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SkeptiNews 000629a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/28_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No skeptics were irradiated during production of this bulletin. I hope. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE MODIFIED LIBRARIAN: http://www.bmeworld.com/gailcat/ [for Treighsea] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Irish Press On France's COMETA UFO Report. UFOs, once the preserve of the purely paranoid, are now being taken seriously. Astronauts, Generals and a number of influential scientists are hammering away at the crust of international skepticism. http://www.independent.ie/2000/178/d14c.shtml # Amazing '3-Dimensional' Crop Circles Appear In England - lawnmowers work overtime: http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2000/june2000.html # AZTEC SONGS AND POETRY FOR ALIEN VISITORS - all together now: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/forbidden.html#aztecaliensongs # THE LEGENDARY SOUNDS OF HELL - AS FEATURED ON THE ART BELL SHOW: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/unexplained.html#hellsounds @ Sleep Paralysis Vs Abduction. It's often said that "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," but if you are alleging that thousands, or even millions, of people are physically abducted from their homes repeatedly, are you sure it isn't? www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m29-001.shtml : What is evidence? What is proof?What is convincing? How much skepticism is too much? What is (un)knowable, (un)provable, (un)fathomable? What patterns d'ya perceive that are(n't) there? Which senses/instruments/tales to trust? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists Urge Caution In Mars Water View. While water MAY be responsible for the striking gully-like features seen in recent pictures from the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, there are other explanations. Spoilsports: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/water_caution_000629.html # Mars 2001 Lander Might Yet Fly: www.spacedaily.com/news/mars2001-00a.html # NASA: 2 for 2003: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-general-00h.html # Mars Camp Gets Underway in Arctic: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10034867 # SETTING SAIL FOR THE STARS - latest developments in solar sail technology. The Interstellar Probe mission could journey beyond the edge of the solar system by 2018. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast28jun_1m.htm # Versace may redesign Russian cosmonauts' uniforms - NASA consulting with Karl Lagerfeld, Kostas Murkudis: http://www.cnn.com/2000/STYLE/ELLE/06/26/ : When preparing for interplanetary missions, are you mostly concerned about logistics, intelligence, entertainment, practice,fashion, propulsion,sanity, alien intervention, political manipulation, commercial exploitation? Why?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CyberDome in Kansas. Visitors to the new Boeing CyberDome Theater opening today in Wichita KS can travel from Earth to Mars, working collectively to deter the craft from crashing. If they make it safely to the ground, they can then roam about Mars, seeing its sights. Or, they can voyage through a human body. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10034869 # '98 Russian Imagery Of Area 51 Available - Barewalls.com Unveils Elusive 'Area 51' Collection. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Kept under wraps for the last two years, aerial imagery of Nevada's notorious "Area 51" is now available to the public. http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m29-004.shtml # NEW IMAGES - FAST SERVER. Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) - Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) http://www.marsdaily.com/spacedaily-image-server.html # New Wave Of Colour Video: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10033963 : Have you flown any virtual-reality missions to Mars/Area51/Luna/Graceland lately? Did you encounter Reptilioids/Elvis/R2D2/RuPaul/me? D'ya prefer real /virtual/divine/gritty imagery? What's your favorite image? Does it flicker? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AFTER DARWIN: "Nature? Nurture? Neither?" Is it time to retire the age-old debate about biodeterminism? A more-nuanced look at our genes, how we're reared, what makes us tick - moving away from the ideologically charged center of the argument. http://www.feedmag.com/feature/fr352_master.html # SKEPTICS ATTACK GENOME WORK: http://cosmiverse.com/paranormal062801.html # DNA Vaccine Zaps Measles: http://unisci.com/stories/20002/0629001.htm # Transgenic Lamb Clones Could Herald New Transplant Techniques - chimerae for human immortality? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10037373 # Major advance in altering sheep DNA.(AP) - Scientists have developed a way to alter genes in sheep insert new ones with unprecedented precision, a step toward creating healthier livestock and using animals as organ banks. Holy Grail:
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SkeptiNews 000622a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * The previous bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/21_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No kilted hackers were arrested during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ! CORRECTION: URL for "US Military Non-Lethal Weapons" should be: http://www.sightings.com/political/weapons/usnonlethal.htm ! CORRECTION: URL for "Marijuana 'helps tumours grow'" should be: http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid%5F798000/798721.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ufo Roundup. CATTLE MUTILATED IN COLORADO UFO FLAP - FLEET OF UFOs SIGHTED IN WASHINGTON STATE - NEW BOOK PROBES 1977 FORT BENNING CASE - CHILEANS SAY ALIEN EGGS WERE FOUND NEAR CALAMA - COUPLE SPOTS 9 UFOs SOUTH OF LOS ANGELES - EIGHT ORANGE SPHERE UFOs SEEN IN NEW SOUTH WALES - HUGE LIGHTED CRAFT SEEN IN CENTRAL SWITZERLAND - CHEMTRAILS REPORTED IN PORT CITY IN CROATIA - OUT-OF-PLACE PIRANHA BAFFLES RUSSIANS - 1875: THE STRANGEST DAY REVISITED. http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m22-005.shtml # UFO Fragments Near Sun: http://www.sightings.com/general2/sun.htm @ UFO cases, analysis, etc: http://www.temporaldoorway.com/ufo/index.htm @ To Serve Man - ETs NWO: http://www.sightings.com/general2/toserve.htm # Portland, Eugene, And Western Oregon Hit With Chemtrails Again - when will the madness ever end? http://www.sightings.com/general2/port.htm : Is you an alien? D'ya lay eggs; devour humans; crash spacecraft; transport piranhas; spew chemtrails; mutilate cattle; float above cities; laugh a lot? D'ya feed false/misleading/humorous reports of your activities to us humans? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MARS IMAGES SUGGEST RECENT WATER FLOW. Despite its cold and arid surface, Mars displays signs of recent liquid water activity in numerous places, bolstering theories that simple religious life forms could have emerged on the red planet. http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/space/06/21/mars.water.03/ # Mars in pictures. (BBC) Nasa's revelation of surface water on Mars is just the latest in a long line of Red Planet discoveries. Watch for more faces. There: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_801000/801622.stm # Tombs Cast Fresh Light on Egypt Pyramid Builders. GIZA, EGYPT (Reuters) -- Restoration of tombs at the pyramids of Giza is casting fresh light on the builders of the towering monuments. They didn't need much help from aliens after all: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000622/04/science-egypt-tombs-dc # China Frets As Desert Takes Beijing by Storm - choking dust clouds envelop 12 million - encroaching desert has already devoured outlying communities. Doom: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000621/10/science-environment-china-dc : What's your favorite desert? Has it devoured any civilizations lately? Are Martian cities buried beneath the dunes? Were Martian/Chinese/Egyptian/Mayan pyramids all built by the same contractors? Is evidence buried under them?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ROCKETPLANE STARTUP WANTS MANAGEMENT TEAM. Hamilton,NZ. New Zealand Space- plane startup FIRESHIPS NZ today issued a call for marketing management personnel experienced in aerospace, airtransport, cyberspace-technology enterprise. http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m22-006.shtml # Russ, Kazakh Honchos Sign Deal on Cosmodrome. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Pres.Vlad Putin Kazakh Pres.Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a new treaty on the use of Russia's cosmodrome at Baikonur,which Kazakhstan inherited with the fall of Communism. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000620/18/science-space-russia-dc # Sharing Air, Water Dirty Laundry -- In Space. (Reuters) Will astronauts sharing recycled air and water in the tight confines of space stations for extended periods of time be vulnerable to infections? Not much more so than college roomies sharing a typical urban flat--as long as they do the dishes, sez NASA. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2602/hl/nasa_1.html : How do you manage your space activities? Do you approach space endeavours with commercial/governmental/collegiate/religious/artistic/alien attitudes? Can you maintain adequate sanitation of your station/finances/politics/mind? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Teens prefer sex, drugs, Net - Poll: 50% of graduating seniors say they're no longer virgins: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000621/17/leisure-poll # Anti-gay law scrapped in Scotland - men in skirts laughed, sang, hugged each other: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567528176-b30 # Lesbo mag pisses gays; bucks image of 'butch, comic, badly-dressed loners' http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/06/22/timfgneur03001.html # Nigeria state proclaims Islamic law. ABUJA (AP) Muslims in Nigeria's north cheered the
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SkeptiNews 000608a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Last batch of bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/07_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No conspiracies were unmasked to produce this bulletin. They're waiting. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Dealy Plaza Cam: http://www.earthcam.com/jfk/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # STONEHENGE OR BUST update http://sonic.net/~ric/adventure/may2k/may2k2.htm # Recent UK UFO Sighting: www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m07-007.shtml # Close encounter: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m07-014.shtml # Prophecy -- Dance Of Worlds -- Pleiades: http://www.caus.org/os052400.htm # UFO Update: CHILEANS SAY NASA TOOK CUSTODY OF CAPTURED CHUPACABRAS - TRIO CLAIMS ENCOUNTER WITH ALIEN IN IRELAND - HIGH-FLYING UFO SEEN IN CLINTON, MICHIGAN - MILLIONS OF FISH FALL FROM SKY ON ETHIOPIA - ZIMBABWE SHOCKED BY UNUSUAL HUMAN BIRTH - ASSASSIN AGREES WITH THE VATICAN ON FATIMA - RELIGIOUS MANIA SWEEPS MISSISSIPPI HIGH SCHOOL - CHEMTRAILS REPORTED IN TWO WESTERN STATES - FACE-TO-FACE WITH AUSTRALIA'S TERROR OF THE OUTBACK: http://www.ufoinfo.com/roundup/v05/rnd05_23.shtml : Have you been updated on paranormalities/abductions/UFOs/prophesy lately? Are you plugged-in to the latest? MUST you be, since you're reading this? Do you enjoy drowning in paranormal/conspiracy/science/sexuality data? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Discover the Truth About UFOs, Ancient Landing Sites, Crop Circles, The Bermuda Triangle, Pyramids and Good vs. Bad Aliens at FlyingSaucers.com http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000606/fl-flying-saucers # Alien Abductions: Video Case Studies With Budd Hopkins Carol Rainey. Come and join us for an evening of discussion and video presentation involving recent case studies conducted by Budd Hopkins. Believe!!! http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m08-004.shtml # Elizabeth Baron -- Leading Trance Medium of Our Time, Unparalleled in Accuracy and Documentation -- Offers Proof of Life After Death. 'She's the best kept secret in America... the most well- documented medium in history and the hardest working 9-to-5 psychic in the country today' http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000605/sc-comen-detective : Are all theories about UFOs, paranormalities, afterlifes etc part of the well-orchestrated coverup of clandestine military/mindcontrol activities? Are you in the coverup? Are you well-rewarded by your Illuminati masters? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Did Aids originate in the 1950s when a live polio vaccine was introduced to Africa? This often ridiculed theory may just be right. What a pickle: http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/highlights/the_origin_of_aids/ # At 16, Theodore Kaczynski was duped into taking a series of brutal psychological tests. They may have shaped his belief in the evil of science: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/06/chase.htm @ The Phobia List: http://www.sonic.net/~fredd/phobia1.html # LOW-TECH DNA TEST MAY SEPARATE HUMANS FROM THE NEANDERTHALS - will you pass or fail? http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns224238 # Washing Machines Will Phone Surf the Net: humans will be obsolete: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2607/wr/intermachines_dc_1.html : Has your conspiracy experimented much on humans/neanderthals/robots/me? Do you engineer new diseases/disorders/dysfunctions intentionally/accidentally/ randomly? What's your favorite phobia? How did you engineer it? Is it fun?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ CONTRAILS CHEMTRAILS - "These weaponized pathogens target the elderly and other immune-compromised victims whose deaths go largely unremarked... The culling of unfit, useless eaters has begun, with an initial goal (based on known mycoplasma brucellosis mortalities) of 4%-5% fatalities among those infected. While significant over time, such subtle increases in deaths among aged or ailing people already expected to die soon remain statistically stealthy - much less obtrusive than bodies piling up in the streets." http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/conchem.html # CHEMTRAILS OVER MINNEAPOLIS - ST PAUL AND DETROIT: http://www.sightings.com/general2/min.htm # LATEST CHEMTRAIL PHOTOS FROM AUSTRALIA: http://www.sightings.com/general2/latest.htm # SKEPTIC WATCHES CHEMTRAIL ASSAULT ON PORTLAND: http://www.sightings.com/general2/skep.htm : Have you poisoned the populace lately? Do you mask your biowar activities as UFO sightings, alien abductions, crop/sky/ocean/climate patterns, solar fireworks? Are "bodies piling up in the streets" an unsightly mess? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Vatican OKs US Catholic school rules.(AP)Controversial new rules asserting tighter control over who may teach theology at Americas 235 Roman Catholic colleges universities have
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SkeptiNews 000427a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/26_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No lunar workers were sexually abused during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Kablooie! http://www.earthfiles.com/img/AprilChandraX-ray.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Killers hired psychic to cleanse homes after murder. ST. CATHARINES, Ont. (CP) - Convicted killers Paul Bernardo and his former wife Karla Homolka enlisted a psychic to cleanse their home of evil spirits after they heard loud banging noises and voices calling out to them in the night.The couple believed the sounds came from the basement of their home, where they dis- membered the body of one of their schoolgirl victims. Demons, begone! http://news.excite.ca/news/ap/000427/03/homolka-psychic,1stwritethru # Ingo Swann Sees Naked Men On The Moon. Naked male workers working under bright lights on the moon, tall buildings, exotic machinery, and strange vehicles leaving tracks in the lunar dust - all this and much more was seen by Ingo Swann, the man most responsible for the phenomenon known as remote viewing. http://www.alienzoo.com/features/m/24270001.cfm : Have you seen/heard/felt/smelt/tasted/intuited any spirits/nudes/aliens/me lately? Have you cleansed your mind/premises/universe of the phenomena? Have you told anyone of what you sensed? Do you sense such a presence right now? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Heyerdahl to Explore Sicily 'Pyramid.' OSLO (Reuters) Explorer Thor Heyer- dahl plans to study a giant pyramid-shaped structure in Sicily that he sez may be thousands of years old, built for sun worship. "Incredibly exciting structure" http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2425/sc/life_heyerdahl_1.html # Archaeologists should resist new excavations at Pompeii - blasphemous: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Times/timopnedt01001.html?1996766 # Time Traveller Dies in Ireland. The mystery woman was rushed to St. Mary's hospital where x-rays revealed an amazing assortment of computer chips and switches attached to her brain.The next day, the mystery woman died of her injuries.An autopsy revealed that many of the chips had Chinese characters on them and were of unknown origin. http://www.jpb.com/cyberstar/0112.html : Have you uncovered/explored/engineered/exploited (m)any ancient mysteries lately? Do the mysteries indicate contamination from past/present/future/ET cultures? Are the voices in your head caused by memes/demons/chips/aliens? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Toxic Tap Water. BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) The Argentine city of Bahia Blanca has warned its 420,000 residents to avoid using tap water because it says it is laced with toxic bacteria that cause skin irritation and possibly neurological damage. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000426/07/odd-water # Infectious diseases get stronger - "they're winning" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566043578-a6e # TB OUTBREAK REPORTED IN TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY - Baltimore, NYC: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=32182src=n47 # Australia faces plague of locusts- disaster on Biblical scale- punishment? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_727000/727673.stm :Have you been plagued by a bacterium/virus/locust/idea lately? What's your favorite plague? Are plagues caused by nature, humans, aliens, deities, all the above? Have you designed/constructed/promoted any plagues lately? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Syria: Nuclear powers aid Israel - Western-Jewish plot vs Arabs: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566031280-193 # Putin seen deploying nuke sub to counter U.S. in Gulf. Boom. http://www.worldtribune.com/Archive-2000/eu-russia-04-26.html # Missile shield could cost $60 bln - and it won't work. Bother. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566024245-b03 # Weather supercomputer unveiled - costs less than a major movie: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566025438-d92 # Breeding MiAs- What really happened to America's missing soldiers. Missing in Action (MiA) American soldiers from the Vietnam war are alive and well and taking part in a breeding for intelligence project operated by an Ame- rican intelligence organization. http://www.jpb.com/cyberstar/0106.html : What's your favorite military conspiracy? Is it expensive/effective/annoy- ing? D'ya promote paranoia to justify public funding of your conspiracy, or are your corporate/church/kleptocrat sponsors happy to keep you occupied?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Red Hat Open To Backdoor Penetration: http://www.msnbc.com/news/399125.asp # Poking Holes In Linux. A hole found in Red Hat Linux has raised fears over the
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SkeptiNews 000420a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/19_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No reptilioids were tormented during production of this bulletin. Much. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ EarthWeek: http://www.cnn.com/NATURE/specials/diary.planet/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # French Defence Ministry Releases Radar UFO Info. For the first time ever, a private French UFO research group obtains a file on a military radar detection directly thru the French Ministry of Defence. Reveals dealings of UFO cases by French military: http://sightings.com/general/radarufo.htm @ French Report- UFOs Defense: http://aerial.itlnet.net/cometa_report.htm # UFOs Australia India: LUMINOUS ORANGE UFO SIGHTED NEAR MELBOURNE - SLOW- MOVING YELLOW UFO SPOTTED NEAR NEW DELHI: http://www.caus.org/mu042000.htm # Oz's Mystery Min Min Lights: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/minmin.htm # Triangle/Boomerang UFOs, more: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/ff_15.htm # UFO AND REPTOID SEEN IN MISSOURI - HOVERING GRAY UFO SPOTTED OVER TOLEDO, OHIO - SMALL TRIANGULAR UFO SEEN IN NORTHERN BORNEO - 1755: UNFORGETTABLE ANACHARSIST CLOOTZ. Zounds: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/uforo516.htm : Have UFOs swarmed over your airspace lately? Have ETs infiltrated your lo- cal military organization(s)? Do they manufacture false reports about their existence/operations/intentions? Do they influence your politics/history?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NEW SEARCH FOR ALIENS. (BBC) Scientists in the United States unveil their latest project to look for signs of other intelligent life in the Universe. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_719000/719951.stm @ Seti League: http://www.setileague.org/ @ Optical Seti: http://www.coseti.org/ @ Seti@home: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ @ Seti Institute: http://www.seti.org/ # Search continues for life in space- absence of evidence is not evidence of absence: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_704000/704124.stm # How life may live on Europa - it can't be much worse than New York City, eh? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_619000/619407.stm : Have you found any aliens lately? If you find any aliens, what will you do with them? Are you collecting the entire set? D'ya wanna trade the extras? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Global Warming Pushes Into Canadian Arctic. PANGNIRTUNG, Nunavut (Reuters) He may be only a hunter in Canada's remote Arctic, but Steven Kooneeliusie certainly knows as much about the practical effects of global warming as any environmental scientist. He and the other Inuit whose job it is to brave snow and ice to find caribou, seal and other animals say the signs of a gradual increase in temperature are everywhere. Snowmobile overheats: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2419/sc/globalwarming_canada_1.html # US HAS WARMEST JAN-MARCH PERIOD ON RECORD - more severe weather in future: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2418/sc/environment_temperatures_1.html # NOAA: LONG, HOT US SUMMER: http://www.CNN.com/2000/WEATHER/04/20/la.nina/ # CHEMTRAILS BREAKTHROUGH... VIA BLACKLIGHT? EUREKA! I think I've found it! http://pub8.ezboard.com/fchemtrailschemtrails.showMessage?topicID=578.topic : Is global warming improving/ruining your life/livelihood/sanity? D'ya have a financial/political/spiritual/artistic interest in global warming? Are y'r chemtrail-laying flights making you healthy/wealthy/wise? Are you laughing? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HACKERS ATTACK AREA 51 IMAGES WEBSITE. Raleigh, N.C. [AP] Many Internet surfers ran into roadblocks today when they tried to reach a Web site displaying the first detailed satellite images to be made public of Area 51, the supersecret Air Force test site that UFO buffs think is a repository of alien technology. Was it hackers, as the company said? Or a case for "The X-Files"? http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/a51more.htm # PENTAGON DENIES AREA 51-ALIEN LINK - "We keep all the ETs down at Dulce - it's in the contract" http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/alipenta.htm # New Area 51 Satellite Photos: http://www.fas.org/irp/overhead/groom.htm # Hackers Zap A51 Photo Site: http://www.sightings.com/general/pound51.htm # Pix Bring Area 51 Into Full View: http://www.sightings.com/general/51.htm : Are your alien contacts in danger of exposure?Will you do ANYTHING to keep your secrets secure? Is all Net-hacking an attempt to hide Reptoid secrets?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # COSMIC RAYS WILL REVEAL UNIVERSAL SECRETS - Argentine telescope may solve mysteries surrounding the Big Bang, black holes and sub-atomic particles. Good. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_719000/719514.stm @ Cosmic Rays:
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000406a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/05_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No moral strictures were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Rusty: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/rusty/rusty.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Deliveryman Sez He Saw Goat-Hauling Bigfoot-Like Thang. He says he doesn't drink or "use dope," so you have to believe him on this: He saw a hairy, 8-foot-tall critter carrying a goat. "He was all covered with hair, a real dark gray color, with some spots that looked a honey color ... and it was mighty, mighty, big." A deputy was sent to the scene, but didn't find sus- picious footprints. http://jsonline.com/news/metro/apr00/foot05040400a.asp # UFO in Missouri. Although it is difficult to judge the size of an airborne object at a distance -- there's no point of reference by which to gauge -- Noll estimates that the craft was "about the size of a football field." Humungeous: http://www.riverfronttimes.com/issues/2000-04-05/feature.html : Have large entities stolen your goats lately? Do they hover menacingly? Do they threaten you? Do you use dope? Do you want to now? When will you start? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sun, 6 planets to line up. (AP) Next month, the sun and six of the planets will line up like cosmic billiard balls in a configuration doomsayers warn could shift the Earth's poles, trigger earthquakes, ruin the stock market usher in da Age of Aquarius if anyone survives. Astronomers are busy de- bunking apocalyptic predictions,just as they did when the planets lined up in 1982, 1962 and about every 20 years before that. They'll have to do it again in 2020 too. And you thought it was safe to ditch those Y2K survival kits... http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565448807-ab2 # COPS FEAR CULT READY FOR APOCALYPSE. POLICE fear doomsday cult members are stockpiling weapons, food clothing in preparation for an apocalypse next month. Members of one sect are said to have been asked to obtain weapons including shotguns, bolt-action rifles and crossbows. The leader of the Order of St Charbel admits they have guns. Expect the world to end in May: http://heraldsun.com.au/common/story_page/0,2294,532431%255E2862,00.html : Has your world ended lately? Will it end soon? Are you prepared for the end? Are you well-armed/supplied/fucked? D'ya have many crossbows, heterae, prayers? Does the world end every 20 years, whether we notice it or not?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Doomsday sect's handbook had message. KANUNGA, Uganda (AP) In a 163-page handbook distributed across Uganda, a doomsday sect offered a seductive message of heavenly salvation to African villagers struggling with poverty and the scourge of AIDS. For the unconvinced there was a different fate - a fiery torment where they would burn for eternity. The paperbound tract, "A Timely Message from Heaven: The End of the Present Times," was distrib- uted by the thousands; we obtained a copy from a man in the SE village of Rugazi who said cult members tried unsuccessfully to recruit him.It offers little but stark choices homespun advice for righteous living. For hund- reds who adhered to its tenets, the reward was ultimately a vicious death. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565422681-8cd # Also: Uganda cult handbook excerpts, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565424242-3ee : Have you propagandized for Hellfire and Dalmatians lately? Have you gained many adherents? Is everyone doomed but your fellow-believers? Are you doomed too? Are you in any hurry for doom? Can't we approach doom slowly, lazily?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ We're bound for hell http://www.exposingsatanism.org/ (in a handbasket) http://www.shu.ac.uk/web-admin/phrases/bulletin_board/messages/2879.html with peace signs yin yangs http://exposingsatanism.org/signsymbols.htm and Pokemon http://www.exposingsatanism.org/pokemon.htm and Christmas http://www.exposingsatanism.org/christmas.htm and most of the good music http://www.exposingsatanism.org/music, but even the relatively innocuous [if insipid] Backstreet Boys http://www.backstreet.net/ are a satanic influence http://www.av1611.org/othpubls/teenidol.html these days. Now go get religion at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Religion/ or else. # SATANIC TELEVISION FACES HELLFIRE! Satanic TV sets burned. Karachi - A Pakistani group modeled on the Taliban of Afghanistan has launched a campaign against "un-Islamic" practices by rounding up burning "satanic" television sets:
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@ BIRDS ATTACK! ALIENS ABDUCT! www.sonic.net/~ric/adventure/mar2k/M2K82.JPG
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# Mysterious Calf Deaths In Brothers, Oregon. (EarthFiles) The high desert
area Southeast of Bend, Oregon has long been associated with unusual ani-
mal deaths known as "animal mutilations." www.earthfiles.com/earth124.htm
@ Society's Best Interests. "If the government is withholding evidence
concerning UFOs, particularly of extraterrestrial aliens, it may be in
society's best interest to be ignorant of the details. It is possible
that such truth has adverse consequences to society in terms of political,
religious, and social stability." http://www.caus.org/mc032700.htm
: Have you mutilated/abducted/molested any/many animals/humans/aliens/robots
lately? Was it valid research; police/military action; political necessity;
good clean fun; nutritious? Is society better off not knowing about it? Why?
# In pursuit of the ultimate weapon - Wartime scientists have revealed how
they tested chemicals on themselves as they searched for new weapons with
which to fight the Germans. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9608015
# 'Did my husband die from lethal injection?' Deadly research in the best
interests of society: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9608016
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# ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE PRACTITIONERS ASK SENATORS FOR MORE FEDERAL FUNDING.
"Give us the money or we'll cast negative Feng Shui vibes all over you!"
http://www.CNN.com/2000/HEALTH/alternative/03/29/alternative.medicine/
# LIVING BETTER WITH YOGA. Yogan practitioners say that the ancient
practice helps them feel healthier and more energized. Doctors say
it might help with heart disease and stress as well. And it's cheap:
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=30205
: Are your medical alternatives effective, economical, entertaining? Do the
voices in your head tell you that you feel much better now? Do survivors of
alternative treatments feel better than non-survivors? Have you survived??
# GENOME 2/3 MAPPED: http://CNN.com/2000/HEALTH/03/29/biotech.genome.reut/
@ WHY DO I FEEL NUMB WHEN I HAVE SEX? Maybe alien implant is misfiring:
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=30621
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# JUNK of the day: Agent Orange Diabetes - The most recent USAF report on
http://www.brooks.af.mil/AFRL/HED/hedb/afhs/97report.shtml the personnel
exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War reports "a significant and
potentially meaningful adverse relation between serum dioxin levels and
diabetes." http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/03/29/agent.orange.diabetes/
But the alleged "adverse relation" is weak statistically insignificant.
And the observed diabetes was likely a result of obesity, an established
risk factor. Why did the USAF draw an unwarranted conclusion? Politics. It
wants to show Congress that,indeed, Air Force scientists were sufficiently
diligent in finding some harm caused by Agent Orange exposure -- even if
that harm had to be fabricated. [ via http://www.junkscience.com/ ]
: Have you fabricated any results lately? Are you well-rewarded? What's your
favorite fabricated result? Should we believe ANYTHING you say? Should any-
thing ANYONE says be believed? Is everything a lie? Is life a deception? Eh?
@ USELESS KNOWLEDGE but it's true: http://www.uselessknowledge.com
@ Real Live History: http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/
@ Real Live Technology History: http://www.thetech.org
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# GOD ON THE GRIDIRON. Religion is the year's biggest sports story. Why is
it getting so little play? http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es307_master.html
@ Why the resurgence of religion in sports? Should media cover this more?
www.feedmag.com/cgi-bin/loop/loop.cgi?function=areaviewdocument=es307.shtml
: Should sport-worship be tax-exempt? Should teams pray? Should nonbelievers
be excluded from sports? Should sports divide on sectarian lines? If Hindus
beat Xians, is {JHWH} dead? If Raelians beat Muslims, did ETs zap Mohammad?
# HARRY POTTER'S WIZARDRY BANNED FROM BRITISH SCHOOL - his magical powers go
against the Bible: http://CNN.com/2000/books/news/03/29/potter.banned.reut
# Prince Charles Gives Up Lunch for Lent - subsists on air, water and kinky
sado-masochistic sex: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000330/09/odd-charles
@ MEET YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL: http://www.angeldoorway.com/ [put something on]
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000316a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/15_03_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to notices, excuses, overflow, links: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No porcine transplants were sexually abused to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Invaders: http://www.sightings.com/splashscreens/invad.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PREPARING FOR UFOs. Washington, DC - Public awareness of the politics of UFOs/disclosure continues to grow. Over a span of six days, a confluence of media events, based in part or in full on UFO/ET phenomena, has taken place. I believe in TV: http://persweb.direct.ca/psa/prg2-10-00.html # The Windsor Incident - Meteor or UFO? http://www.caus.org/mu031600.htm @ Arch skeptic Robt Park tells us never to underestimate the human capacity for self-delusion. He admits that even he once believed in UFOs -- for a few seconds: http://www.salon.com/books/it/2000/03/15/voodoo/print.html @ ALIEN ALPHABET: http://www.futuramaoutlet.com/alphabet.shtml : Have you deluded yourself lately? When/why/how did you stop? DID you stop? Do alien/divine/robotic symbols/images/thoughts insinuate themselves in your mind; keep you stressed-out; give your life purpose? What else obsesses you? @ LETTER TO GRAYS: Dear Mr. Short Gray Entity: I am an abductee, and I do not know for certain whether "they" are good or bad. What I do know is that the secrecy that surrounds this entire UFO/Abduction scenario is absolutely destructive, and has greatly added to our suffering. "The Truth shall set you Free." Really? http://www.caus.org/mc031600.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pig Organ Transplants Raise Ethical Dilemmas. LONDON (Reuters) The cloning of pigs could relieve a global shortage of donor organs but critics chal- lenged the ethics of changing the genetic makeup of animal species using their organs in humans. So it's more ethical just to let people suffer die, eh? http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2315/sc/health_pigs_3.html # Jail For Cloning Humans? TOKYO - Scientists who try to clone human beings will face fines or prison terms under a new bill being drafted by govt: www.scmp.com/News/Asia/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-2315030100766.asp : Does/should/can cloning raise legal/ethical/spiritual problems? Aren't we all natural clones? Isn't gene-engineering just a faster form of selective breeding? Would you like to re-engineer humans? Would GM-people be tastier? # LAST ONES STANDING: New research suggests that there may have been some 20 prehistoric human types that may have existed. But now only Homo sapiens remains. Did we off the other humans? Were we just stronger? What exactly did we do to all the others? Assimilation, cannibalism, extermination - you decide: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/Arts/2315/RV15HOM.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Waco: Sect lawyers say evidence lost, altered - ask judge to sanction US govt: http://dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/49653_WACO16.html # Tennessee Farm Is Laboratory of Human Flesh - rotting bodies everywhere: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000314/12/science-life-bodyfarm # Libertarians once predicted the tech revolution would bring about the end of big government. So where's the brave new world? Seen any govts wither away? http://www.hudson.org/American_Outlook/articles_wn00/rubenstein.htm # SS Parade: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564997916-e4f # Man Armed With Wallet Holds NY Cops Hostage http://bobsfridge.com/skew.htm : Have you subverted any courts/govts/societies lately? Have you taken over any cultural phenomena for y'r own gain? Have you exploited human death/fear /weakness for fun and profit? Do you induce illusions/reality/desires/hate? # MAD MONK RETURNS: 80 years after vanishing, a 500-page dossier on Rasputin comes to light. It seems to confirm that the semi-literate peasant prophet did have an affair with the Czarina Alexandra. The papers have cast new light on myths, sexual conquests and power of the legendary figure in the Romanov court. http://www.nationalpost.com/artslife.asp?f=000315/232882 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sex Is Best: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000315/15/science-science-sex @ The puritanical prosecution of DJs, raves, clubs disguises the sad fact that rave subculture has been fully consumed by mainstream, hip capital- ism: http://salon.com/ent/music/feature/2000/03/14/machinesoul/print.html # Rings of Desire. Millions of Asian consumers find out whether cellphones can improve their sex lives. http://feedmag.com/essay/es304_master.html # EMF, suicide risk linked. RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Chronic exposure to low- frequency electromagnetic fields may be responsible for
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- From: "Ric Carter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Pig Organ Transplants Raise Ethical Dilemmas. LONDON (Reuters) The cloning of pigs could relieve a global shortage of donor organs but critics chal- lenged the ethics of changing the genetic makeup of animal species using their organs in humans. So it's more ethical just to let people suffer die, eh? http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2315/sc/health_pigs_3.html Who gave humans the right to alter other species? Should animals endure suffering and cruelty so we can live longer? If you are going to serve up pig for dinner, I see little difference in herding a few together and messing with their genetic material so that humans can have pig-hearts. Ultimately, is this a good idea? Probably not, but at this stage of our medical know-how it's a good step provided that no nasties are transferred from the piggies to the humans. Will animal organs intrinsically change the people who receive them? Will we have pigmen? Pigwomen? Can animal viruses be transferred to humans and do they pose a threat to human health? This is the big question for me. Hilary 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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# Find almost anything: http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB2208S0004
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# Evidence Supporting Big Bang Found. GENEVA (AP) A series of atom-smashing
experiments has now produced "compelling" evidence that the smallest par-
ticles floated freely a split second after the creation of the universe.
See http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000210/09/understanding-the-universe
# Science recreates beginning of time: www.ft.com/hippocampus/q34577a.htm
# 'Little Bang' creates cosmic soup. Euro scientists reproduce the Big Bang,
and create a form of matter not seen for 15 billion years. Rather loud:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_636000/636886.stm
# Gas: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_443000/443154.stm
# Susy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_421000/421929.stm
# Higgs: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_299000/299550.stm
: Do deities have enough energy to provoke big-bangs, create quarks, expand
the universe? Where do they get that energy? Who/what created the deities?
# Tantalizing Hints Of Quark Gluon Plasma Found At CERN - "circumstantial"
evidence: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000209215728.htm
# CERN Sez: http://www.cern.ch/CERN/Announcements/2000/NewStateMatter
# Brookhaven NatLab Sez: http://www.pubaf.bnl.gov/pr/bnlpr020900.html
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# TOTS `KILLED' IN SATAN ORGIES. PAEDOPHILE rings in Britain are carrying
out Satanic rituals during child sex orgies, a leading psychotherapist
claimed yesterday. http://www.ic24.net/mgn/THE_MIRROR/NEWS/P2S7.html
# Babies born for Satanism - Kids secretly reared in UK for sacrifices
to devil: http://www.lineone.net/express/00/02/10/news/n3040-d.html
# Dead babies' IDs stolen - Multi-million-dollar passport racket continues,
see http://www.lineone.net/express/00/02/10/news/n2220id-d.html
: Have you killed any babies lately? Do you sacrifice them to Satan, Illumi-
nati, BillGates, {YHWH}, aliens, robots, me? Are bonobo/chimp/gorilla babies
adequate substitutes? Are there enough humans that a few won't be missed??
@ Chimps R persons 2: http://salon.com/books/it/2000/02/04/cage/print.html
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# 19 clicks of separation" theory of the Web. "Scientists say [the web is]
developing according to the same organizing patterns and mathematical
principles observed among plant life in the wild." Growing like a weed;
nobody knows just why: http://www.seattlep-i.com/local/clik07.shtml
# Serendipitous meetings, missed planes, odd mistakes shape and reshape our
lives. The tiniest change may alter our future or the future of the world:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/WhosCounting/whoscounting.html
: Are your relationships weedy? Do your mental processes follow plague-like
patterns? Do voices in your head tell you to apply pesticides to the Web, to
your relations, to yourself? Have you altered the future lately? How much??
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# BOOK-BUSTING: A tide of vandalism has swept most of the UK's libraries
clean of musical texts and scores, writes Norman Lebrecht. "Glasgow,
Liverpool and most London boroughs have lost their music libraries. The
BBC has wantonly trashed thousands of scores. British library managers
are burning more books than any group since Hitler's stormtroopers."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000166941319210pg=/et/00/2/9/bmnorm.html
# Another CBS Digital Furor. CBS News, which on New Year's Eve digitally
superimposed images of the network logo onto its broadcast from Times
Square, threatens legal action against musicians who sampled Dan Rather's
voice. Bother. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34177,00.html
: What information would you most like to suppress/manipulate/manufacture?
Have you burnt any books/tapes/CDs/TVs/computers lately? Are you compelled?
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# Technology rules over extinction. When scientists make up their minds, all
sorts of weird things transpire. They've cloned a sheep; sooner or later,
they're going to duplicate a mammoth. But: Why would anyone want to clone
a woolly mammoth? http://www.cleveland.com/news/pdnews/metro/c09scrug.ssf
# Mouth Rinse Could End Tooth Decay. Fighting tooth decay could someday be
as simple as using a mouth rinse, sez a researcher who has genetically
altered the bacterium known to cause tooth decay into a form that may per-
manently prevent the disease. http://unisci.com/stories/20001/0209003.htm
: What's your favorite genetic
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- # Evidence Supporting Big Bang Found. GENEVA (AP) A series of atom-smashing experiments has now produced "compelling" evidence that the smallest par- ticles floated freely a split second after the creation of the universe. See http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000210/09/understanding-the-universe # Science recreates beginning of time: www.ft.com/hippocampus/q34577a.htm # 'Little Bang' creates cosmic soup. Euro scientists reproduce the Big Bang, and create a form of matter not seen for 15 billion years. Rather loud: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_636000/636886.stm # Gas: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_443000/443154.stm # Susy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_421000/421929.stm # Higgs: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_299000/299550.stm : Do deities have enough energy to provoke big-bangs, create quarks, expand the universe? Where do they get that energy? Who/what created the deities? Does the ability to create "Little Bangs" by smashing "Little Atoms" mean that "Little Universes" will now evolve and, if so, does that make us "Little Deities?" 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?- SkeptiNews 000203a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Time passed during production of this bulletin. Happy Birthday, Marsha!! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Entropy: http://www.alamut.com/subj/ideologies/pessimism/entropy.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Can time reverse? IN a distant galaxy, a star unexplodes. Just moments ago a shell of tortured matter was flying together at 30,000 km/sec. Now it has become a star; the last shreds of glowing debris are being sucked in. With the explosion undone, the star begins the long journey back to the time when it will be unborn into the gas dust of an interstellar cloud. Theorists say that regions where time flows in the normal direction can coexist with regions where it flows backwards. There may be places, even within our Galaxy, where stars unexplode, eggs unbreak and living things grow younger with every second. http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9314379 : Do you prefer time moving forward, backwards, sideways, spiraling, other? What's your favorite temporal axis? Have you shifted time modes lately? Did you need to move to a different region of space? Is everything weird there? @ Has Science Found God? http://www.phys.hawaii.edu/vjs/www/anthro_philo.pdf # Weak interaction helps locate strange quark in proton structure: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/uil-wih020200.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ UFOS AND THE BIBLE. Aliens : Angels or Demons? It's incremental acclimat- ization from THEM! The book of the Jubilees remarks that Jared or Yeh-red http://biblestudytools.net/Lexicons/Hebrew/?id=03382, an Old Testament patriarch, was so called because in his days the angels descended upon the earth - Yaw-rad http://www.biblestudytools.net/Lexicons/Hebrew/?id=03381 "descend". It is interesting to note that "Jordan" comes from that same root word denoting "descent, coming down or falling" - Yar-dane "the place of the descent" http://biblestudytools.net/Lexicons/Hebrew/?id=03383. Jordan, "place of the descent", is located in the ancient boundary of Israel. Israel is currently a major location for sighting UFOs, and the fallen angels in disguise as "aliens". http://mt.net/~watcher/ufos.html : Are your favorite deities all alien entities? Where are they from? What do they want here? Are they incrementally acclimating us? How far along are we? Are we/they descending, ascending, jitterbugging, masturbating, aestivating? # Israeli Roswell: The "Achihod Alien" http://www.parascope.com/articles/0297/alienin.htm # NEW UPDATE 'Historic' New NASA UFO Shuttle Footage With 'Stark ET Evidence' http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/stark.htm @ Red Sprites and Blue Jets: http://elf.gi.alaska.edu/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Crash-a-Rama: (minimal) # Alaska Air Jet's Tail May Have Malfunctioned Before - search abandoned: http://apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/02/02/crash0202pma_01.html # Second 'black box' sought: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9316708 # Alaska Air Denies Problems: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9316635 # Another Stabilizer Problem: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9313989 # American Air MD-80 jet reports stabilizer problem, returns to airport - same model as Alaska Air: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9314412 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The End of the Nation-State: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/90.html # China Preparing For War With US. Strategic writings by China's military and party leaders show that China is making plans for war, according to a new Pentagon study. Some 600 translations of internal Chinese writings by 200 authors reveal China's strategy to defeat a superior foe, using both military and nonmilitary means, such as propaganda, deception and covert action. http://www.washtimes.com/national/nation3-02022000.htm # China cracks down on Internet cafes. (BBC) Shanghai closes 127 unlicensed Internet cafes seized computers in the 4th raid by cops since last April. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_628000/628432.stm : Can/should/will China conquer the world with deceit, computers, assassins, mind-control devices cleverly built into cheap toys, huge armies, ideology, commercial expertise, nuclear/biological/chemical weaponry, sexual devices? # Also: Online boom for China: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_609000/609971.stm # Can governments control the Internet? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_623000/623339.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Hogs'R'Us: # Groundhog forecasts more winter - marketers flog old German superstition: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_628000/628685.stm @ Day of Shadow:
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000127a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 sacred trees were sacrificed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Satanic? http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/france/fashion/2124/par02d _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Probe readies for Valentine reunion. (BBC) The Near spacecraft is heading for a 14 February rendezvous with asteroid Eros. I get hot just thinking of it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_619000/619354.stm # Jefferson-Hemings Liaison Likely: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9285685 : Have'ya probed Eros lately? Is Valentine's Day a good day for Eros probes? Are Cupid, Eros, Valentine, all alien entities? Do UFOs make you think about sex? Have you ever had sex with aliens, slaves, robots, prisoners, animals? @ PORN-BLOCKER SOFTWARE WON'T LET YOU SEE THESE: Frighteningly extensive Super Bowl http://cbs.sportsline.com/u/football/nfl/superbowl/xxxiv/ coverage from CBS Sportsline. At http://www.superbowlxxxiv.org/ Super Bowl XXXIV.org, you'll be treated to the finest hand-picked fruits. Via http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_ronthal/2127_xcint_no_cherrie.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Recent UFO Sightings Lack Credibility To Scientists http://persweb.direct.ca/psa/recentufo.html @ ABOVE BLACK. "It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed." This web- site seeks to expose the cover-up, by the US govt, of a specific alien project and to educate the public on how alien projects are successfully hidden from public exposure. Aliens do exist. If you are skeptical of this fact, reading ABOVE BLACK will make you question your beliefs (and perhaps change them.) Or maybe not. http://www.aboveblack.com/ : Have you hidden any alien projects from public disclosure lately? Have you leaked info about some projects in order to distract attention from the real alien projects? Is everything we think we know about aliens just fabricated? @ ET Related Resources: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~boyne/etresources.html @ Hermetic Studies: http://www.uwsp.edu/stuorg/aurora/HERMLNK.HTM @ Spiritual topics and exchange: The Wanderers' Forum chatroom: http://www.spiritweb.org/cgi/spiritchat.cgi?channel=TheWanderersForum @ Children of the Law of One: The story teachings of those positive foll- owers of the Law of One from the times of Atlantis http://www.atlantis.to/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Never Say Die. (NASA) After receiving weak signals that might have come from Mars Polar Lander, Stanford radio astronomers are again searching for faint transmissions from the missing spacecraft. http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast27jan_1.htm # Polar Lander Still Alive? http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/signal.htm # NASA, Stanford Wait for Mars Polar Lander to Phone Home: http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/01/26/mars.lander/index.html : Why was the Mars Polar Lander 'lost' why is it about to be 'found?' How did ETs modify it while it was 'missing?' Did they have to relocate a base from its landing site? Was it moved someplace 'safe?' Are you 'suspicious?' # China sat launched. BEIJING (AP) - China put a 5,000-pound communications satellite into orbit Wednesday, using one of its biggest rockets for the launching. The domestically made satellite will be used for ground commun- ications, ionosphere manipulation and mind-control beam transmissions. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563654595-6e0 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tree Worship - If govt protects a forest, is it a religious act? Courts will soon decide. (MoJo) Environmentalism is a religion! At least, so say Minnesota loggers who are suing the US Forest Service and 2 environmental groups on the grounds that eco-minded actions violated the separation of church and state. http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/tree_worship.html : Do you worship trees, the sun, clean air water, pure foods drugs? Are laws about these all illicit minglings of church state? D'ya worship sex, money, fast cars, football, hip-hop, small fuzzy animals, rocks, me? Should all laws on these be overturned? D'ya worship law? Is law unconstitutional? # TESTING THE FAITH - Filipino Kids jailed for Bible study by Saudis - 5 children among 16 imprisoned for reading Scriptures: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap2126_1002.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Military Use of Advanced Math. DARPA's Applied Computational Mathematics Program (ACMP) seeks to identify, develop and demonstrate new mathematical paradigms enabling maximum performance at minimum cost in a wide variety of DoD systems applications. ACMP looks for opportunities to aggressively leverage the power of
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000120a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 were teleported to safety during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Mojave Phone Booth: http://www.deuceofclubs.com/moj/mojave.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pentagon Now Developing Teleportation - Next Scientific Realm. WASHINGTON In what may be the largest quantum computer research program in the world, the Pentagon is developing tools to teleport messages across the battle- field around the globe. Teleportation, simply stated, is the process of making information disappear from one place so it can reappear in another. The concept was made popular with the Star Trek TV series' oft-imitated quote, "Beam me up, Scottie." http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/teleport.htm # Atoms Moved Between Worlds. Physicists nudge atoms back forth between our everyday world a the strange quantum realm, where objects can paradox- ically be in two places at the same time. If physicists can further refine this technology, it could result in incredibly fast quantum computers able to crack even the toughest encryption codes used by conventional computers today. http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/brief4.html?ct=38873dac : Does quantum computing make you feel more or less secure? If your quantum computer breaks, do you call a quantum mechanic? Would you rather teleport data, food, garbage, yourself, your family/neighbors/enemies? Where to?? # Database atomic quantum phase: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9258352 # Scientists probe quantum world: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9256021 # NIST Scientists Cross The Bridge Between Atomic And Real Worlds: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000120073305.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Spectacular Fireball Streaks Explodes Over Yukon - Possible impact near Carcross-Tagish Area! Hundreds of Whitehorse residents and witnesses from surrounding communities witnessed a bright series of flashes with many seeing a rapidly moving bright object traveling over the city in a south- bound direction where the object was seen to "blow-up" over the southern horizon. The flashes were as bright as daylight and lit up the entire dark morning sky. The object left a contrail that lingered for 10 to 15 minutes after the event: http://www.ufobc.org/yukon/ykfireballjan2000.html : Have you seen any fireballs lately? Have any fireballs seen you? D'ya have fiery balls? Have you ever sung, "GOODNESS GRACIOUS GREAT BALLS OF FIRE"?? @ Silver Spheres, Gazing Balls, UFO's Me: http://www.itlnet.net/users/jhickman/silver_spheres.htm # New Star Trek TV Series? http://sightings.com/ufo6/call.htm # "Area51" Reference on Phone Service Disruption Report: http://216.68.77.17/img/sprintoutage.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BORN AGAIN? YOU'RE PART OF A GROWING TREND. A third of America's 77- million baby boomers call themselves born-again Christians - when poll- sters ask: http://chblue.com/2000/01/19/l/-0003-religion-faith.asp # Lions return - torture, murder of Xians, 'scapegoats of choice' for thugs: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/2120_xex_the_lions_ba.shtml # FCC 'must explain' religious action - Big brother hinders free speech? http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/2119/pl/religious_broadcasting_6.html # Thousands of people had conspired to fool Mark Mason into believing that Afghan thieves have their hands chopped off. Or so he wished. Some bloody justice in Taliban's Kabul: http://www.orato.com/frames/hand.htm : Is your religious movement the dominant heresy in your region? Are you oppressed or oppressive? Does your belief system require you to complain of being oppressed while you actually do some heavy-duty oppressing yourself? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New guidelines on embryo tests - NIH OKs research to minimize suffering: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/2120_xex_new_us_guide.shtml @ Dr. Mengele assumes fetal position - exposing fed.funded embryo science: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_btl/2120_xcbtl_the_return.shtml @ DOES SCIENCE WITHOUT ETHICS MEAN PROGRESS FOR HUMANITY? http://www.nypost.com/commentary/22463.htm @ Eugenics will soon be a crusade of the Left. Once we can spot inequality in DNA, genetic engineering will come to the rescue of social engineering. Let's get equal: http://www.nationalreview.com/24jan00/murray012400.html : Are you more or less equal than everyone else? Should you be genetically re-engineered for more/same/less superiority/equality/inferiority? Do you oppose embryo/gene research because you're already better/same/worse than the rest of us? Would you rather experiment on people or
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Actually, I believe the first use of this technology was in sportscasting. If you watched baseball last year, you undoubtedly saw what looked like a team logo behind homeplate. Surprise, surprise...all of a sudden that "logo" transmogrified into a graphic reporting the speed of the pitcher's delivery. And a couple of innings later it reinvented itself as an ad for whatever. In football, CBS (hmm) has been inserting computer-generated lines on the screen to make the first down line actually visible for the first time in the history of the sport. Did CBS News decide to take a leaf from CBS Sports's book? The Shadow knows... But how long before we see those apparitions of Diana and Elvis in laser-driven apotheosis over the next battlefield? - Original Message - From: Ric Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 11:41 PM Subject: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #1 snip # Newscasts digitally doctored - All the news that's fit to invent. If you watched the "CBS Evening News" 'cast live from Times Square on New Year's Eve, you may have seen a billboard advertising CBS News out in the square behind Dan Rather. You might have looked at the well-placed billboard and wondered just how CBS was able to place its ad so fortuitously. The truth is, it didn't. The billboard and the ad for CBS did not exist. The image was digitally imported onto the live CBS broadcast and used to obliterate real objects, the NBC Astrovision underneath the New Year's ball and a Bud ad. http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/financial/cbs-digital.html : Do you expect "newscasts" to be news, entertainment, or some mix thereof? Do you expect everything that's broadcast to be faked? Is it faked already? Are broadcasters responsible for conveying truth to you, or for selling you to their advertisers? Do you still watch commercial TV? Does your implant twitch, smoke, sizzle? Is your brain adequately controlled? Are you a dupe? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ snip 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?- SkeptiNews 000113a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 scuzbut propagandists were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Disturbing and Vile movies: http://www.losman.com/vile.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hi, We're from the government, we're here to help rewrite your show. A secret government operation put anti-drug messages into Hollywood TV programs. Here's how one episode of the WB network's "Smart Guy" was changed. http://salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/smart_guy/index.html # Drug money-How the White House secretly hooked network TV on its anti-drug message: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs/index.html : Are you a govt agent? Have you manipulate any media presentations lately? Is your propaganda effective? Are you good at mind-control? Does it work?? # Hillary set to do "Saturday Night Live" A secret memo outlines the first lady's upcoming appearance as "SNL" guest host. Laugh at lesbo rumors: http://www.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/01/12/hillary/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Newscasts digitally doctored - All the news that's fit to invent. If you watched the "CBS Evening News" 'cast live from Times Square on New Year's Eve, you may have seen a billboard advertising CBS News out in the square behind Dan Rather. You might have looked at the well-placed billboard and wondered just how CBS was able to place its ad so fortuitously. The truth is, it didn't. The billboard and the ad for CBS did not exist. The image was digitally imported onto the live CBS broadcast and used to obliterate real objects, the NBC Astrovision underneath the New Year's ball and a Bud ad. http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/financial/cbs-digital.html : Do you expect "newscasts" to be news, entertainment, or some mix thereof? Do you expect everything that's broadcast to be faked? Is it faked already? Are broadcasters responsible for conveying truth to you, or for selling you to their advertisers? Do you still watch commercial TV? Does your implant twitch, smoke, sizzle? Is your brain adequately controlled? Are you a dupe? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # No sex please, we're geeks. They've got money, power huge hard drives, so why aren't Silicon Valley's finest getting any? Can't buy me love: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/01/12/body_electric/index.html # Silicon bachelors Santa Clara County beats out Alaska to become home to more single guys than anyplace else in America. Watchin' the bytes go by: http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/06/29/bachelors/index.html : Is your cyberreality more significant than sex? Are you perfecting tele- dildonics? Is interpersonal sex obsolete? Would you rather fuck a Reptoid, human, other primate, other mammal, other chordate, vegetable, robot, me?? # Convention Promotes More Sex on Net - Las Vegas Event Boasts 'Sex Sells': www.apbnews.com/safetycenter/childrens_safety/2000/01/12/netsex0112_01.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AOL Password stealers (TROJ_AOL.WINSYST and TROJ_AOL.BUDDY). In recent weeks, we have seen an increase in the number of America Online Password Stealers (aka AOLPWS) that are being spread on the Internet. So we advise all our customers not to open email attachments sent by individuals they don't know and to keep their virus protection up to date. Two of the most common AOL password stealers are TROJ_AOL.WINSYST and TROJ_AOL.BUDDY, which try to email (steal) a user's AOL login and password. See www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=TROJ_AOL.WINSYST www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=TROJ_AOL.BUDDY.1 : Have you written any password-stealing trojans lately? Do you prefer to attack commercial operations, govt/military sites, religious groups, anyone? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mutant food. A lawsuit against the FDA reveals documents that show even the agency's own scientists have doubts about the safety of genetically modified foods. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/12/food/ : Have you genetically modified any food lately? Did you insert human genes? Are you promoting cannibalism? Do your deities approve/insist? R U happy?? @ "What is today's most important unreported story?" http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es283_master.html?alert _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Brain drain: A bill that would give visas to high-tech foreign students will exploit the greatest minds of the Third World for the sake of US industry: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/10/brains/index.html : Have you stolen any brains from the developing world lately? Is it fun? @ Junkyard Memories - Does contemporary car design signal the death of
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 000106a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 influenza epidemics were promulgated to produce this bulletin. Cough. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Crude Thesaurus: http://khopesh.iwarp.com/crude.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Designing babies: The future of genetics. (BBC) The power to change the shape and destiny of the human species - to design babies to order - will be within the grasp of genetic scientists in just a couple of decades. Cloning babies is strictly banned in the UK -- but watch what happens: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_59/590919.stm : Have you ordered/designed/cloned any babies lately? Was your order satis- factory? Did you have fries with that order? Would you rather order babies from public/private labs, magicians, aliens, robots, me? Who are the most satisfactory baby designers/cloners/producers? Do you have a longterm lease? # Playing With Nature In a High-Tech Future: genetic manipulation today. http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/06/002l-010600-idx.html # Centers To Breed Mice With Human-Like Gene Variants That Modify Their Responses To Environmental Factors And The Repair Of Damaged DNA - see http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000105044046.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Just Passing Through. After sixteen years of sky watching in Ontario, my arrival here on the west coast in 1970 suddenly opened up a new field of aerial activity, namely meteors, fireballs, bolides. I know this to be true, because the planetarium always said so. http://caus.org/pn010600.htm : Do UFOs follow you around? Do you pay attention to them? Do they pay any attention to you? Do you feel ignored, slighted, if they don't respond? Why? # Golden Dish-Type Craft with a Dome on the Top http://caus.org/mu010600.htm # Canadian Crop Circle Summary Report 1999 http://www.caus.org/ccr010500.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Satellites To Stop Speeding Cars. Drivers may be automatically stopped from speeding by an electronic device to be fitted to all cars within 10 years. The Deputy Prime Minister will be told that extensive trials have been such a success that a phased introduction of speed restricters would also dramatically reduce road congestion and cut pollution. You will go how we want you to go: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/speeding.htm : Should govt control your transportation options? Is your automobile an autonomous republic? Will the sats be controlled by humans, aliens, me? @ All sorts of neat stuff at Remote Sensing http://www.remotesensing.org/ including a large image manipulation tool and a tool called geotrans for doing coordinate translation between datums. Downloads are available here: http://www.remotesensing.org/download/ And don't forget to map everything out at: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Cartography/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SHUTTLE MAY BE LAUNCHED TO REPAIR FALTERING SPACE STATION. NASA wonks are close to giving final approval to launch an added space shuttle mission in March to perform critical repairs maintenance to the fledging Interna- tional Space Station keep it safely in orbit until a permanent crew arrives - perhaps as late as next fall. The first Russian component of the space station, the Zarya space "tugboat," has been in orbit since November 1998. http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/01/05/space.station.01/index.html : Would you rather build/repair/hijack a space station? Have you hijacked a space station lately? Is it easy? Did your alien masters help/hinder/laugh? # Where's My Orgasmatron? Man did not conquer space because it's too boring. Yawn: http://www.montrealgazette.com/editorial/pages/000103/3380238.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ "Q A on mind control": http://www.factnet.org/rancho2.htm#one @ MindControl: How to watch for mc groups on the web and other places: http://members.aol.com/smartnews/page/Sample-Issue-30.htm @ Persuasion and Brainwashing Techniques Being Used on the Public Today: http://www.magnet.ch/serendipity/sutphen/brainwsh.html @ "Propaganda Techniques," (pictures may be triggering) http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu/propaganda/contents.htm : Are you mind-controlled, or are you a controller? If you think you're a controller, how do you know for sure? Maybe you're mind-controlled too, eh? # Secret Mind Manipulations Of 'Pokemon' Exposed! Are hidden messages in the soundtrack for the Pokemon TV show teaching violent behavior to children? Analysis shows clearly audible references to guns and dysfunction in the speech of the show's characters. Are these messages appropriate for a young viewing audience? What values are being taught through children's television programming?
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991209a - - - - - - - - - - - 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? * Nobody was teleported into a supernova to produce this bulletin. Whew. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Don't Mess With... THE KING: http://www.jesuspresley.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Looking For Life 'Out There' Draws on Inner Need to Explore. MOFFETT FIELD CALIF. With humanity now on the verge of being capable to leave its home world, Earth, scientists are wrestling with the consequences of this next great journey; of the social impact humanity will have upon discovering life elsewhere, be it fossil, bacterial, or an intelligent civilization. The scene is NASA's Ames Research Center and a two-day workshop on the societal implications of astrobiology: http://www.caus.org/pn120999.htm : What would you do with life elsewhere? What would it do with you? Who will devour/enslave/exploit/parasitize whom? Is death a stage of life? Is life a stage of death? Do you prefer to deal with the unborn or the undead? Where? # Flying Triangles: Occupants; Cops TV Towers http://caus.org/ft120899.htm # UFO Crash Threatens Oz Water Supply: http://sightings.com/ufo5/ozcrash.htm @ Old Oz UFO Sightings And Encounters: http://sightings.com/ufo5/histoz.htm # Spheres Cylinders with Beams of Light - OHIO SPHERE SHAPED CRAFT - NEW JERSEY: TWO CYLINDERS DISC VIDEOTAPED http://www.caus.org/mu120999.htm # Comet Hale-Bopp May Have a Satellite: http://www.caus.org/pn120899.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SHUTTLE LAUNCH ON INDEFINITE HOLD; Y2K DEADLINE LOOMS. With the discovery of a crushed hydrogen cooling line, space shuttle mission managers have put the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery on "indefinite hold." Five days for repair: http://cnn.com/1999/TECH/space/12/08/shuttle.delay/ # Japan cancels key rocket program. TOKYO (AP) Japan announced that it will halt development of the troubled H-2 rocket, considered the key to Japan's space program, after two failed launches this year. Try for better rockets instead: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562505263-b98 # Setback: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562516123-ee5 : Are the aliens who want to keep us out of space smarter, tougher, luckier than the aliens helping us get into space? Which aliens are which? Whose?? @ Teletransportation - Beam Me Up: http://www.caus.org/pc120899.htm @ See: http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/ramirez/ramirez_1208.htm # Mars lander topped bad year for NASA - Hubble mission worrisome too: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562498569-145 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ So long held captive by its binding, the book is about to be set free. Its salvation is the Internet. But for how long? Will writing survive cybertelepathy? http://wired.lycos.com/news/print/0,1294,32733,00.html # TAKING IT TO THE STREETS: Just who are these people who sit at card tables on the streets of Manhattan trying to sell books to passersby? And what does this micro-industry say about the reshaping of the city? How will it further morph? http://villagevoice.com/vls/165/sante.shtml : When will streets be overrun by vendors of chips, DNA samples, implants, thought patterns, other communications artifacts storage media? When will the streets disappear? When will writing/books/media disappear? Soon enough? @ Over the centuries editors have had to invent reinvent Sappho. But just who did they imagine her to be? http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n19/cast2119.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # KISS ME ONCE - AND HAVE MY GERMS FOR A LONG, LONG TIME. We've always known that the human mouth holds about 500 different microbes. Now thanks to DNA testing technology we know there are more, including 37 previously unknown to science. And we probably share all of them when we kiss. We ARE our bugs: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=23311 : Would you rather kiss humans, aliens, robots, me? Are aliens safer for sex etc than humans? Are you enveloped with alien biota? Are you immune? Why?? # Student Sperm Drive Upsets U. SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Chinese university has torn down advertisements put up by a fertility clinic seeking to buy student sperm. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991207/08/odd-sperm # Desperate Beatle fans offer sex in exchange for Paul McCartney concert tix: http://cnn.com/1999/WORLD/europe/12/09/bc.britain.mccartney.reut/ : Would you rather buy or trade for sperm, eggs, ova, sex? Would you rather buy/trade with humans, aliens, students, music promoters, robots, fans, me? # Surgeons Condemn Penis Enlargement Prize. SYDNEY (Reuters) - Oz doctors have condemned a golf tournament sponsor offering a penis enlargement for the longest drive.
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991202a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 prophets were verbally abused during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Grafica Obscura: http://www.sgi.com/grafica/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # What next, Leonids? (NASA) The Leonids of 1999 gave skywatchers in Europe and the Middle East a tremendous show of over 1500 meteors per hour at the peak. What lies in store for stargazers next year and in the early 21st century? http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast02dec99_1.htm # DOOM! I have made no bones about prophesying that America will meet its destruction by Almighty God before Bill Clinton leaves office on January 20, 2001. See the documentation at: http://www.rt66.com/~bandsrpt/FAQ.html : What's your favorite prognostication? Do you trust the prophesies of UFOl- ogists, astronomers, soothsayers, politicos, economists, aliens, robots, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # WORRY. Specifically, the FBI worries about "violent white supremacists who seek to initiate a race war; apocalyptic cults that anticipate a violent Armageddon; radical elements of private citizen militias who fear that the United Nations will initiate an armed takeover of the United States and subsequently establish a One World Government, and other groups or indivi- duals who promote violent millennial agendas". ETs don't make the list: www.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,500063593-500105212-500471217-0,00.html : Do you worry more about Nazi/KKK warriors, deathcults, militias, Reptoids, megacorps, plagues, zeroes, lawyers, robots, spies, demons, dwarves, hackers or me? Is a One World Govt an idea whose time has come? Can you use it? Eh? @ An Introduction to the UFO Phenomenon -- Start here: http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/ufo/ufointro.html @ Evidence of the Extraterrestrial Theory - weighing the evidence supporting the theory that UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin. http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/ufo/et_evidence.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PISSED-OFF. "Why Don't The Damn Things Swim - so we can turn them over to the Navy!" This is how an Air force investigator summed up his exaspera- tion in trying to sift UFO facts from fancy. From 1951-53, the author headed up Project Blue Book, the now-famous official investigation into UFO's. Here is what he learned: http://users.ev1.net/~seektress/swim.htm : Do you trust anyone to adequately investigate UFOs? Are military personnel appropriate for investigations of the paranormal? If you were assigned to probe UFOs, onto who would you slough off the task? Can they worm out of it? # NO ALIENS: http://news.excite.com/news/bw/991130/ny-simon--schuster-ache @ Astral Projection as a Means of Alien Transportation --- What if ETs use astral projection to bridge the gap between their planet and Earth? http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/ufo/alienastral.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Web Appliances: Get ready to plug in the 1st batch of easy-to-use gadgets. All the hype about the future of Web devices that are simple to use, slee- kly designed, and easy on the wallet will peak this spring when the first big batch is scheduled to arrive. These machines offer just an inkling of what's ahead in the post-PC era, or as Microsoft likes to say, the PC-plus era. http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/trends/0,7607,2401567,00.html : When everything you own is wired, when YOU are wired, will disconnection be death? Do Web.appliances lead to total slavery? Will you go willingly? # Information-brokers on the Web - KNOWLEDGE IS POWER IS WEALTH IS CONTROL IS KNOWLEDGE: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991204/netro.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Moon Is practically all Water frozen or Ice It was formed By water evaporating From the earth Which arose and gathered Between the Earth and Sun It is hollow Like a pumpkin The inside is composed of that part of the air known as Nitrogen And very very cold Consequently its water is frozen. If the crust of the moon Was removed, it would be a Sun bright enough To destroy the earth. http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/letters/edward.htm : Are all planets and moons hollow like pumpkins? Can humans exploit this structure to gain dominance over the solar system? Did ETs already do so? @ Animal Mutilations -- A look at the baffling phenomena of mutilated animals. http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/ufo/mutilate.html @ Alien Snuff - Real alien or silicon-made fake? "Alien Autopsy" footage: http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/ufo/aliensnuff.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Bruce H.G. Calder's THIS-DAY-IN-HISTORY - December 2, 1987 - The Rev. Jerry Falwell vs. Hustler Mag publisher Larry Flynt in the U.S. Supreme
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991125a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 turkeys were harmed during the production of this bulletin. Not much. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ Who sez death can't be creative? http://www.finalcurtain.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BIGGEST U.S. SPY AGENCY CHOKING ON TOO MUCH INFO. The largest US spy gang, the National Security Agency, is in crisis, swamped by too many targets, too much data, and the challenges created by increasingly sophisticated technologies. The NSA is more than twice the size of the CIA, and at least twice as secretive. Spooks spooked: http://cnn.com/US/9911/25/nsa.woes/ : Have you choked any spies or spy agencies lately? Is this news item just a desperate call for more computers, more analysts, more money? How much info is too much? Would you like to choke on info? Is info better than sex? How? @ GEEK CULTURE: http://www.geekculture.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Prevention effort reduces Air Force suicide rate. NEW YORK (Reuters) The number of suicides among US Air Force personnel has declined by 75% since the Air Force implemented a suicide prevention program. What took them so long? http://news.excite.com/news/r/991124/17/health-psa : Do USAF personnel suicide more/less than Army, Navy, NSA, CIA? What's the suicide rate of official MIBs suppressing UFO reports? What're the suicide rates for UFOlogists, conspirators, dissidents? Are they REALLY suicides? @ UFOs Control IBM: http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cattlecam/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ MARS ISLAND CITY - Mars Global Surveyor image: Traverse Highlands Channel Arda Valles Massifs. Note the parallel grooves other linear features. After processing, the details are more visible. Images of Macchu Picchu bear a striking resemblance to the terrace discovered on Mars. Could these features have been inspired, perhaps even built, by the same intelligent beings? The same intensive farming methods used in the mountains of Peru would be very well adapted to the thin atmosphere of Mars when water and life may have been abundant in the distant past, before the cataclysm. Life in thin air: http://www.anomalous-images.com/mgs/islandcity.html : If aliens worked on ancient Earth structures, did any die in construction accidents? Why haven't their bodies been found? Were they cremated, removed or eaten? On which planet would you most likely build terraced cities? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Documentary to Test Nature Vs. Nurture. LONDON (Reuters) - The age-old nurture versus nature argument is to be put to the test in a British TV documentary which will follow a group of millennium babies through two decades of their lives. CHILD OF OUR TIMES charts the progress of some of the first citizens of the year 2000 from the womb to adulthood. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991124/07/science-britain-bbc : Are you nurtured, denatured, neutered? Should your upbringing be documen- ted, recorded, televised? Does this take REAL TV a step too far? Should the Bunghole Method of child-rearing be included in this study? Is this science? @ Photogenic bundles of joy? Hardly. Human babies are chubby to convince their perhaps skeptical mothers that they are worth keeping. But are they? http://www.sciam.com/1999/1299issue/1299reviews1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiBriefs/Links: @ Short History Of US BioWeapons Testing On Innocent Civilians. "The U.S. program of BW started in 1942. With the acquisition of the Japanese data and the increased tensions of the cold war, the U.S. program accelerated in activity and grew in size... One of the biggest experiments involved the use of Serratia marcescens being sprayed over San Francisco." Like, who noticed? http://www.calpoly.edu/~drjones/biowar-b.html#history @ Organic Federation of Australia: http://www.green.net.au/ofa/ @ Australian GeneEthics Network: http://www.zero.com.au/agen @ Dowsing For Change: http://www.fountain-international.org # Closing The Dream Factory - THE TRUTH BEHIND THE END OF SONY'S 7-YEAR PARANORMAL RESEARCH EFFORT: A STORY OF QUIET SUCCESS AND CORPORATE DISAPPOINTMENT. This summer, Japan's enormously successful electronics giant, the Sony Corporation, unloaded a bombshell when they announced that ESP exists. http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/115/sonypsi.html @ The 20th Century: 100 years of history: http://cnn.com/100 @ Take a virtual peek into the future: http://www.cnn.com/future @ The first sunrise of 2000 will be: www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/at2000 @ Poll: What are your scenarios for the 21st century: http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/at2000/index.html#poll # Memories of Fear: We Learn How They Work. (USC) Scientists have found the brain circuit where memories of fear
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 99a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 hearts were heedlessly broken to produce this bulletin. Weep for me. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Word Of The Day: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists 'create' a neutron star. (BBC) Physicists have simulated some effects found around one of the strangest most dangerous objects in the known universe. In New Mexico lab, a machine is creating temperatures rivaling that found at the centre of the Sun. It is helping physicists learn what happens to matter that falls into black holes and neutron stars. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_515000/515765.stm @ Links: Sandia National Laboratories: http://www.sandia.gov/ @ Life cycle of stars: http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/starsbackground.htm : Have you created any neutron stars or black holes lately? Are you a black hole? What quasi-stellar objects would you like to create/visit/pollute?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Robot trainers aid stroke recovery. NEW YORK (Reuters) -- An interactive robot that can coax stroke patients through rehabilitation exercises may help them regain more muscle control and strength than standard therapy alone: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991110/18/health-rob1 # Implants could help paralysed patients. (BBC) Implants could be used in the future to help patients with spinal injuries regain their movement. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_514000/514478.stm : Would you rather be implanted, roboticized, borgified? How many implants and robotic assemblies need be installed before you're completely a Borg? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Medics peer into the future. (BBC) Patients will be implanted with sensors to detect disease, toilets will analyse urine samples and diabetics will never have to worry about their condition again - in the next century. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_514000/514592.stm # ALSO - Taking the needle out of diabetes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_514000/514890.stm # Biosensors 'will transform healthcare': http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_514000/514801.stm : Who will control the machines that monitor/sustain you? Who'll have access to the data they gather? Can you wait for the next century? Must you anyway? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Giving birth may boost memory. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sure it may ruin your figure and take up all your free time, but having children may also boost memory power, a new study in rodents shows. US researchers report that female rats who had given birth performed better on two standard mazes that test learning and memory than female rats who had not given birth. Huh? http://news.excite.com/news/r/991110/20/health-mem8 And see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_514000/514607.stm and http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562015450-e08 # ALSO - Hormones: the elixir of youth: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_395000/395538.stm # Mother's hormone levels 'can affect baby's IQ': http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_424000/424661.stm # Soya beans linked to developmental damage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_503000/503781.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 100-eyed bug surprises scientists. The extraordinary raspberry-like eyes of a tiny parasitic insect have been described for the 1st time. Strep- sipteran insects, which live in the bodies of paper wasps, have a visual system not found in any other living creature. The bugs see out of struc- tures that are made up of 50 self-contained eyes with retinas behind them. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_505000/505129.stm # Also - Insects use lesbian ruse: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_481000/481394.stm # And - Bull's-eye beetle: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_422000/422599.stm : Would you like to have your eyes re-engineered? How many eyes d'ya need? Would you like to see into the IR and UV spectra? Want wideband receivers? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Heart-O-Rama: # Robotic-Assisted Heart Bypass Shown Safe. ATLANTA (Reuters) - Someday surgeons may be able to perform non-invasive heart surgery on a patient without being in the same room or even the same state. Phone-in the per- formance: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991110/02/science-heart-robotics : D'ya want robots crawling around in you, cutting stitching mucking-up? # Chinese Diet Protects Heart. ATLANTA (Reuters) Chinese researchers presented more evidence that the standard Western diet can cause heart disease. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991110/02/science-heart-chinese : Are McFood vendors
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991028a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 technophobes were mollified during the interruption of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Virus Report: http://www.antivirus.com/trendsetter/virus_report/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Who's been sleeping in my bed ... (CNN) Rumors abound of ghostly guests at hotels and inns around the world. Some try to hide the unexplainable, while others are making a profit from it. Take a look at some of the properties where a room for the night sometimes comes with more than you bargained for. GHoSTS CHeCK iN BuT THeY WoN'T CHeCK ouT: http://cnn.com/TRAVEL/NEWS/9910/26/haunted.hotels.lat/index.html : Have your accomodations lately been infested by good/evil/indifferent spirits, undead/unborn/inhuman entities, aliens, politicians? Who's worst? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Second-hand screams: Artist makes haunted fortress from junk. STANFORD, New York (AP) -- Books fly off shelves in the cobweb-lined library. In the tiny church, a bloodstained priest conducts an exorcism as a tin-can snake jumps out of the holy water bowl. In the evil veterinary laboratory of Dr. Mel Practice, a toilet seat rattles the nerves when its lid flies up with a bang. The commode is among the discarded objects recovered from junk yards and trash bins that Peter Wing has incorporated into "Frankenstein's Fortress." "Stuff that you picked out from a Dumpster has that trashed-out look that you can't get with new materials," Wing said. "Death and decay is unsettling -- and that's what we're going for here." http://cnn.com/US/9910/27/frankensteins.fortress.ap/index.html : Do you prefer art that includes living or dead stuff? Do you artistically do torture, mayhem, murder, suicide? Are art critics better dead or alive? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Halloween candy not the usual fare. ATLANTA (CNN) Don't expect apples in the Halloween loot bag this year. For 1999, trendy confections rule -- gummi burgers, Mega Warheads sour candies, Atomic Fireballs, bloodshot "Eyes of Terror" gumballs and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" lollipops which paint your trick-or-treater's tongue red. No TReaTS. aLL i GoT WaS CLiCKs: http://cnn.com/FOOD/news/9910/22/halloween.candy/ : Are Hallowe'en candies symbolic of ritual cannibalism, the same as Xian sacramental wine/wafers? Do you prefer symbolic or actual cannibalism? Have you devoured anyone lately? Whom would you most/least like to devour? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Message Board: Great Halloween costumes. Are you looking for the perfect disguise for that masked ball you were invited to? Have you found a way to turn that old couch slipcover into a space man costume? Trying to decide if that Austin Powers costume is "groovy?" Seek and share Halloween costume tricks and treats here. What is the most creative costume you have ever seen? What is an easy, fun costume for those who need last-minute help? i GoT aN iDeaR: http://community.cnn.com/cgi-bin/WebX?13@@.ee94ef2 : Do you costume yourself? Can you pass for human? Are many actual aliens/ zombies/monsters in your neighborhood? Are they perferable to real humans? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Suspect nabbed in missionary death. BHUBANESWAR, India (AP) - A suspect was arrested in the burning death of an Australian missionary and his two sons, but police are concerned of more Hindu-Christian trouble during the pope's visit to India next week. The gruesome killings are linked to Hindu radicals struggling against missionaries accused of illicitly winning con- verts to Christianity by offering inducements - a charge the missionaries deny. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561825110-24a : Are religious prosletysers committing cultural genocide? Have you burnt any/many missionaries lately? Is religious war more fun than work? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Israel deports doomsday Christians. JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel will deport 17 Americans, two Britons and a Jamaican suspected of membership in Christian doomsday sects. Israeli police busted 21 foreign Christians for allegedly preparing the ground for groups from abroad planning apocalyptic acts for the year 2000. The raid, in a neighborhood on the Mount of Olives, was the third Israeli operation in recent months against such Christian groups. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561825835-5f7 : What's your favorite doomsday cult? Are you in a doomsday cult? Have you been deported lately? Are you planning apocalyptic acts? Will you survive? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Falun Gong members ask for tolerance. BEIJING (AP) - Bruised and battered from beatings and on the run from Chinese police, members of the banned spiritual movement Falun Gong vowed to press their protest campaign to end
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# Prancing Priest's 'Jesus Twist' Tops Charts. RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A
dancing priest's 2nd CD of aerobics music has shot to the top of Brazil's
pop charts with its hit song "Vira de Jesus" ("Jesus Twist"), his record
company says. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991012/11/odd-priest
# Singing Priests Draw Thousands To Mass. RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) Brazil's
revitalized Roman Catholic Church attracted more than 100,000 people to a
splashy service in Maracana soccer stadium where nine rock-star singing
priests led a raucous homage to the country's patron saint. Next: anti-
Satan cha-cha: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991013/11/odd-religion
: Who are your favorite singing/dancing priests/nuns? Are they fast, slow,
indeterminate, au courant, indecipherable, mechanistic, mind-controlling??
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# SOUTH CAROLINA TO DECIDE WHETHER TO ALLOW 'HARRY POTTER' BOOKS IN CLASS.
Some adults here wish Harry Potter would just - poof! - disappear. Parents
worried about the influence of the wildly popular Harry Potter books by
J.K.Rowling have persuaded the South Carolina Board of Education to review
whether the books should be allowed in the classroom. "The books have a
serious tone of death, hate, lack of respect and sheer evil" - State board
to review books: http://cnn.com/books/news/9910/13/potter.protest.ap/
: Are childrens' books effective mindcontrol tools? Have you promoted lack
of respect lately? Do Reptoids/Republicans control S.Carolina? Should they?
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# Gas Powered Computers Closer To Reality. LONDON (Reuters) A super-fast,
minuscule molecular computer driven by gases may be a step closer to
reality thanks to research by a Berlin-based chemist. Fart in a jar:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991013/19/science-science-computers
# Staggering Implications: US Scientists Use Computer To Watch What Cat
Brain Sees: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/catbrain.htm
# Looking Through Cats' Eyes - Pictures:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_471000/471786.stm
: Do you use gas-powered computers to look through cats' eyes? Should you?
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# Theologian okays stock deals for Catholics. MILAN (Reuters) Catholics can
invest in the stock market safe in the knowledge that they are acting in
the common good so long as their only aim is an "honest profit," Italy's
main Catholic rag sez. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991013/11/odd-market
# NY's Giant Squid Unveiled But Its Living Peers Stay Hidden. NEW YORK -
After sitting more than a year in a metal storage tank, a dead, floppy,
26-foot 250-pound giant squid is finally ready for public eyes at New York
City's Natural History Museum. http://foxnews.com/scitech/101299/squid.sml
: Have you mentally communicated with any 8-brain-lobed telepathic molluscs
lately? Would you rather be mind-controlled by Catholic investors, CIA/NSA
operatives, telepathic squids, Reptilioid/Republican minions, me? Can giant
squids invest in stock markets for moral purposes? Can Catholics? Can you?
# Chinese Woman Said Beaten To Death In Police Custody For Falun
Gong Beliefs: http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=99834
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990930a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 boreal aurorae were seen during production of this bulletin. But soon! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Baphomet: http://www.crossfields.com/~watcher/baphomet.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # VR Opens Body Window. Researchers use virtual reality to help diabetics "see" into their bodies, to teach patients to increase circulation to problem areas. http://wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21999.html # Spiders light the way. (BBC) Swedish researchers have shown how spiders can find their way about by looking at polarised light in the sky. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_461000/461143.stm : How well can you see? What type of light do you use? Do you prefer looking inward, outward, up, down, sideways, cross-eyed? Do you get dizzy and fall? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pope Sez Euthanasia Assisted Suicide Are Bad, Bad, Bad. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) Pope John Paul II strongly condemned euthanasia and assisted suicide, telling doctors that not even a patient's request could justify such: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990930/09/science-health-euthanasia Would you like a long, extended, painful, humiliating death? Do you have the right to decide when to die? Does your belief system dictate absolute moral standards for life death? Do you have the power to impose those standards? @ Now we can all sample what Ohioans have enjoyed for years: the subtle pleasures of cow tipping. http://cyberstudio.com/mindcandy/cow/cow.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PEOPLE ARE BEING CONDITIONED TO FOREIGN TROOPS PATROLLING AREAS OF FORMER- LY SOVEREIGN NATIONS! In 1952 the Illuminati re-drew the map of the world, designating zones to be patrolled by outside troops. UN "peacekeepers" now routinely go into certain zones, conditioning the people to accept the new normality. East Timor today; Los Angeles tomorrow. And then a Reptilioid will marry your sister: http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1328.cfm : Are you an Illuminati? Do you enjoy carving up the world into zones of control? What's your favorite zone? Do you control it? How? Is it kewl?? @ Actual Cthulhu Cultists performing human sacrifice. BELIEVE IT OR NOT! http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9879/acol.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mystery Solved: Lab Finds Blobs That Washed Ashore in Joizy Harmless. NEW YORK - It had all the makings of a great SciFi mystery. But the strange rubberlike blobs that recently washed ashore on New Jersey beaches turned out not to be space aliens. http://foxnews.com/scitech/092999/blobs.sml # Drug Resistant Bacteria Found In Rural US. (Reuters) A drug-resistant form of bacteria has been found in rural Native American communities. Superbugs are moving out of their hospital breeding grounds and into the community: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990930/01/science-health-superbug : Would you rather be infected by superbugs or space aliens? Have you washed ashore on any beaches lately? Are you moving out into the community? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Albert Pike's Occult Vision As To How To Achieve New World Order: http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1015.html @ COMPARISON BETWEEN NAZI BELIEFS AND GOALS WITH NEW AGE/NEW WORLD ORDER BELIEFS AND GOALS: http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1004.html @ HITLER'S ROLE IN NEW WORLD ORDER PLAN: http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1008.html @ "I, WITCH" NEW WORLD ORDER ORGANIZATION - Secrets of the Illuminati: http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1221biwitch.htm : Are you a NewAge Nazi Illuminati Witch? What's your place in the NWO? Have you taken control of the world yet? Is it real close now? Are you drooling? @ Masonic/Templar Connection: http://crossfields.com/~watcher/templars.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Island Of Jersey Goes GM Free. LONDON (Reuters) The Channel island of Jersey has declared its agriculture free of genetic modification, halting research into a new strain of potatoes. General Motors cars unaffected: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990930/06/science-genes-jersey # UK Has New Scare On Genetic Pollen Spreading. LONDON (Reuters) Britain was embroiled in a new scare about GM crops with reports that GM pollen was escaping from British field trials into the wider environment. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_461000/461734.stm http://news.excite.com/news/r/990930/05/science-britain-gm : Do you do GM life? Do you enjoy spreading gene-mod lifeforms around? Will engineered life take over the planet? Will your alien masters be pleased? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Space probe disappears coincidental with magnetic storm after unexplained flash. Preceding the sudden magnetic storm September 23, a burst of energy came screaming out of nowhere September 15 to leave astronomers scrambling for answers. Then
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990923a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : I thought about you and touched myself during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Orb Envy: http://ana.simplenet.com/anapix/charity-orbenvy.jpg @ Wednesday: http://ana.simplenet.com/anapix/gagdoll-091899.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFO GEOMETRY 101 - "Well if that is a glider, then I am God." Triangular craft still continue to fly around Flanders, NY. At 8:30 pm Sept.13 1999 the craft flew over once again. This time the whole family saw it... me, my husband and our two teenage sons stood on the back deck and watched this craft fly over our home. See http://caus.org/ft092399.htm : Was it a glider? Are you a god? Do crafts fly over your home regularly? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Monitoring of Abductees. Human offspring should not be enslaved, and human genes should not be donated to another race, unless the reasons are above board and the action is done voluntarily. Creation of hybrids could mean the beings are used as unwilling workers, or as a precursor to exploiting this planet's resources. See http://caus.org/mc092399.htm : Are there good reasons for being enslaved or having your genes donated to another race? Would you rather hybridize or be hybridized? Do you exploit? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # RED WINE KEEPS THE BLOOD FLOWING. Japanese researchers think they might have discovered the mechanism by which red wine keeps the heart healthy. It has to do with increasing the blood flow velocity. Pump hard, stay hard: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=17308 : Do you drink enough wine to keep your blood moving with sufficient speed to keep you alive forever? Are you immortal yet? How long will that last?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ WHY DON'T YOU TALK ABOUT PRAYER'S POWER TO HEAL? If long-distance prayer cured disease, we'd shout it from the rooftops. But unfortunately, pro- prayer studies were not well-done, and have not been duplicated elsewhere. Prayer for oneself, on the other hand, has been supported in research. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=17305 : Have you healed anyone with prayer lately? Has anyone healed you? Do you feel good? If nobody prays for atheists, why aren't they all dead yet? Huh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Human Genome Count Rising. Scientists say humans may actually have double the number of genes than previously thought. The race to finish mapping the human genome could get even hotter. But the experts aren't really surprised. http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21882.html @ Links - Incyte Pharmaceuticals: http://www.incyte.com/ @ Ongoing Med-Tech coverage: http://wired.com/news/news/medtech/ @ National Human Genome Research Institute. http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/ : Have you examined your genome lately? Is it interesting? Did you mis-count it? Did the voices in your head mislead you? Did demons hijack your NDA? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE REAL WORLD IS MESSY: Chaos Theory. Chaos Is Not So Exceptional - Nonlinearity - Weather - Ecology - Universality - Turbulence - Phase Space - Is Chaos Real Or Just Abstract? - Reactions to Chaos Theory. http://www.lbbs.org/ZMag/articles/chaos.htm : Do you prefer static stability or dynamic stability? Is 'chaos' energetic order or incoherent disorder? How much complexity can you take? Where to?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Fort Worth gunman linked to fascist group. Larry Ashbrook, the gunman who murdered 7 people at a Fort Worth church, had ties to extreme-right-wing groups in Texas. A writer examining white supremacist Christian fascist organizations spoke to Ashbrook in 1997 while interviewing members of the Ku Klux Klan. Ashbrook told him he was a member of the "Phineas Priests," one of the far-right gangs known collectively as "Christian Identity." The Phineas sect is named after a Biblical high priest who murdered a Jewish prince for taking a non-Jewish lover. Its members are self-appointed "race warriors" who pledge to kill Jews, racial minorities, gays, abortion pro- viders and whites who marry across racial or religious lines. The fascist gunman Buford Furrow in Los Angeles was also associated with the Phineas Priests. http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/sep1999/kill-s22.shtml : Is your belief system organized, individual, anarchic? Do you believe you should kill those who offend your beliefs? Have you killed yet? Will you?? # WHO OWNS THE N-WORD DOT COM? If you try to find a hate group by typing a derogatory word on your browser, you may be taken to a surprising destination. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/21873.html # NEW WEB HAZARD: PAGE-JACKING. FTC moves to collar the perpetrators: http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/21892.html _ _
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-Caveat Lector- Duesberg may be a KGB "useful idiot"--according to the Mitrokhin interview on "Sixty Minutes," the KGB planted the story that AIDS was created at Fort Detrick. -Original Message- From: ric carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 1:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #1 snip # AIDS HERESIES: FROM MAVERICK SCIENCE TO CONSPIRACY THEORY. Although nearly all scientists believe that AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a small but vocal minority insists that there is no proof of this. Others say they are indeed linked, but were deliberately created as a genocidal or biological warfare experiment. Duesberg has published in numerous journals: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/AIDS/9909/15/aids.heresies3/ : Have you created any pandemics or conspiracy theories lately? Is a panic as effective as a pandemic? Do you panic? Are you a small, vocal minority? snip DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990916a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Y2K bugs manifested during production of this bulletin. @)*Y^)(*GH5p! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Antarctica Gives Clues To 'Lost' Supernova. LONDON (Reuters) Evidence of a "lost" supernova that exploded some 700 years ago has turned up in the snows of Antarctica. Dated concentrations of nitrates coincide with super- novae: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990915/sc/science_supernova_1.html : Have you lost a supernova lately? Where could it have gone? Did you look everywhere? Do mind-control rays or alien implants impede your searching? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Want to help kids learn to fear those awful Jews? It's time for White Pride for Kids: http://kids.stormfront.org/ (from the people that brought you The History of the White Race). http://stormfront.org/whitehistory/ (Warning: contains particularly insipid racist drivel.) # Croatia urged to ban Nazi book - "Mein Kampf" incites hate, genocide: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561175577-847 # US Men View Women As The Enemy: http://sightings.com/politics4/women.htm $ Ritual Abuse Bookstore online: http://www.ra-info.com/ : Do you have enemies? Are you the enemy? Are you abused? Do you abuse? Was Hitler right? About what? Are you proud? Are you awful? Should you go away? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Grey/human hybrid breeding program. When I was 12 years old, I dreamed I was pregnant, and it actually felt that way for a while afterwards. Then after a month or 2 the feeling went away. I didn't think much of it since I was still a virgin. I started having very heavy periods. And since then, occasionally I'd dream of being pregnant and having babies, but I always thought it was symbolic. Apparently not! http://caus.org/pc082799.htm : Have you been raped by aliens/angels/demons/deities lately? Do they take the offspring away? Are you one of their favorite breeders? Are they nice?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AIDS HERESIES: FROM MAVERICK SCIENCE TO CONSPIRACY THEORY. Although nearly all scientists believe that AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a small but vocal minority insists that there is no proof of this. Others say they are indeed linked, but were deliberately created as a genocidal or biological warfare experiment. Duesberg has published in numerous journals: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/AIDS/9909/15/aids.heresies3/ : Have you created any pandemics or conspiracy theories lately? Is a panic as effective as a pandemic? Do you panic? Are you a small, vocal minority? # Also - Vaccinations May Be Rx For Disaster: http://www.insightmag.com/articles/story4.html # Vitamin C May Interfere With Chemotherapy Of Cancer Tumors: http://www.sightings.com/health3/vitaminCandChemo_h.htm # Mercury 65 Times Over Safe Limits Now In Midwest Rain And Snow: http://www.sightings.com/earthchanges/mercurylimits_e.htm : What's your favorite health catastrophe? Do you promote illness? Are your alien masters pleased? Will they harvest us soon? Will you be evacuated??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Technology aims to locate 911 calls. WASHINGTON (AP) Feds move to ensure that cell phone users dialing 911 automatically give emergency dispatchers a key piece of information: their location. FCC sets tech standards - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561171781-d97 # Report urges tough Web stalking laws. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Federal and state laws should be strengthened to help curb the growing problem of on- line stalking, a U.S. Justice Department report recommends. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561179020-502 : Have you been stalked lately? Was it cops? Do they track your cellphone, your implant, your brainwaves? Do they know where you are at all times?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ CARL SAGAN'S TOP 12 DISCOVERIES MADE WHILE STONED. Copyright 1999 by Chris White, www.topfive.com 12 The period of rotation of Pulsar JC9270 totally synchs up with the drum solo in "In A Gadda Da Vida," man! 11 "Twinkies, Twinkies, little stars; seem so close, yet are so far." 10 The Theory of Munchitivity: At times, peanut butter is more valuable than gold. 9 The sensor casing from a mass spectrometer makes a handy roach clip. 8 "Some day, with all of our advances in science and technology, we'll be able to land a man on the sun." 7 The Big Bong Theory 6 If you took a hit while travelling at the speed of light, you'd get one major rush, dude. 5 Betty Crocker brownies Duncan Hines brownies 4 "Theory of Joint Relativity": A complex quantum physics equation that proves that the more pot you smoke, the slower your automobile travels with you at the wheel. 3 Floyd rocks! 2 A single "You Are Here" sign will work
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990909a - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : Software glitches hampered production of this bulletin. Damn MicroSoft. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hackers put racist, anti-government slogans on embassy site. Hackers hit a Web site for the U.S. embassy in China Tuesday, replacing its home page with racist and anti-government statements. A group named Level Seven Crew claimed responsibility on the page for the prank, making references to bombing China and a "war of skill" with hackers started by the FBI. http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/07/embassy.hack/index.html : Have you hacked any govt websites lately? Do you target sites for ethnic, political, religious, other ideological reasons, or for money, hatred, fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pigs Have Anorexia Too. LONDON (Reuters) Healthier human eating habits and demand for lean meat is causing anorexia in pigs. Thin sow syndrome, as the condition is known in pigs, is increasing as farmers use selective breeding to produce pigs that are leaner and more muscular. Most pigs with the syndrome are young females who do not eat enough, are hyperactive and cannot reproduce, symptoms similar to anorexia in humans. But can they sing? http://news.excite.com/news/r/990909/02/science-health-anorexia : Do the same mind-control tricks that promote anorexia nervosa in humans work in pigs too? Are humans good test cases? Are anorexics made or born? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Taking control of Tourette's. (BBC) Sufferers of Tourette's syndrome may have more control over their swearing and twitching than anyone realised. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_442000/442041.stm @ Tourette's syndrome resources: http://www.ability.org.uk/tourette.html # And - Health: 'Natural marijuana' may treat brain disorders: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_303000/303438.stm : What's your favorite brain dysfunction? Can you control it? Do you control any other brain (dys)functions? How much brain control is enough? Any? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Report says Mubarak attacker mentally ill. CAIRO, Egypt (AP) The man who slightly wounded Egyptian Pres. Hosni Mubarak before being killed by pres- idential bodyguards suffered from schizophrenia. The attacker, el-Seyed Hussein Mahmoud Suleiman, had "psychotic disorder characterized by violent rages and was diagnosed with schizophrenia" after seeking treatment in 1995. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561070969-922 : Can you control the dysfunctions of others' brains? Can you direct others to attempt inner- and outer-directed violence? Is this politically useful? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # France probes Scientology. MARSEILLE (AP) France's Justice Ministry opened an inquiry after finding that some three tons of evidence for an upcoming trial of Church of Scientology officials was destroyed. But the Marseille prosecutor's office said the disposal of certain sealed files in late 1998 was the result of negligence by a court clerk and not an intentional act. France has long had a contentious relationship with Scientology, which is fighting to be recognized as a legitimate religion in Europe, not a mind- control cult. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561070714-db2 : How much power does your belief system wield? How much power is enough? Do you suborn officials, control minds, plot to take over the world? Is it fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China prohibitive on religion. WASHINGTON (AP) - Chinese citizens can face harassment or prolonged detention in labor camps if they practice religion outside officially sponsored churches. A US State Dept. paper also cites credible reports of incidents of abuses of Buddhist monks nuns in China, including Tibet. China is one of 194 countries or territories examined in the study. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561073746-ec8 : Do you prefer to run political, religious, economic or artistic systems? Would you like to control them all? Do you like to punish dissidents, non- conformists, unbelievers? Are you a dissident? Are you being punished? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ CONSPIRACY THEORISTS, PARANOIDS AND CURIOUS DISCUSS MYSTERIOUS ILLUMINATI. alt.illuminati covers such topics as the diabolical number 23, gray alien attacks, those pesky black helicopters, and, of course, the New World Order. With each posting, I am more and more amazed at the thoroughness of the allegations, accusations, and illuminations. Apply here for membership to the Thelemic Order of the Illuminati. News:alt.illuminati : Are you conspiratorialist, paranoid, curious, illuminated? Do all writings on the Illuminati just misdirect us from The Truth? Is it true that them who know don't talk, and them who talk don't
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# Are Racists Ill or Evil? Psychiatrist Says Hatred Obscures Mental Health
Problem. (ABC) Some mental health professionals think that extreme racists
have psychological disorders. Some, for instance, might have delusions
that all members of a particular racial group are out to get them.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/InYourHead/allinyourhead.html
: Are aboriginal Tasmanians out to get you? Even though they're extinct? Do
the voices in your head direct your feelings about ethnic groups? Why not??
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@ Cooking With Mummy. UNLIKE THAT OF TUTANKHAMUN, MOST OF THE TOMBS OF
EGYPT'S PHARAOHS WERE RANSACKED BY LOOTERS FOR THEIR GOLD AND OTHER
VALUABLES - AND FOR THE MUMMIES THEY CONTAINED. FOR MANY CENTURIES
BOTH THE WRAPPINGS AND THE BODIES THEMSELVES WERE WIDELY USED TO
MAKE MEDICINES: http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/124/mummy.html
: Do you rob corpses for materia medica? What's your favorite medicinal body
part? Are adrenal glands especially powerful? What have you cured lately ??
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# Steer Cloned From Skin. LA GRANGE, Texas (Reuters) - Texas scientists have
successfully cloned a steer from a scrap of skin taken from another steer.
Sandra Fisher, a rancher from La Grange, near Austin, said the Brahman
steer, now three weeks old and 2,300 pounds, was cloned from a steer she
owned called Chance, which died a year ago. The Chance BBQ was great too.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990901/sc/science_cloning_1.html
: Can/should/will you be cloned from your dandruff? Do you conscientiously
collect all your skin flakes, hairs, etc, so experimenters can't clone you?
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@ CIA DOCUMENT: MARILYN MONROE-E.T. CONNECTION? CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (Wire-
less Flash) -- An alleged CIA document dated two days before the death of
Marilyn Monroe suggests she may have been terminated with extreme preju-
dice because of her knowledge concerning aliens and the U.S. government
and Nixon. http://www.cafecrowd.com/globedaily/content/090199_03.html
: Do you know anything about aliens? Should you be killed? Did you screw a
president? Is that any protection? How long does Monica have left to live?
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@ JFK ASSASSINATION -- THEORIES AND CONSPIRACIES. Surprisingly articulate,
researched accounts of the events in and surrounding the death of Pres.
Kennedy. Of course, there are some harebrained schemes and far-fetched
physics used to illustrate other possibilities. news:alt.assassination.jfk
: What's your favorite assassination theory? Were you involved? Who were/are
you working for? Is any JKF theory correct? Are they all disinformation???
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# Primate lab giving up 300 chimps. (AP) A major primate research laboratory
has agreed to give up 300 of its 650 chimpanzees after feds found that the
animals were mishandled during surgical procedures and were housed inade-
quately. The lab also may not acquire any additional chimps without gov't
approval. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560970466-570
: Do you perform primate experiments? Do you prefer lemurs, monkeys, apes,
humans, Greys? Is it fun to watch'em twitch? Do you start with complainers?
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# EXPERTS: ASTEROIDS BIGGER THREAT THAN PUBLIC REALIZES. CHICAGO (Wireless
Flash) -- If you thought the asteroid disaster flick "Armageddon" was just
a bunch of Hollywood hooey, think again: top scientists are now admitting
the space rocks truly pose a serious threat to Earth. But it's nothing
new, really: http://www.cafecrowd.com/globedaily/content/090199_05.html
: Would you like to see Earth destroyed by an asteroid/meteor/comet strike?
Do we all deserve to die? Is it divine retribution? Are efforts to prevent
such strikes just interfering with {JHWH}'s will? Are scientists all damned?
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# Tiny telescope uncovers big secrets. (BBC) A tiny space telescope, part
of a satellite that failed and was written off, has obtained the first
ever observations of starquakes on a sun other than our own. Ka-blooey:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_436000/436479.stm
@ Links - WIRE project: http://sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov/smex/wire/
@ WIRE science: http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/wire/
: Should we orbit more tiny telescopes? Would a network of tiny telescopes
alert us to planet-crushing asteroids, cosmic dust storms, alien invasions?
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Y2K--a-Rama
# Y2K - Y2K Watch: http://detnews.com/1999/technology/y2k/
# Y2K - Efforts to avoid accidental nuclear war January 1 are back on
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990826a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 cult compounds were besieged during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Furor over Turkey death count. ISTANBUL (AP) Vast fluctuations in Turkey's earthquake death toll, jumping by about 6,000 only to fall back, prompted opposition parties to question the government's accuracy and organization. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560871501-971 : Who's behind the widely fluctuating death counts? How many of the victims were harvested by Reptilioids, their disappearances hidden by bureaucrats? Why sere US military/govt leaders in Istanbul during the quake? Who did it? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FBI beginning new Waco inquiry. WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI is launching an internal inquiry into why it took six years to admit that agents may have fired potentially flammable tear gas canisters on the final day of the 1993 standoff with the Branch Davidian cult near Waco, Texas. Circle the wagons: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560874638-c3b # FBI STATEMENT ON WACO SIEGE RAISES QUESTIONS. Embarrassing about-face for law enforcement: http://cnn.com/US/9908/26/fbi.waco.01/index.html : Do you run or work for any police/security/intelligence agency? D'ya have anything to hide? What have you covered up? Are your masters pleased? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ex-spy plans Net disclosures. (BBC) Renegade MI5 officer David Shayler has said he will reveal further secrets of his work with the UK's intelligence services. In an interview, the ex-spy claimed the secrets were stored in his computer and ready to be published on the Internet. Whitehall quivers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_429000/429393.stm @ Links: MI5: http://www.mi5.gov.uk/ @ Shaylergate: http://www.shayler.com/ : Are supposed ex-spies to be believed? How deep is Shayler in the multiple layers of disinformation surrounding UK intelligence? How deep in are *you*? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mozart-smart theory hit. (AP) A Mozart sonata may lift the soul, but it won't make listeners smarter, say 2 studies challenging previous research and popular belief about the effect of music on intelligence. New results call into question 1993 research that showed college students temporarily gained up to nine IQ points after listening to a Mozart piano sonata. The widely reported findings spawned an industry of supposedly mind-enhancing recordings. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560872050-a41 # Prelude or requiem for the 'Mozart effect'? http://www.nature.com/server-java/Propub/nature/400826A0.abs_frameset http://www.nature.com/server-java/Propub/nature/400827A0.abs_frameset # reply: Prelude or requiem for the 'Mozart effect'? http://www.nature.com/server-java/Propub/nature/400827B0.abs_frameset : Have you ever enhanced your brain? Did it work? Have you spent much money trying to enhance your brain? Do you sell brain-enhancing products? Is it profitable? Are you rich yet? If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? Huh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Mind-Control-A-Rama: @ ACID DREAMS - LSD and the CIA. "At first, the CIA thought LSD would make them virtual masters of the universe. Later, after sober second thought, they realized they might have to set their sights little lower, but they continued their enthusiasm for the drug (which Richard Helms called 'dynamite')." See http://www.spunk.org/library/misc/sp000530.txt @ US soldiers human guinea pigs / LSD. Between 1955 -1975, the US Army used 7,000 enlisted soldiers as human guinea pigs for experiments involving a wide array of biological chemical warfare agents, powerful mind-altering psychochemicals including LSD, PCP and BZ. These "volunteer" test subjects were not told which drugs they were given, and were not fully informed of the extreme physical/psychological effects these drugs would have on them. http://site034145.primehost.com/gallery/galleryitems/edgewood/edgewood.htm @ Colin Ross/ LSD/ BLUEBIRD. "...full proof of the fact that the Manchurian Candidate is real... created by the CIA and military. The documented mind control research includes putting brain electrodes in children as young as 11 years old and controlling their behavior from remote transmitters; giving 150 mcg of LSD per day to children age 7-11 for weeks and months at a time; building safe houses where CIA personnel watched prostitutes turn tricks with customers - the prostitutes gave their customers LSD without the customers' knowledge; wiping out memories with electric shock, and using animals with implanted brain electrodes as delivery systems for chemical and biological weapons. http://www.rossinst.com/blue.htm : What's your favorite mindcontrol
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990819a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No alien corpses were dissected during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Geneticists make faithful mice. Scientists have transformed promiscuous male mice into more faithful partners doting dads by inserting a single gene from a prairie vole. The research could have important applications: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_424000/424076.stm : Would a genetically-engineered monogamous human population be susceptible to centralized control? Would we cease being human? Would we be easier for Reptilioids to harvest? Would we die of boredom? Would we screw like voles? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ Finally, A place where you can shop in a secure environment for all your love making accessories and novelties. Look the latest trends in dildos, vibrators, pumps, lingerie, magazines and videos. A huge variety of prod- ucts is at your finger tips. You might find something that will turn your love life upside down, inside out. Yow: http://www.thedildostore.com : Do you require mechanical assistance to reproduce, like turkeys, cattle Grays? What's your favorite mechanical reproduction appliance? Is it large? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Asia faces diabetes explosion. (BBC) There will be a massive increase in the number of people with diabetes - and particularly in China and India - over the next 15 years, the head of a biotechnology company has predicted. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_424000/424857.stm @ Links: Novo Nordisk http://www.novo.dk/index.asp @ Info: http://www.umds.ac.uk/diabetes-euro/doit/information/diab_htm.htm @ Diabetes webring UK: http://www.diabetic.org.uk/links/webring.htm # UK Researchers Say Closer To Diabetes Cure. EDINBURGH (Reuters) British medical researchers said they had taken big steps toward finding a cure for diabetes, a disease that affects millions worldwide and forces them to take daily insulin injections. Hypodermic manufacturers are panicked: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990818/13/science-health-diabetes : Will the 'cure' be found "just in time" to sell it to a billion customers/ patients? Is there a conspiracy involving the rise and cure of diabetes??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # On the Veracity and Variability of Traumatic Memory. The authors present a neurobiologically based model of memory that predicts 1) temporary func- tional amnesia under traumatically stressful conditions; 2) recovery of emotional memories laid down during functional amnesia; and 3) that the accuracy of recovered traumatic memories varies in a systematic manner. The model, which is based on findings from modern cognitive neuroscience, also provides a neurobiologically sound alternative to the psychodynamic concept of repression. http://rdz.stjohns.edu/trauma/art3v2i2.html : How variable are your memories? Do you forget stressful stuff? Have you recovered any memories? Do your alien implants help or interfere with your memory? Do you have false memories implanted in your consciousness? Which? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Journey through Tibet. (CNN) Surrounded by the world's highest mountain barriers, Tibetans for centuries discouraged contact with the outside world. These days, visitors are welcome, but it's still no easy matter to get there. Get a peek inside this once hidden kingdom with one woman's account of traveling there, and a gallery of stunning photographs. Watch out for the holy corn oil: http://cnn.com/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/9908/tibet/ # Also: Free Range Yaks Allowed To Roam. KATHMANDU (Reuters) -- Nepal and China have renewed an agreement allowing their yaks to graze across their common borders: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990819/08/odd-nepal-grazing : Is holy corn oil the oil made from the corns of holy men? Are any holy men left in Tibet? Does free-range yak taste good when fried in holy corn oil?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Strange lights in the sky turn out to be a memorial. CANTON, Ohio (AP) A UFO mystery is solved. Strange lights in the sky that perplexed some Perry Township residents turned out to be the result of a dead man's final wish. The shimmering balls of light seen dipping and swaying in the sky that morning were 50 yellow balloons containing the ashes of a recently deceased Canton resident, balloons released at the end of his memorial service. http://www.ohio.com:80/bj/news/ohio/docs/004441.htm : Would you like to be carried off in a UFO when you die? Why wait? How many reported UFOs are memorial balloons carrying human ashes? How many aren't?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Global positioning navigational systems may fail: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990818/13/health-gps2 # Australia May Face Nuclear Threat From
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990812a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 HARMs were employed to produce of this bulletin. But SAMs were used. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ROBERTSON SAYS ASSASSINATIONS PREFERABLE TO CURRENT FOREIGN POLICY. (AP) Christian Coalition President Pat Robertson said assassinating rogue world leaders would be more practical than a US policy that bans such killings. Robertson made his comments on the "700 Club," a nationally syndicated TV show on his Christian Broadcasting Network. Idea sounds "Machiavellian and evil," he says: http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/08/11/robertson.ap : Does your belief system promote assassination? Who would you like to kill? Would you mind being assassinated for doctrinal/ideological reasons? Would Robertson mind being assassinated by a Shi'ite, a Methodist, a Subgenius?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Evolution demoted in Kansas. TOPEKA (AP) - Following months of debate, the Kansas Board of Education approved a set of education standards that makes no reference to evolution, a theory that living things evolved from ear- lier species. Tho the proposed standards never mentioned it, creationism - the belief that a higher power created the universe - became part of the debate. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560671676-0fa And: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990812/00/science-science-evolution http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_417000/417996.stm : Were you created, evolved, hatched, planted? Would you rather evolve into something better, or be made just as you are with no chance of improvement? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Virtual natural selection. (BBC) Scientists have built a virtual world inside a computer and filled it with "digital bugs" to test theories in evolutionary biology. And creationist strategies continue to evolve. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_418000/418629.stm : Are your theories testable? Do you require testing? Is validation irrelev- ant? Are your thoughts evolving? Is time proceeding? Are you left behind?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # JEHOVAH SMITES MORMONS - SALT LAKE CITY ASSESSES TORNADO DAMAGE: http://cnn.com/WEATHER/9908/11/salt.lake.tornado.05/index.html http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560674364-b7d http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560671827-c00 http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/tornado990812.html # Unusual Weather Causes Utah Twister. (ABC) A jet of cold air above Utah spawned Wednesday's deadly tornado that touched down in Salt Lake City. Only one or two tornadoes are seen in Utah a year, and no one had killed by a tornado there since at least 1950. Secret military tests caused it: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/tornadocause990811.html : Have you spawned any tornadoes lately? Is it fun? Do your weather control experiments regularly ravage countrysides? Are you refining your technique? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Researcher makes cheaper fuel cell. (AP) A researcher says he has made an experimental fuel cell that is simpler than others as it runs on natural gas instead of pure hydrogen. If it can be repeated on a large scale, the finding would make it cheaper to produce a type of fuel cell that may one day be common as a low-pollution power source for buildings. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560670524-48e : Do Grays use cheap low-pollution fuel cells to power their UFOs? Is this another Roswell spinoff technology? Are crop circles alien fuel cell plans? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Old Japanese army tests A-bomb in sea off Korea. Pyongyang (KCNA) A Tokyo publication, Shimbun, on August 6 disclosed that the old Japanese army tested an A-bomb in the sea off Hungnam on the east coast of Korea just before the end of World War II. http://www.kcna.co.jp/contents/08.htm#4 : Have you ever built/tested a nuke? Was it difficult, rewarding, dangerous, fun? Did aliens/CIA/Bilderbergers/Illuminati help you? Would ya do it again? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Aging Stars Gobble Nearby Planets. (Reuters) Like gluttons whose hunger increases with age, some older stars similar to our own sun gobble up giant planets and other celestial bodies orbiting nearby. Call Jenny Craig: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990812/12/science-space-gluttons : Are you a fat old star? Do you gobble up nearby bodies? Do the voices in your head make you do it? Are you out of control? Is it natural? Is it fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ EMP Gun: The Chupacabras of Infowar. (Time) Said to be capable of corrup- ting computer circuitry on corporate networks with ionizing radiation, microwaves or radio waves, the EMP gun strikes from afar even as secre- taries labor at their desks. The only sticking point is that
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990805a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 polymorphous perverts were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # YOSEMITE MURDERS GIVE BAD NAME TO BIGFOOT RESEARCH? PORTLAND, Maine -- A cryptozoologist in Portland ME thinks Bigfoot researchers may be able to help the FBI solve the mystery behind the Yosemite murders. Prof. Loren Coleman says news reports suggest the alleged murderer, Cary Stayner, was an amateur Bigfoot researcher who spent countless hours looking for the hairy creature in Yosemite. http://egroups.com/group/konformist/607.html : Do you look/kill for hairy creatures? Are all amateur cryptozoologists homicidal maniacs? Has Yeti instructed you to kill? Is Bigfoot an ET? My shoe size is 18(US) - am I Bigfoot? Am I dangerous? Would you kill for me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Man sentenced for AntiChrist murder. SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) A former newspaper carrier who gunned down an executive at his old paper because he thought the latter was the AntiChrist apologized to his victim's family before a judge sentenced him to life in prison. Killed with two shotgun blasts: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560567183-2be # Colombian nuns cleared of murder. BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Two nuns who made headlines when they shot a convent intruder with a revolver were cleared of murder charges. "The nuns acted in legitimate self-defense." Oh Mary: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560575995-b40 : Would you rather kill Christs, AntiChrists, BridesOfChrist, me? What kinds of believers are most dangerous? Are you a believer? Are you dangerous? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ban Lifted On Western Musical Instruments. TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) Iran has lifted a two-decade ban on the import of Western musical instruments, which it has long seen as decadent and corrupt. Play that funky çümbüs (JOOM-bush), white boy: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990805/07/odd-iran # World champion fire dancer to headline BYU festival. (U-WIRE) PROVO, Utah The Spencer W. Kimball Tower quad at Brigham Young University will be the hottest place to be Friday night. The former World Fire Knife Dance Champ- ion, Chief Sielu Avea, will be performing an hour-long fire dance routine as part of Summerfest. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990804/odd-40 : Is fire/knife dancing more dangerous/decadent/fun than playing Western in- struments? What special mental disciplines are required for either? Do alien implants help? What are the most decadent instruments, dances, musics? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SPACE SCAVENGER PULLS DATA FROM 'LOST' SATELLITE. UC Berkeley astronomer Derek Buzasi is turning space trash into scientific treasure, salvaging a trove of scientific data from a NASA satellite that was once considered a total loss. When the NASA space telescope called Wide Field Infrared Expl- orer (WIRE) was launched last March, the main telescope's cover came off early, damaging it and rendering it useless. The amazing star camera - see http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9908/04/space.salvage/index.html : Why have the Reptilioids allowed us to regain use of this instrument? Are they feeding us disinformative data? Who is Buzasi really working for? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The Falun Gong crackdown: Crisis in China's corridors of power. The crack- down initiated July 19 against the quasi-religious Falun Gong sect is the most serious act of state repression in China since the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989. Some 5,000 adherents have been arrested over the last fortnight. Falun Gong videos and literature are being collected and destroyed across the country. Around 200,000 books were reportedly burnt in the city of Wuhan alone. Its web-sites have been shut down or firewal- led from Chinese viewers and any practice of its beliefs made a criminal offence. http://www.egroups.com/group/konformist/606.html : What quasi-religious sects would you like to crack down on? What sects are likely to crack down on you? Do you like to crack down? Do the voices in y'r head tell you to crack down? Are crackdowns necessary for self-preservation? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Ebola virus outbreak fear hit Europe; Germany on virus alert: http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_08_4item=#933823828 # PA claims Israeli mess in Bethlehem will deter millennium tourists: http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_08_3item=#933731847 # Astronomers to observe solar eclipse in Iran on Aug. 11 http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_08_3item=#933710347 # Arab states take preventive measures to protect citizens during eclipse: http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_08_2item=#933633707 @ Guns Under Fire:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990722a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Reptilioids invaded during the production of this bulletin. We hope. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CHINA BANS FALUN GONG SECT AFTER PROTESTS. China banned a popular medita- tion sect after 3 days of public protest by the group. The ban, announced by state media, accused the Falun Gong sect of spreading "superstitious, evil thinking" to undermine social stability. Protests reported in more than 30 cities: http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9907/22/china.protest.01.ap/ : Will Falun Gong overthrow Communism? Will your sect overthrow a gov't? Is meditation evil, superstitious, relaxing, subversive? Can you ever go Om?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists crack cocaine craving. (BBC) Scientists have developed a new compound that may be able to reduce drug craving. Addicted to cures - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_399000/399968.stm and http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560384807-489 and http://www.wired.com/news/news/tip/technology/story/20861.html @ Links: French National Institute for Health and Medical Research: http://www-inserm.u-strasbg.fr/servcom/servcom.nsf/Documents/Page+Principale @ Cocaine http://area51.upsu.plym.ac.uk/~harl/graphical/grphcoke.html @ Nature: http://helix.nature.com/nsu/990722/990722-1.html : Is nonaddictive cocaine useless? What's the fun then? Can new coke analogs evade 'cures'? Would you rather have coke or direct brain stimulation? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ WALTER BOWART ON MIND CONTROL. New areas of research flooding in all the time, called "cordless mind control", some kind of broadcasting technology that puts a human voice in teams, twenty-four hours a day, inside of a person's mind. Freedom of Thought Foundation is building a network, we're working with scientists to try to come up with ways to discern people that are paranoid-schizophrenics. Because traditionally, if you had a voice inside your head you're diagnosed as paranoid-schizophrenic. And that was it. But we found a lot of these people that are hearing these voices are not paranoid-schizophrenic and function otherwise normally. They just hear these voices. http://redshift.com/~damason/lhreport/articles/bowart.html : Who controls the voices in your head? Are you controlled, possessed, nutz? Do the voices in your head help/make you function normally? Do they sing??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ THE NEURO-TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION - Mind Machines Doing Many Things - Self- Induced One-ness or Euphoria or Behavior Modification. Want computers to help you reach your goals, prod you to make long-overdue behavior changes, and let you relax or be more creative? Significant advances in understan- ding the human brain have been achieved in the last twenty years. A simple overview of brain wave states and neuro-technology is important, so you can choose which revolutionary state-of-the-art process or technology is right for you. http://www.sightings.com/politics4/neuro.htm : Would you like to have computers mucking around inside your head? Do they do so already? Do you control the process? Is this just another one of the damn voices in your head? Do you get much cross-talk? Do they argue a lot? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Boys like it hot. (BBC) Baby boys are more likely to be conceived after a hot spell while a cold snap favours girls, says a German scientist. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_399000/399968.stm # BRA WARS: An Expanding Market. (BBC) A bra war has broken out in the world of women's underwear as firms struggle to come up with new ways to create a cleavage. "We can have an air-filled bra that has a tiny little pump on the side so that you can be bigger, you can be smaller - depends on your mood." http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_40/400722.stm : Are boys more likely to be conceived if you wear an air-heated bra? Is the link between human males hot air obvious? Is your bra a flotation device? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Tongue Piercing 'Can Be Fatal': http://sightings.com/health3/tongue.htm # Can MobilePhones Down Planes? http://sightings.com/politics4/bringdown.htm # Club of Rome - 'Limits To Growth' http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/rome/ * Group Research Inc - extensive archives on right-wing organizations; http://columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/rare/guides/group_research/main.html @ MCF: HAARP's Covert Agendas: http://www.mk.net/~mcf/haarp.htm # JFK Jr's Plane Destroyed by Bomb: aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:538844 # JFK Jr Dana Plato: More Moore: aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:538913 @ COLO. MASSACRE - CONSPIRACY/COVERUP: http://cbjd.net/orbit/quinn/new.txt @ Al Gore's Vision of Planetary Oneness:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990715a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Hey, SkeptiChat subscribers: let's see some responses, some discussion!! : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No black helicopters were sighted during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MOON'S LAST VISITOR SPINS TALE OF GUTS, GLORY AND LOSS. Nearly 27 years after Gene Cernan scaled the LM ladder, looked below at his boot-prints etched in the lunar dust, and above, at our stunning blue planet suspended in the "three dimensional" blackness, Cernan wants to be remembered as someone who was there at the start of something bold and audacious -- not the end an glorious era. But those glory days are over. Now it's just the robots and extraterrestrials: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9907/14/downlinks/ : Has Luna been abandoned to Reptilioids, Nazis and astronauts' ghosts? Will we be able to take it back? Have you bought any real estate there yet? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Are Endocrine Disruptors a Threat to Your Health? For years, researchers have investigated the theory that trace levels of industrial chemicals are hazardous to human health. Although studies have failed to establish a causal relationship, some scientists and activist groups continue to blame trace levels of synthetic chemicals for human illness. Read the executive summary of the American Council on Science and Health's Special Report: http://www.drkoop.com/healthnews/special-reports/acsh/july/endocrine.html : Are you easily poisoned? Is your toxic environment accidental, deliberate, inevitable? Who controls the toxicity? Why are they doing this? Why else?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cautious go-ahead for gene testing at work. (BBC) Employers should be allowed to test for genetically inherited conditions, but only under certain restrictions, according to a UK government advisory body. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_395000/395012.stm # Also: Genetic test boom warning: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_233000/233473.stm # Children 'need to learn about genetics': http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_194000/194783.stm @ Links: Advisory Commission report: http://www.dti.gov.uk/ost/ostbusiness/ @ Human Genetics Advisory Commission: http://www.dti.gov.uk/hgac/ @ Sickle cell http://sicklecellsociety.org/employme.htm#anchor117932 : Do you want to test your workers' DNA? Would you keep samples? Would you grow clones of the best workers? Would they be ideal for enslavement? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Space race amateurs 'not giving up'. A rocket built by a group of amateur space enthusiasts has disintegrated on its launch pad during an abortive take-off. But the two men behind the White Rose project, which blew up on the North York Moors on Thursday morning, say they'll try again. Pip-pip. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_395000/395277.stm : Have aliens/Russians/demons interfered with your rocket launches lately? Will you persevere? Will individuals ever wrest control of space from Them? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Y2K Conspiracy Goes Mainstream. WASHINGTON -- For many Y2K fanatics, the scariest threat on 1 January 2000 is not technology at all. It's the far more sinister specter of a power-mad president imposing martial law. Dark visions of US Marines stomping through backyards on New Year's Eve 1999 are a staple of innumerable Y2K yakk groups. A typical post: "There is nothing secret about the fact [that the] US, UK and Canada are preparing for martial law." They just got a boost from a confab held by the staid US Reserve Officers Association, an eminently respectable group that Congress chartered in 1920. http://wired.com/news/news/politics/story/20751.html : Are you ready for the putsch? Will it be worldwide, or just in the West? Are the black helicopters fueled, armed, waiting? Can/will you run, hide? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ From: "Hilary A. Thomas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] # If the case for extraterrestrial life were put to a jury, it'd likely be out for less than 5 minutes before returning the verdict that we are not alone. No one expects ET to come knocking on the door of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. But recent findings, including discovering of the first solar system other than our own, convince leading scientists that life probably exists on surfaces and in oceans of distant planets and moons, maybe even in the void of space. http://popularmechanics.com/popmech/sci/9907STSPAP.html # The end of the world is nigh! (again). The world has, it seems, survived Nostradamus's predicted apocalypse on the 4th of July this year; but the Universe is still a dangerous place to live. When some stars get old, they explode as supernovae - and you DON'T want to be near one. A supernova in our galactic backyard might
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990708a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 insipid preconditions were imposed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # "I believe there's life in outer space." (The Ottawa Citizen) E.T. is out there, astronaut Julie Payette believes -- but she doesn't expect him to call anytime soon. "It is very presumptuous for us to believe we are alone in the universe. We don't even amount to as much as a grain of sand. But it is also presumptuous to believe that these other forms of life would come to visit our little planet, in our little solar system, in a modest- sized galaxy in an enormous universe that contains several billion other galaxies." http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/990707/2577736.html : Are you visiting Earth from another galaxy? Is it nice here, or hideous, or primitive? Do you harvest humans? Are we tasty, useful, smelly, holy??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pulpit holds folks together through ages. (Deseret News) -- Church pulpits are time machines. Using the pulpit, a pastor or priest can hurl his cong- regation back to the Garden of Eden or forward to Paradise. In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with lay clergy, everyone gets to drive the time machine. Is this the ultimate in interactive empowerment? Thru space/time: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,19026,00.html : Is religion a virtual journey? Does your belief system transport you or others across a space/time continuum? Do you live in a parallel dimension? Do Mormons live in another universe? Do you wish they'd stay there? Why?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ * HOW TO DETECT A 2-WAY MIRROR. When we visit toilets, hotel rooms, changing rooms, etc., how can you that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is a real mirror, or actually a 2-way mirror (i.e. they can see you, but you can't see them)? It is very difficult to positively identify the surface by just looking at it. It's time to get paranoid. Just try this simple test: Place the tip of your fingernail against the reflective sur- face and if there is a GAP between your fingernail and the image of the nail, then it is a GENUINE mirror. However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES the image of your nail, then BEWARE, for it is a 2-way mirror! So remember, every time you see a mirror, do the "fingernail test". : Are you under surveillance? Do They watch you when you pee, change, sleep, groom? Do you test all mirrors already? Do the voices in your head make you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Shoot-o-Rama: # Interviews with racist aired on TV. CHICAGO (AP) Chilling words videotaped by a racial shooting suspect left journalists pondering whether broadcast- ing Benjamin Smith's message would explain his hatred or spread it. NBC's "Today" show and ABC's "Good Morning America" aired interviews by the 21- year-old white supremacist, blamed for a 2-state shootfest that killed 2 and wounded 9, ending with Smith's suicide. In the ABC interview, conduc- ted by a student documentary filmmaker, Smith said a racial holy war was inevitable. On NBC, Smith described Jews as "a parasitic race" and sugges- ted that blacks be deported to Africa. Two experts in criminology believed the videos helped explain hate groups. And NPR interviewed Smith's guru. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560218131-069 : Are you non-Aryan, parasitic, sub-human, human-alien hybrid, trans-human, god-like? Do you want to kill/deport/exploit your inferiors/superiors? Why? # UNLICENSED GUN DEALER CHARGED IN MIDWEST SHOOTINGS. Legal proceedings have begun against an unlicensed gun dealer accused of illegally selling fire- arms that Benjamin Smith allegedly used in a two-state shooting spree tar- geting blacks, Jews and Asians. Donald Fiessinger, 64, appeared in federal court on charges of selling firearms without a federal dealer's license. Faces 5 years, fine: http://cnn.com/US/9907/07/illinois.shootings.02/ And see: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560216744-c89 : Are Smith Fiessinger merely pawns in a gov't plot to further restrict outlaw personal firearms? Did CIA mind-control rays force Smith to kill? # U.S. HATE GROUPS HARD TO TRACK. The number of hate groups in the US is on the rise, and keeping track of them is difficult, at best. It's not even certain how many there are or how many members they have. But there's no doubt that Smith, 21, is suspected of killing 2 people wounding 9 others in a 3-day shooting spree targeting blacks, Jews Asians in the Midwest. 'They tend to be secretive' http://cnn.com/US/9907/07/hate.groups/ : Do you hate? Do you tend to be secretive? Is your hate group inspired by political/religious doctrine, money, ignorance, alien
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990701a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 medical devices were tampered with during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AVERTING DIGITAL DEATH SIGNALS. Heart and brain monitors may get their own broadcast freqs - for good reason - if a Washington politico has his way. http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/technology/story/20497.html : Does your implant or pacemaker interfere with your garage-door opener or cellphone? Should all these devices to networked together on the same freq? @ Brain Implants: A Lousy Idea. We may undergo plastic surgery for silly reasons, but anyone who has a brain would think twice before tampering with the body's physical core. Why would anyone implant a chip into his brain for less than life-and-death reasons - like just downloading information? http://www.techreview.com:80/articles/july99/dertouzos.htm : Do you want a brain implant? Is data life-or-death for you? Do you want to be wired directly into a galactic network? Is that how to become a deity??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A DRUG MADE BY ARMENIAN SCIENTISTS PROMISES TO CURE AIDS. Thessaloniki, Macedonia (MPA) A drug discovered by Armenian scientists managed to cure 48 AIDS patients and its use has already been approved by the Armenian state pharmacology committee. Russian press reports confirm that a number of AIDS patients, who have received the medicine, have been cured from the deadly virus. http://www.mpa.gr/latest/MPA.19990630.61798.html : So why isn't this front page news here in the states? - Hilary A. Thomas : Has the drug been tested anywhere else? Why doesn't the MPA story point anywhere or cite sources? Is news being suppressed? By who, and why? -Ric _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PG to end product tests on animals. CINCINNATI (AP) Procter Gamble Co. will immediately end animal tests for its current beauty, fabric, home care and paper products except where required by law. Animal-rights acti- vists have targeted PG for years. PG's announcement made exceptions for food and pharmaceutical products and new product technologies and ingre- dients. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560128057-839 # Small hop forward: http://cnnfn.com/1999/06/30/companies/wires/procter_wg/ : Do you prefer to test chemicals/drugs/stuff on humans, animals, computer simulations, aliens, attorneys, in-laws, animal-rights activists, yourself? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New trial ordered in radiation lawsuit.PITTSBURGH (AP) When cancer victims and their families won $36.5 million in a trial against uranium plant ope- rators last year, their lawyers called it the biggest verdict on radiation exposure in the country. Now they have to try it all over again. A US dis- trict judge ordered a new trial, citing testimony and evidence problems. Residents of Apollo PA inhaled radioactive dust from the plant for three decades. The dust contained uranium that caused an unusually high cancer rate. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560124434-0be : On whom would you like to test radioactive dust: humans, animals, computer simulations, aliens, attorneys, in-laws, animal-rights activists, yourself? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FERTILITY TECHNIQUES MAY PASS ON SOME FERTILITY PROBLEMS. New fertility techniques have enabled men with low sperm counts to father children, and sons born to some of these men may also be infertile. Daughters are not affected: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/men/9906/30/inherited.infertility.ap/ and http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560131455-880 : Should your genetic defects be fixed before you're allowed to reproduce? Do fertility clinics breed a strain of humans dependent on fertility clinics for their continued existence? Is this an alien plot to control humanity??? # UN population conference opens. UNITED NATIONS (AP) Still at odds over sex ed and abortion, delegates from 180 countries opened a 3-day special U.N. session to find ways to cope with the world's population as it nears 6 billion. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560133319-696 : How many people is enough? Will you devour your young? Will you let others devour them instead? Will your devour them or will they devour you? Really? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Elderly 'restrained with drugs'. (BBC) Many elderly people with dementia may be being chemically restrained by potent drugs that could be doing more harm than good. The prolonged use of anti-psychotic drugs - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_382000/382435.stm : Do you prefer to use mind-control drugs on young, medium or old people? Which are more fun to watch? What's your favorite mind-control drug? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Environmentalists attack cancer apathy.
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990610a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 heavenly choirs were heard during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ [CAUS Updates] "As we head into the last summer before the new millennium, the crop circles are once again returning to fields around the world with a dozen formations now in England as of this update (all in oil-seed rape - canola in North America) and the first report for this year in Germany. The circle season in England got off to its earliest start of any year so far, with the first formation reported in early April (usually most circles are first reported at the end of April or early May). An interesting array so far of overlapping circles rings (including a 617 foot depiction of this summer's upcoming major eclipse - ?), old-style (early '90s) pictograms and crescents. Will they also return to Canada? Time will tell; most formations in this country are reported later in the year, in late July or August." Latest Reports: http://cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/connect.html : Have you seen any crop circles lately? Have you made any? Have you helped the aliens make any? Can you make crop circles in ant farms? Do they notice? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HOW WOULD HUMANS REACT IF E.T. LANDED? "NASA and the scientific community are actively searching for evidence of extraterrestrial life, but what if we were confronted with undeniable proof that ETs exist and have been vis- iting Earth? A nationwide survey by the Roper Organization for NIDS has uncovered the following: ..." See http://www.sightings.com/ufo3/react.htm : Would you be freaked? Would you expect everybody else to freak? Would you be welcoming, angry, partying, homicidal, drunk, indifferent, masturbating? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BUYERS LOST THEIR MARBLES FOR GAG HEALTH CARE PRODUCTS. Here's a fun story about a guy selling gag health care products over the Internet. Sales were good for his cures for "tired penis syndrome" and a "fatoid flusher" - until he told people they're novelty items. A reminder of how gullible some folks are about buying alternative health care products. Apply with care and love, folks. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13105 : Do you have, or do you know anyone who has, "tired penis syndrome"? Does the application of a placebo cream help any? Have you tried other creams? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ABDUCTION. "Raymond A. Fowler, in his book 'THE ANDREASSON AFFAIR' (Prent- ice-Hall, 1979) gives an extensive description of an abduction experience of one woman who was taken by the "Gray-type" aliens and later returned to her house. These creatures... had the ability to travel between stars but her account seems to suggest that their ORIGINAL point of origin is within a cavernous subterranean realm." http://www.rcbbs.com/docs/cavern2.txt : Have you ever been abducted by Grays? Are they better, worse or about the same as Reptoids? By which aliens would you most like to be abducted? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Greens call for total GM ban. (BBC) British agriculture must make profound changes, including a total ban on genetic engineering, says a report by 2 leading environmental campaigns. Ban hybridizing culling too, of course. @ Links: The Soil Association: http://www.soilassociation.org/ @ Greenpeace True Food Campaign: http://www.truefood.org/ : What's your fave gene modification? Have you mutated lately? Into what? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HAS THE SMALLPOX THREAT RETURNED? A group of scientists has gone on record calling for anticipatory measures in case of a smallpox epidemic. Since the disease is no longer a natural threat, vaccinations against it were stopped years ago - so we're again vulnerable to it if terrorists unleash the virus. A frightening prospect - who would have dreamt smallpox would re-emerge as a threat, after being eradicated by modern medical science? Those darn terror- ists... http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13104 : Do you wanna wage biowar? Will you use smallpox? Who will you attack? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Satan Sez. Another mental fundamentalist was shot dead by St. Cloud police after threateningly pulling out a bloody knife - from his own chest! The clearly disheveled Kevin Hartwig was also reported to have sacrificed his pet pooch stating, in traditional nut-case fashion, that God made him do it. I'm sure He had His reasons. http://home.att.net/~zazel/satan_sez.htm : Do your deities provoke you into self-destructive behavior? Are they worth it? Would you do better with other deities? Do you like to sacrifice dogs? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Hot and Cold Running Fusion: www.skypoint.com/members/jlogajan/ @ Cold-Fusion Times: http://world.std.com/~mica/cft.html @
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-Caveat Lector- On Fri, 21 May 1999 10:56:06 GMT, in alt.paranet.skeptic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article 7i1942$21a$[EMAIL PROTECTED], "ric carter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # Flock Of Mystery Balloons Puzzles Cops. TOKYO (Reuters) - : What would you like put into balloons to float over Japan? Do you think these objects are of human, alien, divine or demonic origin? Doing a search at http://home.kyodo.co.jp/ on "balloons" brings up a photo and caption: Photo shows a balloon of unknown origin found May 18 in Ageo, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo. More than 10 such balloons were found in eastern, central and western Japan the same day. The vinyl balloons each carried a plastic container with a dry battery and a ''timer-like device,'' police said. == Kyodo --AGEO (Kyodo) Is anyone missing the obvious? What a wonderfully cheap and effective way to distribute biological warfare agents! Is Korea, in its current economic crisis, testing ways to take out its biggest competitor? N.B. on the effectiveness... judging by the dimensions given in the Reuters story and matching that to the picture, the containers are about a 1.5 feet long. Although the ballons themselves would have an almost non-existent radar signature, filling those canisters with liquid and getting them into a fair sized cluster (the report mentioned a group of ten) would probaly show up as a blip on someone's screen. It might be shrugged off as a flock of really fat seagulls, or it might not. ** try SkeptiChat, a mail.list of irreverence irrelevance, etc ** * with SkeptiNews: All The News That's Fit To Question (Pat.Pend) * * 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- SkeptiNews 990520a - - - - - - - - - - - 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. * SKEPTINEWS CONTRIBUTORS/EDITORS WANTED NOW * KEEP THIS BULLETIN ALIVE * _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Flock Of Mystery Balloons Puzzles Cops. TOKYO (Reuters) - The discovery of more than 20 mysterious balloons across central Japan, some with boxes tied to them containing batteries, had Japanese police baffled. About 28 of the conoid balloons, made of vinyl and measuring 6 by 2 meters (18 by 6 feet), were found across a wide range of coastal and inland central Japanese towns. 4 deflated balloons found caught in trees telephone wires appeared to each be attached to a small box containing 2 batteries and 2 empty white plastic containers. There was a similar incident in 1997, with balloons thought to be from North Korea. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990519/07/odd-balloon : What would you like put into balloons to float over Japan? Do you think these objects are of human, alien, divine or demonic origin? Are they kewl? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Study Links Bulimia To Arrival Of TV In Fiji. BOSTON (Reuters) - A sudden increase in eating disorders such as bulimia, anorexia among teen-age girls on Fiji is linked to the arrival of television in the Pacific island nation in 1995. Harvard researchers said that since television's introduction into the country, there had been a sharp rise in indicators of disordered eating, such as induced vomiting. Some 74 percent of Fijian girls reported feeling "too big or fat" in a survey conducted 3 years after the country's one TV station began broadcasting: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990519/07/odd-fiji and see: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559609029-f5a : Does TV advertising promote self-loathing to promote product purchases? Does your belief system exploit TV? Do you sicken people for your benefit? IS TV an alien/Bilderberger/Satanic plot to demoralize and control humans? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Antibiotic resistance growing. (AP) Jet-setting Yanks who eat chicken and meat overseas are bringing back resistance to certain drugs used to treat stomach upset and other bacterial ills. A new study links Americans' growing resistance to antibiotics mainly to foreign travel. Until now, scientists thought resistance was growing largely because doctors were overprescribing antibiotics. www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559608527-e85 : Is this a form of biological warfare? Who's the aggressor? Is this a form of evolution in action? Do you travel and eat? Are you evolving? Into what? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HUBBLE VIEWS MASSIVE CYCLONE ON MARS. A cyclonic storm system 4 times the size of Texas swirled across northern polar regions of Mars last month. The spiral storm, spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope, was made of water ice clouds like storm systems on Earth, rather than dust typically found in Mar- tian storms. The system was about 1,100 miles across, nearly triple the size of largest previously-seen Martian spiral storm systems. Cyclonic activity rare on Mars: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9905/19/mars.storm/index.html : Is global warming, with its attendant increase in violent weather, limited to Earth, or spreading to other planets? Are there links between big storms on Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter? Are Reptilioids or Reticulans causing this? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ROBOTIC SURGERY EDGES TOWARD OPERATING ROOMS. The suture moves evenly thru a tiny artery the size of a strand of spaghetti as the surgeon stitches up the patient's heart. But wait, those aren't hands doing the work -- they're gray metal pincers. A robot is performing heart surgery. "The accuracy is incredible" http://cnn.com/HEALTH/heart/9905/18/robot.surgery.ap/index.html : Would you rather be operated on by humans, robots, Reptilioids, Republi- cans, demons, angels, me? Do you trust cyborgs? Would you prefer nanobots? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Companies asked to drop bomb Web sites. NEW YORK (AP) Victims of bombings and an advocacy group called on leading US Internet firms to keep bombmaking sites off the Web. "No one has a constitutional right to use an Internet company's property to facilitate murder." Won't hamper offshore sites - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559609035-bb8 : Do you have the right to kill or be killed, the right to discuss weapons, the right to read/write about making/using conventional and/or NBC [Nuclear/ Biological/Chemical] munitions? Have you a responsibility NOT to conspire? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # FORMER US ARMY SGT INDICTED IN KENYA, TANZANIA EMBASSY BOMBINGS - trained bin Laden operatives: http://cnn.com/US/9905/19/embassy.bombing/index.html # NATO POUNDS BELGRADE; SERBS SAY HOSPITAL HIT - Public relations disaster? 3 patients dead:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990513a - - - - - - - - - - - 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. * SKEPTINEWS CONTRIBUTORS/EDITORS WANTED NOW * KEEP THIS BULLETIN ALIVE * _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiShorts: # Liposuction linked to 5 deaths. Doctors have identified five deaths of patients undergoing liposuction, raising questions about the safety of the country's most popular kind of cosmetic surgery. 5 out of 50,000 - wowie. Count'em at: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559522460-9a9 : Would you rather be liposuctioned, stay fat, eat carrots, exercise, die? # ONE MAN'S BELGRADE DIARY. Working on borrowed computers in the dead of night, a Serbian filmmaker spills his war experiences onto the Internet. www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/culture/story/19634.html : Can you believe anything you read on the Internet? Everything? Some? What? @ See THE CHINESE ROSWELL and an alien crashlanding near Tibet 12,000 years ago and an Alien Presence in the forbidden tomb of the first Chinese emperor Shi Huangdi, at http://www.newpara.com - or miss out on all the fun, eh? : Are old UFOs better than new ones? Did ETs stimulate ancient Tibetan life? # BRITAIN SHUTS DOWN SPY SITES. An ex-spy leads the British government on a worldwide chase with his threats to post intelligence secrets on the Net. The sites are coming down as fast as Richard Tomlinson can put them up. www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/19620.html : Would you volunteer to mirror such spy-blowing sites? Do you feel lucky? # Star Wars tickets available. "Phantom Menace" doesn't open until May 19 but some fans have been camping outside Southern California theaters for weeks to ensure they're among the first to see the long-awaited prequel. Get the Force: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559522321-dfd : Is STAR WARS an evil meme that devours your brain? Is that what you want? # 'PHANTOM MENACE' BORES, ANNOYS. With stiff, unconvincing performances and a ridiculous sidekick, the long-awaited Star Wars prequel is a good kid pic, but a galaxy far, far away from good. I gotta bad feeling... http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/culture/story/19648.html : Did you ever want to pin a KICK ME sign on Darth Vader's back? Why not? # SONY'S BARK HAS BYTE. Forget the Furby. Trash the Tamagotchi. Sony's new cyberdog can be programmed to do tricks and senses when you need some lovin', but it will cost you US$2,500 to collar one. Byte my baud: www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/19622.html : What good is a robot dog if, wen you kick it, *you* hurt but *it* doesn't? # Flynt makes deal with prosecutors. Prosecutors dropped obscenity charges against Larry Flynt and his brother in a plea agreement that fines the Hustler magazine corporation and removes X-rated videos from a downtown store. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559521909-724 : Has freedom of speech been upheld? Is Flynt a Reptilioid? How d'ya know? # BIANCA FINDS NEW SUGAR DADDY. The online publisher of "literate smut" site Nerve agrees to buy the parent company of Bianca's Smut Shack, an online pioneer and still-popular community site. Did Linda Lovelace gag? www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/business/story/19624.html : Do you prefer your smut literate, illiterate, telepathic, implanted, raw? # Pope: Romania trip was historic. Pope JP2 called his recent trip to Romania "historic" because it was his first to a mainly Orthodox country. And...? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559519974-2d6 : What's the most historic thing a Pope could do? Submit to Mohammed maybe? # New mirror for Ireland's 'Leviathan' telescope. (BBC) What was once the world's largest telescope will once again be able to make observations of the night sky. The "Leviathan" is to be fitted with a new mirror and will look again at the stars and galaxies it first saw over a hundred years ago. Humungo: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_342000/342012.stm : Is Ireland suitable for an observatory? Do the voices in your head agree? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Bill Gates: Antichrist Superstar: www.konformist.com/1999/gates666.htm # BUGGLST virus hoax: http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/bugglst.htm @ Abysmal Awakenings: http://www.creative-web.net/Abysmal/ @ Planetary Activation Organization (PA'O): http://www.paoweb.com and http://www.astar-usa.com Marker Found For The Most Malignant Brain Tumors: http://207.153.213.131/releases/1999/05/990512080218.htm Designer Molecules: Largest Protein Ever Created From Scratch Has Implications For Novel Drug Delivery And Diagnostics: http://207.153.213.131/releases/1999/05/990512080142.htm Scientific Trials Of "Wonder" Autism Hormone Treatment To Start:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990506a - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Superfly: Researchers genetically design 'killer' fruit fly. (U-WIRE) UC Santa Cruz -- A highly evolved "superfly" may impress the ladies, but its sperm can be deadly to female fruit flies. By manipulating the evolution of male and female fruit flies, a UCSC researcher showed some males developed "killer sperm," highly capable of passing on the males' genes but toxic enough to destroy their mates after reproduction. Rapidly-evolving genetic strategies - see http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990505/university-odd-75 : Will misogynist gene-splicers design similar human sperm? Will partheno- genesis be the only hope of human survival? Is this the ultimate STD? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # US space rockets grounded. (BBC) All United States rockets capable of launching large satellites are grounded as an investigation begins into a series of launch failures. Latest launch to misfire was a Delta III - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_336000/336592.stm * Also: 6 failed rocket launches in 9 months, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559438328-7c4 * Launch failures have cost $3.5 bln - worst botches since Challenger: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559438284-5f3 NEW BOEING ROCKET PLACES COMMERCIAL SATELLITE IN WRONG ORBIT: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9905/05/delta.launch.02.ap/index.html @ Links: Boeing: Delta Rockets: http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/delta/deltahome.htm @ US Air Force: Space Command: http://www.spacecom.af.mil/hqafspc/ : Who's been blocking US access to space: Russia, Libya, Iraq, Reptilioids, MicroSoft, The Artist Formerly Known As Prince? Is this a turf war? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE SCIENCE OF ALIENS. What will aliens look like? An intelligent octopus- like creature is certainly plausible. What about odd numbers of limbs - a 3- legged alien with 3 arms and 3e eyes? How about a whole planet of immobile, silicon-based "trees" that communicate with each other via electric signals? The Science of Aliens gets weirder still. Could a giant interstellar cloud be "alive" and intelligent? Could creatures live at extremely high pressures and temperatures? And which of these many possibilities would be similar enough to us that they could communicate with them, or they with us? Would they have any interest in abducting us? Would they want to have sex with us? @ The Science of Aliens: http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/soa.htm : If we can't get along with whales, dolphins, squids, or other humans, how will we be treated by *real* aliens? Do you deserve to have sex with an ET? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The Light That Cracks the Code. A computer scientist has designed a light-based computer that could unscramble data to a degree well beyond that typically used in e-commerce. "Twinkle," a yet-to-be-built crypto-cracking machine: www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/19493.html # Also: Israeli Scientist Reports Discovery of Advance in Code Breaking http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/biztech/articles/02encr.html @ 'Twinkle' paper: http://jya.com/twinkle.eps or http://jya.com/twinkle.zip : What codes do you wanna break? Can/should/do you/anyone have any secrets? Can 'Twinkle' crack alien codes too? How about generalized biological codes? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SansComment: INDIAN ELEPHANT DIES OF GRIEF. Damini, an elephant who starved herself to death in a northern Indian zoo, spent the last 24 days weeping in her enclo- sure, mourning her companion who had died giving birth, zoo officials said. See http://cnn.com/NATURE/9905/05/grieving.elephant.ap/index.html and http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559438513-d81 # Body Parts Artist Says He Has No Regrets. LONDON (Reuters) British sculptor Anthony-Noel Kelly, who served a jail sentence for stealing body parts in the name of art, has said he has no regrets about his actions. Art for art's sake: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990506/07/odd-body *** Thai monk who treated addicts dies. BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) Phra Charun Bhaanchan, a Buddhist monk who founded a temple to help Thai drug addicts and then became a sanctuary for thousands of ethnic Hmong from neighboring Laos, died of kidney failure. He was 73. His program using herbal remedies to treat drug addicts was unique at the time, and one of the few ways Thais addicted to drugs could receive treatment without criminal stigma. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559438381-0cd # Jilted Lover Cuts Off Friend's Penis. KHULNA, Bangladesh (Reuters) A jil- ted Bangladeshi man cut off a friend's penis after a woman they both loved chose his friend instead. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990506/07/odd-penis _ _ _ _ _ _
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-Caveat Lector- # WHAT IF GAY SEX MAKES YOU SICK? A recent study showed a link between homophobia and latent homosexual feelings. When a group of heterosexual men watched films with scenes of gay sex, the homophobes experienced more arousal than the non-homophobes. What does that tell you? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10382 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ It tell very little. For instance introverts are more aroused by pornography than extroverts(and can see the same scene more often than extroverts) yet it is extroverts who are more prone to acting out the pornography. Likewise women are as equally 'aroused' by pornography as men...but the arousal is discofirt not pleasure.and it is the men who pay for pornorgraphy not women. What a good scientist looking at porn for anyway...Is he aroused ..by the grant money. Science 22 iv '99) Researchers in Western Ontario, Canada, have failed to replicate a 1993 finding of a gene locus (Xq28) for homosexuality which had already become controversial (see Bailey, 1995, Nature Genetics). The original claim had been made by Dean Hamer from a study of extreme homosexuals whose own brothers were homosexual; but the new study of 52 pairs of homosexual brothers by George Rice confirms suggestions that genetic factors play only a modest role (cf. King McDonald, 1992, Brit. J. Psychiat.; Brand, 1993, Person. Indiv. Diffs). Unpublished data from Professor Alan Sanders at the University of Chicago also do not support the theory of a genetic link for homosexuality, a Science editorial said. 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 990311a - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** New web site offers underseas view. FT. PIERCE, Fla. (AP) Imagine coming grin-to-grin with a yellow shark off the coast of Brazil, then watching as it is gently forced to expel its stomach contents for tests that could save the threatened species. Or peering over the shoulders of world-renowned mar- ine scientists at the moment they discover a sea sponge containing a comp- ound for new medicine that could slow the development of cancer. Starting Friday, it will all be possible, and no scuba gear or shark repellent is necessary. The Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution launches a Web site - www.at-sea.org - to post daily dispatches from marine expeditions worldwide. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558767323-26b : Is this a great leap forward in telepresence? Would you rather look into a shark's gutz, an underwater of aboveground volcano, a black hole, or my eye? # GET READY FOR SURROUND VIDEO. A new immersive video technology lets users explore 360 degrees of live action video. The inventors want it for enter- tainment. The US military wants to put it in missiles. Surround yourself at www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/18364.html : Or is THIS the great leap in telepresence? How real do you want virtual reality to be, how encompassing? Will actual reality be irrelevant soon? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ IRANIAN LEADER, POPE MEET AT VATICAN. Amid tight security, Pope John Paul II welcomed Iran's president, receiving him for private talks that could lay ground for better relations between Christianity and Islam. On the eve of the audience, President Mohammad Khatami, in a speech near Florence, empha- sized the common ground among the world's religions, declaring there were no "quintessential differences" among faiths. Protests despite security - see http://cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9903/11/iran.pope.01/index.html *** 7 more killed in Indonesia violence. JAKARTA (AP) - Soldiers fired on Christian and Muslim rioters who fought each other with bombs, knives and bows and arrows in eastern Indonesia, killing as many as 10 people. There were conflicting reports on the number of deaths. If you can stomach it, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558756162-a0d and http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558760820-3b0 : If faiths are essentially the same, why are there so many? Are animistic, polytheistic, Judeo/Xian/Muslim, Hindu/Buddhist/Taoist, UFOlogist, and other belief-systems all the same? Why do adherants have to kill each other then? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** U.S. Jews upset over new Israeli laws. JERUSALEM (AP) - American Jewish leaders dumped thousands of postcards in Israel's parliament from U.S. Jews angry over recently passed laws aimed at delegitimizing their strain of Judaism in Israel. Those who sent in 5,500 postcards and 2,000 e-mails to the Israeli government were responding to a law intended to keep Jews affil- iated with liberal streams of Judaism, such as Reform and Conservative, from participating on religious councils. The controversial legislation further cemented the control of Orthodox rabbis over religious affairs in Israel. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558749633-d75 : Can theocracy survive in an open world? Does your religion or faction run a gov't? Do your deities help you exercise temporal control? Is power fun? *** Monks arrested in Tibetan capital. BEIJING (AP) Two Buddhist monks were arrested at an ancient holy site in Lhasa, Tibet for shouting pro-indepen- dence slogans on the anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese rule. Police stepped up patrols of the area to deter further protests. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558763144-b1b : Would an independent Tibet re-establish the Lamaist theocracy? Would you rather be controlled by commissars, priests, soldiers, ETs, spies, or cats? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Man Sends Friends Postcards After His Cremation. LONDON (Reuters) Friends of a British man who died of lung cancer received "wish you were here" post- cards, adorned with pictures of harp-playing angels, several days after his cremation, saying he was enjoying heaven. Is this guy over-optimistic or what? See http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990311/09/odd-cremation : Do morons who smoke themselves into early death go straight to Hell? Do you expect to go anywhere when you die? Do angels smoke get lung cancer? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Centennial Efforts and Counter-Efforts of the Millenium: "With the closing of this millenium it might be of interest to present an esoteric retrospec- tive of a 1000 years of efforts by individuals and groups, which tried to make the world we live in better and/or
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990204a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with : are editorial comments to provoke discussion. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Space mirror to sparkle over world. Russian hopes of brightening the Sib- erian winter by reflecting sunlight from a mirror in space will be tested again. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_271000/271224.stm # Mirror in sky: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9902/03/space.mirror/index.html @ Also: Space mirror groundtrack: http://www.energialtd.com/znamya.htm @ Znamya 2.5 experiment timetable: http://src.space.ru/inform1-e.htm @ Znamya space reflector: http://www.space-frontier.org/EVENTS/Znamya/ # Mir's Mirror a No-Go. The Mir space station's troubles with a giant light- casting mirror apparently mean Russia's north will remain shrouded in wint- ertime gloom. http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/17729.html : Will it work or will it won't? Is obliterating night a good idea? Can you adapt to All DayTime All The Time? Would everything's cycles be thrown off? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pluto stays a planet. (BBC) Pluto is to remain a planet and not be reclassified as a minor body. And they said it couldn't happen here - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_271000/271832.stm # It's official: no 'demotion' for planet Pluto - see http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9902/03/pluto.saved.reut/index.html @ Also: Postcard from Pluto: http://www.wrightworks.com/pluto.htm @ IAU Pluto status page: http://www.ss.astro.umd.edu/IAU/div3/pluto.shtml # Pluto will have 'dual citizenship': http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_259000/259767.stm # Pluto may be demoted: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_257000/257360.stm : If little Pluto can be a planet, can I be one too? Should Rush Limbo be launched into orbit and declared a planetoid? Would you like to be a planet? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Look: 3D TV with no goggles. (BBC) An advanced display screen, which could allow you to move around a three-dimensional virtual world without goggles, has been developed. 3D videos can be stored on ordinary VHS tapes - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_271000/271693.stm @ Also: 3D displays review http://takeo.kulab.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~morris/Cote.HTM # Classic TV gets digital future http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_193000/193861.stm # Just a second! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_15/150395.stm : At what point will fantasy landscapes become really virtually real? Do you want entertainment to be indistinguishable from reality? What *is* reality? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Rodents make human sperm. (BBC) Researchers in Japan claim to have made rats and mice produce human sperm. Can the sperm can fertilize human eggs? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_271000/271446.stm # Also: Are you a man or a mouse? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_51000/51547.stm # Chemical tricksters may revolutionise contraception http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_259000/259078.stm # Sperm treatment trial urged http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_257000/257392.stm # Genetic concerns over fertility treatment http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_235000/235419.stm # Controversy over fertility wonder technique http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_235000/235545.stm : Would you want a mouse for a father? Are there certain advantages? Would a mouse-father spank, cheat, drink, gamble, nurture, bond, take out the trash? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ INDIA REPORTEDLY GIVES SALMAN RUSHDIE A VISA. India, the first country to ban the controversial book "The Satanic Verses," has reportedly granted a visa to author Salman Rushdie for the first time since the 1980s. India, Rushdie's birthplace, banned "The Satanic Verses" after it provoked angry protests from Muslims in 1988. Rushdie wouldn't rewrite history - see http://cnn.com/books/news/9902/04/rushdie.01/ *** Slain gay student's parents comment. CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) The parents of Matthew Shepard, the gay college student beaten to death last October, say they don't want his death used by activists to further any political agenda. "It's a very frightening concept as a parent that your son now becomes a martyr, a public figure for the world. "He's just our son." See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558317960-611 : Does your religious/political/economic/ethical system promote censorship, assassination, intolerance? Do all or most such systems act thusly? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Spicy Links: @ The Satanic Army: http://www.ultinet.net/~harwer/religion.htm @ INTERNATIONAL GHOST HUNTERS SOCIETY: http://www.ghostweb.com @ AMERICAN GHOST SOCIETY: http://www.prairieghosts.com @ PSYCHIC FEDERATION: www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/8097/index.html @ Patterson Sasquatch Film: http://come.to/pattersonfilm @ Mystery aircraft:
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# Goodbye mother tongue. (BBC) As many as 40% of the world's languages could
disappear by 2100. Only the elderly will remember the more traditional ways of
speaking as younger generations around the globe tune in to a more common way
of talking. From 7000 to 3000 in 100 years; globalization is extinction.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/anaheim_99/newsid_262000/262145.stm
: Every language is a worldview; will yours be abducted, extincted? How much
cultural genocide can humanity survive? Are Urdu, Dutch, Tagalog necessary?
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There are two entirely contradictory things happening, it seems to me. First,
a new *lingua franca* is emerging on the Internet, which could be called Net
English or Web English. This bids fair to be used as the universal trade
language, much as *koine* Greek was at the time of Christ; in fact, English
had a head start thanks to the British Empire and American economic
imperialism. On the other hand, even as English is emerging as the world
language, it is fragmenting the same way Latin did, evolving first in dialects
and ultimately into distinct languages. English has already divided into
Northern and Southern variants, with such dialects as Yorkshire, Lancashire,
Scots, Canadian, and Northern American falling into the first group, and
"Standard" English (Oxbridge), Australian (Oz), New Zealander, South African,
Southron American ("Old South"), Southwest American, and Californian in the
second group. Already the two different groups are diverging at such a rate
that they are frequently unintelligible to each other--"one people divided by
a common language," as Churchill expressed it. At the same all of this is
happening, however, the *written* language is virtually unchanged, and is even
undergoing a renaissance thanks to the Internet. Net English may emerge as a
written medium of communication uniting the world, even as *spoken* English
continues to fragment and evolve. Many world languages will certainly
disappear...but this has been the pattern throughout history--how many Gothic
speakers do you know?
Bob
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[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991118a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 prehistoric felines were captured during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Doodie. Oh my. http://www.doodie.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Astronomers scan skies for meteors. (AP) Waves of fireballs lit the skies like lightning over the sands of Arabia as the much-heralded Leonid meteor shower swelled into the heaviest storm of shooting stars in 33 years. All around the world, astronomers and amateur stargazers stared upward from dark fields, beaches and mountaintops. The storm, which could be the most intense for decades to come, was probably the most studied in history. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562126837-fb2 # Also: Technology boosts meteor sightings, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562123521-f4e : Did you see'em or were you clouded in like me? After all I've done for the ETs, shouldn't they have lifted the veils so I could see the lights? bzzzt # Suspected Meteor Damage And Fire In Whitehouse, Tennessee: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/meteorfire.htm # Hundreds Of UFO Reports In Kentucky/Cincinnati Eastern US: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/hundreds.htm # More Arizona Flying Triangles: http://www.caus.org/ft111899.htm # Green And Blue Fireballs; Yow: http://www.caus.org/mu111899.htm # Major UFO Event Tuesday Night: http://www.caus.org/cc111899.htm # Many UFOs Sighted in Western UK: http://www.caus.org/mu111799.htm # Major UFO Event - Tuesday Night: http://www.caus.org/mu111699b.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Researchers extend lifespan of mice. (AP) The strongest evidence yet that aging in mammals is controlled by a genetic switch was found by Italian scientists who engineered mice to live longer by boosting their resistance to the damage oxygen can do to cells. The mice suffered no apparent side effects. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562124011-633 : Do we really want long-lived mice running around? Won't they learn more, and eventually challenge us for mastery of the planet? Can we build enough nanobots to rid us of the competition? Suppose the supermice gain control of the 'bots and turn'em against us - do we deserve that? Suppose they develop superior culture - d'ya wanna play second fiddle to rodents? D'ya already? @ Technology, celebrity culture, pop therapies, and all that anxious mysticism: American life is even weirder than you ever imagined... http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba991103.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Need to hold on to that job in the upcoming high-tech bust cycle? Learn how to write unmaintainable code. http://mindprod.com/unmain.html Now you can code just like RMS! And see: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Computing/ : Is incomprehensible coding a job-security tactic? Was the Y2K bug devised by COBOL programmers to make sure they stayed eternally employable? Are we all victims of these aging technocrats? Do you want to kill? Do you dare?? # Y2K fuels fear of flying: http://msnbc.com/news/336245.asp?cp1=1 # U.S. spending $100 bln on Y2K repairs - but merely inconveniencing: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562123855-ae9 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Beast of Bodmin evades RAF cameras - BIG CAT mystery still unsolved. (BBC) Hi-tech efforts to capture the legendary Beast of Bodmin on film have come a cropper due to bad weather on the Cornish moor. RAF reserve volunteers spent Saturday night camped in ditches and under hedges with the latest military night-vision equipment. Scuppered by low cloud and mist - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_519000/519700.stm # ALSO - HI-tech search for Beast of Bodmin: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_518000/518673.stm # Puma hunters target Wales: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_424000/424028.stm # Hunters try to bag Dartmoor lion: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_218000/218650.stm # Home Counties puma alert: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_181000/181241.stm # 'Beast of Bodmin' captured on video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_136000/136546.stm : Have you released any large felines in Britain lately? Did your ET masters force you? Did the military release the big cats for training purposes? Ya?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Betrayal trauma: Traumatic amnesia as an adaptive response to childhood abuse. http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/~jjf/trauma.html @ The recovery of memories in clinical practice: http://members.aol.com/smartnews/page/Sample-Issue-28.htm @ Are you mind-controlled? Are you a mind-controller? http://www.parascope.com/cgi-local/psforum.pl/topic=matrixdmark=all @ COERCION: Why We
