? Were both Earth and Mars (and maybe other planet[oid]s) infected by interstellar ETs? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ PARANORML NEWS NETWORK (P3N) - Was There a "Roswell" in 1865? A microfilm of newspapers of the Niagara Falls region for 1865 showed the headline, "Remarkable Discovery if True" and a sharp copy in the British Daily Whig for Kingston, Ontario, November 15, 1865: http://caus.org/pn090299.htm : How many ET spacecraft have crashed on Earth? Why are ETs such bad pilots? Have you ever shot down a UFO? Have any crashed in your vicinity? Smelly?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tracking Asteroids (Cheaply) in Eastern Europe. "We discover asteroids -- but it's not our main task." The emphasis of the Ondrejov Observatory of the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences is on tracking asteroids that already have been discovered. Such "follow-up work" is crucial in determining whether the asteroids pose a danger to Earth. http://www.space.com/news/international/asteroid_grants.html : Do you track asteroids? Do you ever mistake asteroids for alien probes, cometary fragments, human space litter, The Mothership? How can you tell?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Is A Near Earth 'Asteroid' A Returning Spacecraft? The US government has been aware of an orbiting object which is "known" by the military to be an alien probe. The name of the probe is "1991VG"; it is officially classified as an asteroid. http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/spcraft.htm : Are you involved in any cover-ups of alien spacecraft? Do you track incom- ing probes? Are your operations directed by humans, aliens, robots, deities? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CHINA FOUGHT BOMBS WITH SPAM. NATO bombs Chinese embassy. Chinese hackers send junk email to NATO. NATO flack calls it an amateurish attempt at a "cyber blitz." China buys nuke subs and ICBMs from Russia? WWIII starts. http://www.wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/politics/story/21548.html : Is your email dangerous? Have you email-bombed anyone? Did they respond? Who survived, prevailed? Whose electro/info systems will you attack next?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Human Head Transplants Said Near. LONDON. A leading brain surgeon unveiled plans to perform the first human head transplant. The operation, already performed successfully on dogs monkeys, would initially cost £800,000. Among those who could benefit are quadriplegics with conditions similar to that of Christopher Reeve, the Superman actor paralysed after a fall from a horse. The operation may also attract rich folks with terminal illnesses www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/08/29/stinwenws03005.html?999 : Should your head/body be replaced? Would you like your head transplanted onto a human, horse, dog, gorilla, tiger, Reptilioid? Has it been already?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ OUIJA BOARD. "The contacts occurred in 1968 at my parent's house where two of my old school friends would visit once or twice a week. We had been us- ing the Ouija board... with some success. I have no idea how it works, but we did get some interesting results": http://caus.org/pc090299.htm : Have you contacted any living/dead/undead entities from the past/present/ future or any dimensional space via ouija board? Do they talk funny? How?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BIRDS BRAINED. Migrating songbirds are being killed at the rate of about 4 mln each year in the U.S., not by hunters or predators, but by radio tran- smission towers. The birds, tending to fly after sunset, are lured by fla- shing beacons atop the towers, which transmit TV/radio/cellphone signals. Scientists have counted more than 42,000 dead birds at one Florida tower alone: http://www.wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/story/21554.html : Are you waging genocidal war against evolved flying dinosaurs? Do voices in your head insist? Do electronically-confused birds create crop circles?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Marine diseases set to increase. (BBC) Scientists believe climate change and pollution mean the world's seas are becoming increasingly unhealthy. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_436000/436702.stm : Are you (a) marine? Are you diseased? Do you discharge wastes
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990826c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 were short-circuited during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ CROP CIRCLES OF DA GODS. The circle: notice the extra small circle. During the solar eclipse earlier this month a small circular something was seen at the same location during totality. If it was a hoax, how did they know something would be spotted there? Any answers from debunkers? C'mon now: http://cropcircleconnector.com/1999/Bishopcannings/bishopcannings99a.html : Have you encoded future information in your crop circles? Did you encode something more/less important than eclipse details? What was your purpose?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CASE OF THE BLINKING BROADCASTERS. Ever wonder why watching the evening news makes you feel nervous? It might be because the news anchors blink too much. According to researchers, too much blinking can set the audience on edge. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=15889 # VIAGRA: IT CAN LIFT YOUR MOOD, TOO. Viagra is now reported to help men who have erectile dysfunction and depression - in a new study, men whose impo- tence was improved by the drug also saw their depression go away. It makes sense that feeling better sexually will get rid of the blues. Rise and shine: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=15891 : Are blinking news-anchors and impotence relief further refinements of mind control techniques? Are the orgasmic or non-orgasmic more easily controlled? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Israeli court upsets Orthodox. JERUSALEM (AP) Giant pieces of electric equipment must be transported on the Jewish Sabbath, Israel's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, setting aside objections by religious parties. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560869744-ce2 : Does your belief subsystem object to moving giant pieces of electric gear on certain days? Do you object to electrocutions on certain days? Why fry?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # In First Case Of Fully Automated Design, Computers Shape Lego Bricks Into Various Designs Without Human Input. Evolution, until now the unchallenged domain of living organisms, may soon become possible for robots as well. A simple computer-based form of evolution - nature's own design strategy - has succeeded in designing LEGO structures without any assistance from humans. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990826071332.htm # Japan's NEC Develops Home Helper Robot. TOKYO (Reuters) - Just can't find good help these days? Japanese chipmaker NEC Corp may have the answer: an egg-shaped household robot that responds to voice commands, records and sends video-mail through the Internet and switches on air conditioners, televisions and VCRs with an infrared remote control device. Danger, Will Robinson! http://news.excite.com/news/r/990826/07/science-japan-robot : What's your favorite robot? Have you designed/build/dismantled any robots lately? Are you a robot? Do you respond to voice commands? Are you surly?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Reusable spacecraft in the works. WASHINGTON (AP) Flight tests will begin next year on a new generation of reusable spacecraft that will be less expensive to operate than current rocket launchers. X-33, X-34, X-37 - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560860414-809 # Mir's demise caps Soviet space era. MOSCOW (AP) After 13-1/2 years, more than 77,000 loops around the Earth and 1,600 breakdowns, the Mir craft is scheduled to bid farewell to its final full-time crew. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560867483-89f # Also: Americans will miss Mir, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560867492-25f # And: Key statistics about Mir, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560867504-e03 : What's your favorite spacecraft? Are you lost in space? Are you brokedown? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ FANS OF FEMALE BODYBUILDERS AND LARGE, STRONG WOMEN. While the alt.amazon- women newsgroup had about 1/10 the postings of alt.amazon-women.admirers, there are lotsa "Amazon Women" out there. If you ignore the spam, there's actually a tone of fond respect for these women, not just for lifting the weights to get them bulky but for going against the grain of aesthetics. (And it's a great spot for Xena-philes.) news:alt.amazon-women.admirers : Who's your favorite strong woman? Are you a strong woman? Wanna hurt me?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Maitreya-A-Rama: @ Maitreya info: http://members.xoom.com/spot_the_con/index.html @ Benjamin Maitreya are the fulfillment of ... What Religion did you say it was again? http://members.xoom.com/spot_the_con/7.html @ Benjamin Stuff Ups -False Predictions-
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-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Taylor, John (JH) [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Ships' sulphur fuels climate change. Sulphur emitted by ships ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_422000/422856.stm # 122 Companies Responsible for Nearly 80 Percent of World's Fossil- Fuel Carbon Pollution, the Main Cause of Global Warming. ... says new report: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/gbw.htm : Are you doing your share to promote/speed global warming? Do you emit much sulfur, carbon, other greenhouse gasses? Are your alien masters happy with y'r work? Do they reward you well? Will they let you live after the harvest? The sulphur emitted forms s02 which creates a type of smog that reflects energy back into space and help cools the earthwhat you gain on the co2 you lose on the so2 You're absolutely correct - I should have remembered that. My query should read: "Are you doing your share to promote atmospheric change? Do you emit much sulfur, carbon, other biosphere-altering gasses?" ... Ric, mea culpa-ing... 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- KaPOW! Robert Tatman wrote: -Caveat Lector- Tenorlove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- "Are you doing your share to promote atmospheric change? Do you emit much sulfur, carbon, other biosphere-altering gasses?" ... Don't worry, my husband eats enough Mexican food to take care of the duties of 10 people! snort Thereby contributing to atmospheric salsafication? = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. 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 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 990819c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 environmental activists were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Timor activists warn of cyber war. (BBC) Computer hackers plan to sabotage Indonesia's financial system if Jakarta rejects an East Timor vote for independence, warns a resistance leader. Get your investments out now: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_423000/423549.stm : Whose financial systems would you most like to sabotage? Does your belief system promote cyberwar? Is it cleaner/faster/better than nuke/bio/chem war? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MSN MESSENGER EXPOSES PASSWORDS. As if the messenger mud-slinging between Microsoft and AOL weren't enough, a glitch in MSN Messenger gives easy access to user passwords. If the user quickly hits the stop button on the browser and then views the page HTML source, all of the user information is visible, including the password. MS counterspies interrogate suspected AOL agents. http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21323.html # MS TO REVEAL MESSAGING CODE. Microsoft hopes to turn up the heat on America Online by publishing the specs for its instant messaging service. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/business/story/21318.html : How many passwords have you collected? What have you done with them? How will you exploit the passwords? Are you having fun with them? Will the code specs let you hack/crash/penetrate/infect MS AOL more easily? Is you glad? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ships' sulphur fuels climate change. Sulphur emitted by ships may account for almost half the total going into the atmosphere in some parts of the oceans. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_422000/422856.stm # 122 Companies Responsible for Nearly 80 Percent of World's Fossil-Fuel Carbon Pollution, the Main Cause of Global Warming. Efforts to reduce carbon emissions must overcome resistance by fossil fuel producers, says new report: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/gbw.htm : Are you doing your share to promote/speed global warming? Do you emit much sulfur, carbon, other greenhouse gasses? Are your alien masters happy with y'r work? Do they reward you well? Will they let you live after the harvest? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # OZONE EXPOSURE BAD FOR KID'S LUNGS. A study of more than 1000 Australian children found that long-term exposure to ozone air pollution can impede lung function later in life. Another blow to the fad of ozone generators to "purify" the air in your home. Why not just irradiate the little snots? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=15423 : Do you ozonify, irradiate, dehumidify, or otherwise process your residen- tial air? Does it help you, your kids, your visitors? Are you much improved? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Time to Hit the Dusty Trail - Burning Man or Bust. The elaborate art inst- allations that appear in the Nevada desert once a year don't get there by themselves. It's a long and dusty road, it's a hot and a heavy load. See http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/21327.html : Have you run naked across a desert playa under a burning sky, chased by hot demons and cold aliens? Have you taken many drugs? Have you made art?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # US farmers in GM revolution. (BBC) Almost all processed food in the US could soon contain genetically modified ingredients, but unlike European consumers Americans do not seem to care. Just gimmee a cheap Big Mac: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_423000/423363.stm : What's your favorite genetically-modified food? Do you eat a lot of it? Do you only eat GM foods? Are you much improved? Have you mutated much? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GPS Users Get Final Warning. The US Coast Guard tells users of the Global Positioning System to use alternative navigation when the satellite-based system turns to zero next week. Dust off the sextant, compass, star-chart: http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/21336.html # And: GPS Satellite Rollover -- Ten Things You Could Lose: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/gps3.htm : Are you going anywhere? Will you get there? Are you lost yet? Why wait?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # WAR IS VIRTUAL HELL. If you thought Saving Pvt Ryan was the most realistic war movie ever made, just imagine what'll happen when the US Army teams up with the USC film school. Cue the warbots, get that virtual bloodbaths set up, roll'em: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21329.html # CYBER-SCHOOL'S NEVER OUT. In the Information Age, you may graduate, but y'll never stop learning. A leading authority on adult education predicts the classroom of the future will exist online. No more teachers' dirty looks:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990805c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 sexually ambiguous chimeras were badly harmed to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE STARGATE CHRONICLES. A web site by Clark C. McClelland, UFO Researcher and Aerospace Engineer. Clark is a self-alleged NASA insider and a trained aerospace engineer with over 53 years experience in the fields of space science and UFO research. Until the release of The Stargate Chronicles, no person working within the secretive inner circle of NASA at Kennedy Space Center has had the courage to come forth with intimate data and historical facts about the knowledge NASA possesses of "nonexistent" craft - UFOs - unidentified flying objects that the US government refuses to acknowledge as already having been identified. Those who choose to ignore the truth can remain in a blissful dreamworld until reality hits the proverbial fan. The truth is fast approaching. http://www.stargate-chronicles.com/ : Has truth bumped into you yet? Are you roadkill on the celestial highway? Is Clark another disinformation agent, working to distract us from The Plot? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Review of randomised controlled trials of traditional Chinese medicine' Many randomised controlled trials have been conducted in China to evaluate the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine, but much of the infor- mation is inaccessible to Western doctors. Most trials claimed that the tested treatments were effective, indicating that publication bias may be common. The quality of trials of traditional Chinese medicine must be improved urgently. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7203/160 : Should/can/will your traditional practices be evaluated for effectiveness? Is tradition irrelevant to survival? What's your favorite ineffective herb? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE ARCHIVES OF SCIENTISTS' TRANSCENDENT EXPERIENCES (TASTE) An online journal devoted to transcendent experiences that scientists have reported. It lets scientists express these experiences in a psychologically (and professionally) safe space. Charles T. Tart, Ph.D., editor of this site, saw a need for scientists to be able to share their personal transcendent experiences in a safe, anonymous, but quality controlled space that almost all scientists have ready access to. The site will take submissions only from "scientists" although the public is free to visit and get a taste of TASTE. http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/tart/taste/ : Have you had transcendent experiences? Are they susceptible to rational exploration? Are they part of observable reality? Can they be most simply explained by the near-infinite complexity of human consciousness? D'ya care? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SHORT R.E.M. LATENCY TIED TO AFFECTIVE DISORDER. A particular kind of sleep dysregulation that is familial is linked to affective disorders. psychopathologists report. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/5847.rhtml # EFFECT OF NONEPILEPTIC EVENTS UNDERESTIMATED. Nonepileptic events, paroxy- smal episodes unassociated with electrical discharge, are more common than is appreciated and more serious. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/5913.rhtml # PERINATAL FACTORS LINKED TO ANOREXIA NERVOSA. Prematurity, birth trauma may increase the risk of development of anorexia nervosa among girls, Swedish researchers report. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/5923.rhtml : What's your favorite psychopathological disorder? Is it organic, or caused by environmental disruption, alien involvement, Illuminati, CIA/MI5/KGB, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ INCONSTANT MOON - Multimedia tours of the lunar surface. Explore the Moon, discover its dramatic features and phenomena - often beautiful, sometimes bizarre, always changing. Inconstant Moon will take you on a new tour each night, with maps, photos, explanations, animations, selected links and even music! And you needn't rent a vacuum suit. www.inconstantmoon.com/ : Have you visited Luna lately? Have you been to the Reptilioid/Nazi flying saucer bases? Do you work at the commo complex on Farside? Is the pay good? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Musical estate of Bach's son found - treasure-trove of JBS manuscripts: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560578913-8b7 # Update: Mozart won't make kids smarter - brain development unaffected: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560564576-81b # Van Gogh drawing returned to heir - Nazis forced sale: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560569498-8b8 @ THE UNEXPLAINED: http://www.theunexplainedsite.com/ @ GLOBAL STRATEGIES PROJECT - get Y2K ready: http://www.bashar.com/GSP/ @ Farsight Institute - failed predictions: http://www.farsight.org @ Crop Circle Phenomena in Canada Report
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990715c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Y2K consultants went postal during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Russia struggles with laggard Y2K program. Russia is in deep trouble with its Y2K preparations and could be facing economic chaos as a result. The country has neither the time nor money to make the appropriate fixes in either the public or private sector. http://www.silicon.com/a31517 : Is Russia doomed, a test-bed for Armageddon? How much would you pay for Russia? Can we sell Russia to the Reptilioids? Would they want it? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Russians create new heavy element. (BBC) Scientists have created a new element in the periodic table which has 114 protons. Bob Lazar objects: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_395000/395320.stm # Also: New superheavy elements created: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_363000/363968.stm @ Links: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: http://www.lbl.gov/ @ Table of Elements: http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/index.htm : Is Russian science beyond the carrying capacity of the nation? Can Element 114 create time warps, reverse environmental collapse, battle superstition?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Neo-NAZI Shooters Are Stooges Of British Commonwealth Secret Services. Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, who died July 4 after a Midwest racist shooting spree, was a member of the "World Church of the Creator." The group had gone out of existence in the 1991-93 period, and was revived under the direct control of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Canada's domestic intelligence agency, acting in partnership with other British Commonwealth secret services. Canada's intelligence services report directly to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, and to the British secret services. http://www.sightings.com/politics4/nail.htm : Ah, but who controls the Queen? What's the real power behind Euro.royals? Do UK Dutch royals really control the world's drug trade, or vice-versa? Are all the BBC news items cited in this bulletin just their disinformation? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ROAD RAGE CAN TURN US ALL INTO BEASTS BEHIND THE WHEEL. Most of us - even those classified as "low-anger" - exhibit a lot of angry behavior when we get behind the wheel. The good news is that even the angriest can learn to control this behavior - if they realize that they have a problem. Or die trying: http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14234 : Does driving turn you into a GOD, with the power of life and death? Every pedestrian you don't run down - have you granted them life? Every wheelchair you sideswipe, every rabbit armadillo you cream - have you become Death?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Revealed - BBC Booked Julie Andrews For Doomsday Entertainment. National anthem? Too solemn. Disco hit Stayin' Alive? Frivolous. BBC execs liked the music of Julie Andrews when they chose shows to be aired if Britain came under nuclear attack. The BBC, it has emerged, distributed a supply of comedy, drama religious programmes to an underground network of radio stations intended to maintain morale while survivors of a nuclear blast sheltered in their cellars. The cache, packed in black boxes, included The Sound of Music, Andrews's 1965 hit. The secret schedule was intended to be broadcast for up to 100 days of nuke.war. The radio stations, equipped with iron rations, pingpong and bunk beds, were maintained until 1993. Then the Cold War ended. http://www.sightings.com/politics4/booked.htm : Would you rather hear SOUND OF MUSIC for 100 days straight, or be nuked? What entertainment would you choose? What would Reptilioids like to hear? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FDA DELETES ONE INTERNET HEALTH CON-ARTIST. There are many bogus health claims on the Internet - but here is an example of out and out fraud. The FDA recently cracked down on somebody selling phony HIV home-test kits - but, unfortunately, there will probably be lots more con-artists to take his place. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14235 : Do you buy medical products off the Net? Is the choice: your money or your life? Do you sell bogus medical products? Do you conspire to destroy humans? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ SUBTERRANEA BRITANNICA. (Sub-Brit) Formed in 1974, Subterranea Britannica is a society devoted the the study and investigation of man-made and man- used underground places. It brings together people with an interest in all types of underground space - from deneholes to dug-outs and from souter- rains to subways. Indeed, as the list shows, there are at least seventy categories of underground
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990708c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 paranormal speculations were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # I WAS A HOOKER FOR HEAVEN IN AN EVIL SEX CULT. "All they care about is power and money -- even if it means getting girls into prostitution." Miriam Williams spent 15 years as a member of a bizarre sex cult called Children of God, sleeping with countless men in the twisted notion that it "would show them God's love." The group, which is still flourishing, had 18,000 members at one time, including Fleetwood Mac guitarist Jeremy Spencer and dead-by-overdose film star River Phoenix, whose parents were members. Join up now: http://www.nationalenquirer.com/stories/10599.html : Does your belief system recruit members using sex drugs rock'n'roll, money, promises of eternal life or real-world power or cleaner complexion? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pagan Leaders Champion Religious Freedom in Military. Calling for inter- faith dialogue and the affirmation of religious freedom as an inalienable human right, the leaders rejected attempts by Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) and other US gov't officials to ban the practice of Wicca on military bases. "Wicca is a constitutionally protected religion, legally established in the U.S. for more than a quarter-century. If Rep. Barr and others succeed in outlawing this religion, what faith is safe?" asked Rev. Selena Fox. http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/0704-101.htm : Does your belief system promote banning competing belief systems? Should your belief system be banned? Should all belief systems be banned? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mideast Misses the Net. Censorship, taxes, and traditional Muslim mores have curbed Net use throughout much of the Middle East. A human rights organization reports on the restrictions. @ Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org/ # See also: Least Connected Nation Status: http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/16904.html : Does your belief system or culture prevent you from participating in the global culture and economy? Are you non-competitive? Will you evolve or die? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Casteism alien to Tamil culture. COIMBATORE, India. Casteism is a borrowed concept that had no place in ancient Tamil culture, Mr. K. Anbazhagan, Education Minister, explained. He said that although clans existed from early times, Tamils did not ostracize any section of people or treat them as untouchables. Casteism was the product of alien cultures having a bane- ful influence on the Dravidian way of life. Imposed by Aryan invaders: http://www.indiaserver.com/thehindu/1999/07/05/stories/0405223a.htm : Does your belief system promote social segregation, isolation, ostracism? Do you favor apartheid, castes, separation for social control? Will you win? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cult disappears to find spaceship. At least 40 members of a cult have gone missing in the mountains of Colombia, when they apparently went to meet a spacecraft they believed would save them from catastrophes at the end of the millennium. The alarm was raised after the Gnostic Church Stella Maris cult, from Cartagena Colombia, did not return on Monday from a spiritual retreat. Colombian cops are searching the north Sierra Nevada mountains. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=154116 : Has your cult ever gone missing? Would anyone miss you? Will the Galactic Brotherhood save you? Will they save anyone else? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cult leader: Praise t'Lord pass t'malnutrition. Debra Geileskey solemnly told her followers in the Magnificat Meal Movement that The Lord had told her to diet on the Eucharist. Over 14 months, the MMM guru claimed to have eaten nothing but "holy" wafers, except on 33 days when God told her she could eat normally. When caught with junk food, she blamed Satanic decept- ion. Mrs Geileskey, an ex-teacher, has a worldwide following of thousands, claims to see Jesus the Virgin Mary and to report messages from God. Mrs Geileskey's husband Gordon says his wife has prophesied that she will die on Sept 9 (9th day of the 9th month of '99) and that fire will destroy the MMM headquarters. He fears a Jonestown-style mass suicide. Waco redux? BBQ time? Hot diggidy: http://www.smh.com.au/news/9907/03/text/pageone4.html : Are you deceived by Satan much? Do you follow a holy-wafer-and-water diet? Are you fat anyway? Is your head? Are mass suicides always gov't-promoted?? Do you have thousands of followers? Do they give you cash, food, drugs, sex? Will you miss'em when they're gone? When will you be called to heaven? Now? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Inside a Virus Writer's Mind. Hackers who author the programs that infect
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #3 - space/alien
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990701c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 rogue planets were obliterated during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Earth may have 'twin' somewhere.(AP) The Earth may have had a twin or even more planetary siblings when the solar system was born, only to lose them in the vast darkness of deep space. These Earth-like planets are still out there somewhere, and despite their wanderings through the cold, dark void, they may be capable of supporting life. According to this theory, these extra Earth-like planets were jettisoned into deep space by gravity when they got too close to Jupiter or other large planets. Home away from home; see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560130142-997 and http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_382000/382319.stm # Also: Out of this world discovery: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_319000/319865.stm # New planets discovered: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_252000/252099.stm : How big a truck would we need to haul an Earth-twin planet into our orbit? Would it be easier to push a Jovian moon into our vicinity? Is it dangerous? If we shove a planet(oid) into a life-sustaining orbit, will it hit Earth or make us pop off into space? Would we REALLY become "Spaceship Earth"? Huh?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Do you believe in UFOs? A Silicon Alley entrepreneur gave up his job to search for aliens.(MSNBC) You hear a lot of stories about UFOs, sightings, close encounters, even alien abductions. Are you skeptical? One man not only believes the stories could be true, he's spent millions of dollars on an extra-terrestrial crusade to convince the rest of us that we are not alone. Joe Firmage again: http://www.msnbc.com/news/283948.asp : How much money would you spend to find aliens? Would it be easier/cheaper to just let them find you instead? If we bother aliens, how will they react? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ROCKET PLANE TEST FLIGHT A-OK. Strapped beneath a jetliner, the X-34 reus- able rocket plane soars over the South California desert. It's a glimpse of cheap space launches to come. Live, from Edwards Air Force Base: http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/technology/story/20487.html See also: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9906/29/x.34.test/index.html @ Space Transport: X-34: http://stp.msfc.nasa.gov/stpweb/x34/x34home.html # A Weekend On Luna: http://wired.com/news/news/politics/story/20386.html : When will orbital flights go commercial? When will Avis or Hertz rent out spaceplanes? What cartels will control off-planet transportation? D'ya care? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China aims for 'prestige' of human spaceflight. (CNN) China's plan to put two men in space by the end of 2000 is part of a larger program to launch an independent space station and achieve a lunar landing early in the next millennium, making China the world's 3rd nation with a far-reaching human spaceflight capability. http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9906/30/china.space/ # And: 'Back to the Moon' http://cnn.com/books/reviews/9906/23/back.to.moon/ @ Encyclopedia Astronautica - Chinese Manned Space Program: Behind Closed Doors: http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~mwade/articles/chidoors.htm @ Project 921: http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~mwade/craft/proct921.htm @ Go Taikonauts! - An Unofficial Chinese Space Website: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/1921/ : Will space be dominated by the US, EC, China, Russia, Japan, Brazil, Ford, MicroSoft, Bilderbergers, Scientology, LDS, evolved cyber-AI entities, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Catching a comet. The European Space Agency is unveiling details of Rosetta, which will be the first space probe ever to land on a comet. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_382000/382141.stm @ Links: European Space Agency - Rosetta page: http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/ @ Rosetta Plasma Consortium: http://sapin.irfu.se/Rosetta/rosetta.html @ Images: http://www.estec.esa.nl/spdwww/rosetta/html/gallery.html#images : Would you like to probe a comet? Would you like to capture a comet, change its orbit, bombard Earth into submission? Are evil forces planning to do it? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Science study will create fireworks. WASHINGTON (AP) - Two NASA science rockets next month will create a celestial fireworks show that may be seen up to 400 miles away from the Wallops Island, Va., launch site. A powdered chemical that burns brightly as it comes into contact with oxygen will be released into space and will become a spreading, corkscrew-shaped cloud of light that is expected to shine for up to 20 minutes and then slowly fade. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560123548-62d : Is this a cover for a HAARP test, or a nascent Big Bang,
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990624c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Italian Castrati were harmed during production of this bulletin. Yow. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ITALIAN CASTRATI: THE PRICE THEY PAID FOR A BEAUTIFUL VOICE. The Lancet reports on a fascinating, though brutal, aspect of musical history: the castrati, or castrated male singers. Most interesting is the physical effects of castration on their growth and development in later years. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13562 : Would you rather be castrated by humans, aliens, machines, deities, me? Do you prefer castration by mechanical, electrical, chemical, emotional, magic- kal methods? Should clones, politicians, UFOlogists, preachers be castrated? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Asteroid Hunters Bring Oldie-But-Goodie Into New Age. NASA astronomers searching for asteroids headed at Earth are expanding their sky-watching repertoire by adding high-tech, computerized electronic upgrades to the classic 1.2-meter- diameter (48-inch) Oschin telescope atop Palomar Mtn. Retrofit: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990624081007.htm : What ancient scanning devices would you like to upgrade? Can you match The Conspiracy's latest monitoring equipment? Does your sundial detect UFOs??? # Comet's shadow captured on cosmic screen. (BBC) The shadow of a comet projected on a huge "screen" of hydrogen gas has been seen by scientists. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_377000/377126.stm # Also: Where the solar wind blows: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_272000/272386.stm # Soho pointing at the Sun again: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_173000/173319.stm : Are comet shadow projections almost as good as drive-in movies? Do aliens make shadow-figures with their fingers? Are you entertained by big shadows? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A WEEKEND ON THE MOON. Buzz Aldrin suggests that tourism could boldly take space exploration where NASA failed to go, and studies show that a market exists for such pricey travel. Off to Disney World, or 300 km above it: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20386.html @ Links: Space Tours: http://www.spacetours.de/home.htm @ Int'l Symposium on Space Travel: http://www.spacetours.de/ISST99.htm @ NASA/Vacationland: http://www.nasa.gov/hqpao/nasa_centers.html # See also: Space Travel Not So Far Out: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/18974.html : Where is your dream extraterrestrial vacation destination? How much would you pay to bounce on Luna, swim on Mars, have sex in orbit, suntan on Venus? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pumping With Tiny Bubbles: Vapor Pushes Liquid Thru Micro-Devices. Geeks are developing tiny bubble-powered micro-pumps, smaller than a postage stamp, useful in drug delivery and testing, pollution monitoring and other applications. http://sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990623094755.htm : Would you like to have new micro-machinery built into your body? D'ya want to be a Borg? What custom engineering do you want to have implanted? Where? # GM plants to produce medicinal honey. (BBC) A spoonful of honey could soon replace bitter pills or painful injections as scientists use the nectar of genetically-modified plants to produce honey containing drugs or vaccines. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_377000/377035.stm : Should you be genetically modified to produce all the drugs you need for yourself? What drugs d'ya want to exude? Will others lick you for the high? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Health Food Supplement May Have Great Value -- For Hogs. It's touted for boosting your energy and helping your immune system. But the real value of the faddish nutritional supplement known as blue-green algae may be as a cheap and nutritious food for hogs one that can be grown in part with an ingredient that commercial swine operations have long struggled to get rid of: manure. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990622115216.htm Also: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20394.html : Do you eat blue-green algae? Are you a pig? Are you cost-effective? Should hogs have their energy levels boosted, auras strengthened, chakras cleansed? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Green Tea Can Help Prevent Rheumatoid Arthritis. Antioxidants in green tea may prevent and reduce the severity of rheumatoid arthritis, according to a study: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990623062746.htm # Music, Relaxation Can Complement Pain Medicine. Patients facing surgery can expect to have less postoperative pain if they use relaxation music with their pain medicine. Relaxation and music, separately or together, significantly reduce a patient's pain following major
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-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Cathy Laughlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Mummy Skulls Seized. LIMA (Reuters) http://news.excite.com/news/r/990528/16/odd-mummies Well, I am certainly relieved to hear that countries outside of the U.S. are beginning to see the light in cracking down on wetbacks! We have a terrible problem with the smuggling of illegal South Americans into our country! One question, though -- being a mummy myself, I'm curious to know what became of their children? Did these hussies plan to simply skip into Miami and leave the little ones behind? Were the children sold into prostitution or as harvested organs? Gives mummies a bad name, I say. Yes, illegal immigrants, living, dead or extinct, human or alien, are a serious problem in all advanced nations. In this instance, the children were probably abducted and implanted, sent to televangelist guerilla training camps for indoctrination and preparation, and infiltrated into Western societies to carry out the plans of their Reptilioid/Republican masters. Most 'coyotes' are Bilderberger/ET operatives, of course. No, South American children aren't usually "sold into prostitution or as harvested organs", because 1st-world kids are much better-nourished and more appealing. Every milk-carton face documents the export of US kids. 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- # Mummy Skulls Seized. LIMA (Reuters) Peruvian cops seized 4 well-preserved pre-Incan mummy skulls, bones and artifacts that smugglers hoped to ship to Miami. The skulls, still with some dark skin, red-brown hair and teeth, have survived because Paracas and Chiribaya cultures, which ruled much of Peru's southern coast up to 3,800 years ago, mummified their dead in a ritual to protect their souls. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990528/16/odd-mummies Well, I am certainly relieved to hear that countries outside of the U.S. are beginning to see the light in cracking down on wetbacks! We have a terrible problem with the smuggling of illegal South Americans into our country! One question, though -- being a mummy myself, I'm curious to know what became of their children? Did these hussies plan to simply skip into Miami and leave the little ones behind? Were the children sold into prostitution or as harvested organs? Gives mummies a bad name, I say. 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
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990520c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 animal-rights activists were harmed during production of this bulletin. ** SKEPTINEWS CONTRIBUTORS/EDITORS WANTED NOW ** KEEP THIS BULLETIN ALIVE ** @ Search for life on other planets: http://www.setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ITCHY NOSE? IT'S ALLERGY SEASON - OR YOU'RE TELLING A LIE. A Chicago neur- ologist and psychiatrist has given us a modern-day version of the Pinocchio legend. He says, when someone is telling a lie, the erectile tissue in their nose expands and the nose starts to itch. He says the could tell that Pres. Clinton was lying during his taped deposition about Monica Lewinksy - he touched his nose 20 times per minute. This doctor says he has identified 23 signs of lying. This ain't science folks - they may give hints, but these signs don't definitely pinpoint a liar. Neither does voice stress analysis. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=12504 : Can nasal erectile activity be monitored? Do alien implants interfere with nasal reactions? Should you be convicted because of your nose? Is it ugly? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AMAZON DROPS CONTROVERSIAL BOOK. Amazon.com de-lists a book criticizing the Church of Scientology and founder L. Ron Hubbard. Newsgroups cry foul. www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/business/story/19787.html # SEX SITES GETTING SCREWED. It's conventional wisdom that the online porn biz sets trends for e-commerce. Given the rate of canceled credit- card charges, online merchants hope that wisdom will falter. www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/business/story/19777.html : Online, would you rather be cleared or screwed or tattooed or sued? Why? Is it dangerous to cancel Scientology credit-card orders? Would you rather contend with the Church of Scientology or Mafia-linked online sex merchants? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DON'T LIKE ABORTIONS? THEN PROVIDE CONTRACEPTIVES. The WHO says almost 20 million unsafe abortions are performed each year, resulting in 70,000 deaths annually. How to solve this serious health problem? Provide safe, reliable contraception to women. It's nutz that people who are opposed to abortion, are also opposed to making contraceptives available. These figures show that when women want to get abortions, they will, legal or illegal, safe or not. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=12508 : Can you think of anyone who should have been aborted? Do alien implants interfere with making good decisions? How is your reproduction controlled? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PERFECT BIRTH CONTROL? COULD BE... A test of a new birth control injection yielded perfect results: NO pregnancies in the more than 700 women who got the shots. While it might be a downside that women have to go to a doctor's office for the shots, it does release women from daily pill use, and fertil- ity returns within a month of a skipped shot. It's currently awaiting FDA approval. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=12510 : Does perfect birth control support or conflict with populace-control plots by Reptilioids, Republicans, Bilderbergers, Beelzebub, Bill Gates, Toshiba? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # EUROPE HALTS GENETIC CORN TRADE. Amidst transatlantic trade woes, the European Commission halts approval of a genetically engineered crop that could prove lethal to Monarch butterflies. But it's OK to use on lawyers: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/19794.html # GM food 'no risk' to health. (BBC) A UK Gov't report on genetically- modified foods is expected to show they are safe for humans, as plans to regulate the GM industry are outlined. Hazardous to butterflies however: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_349000/349160.stm : Do you trust GM foods? Have you performed any GM experiments yourself? Do you want your own genes modified? What's your favorite gene-splicing? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiShorts # PATIENTS, HEAL THYSELVES. New personal medical gadgets will let patients monitor their own health and run simple tests at home. But will they make your doctor hang up his stethoscope? Can you get dental surgery online? http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/19776.html # LOST IN SPACE. LONDON (Reuters) - British entrepreneur Richard Branson is planning a hotel in space and has registered a company called "Virgin Galactic Airways" to ferry guests into orbit. Beam me up, Richard: http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=3745993 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Spacecraft Status reports and other NASA publications are available at: http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/kscpao.htm . @ Information about Space Shuttle countdowns and missions are at:
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990506c - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Switching off' disease. (BBC) US Scientists may have found a new way to combat bacterial infection in the fight against diseases that kill millions worldwide. It might even provide an alternative to antibiotics which are becoming less effective as bacteria develop resistance to our most effective drugs. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_337000/337120.stm : What diseases would you like to switch on or off? In whom? Besides curing some diseases, will this also be an effective bio-war weapon? Who'll use it? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** University ends psychosis study. CINCINNATI (AP) - The University of Cincinnati has dropped psychiatric studies in which patients were given a chemical that may cause psychosis. The study that raised concern was a 1997 clinical trial in which 13 patients who were delusional or hallucinating were asked to take amphetamines, which can make the symptoms worse. Giving people chemicals that may induce psychosis - a severe form of mental ill- ness - was intended to help researchers learn how psychosis happens. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559446916-3d2 : Would you voluntarily go psychotic? Do you take consciousness-altering drugs? Do you hallucinate? Do you need drugs to hallucinate? Do the voices in your head run your life? Are they stimulated by drugs, implants, rays? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ How was antigravity harnessed? "No discussion of antigravity would be complete without discussing the discoveries that allowed humanity to harness the repulsive force. In 1999 again, it was discovered that the antigravity effect could be duplicated in a laboratory by spinning atomic nuclei at very high speeds. An atom's nucleus is ultra-dense, not so unlike a tiny black hole. Because nuclei rotate fairly stabily and without friction, it is pos- sible to accelerate their rotation to their maximum speed and produce very strong antigravitic effects." www.ufomind.com/misc/1999/may/d06-001.shtml : Have you experimented with antigravity lately? Does it work? Is it fun? Are you funded by national security agencies, doomsday cults, aliens, nuts? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Scientists may learn from tornadoes. LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) Amid the rubble of Oklahoma, scientists hope to find clues to unlock the mysteries of deadly tornadoes. The system that tore through the state might be especially revea- ling because it produced so many twisters and was tracked for so long by radar. "There are many things that are special and even historic about this storm," said Texas Tech meteorologist Steve Weinbeck. Researchers from Texas Tech hope to find the Holy Grail of tornado research - the key to using radar to predict the path of the twisters. While storm chasers traditionally are interested with what causes one storm to produce a tornado while another fizzles, "rubble rooters" in Oklahoma are trying to find better ways to warn people which tornadoes are going to pose a serious threat. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559442177-973 : Will predictable tornadoes become entertainment events? Would you watch, surf, stop a predicted tornado? Would you use tornadoes a weapons? On whom? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Revealed: How the brain calculates. (BBC) Researchers have produced new evidence about how the brain handles mathematics, which might help improve teaching children who have difficulty with numbers. They have established that 2 very different brain functions are involved - as previous studies of brain-damaged patients have hinted. One is a non-verbal, visual and spatial sense of quantity - the other has to do with symbols related to language. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_337000/337328.stm : How does *your* brain calculate? *Does* your brain calculate? Do implants interfere with calculation? Do the voices in your head whisper the numbers? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SansComment: # THE 'STAR WARS' SICK-OUT. Silicon Valley employers face mass absenteeism with the opening of Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace. The smart ones plan office field trips. May the Force be with'em all - see www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/culture/story/19531.html # Headscarf claims political scalp. (BBC) A leading member of Turkey's pro-Islamist Virtue Party has resigned in a growing row over the wearing of a banned Muslim headscarf. Party seems bent on self-destruction - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_337000/337323.stm # SAD STATE OF THE FINAL FRONTIER. After bum launches and billions in insur- ance premiums, the US space industry takes a long, hard look in the mirror. www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/19533.html _ _ _ _ _ _
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990401c - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Kosovo info warfare spreads - Nato's site has been engulfed in an infowar. (BBC) The Yugoslavian war has spread to the Net with Nato suffering attacks on its computer systems from Serbia, and the UK escalating its propaganda campaign on Thursday through government Websites. Melissa may be implicated: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_308000/308788.stm # Also: Net shows Kosovo emotions: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_304000/304767.stm # Radio B92 - off the air but on the Net: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_302000/302344.stm # Net warfare over Kosovo: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_20/200069.stm # Cyberwarfare breaks out on internet: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/monitoring/newsid_20/200708.stm @ Links: Nato: http://www.nato.int/ @ Radio B-92: http://www.opennet.org/b92/live/live.html @ MoD FCO Kosovo: http://www.mod.uk/news/kosovo/index.htm @ Infowar.com: http://www.infowar.com/ : Do you believe all/any/none of the varied propaganda? How would you design a disinformation/propaganda campaign? How have your ET/CIA/CFR/KGB/MI5/NATO masters instructed you to wage infowar? Are you well-paid? Is it fun? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Vatican blamed in population policy. UNITED NATIONS (AP) Women's rights groups accused the Vatican and some Muslim countries of trying to water down proposals on sex education and reproductive health. 5 years after a landmark U.N. population conference, more than 170 countries are assessing the ambi- tious goals set in Cairo in 1994, and are writing new proposals to implement them. A coalition of 75 voluntary organizations held a news conference to protest that a minority of delegates were trying to distort language in the 20-year program adopted in Cairo and to block concrete steps for future action. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559012925-e36 : Does your belief system attempt to exercise control over the reproduction and health of all humans, even those not sharing your views? Are you evil? Are you controlled by deities, demons, aliens, CIA mind-rays, distemper? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Disinfectant fabric developed. FRESNO, CA (AP) Imagine a cotton T-shirt that breaks down pesticides into harmless particles immediately on contact or a pair of denim jeans that disinfects itself when it touches germs or viruses. It is not far off. In what could be a breakthrough for people work- ing everywhere from farms to hospitals, UC Davis scientist Gang Sun thinks his chemically-treated fabrics could change the way people wear their work clothes. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559015845-9b6 : Can Reptilioid-repellent fabrics be developed? Would disinfectant fabrics encourage the weakening of toxics regulations? Is this a corporate plot? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ FAMILIES NOT ENTITLED TO KEEP RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS ON GRAVES. A judge ruled that Boca Raton, Florida can tear down crosses, stars of David and other monuments in the municipal cemetery because the decorations aren't essential for religious practice. The ruling was thought to be the first of its kind in the nation and the first under Florida's Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1998, which says governments cannot impose a "substantial burden" on people's freedom of religious expression. Not without a good justification, anyway. See http://www.cnn.com/US/9903/31/GraveDecorations.ap/index.html and http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559013750-e85 : Does your belief system hold that grave decorations are essential to the practice of your rituals? Are burnt offerings or animal sacrifices needed? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Church loses tax status for ad. WASHINGTON (AP) A federal court decision stripping a church of its tax-exempt status for running anti-Clinton ads may diminish political activity from the pulpit, activists on both sides of the issue said Wednesday. Judge Paul Friedman's decision backed the IRS, which had revoked the tax-exempt status of a New York church for running newspaper advertisements against Bill Clinton in 1992. It was the first time a church had lost its tax exemption for partisan political actions. The ads, which ran in USA Today and The Washington Times, warned "Christian Beware" and stated, "Bill Clinton is promoting policies that are in rebellion to God's laws." The ad sought donations to help pay for the ads. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559012034-5b3 : Does your belief system promote substantial involvement in gov't? Do you want to run the world? Do the voices in your head tell you how to rule? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Christians protest India attacks. GAUHATI (AP)
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991104c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Millennial Bras were burnt in protest to produce this bulletin. Yet. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Planets: Unknown Known: http://caus.org/pn102099.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Neo-Pagan Movement Is Bewitching To Many. (NYTimes) Encouraged by federal court rulings recognizing witchcraft as a legal religion, an increasing number of books on the subject, and the continuing cultural concern for the environment, Wicca - as contemporary witchcraft is often called - has been growing in the United States and abroad. It is a major element in a growing "neo-pagan" movement whose members regard nature itself as charged with divinity. http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,125012725,00.html : Are you neo/paleo pagan? Is environmentalism your religion? When humanity moves into space, will you stay behind? Will we miss you? Will you miss us? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Russia power to be manual on Y2K. MOSCOW (AP) Russia's electric monopoly will shift its huge grid to manual control Dec. 31 to ensure it avoids millennium bug outages. They are 95% ready for the date flip-over. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561912604-a5e # Lingerie-Maker Shows 'Millennium Bra.' TOKYO (Reuters) A German lingerie maker unveiled a 24-carat, diamond-studded "Millennium Bra" in what it dubbed an effort to bring the timeless beauty of ancient Egypt to the dawn of the new age. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991104/07/odd-bra : Are you prepared for Y2K? Do you have ancient Egyptian diamonds in your bra? Are you manually controlled? Have you considered all the risks? How? # Why Risky Decisions May Be Hard For Elderly. LONDON (Reuters) Elderly people may be easy prey for confidence tricksters and fraudulent advertising because age-related damage to their brains impairs their judgement: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991104/05/science-aging-risk _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Art Bell: Crop Circles: http://www.artbell.com/circles.html Art of Crop Circles: http://www.engl.virginia.edu/~enwr1013/Tim/tmh7m2.html British Crop Circles: http://members.tripod.com/~crop_circle/ Busty Taylor Crop Circles: http://www.aviation-uk.com/cropper/98busty2.htm Circlemakers - England's crop circle makers: http://www.circlemakers.org/ Crop Circle Connector: http://cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/connect.html Crop Circle Reports: http://www.wavefront.com/~jhenry/cropc.htm Crop Circles: http://indigo.ie/~dcd/frame.htm Crop Circles Explorer: http://www.qac.com.au/circle1.htm Crop Circles: Heavenly Angelic Forms of Communication - from the teachings of Buddha Maitreya: http://www.bogo.co.uk/etheric/home.html Finland's Center of Circles Info: http://martian.webjump.com/fcci Satellite Photo of Marree Man: http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Bay/3925 UFO, Bigfoot Crop Circles Museum: http://www.crossfields.com/~ufomus/ Usenet - alt.paranormal.crop-circles: news:alt.paranormal.crop-circles : What's your favorite crop-circle? What does it indicate? Are you sure? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New high global temperatures forecast. LONDON (UPI) Global temperatures will rise far higher than previously predicted, British researchers said hotly: http://news.excite.com/news/u/991104/11/science-globalwarming # Frankencorn safe for some monarchs. ROSEMONT, Ill.(AP) Genetically altered corn may not pose as great a threat to monarch butterflies as previously thought. But current research on the corn's toxicity is not yet extensive enough to determine any conclusive impact on monarchs, regents, dauphins - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561906389-332 # Superbug death toll rises. (BBC) Hong Kong's medical authorities are on the alert for further cases involving an antibiotic-resistant "superbug" which has now killed four in the former colony. Are they all doomed? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_504000/504599.stm : What's your favorite environmental/populational threat? Have you put any bioemes at risk lately? Which lifeforms would you most like to be extinct? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mad Deer Disease: Can Venison Kill You? A fatal brain disease is spreading in deer elk -- and hunters are dying from a very similar illness. The deer/elk disease is called Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), closely related to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), which is what killed the hunters. Both CJD and CWD are classified as "transmissible spongiform encephalopathies" (TSE) and are related to bovine spongiform chronic encephalopathy (BSE), dubbed "Mad Cow Disease." http://www.sightings.com/health3/venisons.htm : Do you eat red meat? Has your brain turned spongy yet? Was it already spongy? Has anyone devoured your flesh? Have their brains gone bad yet? _ _ _ _ _
