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SkeptiNews 000626a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/25_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 * Several mystical secrets were lost during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A.HOVANESS: www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-a-hovhaness.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Vatican's Fatima details. (AP) The Vatican delivered a surprise revelation recently in the so-called 3rd secret of Fatima, saying the vision foretold the shooting of the pope, and not a doomsday prophecy. The details are due out today. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567636717-eee # PRESENTATION OF TEXT OF THIRD SECRET OF FATIMA. VATICAN CITY (VIS) - This morning in the Holy See Press Office, the document "The Message Of Fatima" was presented. Lookit: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4322 # COMPLETE TRANSLATION. "I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine. http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4323 # PENANCE IS THE KEY TO THE "SECRET." The "key word" of the third secret of Fatima "is the triple cry, 'Penance, Penance, Penance!'" So let's see a whole bunch of guilt: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4324 : Have you revealed/hidden/manipulated/interpreted any revelations lately? What's your favorite mystical secret? Do you number your secrets? Are they easily digitized? Are your deities digital/analog/virtual/ephemeral/muddy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Leader's Tapes with Astrologer Released. PARIS (Reuters) Taped recordings of some of the late French President Francois Mitterrand's consultations with his favorite astrologer were released by her on Saturday. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000626/09/odd-mitterrand-dc @ View your Horoscope: http://www.indiaexpress.com/horsocope/ # A Maharishi follower sued his guru because he never learned how to fly! Maharishi International University promised him he would, the student claimed. Besides, he said, the twice-daily practice of chanting did not reverse the aging process or bring him "the perfect state of life." Jury awarded him $137,890. http://www.nationalenquirer.com/stories/11943.html # Psychic's mission: Bring the world of the dead to life. Litany Burns sees dead people. "And they see me," she says. "I'm the person who gets invited to haunted houses. I talk to dead people ... and they talk back." What do they say? Find out: http://detnews.com/2000/features/0006/22/e07-79323.htm : Have you talked/eaten/fornicated/prayed with the living/dead/other lately? Is your life perfect/forecast/taped/revised/miserable? D'ya seek advise on paranormal matters? D'ya take that advise? Is it expensive/actionable/plain? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The UFO Cover-up. Almost from the moment that Kenneth Arnold made his UFO report in June 1947, we, in the UFO community have been suggesting there was a coverup. Today we have the documentation to prove that there was a secret Air Force investigation of UFOs, that information was concealed by various Air Force and civilian agencies, and that a cover-up, in one form or another existed. http://www.destinationspace.net/ufo/randle/coverup.asp # Firmage-Sagan link - 'Project Voyager' flies - An Integrated Media Network: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m25-005.shtml @ WHAT-IF GAME: "What if..." someone with a lot of money and a serious interest in UFOs decided that he could simply 'buy' any insider infor- mation he wanted to directly from the most well known researchers in the field? http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m26-006.shtml : Have you (un)covered any UFOs lately? If UFO (un)coverups are games, what are the rules? Does your conspiracy have strict protocols to run all phases of your (un)coverup? D'ya have inside information? Does it want to be free? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 250 MARS PHOTOS SHOW SIGNS OF WATER http://www.earthfiles.com/earth153.htm # DRILLING TECHNOLOGY FOR MARS IS IN THE WORKS; drill your own planet today: http://space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_drilling_000623.html # Mars rover prototype tested in Nevada - BLACK ROCK SUMMIT, interplanetary driving school: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567636001-eb5 # Cydonian Imperative - Mars Missions and Extraterrestrial Artifacts: Where We Stand: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m25-003.shtml # Would-be astronaut patiently awaits date with space station - commander without a command: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10020460 # NASA Reveals Emerging Technologies For Astrophysics -- advances in detectors play key role:
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SkeptiNews 000612a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/11_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 * Very few minotaurs were abducted by reptilioids to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ RAYGUNS! http://www.toyraygun.com/galleryindex.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pulsating Orb Still Unexplained. According to the Astronomer it was simply the star Sirius; the flickering was the atmosphere. They said it is rarely visible in our hemisphere,and that is why it seemed so unusual.I find this very hard to believe, not because I want it to be something fantastic, but because I have been observing the sky and stars for a long time, and have never seen ANY star exhibit this behavior. http://caus.org/mu061200.htm # The dog star's bone? An astronomical anomaly among the asteroids. Astro- nomers often speak of the cosmic zoo, reflecting the exotic variety of phenomena to be seen in the deep space. Pulsars, colliding galaxies and superluminous quasars are just a few of the bizarre images that telescopes pick up. But right here in the solar system, we still have a few surprises in store. Such as an asteroid shaped like a dog's bone. And Kermit the Frog on Mars: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/y/26090006.cfm : Have you observed any cosmic bones/dogs/frogs/orbs lately?Do they pulsate? Do you? What's your favorite cosmic anomaly? Are you anomalous? How much? Do you collide with galaxies often; go superluminous; otherwise attract notice? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # There's More to Space Than Space. Is there also more to life, death, sex, money? http://www.the-journal.co.uk/cfm/news_story.cfm?storyId=187044 # 'Area 51' - What's In A Name? Govt agencies cannot agree on a designation for this conglomerate facility: http://sightings.com/general2/area51n.htm # Kuril Islands Explosion: http://www.cseti.org/bearden/ferdelance/s43.htm @ Estimate Of The Situation 2000 - The Black Triangles. Mysterious aerial craft commonly called "flying triangles" and/or "black triangles" have been elbowing the classic, disk-shaped UFO aside in the last few years. These angular craft are seen more and more persistently. Are they a black budget, highly innovative form of craft from US govt/industry, or a new form of genuine UFO visiting us? http://sightings.com/general2/blackt.htm # Pulsar signals "might be part of a vast interstellar communications network which we have stumbled upon" says MIT radio astronomer Professor Alan Barrett. Compelling case - talk to me: http://www.etheric.com/ : Have you detected any interstellar signals/crafts/entities/spasms lately? Are UFOs/planets/pulsars/UFOlogists more/less than they seem? Are you wired into any interstellar/galactic/dimensional communications nets yet? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # METEOR BRIGHT AS THE SUN SCORCHES SKY - Vicotria, Australia - impact felt like earthquake: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=3603 # Percé, Gaspésie, Quebec Sighting - Hundreds of observers saw 3 white tri- angles hover: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m08-009.shtml # "There goes Edwards AFB," says JPL scientist during mysterious night-time So.Calif. 1996 celestial overflight: http://www.cseti.org/crashes/161.htm @ The Similarities Between 3 Different Pyramids. BARBURY CASTLE CROP FORM- ATION NOW FOUND TO BE PRECISELY-REFERENTIAL TO THE GREAT PYRAMID, THE QUETZALCOATL PYRAMID, AND 'THE DM PYRAMID' AT CYDONIA ON MARS - all an alien plot, yup: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=3601 # Astronaut's UFO Encounter. MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA -- Don K. "Deke Slayton in his book gives his account of seeing a UFO. Deke was conducting a maintenance test flight in an F-51. http://www.caus.org/mu061200b.htm : D'ya prefer black/white/red/green/blue/paisley/rippled triangles/pyramids/ polygons? D'ya prefer meteors to be hot, cold, lukewarm; bright, dim, trans- parent; heavy, light, spongy? Do meteorites burn cropcircles? Fast or slow?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CIA Admits Tolerating Contra Cocaine Trafficking in 1980s. In secret con- gressional testimony, senior CIA officials admitted that the spy agency turned a blind eye to evidence of cocaine trafficking by U.S.-backed Nic- araguan contra rebels in the 1980s and generally did not treat drug smug- gling through Central America as a high priority during the Reagan admin- istration. Like this is news: http://www.consortiumnews.com/060800a.html # 'OVERWILLING' DISORDERS MAY INCLUDE ADDICTION. Some psychiatric syndromes, including psychopathy substance addiction, may be seen as disorders of "overwilling." "Mental illness has been thought of as a 'weakening of the will,' but in many cases
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SkeptiNews 000501a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * The previous bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/30_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 innocent bystander was chemically mindwiped to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ MindRay Pattern: http://morethanconquerors.simplenet.com/MCF/foilpic.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GOVERNMENT CONFIRMS SATANIC ABUSE IS REAL IN BRITAIN. A specially commissioned government report will this week conclude that satanic abuse does take place in Britain. It will say that its victims have suffered actual abuse and are not suffering from "false memory syndrome". www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/This_Britain/2000-04/satanic300400.shtml # TRUE SA-GA OF DRACO HUMAN SACRIFICE WHICH HAPPENS ALL AROUND OUR PLANET EARTH - Part 1: http://users2.50megs.com/reptile/exp/e100899a.html SA-GA - Part 2: http://users2.50megs.com/reptile/exp/e100899b.html @ Amazing Symbolography in Cartography - Our Search for Reptilian Answers and Truth: http://www.50megs.com/davidicke/icke/magazine/vol6/simon.html # For the Wings of a Dino: http://helix.nature.com/nsu/000413/000413-6.html : Have you abused/sacrificed/devoured anyone lately? Are your activities re- cognized/authorized/mandated by your govt? Is your govt/church/firm reptoid? Are you? D'ya implant false memories in your surviving victims? Is it easy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # I SPY A DRAGON - Taiwan Taps Into Private SpySat. Tokyo - The American commercial remote sensing satellite Ikonos has recently acquired very high resolution images of mainland China's eastern region. Taiwan scans missile air force bases: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/china-00w.html # CEOnet Sees All, Tells All: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/earth-00c.html $ Remote-Viewing Conference, 26-28 May 2000: http://www.rvconference.org/ @ STOA Communications Intelligence: http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan/stoa.htm @ Intercept.Capabilities 2000: http://iptvreports.mcmail.com/ic2kreport.htm # CIA KNEW ABOUT BAY OF PIGS LEAK. The CIA was aware that the Soviet Union found out the date of the failed U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba more than a week before it took place, but went ahead with the operation anyway, newly declassified intelligence documents show. Wishin'n'hopin', see http://chblue.com/a/ap.washington/2429/390b6b17.296e.5/ap.asp : Have you surveilled/infiltrated/invaded anyone lately? Do your opponents know all about what you're up to? D'ya proceed anyway? Does your conspiracy collaborate with their conspiracy so y'can all stay in business? Is it fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Biological Mechanisms of Anxiety: A Brain Receptor as Switch for Anxiety [Max Planck Institute]: http://www.mpg.de/news00/news7_00.htm # Sweet Dreams Are Made of These (discovery of sleep-promoting neurons in rat brain) [Nature]: http://helix.nature.com/nsu/000427/000427-8.html # Movies of Intact Brain Reveal How Sensory Experience Shapes Neural Connections: http://www.cshl.org/public/releases/svoboda042000.html @ Unclassified Commercial Technology Capable of Electronic Mind Control - In one big file: http://www.raven1.net/uncom.htm As separate pages: http://www.raven1.net/p00.htm : Is your brain functioning well at this time? Has its operation been manip- ulated/enhanced/repressed lately? Are you controlled by anxieties/dreams/me? Have your neural connections been rewired/reprogrammed lately? To what end?? # Tissue Study Shows Why Shift Workers Are Stressed. Internal clocks in mam- mals,involving multiple organs, reset at different rates following changes in light cycles. Jet lag? http://unisci.com/stories/20002/0428003.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Robot taxis, human cameras, fiction or fact? LONDON (Reuters) - Robot con- trolled taxis and journalists with cameras implanted in their eyes will be commonplace by 2010.RD wonks also predict the end of cash credit cards, security systems based on fingerprints, and growth of factories in space. www.excite.co.uk/news/news_story/health/reuters_health_2430233012_0.txt # NASA's ET expeditions. In NASA's good old days the tin cans that were sent into space, like Voyagers 1 2, worked flawlessly. So what happened with the space program? http://www.alienzoo.com/features/d/25010001.cfm # How to Catch a Moonbeam: http://focus.aps.org/v5/st19.html # Megawatt Laser Test Brings Space Based Lasers One Step Closer - hot death from the heavens: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/laser-00e.html : What's y'r favorite futuristic technology? Does it work for good/evil/loss /profit/neutrality? Has it been suppressed? Is it enslaving/liberating/odd? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mob Kills Tourist, Bus Driver - Feared Child-Stealing. GUATEMALA CITY (AP) A mob in north
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SkeptiNews 000424a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * The weekend's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/23_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 lesbian goddesses were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Readied: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/space/shuttle/2423/ksc02 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sightings: INDIANA: UFO HOVERS OVER CHEMICAL PLANT - ARKANSAS: FLYING CIGAR STOPS CAR, STEALS MEMORY, FRIES WIRES: www.caus.org/mu042300.htm # "It was like someone flying up to heaven." Unidentified light was seen in various provinces of China: http://www.rumormillnews.com/ufo.htm # First Known Authentic Picture of a UFO: http://www.caus.org/pn042300.htm # 4 PEOPLE VANISH WITHOUT A TRACE IN PORTABLE TOILET! CHICAGO -- A stunned and outraged public is demanding to know the whereabouts of 4 people who went into a portable toilet in a public park -- and never came out! Alien abduction turning shitty: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1861.html @ WHITLEY STRIEBER VIDEO GALLERY: http://www.strieber.com/adv-video.html : Do you loiter in your UFO around chemical plants, highways, porta-potties, horse farms, the Great Wall? Have you ever been arrested for loitering in a UFO? Did you escape? Are there any authentic pictures of your UFO? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Princess Di Portrayed As The Madonna: http://www.rumormillnews.com/mad.htm # The Making of Goddess Di: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/goddess.html @ ANOTHER DIANA SIGHTING/BOOK. Yet another book has been released purporting to be the "true" message from Princess Di. Yet more evidence for Rayelan Allan's book: Diana Queen Of Heaven http://www.dianaqueenofheaven.com/. Princess Diana dictates her experiences in the afterlife through Christine Toomey. Why her? http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=2774 # Millions of beautiful gals are becoming lesbians... because guys can't cut the mustard, says sociologist! MIAMI- Millions of America's most beautiful women have become so fed up with their male lovers that they're giving the guys the boot -- and turning to other women to satisfy their sexual needs, a shocking new study reveals! http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1863.html : Who's your favorite goddess? Is she bisexual, lesbian, transgendered? Do goddesses communicate with you regularly? Do they promote alternative sexu- ality/economics/politics/faith/sports/art? D'ya wanna be a goddess someday? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ELIAN TRADED TO CUBA FOR HARD-THROWING RIGHTHANDER! In a deal that has the backing of the U.S. Department of Justice and representatives of Miami's Cuban-American community, Elian Gonzalez was traded to Cuba today for right-handed pitcher Jose Ariel Contreras and a defector to be named later. "This is a win-win deal," Attorney General Janet Reno said. "Contreras will contribute right away to one of our ballclubs and Elian's father gets to raise his son in the peace and quiet of an embargoed communist bloc nation." http://www.drudge.com/retort.shtml # Quiet descends on Elian case - mindcontrol drugs kick in big-time - aliens feeding: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565961754-bc1 # ELIAN! THE MOVIE: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=2773 and maybe http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/WolfFiles/wolffiles.html # Elian sparks heated emails: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9722242 # DoJ Had A Warrant? http://www.CNN.com/2000/US/04/24/cuba.boy/index.html : Who/what would you like to trade/give/sell/unload to Cuba? Is your conspi- racy working to unite Cuba Florida? Does Castro deserve Florida? Would the US be better off without Florida? Will global warming submerge Florida/Cuba? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Chinese sect members detained - Falun Gongers busted every day: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565940910-d80 # Also: Falun Gong withstands challenge - "more of us than them" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565946896-b50 # And: China detains cult follower daughter - "nits make lice" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565929083-618 # Research Continues Into China's Wild Man - Bigfoot thought to be living in China - Yearlong trek yields traces of what some say is undiscovered species. Beijing, China -- Yuan Zhenxin keeps up his search for Bigfoot. Yuan is convinced that 1,000 to 2,000 of the apelike creatures roam the forests of central China: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/bfoot03.htm : Is Chinese Communism more threatened by Falun Gong, Bigfoot, Capitalism, famine, alien abductions, me? Are most Chinese too malnourished to be worth abducting? If you were an ET, would you rather abduct fat, dumb Americans?
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SkeptiNews 000417a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/16_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 glossolalians were interpreted during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Processed By Evil Smurfs: http://www.quirked.com/distortions/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PROPHET YAHWEH SUMMONS THE UFO'S. We all know about the claims of CSETI Greer of training people to call out UFOs, but CSETI comes with a large price tag and I haven't come across one video or credible person to back up CSETI's claims. Prophet on the other hand appears to be able to do the impossible. Bring the UFOs out of the sky everyday. To back this claim up. He has several videos he or others shot showing him summon the UFOs then they appear in the sky. http://www.skywatch-international.org/tomking1.htm # Scores Of RODS Videotaped Over Japan. Esp. just before earthquake 1-17-95 many Rods flew over Kobe city: www.sightings.com/general/rodsjapan.htm @ "Boules de Feu" - Ball lighting: Is it behind UFO reports? Does it exist at all? http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/weekly/aa041700a.htm : Have you summoned/videotaped/experienced (m)any UFOs lately? Do you keep a camcorder constantly at hand, in case any UFOs present themselves? Do rods/ UFOs/fireballs/videotapes/you actually exist? Are we all hallucinating? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Strange Tongues: A Personal Encounter. A girl began singing with the most crystal clear, ethereal, coloratura imaginable. I had never heard this kind of singing before and asked a fellow student what it was. She said, "They're speaking in tongues." http://anomalist.com/features/features.html : I've spoken in tongues in that same room - was I possessed by holy spirits or demons, aliens, mind-control operatives? Many people in that room spoke in tongues - is it mass-hysteria, a spiritual focus, the abduction zone? How can we distinguish between glossolalia and "channeling a paranormal entity?" # Oscar-Night Speech Reversals: http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Falls/7531/specreps.htm#Oscar @ Messages From Mother Mary: http://www.baproducts.com/marymesg.htm $ Astrozone and Angel Gateway Celestial Channeling - provides personalized astrological and angel readings. http://www.astrozone.com/ @ Channeling Owen: http://www.geocities.com/~channelingowen _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MEMORY CAN BE ALTERED BY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS GENERATED BY CELLULAR PHONES: http://neurology.medscape.com/20025.rhtml [thanks, Unit4] # FDA PANEL BACKS NEW IMPOTENCE PILL DESPITE WORRY OVER RISKS: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=31430 @ Cancer cancer cancer cancer cancer: http://www.cancerpage.com/ # Protein Found In Yeast And Humans Plays A Key Role In Regulating Cell Growth: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000414133904.htm # WHY DOES SEX EXIST? Birds and bees do it, but to scientists who study evolution, sex seems wasteful, since many species that reproduce asexually get along just fine without it. In the evolutionary battle to survive, asexual species, whose members can clone themselves, would seem to have an advantage over sexual animals -- like people -- that take two to reproduce. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=29793 : Have you altered your cerebral/biological/spiritual functions with EMF/sex /drugs/fantasy lately? Would you do anything for orgasm/memory/growth/food? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # THE IMF AND WORLD BANK: TWO INSTRUMENTS OF NATIONAL DESTRUCTION. When an IMF mission goes into a country and requires the destruction of social and economic institutions as a condition for lending money - this is very sim- ilar to the physical destruction caused by NATO bombing. Closing schools, hospitals, factories http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/instru.htm @ The Ontological Status of Conspiracy Theory - Is conspiracy theory a delusion of the Right which has infected the Left as well? http://www.t0.or.at/hakimbey/conspire.htm @ A Not So Distant Mirror - parallels between the militant heretics of the Middle Ages and the current convulsions on the far right. http://www.nwcitizen.com/publicgood/reports/nosodist/ : Does your conspiracy wage war by other means, just like any nation-state? Are all nation-states conspiracies? Are all international agencies plots? Do you approach conspiracies from the left/center/right/top/bottom/elsewhere?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Chinese Sect Appeals to UN. BEIJING (AP) - The banned Chinese meditation group Falun Gong is appealing to the U.N. Human Rights Commission to condemn a Chinese government crackdown and the detention of 600 members. G'luck:
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SkeptiNews 000410a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/09_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 telepathic virus was channeled during production of this bulletin... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Choose A Monument: http://home.sunrise.ch/hermi/monument/monument.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Bright Green Light/Orb/UFO Over Arlington TX: http://caus.org/mu041000.htm # Spectacular Yukon Fireball Mystery Continues - coincidences, secrets, and ominous speculation: http://www.whitehorsestar.com/News.lasso?r=33262 # THERE! During the 1991 solar eclipse, Mexico City's skies were filled with UFOs. http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/weekly/aa040300a.htm @ Extraterrestrials in Biblical Prophecy. Since the public uproar of the late 1940's over innumerable sightings and possible govt conspiracies to cover-up the truth; which has persisted for over fifty years; religious significance has been attributed to these "visitors'. Their celestial origins becomes a significant associative factor between their deliver- ance of extraterrestrial messages, and those historical harbingers of God's word, the angels. http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ufology/23701 : Have you been visited by aliens/angels/deities/demons/robots/me lately? Do they cast fiery fragments across the firmament? Do they glow/flash/sizzle? Have govt/corporate/church agents conspired in coverups? What do they mean? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New Cydonia Images - Preliminary Data Analysis. 2 years after MGS reimaged the Face on April 5, 1998 MSSS/JPL released a handful of new images over Cydonia. Two cover the Fort in its entirety and one captured most of the Tholus. http://www.psrw.com/~markc/Articles/April_2000/April2000.html # Malin Space Sciences Releases New Mars Cydonia Images - behold and wonder: http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/4_5_00_cydonia/index.html # SPACEVIEWS 2000.15: Cosmonauts Reoccupy Mir - Mir's New Challenge: Finding Customers - Rudder Bug May Delay Shuttle Launch - Ejected Protoplanet Most Likely Star - ESA Delays Shipment of Cluster Sats - JPL Names Mars Honcho - Ulysses Finds Extremely Long Comet Tail - Analysts Count 2,147 Sats to Launch This Decade - Poll Finds Americans Continue to Support NASA - SETI: Still Searching after 40 Years - NEOs, Planetary Defense and Government: A View from the Pentagon: http://www.spaceviews.com/2000/0410/ : Have you seen anything mysterious/perplexing/impossible in space lately? Did you report/analyze/market your discovery? How are you being received? Do you have a favorite satellite? D'ya have to share it with anyone? Greedily? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cultists chased deadly dream. KANUNGU, Uganda (AP) They came to this quiet village over the luxuriant green hills of SW Uganda,some seeking something to believe in,others the comfort of a home and still others the shared joy of speeding to Heaven when Earth stopped. Most were Roman Catholics grown dissatisfied with their church or simply drawn to the movement by ties of blood. But all became dupes of swindlers who pried loose their possessions with assurances of a place in Paradise. The promise of happiness proved deadly in the hands of what Uganda's veep called "diabolic, malevolent criminals masquerading as holy and religious people."For at least 924 cult followers burned,choked or stabbed to death, it was all just a counterfeit dream. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565549709-da6 : Have you chased any deadly/lively/indeterminate dreams lately? D'ya regret your chase? Are dreams better than reality? Can you distinguish between gen- uine and counterfeit dreams? How? When you wake up, where are you? Really?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MCCAIN SAYS HE MAY CAMPAIGN WITH BUSH SOON - can be bought for the right price - http://CNN.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/04/09/mccain.bush/ # PRESIDENTIAL HELICOPTER PILOTS AMONG MARINE CRASH VICTIMS - Clinton body count rises - deliberate? http://CNN.com/2000/US/04/09/plane.crash.02/ # The 509th Bomb Wing's History - From Flying Disks To Flying Wings - Gustatus Similis Pullus: http://www.sightings.com/general/509th.htm # IMF protesters gather at Capitol - destroy international capitalism: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565580675-c1f # Washington braces for IMF protests - water cannon, teargas stockpiled: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565549611-1c5 # The NAFTA Corridors And The Panama Canal Connection - subverting America for fun and profits: http://www.sightings.com/general/naftacanal.htm # MIT Readies Net-Generation Bar Code - Mark of the Beast to be cybernated, mandatory:
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000403a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/02_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 cultists were incinerated to produce this bulletin. Matches all gone. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Multiple Religion Abuse: http://www.dci.dk/grafik/DCcollage77.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Beer Brewer Tries To Become Exclusive Sponsor For Mystery Lights Of Marfa, Texas. MILWAUKEE and MARFA, Texas (BUSINESS WIRE) - Officials at Miller Brewing Co. verified that Miller Lite has been in negotiations to acquire an exclusive sponsorship for the Marfa Lights, also known as the Mystery Lights of Marfa, and if successful, the brewer plans to rename them the "Miller Lites." Area 51 next? http://sightings.com/general/beerlights.htm # Recent BC Yukon UFO Sightings: http://www.ufobc.org/recent.htm # Windsor Incident - UFO/fireball: http://TheVanguard.tripod.com/windsor.htm @ UFO CoverUp: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/coverup.html @ When UFOs Controlled The Night Above Washington DC [now they work from the inside, controlling all] http://www.sightings.com/general/when.htm : Have you controlled/exploited/manipulated any paranormal phenomena lately? Can you make a good profit by sponsoring paranormal events? Have you etched your marketing slogans onto ghosts, ETs/UFOs, spontaneous human combustors?? # Mind Control Slavery and the New World Order. According to this extremely disturbing report, Monarch Program mind-control survivors claim to have been used as high-tech slaves by certain intelligence agencies and top- ranking politicians. http://www.altnews.com.au/nexus/MindControlNWO.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New" Drugs, Old Uses; What Chemists Can Learn From The Past. Can modern medicine learn new tricks from ancient history?Conventional wisdom sez no, but some think otherwise -- with proof to back claims. A greater knowledge of, and critical appreciation for, ancient medicine could provide modern doctors with alternative ways of treating diseases, and help them identify and label potential dangers and side effects from "new" drugs and herbal supplements. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000331083206.htm # UNLOCKING SECRETS OF CREATINE: www.napa.ufl.edu/2000news/creatine.htm # New Study of Microbe-Killers May Lead to More Effective Antibiotics: http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/2000/000329.protegrins.shtml # New Horizons, New Treatments in Anticancer Chemistry: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/acs-nhti032700.html : Have you rediscovered any ancient drugs lately? Were you aided by shamans, chemists, spirit guides, aliens, robots, me? Have you experimented with many ancient drugs? D'ya test them on yourself? Are you a much better person now? # Frequent Marijuana Use May Affect Brain Function But Not Structure. Recent studies indicate that some people who frequently use marijuana have substantially lower blood flow to certain parts of their brains; however, smoking the illicit drug does not affect brain size or structure. Toke up: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000331090541.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hactivists to Attack Biotech Firms. MSNBC - Major biotechnology firms MON- SANTO and AVENTIS are in the digital crosshairs. ELECTROHIPPIES say the 2 companies will first be targeted with a straightforward e-mail write-in campaign. But by the end of the week, new denial-of-service software tools will be distributed and could be aimed at the Internet operations of both firms. Other big-name companies like PEPSI and MCDONALDS could also be targeted. Attacking capitalism: http://msnbc.com/news/389408.asp?cp1=1 # 1000 PROTESTERS CALL FOR CLOSING SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS/ASSASSINS - White House target of vain ritual: http://CNN.com/2000/US/04/03/school.protest/ # INDYMEDIA MOBILIZES FOR DC PROTESTS - Expected Disruptions of World Bank, IMF meetings - more WTO riots?? http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos04418.html # HUNDREDS MARCH TO PROTEST SOUTH CAROLINA'S CONFEDERATE FLAG - pro-slavery forces organize counterattack: http://CNN.com/2000/US/04/03/flag.march.ap/ : Have you protested/attacked/manipulated any major corporate/govt/military operations lately? D'ya most effect change via protest, prayer, subversion, sacrifice, purchase, bribery, physical/digital/mental attacks, sex, sleep?? # Philippine farmers resort to ancient ritual to stop pests. BUGUIAS, Phil- ippines (AP) Desperate farmers are offering pigs to the gods in hopes of stopping the spread of a pest that's wreaking havoc in one of the nation's top vegetable-producing towns http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9619198 _ _ _ _ _ _
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000306a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 dysfunctional relationships were enhanced to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Centre For The Easily Amused: http://www.amused.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SKULLS OF WISDOM. Ditton Wilson disappeared in August of 1996 during an investigation into the a group of caves and tunnels beneath Salt Lake City, Utah. Before his disappearance he produced the skulls, which he claimed came from an Alien grave-yard he had found in a giant cavern underneath the Cross-Roads Mall: http://www.srv.net/~bhw/interest.htm @ Also - The Alien/LDS Connection: http://www.srv.net/~bhw/favorite.htm : Are you Mormon/Alien/subterranean? Have you found many strange skulls in caves/tunnels/bunkers under shopping centers? Do all shopping centers cover alien cemeteries? Are all shopping-center developers in collusion with ETs? @ NOTE TO THE PRESS: The govt of the US continues to rely on your personal and professional gullibility to suppress the information contained herein. Your cooperation over the past 40 years has exceeded OUR wildest expecta- tions and we salute you. The sun does not revolve around the Earth. The US Government has been in business with little gray extraterrestrials for about 20 years. http://www.xs4all.nl/~dannyvs/dulce-3.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GENE SPLICING - How to create a life without sex. The US govt maintains that genetically modified crops are basically the same as traditional ones, not exotic new life forms. Activists say they represent unprece- dented attempts to interfere with Mother Nature. The truth lies some- where in between. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/990726/26dnab.htm # Preserve Fertility By Egg-Freezing. Female cancer patients and other women at risk of losing their fertility because of medical treatments can now help preserve their childbearing options via a new egg-freezing program at Stanford. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000306075837.htm : Do you create/maintain/live/prefer life without sex? Is it cleaner? Have you arranged for external reproduction yet? Do you have adequate hosts yet? @ What mysterious factors make some marriages thrive and others explode into shards of acrimony loneliness? http://linguafranca.com/0003/lovelab.html @ WOMEN: Are you addicted to sex? The sex addict is someone who needs to have constant, unrelenting, continuous sexual gratification. See if you fit the profile: http://woman.iafrica.com/relationships/?src_id=tmp0407 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DOTCOZA. In South Africa, a remarkable project to investigate if an indi- vidual can survive living only off the Net for three months. The person, called "dotcoza", will arrive in a house today, with only a bed, a compu- ter, Internet access, and clothes on his back - and survive without leav- ing the premises for the allotted time period. http://www.dotcoza.co.za # World's population getting fatter - Reptoids will harvest us soon: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564741086-637 : Is Web-survival a form of abuse? Are we being conditioned for dependence on the Web and similar remote/enmeshed systems, like chickens isolated in their little prisons to lay eggs? Are you isolated? Do you need the eggs? @ National Society of MicroSoft Haters: http://www.tradepage.co.za/nsmh/ @ Webgrrls of South Africa: http://www.webgrrls.co.za/ @ (SAICSIT) http://www.cs.unp.ac.za/saicsit/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Firefighters UFO's - friends or foes? http://www.caus.org/hk030600.htm # UFOs And The Unexplained In Saskatchewan. There have been thousands of sightings in Saskatchewan. Mostly in remote areas, farm land and Indian reservations. But some sightings have occurred in the cities of Saskatoon and Regina. Not just drunks: http://www.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca/~aa711/u.html http://duke.usask.ca/~fowlerr/u2.html http://sightings.com/ufo6/sas.htm @ REPTOYS. If we are to discover if our planet is being prepared for open contact by the unseen faces whispered names of certain globalized broth- erhoods, we must keep a careful eye on the toy market to monitor what images our children are psychologically ingesting. From Barbie to Barney, what does the trend portend? http://www.reptoids.com/reptoys.htm @ All Reptilioids, All The Time: http://www.reptoids.com/ : Have you been adequately prepared for alien contact? Doe aliens infiltrate in the far North, in fire/rescue situations, in toy companies? Are the ETs watching everything we do? Are birds descended from dinosaurs, thus Reptoid? # 'Spy Hawk' Captured? NEW DELHI (Reuters) India's Border Security Force has caught
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000228a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to announcements, disclaimers, quirks: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No pig+ox+human chimerae were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Forbidden Love: http://www.50cups.com/caught.html [Caught In The Act] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Science Marches On, But Can Philosophy? Some 2,400 years after the first deep thinkers knotted their brows over "What is man?" modern philosophers are pondering a new question: "Should we make man?" Or more than man? Or other than man? Or...?? http://www.sltrib.com/02272000/utah/29781.htm # `Cloning must be for scientific reasons' - MUMBAI: After Dolly, the sheep, it is now the turn of Woolly, the mammoth to be cloned. And you're next, bubba: http://www.timesofindia.com/today/27mbom5.htm : What's your favorite meta-clone? Have you built any super-entities lately? Are you/they/we godlike in power? Have you designed/(re)grown/enhanced any neural networks lately? Have you spliced them into yourself, pigs, fish, me? # New Zealand company stops breeding huge 'mutant' fish - we've got enough already: http://www.anomalous%2Dimages.com/news/news.html # Regrowing neurons: http://www.exosci.com/main/news/shownews/?id=965 # VARIABILITY IN EMBRYO DONATION POLICIES SUGGESTS NEED FOR REVIEW OF GUIDELINES: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/17999.rhtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Earphone-shaped" UFO in Tibet - On 22 Nov 1989, I saw an "earphone-like" UFO in Tibet. Local people said many have seen the object before. On June 22 1994, 3 friends and I saw the object again. In the Tibetan language, there is a word which is written in the same shape as the earphone-like UFO. http://www.sinopolis.com/Archives/Filex/filex_991227_02.htm @ What's In Our Skies? http://www.caus.org/skies.html # UFO spotted in Shandong, China - probably striped elsewhere: http://www.sinopolis.com/Archives/00Filex/filex_000114_01.htm # UFO Landing - Driver spots flashing lights - Hilltop UFO riddle over flashing lights: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/silbufo.htm # Extraterrestrial object makes people panic-stricken at midnight - calmed down later: http://www.sinopolis.com/Archives/00Filex/filex_000201_01.htm : D'ya prefer UFOs shaped like earphones, saucers, triangles, pyramids, big teardrops, Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles, the Michelin Man, clouds, ducks, me? Do you have words written in the same shapes as UFOs? What words? Say what? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NUMBER OF JUVENILES SENT TO ADULT PRISONS SKYROCKETING. Violent juvenile offenders are more likely to serve time in adult state prisons compared to 15 years ago, according to a newly released study by the Justice Dept. http://CNN.com/2000/US/02/27/juveniles.in.jail/index.html : Have you conspired to incarcerate/disenfranchise juveniles of all or just selected ethnic groups? If adulthood is about responsibility, and juveniles are tried/punished as adults, should juveniles acquitted of adult charges be granted the right to vote, marry, bear arms? Are you only considered adult if you've done something bad, not if you've done something good? How come? # PRESCRIPTIONS FOR STIMULANTS,ANTIDEPRESSANTS ON THE RISE FOR PRESCHOOLERS. US kids drugged to the gills: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/18110.rhtml # 'ZIPRASIDONE' MAY BE A SAFE ALTERNATIVE FOR TREATING PEDIATRIC TOURETTE'S SYNDROME; as young as 7 years: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/18044.rhtml # DEPRESSION AND DEMENTIA FREQUENT IN MISTREATED OLDER PEOPLE - start early for vivid, consistent results: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/18028.rhtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Numerology Report. Numerology is the study of the symbolism of numbers. It is used to determine a persons personality, strengths talents, obstacles to be overcome, inner needs, emotional reactions and ways of dealing with others. The roots of numerology can be traced back some 10,000 years or more to Egypt Babylonia. With gematria: http://caus.org/numerology.html : What's your favorite numerology/gematria system: Babylonian [base 12/60], Egyptian/Chinese [base 10], California Indian [base 8], all nonalphabetic; Greek [base 24 alphanumeric], Hebrew [base 22 alphanumeric], Roman [base 5, no 0], Mayan [base 20, with 0], Hindu/Arabic [base 10, with 0], various al- phabets; or modern Western [base 10 with 0, 26 letters]? D'ya get different results with different systems? Are the differences swamped-out by symbolic interpretation? What dactylics d'ya use if you have 6 fingers per hand? How? @ Web site for info about Planet X. [thanks SMockovak!] http://www2.eridu.co.uk/eridu/minisites/planetx.html @ The "Niburian Council" - http://www.nibiruancouncil.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Xenotransplants
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000214a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 abduction memories were cleansed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Non-skeptical but timely comments: http://skepticon.pitas.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFO Occupant. Around the center of the craft were alternating blue and white lights. The craft hovered in total silence for a least ten minutes when from the bottom center of the craft a figure resembling an astronaut was let down to ground on a thin silver light or luminous rope. The astronaut was wearing a silvery suit. http://www.caus.org/mu021400.htm : Who's your favorite UFO occupant? Have you ever occupied a UFO? Are they crowded, smelly, badly decorated, dusty? Is it all your fault? Do you use fireballs for the interior cleanup? D'ya just feel like crashing sometimes? # NASA's NEAR spacecraft has entered orbit around asteroid 433 Eros. http://www.spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast14feb_1.htm # Green Blue Fireballs: http://www.caus.org/hk021400.htm @ The Monolith on Phobos: http://www.caus.org/pn021400.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Armed Interview. BASSETERRE, St.Kitts(AP) Carrying a gun a grudge, a man wanted by US drug cops visited a newspaper on the island of St. Kitts to bitch about news coverage give a rambling interview claiming to be a former CIA agent. Charles "Little Nut" Miller walked into The Observer of St. Kitts with 4 men unannounced. With a gun tucked in his belt, Miller groused about coverage of US efforts to have him extradited on drug traf- ficking charges. He said he was pissed The Observer printed his picture, spit on a copy of the newspaper threw it in the garbage. He then talked to reporters for an hour on the condition that details of the interview not be published. During the conversation, he claimed to have worked with the CIA fighting leftists in Jamaica in the 1970s. Just another Agency guy: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564220229-238 : Has the quality of spies greatly declined over the years? Would James Bond ever have given a news interview, dissed the media, rambled? Is "Little Nut" a real spy or is he spreading disinfo about spies, drug traffickers, you?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Post Abduction Syndrome (PAS) - Description of an Emerging Syndrome. PAS is an anxiety disorder closely related to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. It is characterized by the reexperiencing of abduction related memories, fragments, or distortions of those memories and is accompanied by symptoms of increased anxiety and by avoidance of stimuli related to abduction memories or abduction related events. The affected person may experience levels of anxiety that interfere with functioning in personal, occupa- tional, or social areas. http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/pas.htm : Do you remember your most recent abduction? Do you relive it sporadically, constantly, randomly? Do you avoid triggering sequences? Does your implant malfunction occasionally? Do such malfs hurt? Do you blame the Reptoids?? @ The Nibiruan Council. "Serving The Worlds" - We Welcome all Lightworkers, Starseeds, walk-ins and all who seek the higher perspective of universal and mankind's history! Come and join us. http://www.NibiruanCouncil.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China Busts Archbishop. BEIJING (AP) Authorities have again arrested an 80-year-old archbishop of China's underground Roman Catholic Church who had previously spent nearly three decades in prison. About 150 police took Archbishop John Yang Shudao into custody around midnight Feb.10 in Fuzhou. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564229606-9ff : How many cops does your govt need to arrest one 80-year-old priest? How many priests does your belief system need to over throw one govt? Should all archbishops be arrested? Should all govts be overthrown? Is China doomed?? # China releases U.S. detainee - busted for photographing Falun Gong demo: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564171340-ac3 # Follow-up: Falun Gong member back in U.S., see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564188992-7a7 # Also: Writers arrested in China, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564174238-e3b _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ INTRODUCING ELECTROSHIELD OF NORTH AMERICA. Esona.com represents a growing network of professionals dedicated to finding a practical solutions to environmental EMF (electromagnetic field) pollution. With the massive pro- liferation of wireless technologies and cell phone use, the tissue of the human body absorbs an ever increasing amount and an ever broadening spec- trum of energy
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000207a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 aliens lied to us during the production of this bulletin. We hope... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Hi, Bye: http://www.powazek.com/nikon/iranbyitlikealunatic.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PLA Revises the Art of War. Asymmetrical warfare terrorism, computer hacking, economic sabotage, assassination of US citizens is the Chinese militarys strategy to defeat the US. PLA flag officers are looking beyond the nuclear age to a new and more stealthy form of war. Can this be turned against China too? http://insightmag.com/archive/22063.shtml # The West engineered better foods but China may reap the harvest. The US have spent billions doing basic research in genetically modified crops and animals to make foods that are better-tasting, more nutritious kinder to the environment. Will China now step in and charge the US and Europe steep royalties for the right to grow the new organisms that result from this research? Those are strong possibilities, in the wake of Greenpeace's stunningly swift and successful campaign to ban GM foods and crops. http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/sun/opinion/news_1e6avery.html : Would you rather wage war with troops, assassins, spies, (bio)engineers, economists, terrorists, hackers, lawyers, pond scum, robots? If any side in a conflict employs any specific tactic, how long until that same tactic is used in return? What leaders/engineers/scientists/economists/hackers would you like to assassinate? Would anyone bother to assassinate you? Really?? @ Peculiar Feedback Loops That Drive Media Reporting of Technological and Science Issues: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/74.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MYSTERY ICE LANDS IN SURREY, BC. Canada joins Spain and Italy with reports of mystery ice chunks falling from the sky since early January. It's a good thing cows don't fly: http://ufobc.org/whizzbang.htm # MYSTERY ICE FALLS IN OTTAWA, ONTARIO. More falling ice in Canada. More gleeful Forteans on the Web: http://persweb.direct.ca/psa/ottawaice.html # The Return of the Phoenix Lights: http://www.caus.org/ft020700.htm : Have UFOs dropped anything on you lately? Is your backyard a dump for UFO debris/icefalls/sewage? Do lights circle overhead, spewing chemtails ice confetti messages in unknowable alphabets? Are you getting tired of this?? # Chemtrail Pattern Photos: http://www.sightings.com/health3/chemphot.htm # Chemtrails - Another Explanation? www.sightings.com/politics6/chemex.htm # Chemtrails DataPage: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/chemdatapage.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Computer Creates Fiction. TROY, NY (AP) Brutus creates stories about lies, self-deception acts of betrayal. There is no dark muse inspiring Brutus, though. No torturous plumbing of the writer's soul. Brutus is a computer program. Brutus.1 can write stories because its creators have condensed the complexities of deceit and double-crosses into mathematical equations it can understand. Characters facts of the story are fed into Brutus.1, and out comes 500-word tales that read very much like human prose. http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2000/feb/06/020600849.html : Do computers entertain you, lie to you, deceive you, program you? How many popular writers are actually computers, robots, aliens? Is everything propa- ganda, programming, fiction? Are these questions being written by computer? @ The Walkie-Talkie Theory -- Bipedalism Was Necessary For Human Speech Evolution: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/61.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Dolly-Team In Cystic Fibrosis Experiment. SCIENTISTS plan to create the world's first sheep with human cystic fibrosis, involving the team that cloned Dolly the sheep. It would be the first example of genetically engineering a large animal to give it a human disease. Mice and rats have already been used in such experiments, but the idea of cloning larger animals with the intention of making them sick raises a new question in a field of science which is already an ethical minefield. www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/02/06/stiscosco01001.html?999 : Would you rather experiment on human diseases and their cures by working on natural/re-engineered humans, animals, aliens, lawyers, me? If language is a virus, should we infect animals? Should mosquitoes be re-engineered to deliver vaccines, gene therapies, mutagens? Are animals morally equivalent to humans before/after being physically/mentally enhanced? Is morality bad? # West Nile Virus About To Return? Mass War On Mosquitoes? http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/mos.htm @
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000131a - - - - - - - - - - - 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? * Few family values were re-evaluated during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Email the Future: http://www.millennium-timecapsule.com/email/index.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FAMILY WATCHED AFTER DOOMSDAY OMEN. CORONA, Calif. (AP) - A family of six was under psychiatric observation after telling neighbors they planned to leave Earth - and then piling trash and their belongings in the center of their living room. The family had made doomsday predictions, believing the end of the world was coming. Found in a trance-like state - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563749792-64a : What's y'r favorite trance-like state? Will you leave Earth soon? Who/what will you take with you? Do you pile things in the center of rooms? Do voices in your head insist? What's your favorite doomsday prediction? Does it work? @ Saint John Coltrane Church http://www.saintjohncoltrane.org/ is about to go out of business because the rent has been hugely increased on its building. Via http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Lindsay/weblog/latest.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Historic' New NASA UFO Shuttle Footage With 'Stark ET Evidence' To Be Revealed. Short previews: http://www.ufomag.co.uk/NASA02.ram if you have a 28.8 modem http://www.ufomag.co.uk/NASA001.ram if you have a 56k modem. UFO Magazine has acquired 520 video tapes with over 2,500 hours of NASA space shuttle transmissions, recorded and logged by a Canadian TV station manager who believed the footage contained stark evidence of ET activity. http://home.sprintmail.com/~rigoletto/news/new_nasa_ufo_footage.html # Australian Sightings Defy Logic. I don't wish to bombard you with UFO sightings from W. Australia but what people are seeing lately over here defies logic. The latest sighting, in the early hours of this morning, Sunday 30th January 2000 is no exception: http://caus.org/mu013100.htm : What's your favorite UFO evidence? Does it defy logic? Is logic overrated? Is evidence overrated? Has y'r evidence or logic been manipulated by aliens, conspirators, deities, demons, robots, me? Is this irrelevant to insight?? # Geometrical UFOs: PENNSYLVANIA RECTANGULAR UFOs - FLORIDA CYLINDER UFO INVESTIGATION - MARYLAND FLYING TRIANGLE: http://www.caus.org/ft013100.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Anti-gay "family values" advocate faces 17 molesting charges. California politician and sheriff's sergeant Kevin Wright Carney is anti-gay, anti- abortion and anti-diversity. However, he is pro-child molesting, according to prosecutors. http://www.latimes.com/news/metro/2130/t09661.html # Nun cleared in abuse of students. Parents of 3 girls say the penguin was like really mean: http://www.freep.com/news/locway/punish28_2128.htm # UK School Video Tells Children To Try Gay Sex - better than screwing dogs: www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/00/01/30/stinwenws01032.html?999 : Does your belief system specify standards for treating children, adults, members of your own and other groups? Do your deities require you to be firm, unyielding, vigilant? Do they set you on the proper course? Where? # Priests AIDS Victims. KANSAS CITY(AP) Catholic priests in the US are dying from AIDS-related illnesses at a rate 4 times higher than the general pop- ulation; the cause is often concealed on death certificates. Too dumb to use condoms: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563751896-104 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists Capture First-Ever 3D Visualization Of Molecules Breaking Apart When Exposed To X-Rays. Israeli researchers have captured the first-ever time resolved "movie" demonstrating how molecules break apart when exposed to synchotron radiation. The findings may lead to improved techniques for studying biological molecules, as well as to pharmacological measures for preventing radiation damage, a common cause of cancer and birth defects. Look closer: http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000128074744.htm # Researchers Show That Proteins Can Transmit Heritable Traits. In what may lead to new techniques for genetic manipulation, researchers have altered a protein to transmit a specific trait from one generation of yeast cell to another. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000131081107.htm : Have you manipulated any molecules lately? Is it more fun to rip them up; glue them together; stick some inside others; all the above? What level of reality have you mastered? How much have you seen? How much is enough? Why? @ Scientific theories can never elude the subjective grip of the time and place where they arose.
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- In a message dated 1/24/00 10:14:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # High school officials approve anarchy club. Says Anarchist Student Union president Anna Propas, 15: "We're surprised that we got the club approved. We're the misfits of Irvington. We don't conform to what society thinks is normal." http://www.sjmercury.com/premium/local/docs/anarchist24p.htm : Are you a misfit anarchist? Have you organized a club of other anarchists? Do you have a set of by-laws? Is this the first step towards nothing? How? Clever and poignant observations Ric! I wonder who runs the damn thing, and how they organize the meetings!! I suspect that at a different time each month the members go to some place of their own choosing and hold a meeting, at which other members may or may not be in attendance, at which time they each individually propose ideas that are accepted or rejected by the others (if present), after implimentation all proposals are promptly ignored. ** *** "Welcome to the desert of the real." Morpheus, "The Matrix". "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of seas of infinity, and it is not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." H.P.Lovecraft; "The Call of Cthulhu" A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- [EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: I wonder who runs the damn thing, and how they organize the meetings!! I suspect that at a different time each month the members go to some place of their own choosing and hold a meeting, at which other members may or may not be in attendance, at which time they each individually propose ideas that are accepted or rejected by the others (if present), after implimentation all proposals are promptly ignored. You obviously have never spent any time around anarchists and know nothing of our ways. If you have read about us at all, besides the misleading common dictionary entry, you have clearly never read our version, not even the internet FAQ. A word of advice: research first, talk second, look smart afterwards. Meetings are what we do best. We believe, by definition, that one anarchist's opinion is worth as much as the next's. This has forced us to refine consensus decision making to a fine art. We're really good at it. The rest of you could learn a thing or two. Allow me to illustrate from my personal life. I'm part of a group that runs Bound Together Anarchist Collective Book Store, 1369 Haight St., SF CA. We've been in business twenty five years this year. We're open seven days a week fro 1:30AM to 7:30PM, 365 days a year. It's a store, like any other, except that instead of a boss we have a meeting once a month. I'm also part of the Book Fair committee, a sub set of the Book Store collective. Once a year we rent a hall in Golden Gate Park and throw the Annual San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair. Vendors come from all over the place. Three or four thousand people show up to hear speakers, buy books, periodicals, T-shirts, etc. and meet each other, some for the first time. We feed them. We clean up afterward. We arrange all the logistics and handle the money. We always come out ahead. We meet once a week for the three or months leading up to it and a couple times during the rest of the year. A decisions are consensus. Everybody does their part, well, and on time. This year it's on April 14. Do come. It's big fun. Also there are a lot of parties later. The membership of the Book Store collective overlaps with the staff of AK Press and Distribution and the staff of Maximum Rock and Roll magazine. Both are long term going concerns owned and self managed by their "employees." AK started in Edinburgh Scotland and is now literally a multinational corporation. If we can do this, you can do it to. It ain't rocket science. Any cook can govern. Govern your own job. Govern your own life. You'll be a lot happier. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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 - Monday #1
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000117a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 spymasters were harmed to produce this bulletin. But they're scared. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ dance! http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~preuitt/robot.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Planet faces 'abrupt changes.' (BBC) A US think tank gives a warning of unpredictable environmental upsets during the 21st Century. Prepare to die: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_603000/603707.stm # Also: World population still climbing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_453000/453680.stm # Extinction warning for freshwater species: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_465000/465712.stm # Climate disaster possible by 2100: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_443000/443837.stm : Are you ready for the prophesied planetary changes? Have you changed many planets lately? Is it a grueling experience? What's your favorite disaster?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ex-CIA Head, Wife Aboard Plane Crash. SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - Former CIA chief Adm. Stansfield Turner was among 17 people injured in a weekend airplane crash that killed his wife and others. Turner, CIA director under Pres. Carter, is in a San Jose hospital. His condition is not known. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/2116/wl/costa_rica_plane_crash_5.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_606000/606272.stm : Have you tried to kill any ex-spymasters lately? Did you succeed? Would'ya rather silence them with mind-numbing drugs, fiery death, mind-control rays? # Are the English violent? Cross-party politicians warn of growing national- ism violence as England searches for identity at a time of devolution. news2.thls.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking%5Fpoint/newsid%5F596000/596717.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ We have always had our Fiends. They have long fixed the romantic imagina- tion of priest poet alike. Once we called them Trolls, later they were named Demons, then they were Witches who brewed evil potions. Still later, the Monster was said to be the hungry Wolf, the Bogeyman, or the Godzilla of Cold War terror. Finally, some called it human ignorance and intoler- ance. For a time, they tried to tell us that monsters don't exist at all, that everything about reality was either known or would soon be known. But now we know better. We have made our reacquaintance with the Beast. We have learned its true name. http://www.vampires.com/index2.htm : What's your favorite Fiend? Are you Fiendish? Do you operate in mundane realms? Are humans mere fodder to you? Are you of this Earth? Are you... IT? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # VALUE AT INTERNET SPEED: "It used to be... that the intellectual capital of a school could be measured and priced according to the lecture the professor gave in a classroom of 30 executives. Today that same lecture could be taught simultaneously to 10, 20 or even 1,000 different classes worldwide." So what's it worth? http://www.ft.com/hippocampus/q324b52.htm @ McNikeSoft rulz. It's 2050, and there is only one company left. This makes life easy for lawyers, since it means there's only one large defendant to sue: http://www.nationaljournal.com/rauch.htm : What do you value? How d'ya measure it? Who do you drain? Who drains you? How fast does the draining occur? Is cybernetic vampirism very profitable? # Credit Cards Easy to Steal on Web - Security Flaws Found on E-Biz Sites: www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/01/15/credittheft0115_01.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Egypt: better deal for women? (BBC) Egypt's parliament is debating legal changes that would make it easier for women to divorce, and travel abroad. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_605000/605528.stm # Also: Egyptian wives turning violent: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_357000/357124.stm # Egyptian woman locked up by father: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_395000/395440.stm # Zippergate inspires Egyptian sex comedy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_432000/432570.stm : Should women be allowed to travel? Should men? Should robots? Do you fear spousal violence? Should you? Is this violence provoked by society, aliens, spies, disease, television/videogames/Internet, better weapons, new drugs? @ Marriage is not a mere strategy to propagate our DNA, argues Roger Scruton. It also serves the deeper moral purposes of our society. Not to mention sex: http://www.city-journal.org/html/9_4_a3.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mars Lander Search To End. PASADENA, Calif. (AP) The fruitless search for any sign of life from
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 000110a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 binary datecodes were decoded during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Dissertation Topic Generator http://www.stanford.edu/~turner/dissgen.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Fashion with a future. Imagine a jacket that pays your bills, a frock that sends email, or a dinner suit that cleans itself. These are just some of the new mind-blowing, high-tech innovations, known as "smart clothes" that you could be wearing in the future. But how to stop clothes from spilling your secrets? http://fashion.iafrica.com/trends/7309.htm?src_id=tmp0401 : Do you resent having clothes that are smarter than you? Can you out-think a vest? Will the laundry industry suppress self-cleaning clothes? Will you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DID IRISH MONKS BUILD THIS NEW ENGLAND CHAMBER CIRCA 700 AD? Curious stone chambers dot the New England countryside. Are they all potato cellars built by farmers? Most archeologists insist that they are. But some seem too sophisticated for such a mundane application. Go figure: http://www.knowledge.co.uk/frontiers/sf103/sf103a02.htm : Have you built any underground chambers lately? What do you store there?? Potatoes, UFOs, aliens, corpses, drugs, fish, mushrooms, aliens, robots, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cops: We saw a huge UFO -- really!: They laughed when the citizen report came in, but then the Missouri cops saw it and realized this UFO was real. "It's been driving me nuts since I've seen it," sez officer Craig Stevens. "I haven't been able to sleep for the last day and a half." The UFO moved blimp-like about 1,000 feet off the ground, was 2 stories high and 3 times as long. Of course, Stevens picked up the phone and called Art Bell. Yup. www.stlnet.com/postnet/stories.nsf/ByDocID/CDB95E73110536A98625686100418E43 : Have you seen [m]any UFOs lately? Did you call in? Did they laugh at you? Were you taken seriously? Did MiB come by and wipe your memory? Who are you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 7 Jan 00 Washington, DC # BUDGET 2001: CLINTON WILL CALL FOR A MAJOR SCIENCE INITIATIVE. A proposal for a major new science initiative will be in the President's 2001 budget request in February. As Pres. Clinton made clear in his speech in December (WN 10 Dec 99), the call will be for a "balanced" research portfolio--the unified message delivered by scientific societies over the past 3 years has sunk in. And the emphasis will be on "fundamental" research. You'll recall that in his first term Clinton stressed technology. That didn't fly with Gingrich Republicans, and opposition to NIST's Advanced Technology Program even led to efforts to abolish NIST (WN 8 Sep 95). But industry RD is up sharply in this economy, and there is a consensus in Washington that the government should concentrate its support on basic research. : How much cash would you spend on the future? How much is the future worth? # SNAKE OIL: FDA CAVES TO SUPPLEMENT INDUSTRY--AGAIN. The Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act of 1994, passed in response to a massive lobbying campaign by the supplement industry, turned the clock back a hundred years to the days of traveling snake-oil salesmen. It exempts "natural" dietary supplements, such as vitamins, minerals and herbs, from proof of safety, purity or efficacy. The only legal requirement is that dietary supplements not be promoted as preventing or treating disease. So what is "disease"? Compliance turned into a tightrope act. Two years ago FDA proposed a new regulation to cover such natural conditions as morning sickness, menopause and memory loss due to aging, within the definition. The industry launched a new lobbying campaign. Result? The FDA dropped the broader definition from the final rule issued this week. Pour out the snake oil, boys! Slurp. : Have you sold much snake oil lately? D'ya hire many lawyers? D'ya need to? # POKEMON: SPOON-BENDING PSYCHIC SUES NINTENDO. The litigious Uri Geller wants $96M for suffering he says he has endured as a result of having been parodied as a Pokemon character. Alakazam is described as an evil magician whose brain possesses incredible psychic powers. He is drawn with a spoon in each hand--and the same character is named Ungeller in Japan. It looked like more than a coincidence. Are other Pokemon characters also drawn from real life? This not being exactly the hotest news week of the year, the WN staff decided to investigate. Imagine our shock when we encountered Prof. Oak. He is drawn in a white lab coat so he must be a scientist, and is described as a kindly professor who
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 000103a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 millennia changed during production of this bulletin. Try next year. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ FREE! FREE! FREE! http://www.reuben.org/members/rwo/arch/991212.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Minister gives away $10,000 on orders of God. God woke Rev. Donald Alford last Friday and told him to give away $10,000 at New Year's Eve services. He did that -- to parishioners' disbelief. "Who's ever heard of a minister giving money to people in the congregation?" asks one. "People usually think of them asking for it." http://suntimes.com/output/news/chur03.html : Have your deities commanded you to do anything lately? Did they tell you to give money away? Did you hesitate? If my deities tell you to give me all your money, will you hesitate? Do you doubt my deities? Will you fear them? @ We've all seen enough of the apocalyptic nutballs looking forward to a http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/2360/index.html Hollywood-style Second Coming, but the Highlights from Prophetic School is a real doozy. http://www.creativityplus.com/godspeak/prophetic/ps_index.html Have a look http://www.creativityplus.com/godspeak/prophetic/ps_word31.html at their IRC sessions where the students are asked to come up with religious visions then describe them to the others. One female writes of a vision of Jesus saying to her "My bride, My bride, what a sweet aroma coming from My bride... Her desire for Me, her delight in Me..." Bible study is get- ting hot these days, and it's not just fire and brimstone! And see more and more at: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China UFO sightings reported. PUSALU VILLAGE, China (AP) - Poor farmers in Beijing's barren hills saw it: an object swathed in colored light arcing heavenward that some say must have been a UFO. They're not alone. People in 12 other Chinese cities reported possible UFO sightings last month. And UFO researchers were busy looking into claims of an alien abduction in Beijing. At the beginning of the new millennium, China is astir with sigh- tings of otherworldly visitors. Such sightings are treated with unexpected seriousness in this country usually straight-jacketed by its communist rulers. China has a bimonthly magazine devoted to UFO research. The con- servative state-run media report UFO sightings. UFO buffs claim support from eminent scientists and liaisons with the secretive military, giving their work a scientific sheen of respectability. Sorta like acupuncture, eh? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562998757-5c6 : Have you seen any otherworldly visitors lately? Were they polite? Do they smell bad? D'ya pursue them? Do they pursue you? Who catches whom? Who wins? @ Instead of abducting folks to UFOs for medical exams, as other aliens do, these aliens collaborate with "Contact People" perform medical research in aliens/humans clinic on earth. My name is Adrian Dvir and I am one of the 'contact people': http://members.tripod.com/~adriandvir/index.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SCIENTISTS PUZZLE OVER THE 'LATINO PARADOX'. Researchers are trying to explain why Latinos, though not having as high a socieconomic profile as Whites, have better health statistics. I credit: jalapeño peppers. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=17969 @ When all else fails, modern medicine should simply rely on the placebo ef- fect http://www.epub.org.br/cm/n09/mente/placebo1_i.htm to see patients through darker days. And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Health/ : What's your favorite medical mystery? Are placebos profitable? Should all drugs contain jalapeño peppers, just to be safe? Are jalapeños profitable? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Prison inmate sews eyes, lips shut. CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A prison inmate sewed his eyes and lips shut with dental floss because he feared the new year, officials said. New Hampshire State Prison guards found the inmate, who was serving time for cocaine possession, covered in baby powder and clutching a Bible Friday night, said Mark Wefers, chief of internal inves- tigations at the prison. "The inmate told corrections officers he was in fear of the new year," Wefers said. The prisoner, whose name wasn't released, used needles that guards found in his cell. It was not clear where he got the needles. The inmate suffered some blood loss, but not enough to warrant a trip to the hospital. He was being held at the prison for psychological and medical evaluation. ### : Do you face the new year with hope, fear, mania, ennui? Are you sewn up?? Should everyone be sewn up? Would the world be a better place
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-Caveat Lector- I once heard of an Irish monk who observed, with some bemusement, that Jesus Christ was born before the birth of Jesus Christ... -Original Message- From: Ric Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #1 - y2k minus 26 : Have you died been resurrected lately? Since Yeshua was born some years before 1/1/, didn't the millennium already happen? Did you notice? How? 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 991206a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 fat kids were maliciously starved to produce this bulletin. Gobble. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ EarthWeek Map: http://www.cnn.com/1999/NATURE/12/03/diary.planet/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China tracks red-haired corn-eating Big Foot. BEIJING (Reuters) - Standing 2.5 metres (eight feet) tall, with long red hair and a taste for corn on the cob, Big Foot is back and apparently running around a nature reserve in central China: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991206/02/china-bigfoot : If I match the description, should I watch out for Chinese agents tracking me? Are they closing in on me? How many of us are they after? Got any corn?? # Bigfoot Sighting in S.W.Pennsylvania: http://caus.org/pn120499.htm # Fireball Phenomena in Wisconsin: http://www.caus.org/mu120399.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GOOD HEALTH HABITS CAN EXTEND LIFE BY ABOUT A DECADE. People who don't smoke and who maintain low cholesterol and blood pressure levels can live about 6 to 9 1/2 years longer than those less careful about their health, according to studies of more than 360,000 patients. The research found dramatic, life-extending benefits for adults of all ages who have low heart disease risk factors, including abstaining from cigarette smoking. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=22816 : Is the pleasure of nicotine addiction worth a shortened lifespan? Would you rather be fit long-lived, or eat Big Macs every day? Can you choose? # LOW-FAT DIETS NOT PSYCHOLOGICALLY HARMFUL TO KIDS. Young children follow- ing a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet do not perform poorly in school or experience increased feelings of aggression, anxiety, or depression, sez a new report. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=22770 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Child-organ surgeon 'warned of time-bomb' (BBC) The professor at the centre of the Liverpool child organs scandal denies he is some sort of "Dr Frankenstein", saying he had warned of an "ethical time-bomb". http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_551000/551844.stm : What organs would you most like to remove? From whom? Should that be 'who' or 'whom'? How's your grammer? How's your gramper? Have you removed any/many organs lately? What did you do with them? Got any extras? May I have them?? # ALSO - UK Organ laws may be tightened: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_549000/549348.stm # Organ removal: the UK legal background: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_548000/548313.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The End of Sex as We Know It - Does the Smut Stop Here? The number of new pornographic sites is tapering off sharply, although its legions of devotees are as numerous as ever. What's going on here? Well, for one thing, it's harder to set yourself apart from the competition. http://wired.lycos.com/news/culture/0,1284,32530,00.html # Smut Goes to Court - Playboy vs the Communications Decency Act: http://wired.lycos.com/news/politics/0,1283,32864,00.html # Baptists Fight Web Filth: filter the undoctrinal, unscriptural, unnatural: http://www.lycos.com/news/flash/computers/baptistisp.html?v=wn1203lpv=1 @ Inflatable sheep! http://www.muttonbone.com/loveewe.html Who could ask for anything more? And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Sex/ : Is delivery of sexual content the Net's main function? If sexual content is suppressed, will the Net die? Will humans lose interest in life, perish? # Objects of Gaming Desire. New gadgets promise days, if not weeks, of dig- ital bliss. http://latimes.com/business/cutting/19991202/t000109822.html # Lara's return. (BBC) Tomb Raider's cyberbabe is back in a new adventure: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_548000/548174.stm # Boy hospitalized after Pokemon fight with brother. Frankly, I preferred the stories of moms wrangling in stores over Cabbage Patch Dolls. Kill for toys: http://www.cleveland.com/news/pdnews/metro/o05poke.ssf _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Greece deports U.S. doomsday suspects. ATHENS (AP) Suspected members of an American doomsday cult were deported to the US amid fears they planned to mark the new millennium with mass suicide. Under heavy police guard, the 16 members of the Denver-based group Concerned Christians were put on a plane to New York. The detainees, all U.S. citizens, were expelled after their residence permits expired. They were living in towns near Athens, where the group is thought to have settled after 14 alleged members of the group were booted from Israel in January. Govt officials feared the group members had planned violence or suicides on the eve of the millennium. The group's leader,
Re: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #1 - 11/29/99
-Caveat Lector- This was actually not a mistake; jurors were told to report to the old Navy Base, where they would be instantly transported to the year 1900 as part of Phase III of the Philadelphia Experiment... *Actually* actually, the city's Y2K czar was informed officially two weeks ago by the court administrator that the court computer system was in full Y2K compliance. In short, bizness as usual in Fluffya. -Original Message- From: Ric Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 5:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Monday #1 - 11/29/99 # Y2K - Remediation Fails - Hundreds Told To Show Up For Jury Duty In 1900 - Philadelphia in Disarray: http://sightings.com/politics5/y2kjury.htm 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 991129a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 un-indicted co-conspirators were harmed to produce this bulletin. Oy. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Grunge Jesus: http://www.fadetoblack.com//jesus2000/jc2000plf.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New UFO Classifications Proposed. 1) SINGLE OBJECT. 2) GROUP. 3) GROUP FORMATION. 4) TRIANGLE OBJECT. 5) TRIANGLE FORMATION. 6) BOOMERANG FORMA- TION. 7) BOOMERANG CRAFT. 8) "V" FORMATION. 9) CLUSTERS. Others: SPHERE - OBOL - PLASMA - RADIANT PLASMA. http://sightings.com/ufo5/newufoguide.htm : What's your favorite UFO? Have you reclassified any UFOs lately? Have UFOs reclassified you? Should UFOs be raced as Class AA Dragsters? Have you ever raced a UFO? Did you win? Did you get the pink slip? Do Reptilioids cheat?? Visitors Now Forever, Part II http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/visitors.htm Visitors Now Forever, Part III http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/vistors2.htm Visitors Now Forever, Part IV http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/visitor4.htm [There is no Part I. There is no Part V. The logic is irrefutable.] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Jesus 2000 contest. Jesus needs to be revisualised for the new millennium so that all His followers can feel a sense of brotherhood with Him. Your task? Design the new image of Christ! Make your mark on western religion. Redesign the paradigm: http://www.fadetoblack.com//jesus2000/ : If Yeshua's father was a nonhuman ET, shouldn't He be depicted as a Grey? Did Yeshua have little deedlybobber antennae like MY FAVORITE MARTIAN? Since Yeshua's crucifixion was faked and it was actually Simon of Cyrene who was nailed up, shouldn't the pictures be re-labeled? Who's y'r favorite Messiah? # Gospels rewritten again... and again... and again... and again... http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,35079,00.html $ THE CHRIST CONSPIRACY - The Greatest Story Ever Sold: http://www.truthbeknown.com/christ.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NASA to crash tiny probes into Mars. PASADENA, CA (AP) - Two softball-size probes are literally on a collision course toward the Red Planet in search of water to test technology that could revolutionize solar system explo- ration. "We're not your average mission - we're slamming into a planet at 400 mph." The hardy devices are cruising along with the Mars Polar Lander, which will begin its controlled descent on Friday some 18 seconds before the probes. Unlike the lander, the probes' 77-mile fall will not be slowed by pricey parachutes or thrusters. They'll penetrate the planet like lawn darts. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562315933-96c : What planet d'ya most wanna penetrate? Are women like planets? Are planets like women? Is NASA committing rape? Should Mars accept the inevitable? Why? @ FindPlanets: http://cannon.sfsu.edu/~gmarcy/planetsearch/planetsearch.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Star Wars Phantom Merchandise. Top secret sketches stolen from Lucas Arts studios: the "Jar Jar Binks Alien Dissection Kit", the sandwich-protecting security of your first "C3PO lunch box", and the dreamy relaxation of 100% cotton "Ewok sheets": http://www.chickenhead.com/features/starwars/ : What's your favorite SciFi movie tie-in product? Are such products always/ sometimes/never real alien technology? Do you dissect aliens with different tools than humans? Is George Lucas a Reptilioid? Are you? Do you buy this? @ Green Mutant Couch Potato: http://mediamonsters.com/couch/preintro.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y2K-R-Us: # Y2K - Remediation Fails - Hundreds Told To Show Up For Jury Duty In 1900 - Philadelphia in Disarray: http://sightings.com/politics5/y2kjury.htm # Y2K - Protecting Your Pets: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/y2kpet.htm @ Y2K - MILLENNIUM EVENTS: http://worldwideservers.org/millevents.htm # Y2K - Insurance to skyrocket in Y2K - get your term-life policy now: http://www.ratemasters.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?wndemailtext # Y2K - The World's Stock Exchanges Hunker Down for Y2K: http://www.foxmarketwire.com/wires/1129/f_rt_1129_1.sml # Y2K fears may bring more glitches: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562320312-4aa # Pakistan not ready for Y2K bug: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562316922-af7 # Fast Forward: http://fastforward.iafrica.com/index.htm?src_id=tmp0348 # Clinton plans to declare Y2K national emergency - soldiers in your home: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/19991129_xex_clinton_set_.shtml # Emergency agency expects the worst - Y2K may be more than govt can handle: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/19991129_xex_emergency_ag.shtml @ Y2K - Greet The Dawn Of The New Millennium: http://www.lightshift.com @ Y2K - MILLENNIUM SERVICE
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991122a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 intelligent Earth life was found during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ BLOOD, the film: http://www.eggthings.com/blood/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Walking robot may make its wearer incredibly powerful. She _Is_ Rambo: INFLUENCED by the robotic "exoskeleton" worn by Sigourney Weaver in the 1986 movie Aliens, engineers in Australia are building a two-legged industrial robot that will be able go places and do things no forklift truck ever could. http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991120/newsstory2.html : D'ya want an exoskeleton? D'ya want personal power? Will you need lubing? # Robotic space outposts predicted. PASADENA, CA (AP) In a lecture sounding more like SciFi than science, a NASA/JPL wonk said the next era of space exploration will involve missions that last for years rather than weeks and will eventually pave the way for manned probes to the planets. Rovers will colonize Mars, constructing robotic outposts probing every nook cranny: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562186447-69c : D'ya wanna be a robot so you can explore Mars? Do robots have all the fun? @ Robohoo! http://www.robohoo.com/ @ Robotics Sites: http://www-robotics.cs.umass.edu/cgi-bin/robotics/ @ Plant Automation: http://www2.plantautomation.com/content/homepage/ $ RobotBooks.Com: http://www.robotbooks.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ A MILITARY LEVEL OF INTELLIGENCE. We need to acknowledge a few things as facts assume a couple others. 1. Our universe is vast; yes, there are other life forms in it. 2. Our planet is not completely explored from the bottom of the seas to every part of all landmasses. Due to this, there are many life forms to be discovered. 3. Unknown air/space/ocean craft appear in our skies and the water ways. These are unknown to the majority of the people of earth. 4. The US Military has been continues to work on newer faster, more efficient deadly air/space/ocean craft. 5. Other countries in the world continue also to advance their knowledge of production of advanced air/space/ocean craft. 6. Yes, air/space/ocean craft have been recovered and are in the hands of govts or secret agencies worldwide. 7. Yes, backward technology is in use and has been for some time. 8. Yes, some on earth has had continues to have contact with other intelligent life forms not of our planet. http://www.caus.org/mc112099.htm : Is there intelligent life on/in/under/above Earth? Are you an intelligent lifeform, not of this Earth? Why did you come here? What are your goals? Do you want to have sex? Is the US military your plaything? Do we disgust you? # A "Not So Major Event": http://www.caus.org/mc112299.htm # Hovering Green Fireballs: http://www.caus.org/mu112299.htm # Confirmation - Alien Contact: http://www.caus.org/pc112299.htm # 5 Discs Physical Traces in 1971: http://www.caus.org/mu112099.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Volcanic Flashback on Io. (NASA) With another Io flyby less than a week off, JPL releases new data showing towering mountains, sizzling hot spots, enormous lava lakes on Jupiter's fiery moon. And some fools say there's no Hell: http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast19nov99_1.htm And: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_529000/529511.stm @ LINKS - Nasa Io Flyby: http://www.ioflyby.com/ @ Project Galileo: http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/ # New NASA probe to 'listen' to Mars. PASADENA, CA (AP) - A NASA spacecraft set to land on Mars next month will attempt for the first time to capture the sounds of the Red Planet - using a $15 microphone connected to a chip commonly found in talking toys phones. Unlike other instruments on the $165 million Mars Polar Lander, the Mars Microphone is privately funded has no clearly defined scientific mission. Its purpose is simply to catch the planet's noises, be they the whoosh of a dust devil, the crackle of lightning or the whir of sand blowing through the thin atmosphere. Dead silence is another possibility. Or the sound of alien tummies rumbling: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562187351-eb0 # Also: Are there any sounds on Mars? Will they be on the next .MP3? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562192134-1ce : Are you more interested in Martian sounds, Ionian vulcanism, the voices in your head telling you to KILL KILL!!! or the sex-life of the spotted owl?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ AeroSpace News: @ SpaceDaily: http://www.spacedaily.com/ @ NASA Human Spaceflight: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/ @ Aviation Week Online: http://www.awgnet.com/ @ Leading Edge: http://www.aerospacenews.com/pcast/daily.htm @ Space Online:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991108a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 goldfish, geeks or Reptilioids were branded to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UK'S 1999 Crop Circle Season Had Some Surprises - Year's Best Featured Spectacular Details Never Seen Before: http://caus.org/ccr110899.htm @ Images: http://cropcircleconnector.com/1999/Avebury/Avebury99a.html and www.cropcircleconnector.com/1999/StantonStBernard/Stantonstbernard99a.html : Have you improved your crop-circle designs lately? Are you adding great, specftacular details? Do the voices in your head offer aesthetic advice?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Animals-R-Us: # Pets Cut Dangerous Surges In Blood Pressure. ATLANTA (Reuters) Facing a stressful task? Trade your husband or wife for a dog or a cat. NOW!! http://news.excite.com/news/r/991108/08/odd-health-heart-pets : Would you rather have a cat, a dog, a husband, a wife, a robot, or me? Do you raise your companions' blood pressure? Do they raise yours? How? # Psychic: Dog may have been military leader in past. (AC) She paid $15 to learn about her Boston terrier's previous lives, but was shaken by the revelation about Amanda the dog. "Goodness, who knew?" she asked. Does atrocity lurk in every pet? http://www.azcentral.com/news/1108pet.shtml : Is your pet a reincarnated mass-murderer, demagogue, conquistador? Who? Who's your favorite historical figure to have been reincarnated as y'r pet? # British Reporter 'Tortured With Branding Iron.' LONDON (Reuters) An award- winning TV documentary maker who exposed extreme elements within Britain's Animal Liberation Front (ALF) said he was kidnapped and tortured with a branding iron. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991108/08/odd-crime-branding : Would you rather brand animals, reporters, lawyers, aliens, robots, me? Do you brand/torture many of your adversaries? Do they brand/torture you? Why? # School-spirited Texas teens spray-paint animals. To "celebrate" the big upcoming football game, high school kids spray-painted cows and pigs (in green gold, the school colors), and fatally beat some animals, including ten prize-winning turkeys. http://dallasnews.com/metro/1107met5turkeys.htm : Do you have a love/hate relationship with animals? Do voices in your head direct your attitudes/behavior towards animals? Should animal activists burn HS students with branding irons? Is it OK to molest a pig who was Hitler in a previous life? Is spray-painting animals good for your blood pressure? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Woman to fight her "blessed day" discipline. Her bosses told her to knock off the "blessed day" business, but Liz Anderson is determined to keep it up. She hired a lawyer to file a religious discrimination complaint. "My telling people to 'have a blessed day' is not taking anything away from anybody:" http://starnews.com/news/citystate/99/nov/1107st_blessed.html : Do you annoy people with your verbal blessings, exorcisms, curses, other spiritual statements? Do others annoy you with such language? Will you sue? # 500 Falun Gong sentenced to slave labor, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561966743-f73 # Also: China building Falun Gong cases, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561950702-24e _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Five men arrested after scary "supernatural encounter." Dressed as Ninja warriors for martial-arts practice, the guys pounded on a minister's door at 2 a.m. after they were confronted by a beast-like demon. "We just wanted to talk to the pastor because Shaun was pretty spooked" - but the cops were called: http://www.courant.com/news/archive/Nov7-ctnews6.stm : Have you encountered any demons lately? Did you run to a pastor? Were you exorcised, busted, cursed, obliterated? Are you a beast-like demon? Really? @ THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO BEING PSYCHIC at least declares its honest regard for its readership: http://www.csicop.org/si/9909/book-review.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS - Jesus expelled from class - 'Poster' boy, 7, fights decision with crayons, lawsuit: http://nypostonline.com/news/17606.htm $ 'Brave New Schools' - Get this expose of the public school system: https://locked.webforums.com/forums/secure.o-read/msa64.211.html : Have you promoted your belief system in a tax-supported venue lately? Do you mind if your taxes support the promotion of other people's beliefs? Eh? @ Harry Keeler's mysteries give us a world that is idiotic, to be sure, but also pleasingly weird and lunatic. Here are crimes whose solutions are exquisitely unreal: http://www.sfbg.com/lit/october99/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Vatican vs. Scotland - Church blasts end to ban on promoting homosexuality:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991101a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 gangsters were devoured raw during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Ulysses for Dummies: http://www.bway.net/~hunger/ulysses.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Web cam seeks ghost in library. EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - On a cold winter morning in 1937, a janitor grabbed his flashlight and headed down into the pitch-black basement of the Willard Library to stoke the coal furnace. But then, so the story goes, he was stopped cold in his tracks by the ghostly vision of a woman dressed in gray, from the veil covering her face down to her shoes. Since then, a number of Willard staff members have reported seeing the shadowy "Lady in Grey" or witnessing weird happenings among the shelves. And now anyone can try for a sighting. The Evansville Courier Press has installed a video camera in the 114-year-old library and still pictures are posted on the newspaper's Web site every 30 seconds. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561852018-7b0 : Have you seen any ghosts lately? Are you a ghost? What levels of reality do ghosts inhabit? What levels of reality ARE there? How do you know? Have you switched levels lately? Did you see Elvis there? Is he fat and happy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # France Embraces Halloween. PARIS (Reuters) Witches, ghouls and an orange army of pumpkins invaded France Sunday, breaking down all that was left of Gallic resistance to Halloween, long seen as a US commercial conspiracy. Marketing triumphs: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991101/07/odd-halloween : Are all belief systems commercial conspiracies? Do you sell artifacts of your beliefs? Are your beliefs just commercial artifacts? Who sold you your beliefs? Did you pay dearly for them? Would you rather rent your beliefs?? # All about El Cucui, a half-animal, half-man "bogey man" known to Latinos: http://expressnews.com/pantheon/salife-ent/arts/2901pel-cucui-1029nz.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Settlers may have crossed Atlantic. SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) In a radical new view of pre-history, two prominent archeologists say North America's first inhabitants may have crossed the icy Atlantic Ocean some 18,000 years ago from Europe's Iberian Peninsula. The theory is at odds with the long-held notion that the continent's first settlers came across a land bridge from Asia. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561865099-826 @ Who were the first Americans? Theories being floated today would have been laughed out of the lecture hall fifty years ago. But they didn't know then what we know now: http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/news/9j31amer.htm : Are you American? Where are you from? Where are you going? Are alien ETs involved? Are your journeys physical, temporal, mental, spiritual, clonal? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 6 Koreans accused of cannibalism. SEOUL (AP) Six gangsters were busted for killing a friend eating his liver. They were accused of killing a fellow gangster for disobeying gang bosses. The gangsters told cops they ate the victim's liver as part of their pledge to keep the alleged crime a secret. Yum - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561849066-ed1 : Have you devoured anyone lately? Were they tastey? Is your lifestyle dan- gerous? Would you mind dying, being killed, being devoured, being forgotten? @ If you thought mountain biking http://extreme.nas.net/ was dangerous, then try mountain unicycling: http://members.aol.com/MitsuAvaco/muni_sc.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Russian Gangs Killing Street-Kids For Organs. BERLIN (AFP) - Germany's secret service says Russian gangs are killing street-children and selling their organs to rich patients in Russia and the West. Russian police are powerless to stop the organ trafficking. Police in Saint Petersburg have found over the past few years more and more bodies of street-children with their internal organs removed. http://russiatoday.com/news.php3?id=105618 : Have you stolen/sold/bought any human organs lately? Have you had your own organs removed to transplant to others? Willingly/otherwise? Which organs?? @ Jonathan Glover's history of the 20th century is a catalogue of evil and a study of the psychology and politics that can drive cultures mad: http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/10/24/stibooboo01011.html?999 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Science puts Freud to the test. NEW YORK (AP) Sigmund Freud might concede that a cigar is just a cigar. But on the larger issue he was adamant - a dream is never just a dream. So what IS a dream? The question has divided students of the mind for a century. Freud argued that dreams are windows into an otherwise unreachable mind, "the royal road to the unconscious." But
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990927a - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : Few inhabited planets were impacted during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Fashion Crime Bingo: http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~jasoncsl/fishstick/bingo.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New Virus Detected; Is it from the Plum Island Animal Disease Center? With New Virus, Experts Suspect More Died of Encephalitis. Having found they've most likely been looking for the wrong virus, public health officials are investigating whether as many as eight more people than previously reported have died in New York City's mysterious encephalitis outbreak. http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/regional/092799encephalitis.html # New York Fatal Mosquito-Borne Illness May Be African Virus. The mosquito- borne killer disease may not be St. Louis encephalitis, as experts have thought, but rather a similar disease that has never been diagnosed in the Western Hemisphere. http://sightings.com/health3/africanvirus_h.htm : Have you bred/spread a new biowar virus lately? Do you prefer a virus that attacks neural tissue? Are you optimizing its delivery systems? For what?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MASS MARKETING: Over the course of several weeks in 1963 some 900 folks in the villages of Mbale Kigezi, Uganda were seized en masse by a maddening compulsion to run wildly thru the streets clutching chickens and screaming until they fell from exhaustion. Scientists diagnosed it as mass hysteria. : Have you ever run around clutching chickens screaming? Were you insane, hysterical, mind-controlled, or being initiated into a college fraternity? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Prion Diseases Spreading Through Grains? SANDPOINT, ID - Though "mad cow" disease may have spread to UK cattle that ate sheep brains, the infectious crystalline agent responsible, called a prion, did not likely originate there. A new theory on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) suggests the sheep became initially contaminated by eating fungal infected grains. Deadly TSEs foreshadow a "biological apocalypse" that will make "AIDS seem like an appetizer at a cataclysmic picnic." http://www.sightings.com/health3/prion_h.htm : What's your favorite prion? Have you developed/tested/spread any prions lately? Are you working on a "mad chicken disease"? Do you control KFC?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Morse Code Translator. Security is big these days - with all these expert systems 1024 bit crypto blahblah, one tends to be wary. Enter the one only Morse code translator! Use this page to translate to/from Morse Code. You can listen to the translation too! Now when the Boss demands adherence to special security codes, you can rest assured that your code will make the final cut! http://www.soton.ac.uk/~scp93ch/refer/morseform.html @ Hushmail. Got the pun in the name? Here is a beta version of a new free email facility. Two interesting features are 1024 bit encryption (far better than other free email facilities), and the ability to attach files to your hushmail messages. http://www.hushmail.com/ : Do you trust free security, free email, free Morse code? What email/codes do your Reptilioid/Republican masters use? Are they free? Are "free email" services actually run by biz or govt intel groups bent on stealing y'r data? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Space-O-Rama: # Cosmologists Stretch to Explain Birth of Galaxies. A model of galaxy formation that shows bursts of star-forming activity about 10 billion years ago is igniting debate among cosmologists about how galaxies began. http://www.space.com/science/astronomy/starburst_990921.html : How did your galaxy begin? How will it end? With a bang or a whimper? Why? # The Milky Way Will Never Be the Same. Astronomers say the Milky Way - our home galaxy - is destined to be involved in a disastrous intergalactic collision. http://www.space.com/science/astronomy/big_banger_990921.html : Do you love big crashes? Do you stop and gawk? What's your favorite crash? # Star-Eating Mass Found Near Center of Milky Way. A huge X-ray hiccup has given away a hidden black hole or neutron star, presumably as it finished making a meal of matter from a nearby star. Yummy yummy. http://www.space.com/science/astronomy/saggitarii_burst_990920.html : Have you eaten any stars lately? Did you spread marmalade on them? Tasty? # Forecast Calls for Exciting Meteor Shower. Scientists are beginning to understand a November meteor shower called the Leonids. To know Leo is to love Leo: http://www.space.com/science/astronomy/leonids.html : Do you prefer meteor showers, meteor baths, meteor bubble-baths? Fizzly?? # Migrating Planets. Did the solar system always look the way it does now? New evidence indicates that the outer
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990920a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Theosophists were incinerated during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ New 'Dykes to Watch Out For' cartoon: http://www.washblade.com/forum/cartoons/dykes/990917a.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Magnets bring zero gravity down to Earth. NEW YORK (Reuters) Free-floating frogs are 'pioneers' in research that may someday let us float effortless- ly in space - right here on Earth. "In our experiments, we levitated prac- tically everything at hand, from pieces of cheese and pizza to living creatures including frogs and a mouse." Using forces of "diamagnetism:" http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990917/hl/mag4_1.html : D'ya prefer real or virtual antigravity? D'ya like to float? Is it fun? Do you float often? Are you floating at this moment? Do you fall much? Where?? # If a big-time scientific or scholarly journal publishes a new theory, it's probably wrong. In fact, it's almost certainly wrong: http://www.slate.com/Economics/99-09-15/Economics.asp _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GAY BIRDS PARENT TOGETHER AT ZOO. Zoo keepers involved in an ambitious breeding program for endangered Griffin vultures are getting a helping hand from a vulture couple that, ironically, doesn't breed. Keepers noted that Dashik and Yahuda, two male vultures at Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, had built a nest together and were mating. So they decided to give the couple an artificial egg to see what would happen. Dashik and Yahuda are good parents: http://cnn.com/NATURE/9909/18/gay.vulture.parents/index.html : Do gender roles control parenting? Does gender preference determine value? Were your parents better or worse than two gay vultures? Are you a good egg? # Gender stereotypes: it turns out that we don't impose them on our children after all. They impose them on us: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990904/newsstory2.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ PROTECT US! When, on his way home from work, a Chesapeake TV-shop owner encountered an occupied "flying saucer," little did he expect that this classic "UFO abduction" would fuel a controversy now reaching its peak with the prospect of a lawsuit against Virginia Gov. James Gilmore for his failure to acknowledge and to repel this invasion of our air space and private space. http://caus.org/mc091899.htm : Have you ever sued a govt for failing to protect you from UFOs? Did you win? Have UFOs ever harmed you? Are UFOs worse than lawyers? Which ones? # When a scientist fakes his data, peers ought to catch him out. But what of the supposed link between electromagnetic fields and cancer? http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/OPINION/t76909.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Totally MAD. (AP) Next time you suspect someone of being an off-planet alien, ask them to identify the most famous saying of Alfred E. Neuman, and if they don't respond "What - me worry?" call the cops. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19990906/tc/compubug_mad_1.html : If you're not MAD-savvy, are you an ET or just culturally illiterate? Are you an ET? With what cultures aren't you conversant? Can you fake humanity? @ Want to become a leading French intellectual, jetting to conferences where American academics worship at you feet? Just follow these simple instructions: http://www.linguafranca.com/9909/inside.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PERSONAL CONTACT EXPERIENCEs (PCEs) - Unseen Forces. I had an experience last night. I was asleep (sleeping on my back) and I got a "sensation." I've had these before (probably dozens of times by now). I feel like some force pulls me. Usually it feels like something is attacking me and I am usually pulled up into the air feet first. But this time it pulled me up forward but then quickly down - like my body was pivoted at the point of my waist. http://caus.org/pc091899.htm : Have you ever been pulled by unseen forces? Were you awake? Did the forces ever release you? Are you still in their grasp? Are you awake now? Why not? @ Carl Sagan combined integrity, generosity, and a polemical style that advanced his quiet dissection of the follies and fancies of our times: http://www.sciam.com/1999/0999issue/0999reviews1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ TOPOLOGICAL GEOMETRODYNAMICS AND CONSCIOUSNESS. The basic assumption of T(opological) G(eometro)D(ynamics) is that physical spacetimes are representable as surfaces of a certain 8-dimensional space M4+ x CP2, where M4+ is the future light cone of Minkowski space and CP2 is complex projective space of two complex dimensions. In the following the basic ideas of a TGD inspired theory of consciousness are described shortly. http://www.teleport.com/~rhett/quantum-d/posts/matti_6-25-96.html : Is your consciousness a quantum effect? Is "free
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990913a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 deprogrammers were harmed during the production of this bulletin. Yet. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientology's Revenge. For years, the Cult Awareness Network (CAN) was the Church of Scientology's biggest enemy. But the late L. Ron Hubbard's L.A.-based religion cured that -- by taking it over. http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/1999-09-09/feature_p.html : Are you a Game Master in a cult? Have you programmed anyone lately? Have you seized your opponents? Is there no one left to stop you? Are we doomed? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ BOOK OF ENOCH. (4) And the eternal God will tread upon the earth... (5) And all shall be smitten with fear, And the Watchers shall quake, And great fear and trembling shall seize them unto the ends of the earth. (6) And the high mountains shall be shaken, And the high hills shall be made low, And shall melt like wax before the flame. http://id.mind.net/~wolfc/library/ancient/enoch/enindex.htm : Do your deities tromp around on Earth, scaring people, shaking mountains, melting hills? Are you a deity? Have you melted any hills lately? Is it fun? Are your Watchers justifiably nervous? Are you a UFO? Are they Watching you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Clinton given Falun Gong book. AUCKLAND,NZ (AP) As China and the US sought to mend damaged ties, Pres.Jiang Zemin gave Pres. Clinton an unusual gift: a book defending China's ban on a popular meditation sect by purporting to expose crimes committed by Li Hongzhi, founder of Falun Gong, the popular outlaw group. Titled "Li Hongzhi and His Falun Gong: Deceiving the Public and Ruining Lives," the 150 pages in English are a relentless barrage of propaganda from China's state-run media. The book contains gruesome photo- graphs of Chinese allegedly made so crazy by practicing Falun Gong that they committed suicide, were killed or mutilated their family members. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561126728-d2b : Does meditation drive you mad? Have you mutilated your family? Have they mutilated you? Does your sect practice mind-control? Are you good at it?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt. Leedskalnin took issue with modern science's understanding of nature. He flatly stated that scientists are wrong. His concept of nature was simple: All matter consists of individual magnets, and it is the movement of these magnets within materials and through space that produces measurable phenomena - that is, magnetism and electricity and so on. http://www.gizapower.com/ : Are your concepts of nature simple? Is nature simple? How well do y'r con- cepts map-onto observable reality? Are you magnetic? D'ya take enough iron? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Divining Water on Europa. (NASA) Circumstantial evidence for water on Europa mounts as JPL scientists try an ingenious experiment to find hexagonal water-ice crystals on the frigid surface of Jupiter's iciest moon. http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast09sep99_1.htm : What's your favorite frigid surface? Would you like to ski or ice-skate on Europa? Would you install a ski-lift there? Are there prospects for profits? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ 'Spirit Releasement' Newest Therapy / CE-VI - Close Encounters of the Possession Kind. Through the voices of the clients in altered states of consciousness, these alien beings reveal their purposes for being here, they describe their homeworld civilizations, and many express the desire to go "home." In some cases, the ET commandant on a nearby spacecraft, and even the leader of the ruling High Council on the homeworld, will speak through the voice of the client. http://www.newpara.com/baldwin.html : Do ET commandants speak to you if your state of consciousness is altered? Altered by what? What do they say? Have they revealed their purposes? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # E.T. - Don't Call Home - A spacecraft thinks for itself. NASA's fleet of robotic spacecraft has generated scads of data about the solar system over the past 40 years. Yet, for all the insights these unmanned missions have provided, the spacecrafts are pretty dumb. A recent experiment, tho, could make the next generation of planetary explorers smarter, more versatile less expensive. http://www.techreview.com/articles/oct99/benchmark4.htm : Are you intimidated by spacecraft that're smarter than you? Do smart NASA spacecraft talk to you when your state of consciousness is altered? Saywhat? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mars climate orbiter takes 1st photo. PASADENA, CA.(AP) The first picture snapped by a camera aboard the Mars Climate Orbiter shows the red planet from 2.8 million miles away looking like a tiny, out-of-focus piece of elbow macaroni.
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990906a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 nabobs of negativism nattered during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Satanism In Russia: Cops Bust Devil-Cult Boss. MOSCOW (AFP) Russian police arrested a leader of a Satanist cult that allegedly planned several blasts and may be linked to last week's shoppingmall bombing. Cops busted Mikhail Naumenko AKA "the hippopotamus," 22, a literature student known to police as an ultra-radical. Naumenko's devil-worshipping cult, the Black Dragon, is suspected of planning bombings in popular spots during the weekend's Moscow festival. Weapons, drugs, explosives found - see http://www.russiatoday.com/news.php3?id=89985 or http://www.sightings.com/politics4/RussiaDevilCult_u.htm : What's your favorite devil-cult? Do you blow up things/people? Do voices in your head insist? Is it divine will? Are you a hippo? Do you use drugs?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ AE SPECIAL PRESENTATION: THE ROAD TO RAPTURE. The End Time. For thousands of years mankind has feared it -and searched for clues to its coming. This 2-hour AE SPECIAL PRESENTATION: THE ROAD TO RAPTURE reports on multitudes expecting the Rapture. When will the Rapture arrive? Many believe that in an instant millions of people will disappear from the face of the earth, shedding their clothing, shoes, eyeglasses and jewelry. More goodies for the rest of us: http://www.aetv.com/viewers/premieres/9909rapture.html : Do you expect to be Raptured? Will anyone miss you when you go? D'ya care? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Circuit rider. (DN) Catholic missions are a major part of America's past. Years ago, Capistrano, Carmel San Luis were adobe outposts for circuit- riding priests. But not everyone realizes Catholic missions are also part of America's present. Horses have given way to horsepower, but "mission" priests and sisters still canvass the same territory. Road warriors for Christ - whether they be itinerant ministers, roving elders or wayfaring fathers: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,115006910,00.html : Are you a holy road warrior? Do your deities make you travel? Would you travel anyway? Do voices in your head push you onwards? Will you ever stop? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Moonies Seek Eden In Brazil Swamp. A sprawling ranch in impoverished cowboy country, set on the edge of Brazil's remote southwestern Pantanal swamplands, seems an unlikely place to create a vision of paradise on earth. But for the Moonies, the controversial religious sect formally known as the Unification Church, it is a Garden of Eden in the making. Thousands of the sect's devotees, mainly from Japan, Korea the US, have flocked to this backwater corner of Brazil to help to plough the rocky red soil. http://lineone.net/times/99/09/04/news/world/timfnffnf02008-d.html : Have you sought Eden? Have you found it? Can you build it? Did your leader direct you to Eden? How did your leader find it? Who bought it? Who sold it? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ DNA, THE REAL WORD OF GOD, A SHOCKER! So people are going to church and singing songs and taking the coded messages about DNA and themselves and the universe literally and they are missing the entire encrypted message. They are missing the entire encrypted message because they refuse to obey Jesus' words about the single eye. In fact they call it New Age cultism and refuse to consider it. Scientists say of DNA that "it carries the instructions for life on this planet. It is like a tape whose parts when played on the appropriate cell machinery are translated into the various protein componenents of organic cells. It is organized into genes." In other words it is Genesis. http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/dna.html#SHOCKER : Are divine messages encoded within you? Have you encoded divine messages into any lifeforms? Has your encoding been broken by MicroSoft yet? Will it? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New Curve Makes Life Predictable. Albert Einstein's dictum that God "does not play dice" is turning from a great man's aside into a universal truth. Scientists from Britain, France and the US have discovered a mathematical curve that seems to explain seemingly random events, such as aircraft tur- bulence and forest fires. Their findings challenge the pre-eminence of the bell-shaped curve, the standard device used to forecast probabilities in diverse areas. The new curve is broader more gently sloping, suggesting that the rarest events occur more often than predicted by the bell-shaped curve. http://www.ft.com/hippocampus/q14ae5a.htm : What's your favorite curve? Is it predictive, complex/chaotic, relative? Do gods play dice with the universe? What are the stakes? Who wins/loses?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CLOZAPINE
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990830a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 squirming gerbils were lobotomized during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Take $250 And A Chip Implant - Company Foreshadows Future. If you have any doubt that a New World Order of total surveillance and control is about to arrive in your neighborhood, then browse a website http://www.idchip.com that gives a foreshadowing of the future, and may tip your scales toward total hysteria. http://www.sightings.com/politics4/comp.htm : Have you tipped over into total hysteria yet? Is it stimulating? With your new implant, do you feel better than ever? Are you safe now? Do you control? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Human Brain Implant Research Suspended At Major University. The University of Albany has shut down the research of a psychology professor probing the "X-Files" world of government surveillance and mind control: http://ufocity.com/breaking/bn-125.cfm http://www.sightings.com/health3/humanbrain-x.htm @ And: Mind Control - The B.I.T.E. Model: http://www.shassan.com/srmind.htm @ And: Electromagnetic MC Projects: http://trufax.org/research/projects.html @ And: Electronic Brain Implants: http://www.artvt.com/mindcontrol.htm @ And: Mind Control and Drugs: http://www.morethanconquerors.simplenet.com/MCF/victm-hm.htm#Born http://www.lycaeum.org/drugs/synthetics/lsd/acid_dreams1.html http://www.drugtext.org/psychedelics/marks.htm http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/ http://www.visitations.com/mindcontrol/intro.htm http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/ - Human Experimentation http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/volume3/chap03/v3c3-1.htm : Would you rather have y'r mind controlled by implants, drugs, subliminals, rays, sex, pain? Have you conducted any MC experiments? What works best??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # WHERE NOT TO BE ON NEW YEARS EVE. (Reuters) Hong Kong police, in getting ready to deal with any systems failures or a possible crime spree at the New Year stemming from the computer millennium bug have plans for 5,000 officers patrolling the streets said Assistant Commissioner of Operations Cheung Chi-sum. Cheung said leave during a four-week period straddling the New Year had been restricted and the force would cancel holidays if necessary. "In the unlikely event of that (disruptions) occurring, we have plenty of police available to induce calm and reduce panic," Cheung said. : How many cops d'ya need to induce calm? Would you rather induce calm with police, drugs, mind-control rays, alien implants, chocolate, lobotomies??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GIRL SACRIFICED TO GODDESS. (Press Trust of India) A 3-year-old girl was sacrificed recently in southern India to appease a Hindu goddess and bring wealth to a group of laborers. Police say that workers in a stone quarry abducted the youngster, offering her as a "blood sacrifice" to the goddess Kali. Her decapitated body was found next to a stone crushing machine; police say that the area was decorated with flowers, coconuts and other ritualistic items. "She was allegedly sacrificed to propitiate the goddess so that the unit (of workers) could have better prospects," said a police department spokesman. No arrests have been made. ### : Who'd you like to sacrifice? To which deities do you sacrifice? Have you sacrificed anyone lately? Did you benefit? Are your deities pleased? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Inside Falun Gong. Earl Rhodes was a 33-year-old junkie and alcoholic try- ing - and failing - to kick his bad habits. Two years ago he discovered Falun Gong, the mind-body discipline which has taken China by storm, de- spite its disciples being labeled dissidents, and which is now gaining popularity in the West. Rhodes's conversion was apocalyptic unequivocal. http://thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/visitors/review.html?in_review_id=166411 : Has your belief system cleaned you up? Have you transcended your previous programming? Do you try to reprogram others? Do others try to reprogram you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Chernobyl Becoming Macabre Tourist Destination. KIEV (AFP) - "Just one day in the Chernobyl radiated zone will leave you with fond memories," brags a tour operator in Kiev as if he was selling a trip to the Caribbean. "Don't think twice, go for it!" he urges. The damaged Chernobyl plant, symbol of death by radiation and nuclear madness, is strangely becoming a tourist attraction: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/chern.htm @ And: Are Illuminati Signaling The Aliens? http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/therevelation.htm : Are radioactive disaster sites best used as tourist attractions, agronomic research stations, alien beacons, religious retreats, legislative chambers?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ % AIDS-a-Rama: # NEW HIV VACCINE
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# Naked ghosts scaring Iraqi drivers. BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Ghost stories are
pretty common around the old Iraqi city of Haditha. Still, when the ghosts
start dancing naked in front of oncoming motorists, it makes quite a stir.
Drivers passing through Horan Valley outside the town of Haditha, 135 mi.
northeast of Baghdad, reported that "ghosts appeared next to the bridge,
naked and doing some acrobatic moves." Tales of ghosts in the Horan Valley
are common, but these ghosts were "throwing themselves before cars, caus-
ing the drivers to panic." Motorist Shawki Sabar said "they were almost
human - although I could not concentrate on their looks because I was so
scared and it was dark." And the opium/hashish mix was kicking in. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560814935-062
: Do you prefer ghosts naked, clothed, iridescent, neutral, garlanded, fat,
skinny, evanescent, stick-like? Do you prefer ghostly people or vice-versa??
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# Absence makes males pine away. BOSTON (AP) So who pines away longer, men
or women? Researchers say the more time spent apart after sex, the more
eager men were to copulate with their lovers again. But women don't feel
the same way - and it doesn't matter how much time has gone by since the
couple last fucked. In a survey, women were generally unaffected by separ-
ation. Men are unwittingly responding to an urge from way back in human
evolution: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560802947-207
: Are you lonely tonight? Do you miss me tonight? Are you sorry weve drifted
apart? Do you want to fuck again? Do you care that you're driving me mad??
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# Boys Programmed For Violence. BOSTON (AP) - Raising boys to be strong and
silent is promoting the outbreak of mass school shootings and a broader,
smoldering climate of despair among male teen-agers, experts suggest. "I
think we have a national crisis of boys in America." Psychologists resp-
onded to public concern over recent mass killings at schools, saying U.S.
boys are still reared largely in keeping with the traditional code of male
toughness, which encourages boys to take action but squelches expressions
of feeling and gestures of physical affection by and toward boys. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560805049-759
: Are you a US male? Are you programmed to kill? Who directed the culture to
instill violence into young males? Is this an ancient plot? Was is {JHWH}??
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# Lutherans reject gay pastors. DENVER (AP) The Evangelical Lutheran Church
in America rejected a bid to axe its policy barring actively homosexual
clergy. The denomination will continue to permit homosexual pastors who
agree to a celibate lifestyle. A report from five denominational agencies
said the 5.2-million member church should not shrink from "the sometimes
discomforting experience of looking anew at our inherited tradition." See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560814355-302
: Does your belief system embrace discomforting experiences? Do your dogmas
program violence into young men? Do your deities insist on such programming?
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@ http://newprayer.com/index.htm
No one can doubt the Power of Prayer.
How do we know if our prayers are heard?
What do we know about the location of GOD?
We know that GOD was at the birth of His universe.
We know how the universe began - with a 'Big Bang'.
We know Where the oldest part of the universe is located.
We can transmit radio messages to this precise location.
Why not transmit our prayers to where we know GOD resided?
NewPrayer has designed and built a directional radio transmitter.
For a small fee NewPrayer will transmit your prayers to this location.
: Would you rather contact your deities by radio, telephone, blinker lights,
signal flags, tom-toms, laser beams, xray pulses, gravitrons, hand gestures?
How do you locate your deities? Do you use a compass, kirlianscope, dice??
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ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE UK:
# One in five choose alternative medicine. (BBC) A fifth of the British
population uses alternative medicine, a survey for BBC Radio discovers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_426000/426432.stm
# Alternative medicine: Special report. (BBC) We examine the issues surroun-
ding alternative medicine as research shows they are increasingly popular.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_425000/425986.stm
# What is alternative medicine? (BBC) Not all practitioners agree on what
constitutes alternative - some deny there is
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990816a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 political operatives were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Do You Believe In Magic? ROME (Reuters) Nearly a quarter of Italians believe in magic, fortune-telling, astrology and spiritualism, spending a total one billion lire ($547,000) per year on them, according to a poll released Friday. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990816/08/odd-italy-magic : Does magic work for you? Do you work for magic? How much cash do you spend on fortune-telling, spellcasting, hope? What's your Return On Investment?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists see Susy. (BBC) The first experimental evidence for a theory of matter called supersymmetry may have been uncovered. Antigravity particles too? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_421000/421929.stm @ Links: Particle Physics in the UK: http://hepweb.rl.ac.uk/ppuk/ @ Guide to CERN: http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~jward/guide/cerntextpics.html @ The Particle Adventure: http://pdg.lbl.gov/cpep/adventure_home.html # Also: Hunting the Higgs: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_299000/299550.stm # Matter or antimatter, that is the question: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_336000/336001.stm # Getting to the heart of the matter: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_86000/86030.stm : How is your universe structured? How did it get that way? Would you like to change its basic structure? Into what? What's your favorite antiparticle? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CuraGen Discovers 55,000 Genetic Variations. NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Reuters) CuraGen Corp., a drug discovery and development company, said that it has discovered more than 55,000 genetic variations (cSNPs) located in human genes. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990816/08/science-health-curagen : How many variations are in YOUR genes? Are you damaged, distorted, mutant, misengineered? Did your creator(s) really muck you up, gene-wise? How come?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ACLU may sue over evolution decision. TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The American Civil Liberties Union says school districts could face lawsuits if they attempt to teach creationism in wake of the state school board's recent decision to de-emphasize the teaching of evolution. Other groups may join in - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560705705-40d : Did you evolve, with the prospect of evolving further, getting better? Or were you created just as you are, with no hope of any improvements? Why??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Navigation bug fears. (BBC) Sailors, pilots and hikers around the world are warned that their Global Positioning Systems may fail next Saturday, when the system's time signals will automatically reset themselves to "week zero". Some receiving systems, particularly older ones, may believe the date is 6 January, 1980, and fail. Don't get lost in the woods, eh? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_421000/421553.stm @ Links: GPS Links: http://www.cnde.iastate.edu/gps.html @ Navstar GPS: http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/nav/gps.htm @ Magellan: http://www.magellangps.com/ @ Garmin: http://www.garmin.com/ : Will you be lost when GPS resets? Will your plane crash? Will Reptilioid operatives use this opportunity to disorient humanity? Will anyone notice? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Bush Refuses to Answer Rumors of Cocaine Use: http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/Reuters19990814_463.html http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/08/14/president.2000/bush.interview/ # Author of FIDNET Computer Surveillance Plan Tries to Ease Fears: http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/biztech/articles/16monitor.html # Making The World Safe For Wiretaps: http://www.msnbc.com/news/301009.asp # Shooting unites religious groups - Jews Episcopals mingle: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560726363-ed0 # Also: Anti-Semitism fans new violence, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560708820-26a # And: Report says officer lax with LA suspect, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560707197-a8f @ International Crop Circle Database: http://www.interalpha.net/customer/pvigay/CCDataBase.html @ Appointment With An Alien: http://users.iol.it/an.digaetano/medium.htm @ UFOs in Italy, talk in English: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/ufoitaly @ Skeptical References: http://www.hutch.demon.co.uk @ More Roswell Stuff: http://www.roswellrods.com/pre.html @ UFOs-R-Us, etc: http://www.ufo-net.clara.net # Gun show held at Colorado school - "screw Columbine": http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560724416-e8c # Also: Students set to return to Columbine, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560714706-a68 # And:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990809a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 psychedelic penguins were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The X Phones: When radio host Art Bell takes a call, it could be from a physicist, an abductee or the Antichrist. Then there was the fellow who found and, he thought, killed an alien being in the Cascade Mountains. He stuffed the creature in a freezer in his garage and later heard it scream- ing to get out. A week afterward he saw three vans in front of his house and unknown men going in. He drove away. When he came back, they were all gone. The men. The vans. The alien. And the freezer. It coulda been worse. http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,28855,00.html : Would you rather talk to physicists, abductees or antichrists? Are you one yourself? Have you ever killed an alien? Was it stolen from you? D'ya care? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Warning over 'Nazi' genetic screening. (BBC) Development of a technique to weed out embryos at high risk of cancer has prompted warnings of the Nazification of medicine. Ve haf vays to make you healthy... http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_415000/415136.stm # THE MEDICAL CONSEQUENCES OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCES. A study of breast cancer in Asian-born women in the U.S. says they are more likely to have larger tumors and more advanced disease at diagnosis than white women, or U.S.- born Asian women. It's traced to the lower use of mammograms by these women: http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14700 : Which medical technologies do you try hardest to avoid? Is your aversion due to cultural or personal biases, ignorance, mind-control rays, religious doctrines, careful study evaluation, political principles, random factors? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Capitol Hill Meltdown. (TIME) While the nation sizzles, Congress fiddles over measures to slow down future climate change. Congress, says Environ- mental Defense Fund lobbyist Steve Cochran, has become "completely dysf- unctional" on global warming. Steve Forbes doesn't believe it's happening. : Why does Congress oppose abortion, so human populations swell, and support global warming, so Earth will become uninhabitable by humans? Is their alien masters' agenda 1) harvesting people 2) changing Earth for their comfort, then 3) wiping us out? How many congresscritters are Reptilioid/Republican? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SURPRISING RISK FACTOR FOR SUICIDE. A long-term study in England reveals some interesting information about who might be likely to commit suicide. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14697 : Are you at risk of suicide? Have you suicided yet? Did you really try?? # URBAN RUMOR ALERT: MEXICAN SHOPPING TRIP. Here is another one for the Hoax Watch files - it's a new one, so maybe we can stop it early on. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14698 : What's your favorite urban legend? Do rumors shape your environment? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Flop forecast for Europe's eclipse. (BBC) The latest weather forecast is depressing reading for those Western Europeans who want to watch the total solar eclipse on Wednesday. They'll to watch each other instead. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_415000/415310.stm # Eclipse scientists in the swing. (BBC) The total eclipse of the Sun on Wednesday could settle a 45-year scientific riddle once and for all. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_415000/415273.stm : How many eclipses have you seen? How many have you survived? How many have you learned anything from? How many have you predicted? How many happened?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE ALERT! AUGUST 10-11, 1999. Go to the bottom right newsclipping from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and with the upcoming eclipse, you have the stats that relate to this prediction. If the eclipse triggers this one off, it is aspected to hit at 7:12PM-PDT, within an 80 -mile radius of the Los Angeles area on August 10, and register a 6.2 on the Richter Scale. http://www.astrostats.com/disasters.htm : How many eclipses have caused earthquakes? Do you have statistics? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China 'blocks Pope visit' (BBC) Beijing is reported to have barred plans by Pope John Paul to visit Hong Kong. But we'll always have Paris, lover. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_415000/415092.stm # Inside Falun Gong: The meditation sect is electrifying China and terrify- ing Beijing's leaders. What does it take to become an outlaw in China? Promote democracy, organize an illicit labor union -- or spend an early- morning hour in a park moving your hands around an imaginary wheel.
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990719a - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : Some infinitives were badly split during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Preacher Can Clean Toilets To Avoid Trial. BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) A judge told Argentina's best-known television preacher to chose between cleaning public bathrooms for 2 years or standing trial for alleged criminal fraud. Televangelist Hector Gimenez faces charges that he defrauded a worshiper at his "Good Waves" shrine, illegally selling the worshiper a house using a bogus contract. Gimenez's shrine also includes a shopping mall, beauty salon, car rental firm and game room. Giminez's deity was unavailable for comment. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990719/08/odd-argentina-preacher : Do you buy real estate from televangelists? Do you trust televangelists? Do you trust their deities? Would you buy real estate from a deity? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pope insists on Iraq visit. AMMAN, Jordan (UPI) Pope John Paul II insists on visiting Iraq next year as part of his religious pilgrimage to mark the third millennium. The Pope will include Iraq in his tour of the region de- spite US/Israeli pressure not to do so. "The pontiff has informed everyone that his visit is a religious pilgrimage and not a political one, and no party, no matter how strong, has the right to interfere in the Vatican's affairs." http://news.excite.com/news/u/990718/10/international-pope : Do you have a right to interfere in Vatican affairs? Does the Vatican have a right to interfere in your affairs? What Vatican plot do you want to foil? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ HQ2O: WATER FROM CYBERSPACE. HQ2O is natural spring water from the fount- ains of cyberspace. Q2O is tap, filtered or spring water taken from the corporate headquarters of such high-tech firms as "Yahoo!", "Wired" or "Tripod". Each bottle of HQ2O contains water from a corporate water cooler which can then be diluted with natural spring water or any other beverage of your choice for a unique drink experience. http://www.hq2o.com : Is this the holy water of the 21st century? Are you more blessed with H2O from Yahoo!, Wired, MicroSoft, Toshiba, Genentech, IBM, VaticanOnline, me?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientist Stirs Dispute On Stuff Of Life. (Reuters) ZURICH (Reuters) Craig Venter, the US scientist accused by critics of trying to license the stuff of which life is made, sees nothing wrong with using business sense along- side science to crack the genetic code. Your DNA could be a corporate asset: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990719/00/science-health-celera # Viagra Gives Plants A Boost. JERUSALEM (Reuters) The lifespan of plants, fruits vegetables could be doubled with doses of the impotence treatment drug Viagra, but the cost would be punitive. But they would die happy. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990719/00/science-plants-viagra : Who owns the stuff of life? Who owns the life of plants? Do plants have a right to be happy? Does your DNA have a right to be happy? Do you? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # World's biggest X-ray telescope rivals Superman's vision. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) The biggest, mightiest, most expensive X-ray telescope is about to embark on a five-year voyage to gaze deep into the hearts of galaxies and search for signs of black holes. Chandra X-ray Observatory, a 4 1/2- story colossus due to launch with shuttle Columbia, is 10-100 times more powerful than any of the dozen or so X-ray telescopes previously placed in orbit. If words glimmered in X-rays, Chandra could read a newspaper from a half-mile away or make out the letters of a stop sign from 12 miles away. "We can make Superman jealous, I guess, with our X-ray vision" - NASA. http://www2.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,71714-113387-803944-0,00.html : Who is your favorite superhero? Does s/he have psychosexual problems? Is s/he human, alien, divine? Have you built any instruments that match/exceed his/her/its powers? What superpower(s) would you like to have? At what cost? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Shoot the Moon. 30 years after the first lunar landing showed us a boring, lifeless world, scientists are revising their notions of our moon-and of the 65 others in the solar system. Some of these satellites may harbor the conditions for life, and promise to hint how life begins - or fails. In short, moons rock. http://newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/st/sc0104_1.htm # Finally, a travel guide to the moon - Book for 'first-time visitors' is one giant leap for publishing. (MSNBC) On July 20, 1969, humans walked on the moon for the first time. 30 years later, Frommer's travel publications has launched a guidebook
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990712a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 quadratic equations were solved during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Brazil A New Age Magnet - Awash In Millennium Cults. BRASLIA, BRAZIL -- You check your guidebook to see if you've stumbled onto a set for a sci-fi movie. In fact, you've found one of Brazil's biggest tourism attractions: New Age cults awash in Y2K fervor. Promoting a rich brew of religious and mythical tenets, most predict an apocalypse greatly moderated by the paradisiacal times beyond: http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/awash.htm : Do you look forward to Y2K? Does your cult cash in on millennial fever? Is it fun, touristy, exciting, cynical? Have you built an Armageddon themepark? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Establishing crocodiles museum in Aswan. The Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities may establish a museum of crocodiles and water creatures in pharonic Egypt in the Kom Ombo area in Aswan, which was a main center for worshipping the god SOPECK (crocodile), a symbol of good in ancient Egypt. Kom Ombo temple includes 300 mummified crocodiles as well as a group of water creatures, animals and mummified insects that were famous in ancient Egypt. http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_07_10item=#931642395 : Did ancient Egyptians worship crocodiles to honor the Reptilioids who gave them mathematics, agriculture, astronomy, construction technology hot sex? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A new face for an old religion. They believe in one Supreme Being who is all-knowing, all-powerful and all-loving. They believe in abstaining from gambling, alcohol, coffee, tea, tobacco illicit sex. They send thousands of young folks into the world to share their beliefs. And they're in Utah, subsidized by Mormons. Members of today's Int'l Society for Krishna Con- sciousness are not your father's Hare Krishnas. Once viewed as a haven for ragamuffin college kids, the Hare Krishna Movement has gone mainstream. But what about the troubling stereotype of hippie kids hassling airport commuters? http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,100010399,00.html : Is your belief system a dominant heresy? Where? Is ISKCON just heretical Hinduism? Have you ever hassled airport commuters? Is it fun? Do you spawn? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Unabomber' Ted Kaczynski Was CIA Mind Control Subject! At some point in his Harvard years -- 1958 to 1962 -- Kaczynski agreed to be the subject of "a psychological experiment." The chief researcher for these was Dr. Henry Murray, of the CIA's predecessor organization, the Office of Strategic Services, who zealously prosecuted the CIA's efforts to carry forward experiments in mind control conducted by Nazi doctors in the concentration camps. The CIA's mind experiment program was vast. How many other human time bombs were thus primed? How many of them have exploded? Doses of LSD, psilocybin and other potions: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/kaz.htm : Do you use or administer mind-control drugs? Are you a human time bomb? Is it fun? Am I controlling your mind right now? How d'ya know? Am I dangerous? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Homosexual tendencies aren't genetic traits, researchers claim. Despite characterizations made by politicos, several mental health organizations even some church leaders, homosexuality is not a genetic predisposition, the authors of a new book say. But they aren't geneticists or population scientists, so FI. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,100010390,00.html : Is your sinful behavior caused by genes, demons, alien implants, CIA mind- control technologies, your evil nature, random factors, microscopic radioac- tive spiders from the galactic core, god's will, brain worms, me? Is it fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Iranian Ambassador wants all of Palestine. [MEMRI] Iran's ambassador to Syria foresees that "Israel would cease to exist within 50 years" and that the conflict between the Hebrew State and the Arab countries wouldn't "end with the signing of peace agreements because we want all of Palestine and Jerusalem." http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_07_11item=#931717958 : Does your belief system promote the extermination of members of competing systems? Have you taken active steps to exterminate competitors? Are your competitors trying to wipe you out too? Do you deserve to be exterminated? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ UFO chipped from iceberg above the Arctic Circle: @ Ice Age Alien discovered in Turkey: @ Ladonia Alien skeleton? @ Documentary Proof found of Roswell Aliens: @ 200,000 Year Old Female Baby found in MOON Rocks! @ UFOs and Aliens exist. It's Official: @ Alien Solar System: @ People who see UFOs and ETs are NOT 'Whacko': @ Heavy Light: @ Abduction by ETs
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-Caveat Lector- Andrew Hennessey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- # Do aliens exist? An Islamic perspective. (DAWN) In spite of all the res- earch, first hand experiences and beliefs about the existence of extra- terrestrial, there is one aspect that confounds me. Why is it that the people in the subcontinent mostly encounter jinns, the presence of which is verified in the Holy Quran, and those living in the West mostly enc- ounter aliens and their ships? http://dawn.com/weekly/review/review6.htm but western women have been finding djinn a tonic for years - always a good 'pick me up' ... Andrew I think we had better scotch this one before it goes any further... ;^) Bob = 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
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990705a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 tachyons were observed during production of this bulletin. Just wait. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Bleak outlook for UK eclipse watchers. (BBC) Iran could be the best place to get a good view of this summer's total solar eclipse, with people in the UK facing the prospect of cloudy weather. Call Teheran for a visa: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/eclipse99/newsid_385000/3 85669.stm How far would you go to see an eclipse? Do the voices in your head tell you where? What eclipse rituals must you perform if the sun is to return? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Where Aliens Aren't A Foreign Concept - UFO Believers Have A Close Encoun- ter Group. The blinking red button on Tom Benson's madras shirt wishes you a Happy 4th of July as he talks about the 3rd time he encountered aliens. Many people misunderstand flying saucers, he says from behind his vendor's booth at the 30th annual Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) symposium being held this weekend. "The vehicle's not physical. It's an energy construct," exp- lains Benson. "It's your consciousness or soul that gets taken on board." http://washingtonpost.com:80/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-07/03/098l-070399-idx.html : Have you encountered many aliens lately? Have you traveled on their ships in a physical or virtual mode? Does your implant itch, tingle, buzz, drone? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The end to traditional culture and values? (S.Africa) Does urbanisation and education have to mean an end to traditional culture and values? Are we prepared to learn, and take the best of all the different colours in our Rainbow Nation, or do we simply condemn? Check out this week's Rubitin: http://iafrica.com/forum/index.htm/?src_id=tmp0327 : Does your belief system embrace/reject old/new values, culture, mores? Can /should/does your culture evolve? Was your belief system started/changed by humans, aliens, deities, machines? Do inflexible cultures deserve to die??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Do aliens exist? An Islamic perspective. (DAWN) In spite of all the res- earch, first hand experiences and beliefs about the existence of extra- terrestrial, there is one aspect that confounds me. Why is it that the people in the subcontinent mostly encounter jinns, the presence of which is verified in the Holy Quran, and those living in the West mostly enc- ounter aliens and their ships? http://dawn.com/weekly/review/review6.htm : Does your belief system encompass ETs? Do ETs' attributes vary depending on the belief system of the human observer? Do different aliens visit East and West? Do they have distinct zones of occupation? Is Earth partitioned? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ultra-Orthodox throw tear gas, garbage at secular drivers. JERUSALEM. Hun- dreds of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators threw garbage tear gas at secular Jews driving thru their neighborhood during the Jewish Sabbath. The major thoroughfare, straddled on both sides by an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood, has become a symbol of the struggle between religious and secular Israelis over the nature of the Jewish state and the role of religion in it. http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_07_3item=#931060209 : Does your belief system promote throwing tear gas, garbage, other stuff at those who don't adhere to your beliefs? Is it fun? What else do you throw?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SEXBOTS. Engineers, programmers and futurists believe that programmable robots that provide sexual companionship are likely to be commonplace in the 21st century, at more or less the same time as computers become able to process information as quickly as the human brain. If you thought the fight over the CDA was bad, wait till Rev. Falwell and his pious cronies discover Sexbots. http://slashdot.org/features/99/03/09/1544207.shtml : Would you rather have sex with robots, clones, aliens, goats, trees, me? What're the ultimate providers of Safe Sex? How much will they cost? Why?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # The Darwin Awards: http://www.darwinawards.com/ # TREASURY SECRETARY KIDNAPPED - video "super classified": http://cnnfn.com/1999/07/03/bizbuzz/wires/rubin_wg/ # POLICE: 17 CHILDREN INVOLVED IN NEIGHBORHOOD SEX RING: http://cnn.com/US/9907/04/AM-ChildSexRing.ap/index.html # Race hate suspect dead - white supremacist committed suicide: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_386000/386153.stm # Israeli Jew shot in Chicago says Israel only safe place: http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_07_4item=#931130485 # BEYOND THE DRUM: THE RICH HERITAGE OF NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC: http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9907/02/wb.native.american/index.html @ Netomat: The Non-Linear Browser - Software as artwork:
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-Caveat Lector- # Do aliens exist? An Islamic perspective. (DAWN) In spite of all the res- earch, first hand experiences and beliefs about the existence of extra- terrestrial, there is one aspect that confounds me. Why is it that the people in the subcontinent mostly encounter jinns, the presence of which is verified in the Holy Quran, and those living in the West mostly enc- ounter aliens and their ships? http://dawn.com/weekly/review/review6.htm but western women have been finding djinn a tonic for years - always a good 'pick me up' ... Andrew 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: Andrew Hennessey [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Do aliens exist? An Islamic perspective. (DAWN) ... Why is it that the people in the subcontinent mostly encounter jinns, the presence of which is verified in the Holy Quran, and those living in the West mostly encounter aliens and their ships? http://dawn.com/weekly/review/review6.htm but western women have been finding djinn a tonic for years - always a good 'pick me up' ... Obviously it was Gordon's djinn that lost the battle, eh? singing "I'm drunk again / I been drinking that Gordon's djinn Well I tried to quit, but it just ain't no use I just can't cut that hoo-juice... loose..." guitar solo If this rings a bell with anyone here, please respond in email. Subject: THE RESURRECTION OF PIGBOY CRABSHAW. We'll reminisce... 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 990628a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Theosophists were seriously injured during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NYSE boss, Colombia rebel boss meet. BOGOTA (AP) It was an unusual pitch by the head of the New York Stock Exchange, delivered in Colombia's steamy southern savannah to a senior commander of the hemisphere's oldest/largest leftist insurgency: Make peace and get great economic benefits from global investors. "We are very aggressive in trying to pursue international mark- ets and opportunities." The promise of capitalism for Marxist FARC terror- ists: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560092355-1b8 : Which terrorist insurgents would you like to invest in? Would you like to own a piece of the emerging FARC state? Would cocaine profits be adequate? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Flying saucer' grounded. (BBC) A Russian aviation project which tried to turn science fiction into science fact has been thwarted by lack of funds. Aviation engineers in the Russian city of Saratov developed a small proto- type craft 2 years ago. But the project is now broke and has been shelved. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_379000/379221.stm : Would you like to invest in flying saucers? Do you want to supply flying saucers to Marxist terrorists? Are flying saucers already smuggling drugs? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Los Alamos postpones biowarfare test. (AP) Scientists have postponed ind- efinitely a planned Monday open-air release of bacteria that would have been used to test biowarfare detectors intended for battlefield use. The planned tests at Los Alamos Nat'l Laboratory have raised questions about the lab's openness with the public as scientists expand their research into identifying and defending against biowarfare agents. Accidents? See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560083536-964 : What types of biowar tests would you like in your neighborhood? Would you prefer local biowar test be run by gov't, business, terrorists, aliens? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ROD SUSKIN. iafrica.com is proud to welcome on board one of South Africa's top Astrologers - Rod Suskin. Rod's alternative lifestyle page offers books, links, a weekly horoscope by Rod and - starting early July - a daily horoscope! http://rodsuskin.iafrica.com/?src_id=tmp0326 : What nation has the top astrologers? Is "foremost astrologer" an oxymoron? Is astrology a mind-control device, like religion, videogames and the Net? Does "alternative lifestyle" translate to "show me the money, suckers" ??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Scream' evidence barred from trial. (AP) The boys were obsessed with the horror movie "Scream." They talked about it many times to each other and with friends. Then they moved to replicate those in the 1996 Wes Craven film. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560091104-244 : Do violent media presentations make you want to kill? Do war movies incite wars? Is your mind-control program working successfully? Is the judge trying to suppress disclosures of media mind-control programs? What's his payoff?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ How High Is High? Venetian women of the 15th Century wore platform shoes as a status symbol - and some shoes were almost a meter high! Pictorial history of a staggering trend: http://fashion.iafrica.com?src_id=tmp0326 : Are disabling fashions forms of social control? Are aliens behind platform shoes, foot-binding, wasp-waisted corsets, body piercings, sheathe dresses? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # French revive Paris Mean Time. (BBC) As part of their millennium cele- brations, the French are once more laying claim to the Prime Meridian. "The French are revolting again. This time it is over the location of the line of longitude from which all time zones are referenced." Whew: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_38/380035.stm @ Links: Greenwich - the home of time: http://www.greenwich2000.com/ @ Universal Time - promoting metric time: http://www.universal-time.org/ @ Atomic Web Clock: http://www.bldrdoc.gov/timefreq/javaclck.htm @ Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM): http://www.bipm.fr/enus/ : How many time systems does Earth need? Which is your favorite? Do you have your own time system? Does anyone else use it? Did you steal it from aliens? Are you as revolting as the French, Reptilioids, UFOlogists, me? Or worse?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Muscular robots planned for Mars. (BBC) Scientists are developing a robot, which will walk on legs using artificial muscles, to explore Mars. A pro- totype of the machine - called a Birod (Biomorphic Robot with Distributed power) - has been built at the University of Arizona. Hunky little monkey:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990621a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 teletubbies were sodomized during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China Sends Its Own Lama, 9, to Tibet. BEIJING - In a renewed effort to win the loyalty of Tibetans, China's atheistic Communist Party has sent its own "reincarnated soul boy" to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa to be the "beloved religious leader of Tibetan people." Most Tibetan Buddhists still revere the Dalai Lama as their god-king, which angers Beijing and has led to widespread religious persecution. By custom, Dalai Lama has authority to pick the Panchen Lama, which he did in 1995. His choice, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, was arrested then. http://iht.com/IHT/TODAY/SAT/IN/tibet.2.html : Should govt's control religions? Should religions control govt's? Do your belief systems have god-kings? Would you like to be a god-king? Is it fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ TECTONIC STRAIN THEORY AS AN EXPLANATION FOR UFO PHENOMENA: Explanations for UFO phenomena have ranged from social misperceptions and delusions to some variant of mystical or extraterrestrial intelligence. But the only testable concept that has been formulated to date is the Tectonic Strain Theory or TST: Most UFO phenomena (not due to frank misobservation) are natural events, generated by stresses and strains within the earth's crust. http://www.laurentian.ca/www/neurosci/tectonicedit.htm : Does the Earth fool you? Is TST just Reptilioid/Republican disinformation to distract you from The Truth? Were you abducted/implanted by tectonics?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hide the good silverware. DALLAS - Craig Karges has this little thang of bending spoons, tilting tables, making things levitate with his mind. He calls himself an "extraordinist," because "psychic" is used too freely and cheaply these days. He doesn't run a call-in hotline to tell people about cheating partners; he performs tricks of intuition, gets the audience's attention, then tells how to build their intuition to make life easier. For example, he teaches how to use a pendulum to solve daily problems. http://www.dallasobserver.com/1999/current/nightday2.html : What personal problems can you solve with a pendulum, other than using the line to strangle some insufferable SOB? Are you extraordinary? Who notices? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Take me to your loonies. LONDON - Who says all space explorers want to be first to walk on Mars? This weekend London hosts a festival for astronauts who would rather "play three-sided football, have sex and hold raves" in space. Launch: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/visitors/review.html?in_review_id=1474 65in_review_text_id=119982 : On other planets, would you rather walk, drive, fly, party, fuck, inject, scrimmage, email, visualize, fantasize, sleep, work, eat, remember, forget? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Alien Abduction Prevention Kit - Don't Leave Home Without It. "This Awareness indicates that this is a psychological defense that you may use in regard to the psychoelectronic monitoring that aliens frequently do in their hunting process. This Awareness indicates the term generally used is the "harvesting" process. They see this action as a kind of harvesting." Protect yourself today: http://www.conspire.com/protect.html : What steps have you taken to prevent your abduction by aliens? Have you cleansed your body mind, wrapped tinfoil around your head, eaten magnets? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Diana: Conspiracy Plots Thickens? http://www.londonnet.co.uk/ln/talk/news/diana_conspiracy_news.html # Sheriff Seeks Columbine Plotters: http://jeffrense.com/politics4/stone.htm # DA Probes NM Cow Deaths: http://www.abqjournal.com/news/6news06-09.htm @ 10 Commandments Not Gun Control: http://latimes.com/990620/t55467.html @ Chaos Fractals on Wall St.: http://zolatimes.com/V3.22/chaos1.htm @ Pre-20th Century UFO Sightings: http://www.jeffrense.com/ufo4/pre20.htm @ Enigma Channel - ParaNorm TV: http://ufoinfo.com/ufoinfo/news/enigma.html # Commercial Venture Calls ET: http://www.msnbc.com/news/273893.asp # More crop circles: http://www.marque.demon.co.uk/Update/update99.html # Pope John Paul Prays For Peace In Kosovo, Kashmir - nobody listens: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990620/08/news-yugoslavia-pope # Army Approval of Witches Stirs Up Cauldron of Trouble http://www.sltrib.com/1999/jun/06191999/religion/2431.htm # Eastern religions captivate West - cultural takeover imminent: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/99/06/st061405.html @ A Theory of Information Warfare: http://www.cdsar.af.mil/apj/szfran.html @ The Occult Technology of Commercial Imperialism / Business Collectivism: http://msen.com/~jhdaugh/a-albionic/gopher/conspiracy/books/eastind.txt @
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990614a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Imperial stormtroopers were lasered during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ THE DEVICE THAT WORKS EVERY TIME! MIRACULOUS BREAKTHROUGH For Men: The Circle Device is the only product in the world made to increase the length of the penis while working, exercising or just hanging around (no pun int- ended). The longer you wear it, the longer your penis will become. There is no limit! And the Device is Guaranteed for Life! www.dfranceinc.com/ # Aids growing among over-50s. (BBC) The over-50s, who account for one in 10 Aids cases in the US, are the latest focus of HIV prevention campaigns. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_366000/366702.stm : Do Viagra and The Circle Device promote ElderAids? Does wearing The Circle Device indefinitely result in a penis of indefinite length? Does HIV care? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Rabbi's ruling sparks outrage. JERUSALEM (AP) A rabbi's reported ruling against giving medical attention to non-Jews on the Sabbath sparked calls for the army to strip the rabbi of his combat officer rank. A letter signed by Rabbi Amicha Rontsky declared: "Of course the life of a Gentile has value ... but the value of the Sabbath is more important." So much for humanistic ethics: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559919401-09d : Does your belief system value a time-span more than it values human life? Does your belief system value any other dimension of mass-energy space-time? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # US suspects some of smallpox weapon. NEW YORK (AP) US gov't officials say Russia, Iraq and North Korea are probably concealing deadly smallpox virus for military use. Evidence includes disclosures by a senior Soviet defector, blood samples from North Korean soldiers that show smallpox vaccinations, and the fairly recent manufacture of smallpox vaccine by Iraq. This finding was an important factor in President Clinton's recent decision to reverse course and forgo destruction of American stockpiles of the virus. The bugs of war: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559903591-d44 : What's your favorite BioWar agent? Are you involved in any conspiracies to use smallpox or other BioWar agents? Who would you like to infect? Who else? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Nuclear power needed' to fight climate change. (BBC) 2 science societies say nuclear power does have a part to play in combatting climate change. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_368000/368584.stm * INCANSESCENT PICKLES. Recent anecdotal reports of novel principles of ill- umination have stressed qualitative aspects. This note presents a quantitat- ive study of an organic illumination system, characterizing the temperature and current-flow properties of the system as functions of time and device parameters. Theoretical and practical implications of these measurements are discussed. http://www.research.digital.com/wrl/techreports/html/TN-13/ : Will you stockpile pickles for emergency lighting? What is your favorite glowing vegetable? Do you prefer nukes, cukes, blackouts, global warming? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Golden mummies discovered. (BBC) Archaeologists in Egypt have announced finding at least 200 mummies, some with golden masks, in a huge cemetery in the Western Desert. The burial ground, near a desert oasis, is believed to contain more than 10,000 mummies, making it the biggest ever uncovered, http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_367000/367103.stm : Were Reptilioids mummified? Has discovery of ET mummies been suppressed? What would you do with a ZetaReticulan mummy? Are they good as aphrodisiacs? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # HE'S DEAD, JIM - R.I.P. DeForest Kelley aka Dr Leonard "Bones" McCoy, 79: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_367000/367110.stm # ASTROS MANAGER SUFFERS SEIZURE DURING GAME - ET implant misfires again: http://cnnsi.com/baseball/mlb/news/1999/06/13/dierker_collapse/index.html @ Orgasmatron: http://www.disinfo.com/disinfo?p=drawercategory=Orgasmatron @ Cryptozoology Index: http://www.pibburns.com/cryptozo.htm * How To Deconstruct Almost Anything - My Postmodern Adventure: http://www.communities.com/paper/deconstr.html @ The Page of ANXIETY: http://ic.net/~kottca/ @ Y2K Anxiety News: http://ic.net/~kottca/y2k.htm @ The New World Order: http://ic.net/~kottca/nwo.htm @ CIRCLE-MAKERS: http://www.head-space.com/circlemakers/ @ 60 Greatest Conspiracies Of All Time: www.conspire.com/ # EUTHENASIA - Special Report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/health/euthanasia/basics.stm @ History of the Lobotomy: http://public.carleton.edu/~vestc/lobotomy.html @ Fluvoxamine - Drug of Choice at Columbine:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990607a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 family values were subverted during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Skull of alien-human hybrid found? Forensic scientists have reconstructed a child's face from an ancient Mexican skull which some researchers claim could have been an alien-human hybrid. The StarChild's haunting features, eerily like the huge-eyed aliens described after UFO abduction cases, are online at http://www.AlienUFOart.com/Forensicfaces.htm The misshapen skull is believed to belong to a girl of 5 or 6, whose bones were found with her mother's in a mineshaft south of Chihuahua, Mexico, around 1925. Eeeerie: http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/06/02/timintint01016.html?999 : Have you mated with aliens lately? Did you reproduce, hybridize, spread? Are your progeny taking over the planet? When will humanity become extinct? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE? The issue regarding life in the Universe, as far as it relates to life on worlds other than our own and to the current crisis on our own world, requires boiling down to its most basic elements, and consideration of all the possibilities within those elements. http://x36.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=433866693CONTEXT=928734707.1609039975 : Does life exist in the universe? How can you tell? Is it weird, tasteful, tasty, intelligent, malign, omnivorous, beautiful, bureaucratic, boring? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ UFOS AND THE NEW PHYSICS. UFOs are a controversial and compelling enigma. We remain unsure of what these objects are, or whether they even exist. Con- ventional wisdom is that most UFOs are likely erroneous observations, along with a bit of mass hysteria and some outright charlatanism. Was there really a UFO crash at Roswell in 1947? But what if we were to assume - purely as an exercise - that UFOs are actually products of a starfaring civilization? http://x34.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=433421241CONTEXT=928734024.671219793 : Is interstellar travel expensive? Are we worth the cost? How would you justify star travel to your board of directors, stockholders, accountants? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Current Events and Prophesy. Updated 5/16/99. NORTH KOREA IS PREPARING FOR WAR!! IRAQ IS PREPARING FOR A "SHOWDOWN WITH THE US SOON"!! US and UK are ABSOLUTELY vulnerable to attack by China and Russia with no serious counter attack capability. I strongly believe we will see full fledged outbreak of war in these theaters in the next 6-8 weeks. This is based on prayer and study. The unraveling of the current world order economically politically is nigh, and I mean this very soberly. http://www.clis.com/noe/events.html : Is Armageddon at hand? Is your will made out, or would that be useless? Do prayer and study prepare you for eternity? Why not give me all your money? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Gun resort opens in US. (BBC) Undaunted by the recent spate of school shootings, investors in the US state of Nevada are backing the world's first resort for firearms enthusiasts. Cigarettes and whiskey are mandatory too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_362000/362782.stm : Do you go on vacation to shoot, to be shot at, to watch people shooting being shot at, to smell the smoke of gunfire, to hear its music, to savor? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiReviews: (Bob Tatman) *Cryptonomicon* Neal Stephenson's writing has been described as "Pynchon on speed." *Cryptonomicon* is no exception. The exceedingly complex plot jumps between World War Two and the very near future. It revolves around a highly sophisticated encryption technique developed by an eccentric genius working for Allied intelligence, and the involvement of his grandson in a scheme to create an offshore "data haven" in Southeast Asia. You'll discover a great many hints about connections and interconnections which lead in some *very* interesting directions. amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380973464/qid%3D928339196/002-0162189-0076639 *Icefire*, by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. If this book were just a techno-thriller in the Tom Clancy style, it would worth reading. But it is somewhat more. On one level *Icefire* is the story of a Nuclear Emergency Search Team (NEST) officer and a Greenpeace-type environmentalist as they race to head off a global catastrophe. A mysterious conspiracy (whose iden- tity becomes clear as the plot evolves) plants six nuclear devices on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. When the bombs go off, the ice slams into the ocean at 500 miles an hour, and a monster wave is born that will soon threa- ten everything in the Pacific basin. Of particular interest are the segments dealing with (are you ready for this?) HAARP and the Aurora, including a fascinating and quite plausible account of what flying the Aurora would be
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990510a - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FBI SUPPRESSED LIKELY CAUSE OF TWA 800 CRASH FOR MONTHS, SENATOR SAYS. Within six months of the crash of TWA Flight 800 in July 1996, investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had decided that mechanical failure, not terrorism, likely brought down the New York-to-Paris flight. But it wasn't until 10 months later that the FBI withdrew from the case, a formal admission that the plane wasn't brought down by a criminal act, according to U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa). Senate subcommittee will hold hearings Monday: http://cnn.com/US/9905/09/twa.800.report/index.html : Would you rather conspire to 1) suppress the existence of a conspiracy, 2) suppress the nonexistence of a conspiracy, 3) promote a nonexistent conspiracy, 4) expose your own conspiracy of type (1),(2) or (3)? For such meta-conspiring, would you rather be paid, elected, appointed, immortalized, lobotomized, implanted, mummified, transmogrified? Is good sex sufficient? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** China sees threat in secret sect. BEIJING (AP) - Shocked by throngs of meditating protesters on their front door, Chinese leaders are preparing a methodical campaign to discredit and rein in the martial arts sect they now see as a threat to Communist Party power. President Jiang Zemin has formed a high-level task force to monitor the group, and gov't agents have started taking names and infiltrating the sect. The swift preparations underscore how rattled senior leaders were by the sudden sight of thousands of silent practitioners of Falun Gong, the Wheel of Law, outside party HQ on April 25. All at once, the group was transformed from an obscure school of Yoga-like exercises and meditation into a challenge to the communist hold on China's future. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559462955-efc : Would you rather conspire to overthrow a gov't, a sect, a major religion, an economic system, an artform, a sport? Have you overthrown/undermined any lately? Have you taken over a political party, a fraternity, an industry? Have you diverted any existing conspiracies? Which? Was it hard, slow, fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # RUMORS OF MOBILE PHONE VIRUS PANICS LEBANESE. The virus never hit, but the system crashed anyway. A fast-traveling rumor that the Chernobyl computer virus would wreak havoc on cellular phones in Lebanon on Saturday tangled telephone lines and briefly shut down Lebanon's telephone network. Lebanese flipped off their mobiles, picked up traditional telephones to warn friends and family to do the same. The panic in this cellular-loving country over- loaded the network, disrupting service for a few minutes. Parliament may investigate: http://cnn.com/TECH/science/9905/09/lebanon.cell.hoax.ap/ : Do you panic over rumors? Is your panic worse than the rumored event? What are your favorite rumors, non-rumors, events, non-events, facts, not-facts? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Hollywood to grovel? LOS ANGELES (AP) Pres. Clinton says Monday's summit on youth violence is about finding answers, not assigning blame. But partic- ipants from the entertainment biz will be feeling more pressure than anyone else on the guest list, particularly since the gun lobby wasn't invited; they'll be met with growing calls for gov't intervention. Dispute whether movies, music video games shape a culture of violence among young people: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559484231-0ab *** Also: Reno, Rockers fight teen violence. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559467900-c3d : Does entertainment program you to kill? Can a kill-crazy gov't deprogram you, or will it just assign you to other targets? Would you rather shootup/ bomb schools in the US, Serbia, Iraq, Eire, Borneo, Burundi, Zeta Reticula? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Khmer Rouge torturer found - now a "born-again" Christian, praise Jesus! PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) An admitted Khmer Rouge mass murderer was found by Cambodian security forces and is now under government protection. Kaing Khek Iev, the Khmer Rouge prison chief known as Duch, has said he is ready to go on trial and testify about the movement's genocidal policies. Taste blood: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559485907-f5b : Do politics/economics/faith program you to kill? Can a kill-crazy church deprogram you, or will it just assign you to other targets? Would you rather kill atheists, Xians, Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists, Pagans, Jews, Sikhs, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Microsoft plans virtual clinic. REDMOND, Wash. (AP) Jim Pittman woke one morning with a strong squeezing sensation in his chest. Fearing the worst, the 42-year-old Microserf wasted no time driving 10 miles to his doctor's office only to be
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-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Liz Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] this voodoo stuff is brought over here--in nursing homes, etc- this massive increase in immigrant aides is-a really bad problem here, and will only get worse Do you have evidence that there's a massive influx into the U.S. of Nurse's Aides from Central/Western Africa, and that these NAs are performing pagan ["voodoo", "witchcraft"] religious rituals upon their U.S. charges? Also: Will the U.S. healthcare industry continue to lower pay scales for NAs so only 3rd-world immigrants can be recruited for these jobs? BTW note the major disconnect with reality shown in U.S. medical TV dramas: no Indian or Pakistani doctors, no Filipina nurses, no depiction of the staffing realities of urban hospitals. Ric "former military medic civilian EMT" Carter 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- You want Voo Doo - they still practice it in New Orleans, I understand.also, some of the rituals involving the roosters or chickens, are too horrific to mention here. Again, hypnotic drugs are used..and where do you suppose they find this real stuff.for drugs, refer to the CIA and the Song of Solomon (under the rose, of course) Colleen 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 990503a - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Monks commission new version of Bible - to be done by hand. (NYTimes) An order of Benedictine monks from Collegeville, Minn., unveiled the first page of what they call the only handwritten and illuminated Bible to be commissioned since the advent of the printing press more than 500 years ago. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,80001840,00.html : Does your religion demand manual labor? Would you prefer a handmade illum- inated Book of Mormon, Science Health, Quran, Book of Urantia, Kama Sutra? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cyberfaith: Give me that online religion. (CSM) The nation's church pews may be emptying, but the Internet is bursting with believers. Legions of cyber-congregants are changing the very nature of worship in America. Wired into eternity: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,80001166,00.html : At your keyboard, would you rather pray/worship, compose music/text/art, masturbate, rob banks, smash randomly, debate politics, tell jokes, defraud? # Don't forget the religious overtones of the 'Star Wars' saga. Did you know that if you buy a Star Wars ticket, you are dabbling in religion? Metaphors and metaphysics: http://detnews.com/1999/religion/9905/01/05010024.htm : Do you worship Darth Vader, The Force, George Lucas, Keanu Reeves, Howard The Duck, Christine Applegate, Dolby Digital Sound, ILM, Bill Gates, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Churches give perks to big donors - Is trend a result of competition for charitable $$? Maybe money can't buy a ticket to heaven, but it can buy some nice perks from religious organizations here on Earth. Giving to greedy gods: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,80001832,00.html : How large a bribe would you give for a divine blessing? Have you ever been solicited? Have you ever responded? Is this just the cost of doing business? # Man admits bilking priest out of $1.4 million. TOMS RIVER, NJ (AP) A man with a history of preying on clergy has admitted he persuaded a priest to give him $1.4 million in church money by promising to invest it - then lost it all gambling. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,80001841,00.html : If priests prey on you, is it OK to prey on them? Why does a priest have US$1.4 mil? Would you rather give money to a church, or take it from them? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SansComment: # Online, both the guilty and innocent are blotto. They never unmasked the hacker responsible for Michelangelo, a famous computer virus that pumped high-tech fear in 1992: www.detnews.com/1999/technology/9905/01/05010018.htm # The surveillance society. New info technology offers huge benefits: higher productivity, better crime prevention, improved medical care, dazzling entertainment, more convenience. But it comes at a price: less and less privacy. www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/1-5-99/index_sf1247.html # Home appliances seem safe from Y2K - your refrigerator microwave likely won't kill you: http://detnews.com/1999/technology/9905/01/04300239.htm @ COMBINATION THERAPY - Research report that merits a trip to the library: "Effects of high-speed drill noise and gunfire on dentists' hearing," W.D. Ward and C.J. Holmberg, Journal of the American Dental Association, vol. 79, no. 6, December 1969, pp. 1383-7. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # from AANEWS #566 - http://www.atheists.org Women throughout Africa being charged with "witchcraft" are being hunted down and put to death, according to media accounts and reports from human rights organizations. In Bihar, more than 400 alleged witches have been strangled, stoned to death or dispatched with knives in the past six years. "In every 10th or 15th house in every village, you'll find a woman who's been branded a witch," says Ajay Kumar, an attorney with the Free Legal Aid Committee. "No one talks to them, children are told to stay away, and they're banned from village ceremonies and festivals." Other reports show that victims who survive attacks were severely beaten, compelled to swallow excrement, and forced to endure other indignities. Few of these human rights violations ever reach the ears of authorities, let alone end up in the impoverished court systems. But in South Africa, police forces have recently introduced a special "witch protection program" to assist women fleeing the hysteria. The accused are often burned to death and dismembered for genitals, hands, the head and other limbs which then become objects bringing "good luck" to the perpetrator of the crime. Witch doctors -- Inkagna -- frequently offer to "sniff out" a witch in exchange for money or material goods. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Lisa's Video Frame Capture Library: http://lcw.simplenet.com/ @ New Riders of the Golden Age: http://www.warhorse.com/ @
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990329a - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** 7 volunteer to be crucified. SAN FERNANDO, Philippines (AP) 7 penitents in a northern Philippine village have agreed to be nailed to wooden crosses on Good Friday, a gruesome ritual that draws large crowds of tourists every year. More people are expected to sign up to have four-inch nails driven in- to their hands and in some cases feet as well, in a reenactment of Christ's sufferings. Last year, men dressed as Roman soldiers nailed 14 men and a wo- man to crosses on a hill in the village. The ritual has continued for more than 40 years in Asia's only predominately Roman Catholic nation. The grima- cing penitents usually stay on the cross for a few minutes before being hel- ped down. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558970311-377 : Does your belief system encourage you to undergo agonies? Would you volun- teer to suffer anyway? Do the voices in your head tell you to? Honestly? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DEVISING THE SENSE OF TOUCH. An MIT grad student invents an implant that may make artificial limbs able to feel. It all started with an Erector set. www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/17889.html # THE SUPER-DUPER HYPERCOMPUTER. An obscure Utah company introduces Hal: a computer about the size of most PCs, but a blazing 60,000 times faster. www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/17862.html # THIRD DIMENSION FOR THE WEB. Since the dawn of the commercial Web, fans of 3-D tech have tried to make it more efficient. A new spec may hold the key. www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/17847.html : Will feely implants, hyper-CPUs and 3D immersion help turn us into Borgs? Do you want to transcend humanity, become a cyborg, attain mythical status? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Inuit to get new Canadian territory. IQALUIT, Northwest Territories (AP) The fur traders came, then the missionaries and the Mounties, sometimes hel- pful, often bullying. Maps claimed the harsh arctic wilderness to be Canada, but always, in their hearts, the Inuit considered it their own. On Thursday, the maps change. Fireworks will light the midnight sky over frozen Frobisher Bay, a new flag will rise and an Inuit-dominated legislature will be sworn in to govern the new Canadian territory of Nunavut - "our land" in the Inuit language, Inuktitut. Carved out of the eastern 60% of the Northwest Territo- ries, Nunavut represents one of the boldest initiatives by any nation to re- store land and self-government to an aboriginal people. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558960203-a83 *** Also: Some facts about Nunavut, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558960205-ece : Does your ethnic group control its own homeland? Did you have to tear it away from oppressors? Were you helped by armies, NGOs, disease, fate, ETs? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ An Abbreviated History of Earth. "Mankind has been on this world for one million years. This constitutes TWO five hundred thousand year timelines. This is the amount of time allotted by universal protocol for the develop- ment of ascendant life. At the end of each timeline, judgement is held and rapture performed. Typically, those deemed ascendant are taken to a world the next level up with a stop over in Jerusem, the universal capitol, for an orientation period." See http://www.planetaryhq.com/history.htm : What's your favorite timeline? Have you ever become ascendant? What's your favorite rapture? Are raptures time-wasting? Do you fiddle with your implant while you await your turn? Do you get cranky if your judgment goes slowly? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Oldest ever' fossils found - Disturbances in the Earth's crust destroyed many fossils. (BBC) The oldest, tiniest fossils yet identified will be un- veiled at a meeting in Strasbourg next week. The bacterial creatures, which resemble "pond slime", were found in North West Australia and are estimated to be approximately three-and-a-half billion years old. Ooze on over to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_305000/305816.stm # Also: New 'living fossil' identified: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_302000/302368.stm # When we were worms: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_302000/302368.stm # Magnet theory to life on Mars: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_294000/294313.stm # Fossil find rattles sabres: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_288000/288315.stm : Are these really ancient fossils, or were they 'planted' to fool us by one or more deities, or aliens, commie humanist atheists, or cosmic tricksters? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Strange than fiction:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990315a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for merit, accuracy or meaning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ VIOLENCE JOINS LIST OF TOBACCO'S HEALTH HAZARDS. Men whose mothers smoke often during pregnancy may be more prone to violent and criminal behavior than the adult sons of women who abstain from tobacco. Links adult criminal behavior to maternal smoking - third trimester key - see: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9903/14/smoking.mothers/index.html : Did your mother smoke? Are you violent? Are you violent because your mom smoked; because of your alien implant; because you're a jerk; all of these? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Electric shock therapy 'not up to scratch'. (BBC) Many doctors are not properly trained to administer electric shock therapy for depression, and some have to rely on out of date equipment. Hogtied, fried, nearly died - http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_295000/295597.stm # Also: Electric theories on acupuncture http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_263000/263387.stm # Electric shock patients demand rights http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_115000/115963.stm @ Links: Depression links: http://www.execpc.com/~corbeau/ @ The dangers of electro-shock: http://www.stewards.net/ect/ @ Royal College of Psychiatrists: http://www.ex.ac.uk/dmh/rcp.htm : Would you rather be electroshocked, get an alien implant, or be bitten by a rabid opossum? Have you ever been electroshocked? Did it do any good? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ INDONESIAN POLICE ARREST 20 AFTER AMBON CLASHES. Police arrested 20 people at Ambon's port as they arrived by boat from nearby islands with weapons, including arrows, daggers and sickles. On Sunday, relative calm returned to the ravaged island. Makeshift markets reopened in both Christian and Muslim neighborhoods. http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9903/14/indonesia.ambon.01/ : Does your religion prescribe weaponry to be used against unbelievers, infidels, heathens, apostates, i.e. the opposition? What's your favorite? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Millennium bug busted. Millennium bug experts say a global catastrophe on 1 January 2000 now seems unlikely. Hope for the best, plan for the worst - http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_296000/296713.stm @ Links: UK Action 2000: http://www.bug2000.co.uk/ @ Millennium Bug information: www.bbc.co.uk/education/cdb/bug/index.shtml @ Year 2000 Information Centre: http://www.year2000.com/ : Can we stop worrying now? Have you stopped worrying yet? Is Armageddon thwarted, postponed, inevitable, desirable? Will the 2039 Unix bug bite? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ PARENTS HESITANT TOWARD DNA IDENTITY PLAN. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement wants to give parents a way to prove their children's identity for a lifetime. But many parents want nothing to do with the program to use blood samples to identify their children's DNA. And no state has adopted the program, although the cost is less than $1.50 per child. http://cnn.com/US/9903/14/dna.privacy/index.html : Should everyone's DNA be recorded? By who? Has your DNA already been taken by ETs, the CIA, MicroSoft, the Illuminati? What do they do with it? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Rocking towards Armageddon. (BBC) The "doomsday" cult accused of a nerve gas attack in the Tokyo underground has found a new way to win young suppor- ters - staging a rock concert in Tokyo. The Perfect Emancipation Concert featured members of the Aum Shinri Kyo cult singing songs composed by their spiritual leader Shoko Asahara, who is in jail pending trial for the sarin gas attack in which 12 people died and more than 5,000 were injured. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_296000/296683.stm @ Links: Japanese Police: http://www.npa.go.jp/ @ Aum Shrini Kyo music page: www.aum-shinrikyo.com/english/music/music.htm @ Aum Shrini Kyo homepage: http://www.aum-shinrikyo.com/english/index.htm @ American Family Foundation: Aum information: http://www.csj.org/infoserv_groups/grp_eastern/grp_aum/grouptopic_aum.htm @ Aum chronology: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/news4-96/chrono4-24.html : Should all doomsday cults stage pop concerts? Would that make you want to join? What music is best to accompany murder/suicide/genocide? Is it snappy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ TALIBAN TO SHARE POWER WITH OPPOSITION. Afghanistan's fundamentalist Mus- lim rulers agreed in principle to share power, bringing hope of peace to the country after more than two decades of civil war. The U.N.-sponsored agree- ment, signed in Turkmenistan, calls for a shared executive, legislature and judiciary in Afghanistan, as well as for an exchange of prisoners between the rival factions. But key details remain to be worked out, including how to implement the agreement. Leaders foresee cease-fire in Afghanistan - see
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990308a - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NASA ANNOUNCES COMPLETION OF 'SPACE PLANE' LAUNCH PORT. NASA and Lockheed Martin announced the completion of a space flight center that could usher in an age of cheaper, more frequent space travel. A small "spaceport" proto- type, the 30-acre center is dramatically different from other launch sites. Operational by 2004: www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9903/05/x.33.update/index.html : Are neighborhood spaceports too big? Are backyard launch sites better? Can you make a profit running small spaceports? Will the Mafia take over? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # There's A Mystery Object Not Far From The Earth. (New Scientist) A CHUNK of rock some 50 metres across has been found circling the Sun in an orbit close to Earth's. The object, discovered recently by an automated asteroid- hunting telescope in New Mexico called Linear, is probably a chip off the Moon, say astronomers. http://www.anomalous-images.com/news/news369.html : Is the alien mothership hiding behind this or a similar chunk? Should we blast it, just to be safe? Who's throwing moonchips at us? Are moonchips better or worse than cowchips? Should we blast cowchips too? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** U.S. probing reported China spying. WASHINGTON (AP) - The Clinton administration said it is investigating reports of Chinese espionage in the U.S. nuclear weapons program and has increased security at plants to prevent recurrences. The New York Times reported that China stole U.S. nuclear secrets from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in the 1980s that helped it develop technology to miniaturize nuclear bombs. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558700577-0f6 *** Also: China may have stolen nuke secrets, See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558695376-284 And http://www.anomalous-images.com/news/news375.html : Did China steal Roswell/UFO secrets too? Why don't ETs help the Chinese? What nuclear secrets would you like to steal? Would you sell them? To who? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Mormons put family history on Web. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Mormon church says it will put at least some of its family-history archive - the world's largest - on the World Wide Web. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints posted a statement on its official Web site, www.lds.org. One leader said last year the church has archived the names of 13 billion people from 110 countries. "There are millions and millions of records just in their International Genealogy Index alone, and millions more in their ancestral files, and both of those are electronic databases" - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558699916-93e # Microsoft admits to keeping huge secret database on Windows users: http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/03/biztech/articles/07soft.html http://www.cnn.com/US/9903/07/AM-Microsoft-Privacy.ap/index.html http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558710335-4a3 http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/18315.html http://lists.essential.org/1995/info-policy-notes/msg00151.html : Do you worry more about Microsoft or Mormon databases on you and your family? How about other corporate or gov't archives? Who do you trust? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Brazil court creates hermit zone. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) A Brazilian court created a 37-square-mile reservation in the Amazon to safeguard an Indian hermit who lives there. Brazil issued the order to protect the man, who is in his 30s, from loggers, ranchers, farmers and others who occupy the Amazon. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558713682-fa5 : Would you like your own reservation? Should all hermits and cults have reservations? Where can we put Mormons, ESTs, Scientologists, UFOlogists? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y2K-arama: *** NYSE tests Y2K readiness. NEW YORK (AP) World financial markets were in their usual Saturday slumber, but stock traders hustled on the littered floor of the New York Stock Exchange as if it was a typical weekday session. This was the start of a two-month series of tests by the securities industry to determine whether its computer systems will be bitten by the year 2000 bug. The preliminary results were "better than expected" - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558701038-244 *** Also: Globe making progress on Y2K bug, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558694531-c30 # Americans Urged To Stock Up Before Y2K Strikes: http://www.anomalous-images.com/news/news371.html # Wall Street Y2K Test, Part II: http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/18302.html # AIR TRAVEL TERROR. Air traffic control systems are way behind in Y2K repairs. We're sure not going to travel on 1-1-00. Sit it out in Hawaii:
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-Caveat Lector- Prudence L. Kuhn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/8/99 11:19:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: snip : Does your religion encourage pillaging, rape, mayhem, murder? Is it fun? It seems they all do at one time or another, but aren't Hindus the ones who vow not to harm any living thing? How do they explain their current behavior? Prudy Prudy, you're thinking of the Jains, who wear gauze masks so they won't accidentally swallow a gnat. Some schools of yoga and other ascetic groups uphold the sanctity of all life, but it's not universal in Hinduism. Bob = 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. More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail 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 990208a - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Shattering Y2K doomsday dreams. (USA Today) Content warning: Do not read this column if you have recently moved your entire family to arctic Canada desperately hoping to avoid the apocalyptic aftermath of the Y2K problem. Striking a millennial nerve - http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/cc.htm # Strange but true: Only matter of time 'til Earth is hit. We're all doomed, eventually - see http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,30009344,00.html : Is Y2K just a prelude to an asteroid hit? Is the end really near? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Nova Scotia won't fund in vitro. HALIFAX (AP) A Nova Scotia couple lost their legal bid to obtain provincial medical coverage for in vitro fertili- zation treatments to help conceive a child. "The medical procedures used to attempt to have a child have not been shown to be 'medically required'" the chief justice wrote. Province can't afford to pay for in vitro treatment - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558345618-bcd : Who should pay for your reproductive choices? For contraception, cloning, abortion, childbirth, genetic screening/engineering, biomorphing, cyborging? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Glimmer of hope for homeopathy cures. (BBC) New research suggests tiny amounts of arsenic can cure stomach cramps. But not vanishingly small - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_271000/271217.stm # Alert over herbal cigarettes. (BBC) Herbal cigarettes, marketed as an aid to quit smoking, are a potential health hazard, scientists have warned. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/background_briefings/smoking/newsid_ 272000/272145.stm : What's your favorite natural poison? How much do you use? How often? Why? D'ya know herbal cigs may have more nicotine than regular cigs? D'ya care? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Mass marriage held in South Korea. SEOUL, South Korea (AP) Shivering in her thin, white wedding dress in freezing winter weather, Japanese bride Yuko Itou lifted her arms high and shouted "manse," meaning hurrah, 3 times. So did her South Korean groom whom she met only two days ago. And so did 12,000 other newly wed couples in white dresses and dark suits, with their voices echoing across Seoul's Chamsil Olympic Stadium. The cheer ended a 2-hour wedding arranged by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. A church spokesman said the ceremony, in which 30,000 married couples also renewed their vows, was the largest wedding ever. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558364305-fa7 : Does your religion promote mass weddings? Do you have enough members to even *have* mass weddings? When will the mass divorces happen? Where? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Stroke hope in brain cell transplants. (BBC) Doctors have succeeded in transplanting laboratory-grown cells into the brains of stroke patients, helping restore motor and speech skills. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_273000/273053.stm # Life Among Dead Brain Cells: Discovery Could Improve Memory Capacity Of Stroke Victims. Regeneration of neurons in mouse brains - see: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/02/990208071802.htm : Would you like your brain regenerated, enhanced, transplanted? How much? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 2 more Christians killed in India. NEW DELHI (UPI) Police suspect Hindu fundamentalists are to blame for the deaths of 2 more Christians in India's eastern state of Orissa. Attackers attempted to rape a Christian girl near Mundasor village of Kondhamal district; when a boy came to rescue her, the two were killed with sharp edged weapons. Residents of mostly Christian-populated Mundasor village had sought police protection fearing attacks by Hindu radicals, who have unleashed a terror against Christian community in recent weeks. Two weeks ago, a Hindu mob burned a Christian missionary and his two minor sons to death in the same region and last week a nun was raped by 5 men. http://nt.excite.com/news/u/990208/00/international-christians : Does your religion encourage pillaging, rape, mayhem, murder? Is it fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Space probe on comet quest - Goodbye Earth: Stardust will return in 2006. (BBC) The US Stardust spacecraft has blasted off from Cape Canaveral on a seven-year mission to scoop dust from a distant comet. A gelful of scum - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_274000/274494.stm # Also: Chasing the comet http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_272000/272322.stm # Closing in on a comet http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_181000/181972.stm # Stardust Blasts Off - Comet Chaser Will Gather Cosmic Dust http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/stardust990203.html NASA LAUNCHES COMET-CHASING MISSION
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-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Prudence L. Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] # 2 more Christians killed in India. NEW DELHI (UPI) Police suspect Hindu fundamentalists are to blame for the deaths of 2 more Christians http://nt.excite.com/news/u/990208/00/international-christians : Does your religion encourage pillaging, rape, mayhem, murder? Is it fun? It seems they all do at one time or another, but aren't Hindus the ones who vow not to harm any living thing? How do they explain their current behavior? No, it's the pre-Hindu Jains who hold to a doctrine of Ahimsa, do-no-harm, the ultimate pacifism that so influenced Gandhi and M.L.King. Hinduism is based on invasion, conquest - the Gitas are basically chronicles of wars of the Aryan conquerors of India. The dilemma of Hinduism vs Christianity is that Hinduism only grows by population growth, not by conversion - you must be BORN a Hindu [or marry into it, so your kids can be Hindu.] So the terrorism of Hindu nationalists reflects their valid fear of any/all proselytizing faiths - if your co-religionists are lured to another faith, they're gone and they can't be replaced. Thus to fundy Hindus, conversion is genocide, and terror is a justifiable response. Only a very few fringe Hindu sects, like ISKCON ["Hare Krishnas"] try to recruit others. Unless/until either 1) a proselytizing doctrine enters the mainstream of Hinduism, or 2) Hinduism becomes extinct, the xenophobic terror will continue. This is similar to but distinct from the central quandry of monotheism, where if YOUR god is right, all OTHER gods must be wrong and their followers must be converted or suppressed. Certain classes of religions are structured for terror/violence. Bother. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.sonic.net/~ric * ICQ# 19633976 * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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- In a message dated 2/8/99 11:49:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gitas are basically chronicles of wars of the Aryan conquerors of India. The dilemma of Hinduism vs Christianity is that Hinduism only grows by population growth, not by conversion - you must be BORN a Hindu [or marry into it, so your kids can be Hindu.] So the terrorism of Hindu nationalists reflects their valid fear of any/all proselytizing faiths - if your co-religionists are lured to another faith, they're gone and they can't be replaced. Thus to fundy Hindus, conversion is genocide, and terror is a justifiable response. I don't know. There's a lot on the net about conversion to Hinduism. Isn't it amazing though how religious struggle always ends up in murder and rape. The gods or God (whoever) must be so pleased. Prudy 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
