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# Feeling Spaced-Out! No-one has yet unearthed the remains of ancient flying
machines but evidence of their existence is well documented in historical
texts, illustrated on wall paintings, rock carvings, and even as miniature
models dating to far antiquity. Extraordinary descriptions of human flight
extend back some 4000 years: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/jj_fso.htm
# Taking On The Aliens: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/u/26280012.cfm
# Chupacabras Documentary: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/chupavid.htm
# The Politics of UFOs? http://www.alienzoo.com/features/b/26140001.cfm
# COW ABDUCTION, MUTILATION: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000628/odd-1
@ Alien Abduction. DO ET'S EVER CURB THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS THEY ABDUCT
FROM PLANET'S? IF SO, WHY? REPLY:...YES!!! The Aliens ("Fallen Angels")
will curb the number of Individuals they ("Fallen Angels") Abduct for but
a short period of time! http://www.intercom.net/user/davids/abduct-a.html
: Have'ya participated in (m)any abductions/mutilations/implantations/orgies
lately? Were the processes documented? What other evidence is there? Do the
voices in your head force you to ignore/manufacture/destroy/lose evidence?
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# Evidence of 'Big Bang' Gas Found at Galactic Center. Call it a gentle
rain from near the beginning of time. A gargantuan deuterium gas cloud:
http://space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/deuterium_galactic_000628.html
# 'Invisible' galaxies, distorted arcs and galactic rings revealed by first
images from INGRID: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/ingt-igd062900.html
# ECLIPSE. On July 1, a partial solar eclipse will be visible from South
America and the southern Pacific Ocean. http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/
# Interstellar Lighthouses: http://alienzoo.com/features/j/26280002.cfm
# NASA, Mars, And Disclosure: http://www.sightings.com/general2/nasaex.htm
# Great Moon Hoax: http://surfingtheapocalypse.com/space.html#moonhoax1835
# OMAN ROCK IS MARS METEORITE http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_met24.htm
# FETCHING OZ'S GUYRA METEORITE http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_myst5.htm
# Oregon tribes agree to share their sacred meteorite with NYC museum:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/22/meteoritedeal.ap/index.html
: Are your more excited by gargantuan gas clouds; invisible/distorted/fried
galaxies; uncovered hoaxes; sacred meteorites? Would you share your sacred
meteorites/galaxies/lighthouses/hoaxes with anyone? Would you demand sex?
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# Tombs of Egyptian Priests to Be Opened to Public. GIZA, Egypt (Reuters)
Three tombs sealed about 4,500 years ago and discovered in the 1930s will
be opened to the public for the first time within a few weeks. Terrible
truths? http://news.excite.com/news/r/000629/04/science-egypt-tombs-dc
# Barak OKs Temple Mount digging - archaeologists, politicos protest:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567716083-5df
# Skeletons Of Giants Found In Midwest Mounds - eight-foot-tall Indians?
Get the measuring tape: http://www.sightings.com/general2/giants.htm
@ SPHINX TEMPLE. The Riddle Of The Sphinx - Recent Sphinx Field Research -
Atlantis: History Of Golden Ages - Accessible Remains of Atlantis - The
Incredible Dogon Knowledge - Archaeological Developments At Giza, Egypt -
Subterranean Tunnels the Hollow Earth - The Yonaguni Site - The Bimini
Stones - Gods in Rocks - Mayan Civilization - Mysteries of The Mayans -
The Mayan Legacy - Clues to Maya Mysteries - Thomas Lee - The "Burdick
Print" -- http://sphinxtemple.virtualave.net/articles/articles.html
: Are you more excited by Sphinx/Pyramid stuff; Atlantis stuff; Dogon stuff;
Yonaguni stuff; Bimini [ Scott Stones] stuff; Mayan/Indian stuff; Jerusalem
stuff; other stuff? Do you have more stuff than you know what to do with??
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# CONSUMERS FIGHT BACK FOR PRIVACY: as technology advances, privacy recedes.
Bummer: http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/28/anonymous.consumers.idg/
@ Everyone's phone number in the USA, and email: http://www.four11.com/
@ Worldwide: http://zdnet.com/yil/content/surfschool/guru/guru000628.html
# Collecting your data in secret http://cosmiverse.com/paranormal062901.html
# UK looks to eavesdrop on Net - Analysts say it sets precedent for global
standard of wiretapping http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cti161.htm
# Big Brother on the Net: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal062902.html
$ Freedom Library:
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SkeptiNews 000622b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/21_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No pyramids were sexually abused during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Look at a pretzel: http://www.glitterkitty.net/poser/thirpretz.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SEARCHING FOR EXTRATERRESTRIALS. Where Are They? Maybe we are alone in the galaxy after all: http://www.sciam.com/2000/0700issue/0700crawford.html # Crash Flash Caught on Moon - impact of comet, UFO, satellite, bomb, or what? http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/2621/sp_meteor.html # New York Bright Cylinder Spotted: http://www.caus.org/mu062200.htm # Mars Find May Sway NASA, Euro plans. WASHINGTON. The prospect that NASA's Mars Global Surveyor has detected signs of water at a site on the Red Planet is likely to spark debate as to whether to send a robotic craft on location to look for life. http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/26210011.cfm # Dumbfounding Dig. Archeology: Unearthed remains of a 5,500-year-old Syrian settlement suggest that cities arose substantially earlier than has been thought, and perhaps in more different regions. Everything we know is wrong: http://latimes.com/news/science/science/2622/t59092.html : Have you seen any definite signs of (extra-)terrestrial life/intelligence/ civilization lately? Have you colonized your universe/galaxy/planet/village yet? Did'ya have help from aliens/angels, deities/demons, robots/Romans, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Russia: Cult Of Pyramid Energy Draws Believers. Around the time Russia's financial pyramids crashed 5 years ago, ruining millions who believed in easy wealth for a handful of rubles, self-styled scientist Aleksandr Golod set about building another kind of miracle pyramid -- out of plastic. He says he's soaking up healing energy from the earth; many Russians believe him. http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2000/06/F.RU.000619153928.html # PSYCHIC SUES HOSPITAL -- 'X-RAY DESTROYED MY POWERS' -- A PHILADELPHIA psychic sued Temple University Hospital, claiming an X-ray they gave her destroyed her extra-sensory powers and wrecked her business. The jury awarded her $986,465. http://www.nationalenquirer.com/stories/11943.html @ New Millenium Thinker's Pledge - THE THINKER'S PLEDGE - NEW THINKING FOR THE MILLENIUM http://www.sbutton.com/homepages/philbachmann/4412.htm @ The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book: http://www.ctheory.com/r45.html @ Need for process-based semantic sets: www.sgml.u-net.com/semantics.htm : D'ya think about the past/present/future/other? Does technology interfere with y'r mental/spiritual/social/sexual development? Do pyramids enhance y'r orgasmic/transcendental/financial/millennial prospects? Are lawyers psychic? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Thousands greet a rainy summer dawn at Stonehenge. STONEHENGE,England (AP) Amid beating of drums,loud cheers,and pouring rain, thousands of revellers celebrated the summer solstice at the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge. The sun wasn't forthcoming, but that didn't seem to bother the 6000-strong crowd of druids, New Age followers and curiosity-seekers. Samba drummers mixed with robed druids, thousands of revellers packed the centre of the stone circle as dawn came: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/y/26210010.cfm # Celebrating Year 5008. LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) Bolivia's Aymara Indians celebrated the start of their 5008 calendar year Wednesday with a predawn ritual at the Tihuanacu ruins, coinciding with the southern hemisphere's winter solstice. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000622/07/odd-indians-dc : What's y'r favorite solstice/year/era/calendar/ritual? Have you celebrated any calendrical rituals lately? Did you behave ceremoniously/riotously/mind- controlled/randomly? Does solar radiation affect your mind/soul/stomach/eye? # Sunspots at peak of 11-year cycle www.alienzoo.com/news/y/26210009.cfm # Thais to See Longest Total Lunar Eclipse in 141 Years - waited a long time for it -it better be good: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/26210006.cfm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # IDEE FIXE - "Faster, Processor! Chill! Chill!" In an obsessive quest for ever-faster microprocessors, a rare breed of hi-tech tweakers known as "overclockers" risks fire, ice, and electric shock to test the limits of digital velocity. http://www.feedmag.com/feature/fr349_master.html?alert # Science Probes What Dreams Are Made Of. MIAMI (Reuters Health) - Where do we go when we dream? According to a leading expert on the subject, the human brain is the real 'dream-weaver,' adding shape and color to the stuff of daily life to create those magical, sometimes scary 'home movies' in
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SkeptiNews 000615b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/14_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 cetaceans were emotionally abused during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Watch the corn grow: http://www.iowafarmer.com/corncam/corn.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Report Of Chupacabra 'Eggs' Now Part Of The Mystery. The strange creature took prodigious leaps and bounds and at one point gave the impression of floating in the air(might it have something similar to wings?). The patrol returned with several "eggs" found at the location where the creatures were taken by surprise. http://www.sightings.com/general2/chupss.htm # FIELDS OF DREAMS - The Crop Circle Phenomenon in Canada. The UFO 2000 Conference, a leading Canadian research forum, will be held July 7-9 in St. Paul, Alberta (near Edmonton), featuring presentations by researchers in ufology, cerealogy and other fields of unexplained phenomena. Be there or be circular: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m15-005.shtml # Videos: Daylight UFOs Over London. A London resident filmed 4 separate UFO incidents in the space of 90 minutes. The UFOs are of the 'sphere' type reported recorded so often in Mexico. http://www.ufomag.co.uk/he501.htm # UFOs over New York: http://www.westchesterweekly.com/articles/ufos.html : Have Chupacabras chewed circles in your crops lately? Have you thrown any Chupacabra eggs in the air, videotaped them,and called them UFOs? Would you rather study cerealogy, videography,chupacagraphy, iridiology, sexology, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mars July 2000: Are We Lambs to the Slaughter, Mr.President? So could it be that Comet 76P passed Mars, caused Phobos to become even more unstable, to a point where, in the course of the next ten days or so, it finally breaks free of its Mars orbit? If that is the case, does anyone out there have a clue how long it would take Phobos Earth to reach the same point in space? http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/marshit3.html # Atomic Ruins 8 Millennia Ago. A construction team discovered the site in Rajasthan, India while preparing to build a housing development. The heavy layer of radioactive ash in a 3-mile-square area concealed "an ancient city where evidence shows an atomic blast dating back thousands of years, from 8,000 to 12,000 years, destroyed most of the buildings and probably a half-million people." http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal061302.html : Have you blasted any cities/planets/galaxies lately? D'ya use planetoids, bombs, black holes, divine wrath, antimatter, propaganda? D'ya give adequate warning? Is it fun to watch the doomed populace squirm,panic, self-destruct? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # RETIRED US ARMY RESERVE COLONEL ACCUSED OF SPYING FOR USSR. A retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel is under arrest accused of passing military secrets to the KGB -- the secret police of the former Soviet Union -- during the height of the Cold War. Arrested -- and released -- by Germans years six ago: http://www.CNN.com/2000/US/06/14/military.espionage.03/index.html @ Liberals conservatives agree that "Third Way" is an empty,abused phrase. But discussion is still alive well, provided you don't call it by name: www.consider.net/forum_new.php3?newTemplate=OpenObjectnewTop=26120015 # Germans Dumping Nuclear Power. The German govt and the electric industry agree to gradually phase-out nuclear power plants throughout the country. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36937,00.html?tw=wn2613 @ While the slashdot crowd orders http://www.m-ms.com/colorworks/ Bulk MM's and http://www.lego.com/bulk/default.asp Bulk Legos, I will be ordering http://www.bulkammo.com/ Bulk Ammo so I can defend my terri- tory. Let's do business at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Commerce/ : Have you succumbed to any old paradigms lately? Is polarization obsolete? Are you sorry for the ways you've behaved under old/new/any paradigms? Will capitalism replace all other paradigms? Will orgone replace other energies? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # VIRTUAL REALITY REVOLUTIONIZING THE WAY DOCTORS VIEW, TREAT PATIENTS. A medical resident wearing black-rimmed goggles stands before a projection screen and uses a computer to navigate through an oversized 3-D image of the human pelvis -- a notoriously difficult part of the body to learn. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=35390src=n22 @ Neurology and neuroscience have taken over the world of novels, shaping literary form and content in the way that Freud's ideas once did. Just what the world needs: http://prospect.org/archives/V11-13/blume-h.html # DIGITAL COMPRESSION OF X-RAYS
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SkeptiNews 000608b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's 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, updates, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No inferior lifeforms were forcefully evolved to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Twirling Hippy: http://sugarmegs.org/twirler.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scope maps 100,000 galaxies. (AP) - Astronomers using a robotic telescope in Australia have mapped 100,000 galaxies in the region of the universe surrounding the Milky Way, quadrupling the number of galaxies plotted. Scientists said the map - the most detailed 3D picture of the cosmos yet - demonstrates that galaxies can cluster like continents measuring millions of light-years across. But the map also appears to show that the growth of these "super clusters" as limited, which astronomers describe as "the end of greatness." www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567168608-274 # A meteorite worth its salt. (BBC) Water-bearing salt crystals from dawn of the solar system have been found in a meteorite. I'm just wet with envy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_783000/783048.stm # MORE: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_431000/431496.stm : Have you found/hidden any water/meteors/planets/galaxies/universes lately? Does the universe grow/evolve/decay faster than you can keep track of? Have organisms/galaxies/universes seen their best days? Is greatness obsolete?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Fossils Boost Life Origins Theory (AP) Researchers have found what they believe are fossils 3.2 billion years old, suggesting that life on Earth originated in volcano-heated ocean depths where sunlight never entered. Wet, warm, wild: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000608/01/early-life @ MORE: We've all heard of the age-old dispute of Evolution vs. Creationism http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/modules/ORIGINS/origins.html and most of us remember the Creationists' recent forays into the US education system, but let's not forget that the theory of evolution is not undisputed in the science community http://www.ridgenet.net/~do_while/sage/ either. Do check out this http://www.ridgenet.net/~do_while/sage/topics.htm topical index on the matter. Evolve from http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Science/ : Are you highly evolved? Will you be devoured by entities that continue to evolve after you've stopped? Do your thoughts/arguments/beliefs/biota/psyche evolve faster/slower/tangential to you? What's your favorite creation model? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Crispy critters make for tasty treats. (U-Wire) Edible insects -- some may feel those two words don't even belong in the same sentence. However, the Edible Insects Web site, http://www.eatbug.com, said most people have probably inadvertently consumed over a pound of insects in a lifetime. And some just crave chitin: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000606/odd-44 # Pesticides residues too high in children's food - apples/grapes sickening: http://reutershealth.com/archive/2000/06/07/eline/links/2607elin025.html # You can eat it, drink it, snuff out a blaze with it or dance in it -- perhaps even build a spacecraft with it. Interesting stuff, this foam. Manna from...? http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinion_224120.html : Would you rather eat bugs, pesticides, plastic, aliens, robots, me? Do y'r fellow-plotters eat well? Do you? Do the Reptilioids? Have you eaten (m)any bugs lately? Is that only fair, since bugs eat people? Are foam bugs better? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Libertarians? Nothing more than conservatives without morals. Maybe that's a problem, and maybe not, eh? http://www.spintechmag.com/0005/jl0500a.htm @ Socialism: French rationalism and German sentimentality. Multiculturalism? well... http://www.hudson.org/American_Outlook/articles_sp00/vazsonyi2.htm @ SPIN! On becoming right-wing scum: one day you begin to think affirmative action isn't fair, and before you know it you've joined the NRA. Bother... http://weeklystandard.com/magazine/mag_5_36_00/ferguson_bkart_5_36_00.html @ Of course it's racist to think that a single intellectual could tell The Truth About Blacks. It'd take at least, say, two or three. Conveniently, they're all at Harvard: http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i37/37a01801.htm : What's your favorite political/economic/social ploy? Does your conspiracy feed political programming into the minds of the populace?Are all successful politicos Illuminati/Reptilioid/Bilderberger tools/spawn/dupes? Are you? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BONDED. 38 years after his birth in the murky waters of Dr. No, the cell- uloid James Bond has become the ageless hero of modern global culture. A tool of the IMF/WTO/WB/CIA?
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SkeptiNews 000427b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 tarlike macro-molecules were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ASK THE POPE: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=616051338 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFO Buffs Dis Area 51 Pix. (SPACE.COM) In all the hoopla over the new Area 51 satellite images available on the Internet, those responsible for focusing the public's attention on the mystery base in the first place -- the UFO community -- have been largely ignored. Missing data or ho-hum? http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/phenomena/area51_ufologists_000426.html # UFO researcher finds anomalies in Area 51 photos - just more government disinformation? http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal042601.html # Malin Space Systems Blasted For Withholding Mars Cydonia Photos - hiding Face on Mars details: http://www.sightings.com/general/mrs.htm # VIKING MARS LANDER PHOTO COLOR-ALTERING REVEALED - MIT Physicist Reveals Original Images Showed Blue Sky and Rocks With Greenish Patches. Sinister coverup of alien bases: http://www.sightings.com/general/color.htm : Have you manipulated/exploited/ignored any sensitive information lately? Is all public information a lie?Do sophisticated humans disregard everything we're told/shown/taught? Is anything NOT mindcontrol? How can you tell? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Group seeks objective UFO probe. Citing a "gulf" between conspiracy theor- ists scientific UFO investigators, a UK group has formed a new organiza- tion to promote objective study of UFO extraterrestrial (ET) phenomenon. "Code of practice" -- http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal042501.html # 1ST DETAILED IMAGES OF EARLY UNIVERSE - detailed snapshot reveals an underlying cosmic geometry structures that predate the oldest stars and galaxies. http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/space/04/26/earlyuniverse.ap/ @ http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~boomerang/press_images/cmbfacts/cmbfacts.html : How much funding d'ya need for y'r probes of alleged reality? What aspects of alleged reality have you probed so far? What are the results? Do plotters impede your probes, divert your funding, ridicule your efforts, cut you off? # ONR Looks To Human Visual System To Improve SatPix. An advanced neural net scheme to increase levels of detail captured in Landsat satellite images has been developed. Reveals the composition of info contained in a single pixel: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000427072619.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tarlike Macro-Molecules Detected In "Stardust'" The first in-situ chemical analysis of interstellar dust particles produces a puzzling result: These cosmic particles consist mostly of 3-dimensionally cross-linked organic macro-molecules, so-called polymeric-heterocyclic-aromates. Life in the vacuum? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000427072933.htm @ Structure and Evolution of the Universe: http://universe.gsfc.nasa.gov/ # Astronomy as an Art Form - the universe is stunningly beautiful, eh? http://www.abcnews.go.com/onair/CloserLook/wnt000424_hubble_feature.html # Lightning May be Key to Predicting Tornadoes. Climatologists think they're onto something. Not blowhards: http://www.cosmiverse.com/space042603.html @ http://apamac.ch.adfa.oz.au/OzChemNet/ChemDept/molecules/bucky/bucky.html : Have you found any living/self-organizing/energetic/evolving structures in the universe lately? Are they all around us? Do they bite? Are all dynamic structures parasitic/beautiful/deadly? Are you? What/who do you feed on?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Workshop, Worship Celebrate Goddesses.(U-WIRE) UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Twelve women sat in a darkened circle, chanting of their womanly strength, power and sexuality in a goddess-worship ritual influenced by Pagan and Wiccan beliefs. Exciting study of goddess-based spirituality - "everyone was really involved." http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000427/university-24 # Brazil church apology said lacking - Indians reluctant to forgive: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566028467-8f8 # Iran leader endorses media crackdown - anti-Islamic deviants: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566028981-0b8 # Maryland Slaves Turned to African Spirits to Survive Servitude: http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/webex/webex032300-crystals.shtml # Tammy Faye Makes Up With Past. More faces than Jekyll Hyde. And longer eyelashes. http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/fyi.pat,fyi/37746bb0.426,.html : Have you explored your spirituality/sexuality/hyperreality lately? Do you regularly probe yourself or others? D'ya apologize for probing others? D'ya
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SkeptiNews 000420b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 archangels were harmed during the production of this bulletin. Much. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Nice nibs: http://www.zianet.com/jmcdgwin/nib.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Fragment of Cross Held by Vatican. A fragment of Jesus' cross held by the Vatican could not be a clever medieval forgery like the Shroud of Turin. A portion of the Titulus, the placard placed on the cross that mockingly declared Jesus the King of the Jews,has long been safeguarded from acade- mic scrutiny by the Vatican. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/crossvat.htm # Easter Eggs Can Be Dangerous to Dogs. LONDON (Reuters) Dog owners beware: too much Easter kindness can kill your dog. Don't stuff yourself with cho- colate bunnies either: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000419/10/odd-easter # BROADWAY'S SECOND COMING: 'JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR' IS BACK - and boy, is he pissed! http://CNN.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Arts/04/19/jesus.christ.superstar/ # 10-COMMANDMENTS Gold! http://CNN.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/19/nielsens.ap/ : D'ya care that Easter is named after Ishtar; that Easter celebrations are actually recreations of ancient heathen (spring) fertility rituals; that the Easter sacraments are dangerous for humans/animals; that Yeshua was an ET?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MEDIUM CLAIMS TO CURE 'POSSESSED' WOMEN THRU SEX RITUAL BABY PACIFIERS. Kuala Lumpur. Malaysians have been warned to be wary of a man claiming he can invoke a "child god" to cleanse women of evil spirits by sucking paci- fiers and having sex with them. Photographed wearing a bib and sucking 3 pacifiers, while a half-empty baby's bottle of milk was on the table: www.scmp.com/News/Asia/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-2418032327242.asp # Too Busy to Pray? Call Sinbusters! MILAN, Italy (Reuters) An Italian housewife has gone into the prayer business to rescue the souls of people whose daily grind leaves no time to attend to their own salvation. Dial-a- prayer goes automatic: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000419/10/odd-prayer MAN INTRUDES HOME- SENT BY ANGEL www.mndaily.com/daily/2000/04/19/news/new4/ : What's your favorite divine/spiritual/demonic/alien intervention? Have you disturbed any (para)normal entities lately? Do your disturbances usually in- volve sex/phones/computers/hammers/drugs/pacifiers/robots?Are you effective? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MOST U.S. WOMEN IN VIOLENT RELATIONSHIPS. More than half of all American women have experienced some sort of violence in their intimate relation- ships, including physical abuse or psychological battering, according to a new study. "I was expecting half the numbers we found, and the thing that was clearly the most surprising to us was the large proportion of women who had ever experienced violence," said study co-author Dr. Ann Coker. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=31882src=n47 # DAD CHOPS OFF SEXY LADY'S HEAD WITH AN AX -- BECAUSE SHE SEDUCED HIS 15- YEAR-OLD SON! BIRMINGHAM, England -- Tony Phillips exploded in rage when he found out his teenage son was having sex with a sultry 34-year-old neighbor lady -- and cut off the woman's head with an ax! "It was like hitting a piece of rubber." http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1847.html : Are you in a violent relationship? Are violent relationships mandated by evolution/deities/mindcontrollers/aliens/me? Should/can/will interpersonal violence be reduced by laws/drugs/surgery/counseling/mindrays/evolution?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists Call South Africa's AIDS Policy Idiotic. WASHINGTON (Reuters) Frustrated scientists battling the HIV epidemic denounced South Africa's AIDS policy as idiotic, saying thousands were dying while politicos argued about causes cures of the disease. Pres Thabo Mbeki questions HIV/AIDS link, AZT: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2419/ts/aids_safrica_1.html @ HEALTHY DEVIL: STDs http://h-devil-www.mc.duke.edu/h-devil/stds/stds.htm # POT SHRINKS BRAIN TUMORS IN MICE. Researchers in Madrid are experimenting with the anticancer properties of marijuana and coming up with surprising results. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=32095 # Nerve poison leaves telltale evidence- organophosphates traceable by anti- bodies - proves neurodamage: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9697026 @ HOW CAN I SAFELY CLEAN MICE FECES TO AVOID HANTA VIRUS? Soak with Lysol: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=31894 : What's your favorite medical conspiracy?Is Pres Mbeki promoting the spread of AIDS? Who's paying him? Who pays govts to suppress cannabis? Who pays for neurotoxins to
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000406b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 urethral strictures were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ WARNING! http://www.animejump.com/saiyan1big.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # OKLAHOMA FAMILY'S TIME/SPACE ANOMALIES. Two experiences with one of them timed by three different timepieces. Somehow we either gained time or distance (a hypothetical possibility based on the gas consumption). We are highly skeptical people but perplexed! http://caus.org/pc040600.htm @ The Universe: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1884newcomb-universe.html # Another Stunning Yukon UFO Sighting Reported. The witnesses got a good look at the saucer. It was a classic disc shape with a dome on top. The dome had two curved windows or lights from which a beautiful ocean blue or aqua colored light was shining. But the surface of the craft was difficult to describe. http://www.sightings.com/general/yukon.htm : Have you experienced any time/space/mass/energy/thought/emotion anomalies lately? Have you experienced/witnessed/fantasized going faster/further than you thought possible? Do your experiences fit any classic patterns? Which? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sharks Get Cancer - eating shark cartilage is a waste of time, money: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565449992-2bf @ I'M 19. I CAN'T REMEMBER STUFF. WILL GINKGO FIX MY POOR MEMORY? No. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=31110 @ I'M 16 AND I BLEED EVERY TIME I HAVE SEX. IS THIS NORMAL? No. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=30730 @ SOUND HEALING AND VIBRATIONAL MEDICINE MUSIC. "Bringing you the latest advances in Healing Music, Multimedia and Vibrational Medicine so you can live in natural balance within yourself and your environment..." ENVIRONMENTS (acoustic Feng Shui) and more: http://www.t-hyp.com/ : What's your favorite healing sound/herb/fish/rock? Have you cleansed your chakras lately? Do you bleed before/during/after sex? Are sharks involved? Do you practice Feng Shui before/during/after sex? Do you remember? What? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # OZONE DEPLETION. Scientists measuring the ozone layer -Earth's sunscreen- over northern Europe found that almost 2/3 was lost in one of the coldest stratospheric winters on record. Ozone levels over Europe will be thinner in the next few weeks. Ozone is a pollutant at ground level but blocks UV radiation in the upper atmosphere. Less ozone protection means a greater risk of skin cancers and cataracts. Even though developed nations have stopped using the chemicals that endanger the ozone layer, the damage goes on. http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,155867,00.html # Bats threatening Mexico cattle - garlic, crosses are no cure: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565421903-0fa @ Dracula: http://www.literature.org/Works/Bram-Stoker/dracula/ # Naked Pol: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000404/11/odd-election : Are you more threatened by ultraviolet, vampires, politicians, aliens, me? Is ozone depletion a good excuse to stay out of the sunshine? Will cautious night-crawling Europeans be mistaken for vampires, persecuted, heart-staked? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cloning of people disavowed by pioneer. The scientist who coaxed a repro- grammed cell to develop into the worlds first clone of an adult mammal said that the technique shouldnt be used to make copies of humans. But who cares? http://www.cleveland.com/news/index.ssf?/news/pd/cc05clon.html # Experts back embryo research: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9633903 # Embryo clones could treat leukaemia: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9633905 # Bill Joy's Tech Fears: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/archives/s116037.htm # Biotech foods said safe - but more govt monitoring needed: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565461550-6aa http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_703000/703440.stm # Also - Farmers shy away from biotech crops - intimidated: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565451896-018 : Have you cloned any people/plants/aliens/deities lately? Is your research about to run amok, destroying life as we know it? Is that your goal? Should all research go ahead despite the protests of naysayers, quibblers, fools?? # Expanding life's alphabet. IN AN attempt to one-up nature, researchers are expanding the genetic code that has given rise to just about every form of life. They hope to create artificial DNA capable of producing proteins no one has ever seen before.
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000330b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/29_03_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * NEW path to notices, excuses, sightings etc: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No locusts were mentally abused to produce this bulletin. Not really... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Free Stuff: http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/03/30/free.stuff4.idg/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # LAND OF THE LIVING DEAD - Bohemian vampires rise again... and again... and again... (Prague Post) Time and again, archeologists working in the Czech Republic come across what they believe are vampire graves. The skeletons they find have been mutilated using methods that, in the superstition- fueled middle ages, were thought to destroy the suckers once and for all. Bodies were exhumed, stakes driven, limbs severed, bones broken. Today it may seem like overkill. But when vampires stalked the land, it was better to be safe than sorry. http://www.praguepost.cz/feat032900a.html # Bounty on Indian Scalps to Be Reconsidered. HALIFAX (Reuters) Canada will consider striking down a 244-year-old provincial law that offers hunters a bounty for Indian scalps, following complaints by native groups. Bounty on Realtors remains: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000330/09/odd-indians : Have you killed any non/sub/super-humans lately? Would you prefer extinct- ion for vampires, Indians, bears, aliens, cockroaches, atheists, skaters? Do you have a strategy for escaping extinction? Is anyone hunting you? Why not? # Escaped German Polar Bears Killed: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9608461 # Earth Needs 10 Million Years To Recover From A Mass Extinction - in your case, maybe longer: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000329080536.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Nun Held in Probe of Fellow Nun's Murder. BOGOTA (Reuters) Police detained a Colombian nun on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a fellow nun whose burned mutilated body was found dumped on a highway outside Bogota late last year. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000330/09/odd-nun @ The Atheism Web: http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/orgs.html # Silence, Celibacy Before Death: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9608465 # 'Summer Time' Ruins Sex: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000330/09/odd-time # Fanatical Cult - Silent Death: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9608340 @ 'Dear Police Officer...' I don't want to kill you. I don't even want to wound you. But I must. http://www.sightings.com/general/dearpolice.htm : Has your (non)belief system driven you to kill/kiss/klone anybody lately? Do you worship death and call it life, and/or vice-versa, and/or something else entirely? Is your life enhanced/diminished/empowered by (non)beliefs? # Hippys Rule: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_695000/695976.stm @ We Owe All To Hippies: http://members.aye.net/~hippie/hippie/special_.htm @ Grateful Dead Lyric Finder: http://www3.clearlight.com/~acsa/intro.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Locust Forced To Watch Star Wars (Press Assn) A locust has been made to watch battle scenes from the movie Star Wars to help scientists from Newcastle University develop a new collision avoidance system for cars. www.excite.co.uk/news/news_story/technology/pa_tech_2329203000_2.txt # BUGS BEHIND THE WHEEL: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223238.html # Rover, Over and Over: Here Comes Pet Cloning - Genetic Savings Clone will preserve your pet's DNA for the day when it can be used to make a copy. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2000/nf00329c.htm : Are there limits to what is acceptable in biotech research? Have you tor- tured any bugs lately - physically/mentally/spiritually? Have you enhanced/ diminished any animals/plants/people/aliens/ideas? Are you driven by demons? # EU To Speed Clone Patents: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9608935 # US To Overhaul Net Patents: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9609107 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Australia now a 'GM laboratory.' CANBERRA - Australia has become an inter- national laboratory for the development of genetically modified food crops a British farming expert warned yesterday. Enhanced wallabies shouted him down, spat: http://www.theage.com.au/news/2331/A40298-2000Mar30.html @ Who has saved more human lives than anyone else in history? Despite his Nobel Peace Prize, you may never have heard of Norman Borlaug. Try GREEN REVOLUTION then: http://www.reason.com/0004/fe.rb.billions.html : Should humanity be fed? Why? How? Will food shortages, environmental degr- adation, lack of quality-of-life, be sufficient motivation for humanity to leave Earth and conquer the universe? Can humanity meet the challenge? How? # FORMIDABLE FROTH - The GM beer that
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000316b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 crusading porn tsars were sexually abused to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Elder Gods: http://www.sightings.com/splashscreens/elder.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Basis for power beads much older than recent trend (U-WIRE) WACO, Texas -- Though just a recent trend for some, the popular power beads hold deeper meaning for others. Power beads are elastic beaded bracelets that come in various colors and are usually worn by females. . "I wasn't feeling very confident the day of my calculus test, so I wore my amethyst bracelet for brain power and intelligence. Now I believe the bracelets work because I ended up doing really well." http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000315/odd-70 : Do you channel power through rocks? Do you use tiny/little/medium/big/huge crystals/pebbles/meteorites? Do your rocks move you further/same/closer to material gain, personal satisfaction, good sex, eternal salvation? Would you kill for rocks? Would rocks kill for you? D'ya have many rocks in your head? # Hajj pilgrims told: Westward, NO!. (BBC) Muslim pilgrims performing the Hajj have been urged to shun Western traditions and materialism. Learn to be happy with superstition, poverty, dictators. And kill the Jews too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_679000/679624.stm @ Hajj Information: http://www.mecjv.com/hajj3.htm @ Hajj Information Centre: http://islam.org/islamicity/hajj/ @ Saudi Arabia Information Resource: http://www.saudinf.com/main/start.htm : Note: the holiest ritual in Islam revolves around a giant meteorite that was worshipped in pre-Muslim times - nothing like absorbing paganism, eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Utah has America's 1st 'porn czar' - Law coming to 'codify our highest moral aspirations' - http://www.asahi.com/english/nyt/0316/nyt031605.html # Libraries allow Internet sex crimes? Tons of online porn - burn all books: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_dougherty/2316_xnjdo_libraries_.shtml @ Hot Vintage Robot Porn: http://www.iamlost.com/features/robotporn/ # Roman Catholic priest will help ordain his son - mom was a nun: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564988078-9e0 # Slow Gals: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000315/16/women-vs-men : Does your life/religion/culture revolve around sex? Can you be religious without sex? Can you be sexy without religion? Does your belief system make predictions? Does it tell you if you'll "get lucky?" Does it send ex-clerics /robots/images/athletes to you for sex/salvation/salivation? Are they hot? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pol Turns to Gypsy Fortune Teller. MOSCOW (Reuters) Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, his poll ratings stuck in the cellar, turned to a Gypsy fortune teller for good news on his campaign for the March 26 presi- dential election. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000316/12/odd-zhirinovsky # Grumpy atheists fight back - TAKE YOUR GOD AND SHOVE IT! www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_ronthal/2316_xcint_grumpy_ath.shtml # AND THE WINNER IS... 'Christian Oscars' presented in Hollywood [yawn] http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/2316_xex_and_winner_.shtml # Fine for torching 'gay-pride' flag - GOD MADE ME DO IT! GOD WON! http://www.dispatch.com/news/newsfea00/mar00/207358.html : What's y'r favorite paranormal/religious/political/cultural/sexual belief? Are most Gypsy fortune-tellers more entertaining/honest than Xian cinema? Do your deities tell you what to do/think/feel? Are your deities grumpy? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Young stars in cosmic dance. (BBC) A trio of newborn stars, 1,400 light- years distant, are engaged in a complex dance revealed by Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Two are now closely embracing, while the third has been thrown from their company. Stellar deities do a menage-a-trois: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_679000/679903.stm # SCIENTISTS MAP 'DARK MATTER' - US Navy seeks to have map classified: http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/2310/space_darkmatter.html # INTERESTING STRUCTURAL FEATURES ON EROS ASTEROID - skull face seen: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/0003/08nearfeatures/index.html # IMPACT EVENTS SHAPED RISE OF CIVILIZATION - devastated early cultures: http://www.spacer.com/spacecast/news/deepimpact-00a.html : Have you consorted with many stellar deities lately?Are they hot? Do their thrashings threaten to upset/crush your stellar/planetary/social system? Can you make them slow down? Have you thrown any asteroids at them? Did it work? # YUKON
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000309b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to notices, excuses, overflow, links: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No Bilderbergers were assassinated during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Alternative Medicine: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/arts/altmed.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DNA CHIPS to reveal innermost secrets - Nowhere to hide. WILL "DNA chips" that reveal your genetic makeup within minutes prove to be awesome medical tools or the means of genetic discrimination? We may find out soon. A UK biotech firm has filed for a patent on a device that can detect variants of over 2500 genes--including genes that affect behaviour intelligence. See http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns222927 @ More at: http://www.derwent.com/resource/interest.html and http://www.newscientistjobs.com/real/frame_real_lives.html # Identity Theft Thrives in Cyberspace - Names, Numbers Easy to Find Online: http://apbnews.com/newscenter/internetcrime/2000/03/08/idtheft0308_01.html # Anon E-mail Pumps Protest - Petrol Boycott a Prank or Consumer Movement? http://apbnews.com/safetycenter/business/2000/03/08/gasprotest0308_01.html # Censorware Exposed Again - most 'filtered' sites are listed erroneously: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34842,00.html?tw=wn2309 : Do you have anything to hide? Where can you hide it? Who can you hide it from? Can it be hidden from you? Can you hide from it? Can you/it/anyone be found by anyone with enough resources? Can/must/will you leave the planet?? # Janet Reno would curb press freedom on line. Constitutional protections of the press are getting in the way of cyber-crime prosecutions and may have to be reconsidered, a White House committee chaired by US Attorney General Janet Reno believes. Yow. http://www.theregister.co.uk/000309-11.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Bilderberg Group http://www.bilderberg.org/ is an organisation of 120 businessmen politicians which meets once per year to obtain a global consensus on the issues of the day and the future of the world. This year they meet somewhere in Switzerland. The group was founded 44 years ago by the Nazi sympathiser, King Bernhard of the Netherlands, with the express vision of a single global government. That much is real. Any connection to the http://vvv.gh.wh.uni-dortmund.de/illuminati/Illuminati-Quotes.txt Bavarian Illuminati, or http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/masindx.htm Freemasonry, or the Wise Men of Zion, or Grey aliens are, of course, com- pletely false. See more at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Conspiracy/ # Inflation rate 'doctored'? Slick figuring may have kept soaring gas from consumer price index: http://www.nypostonline.com/business/25545.htm # Gas prices fuel drilling, tax debates: http://msnbc.com/news/379901.asp # Oil prices dive - 9% drop on markets steepest plunge in nearly a decade: www.marketwatch.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=ComxEudict2LSuhjPy2vZFQ : Does your conspiracy control all politics/economics/religion/culture/power on Earth? Will it soon? Once you've achieved total global domination, will your fellow-conspirators stab you in the back? Will you do them first? Yea? # Econ Bubble Bursts in 2002. (Wired) A top economic forecaster says the Fed has already sown the seeds of a pending recession. The day of reckoning is in 2002. RUN! RUN! http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34859,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BELL'S SUPERSTORM' TO BE MINISERIES? TURNER Broadcasting is closing a deal to turn spooky radio man Art Bell's best-selling book about a looming weather crisis, "The Coming Global Superstorm," into a miniseries. "Super- storm," which Bell co-wrote with UFO expert Whitley Strieber, warns that global warming will have potentially catastrophic effects -- plunging the world into a cataclysmic ice age that will wipe out life as we know it. Is that so bad? http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/1267.htm # ART BELL'S SPOOKY BOOK: HOW TO SURVIVE END OF THE WORLD - but just why would you want to? To do what? http://208.248.87.252/043099/7050.htm # Experts At A Loss To Explain Winter's Weather - divine/demonic ploy? http://earthchangestv.com/breaking/March2000/0308experts.htm # 'Chemtrail Plane' Mystery Solved - A Navy TACAMO Plane... Not A 135: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/chemrl.htm : Have you survived any universal/cosmic/global/local disasters lately? Why do we blame bad things on bad stars [dis=bad aster=star]?? Have stars done anything bad to you lately? D'ya like wind/fire/star/shit-storms? Why not? # Scientists 'look through' the Sun. (BBC) A new technique allows scientists to 'look through' the Sun at dangerously active regions on its
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000302b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to notices, excuses, overflow, links: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No grim cyborg spies were cloned during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Doughboy Hell: http://www.planetnamek.com/doughboy.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Bringing the mammoth back to life. The Jarkov mammoth died a little over 20,000 years ago. Now it lies at the side of a Siberian runway and 25 scientists plan to thaw it with hair dryers in an ice cave near by. It is an almost perfect specimen which they believe can be cloned. www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/03/02/timfeafea02001.html?999 : Would you rather clone extinct primates/mammals/reptiles/birds/fish/bugs/ deities/aliens/me? If everything is cloned, where will we put'em all? Will mass cloning be the impetus needed to push humans off Earth into the galaxy? @ Christians For The Cloning Of Jesus - use DNA samples from the Shroud of Turin. ALIVE!! http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8611/page2.htm @ Spinning Religious Symbols http://theeunderground.net/wsm/religion.shtml will tirelessly ward off evil and spice up your web page, too. And inject yourself with True Faith over at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Religion/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Jupiter's Moon Europa May Be Inhabited. Russian astrophysicist Boris Rodionov claims to have proof of the existence of "a highly developed extraterrestrial civilization on one of the 16 moons of Jupiter. The astrophysicist also claims the UFO phenomenon could well be "Outriders for this civilization." Zowie!! http://www.caus.org/pn030100.htm : Have you seen any signs of civilization on/off Earth lately? D'ya prefer civilization to be (non)human, (sub)genius, (meta)divine, (non)organic, odd? Are you civilized but odd? Are you from another dimension? Were'ya expelled? # NIDS Reply To Philip Klass' Claims Illinois Officers Saw Planet Venus - There are no UFOs. Naw. http://www.sightings.com/politics6/klass.htm # Mini-Jet From Another Dimension: http://www.caus.org/pc030100.htm # Mysterious Floating Cone-Shaped Item Grabbed By MIB? And they got away with it? Who let them? http://www.sightings.com/politics6/mysty.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Biowarfare Sensors Planned for Games. SANTA FE. The same air that Olympics fans breathe in two years will be sniffed constantly for a silent assault of germs or chemical agents. Computers will alert cops if one of roughly 50 devices picks up a dramatic increase in air particulates. Scientists expect to run more than 30 genetic and chemical tests every hour on air filters installed at every sports venue, the Olympic Village and downtown Salt Lake City. Gasp! http://www.abqjournal.com/news/14news02-29-00.htm : What's your favorite surveillance technology? Would you rather surveill air, water, land, forests, cells, minds, machines, genitalia, circuits, the (un)dead, alien civilizations, me? Should sensors contain human genes? How? # Forest Watch eyes nations, loggers. (MsNBC) Digital tools are used to map whats happening around world: http://www.msnbc.com/news/375953.asp # Plants produce human protein - tobacco is now your second cousin, bubba; see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_661000/661297.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hacker plan: take down the Net. (MsNBC) Associates tell feds Coolio started last months Web attacks; teens New England home searched, computers confiscated. http://www.msnbc.com/news/376129.asp # Hack Averts Amazon Referrals. Not happy with Amazon getting a patent on its affiliate referral technology? Subvert them and add your own favorite affiliate. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34687,00.html # Infamous hacker sought for advice - Mitnick spills guts to US Senate: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564689562-931 : What entities do you most want to hack/crack/jam? Have you jammed reality lately? Is social consciousness hard to crack? Is security a myth? Is static existence synonymous with death? Is only chaos alive? Have you named it yet? # New domains would push social agendas. (MsNBC) A Ralph Nader-backed consumer group is proposing the creation of several new Internet domain names intended to facilitate free speech, criticism and unionization. The new domain names being proposed include .sucks for lodging formal protests and complaints at specific entities, and .unions to promote organizing. www.msnbc.sucks eh? http://www.msnbc.com/news/376819.asp _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Emotion-packed robots are on their way! Who wouldn't like a car that has the intelligence of a horse and will take you safely home when you are drunk? Or a travel agent who
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000224b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to announcements, disclaimers, quirks: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ She-Pirate: http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/benji_moon/she.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pokemon-Induced Seizures Caused By Abnormal Brain Response. (Reuters) -- Italian scientists have figured out how an episode of the TV cartoon Pokemon may have caused epileptic seizures in 685 Japanese children in 1997. The problem was caused by an abnormal brain response in these children to flashing lights featured in the cartoon, signaling a brain disorder known as photosensitive epilepsy. It could just as easily been REN STIMPY: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2222/hl/cha_49.html : Has your brain malfunctioned from inappropriate visual stimuli lately? Do your alien implants protect you from seizures; prevent you from knowing that you convulsed; take you to a transcendent realm where brains don't matter?? Is modern life too complex? Should TV/video/cinema/radio/humanity be banned? # Seeking simplicity: Groups ponder ways to uncomplicate lives: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150014550,00.html # Seeking simplicity: For some, the simple life is tied to faith: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150014552,00.html # Monkeys stone cattle herder to death in Kenya - a new jihad? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564549195-111 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Churchman jailed for beheading son's lover. (BBC) A former church steward has been jailed for life for beheading his son's ex-lover after discover- ing their secret affair. Chatted with God to arrange the murder - God not charged: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_655000/655294.stm # Man had sex with cow: http://www.rivertowns.net/daily/hso/c991112/ $ Get 3 condoms for free: http://www.drdrew.com/promos/condom/index.html # NASA: no zero-gravity sex: www.foxnews.com/science/022300/space_trysts.sml http://www.megastar.co.uk/site/today/news/latest/2223n_astronauty.html @ Egyptian Love Poetry: www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2000egypt-love.html : Do you have issues/problems/anxieties with your deities about sex? Do your deities counsel you on sex/violence/manners? Do they talk straight to you? Do they ever lie to you? Do you take them to account? Do they punish you? # Environmentalists protest at Vatican - Jehovah strikes them dead: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564549175-f04 # Israelites sue God for breach of covenant - 117 specific instances cited: http://www.theonion.com/onion3606/israelites_sue.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Human Cell Immortality Switch Found - The End Of Death? BOSTON (ABC) - No one can live forever. Or can they? Scientists have found a way to create human embryonic stem cells in a lab. The stem cells, which can form every kind of human tissue, normally exist only for a few days at the beginning of life. "As a human race we may see our final frontier as conquering death itself." http://www.sightings.com/politics6/immort.htm # Bird brains offer stem cells hope. (BBC) Scientists may have activated repair mechanisms in bird brains - someday it may help humans. Immortal! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_655000/655194.stm # Also - Lab grows frog eyes - ophthalmologists, LASIK surgeons frantic: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_591000/591696.stm # Stem cells top class of 1999 - intestinal flora wear dunces' caps: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_567000/567882.stm : Are you ready for immortality? Will it ruin your retirement plans? Do you want to live forever? Will you get bored? Will you open an Ethical Suicide Parlor to capitalize on other elders' boredom, ennui, poverty? How soon?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CIA Whistle-Blower Launches Cuba Internet Service. HAVANA (Reuters) - Former CIA whistle-blower Philip Agee, whose crusade to expose agents made him a hero of the left in the 1970s but won him many enemies in Washing- ton, has launched a new Web site in Havana promoting tourism to communist- run Cuba. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2224/wr/usa_agee_4.html # Former Che-hunting Bolivia minister killed by his own bomb: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564538064-24d : Does y'r conspiracy work for/against Castro? When you take control of Cuba will you use it as a tobacco/cannabis/opium plantation; vast brothel; source of ET-implant recipients; test-bed for social-control programs/technologies? # Face-recognition technology raises fears of Big Brother. Your face is on its way to becoming your "fingerprint" - for accessing ATM
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000217b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 rock musicians evolved very much during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ChangeSurfer: http://www.changesurfer.com/eventhorizon/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Egyptians Find Tomb of Ancient God Osiris. GIZA, Egypt (Reuters) Sinking water levels have revealed a granite sarcophagus of the ancient Egyptian god Osiris in a 30-meter (98 feet) deep tomb at the Giza pyramids. And He's well-preserved: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000217/08/odd-osiris # Bible-Era Boat Exhibited: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9378485 # Pericles' Soldiers Found? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9390539 : Have the graves/bodies/tombstones of any of your deities been discovered lately? If not, do you just claim that they've "gone to heaven" and shrug off the lack of evidence? Is a corpus delecti more believable than a myth? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Evolution on Speed. (Wired) NEW YORK. Investors are paying close attention to a new crop of biotechnology companies that focus on gene shuffling. Sometimes called "directed evolution," scientists speed the evolutionary process by rapidly shuffling and mutating the genes that make up a protein to create an effective drug. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9389018 # Striving to Build Smarter Games: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9390889 # From Sole to Rock Bass, Fish Are Key to Music Joy. LONDON (Reuters) Loud music and singing at the top of your voice may be such fun because of a hearing mechanism we have inherited from our distant ancestors: fish. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000217/05/science-science-noise : Are you more highly-evolved than fish, rock musicians, investors, game designers? Would you like to direct the evolution of your hearing, sight, other senses? What's your favorite sense? Would you like some new senses? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FEDERAL JUDGE AGREES WITH UFO GROUP AND FINDS GOVERNMENT'S AFFIDAVITS INADEQUATE. In a decision that is certain to put a frown on the faces of several officials within the Department of Defense, a United States District Court Judge in Phoenix AZ has agreed with a UFO activist group and ordered the Department of Defense to provide additional affidavits, detailing the specifics of its search: http://www.caus.org/pn021600b.htm @ Phoenix Lights Event Analysis: http://www.caus.org/mu021700.htm # A Copernican Conspiracy? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9378228 : Has your sect/govt/firm successfully covered-up its activities lately? Is your effort wearing thin? Are your mind-control rays wearing off? D'ya need new batteries for your transmitters? Do battery-makers plot against you?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sun Hurls Magnetic Storm at Earth. Sol poured a gigantic bucket of charged particles on the Earth over the weekend, creating a powerful geomagnetic storm that made some lights flicker and extended the aurora borealis down to New England. The latest geomagnetic storm appears to be part of the ramping up toward the suns maximum activity in its 11-year flare cycle. We're doomed: http://discovery.com/news/briefs/2217/space_flare.html # Space Station Set to Orbit As Hotel for Rich? LONDON (Reuters) It would be the ultimate tourist destination the Russian Mir space station decked out as a luxurious resort orbiting 125 miles from earth. Vacationers seek free-fall sex, good tans: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000217/08/odd-mir : Should rich tourists be quick-broiled by solar storms? Would they get some really good tans while having free-fall sex during solar storms? Would you like to try free-fall sex? Would you mind being broiled? Can you afford it? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Church ponders case of 'devil' in priest's clothing. CAPETOWN, S.A. THE fate of a homosexual clergyman who posed as a devil in priest's clothing is to be decided by church officials. The Dean of St George's Cathedral, Very Rev Rowan Smith, a prominent campaigner for homosexual causes, was "sternly rebuked" by Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane for "a serious error of judgment" after he posed in priestly robes before an altar - wearing a devil's tail. http://www.suntimes.co.za/2000/02/13/news/news24.htm # The photo: http://www.suntimes.co.za/2000/02/13/news/3-p13prist.jpg : Is your belief system infested with devils? Do you fear them, feed them, glory in them, have sex with them? Are you yourself a devil? Are you loved, honored, obeyed? Do people dress up like you? Do you provide the clothing?? @ The Holy War: http://www.bibleclass.com/lib/holywar.htm @ The Book of Martyrs: http://ccel.wheaton.edu/f/foxe/martyrs/ @
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000210b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 unusual brain activity occurred during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # RoboApe: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/japan/robot/2210/tok204 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Robots Eavesdrop On Cellular Discussions. Using robots to monitor the goings-on of thousands of individual baker's yeast cells growing on a small plastic grid, scientists have accomplished a biological milestone in determining which molecules in a cell "talk" to others by making physical contact. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000210071438.htm # World robot trade booming, UN reports. GENEVA (Reuters) - World-wide orders for industrial robots surged by 20% last year. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000207/11/trade-robots : Do robots evesdrop on your personal/corporate/military/cellular communica- tions? Does this worry you? Would you rather be spied on by robots, humans, aliens, me? Have you been replaced by robots yet? Are they more efficient?? @ Low-fat computing http://ultratechnology.com/lowfat.htm is a heretical approach to the integrated design http://ultratechnology.com/ of hard/ software systems, based on the Forth http://www.forth.org/fig.html philosophy of http://ultratechnology.com/cowboys.html#cm Chuck Moore and http://ultratechnology.com/jefffox.htm Jeff Fox. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ANALYSIS OF STS-48 VIDEO. On 15 Sept 1991, live video of multiple objects moving in unusual trajectories was filmed by cameras aboard Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-48). NASA sez: ice crystals. Detailed computer analysis shows a number of intelligently controlled craft a weapon based on the surface of Earth firing upon one of these craft. This other video from various NASA missions provide proof that non-man-made objects are in our skies space. Another piece in this huge jigsaw puzzle falls into place. Our govt possesses many more pieces of this puzzle, maybe enough to solve the mysteries make the picture clear, but like a petulant child, it keeps this info for itself. Why? CAUS!! http://www.psrw.com/~markc/sts48/ # Story Musgrave Heard 'Noble, Magnificent Music' In Space: not your typical laconic US astronaut. www.smh.com.au:80/news/0002/08/text/national5.html : Have you fired at any UFOs lately? Were you filmed? Which govts are hiding the images? Are you in secret contact with ETs? Do they treat you well? How? # Fireballs, Meteors, UFOs? TEAMS HUNT FOR SUSPECTED UFO IN NO. ARGENTINA - MYSTERY METEOR LIGHTS UP WEST. AUSTRALIA http://www.caus.org/mu021000.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Droughts Worse Than The 1930's Likely In 21st Century. Dramatic research suggests that the world's supply of fresh water could plummet causing drought-induced famine, political unrest large-scale migration world- wide. The research proves for the first time that extreme fluctuations in the earth's water-resources during the last millennium occurred naturally in Eastern Africa. Mounting scientific evidence now suggests that large changes in climatic conditions have occurred across the globe over the last millennium and could reoccur independent of human-induced global- warming. Gulp. http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/quen-dwt020900.html # Researchers Find Evidence Of 16th Century Epic Drought Over North America: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/drought.htm : Are you ready for massive climate changes? Are the upcoming changes driven by random factors, human heat-generation, alien intervention, deities/demons or what? Do aliens/deities/spies manipulate weather on other planets too?? # Massive Jovian Storms Resemble Earth's But Powered By The Planet Itself, Not The Sun: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000209215812.htm # And see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_636000/636483.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Brain Activity Is Visibly Altered After Sleep Deprivation. The ability of the brain to function following sleep deprivation varies with the task at hand, and in some cases the brain attempts to compensate for the adverse effects: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000209215957.htm # Turning Sound Into Touch To Aid The Blind. Blind people can be helped to navigate with an invention based on echolocation of bats. The Spatial Imager emits ultra sound in exactly the same way as bats do to maneuver around obstacles in the dark. http://unisci.com/stories/20001/0210006.htm : Does your brain work well at locating you in time/space? Does it adjust to adverse conditions? Have you adapted to sleeplessness, blindness, infection, conservatism, faith? Is your belief system a
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #2
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000203b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 humans metamorphosed into robots during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Alien Alley: http://www.alienalley.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Weird Ape Fouls Planet: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/73.html # Americans may not be the brightest bulbs to ever walk the earth, nor the most tasteful nor literate, says Jeremy Lott. But they *are* the fattest: http://www.americanpartisan.com/cols/lott/012200.htm [burp] # The End of the Brain: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/52.html @ THE SINGULARITY - Within 25 years, we'll have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly thereafter, the human era will end. http://www.alamut.com/subj/evolution/progress/vinge_singularity.html : D'ya prefer to be fat in body, mind, soul? What's your favorite gluttony? Will you become a blob, a hive-brain [possibly Borg], an angel, an ant? Can these be differentiated? Do future prospects for humanity worry you? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CIA chief testifies in Deutch probe. WASHINGTON (AP) CIA Director George Tenet sez there is no evidence that classified material improperly kept on former director John Deutch's home computer fell into the wrong hands via the Net. But "We cannot exclude that possibility. He was sloppy in what he did." http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563832366-94f # Too Dumb to Snoop -- So Far. (Wired) Major record labels could be some of the most powerful privacy violators on the Web, if they weren't so inept. Corporate clowns: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,34015,00.html $ Purchase (discounted) brains: http://www.brains4zombies.com/ : Have you purposefully/accidentally leaked any national/personal/commercial secrets lately? Are you sloppy, inept, preoccupied, spaced-out? Are ET alien implants interfering with your concentration, job-performance, sex-life? Eh? @ For people without enough time to watch cartoons, there's Reduced Anime. http://www.asu.edu/studentprgms/orgs/them/Anime/Reduced/ Next: The Rush Limbaugh http://rush.digitalchainsaw.com/theatre.htm Excellence in Babbling Audio Theatre. Both via http://www.memepool.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # You can't clone everything - Some animals may be genetically "unclonable" - http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2224191 # It's a minefield - The battle over genetically modified organisms has only just begun: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2224192 @ Self-Replicating Molecules and the Meaning of Life: http://www.aracnet.com/~atheism/crt/ghadiri.htm : Have you cloned anything unusual lately? Are you self-replicating? Are you copy-protected? Should all life be copy-protected? Who'd collect royalties? # Leave the Yeti alone! Chinese government cites environmental concerns; $60,000 award left unrewarded. The Chinese government has put an end to hunts for the Yeti, the Asian version of the Abominable Snowman: http://www.salon.com/travel/planet/2000/02/01/yeti/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # German Green leader may be charged. FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Prosecutors want to lift the legal immunity of Greens leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who could face charges for aiding a terrorist linked to Carlos the Jackal. Cohn-Bendit, known as Danny the Red since his days as a leader of a 1968 Paris student revolt, has immunity from prosecution as a Euro Parliament member. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563823492-6a5 : Have you aided any terrorists lately? Are you a terrorist? What conspiracy pays y'r bills? What real cause is your terrorism meant to distract us from? @ THE SECRET DOCTRINES OF THE ASSASSINS: http://www.alamut.com/subj/ideologies/alamut/secDoctrines.html @ The Assassins: http://alamut.com/subj/ideologies/alamut/bey_Ass.html # Kosovo parallel gov't dissolved - thrown into vat of sulfuric acid: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563827489-601 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Letting Silicon-Chip Implants Do the Talking. Over in England, a nutty prof plans to hook his central nervous system to his computer. He thinks it might improve his sex life and maybe even save mankind from becoming slaves to machines. He's touting his scheme in an essay called "I, Robot" the cover story in this month's Wired, a mag that can be trusted to go gaga over any cockamamie utopian idea, as long as it involves computers. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-02/01/068l-020100-idx.html : D'ya think the writer of the above blurb is envious because he's not part of the future? Is he exhibiting Silicon Envy? Should he see a
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #2
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000127b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 metalogicians were sacrificed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Busted! http://www.completelybaked.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Astronomers are finding that the universe may be expanding faster than previously thought. http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ep/kstanek0100.html # Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new cosmic signal that should lead to a better understanding about the creation of stars in the early universe. http://www.uclanews.ucla.edu/Docs/SWHL005.html # The discovery that the ages of three globular clusters in a nearby galaxy are very different has implications for theories of galaxy evolution. http://washington.edu/newsroom/news/2000archive/01-00archive/k011200.html : Has your planet/star/galaxy/universe evolved much lately? Have you watched this evolution? Have you theorized about it? Have you changed your theories? Do you prefer theories that change, or dogmas that don't? Are you satisfied? @ NASA currently have two large scientific balloons flying simultaneously over Antarctica. One studies the Sun, the other looks at Earth's aurora. You can keep track of the flights through the NSBF web site by going to http://192.149.107.80/default.html and clicking on "Operations," then "Antarctica Operations," then whichever flight track you wish to view first. Fun! -- Via http://www.caus.org/pn012700.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Bible Belt-based sex-toy party firm is a hit. Mary Alice Hill is one of many women who sell vibrators porno chocolates to friends at home fests. "I don't like to go to Tupperware parties," says Hill, 46. "But this -- I think this had my name written all over it." Some 400 women now belong to the Tennessee-based Surprise Parties network of sex-toy distributors: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-01/27/076r-012700-idx.html via http://www.obscurestore.com/ : Does your belief system promote sexual devices? Whats your favorite sexual device? Is it holy? Does your belief system exploit sexual symbols? Are your deities sensual, erotic, horny as hamsters? D'ya worship hamsters? Why not? @ Via http://memepool.com/Subject/Wearables/: Nothing is quite as sensual as clothing lingerie http://bubblebodywear.com/ made from Bubble Wrap. http://www.sealedaircorp.com/products/protective/bubble/bubblead.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sikhs rebel over excommunication. NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Four top Sikh priests challenged the authority of their powerful leader, rejecting his decision to excommunicate a woman who controlled religious institutions. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563657612-172 # Detained Falun Gongers die. HONG KONG (AP) - A member of the Falun Gong sect has died in Chinese custody in the southern city of Guangzhou while on hunger strike after being severely beaten tied up by police. Another Falun Gong believer died while in custody in a police station in suburban Beijing. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563650305-e4d : Have you excommunicated, imprisoned, beaten, or executed many religious dissidents lately? Is it a dirty job but someone's got to do it? Is your cabal better/stronger/holier/meaner than theirs? Who d'ya like to oppress? # God's Army rebels shot after surrendering to Thai troops. So it goes: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563647453-1b8 # Also: Rebel Myanmar hospital takeover a failure, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563655045-d30 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Gene identified in spinal cord injuries. (AP) Scientists have identified a gene that prevents the brain spinal cord from rewiring themselves after an injury, pointing the way to new treatments that might someday help paralyzed "Superman" star Christopher Reeve 250,000 Americans like him. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563657990-7bb : What nerves would you like to have rewired? Should all your nerves be re-wired, just to improve your neural efficiency? Are you lagging in the neuron race? Would'ya like some extra neurons? What'll you hook them to? What else? @ WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT IRIDOLOGY? Iridology - the premise that you can diagnose systemic disease by looking in someone's iris - is totally bogus. It's a ludicrous premise, and when put to the test, failed miserably. And? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=26298 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Program for Extraordinary Experience Research. PEER explores experiences that do not fit our usual understanding of reality. Recognizing the social barriers to
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #2
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000120b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 sounds smelled too vividly smooth during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Randomized News: http://my.buttcheek.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Synesthesia - A Magical Melding Of The Senses. NEW YORK - The letter "A" is a pale shade of yellow. Hearing a French horn smells like cinnamon. And eating a hamburger feels like somebody's jabbing your big toe. People with a somewhat magical condition called synesthesia do not experience reality in the same way as most of us; the rigid wall between the five senses is lowered, or demolished completely. By virtue of a uniquely wired brain, they are able to feel smells, hear tastes and see music, among other combinations. http://foxnews.com/health/011700/synesthesia.sml : Do you experience the world in a unique manner? Is your brain wired oddly? Is this caused by evolution, ET implants, divine touch, drugs, mind-control rays, interdimensional warps/rifts, magic, parasites? Are you empowered?? @ Alex Chiu's http://www.alexchiu.com/ Eternal Life device is "the most important invention in human history." And it's yours for a low low price http://www.alexchiu.com/eternallife/alexchiu.htm of $16.50! @ Henry Flynt http://www.butterfly.net/henryflynt/ may not be insane, but his writings could drive YOU insane. Arm yourself with his refutations of language, mathematics, and personhood and win any argument, instantly! And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mystery Iceballs Claim First Victim in Spain. MADRID (Reuters) An elderly Spanish woman has claimed she was hit by a falling iceball, apparently the first victim of a phenomenon that has been puzzling scientists for days. Attacked: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000120/10/science-spain-iceballs @ SAUCER ATTACKED ME, PILOT DECLARES. Within minutes after his hair-raising experience, I talked to a veteran Air Force pilot who excitedly reported that his F-51 fighter plane was attacked repeatedly by a flying saucer. The incident, never before revealed to the public, occurred at 8000 feet over Augusta, Ga., on a warm, sunny, clear day. The pilot's own startling story is in the files in Washington. http://www.caus.org/mu012000.htm : Have you ever been attacked by a flying saucer? Have you ever attacked a flying saucer? Is vengeance mandatory? Are attacks justified? Should media cover the attacks, the reprisals, or does this only promote more violence? # Major Media UFO Breakthrough Continues: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/nation/433097 # Photo and Drawings of "Starfield Camouflage UFO" http://home.fuse.net/ufo/missouri99.html # INVESTIGATION OF SEPTEMBER FLORIDA SIGHTINGS: http://www.caus.org/mu012000b.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Is An Asteroid About To Land On Our Head? So far, major earth impacts have occurred only in the most sparsely populated parts of the globe. This may account for our underestimation of their frequency, sez British astronomer Dr Mark Bailey. Last century's South American impacts, coupled with the Tunguska event, mean largescale extraterrestrial invaders could be up to 10 times more common than previously thought. "The earth may be subject to three or four such events a century," warns Bailey. Despite the relatively small probability of catastrophic earth impact, the issue is important enough to warrant near-earth object monitoring by astronomical observa- tories worldwide. http://www.suntimes.co.za:80/2000/01/16/insight/in10.htm : Do astronomical objects pick on you? Are you tired of taking this abuse? Have you formed a vigilante group? Are you ready to strike back? At what?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Columbine moviemakers busted on gun charges. The amateur filmmakers prod- uced "Duck: The Carbine Massacre," which showed the two auteurs walking on school property with shotguns. A Denver TV station ordered the movie and called cops after seeing the weapons. The station says the suspects have made other violent movies and are members of an underground group that trades blood-and-gore films. http://denverpost.com/news/shot0120.htm # Bailed out: http://www.bergenrecord.com/news/ringwoodj21205.htm : Have you made any documentary films about school violence? Do you re-enact the violence? Do you use many weapons? What govt agencies are involved? Are you training students for more violence? Is this a form of mind-control? Eh? # Man's tired of elephants stomping in his yard: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/432304 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Muslims ransack Indonesian island. Mobs have trashed and
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #2
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000113b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Martian immigrants were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Sexy Grammar: http://adult.dencity.com/thamiris/grammar.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists Cut Estimates Of Near Earth Asteroid Danger. LONDON (Reuters) The number of asteroids capable of colliding with the Earth and causing massive devastation is only about half of previous estimates, US scien- tists said. http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/01/12/space.asteroids.reut/ And see http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000113/01/killer-asteroids : Do you breathe a big sigh of relief? Is humanity safe now? From what? Do aliens prefer to 'sanitize' infected planets with asteroids, plagues, novae? # UFOs: How To Become A 'Terrorist' http://sightings.com/ufo6/terrorist.htm # Forbidden UFO Disclosure: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/forbidden.htm # USAF UFO Directive 10-20 pt. 2: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/stone2.htm @ UFO Experiencer Runs For US Presidency: http://www.harder2000.com @ Grafitti Artist Abducted by UFOs: http://www.basquiat.net/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Organic brew in space found. ATLANTA (AP) A primordial soup of complex organic chemicals that could be the precursors of life is cooked up very quickly after the birth of stars, new research suggests. "Life could have had an easier time starting than we thought before." A study by the Infra- red Space Observatory showed that large organic molecules evolve within only a few thousand years from chemicals in the cloud-like envelope surr- ounding some stars. The finding is based on the infrared spectra readings of short-lived, carbon-rich stars that are engulfed in clouds of gas and dust, rich in some of the most advanced organic molecules ever detected in outer space. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563226776-8c0 : How quickly did your life evolve? Did deities/alien/robots give evolution a kick-start, or were you just lucky? Is life everywhere? Is it intelligent? # Are We Really Martians? ATLANTA (AP) Microbe-bearing rocks could have been ejected from Mars and seeded the Earth with life billions of years ago, or the exchange could have gone the other way, a study says. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000113/01/life-out-there http://news.excite.com/news/r/000112/15/science-space-mars _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # It's the End of TV As We Know It.(Wired) Television is redefined as broad- casters, electronics manufacturers, and Net companies unite to provide comprehensive media services. Kill your television before it kills you. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33503,00.html?tw=wn2107 # Meet George Jetson's House. (Wired) The home of the future, where appliances talk amongst themselves isn't so far out anymore. People will become just another passive part of the system. Robots run amok: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33497,00.html?tw=wn2107 : Are ya already just another passive component of your life-support system? Are you watched over by robots of loving care? Are you necessary, redundant? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION, PART II: In a deal unrelated to the Time Warner merger, AOL announces a "strategic alliance" with PBS in which the public television system will become a "premiere content provider" for AOL and the internet provider will receive an on-air "branding presence." Not so non-commercial: http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/pd/e13fera.ssf # Feds Favor M'Soft Breakup: http://usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cth129.htm # 3 MS Chunks: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563230880-d85 : Is the world more likely to be taken over by AOL, MicroSoft, WalMart, IBM, Ford, Toshiba? Which is the favorite corporate tool of the Bilderbergers?? @ Media execs have dumbed down TV, the papers, and the news weeklies, imagining people want less content and more froth. They're wrong!! http://www.newswatch.org/December%20stories/Michael%20Kelly%20%20122099.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Megiddo Madness Averted. The FBI says it's still investigating a score of Y2K threats to the nation's computer networks and power plants, but the National Infrastructure Protection Center warns network administrators to remain on guard against hackers. But who guards us from the guards, eh? http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33486,00.html?tw=wn2107 : Has the FBI investigated/infiltrated your terrorist group yet? Do agent-provocateurs supply you with weapons, tech know-how, targets? R U happy?? @ Can you fool a spammer's robot into traveling an infinite loop through thousands of fake Web
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 000106b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 immunized post-political hacks were harmed to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ SURF'S UP! http://mooneyesusa.com/RE015.GIF _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mars probe canyon crash theory. (BBC) The Mars Polar Lander lost a month ago may have met its end in a catastrophic tumble down the sides of a deep canyon. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_593000/593264.stm # Also: Nasa to scan Mars for lost probe: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_564000/564613.stm # Mars probe silence signals failure: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_553000/553861.stm # Mars: Mission impossible? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_552000/552574.stm : Have you lost any space probes lately? Do you blame geography, bad math, bad vibes, communist saboteurs, demonic possession, aliens, robots, me??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Refugees claim Spice Islands deaths. AMBON, Indonesia (AP) -- Refugees fleeing violence between Christian and Muslim militias in Indonesia's eastern islands said hundreds of people were killed in fighting Tuesday Wednesday. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563067790-ff3 # Egypt to arrest violence culprits. CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The government will arrest the "real culprits" behind three days of Muslim-Christian clashes that left 20 dead in southern Egypt, a bishop from the region said Wednes- day. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563068892-af2 : Would you rather kill Xians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, pagans, atheists, Zen Buddhists, capitalists, communists, UFOlogists, urologists, Reptilioids, me? Does your belief system promote killing? Is it mandatory, optional, scored? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ A United Nations Approach for UFOlogy. It is difficult to believe we have arrived at a new century without solving the UFO mystery. I tend to belive this is because of the division in the ranks of the people working on this problem. We need a unified, "U.N." approach: http://caus.org/mc010400.htm : How would you solve the UFO mystery? Would you establish an international bureaucracy? Do international bureaucracies solve many problems? Do you have other models that may work better? Have you solved any UFO mysteries lately? # A Century Of UFOs: http://www.caus.org/pn010300.htm # Top 10 UFO News Stories of 1999: http://www.caus.org/pn010500.htm # Fireball Under Intelligent Control: http://www.caus.org/mu010300.htm # Flying Triangle Wings Sighted: http://www.caus.org/ft010600.htm # Little Silent Flying Things: http://www.caus.org/mu010500.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scary thought: Engineering ultimate athlete. (LADN) With each passing day, science comes closer to identifying the full mysteries of DNA and the genetic code. When it does, and it will soon, the possibility becomes very real that genes could be altered to produce the super athlete. And? http://www.spokane.net/news-story-body.asp?Date=010100ID=s726993cat= : Have you engineered any athletes lately? Would you rather engineer jocks, lawyers, rock stars, troops, engineers, telemarketers, pilots, babes, me?? # Scientist Envisages Tiny Computers in Human Cells (Reuters) http://news.excite.com/news/r/000105/14/science-science-computer # Each Nostril Smells the World Differently - Report (Reuters) http://news.excite.com/news/r/000105/14/science-science-nostrils _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # YELTSIN GETS STATESMAN'S WELCOME IN HOLY LAND. Boris Yeltsin said he felt "like a saint" after arriving in the Holy Land on a Christmas pilgrimage that afforded the pomp security befitting the head of state he was until last week. The former Russian leader is on a private visit. Yeltsin making frequent rest stops: www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/meast/01/05/yeltsin.trip.02.ap : Have you felt like a saint lately? Would you rather feel like a saint, a sinner, an angel, a demon, an alien, a robot, a sheep, an octopus, a loo?? # Accused ex-pastor's defense: I was giving sex-ed lessons! http://www.sjmercury.com/premium/local/docs/deporte06.htm # Littleton cop busted for ordering "date rape" drugs: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/0106net2.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ To prevent another year of http://philkon.tripod.com/millennium.html stuffy know-it-alls http://users.tminet.com/bruce/century/savant.htm going on http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/1638/millennium.html ad nauseum http://www.georgian.net/rally/madness.html about when http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/faq/docs/millennium.html the new millennium http://www.astronomyboy.com/millennium/index.html will really begin, http://www.enigmar.com/2001/ I say we all immediately
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-Caveat Lector- Would you like some sensory prostheses? Should we all have implants to extend our senses into ranges not covered by our wetware? What spectra would you most like to directly sense? What senses are you better off without?? I'd still like some of those Xray glasses like they used to sell in the back of comic books. I imagine they've worked the bugs out now so that they work. But I don't want them so I can see through clothing. I want them so I can increase my accuracy at guessing if the guy is a member of Hair Club for Men or not. __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- Uh...doesn't that take it something like half the human race? Are you offering *this* as the explanation for the War Between the Sexes? -Original Message- From: Ric Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 12:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #2 - y2k minus 23 "Don't trust anything that bleeds for 5 days and doesn't die." --anon 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 991209b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 behaved strangely to produce this bulletin. bzzzt Damn implant. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ Nobody Pays Me For This: http://www.californiacarnivores.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientology denied charitable status. LONDON (AP) Govt officials denied the Church of Scientology charitable status, saying it does not provide any public services. Scientologists said they would appeal the decision of the Charity Commission, which regulates charities in England Wales. The commission said the Elronners do not meet the essential test for cha- ritable status: "that of conferring public benefit." It said Scientology activities "were private in nature and in the benefit they delivered." Curses: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562515424-fbb : Do you do the public a service by keeping your belief system's documents secret? If you actually provided public results, would we all detest you? @ Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Powerlines And Cancer: http://www.mcw.edu/gcrc/cop/powerlines-cancer-FAQ/toc.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Your face or mine? Ask a computer. (WSJ) Computerized face recognition, a staple of spy movies and science fiction, is increasingly part of the real world. http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,145009233,00.html # Warning! Strange behaviour! Nobody sees the thief looking for a car to break into, or the woman steeling herself to jump in front of a train -- but somehow the alarm is sounded. Enter a world where machines predict our every move: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991211/warningstr.html : Do computers know more about you than you know about yourself? Is this a good thing? If you knew yourself as well as computers do, could you stand yourself? Do you wonder how computers, aliens, telepaths, put up with you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Controversial Statue: Diana As Virgin Mary. LONDON (Reuters) A statue portraying Princess Diana as the Virgin Mary has sparked fury at an art exhibition exploring the idea that royal, sports and show business stars have replaced religion. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991209/08/odd-diana # Carlos Santana's vision of the Virgin Mary - she spoke to him - pot is not a drug: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991208/23/life-mexico-santana : Do you see and talk with sacred virgins very often? Do they offer pithy advise? Do you worship celebrities? Are they more approachable than gods? # Three Sentenced to Death for Child Sacrifice. ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) An Ethiopian court sentenced a flour mill owner, a sorceress and her friend to death for murdering a seven-year-old girl in a witch- craft rite: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991208/07/odd-sorceress _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Eye chip may help restore vision. (AP) Wireless video goggles and a laser- powered microchip stapled to the retina could someday give blind patients a small measure of sight. The intraocular retinal prosthesis or "eye chip" uses a small video camera in a set of goggles to send images to the micro- chip fastened to the back of the retina, forming images that can stimulate the retina and be "seen" by blind people. A direct connexion to the brain: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562510462-172 : Would you like some sensory prostheses? Should we all have implants to extend our senses into ranges not covered by our wetware? What spectra would you most like to directly sense? What senses are you better off without?? # Electronic neurons could speed up stroke patients' rehabilitation - TINY implants acting as artificial neurons could herald a breakthrough - shot directly into muscles: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/991208/18/cayv.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China busts 103 Christians. BEIJING (AP) Chinese authorities have detained 103 folks belonging to various Christian sects, expanding a crackdown that until now mostly targeted the Falun Gong spiritual movement. Since China's legislature tightened laws against cult activities in October, authorities have designated 10 groups not within mainstream Christianity as cults. The groups have a total membership of roughly 3 million people. A drop in the bucket: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562516399-0c1 : Are all non-sanctioned religions 'cults'? Are all sanctioned faiths tools? Are religions the most cost-effective political tools? Are UFOlogy, NewAge- ism, conspiratorialism, almost as good? What's your favorite macro-meme?? # PAT ROBERTSON SAYS BILL CLINTON'S "A GENIUS". Smart, yes, but with "the morals of an alley cat," the 700-Clubber says. Then he snorted some more cocaine:
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #2 - 12/02/99
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991202b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 divine forms were explicated during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Tower of Babel: http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/babel.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mars Site Is Out Of This World - Knight-Ridder http://www.sltrib.com/1999/dec/12011999/nation_w/1855.htm # Crush Expected At Mars Lander Website - Newsbytes http://www.cnnfn.com/news/technology/newsbytes/140008.html : Will you monitor the Mars landing online? Do you trust NASA to transmit the actual images/data, or will they provide disinfo to camouflage the ETs? # City Square Photos -- The Global Surveyor photographs the Cydonian region of Mars again giving us more photos of the "City Square": http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/ufo/cydonia2.html # NASA Finds A Faceless Mars -- The Global Surveyor's new images of the famous Cydonian region of Mars contradicts the Viking images taken 20 years ago. The difference, Mars no longer has a face! http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/ufo/cydonia1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # If you want to know the truth about the WTO, ignore the official site http://www.wto.org/ and head for the protest site http://gatt.org/ created by media pranksters http://rtmark.com/ ®TMark. The WTO is fighting http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991124/wr/web_sites_2.html to shut it down, but protesters are also trying to shut down the WTO site. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991130/wr/britain_electrohippies_1.html And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Politics/ or remain uninformed. : Is the world irretrievably interconnected by political/economic/social forces? Is the WTO a cause or an effect, a conspiracy or a counter-plot? Would you like to run the world economy? Is the only solution, to expand off-planet? How will an interworld economy operate? Can it be controlled? @ An embarrassed Party meeting in 1981 pronounced Chairman Mao 70% good and only 30% bad. All in all, a satisfactory report card: http://www.litreview.com/reviews/1999/11/Cradock_on_Spence.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # TROJ_EXPLOREZIP strikes once again: TROJ_EXPZIPWMPAK. Just as we thought TROJ_EXPLOREZIP was history, we received several new copies. But unlike the original TROJ_EXPLOREZIP, these new samples were compressed with a commercial utility. TROJ_EXPZIPWMPAK (a.k.a. TROJ_ExploreZip_Worm_Packed) is identical to TROJ_EXPLOREZIP. It holds the same mass-mailing payload, as well as the same destructive payload. To read more about the different payloads of this compressed trojan, please refer to our website at: www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=TROJ_EXPZIPWMPAK OR http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/security/sa061099.htm and see http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32824,00.html : Have you bred a new virus lately? Are the payloads and delivery systems enhanced, evolving, uncontrollable? Will your virus destroy civilization?? # Build your own empire and oversee the quest for ancient symbols of power: http:/hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=0013IS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # WIFE ABUSE MAY BE LINKED TO HIV IN INDIAN WOMEN. Many men in rural north India are infecting their wives with sexually transmitted diseases, put- ting them at increased risk of acquiring HIV; wives of abusive men are at greater risk: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=22775 : Will physical sex become an unacceptable risk, with humans reproducing by exchanging DNA codes over the InterNet? Is cybersex the key to our survival? Do you eagerly await advances in teledildonics? Will telepathic implants let you have complete sexual satisfaction without any messy physical contact?? # Bad HIV Kits Online: www.cnnfn.com/news/technology/newsbytes/140133.html @ MY BOYFRIEND HAD A NEGATIVE HIV TEST. IS HE A SAFE SEXUAL PARTNER? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=22601 @ WHICH OF MY MEDICATIONS ARE CAUSING ERECTILE DIFFICULTIES? http://www.healthcentral.com/peoplespharmacy/PharmFullText.cfm?ID=2226 @ CAN I HAVE MY 7-INCH PENIS ENLARGED? Well above-average anyway: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=22633 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ FORMS IN THE ORION NEBULA. "These forms are only an inkling just a trace a readily intelligible and even forceable mode of representation of That Consuming Fire the Almighty, understood by symbols, and traceable in early Chaldean Art, to-day dug up in the ruins of Ninevah and Babylon, such as winged, human headed Bulls, winged Lions, heads of an Eagle or Vulture, a curved beak, half open, disclosing a narrow pointed tongue etc. etc. all elements
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 99b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Oklahomans evolved during the production of this bulletin. No loss... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Zippy Of The Day: http://www.sfgate.com/sf/zippy/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # `WISH MACHINE' MAKES DREAMS COME TRUE. PALM SPRINGS, CA. (Wireless Flash) A Palm Springs man claims to have invented an electronic device that makes wishes come true. Inventor Thor Templar says his "Tachyon Thoughtform Generator Wish Machine" electronically senses brain waves and turns them into reality with the help of a headband and two copper handles. Selling for $700 each: http://www.globetrax.com/globedaily/content/111099_04.html : Can you make dreams come true? Do you have any detectable brain waves? Do Templar's dreams of riches have a possibility of becoming manifestly real? @ Paraphernalia, memorabilia, information: http://www.anotheruniverse.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Oklahoma texts to carry disclaimer. TULSA (AP) An obscure state committee has voted to require that all new biology textbooks contain a disclaimer saying evolution is a "controversial theory" after one member said not enough attention is paid to alternate explanations of how life began. School districts may purchase only books approved by the committee. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562018586-adc : Have OK bureaucrats the slightest conception of what a scientific theory is? Do "alternate explanations" have the slightest shreds of evidentiary support? Does your belief sytem value fantasy/dogma over verifiable reality? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Physical FORCE - What It REALLY IS! Most orthodox physicists do NOT know what force REALLY IS. The best they can do is define it in terms of what it DOES. But according to a GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of physical Reality developed by the late Physicist Dewey B. Larson, each force is a MOTION, or a COMBINATION OF MOTIONS, or a RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOTIONS, including INWARD OUTWARD SCALAR MOTIONS, as TRANSLATIONAL, VIBRATIONAL, ROTA- TIONAL, or ROTATIONAL-VIBRATIONAL motions. http://www.randomc.com/~rs : Are you forceful? Do you rotate? Do aliens push you around in circles? Do you have a really neat Theory? Does everyone ignore you, the fools?!?!?!?!? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Study may shed light on planets. (AP) - Scientists say a loosely packed asteroid with the consistency of a melting snowman may help explain how planets formed in the early solar system: by gobbling up other objects. Mathilde: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562016474-787 # Move Over Mars - Europa Needs Equal Billing. Europa, a moon of Jupiter, appears to have vast quantities of liquid water below its icy surface, making this world a top candidate in the search for exobiology -- life beyond Earth. The National Research Council recommended to NASA that Europa be given equal priority to future exploration of Mars. Coming: http://www.space.com/news/planetarymissions/europa_story_991109.html : What's your favorite planet/oid? Do you grow by gobbling up other objects just like Mathilde? Do you have vast quantities of water under your surface? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # Cylinder UFO Reports: http://www.caus.org/mu99.htm # UFO Crash In 1865 - Craft Wreckage Still There? http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/crashwreck.htm # Catholics successfully pray topless bar away - the place will soon become a library. http://detnews.com/1999/metro/9911/11/0080.htm # Malaysia parliament to be dissolved - dumped in sulfuric acid bath: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562015065-c32 # Pastor: I BURNED THE CHURCH TO UNIFY MY PARISHIONERS. Nothing brings a religious community together like a nice construction project, eh? Or a topless bar: http://www.ardemgaz.com/today/ark/B5xharris11.html # CDC: Pesticide may have been cause. Malathion sprayed over two Florida towns to kill crop-eating MedFlies may have sickened 123 people last year: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562017063-6d9 # SAME DRUGS CHEAPER FOR PETS THAN PEOPLE - redefine yourself as a dog, save money: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9911/09/health.drugs.reut/ # Pope's health raises questions - Death provides the answers: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562024385-54e @ Why them? Falling in love remains a mystery, even in the harsh light of scientific analysis: http://www.sfbg.com/lit/october99/reviews/cupid.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Genetic Ethnically-Specific BioWeapons Coming. NEW DELHI - Biological weapons that would attack one ethnic group but leave others untouched may be available within 10 years. While the potential benefits of
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991014b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 telepathic molluscs were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ StickDeath: http://www.stickdeath.com/frameset.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Teleology, the idea of purpose in nature, has been on the back foot since the 17th century. But it's not dead yet, even in physics. http://www.linguafranca.com/9910/hypo.html : Does nature have a purpose? Do you? How many deities shape you and your nature? Do they have different purposes? Does this explain chaos? How? # The speed of light may be variable, rather than constant: http://www.newsreality.com/localnews/?id=18 # Questioning current notion of "time" as a framework for the universe: http://www.newsreality.com/localnews/?id=28 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Telecom Future: Flying Wings And Unmanned Planes. EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (Reuters) - It creeps across the bright desert sky as quiet as a ceiling fan. It carries no fuel, no pilot and is wider than a jumbo jet's wingspan. In fact, that's all the Helios is a giant wing. Bzz-bzz-bzz: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991013/20/science-science-planes : How many unmanned craft do you want orbiting overhead, beaming signals at you? How many are there already? Does your implant receive signals clearly? # MagLev (magnetic levitation) orbital launch systems are becoming more a reality now that NASA has built an experimental launch track: http://www.newsreality.com/localnews/?id=23 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Solar Cycle Update. Updated predictions from NASA scientists put the solar maximum in mid-2000. As activity on the Sun increases toward this broad maximum, we can expect more auroral displays, radio disruptions power fluctuations. http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast14oct99_1.htm : Have solar flares interrupted your thoughts lately? Have your thoughts had any effects on solar flares lately? Do flares disrupt your remote-viewing? # Talk of discovery of a 10th (and perhaps 11th) planet orbiting the sun. http://newsreality.com/showbindings/?section=science.astronomyid=4068 http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991016/newsstory2.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A Revolution in Brain Evolution? New research shows that monkeys regener- ate and repair brain cells in the cerebral cortex. If humans do too, a startling new view of the brain is possible: that our minds are shaped by our experience. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,31889,00.html : Has your cerebral anatomy undergone radical transformations? Do you try to reshape your brain? Do you use drugs, knives, films, implants, sex, cigars? # The inner idiot savant: you too could learn a dozen languages or play the complete works of Bach, if only you'd stop trying to be so clever: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991009/tuneinturn.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Irish Coffees Better Than Drugs For Stroke? HOUSTON (Reuters) A slug of alcohol followed by a quick cup of coffee may work just as well to limit stroke damage as some of the drugs now available in emergency rooms. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991013/16/science-health-stroke : Is Irish Coffee your preferred medication? Do Mexican Coffees work just as well? Have you ever fed Irish Coffee to a Reptoid/Republican? Do they gag?? @ See rural UK as a domestic Transylvania, where normality can't survive an uneasy night or an innocuous dinner party www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n20/wood2120.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Immortality On Ice. NEW YORK - Kennita Watson likes to think about what she'll be doing in a few hundred years. "Some things that come to mind are traveling to the stars; terraforming an asteroid; learning dozens, then hundreds, of languages; understanding general relativity; playing musical instruments that haven't been invented yet... I could go on and on." Cryonics to the rescue: http://foxnews.com/scitech/100899/cryonics.sml # Bionic Humans in Slow Motion. Researchers have made headway in tissue engineering, but a real-life Jamie Summers is still years away. Surgeons convene to discuss growing cells organs outside of the body. Resistance is futile: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,31893,00.html : What's your favorite tissue work? Would you rather be cryogenically stored revived, exobiologically regenerated, saturated in preservatives, deified? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists Say Attack On GM Food Safety Is Flawed. LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists reacted angrily to a commentary in a leading science magazine slamming the criterion used to assess the safety of genetically modified foods. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991013/17/science-science-gm Source: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991016/newsstory3.html : Have you modified any genes lately? Are
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-Caveat Lector- : Is Irish Coffee your preferred medication? Do Mexican Coffees work just as well? Have you ever fed Irish Coffee to a Reptoid/Republican? Do they gag?? A long, long time ago, I discovered Irish coffee (which is of course an *American* invention, like the Saint Patrick's Day parade)...and in short order became an alcoholic. Actually, I think I must've been an alcoholic for years; I used to go on a bender once a year, then stay dry the rest of the year. After I found the most glorious taste in all of God's green universe, the benders got closer and closer together, until one morning I woke up with absolutely no memory of the last twelve hours and, even worse, no idea where I had left my glasses... That was fifteen years ago, and I haven't had a drop since, if you don't count the brandy cherry I ate by accident at an office party in 1990. Now, at the time I discovered Irish coffee, I was still, alas, a registered Republican. Shortly thereafter I looked at my voter registration card, gagged, and promptly re-registered as a Democrat. After looking at the current crop of candidates from all parties, both major and minor, I am about to abandon the political spectrum and re-register as a Non-Euclidean. As the doctor told me when I asked him if I was crazy, "One of us is, my boy, one of us is..." === Robert F. Tatman Computer Help Desk Desktop LAN Services Systems Department Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 215.854.2729 215.854.2788 The contents of this message represent the opinion ONLY of the writer, and may not be construed to indicate the endorsement of Knight-Ridder, Inc.; Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc.; The Philadelphia Inquirer; or the Philadelphia Daily News. "Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity." 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- Re: "Paul Kurtz has been in foxholes..." yada yada yada... I read the article attached to this one. So...looks like Paul has finally achieved the founding of a new evangelical religious movement! Move over Jerry Falwell! Wonder where he plans to set up his "Vatican." Amherst, maybe? DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: C. Laughlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: "Paul Kurtz has been in foxholes..." yada yada yada... So...looks like Paul has finally achieved the founding of a new evangelical religious movement! Move over Jerry Falwell! Wonder where he plans to set up his "Vatican." Amherst, maybe? That would be "irreligious movement", I believe. Better than a religious movement, a bowel movement, the usual social demagoguery, eh? "We're no longer just a movement, we're a revolution -- and we've got what it takes to kick some irrational butt!" Yowser... I seem to recall Tom Jefferson writing something about the need to have a new revolution every 20 years or so. Maybe it's time for a revolution to kick wishful/magical thinking out of public life, eh? Or are godless ethics more than most people can handle? Amherst isn't really the right place for an antiVatican, though. I'd nominate Provincetown. Better situated. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Tatman, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Is Irish Coffee your preferred medication? Now, at the time I discovered Irish coffee, I was still, alas, a registered Republican. Shortly thereafter I looked at my voter registration card, gagged, and promptly re-registered as a Democrat. After looking at the current crop of candidates from all parties, both major and minor, I am about to abandon the political spectrum and re-register as a Non-Euclidean. A wise move. I was once a registered Platypus. Our candidate for mayor of San Francisco, Tony Serra [the 'dope' lawyer portrayed by James Woods in some late '80s film] proposed financing The City by legalizing drugs and holding continuous rock concerts on Alcatraz. Alas, he was beaten by Geo. Moscone IIRC who was later assassinated [along with Sup. Harvey Milk] by Dan "Twinkie Defence" White, giving the world Lady DiFi [Sen. Diane Feinstein]. But I digress.. As the doctor told me when I asked him if I was crazy, "One of us is, my boy, one of us is..." Any consensus? 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 990930b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 innocent bystanders were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ FBI FILE of UFOlogist Dr. J.A.HYNEK: http://cufon.org/cufon/fbihynek.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AIDS Pandemic To Worsen Next Century. BOSTON (Reuters) Unless the search for a cure for AIDS accelerates or preventive methods improve, the worst of the HIV epidemic has yet to come, experts predict. Kiss y'r ass g'bye: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990930/10/science-aids-pandemic : What's your favorite pandemic? Can/should/will you be re-engineered to be AIDS-impervious? Is life a terminal disease? Do humans infest the universe? # 'Crticality incident' exposes 3 Japanese workers to 4000X radiation: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990930/06/nuclear-japan _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ALL 3 PLANNED CRISES TO PRODUCE ANTICHRIST ARE HEATING UP SIMULTANEOUSLY! The hoofbeats of Antichrist can be heard in the distance, to the person whose spiritual ear is atuned. The 3 planned crises designed to set the stage for his appearance are reaching that crisis level, and are doing so in conjunction with one another. http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1319.cfm : Are you an antichrist? Are you galloping up? Are your plans well advanced? What's your favorite crisis? Can believers foil your plots, ruin your plans? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Internet addicts 'need help'. Surf's up - do you spend too long online? Internet addiction is a growing problem doctors should be better quipped to deal with it, research from the Center for Online Addiction suggests. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_46/460208.stm # Also - Addiction triggers exposed: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_448000/448550.stm # Eating disorders linked to addiction: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_434000/434559.stm # Online sex carries health risk: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_305000/305106.stm @ Link - Center for Online Addiction: http://www.netaddiction.com/ : Are you addicted to the Net, to sex, drugs, food, rock'n'roll, shoes, air? What's y'r favorite addiction? Are you disordered, reordered, repaved, flat? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Parents' beefs stop Harry Potter readings at school. Kids love Harry Potter, but some parents are complaining about the books' wizardry magic. So a Minnesota school tells teachers to put the books away. http://startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisSlug=HARR30 : Should all books depicting paranormalities be dumped from public schools? Should such books be removed from libraries, bookstores? Should they burn? @ Hitler's Pope? Should Pius XII be damned or sainted? http://www.zenit.org/english/archive/documents/gumpel-eng.html http://www.sobran.com/columns/0914.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GET YOUR JAR JAR BINKS SEX CANDY TODAY! The Baptists say that the ten-inch tongue is really a male sex organ. I'll take their word for that. http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0899/toy.html : How long is your tongue? Do male/female humans/aliens/animals/robots have longer tongues? Do you prize long tongues? Do Baptists have short tongues? If I said you had a nice tongue, would you hold it against me? Where??? # Adrenal Treatment Can Boost Female Libido. For women with dysfunctional adrenal glands, hormone supplements can improve mood and enhance libido. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_461000/461688.stm http://news.excite.com/news/r/990930/01/science-health-mood _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AMERICANS BECOME MORE SATANIC JUST AS WE ARE ABOUT TO SEE ANTICHRIST! One of the most sure signs that the Age of Antichrist and his False Religious Prophet is nearly upon us is the Mark of the Beast. Shockingly, we now see that the technological details have been solved, and that the next step of conditioning people to accept it is now occurring. Wait until you see the conditioning picture! http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1318.cfm : Are you American? Are you becoming more Satanic? Is it easy, fun, tasty? Do you bear The Mark Of The Beast? Are you The Beast? Do you itch? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Baboon virus passed to transplant patient. (BBC) A man who received a baboon liver in an operation hailed as a breakthrough has managed to contract a virus thought to affect only the animal. Isn't that special! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_461000/461583.stm : Is this a case of "Love Me, Love My Virus"? Are you a chimera? Do you have exotic infestations, infections, symbioses? Do you willingly breed a virus? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ TechnoBriefs: # New Bugs Discovered In IE5; security hole leaves PCs wide open to hacking; Switch it off, quick:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990923b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. : Ghost electricity howled during production of this bulletin. 'Twas eerie. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ APOCALYPSE REVEALED. Prophecies about things to come are explained in everyday language. A collection of visions from different prophets in different countries and different times clearly paint an era of a man who will declare himself as the savior of the world. What starts out as a conversation overheard, ends up in the most significant battle of all time. Events in the Apocalypse are already unfolding, and are explained here so that you might understand and prepare. Drop your cox and grab your sox. http://members.xoom.com/Apocalypse23/ : Are you ready for Armageddon? Have you seen the signs, heeded the signs, repainted the signs? Have you ever been to Megiddo, Israel? Is it spooky? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y2K-a-Rama: # Y2K - FBI TO ROUND UP BLACKS: Already reeling from accusations of lying about its actions at Waco, the FBI is about to face an explosive round of allegations about Y2K. A nine-year veteran of the bureau has decided to speak out about the FBI's "Mad Max" Y2K plan and alleged targeting of blacks. http://www.y2knewswire.com/19990922br.htm # Y2K may trigger meltdown, doom economy - U.S. Senate panel: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561268696-b7e # Y2K - US Military Prepares For 'Digital Pearl Harbor': http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2kpearlharbor_p.htm # Y2K - Pentagon Planners Ponder Sneak Attack On US: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990921/ts/yk_usa_1.html # Y2K - Glitch Won't Steal New Year's? Ya sure, by golly: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/feed/a27588-1999sep22.htm # Y2K AND WACO. As new evidence points to a six-year government cover-up of military events at Waco, the obvious question becomes, "What else are they lying about?" Y2K, of course. In this article, we take a close look at the govt pattern of "receding denials" and other similarities between the two historical events. http://www.y2knewswire.com/19990907waco.htm # Y2K - Venezuela - Y2K Won't Interrupt Oil Deliveries: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19990921/bs/y2k_venezuela_oil_1.html # Y2K - G8 Nations Seen Being 'Largely Unscathed' By Y2K: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990921/tc/yk_group_1.html # Y2K - Is Asia Y2K Ready? No. Yes. Maybe. Hardly: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990923/02/tech-yk-asia # Y2K - U.S. Companies Confident On Y2K Compliance: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990923/02/tech-yk-companies # Y2K - HOPING FOR THE WORST. The US govt wants you to believe only "hate groups" and "zealots" want Y2K to be a worst-case event. In fact, several prominent politicians and government offices stand to gain tremendous political power (and increased funding) if Y2K disruptions turn out to be severe. Find out who may be rooting for the worst while telling Americans to plan for the best. http://www.y2knewswire.com/19990902w.htm # Y2K - IMF tries to prevent collapse of 3rd world bank systems: http://cnnfntech.newsreal.com/story/19990921/00/58/5912106_st.html # Y2K - Looking ahead is key to realizing impact of Y2K: http://www.wbn.com/y2ktimebomb/Computech/Issues/lcore9938a.htm # Watchdog group says U.K. government doesn't understand Y2K: http://www.excite.co.uk/news/news_story/technology/tech2.txt # Y2K - U.S. Senate's 100 day report: http://www.senate.gov/~y2k/documents/100dayrpt/ # Y2K - US NAVY DOC SPIN. Y2K Newswire finds a major logical flaw in the official explanation offered for the leaked Navy documents. Suddenly, Y2K Deniers find themselves pleading with you to believe they think like alarmists. http://www.y2knewswire.com/19990823nav.htm # Y2K - U.S. schools not making the grade for Y2K readiness: http://www.y2ktoday.com/modules/home/default.asp?id=2136 # Y2K - Alabama fires Y2K remediation group, scrambles for replace: http://www.y2ktoday.com/modules/home/default.asp?id=2144 # - 11 systems at Chinese pharmaceutical factory crash: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990921/tc/yk_china_9.html # Y2K SAFETY VS NUCLEAR PROFITS. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is do- ing everything possible to ensure public safety during the Y2K rollover, right? Wrong. They won't even require nuclear power plants to be Y2K compliant. See why one reporter called them the, "Nuclear Promotional Agency." http://www.y2knewswire.com/19990913safet.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ CHRISTMAS and Y2K VIRUS, TROJAN, and HOAX WATCH: # TROJ_Y2KCOUNT -- (Fake email from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) The TROJ_Y2KCOUNT virus is distributed in a fake email from Microsoft that claims it to be a Microsoft Year 2000 Counter. On execution of the Y2KCOUNT.EXE file, which is attached to an email message
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990916b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 UFOlogists were abducted to produce this bulletin. Maybe next time... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PARANORML NEWS NETWORK (P3N). 1. Anomalies were seen near the sun during the eclipse: "bogies on the approach." 2. Astronomers baffled by dark streaks across sky. 3. Survivor of Turkish quake describes a fireball. 4. Recent anomaly near Venus on recent SOHO C3. 5. Reports of lunar flash or object passing in front of moon: http://www.caus.org/pn082599b.htm : What's your favorite anomaly? Are you anomalous, baffled, paranormal? Have you seen fireballs? Do you have fireballs? Have you seen Lunar flashes? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ABDUCTION? I don't know if I was abducted or what happened you be the judge. One night about 3 years ago I was on my way back to the East coast from the San Francisco area. When I woke up the speedometer hadn't moved nor do I remember the drive. The only thing that was out of the ordinary was the fact that I was 370 miles father than I should have been and I had a killer headache. http://www.homestead.com/ufo3/abduction.html # Man "Teleported" 20 Miles. (P3N) What I'm about to tell you is the honest to God's truth. I can't explain it but I was physically relocated about 30 kilometers (20 miles) without the aid of man! http://caus.org/pn082899.htm : Have you been abducted lately? Did they bring you back? Did they lose you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CROP CIRCLE REPORTs: Montebello, Quebec Formation; Circle Near Dease Lake, B.C.; New Formation: Edmonton, Alberta. http://caus.org/ccr082699.htm # Large Etching in Neilburg, Saskatchewan: http://caus.org/ccr090899.htm # Update on Neilburg, Sask. Crop Formation: http://caus.org/ccr091199.htm @ Newest Crop Circles: http://www.homestead.com/ufo3/newcrop.html @ Crop Formations: http://geocities.com/Eureka/Gold/9912/cropcircle.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Oxygen Bar offers breath of fresh air. LOS ANGELES (U-WIRE) If you have been looking for a breath of fresh air, your search is over. Oxygen Bar (O2), a new hot spot on the Sunset Strip, allows visitors to breathe fresh oxygen while eating, drinking and listening to music. A calm, relaxing hangout: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990915/odd-150 : Do you inhale enough oxygen? Do you need supplements? Should everyone in and around Los Angeles receive supplemental oxygen? Do ETs siphon it off?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Visions of Robert Monroe. Monroe describes a peculiar type of clair- voyant out-of-body experience (OBE) he experienced involuntarily, wherein he hears a hiss, a door opens, he views an event, as if he were watching television. He relates several of these experiences, and describes how they each came true in real life. http://caus.org/mc090899.htm : Do you have visions? Do they come true? Do you forget or ignore those that don't come true? Do you leave you body often? Do you always return? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Brain buildup causes addiction. (AP) - Cocaine may be one of the toughest addictions to cure because it triggers buildups of a protein that persists in the brain and stimulates genes that intensify the craving for the drug. Once the buildup begins, the need for the drug becomes overpowering and the user's behavior becomes increasingly compulsive. And they smell bad - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561172723-f30 : Do proteins accumulate in your head? Have you flushed them out lately? Can you recommend a good brainwashing service? Did your head shrink lately? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PERSONAL CONTACT EXPERIENCES (PCEs): Dreams of Nordic ETs. After our enc- ounter with the UFO in '82, nothing much else happened EXCEPT that I had a few dreams over the years related to these tall, blonde, fair people... in particular, flying with them. http://www.caus.org/pc081799.htm # A Sky Within the Sky - another PCE from Posey, one of our more prolific experiencers: http://caus.org/pc091699.htm : Do you dream of flying/falling/fucking with Nordics, Grays, Reptoids, me? Are these persistent dreams? Are you sure they're but dreams? How d'ya know? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ UFO-Rama: # Near Collision With UFO Baffles Aviation Experts. (BBC) A UFO that narrowly avoided colliding with a passenger jet flying from London's Heathrow Airport has baffled av-experts. The metallic grey-coloured object was spotted by pilots of an Oslo-bound McDonnell Douglas MD81: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_448000/448267.stm # UFO GEOMETRY 101: 1) Iowa Pilot Sees Triangle Seeding Clouds. 2) Texas Flying Triangle. 3) Calif. Flying Triangle. http://caus.org/ft091699.htm # 1500 Men On Deck See Three UFOs Confront Carrier USS Essex In 1967. Was it a hoax?
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990909b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 MicroSoft programmers died during production of this bulletin. Bother. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Darwin gets a makeover. (BBC) Professor Steve Jones has rewritten Darwin's Origin of Species, a book that contains ideas which are just as contro- versial today as they were 140 years ago. Fortunately, they're testable. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_443000/443006.stm @ Links - Charles Darwin - Online Literature: http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/ @ The Origin of Species - Website Guide: http://hjem.get2net.dk/Paleontology/ @ Urbanowicz on Darwin: http://www.csuchico.edu/~curban/Darwin/DarwinSem-S95.html @ Enter Evolution: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/evolution.html @ Creation Vs Evolution: http://www.zinezone.com/zines/science/life/scopes/ @ No Answers in Genesis: http://www.onthenet.com.au/~stear/index.htm : Are you highly evolved? Do you have some ways to go yet? Were you created? What created y'r creator? What created y'r creator's creator? How d'ya know? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Leaking Earth could run dry. (BBC) Japanese scientists say the Earth could be dry and barren within a billion years because water is draining into the planet's interior. Polish firm proposes to plug all the holes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_442000/442040.stm @ Links - Volcano Watch: http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/ @ Ask An Earth Scientist: http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/ASK/askanerd.html # Earth Science and Geology: http://www.uwsp.edu/acaddept/geog/geol.htm # U.S. Scientists Spot 'Dust Devils' On Mars. WASHINGTON (Reuters) Miniature dust storms could be responsible for spreading the red dust that covers much of the Martian surface. Scientists have long suspected that so-called "dust devils" - which kick up in fields and on dirt roads on a sunny day - churn across Mars. But until now, none had ever been seen. Now we have pictures: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990909/02/science-space-mars : Do you prefer planets that are wet, dry, in-between? Should we build big pumps to bring water out of Earth's interior? Should we all leave before Earth gets as dry dusty as Mars? Where d'ya wanna go? Will you take a hat? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Study links star blast, black hole. (AP) Scientists have found some of the best evidence yet to support the theory that the cataclysmic explosions of giant stars can lead to black holes, some of the strangest least under- stood objects in the universe. Researchers analyzed the gases near a star that wobbles around a suspected black hole, and deduced that the chemicals could have originated only in the blast of a neighboring supernova. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561069453-797 http://news.excite.com/news/r/990909/02/science-science-blackhole # Gamma-ray burst may have seeded solar system. The formation of the Solar System was hurried along by a nearby gamma-ray burst. Rather than aborting the birth of planets, the flood of energy may have melted primordial dust grains, seeded the formation of meteorites and helped form the rocky planets, including Earth. We are stardust, we are golden... http://www.explorezone.com/archives/99_09/09_ns_creative_burst.htm : What are your favorite black holes, supernovae, wormholes, space warps? Do you exploit astronomical phenomena for personal gain? Do you use'em to make new solar systems? D'ya encourage the development of life? D'ya warp space? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The Aegean: The seismic sea. (BBC) The earthquake which shook Athens came "out of the blue", say seismologists, as no known fault existed there. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_441000/441701.stm # Greece Turkey On Seismic Pane Of Glass. LONDON (Reuters) The earth deep underneath quake-hit Greece and Turkey is fracturing like a pane of glass, increasing the possibility of further tremors in the region, a UK seismo- logist says. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990909/02/science-quake-greece : What's your favorite seismic zone? Do you work to promote/prevent quakes? What's your fave seismic activity? Do you prefer quakes, volcanos, geysers? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Waco-Rama: @ Waco Whitewash: http://www.radio4all.org/pfp/wacowhit.htm @ The truth about Waco - govt role in 74 deaths: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/09/09/waco/index.html @ Waco was a Professional Hit; Waco Wizard's Magical Fire: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37d7044315b3.htm # FBI says illumination flares fired to monitor compound: http://www.tampabayonline.net/news/news102c.htm # McVeigh's ex-attorney links OKC bombing, Waco, govt lies: http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/getarticle?ID=372785 # Waco - Evidence
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990826b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No alien implants short-circuited during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 2 students arrested in plot. PALATKA, Florida (AP) - Two boys at a school for troubled children were arrested on charges they were plotting a return to their former high school to kill students and teachers. Better than Columbine: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560871423-97a : How young were you when you first plotted killings? Did the mindcontrol programs implanted in you work correctly? Did you succeed? Were you caught? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ WORKSHOP: Rumors, Hoaxes, Frauds Urban Legends. Mohawk College (Fennell Campus) in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada will hold a 1-day workshop on rumors, hoaxes and urban legends on Saturday, October 16, from 9 am to 4 pm. This course looks at how misinformation gets into different outlets, why they are believed and how to spot them. There will be plenty of case studies, from the infamous to the obscure. Course code is LLM32. This course is for anyone who is interested in being a savvier news consumer. For more info, call Mohawk College at 1 905 575 1212 or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] : What are your favorite rumors, hoaxes, legends? Have you created/dissemi- nated many? What actions are you planning against workshop attendees? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Thai monk surrenders to cops. BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) A renegade Thai monk accused of illegally amassing a personal fortune from donations gave him- self up after riot police surrounded his sprawling temple complex. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560871080-a7a : Is the leader of your belief subsystem wealthy? Do you lead a sect? Are ya rich yet? Why not? Have the police come for you yet? Will they soon? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Kin of man in cult suit abducted. TOKYO (AP) The daughter of a man suing the cult blamed for a deadly 1995 nervegas attack on the Tokyo subways was briefly kidnapped by a man who warned her to make her father drop the suit. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560865776-360 : Does your belief system promote kidnapping, intimidation, mass murder? Do you have any plans beyond Doomsday? Would you kill to hasten Doomsday? Who? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Cult mind control - The 10 themes of cult membership: http://members.aol.com/SMARTNEWS/Sample-Issue-08.htm 1) The Doctrine is Reality - The cult's beliefs allow no interpretation, or opposing views to be valid. 2) Reality is Black and White, Good Versus Evil - no outside group is valid, "no room for interpretation or deviation". 3) Elitist Mentality - they are the chosen ones. 4) Group Will Over Individual Will -"the self must submit to the group"; "individuality is bad"; "conformity is good". 5) Strict Obedience: Modeling the Leader - the leader is imitated by all. 6) Happiness through good performance - behaviors are controlled by shaming, competition; friendships are discouraged. 7) Manipulation through fear - "each group has its devil... around the corner waiting" to kill you or whatever. 8) Emotional highs and lows - from great productivity to crashing (always due to the individual's inadequacies, according to the cult). 9) Changes in Time Orientation - pre-cult life is bad, the present is crucial (pressure to meet quotas, etc.) the future is known by the leader, reward or punishment, the world will end, etc. 10) No Way Out - "there is never a legitimate reason for leaving" A) Cults also use "love bombing," lots of flattery early on to "suck people in." This disappears later once a person is in deeper. : What's your favorite cult? Who's your favorite cult leader? Do you lead a cult? Is it fun? Do you enjoy sex drugs adulation? Does one or more god speak thru you? What do they say? Do you ever edit them? Are they pleased?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Demand soars for pope's cakes. WARSAW, Poland (AP) The endorsement of the pope has sent sales of cream cakes in a southern Polish town skyrocketing. Demand for cream cakes in Wadowice soared more than 10 times after John Paul II casually told residents of his hometown during a June visit that he had enjoyed the treats as a boy. Bakery shops say they now sell 2,500 kremowki or cream cakes a day to local residents and tourists. Before the pope's visit, they averaged 200 a day. ### : "Gimme that old-time kremowki, Gimme that old-time kremowki, It was good enough for J.P., And it's good enough for me!" (tune: Old-Time Religion) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Entrance to Holy Sepulcher not made. JERUSALEM (AP) A second exit to the crowded Church of the Holy Sepulcher may not be ready in time for the millions of pilgrims expected to visit in the year 2000.
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990819b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 albino lab rats were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFO Report Reveals Rifts At CIA. LONDON - The CIA has released a secret history of its probes into sightings of unidentified flying objects, revealing that there is more truth in the popular television series The X-Files than is often believed. The highly critical report describes often-bitter debates between real-life X-File investigators who believed "the truth is out there" and their skeptical bosses. It records tales of bumbling undercover agents whose activities that the government was covering up what the agency described as "extra-terrestrial visitations by intelligent beings." http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/ciaufo.htm : Have you been visited by intelligent extraterrestrials? Have you ever been visited by intelligent terrestrials? Are you engaged in a cover-up? Should you be covered-up? Is the CIA controlled by extraterrestrials? Are you? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Planet found orbiting two stars. (BBC) Astronomers may have found the first evidence of a planet that orbits two stars. Interstellar bigamy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_424000/424001.stm @ Links: MACHO lensing search project: http://wwwmacho.mcmaster.ca/ @ Micro-lens search for planets: http://www.astro.rug.nl/~planet/ # Also: New planets discovered: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_252000/252099.stm # Planet discovered orbiting Sun-like star: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_407000/407772.stm : How many stars d'ya wanna orbit? How would your lifeform evolve on a world orbiting multiple stars? Which ET invaders came from multiple-star systems? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE IN CIRCUMCISION AND AIDS STORY. Don't draw many conclusions from this study of AIDS and circumcision in Africa. It doesn't take into account some cultural factors, and it promotes the idea that circumcision protects against sexually transmitted diseases - it's just not true. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=15382 # Also: Clue to resisting HIV - Why Some Live And Some Die: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_424000/424245.stm : Would you like to be surgically altered for protection against sexually- transmitted diseases? Is solitary confinement the only sure protection? Do ETs spread STDs so more humans can be harvested? Do they prefer us weak?? # DoD's 1969 Request To Build An HIV-Like Viral Weapon: http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/viralwp.htm # Is HIV A Manmade Virus Designed To Kill Blacks And Gays? http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/manmade.htm # AIDS Was Manmade - The Men Who Blew The Whistle: http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/manmade2.htm : Is AIDs a good weapon? Was it developed by humans, aliens, robots, demons, deities, evolution, me? What populations would you like to target for death? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Study Finds TB Infects 1/3 Of World Population. CHICAGO (Reuters) Nearly a third of the world's population is infected with the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, with 7.96 million new cases of the disease reported in 1997. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990818/04/science-health-tuberculosis : Do you spread TB? Who are you working for? Is it fun being a carrier? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SWEET IDEA: CHOCOLATE A HEALTH FOOD. Researchers find that chocolate is a rich source of catechins, a type of antioxidant that might protect against heart disease and possibly cancer. What a concept - chocolate as a health food! http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=15424 # MORE BENEFITS FROM FISH OILS. More evidence that you should get the good stuff from diet, not from pills. This study found that fish oils lowered the risk of a second heart attack in patients, but that vitamin E supple- ments did not. So, serve up some fish tonight. But not deep-fried salmon: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=15425 : What's your fave health food? Is it tasty? Is it healthy? Is it sinful? Is it expensive? Is it genetically-modified? Is is irradiated? Is it alien? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Biggest Secret, By David Icke. Conquered By The Cross - Ch.5 Excerpt. The Christian Church is a farce founded on a fantasy. If anyone requires confirmation of how easy it is for the few to control the masses, they need look no further than the billions of people who have worshipped the fairy tales peddled these past 2,000 years by men in long frocks. And what goes for Christianity goes for the rest of them, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and all the rest. http://TeamInfinity.com/~ralph/icke.bs.chapter5.txt : Have you been conquered by
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990812b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 stars were eclipsed to produce of this bulletin. But some supernovaed. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Eclipse-O-Rama-Rooter: # Man Kills Wife, "Too Busy" Watching Eclipse. CAIRO (Reuters) An Egyptian man killed his wife after she refused to make him a cup of tea because she was too busy watching Wednesday's solar eclipse on television. Should be more subservient: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990812/08/odd-tea # Earth wonders at heaven's gift. (BBC) A total eclipse of the Sun turns day into night across Europe and Asia, prompting prayers, cheers and tears from millions of spectators. And they only happen on Earth: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_417000/417694.stm # Man Burned Trying To See Eclipse. BERLIN (Reuters) - A 24-year-old German was in hospital with severe burns Wednesday after he climbed a power pylon to get a good view of the solar eclipse and then touched the 20,000-volt electricity cable. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990811/14/odd-shock @ Edited video of the solar eclipse, as seen from Amasya, Turkey: http://www.space.com/media/eclipse991.mov and other e-images: http://www.space.com/images/h_eclipse_811_wg_03.gif http://www.space.com/images/h_eclipse_811_wg_02.gif # Eclipse spurs prayers, pizza. CAIRO, Egypt (AP) Earthquakes and an unsea- sonable hailstorm intensified solar eclipse unease in the Middle East. "Is this... the end of the world?" said Andreas Christou, who fled his home in Cyprus after a series of earthquakes jolted large parts of the Middle East early Wednesday. A woman was killed in Iran and 15 people were injured in other countries. In eastern Lebanon, an unseasonable hailstorm pelted the Bekaa Valley town of Baalbek Tues. night; residents blamed the impending eclipse. Muslim tradition holds that the Prophet Mohammed, the founder of Islam who lived more than 1,400 years ago, prayed for the duration of an eclipse. Millions emulated him Wednesday and attended special eclipse prayers in mosques from Algeria to Iran. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560669634-922 # Also: Eclipse causes economic slowdown, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560669520-871 # Eclipse Leaves Some Ruing Two Reckless Minutes. ISFAHAN, Iran (Reuters) The last total solar eclipse of the 20th century swept across Europe to the Middle East and India Wednesday, giving millions of people a look at one of nature's most spectacular shows. Unless they were too busy. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990812/09/science-eclipse-leadall : Do you have a good personal eclipse story? Did the eclipse injure/kill ya? Did your eyes burn out? Did you pray? Are you planning for future eclipses? Did you make/sell/eat any eclipse pizzas? Did you join an orgy? Was it fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Missed The Eclipse? Look Up. Meteors Are Coming. WASHINGTON (Reuters) If you missed the solar eclipse Wednesday, take heart: another celestial show is almost literally on the horizon. And all you need to watch it is a lawn chair and a patch of dark sky to look at. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990812/00/science-space-meteors # Catch a Shooting Star# (ABC) Not quite as dramatic as a solar eclipse, this week's Perseid meteor showers are nonetheless a pretty sight. Here's when and where to look for the white streaks across the night sky. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/perseids990811.html # Meteors to shower Earth. (BBC) The annual Perseid meteor shower on Thursday should be particularly good this year. Get a bucket: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_416000/416163.stm @ Thoughts about the eclipse and the Perseids: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/MichaelGuillen/Michael_Guillen.html : Do you prefer meteors or eclipses? Are supernovae better than black holes? Who engineers astronomical events? Who markets them? Where's the most gain? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # FBI helped Bono quit Scientology: http://msnbc.com/news/290781.asp # Kentucky school displays 10 Commandments - nobody notices: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560675738-c34 # BOY SCOUTS ISSUE 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL' POLICY TOWARD GAYS: http://cnn.com/US/9908/11/gay.scouts.ap/index.html @ THAT'S WHAT CHRISTIANS DO NOW - sacred anti-Semitism: http://www.afa.net/afajournal/1999/august/pres.htm # Internet Sales of 'Mein Kampf' Probed - banned in Germany: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560672769-5be @ DID MAN ACTUALLY SET FOOT ON THE MOON? http://www.houddini.com/Moonhoax @ ILLUMINATI NEWS: http://www.islandnet.com/~persewen/illum_index.htm @ Liars And Whores Of The Press - Sherman Skolnick Sounds Off:
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990805b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 polysyllabic contrivances were mispronounced to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Do circles or formations ever happen in the winter? "They have found crop circles in snow, crusted snow. I [saw a photo] of this one in... Holland. It is approximately the size of this auditorium, with little rings 3/4 of an inch wide, with absolute perfection of 300 to 400 feet across of very intricate circles. Definitely, nobody walked in that snow! Who ever did it had to hover..." http://www.transformacomm.com/water/5phenomtalk.txt : Do you hover to make snow-circles, ice-circles, rock-circles, kelp-circles or fudge-cycles? What motivates your evanescent art? Are you perishable?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Peru village marks blood festival. COTABAMBAS, Peru (AP) Dimas Gamarra had to spend 2 long, cold weeks camped 16,000 feet high in the Andes mountains to snare a rare condor for his village's "celebration of blood" this year. During the three-day ritual of Andean music and dance, a giant condor is strapped to the back of a bull to symbolize the superiority of native cul- ture over the Spanish who conquered Peru over 400 years ago. The fiesta, held yearly at the end of July, was once common in Peru's southern Andes. Now it is held only in Cotabambas and one other village. One reason the ritual is disappearing is that the condor population is declining rapidly as modernization encroaches on the Andes, the bird's natural habitat. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560564561-448 : How do you celebrate blood? Do you employ endangered species? Are you used in blood rituals because you're rather common? Who or what would you like to strap to the back of a bull? Would the bull prevail? Which is superior? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ALIENS ALTERING HUMAN HISTORY UNSEEN! A study team in New Jersey reports that aliens are using advanced, interdimensional technologies to roam around our world, observing, documenting, categorizing and interacting with humanity, unseen. The US Government is aware of them and has even attempted to record their existence unobtrusively. The beings involved have origins somewhere in Orion, say psychics who've analyzed them and the evidence of their existence, in 11 forms and 6 shapes of Orb phenomena, which represent what we see when we photograph their technologies giving them egress to our world. http://orbsite.com/orbsitemail.html : What's your favorite advanced interdimensional technology? If the aliens are unseen, how do we know they're there? Are research teams and psychics being misled by disinformation meant to distract them/us from The Plot? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Eichmann jail memoirs release requested. JERUSALEM (AP) - In a 1,300-page notebook, Adolf Eichmann gave his account of the Nazi plot to exterminate Europe's Jews, trying to portray himself as Hitler's loyal disciple rather than a mastermind of the Holocaust. Eichmann's sons and Israeli Holocaust researchers are demanding that Israel release the jail house memoir, which has been locked up in Israel's State Archives since Eichmann's 1962 execu- tion. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560572721-74a : Are you only following orders? Are you also issuing orders? Do you follow orders from voices in your head? Do they order executions, genocide, pizzas? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # More than 500 mln guns said on planet. UNITED NATIONS (AP) - More than 500 million guns and other small arms are circulating around the world, widely used because they are lethal, inexpensive, easy to care for and easy to hide, a UN panel says. Assault rifles, machine guns, pistols and grenade- launchers are increasingly "weapons of choice" in contemporary conflicts, the U.N. Department for Disarmament said in a report Tuesday. Then they were shot: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560565053-156 : How many guns are enough? 6 bln people, 1/2 bln guns - is that ratio good? Do ETs employ the firearms oversupply to promote harvesting humans for food? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ UNDERGROUND NEWS: @ Parascope http://www.parascope.com/ @ Disinformation http://www.disinfo.com/ @ Sightings On the Radio with Jeff Rense http://www.sightings.com/ @ Conspiracy Nation http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html @ Conspire.com http://www.conspire.com/ @ Steamshovel Press http://www.conspire.com/ @ Flatland Books http://www.flatlandbooks.com/ @ The Excluded Middle http://www.primenet.com/~exclmid/ @ Feral House http://www.feralhouse.com/ @ The Consortium News http://www.consortiumnews.com/ @ The Nation http://www.thenation.com/ @ NPR http://www.npr.org/newsa.ram @ Salon http://www.salonmagazine.com/ @ Wired News
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990722b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 soggy space capsules were recovered during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ SAKHAROV: WE CAN INSTANTANEOUSLY CROSS SPACE. Speaking in Lyons, France, shortly before his death, renowned Russian physicist Andrei Sakharov said, "We are looking into the fantastic possibility that regions of space sep- arated from each other by billions of light years are, at the same time, connected to each other with the help of additional parallel entrances, often called 'wormholes.' In other words, we do not exclude the possibil- ity of a miracle: the instantaneous crossing from one region of space to another." http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/flyers71699.htm # Hawking searches for everything. (BBC) Stephen Hawking says it could take many more years before we get a complete theory to explain the Universe. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_40/400204.stm @ Links: Albert Einstein Online: http://www.westegg.com/einstein/ @ Stephen Hawking Homepage: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/hawking/ @ The Stephen Hawking Pages: http://psyclops.com/hawking/hawking_main.shtml @ "Official" string theory website: http://www.superstringtheory.com/ @ Cosmic strings and other defects (Cambridge): http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/cs_home.html : Is instantaneous interdimensional travel disturbing? Do you get seasick? Do you collect balls of superstring? Are superstrings joined with superglue? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ex-NASA Worker Says Space Agency Knows About UFOs. Clark C McClelland says that for the more than three decades he worked at NASA's launch facilities the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, he saw plenty of evidence that NASA officials and employees were exposed to unexplainable and sometimes quite alarming UFO events. http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/nasaknows.htm : Is NASA run by Mormons, aliens, CIA/NSA, me? Does NASA secretly occupy the antarctic and lunar Nazi flying-saucer bases? Does NASA make crop circles?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Flood cooled atmosphere in Ice Age. Sometimes global warming can trigger a global quick-freeze. Scientists say that as the glaciers melted at the end of the Ice Age, so much cold fresh water gushed into the North Atlantic that it quickly cooled the atmosphere for hundreds of years. And it could happen again: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560385058-e08 : How fast would you like the world to cool? Would a quick-frozen atmosphere lead to crop failures, famine, eco-disaster, forced off-planet emigration?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Nuclear exporter freezes Greenpeace cash. (BBC) British Nuclear Fuels Ltd have succeeded in having Greenpeace International's bank account frozen. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_40/400995.stm @ Links: COGEMA: http://www.cogema.com/ @ Greenpeace International http://www.greenpeace.org/ @ British Nuclear Fuels Ltd: http://www.bnfl.com/ns-home.html @ United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority http://www.ukaea.org.uk/ : Would you rather have your atmosphere or your funds frozen? Has your firm successfully attacked any environmental groups? Do your alien masters help? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The Opal File - Secret History Of Australia And New Zealand? A new report details internationalist control of Australasian economies, politics and resources, including drugs trade. http://netti.fi/~makako/mind/opal.txt : Would you like to control Australasia? Can Oz be turned into a theme park? Has it been already? Should New Zealand be reserved for Zeta Reticulans? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Close-up on the Moon. (BBC) The most detailed map of the Moon ever created is about to be made available on 22 CD-Roms. Years of detailed analysis: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_40/400925.stm @ Links: Lunar Prospector Mission: http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/ @ Lunar Data Analysis Program: http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/pdsldap.htm @ Clementine: http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/clementine/nasaclem/ : Is map-making always followed by conquest, exploitation, ruination? How do we ruin Luna? Is mapping the universe the ultimate imperialist preparation? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Another Astonishing Crop Circle In England - Devils Den, near Clatford, Wiltshire. Hidden Monuments? There are still some secret, private places in the Wiltshire landscape. Places of quiet pilgrimage. The Devil's Den is one. http://cropcircleconnector.com/1999/DevilsDen/DevilsDen99a.html : Are crop circles fractal phenomena? Do they follow the same patterns at micro-, mini-, macro- and mega-scales? Have you seen crop circles in algae, rust, galactic distributions? Do crop circles always grow in sacred sites? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BLACK MAGIC.
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990715b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Chinese neutron bombs were detonated to produce of this bulletin. Yet. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HAARP: PROBING THE NORTHERN LIGHTS. The single most contentious question in science at the end of century 20 isn't about evolution, the origin of the universe or human cloning, but, "What is the gov't really up to near Gakona, Alaska?" Officially, this 33-acre gravel pad near the Tok Highway 180 miles NE of Anchorage is the home of the high-frequency active auroral research program (HAARP). Depending upon who you ask for a more detailed description, HAARP is either a futuristic weapon, a scientific research project, a global mind control scheme-rivaling network TV-or the cause of a reptilian invasion from another dimension. Better than the magic-pellet petrol substitute: http://popularmechanics.com/popmech/sci/9907STRSP.html : Are you involved in disinformation re: HAARP? Is HAARP conspiratology dis- information to distract us from something else? What's really being hidden? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ABDUCTEE.NET - While some UFO-related sites amount to little more than a gray page with heavily exclamated text reading "I WUZ ABDUCTED!!!", this hub offers a great deal more content, taste, a far higher design ethic. Read abductee stories or report your own, discover government cover-ups, or chat with fellow UFO-heads. A galaxy of other options awaits you on this -- the final frontier. Never be seen again: http://www.abductee : Did you report your abduction to im/proper authorities, friends/family [if any], the Net? Who believes you? Have you been tracked ever since? By whom? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # U.S. terrorist threats detailed. WASHINGTON (AP) - An anthrax release in Boston, a North Korean sale of nuclear bombs, an Iraqi nerve-agent attack on U.S. troops, were among the potential threats to Americans cited by a commission urging gov't action to combat such risks. "We are woefully un- prepared..." Proposed laws would tighten export controls on items that might be used to manufacture heavily destructive weaponry, and would have all worldwide transactions recorded electronically. We'll be watching you: see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=256028-571 : Can you brew up awesome terrorist weapons out of common components? Do ETs help you master terror-technology? Does your implant warn of gov't probing? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Bible Sales Beyond Grave Spark Police Probe. LONDON (Reuters) UK cops are investigating a "Christian Bookshop" that is sending bills to dead people for bibles. The company had sent invoices to people who had recently died, demanding payment for bibles and a book called "Jesus of the Holy Land." "It's a scam. There is no evidence of an order being placed. There is no evidence of books being delivered." The outstanding debt was put at $40, accompanied by a demand to the estates of the dead for prompt payment. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990715/08/odd-crime-bibles : If death and taxes are inevitable, are religious scams too? If Mormons can baptize/convert the dead, why can't your belief system assess the dead? Are the dead the ideal customers, since they can't complain or demand refunds? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Turkey offers Israel water. JERUSALEM (AP) - Turkey could solve Israel's chronic water shortage by hauling enormous water-filled plastic bubbles by tugboat across the Mediterranean, Turkey's president said. Such a project could eventually supply Israel with up to 140 billion cubic feet of water a year. Israel Turkey already have close military economic links, and the ties would strengthen if Turkey becomes Israel's major water supplier. Nearby Arab countries, especially Syria, are watching the Israeli-Turkish ties with great concern, fearing the alliance could dominate the Middle East. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560287305-089 : Should icebergs be hauled to LosAngeles? Are giant water bubbles easy tar- gets? Do Arab states deserve to be dominated? Does Turkey have crop circles? Can giant water bubbles be hauled to distant space colonies? Is dependence on water a surmountable limitation? Can we evolve to drink vacuum? Want to? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Experimental Method Delivers Drugs To Brain. WASHINGTON (Reuters) French researchers have used tiny capsules called microspheres to deliver cancer drugs directly into the brains of patients. The method helped double the survival time of 8 patients and may offer a new and better way to treat brain tumors. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990715/01/science-cancer-brain : What drugs do you want to deliver directly to your brain? Do microspheres interfere with alien implants,
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990708b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 asinine assumptions were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Human-alien matchup is inconceivable. (Deseret News) Question: If extra- terrestrial aliens did drop by to join with us Earthlings, what would the kids look like? Answer: That's easy, there'd be no kids. That is, unless . . . http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,19909,00.html : Are you a human-alien hybrid? Wha do you look like? Was DNA re-engineering necessary? Do you control the media, politics, religion, finance? Why not?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Meteor explodes above New Zealand. WELLINGTON (AP) - A meteor exploded in the sky above New Zealand, casting an eerie blue light and showering the earth with fragments from space. The explosion was followed by smoke and a flood of phone calls from people who saw the meteor streaking across the sky. No injuries were reported. "It was picked up by aircraft and on radar, so we've had some air traffic controllers calling too" - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560211723-944 : Who gains by bombarding Earth with meteors? What planets would you like to bombard? Do meteor explosions make good light shows? Are they just show-biz? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PHILIPPINES VOLCANO BULGES, ALERT REMAINS. (Reuters) The slopes of Mayon volcano in the Philippines bulged further, suggesting growing pressure from inside the rumbling mountain in a prelude to a possible eruption. http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9907/07/BC-PHILIPPINES-VOLCANO.reut/ : Are volcano gods pissed at you? Have you appeased them lately? Do virgin sacrifices work? Have you run out of virgins yet? What else have you tried? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HOT SEAT. The Tokyo Fire Dept has alerted the public about the "Washlet" toilet. The high-tech toilet, used in nearly 40% of Japanese households, is apparently putting users in an uncomfortable position. Four fires in the past year have been traced to the toilets, which boast heated seats, a dizzying array of buttons, and automated warm-water bidets. Fire Dept officials say that worn-out wiring on older models is sparking the problem. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/story/20602.html and http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560211366-154 : Are electric toilets a form of social/mind-control, alien experimentation? Is your toilet powered by the commercial grid, batteries, solar, micronuke? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Israeli court rules on tombstones. JERUSALEM (AP) - In an unprecedented decision, Israel's Supreme Court ruled that individuals may choose between religious and secular calendars for inscriptions on tombstones. Lobbyists for religious freedom said the decision marked a great step forward in limiting the powers of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel. The ultra-Orthodox burial societies that oversee almost all Israeli cemeteries permitted only the Jewish dates. The Jewish calendar dates back more than 5,000 years and uses a Hebrew lettering system for numbers. Time marches on once again - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560217748-6a9 : What time system does your belief system utilize? Do you use multiple cal- endars? Was your favorite calendar devised by humans, aliens, deities, me?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Beginner's Tarot. One of the first and most important decisions a diviner of the arcana makes is what deck to use. I've seen everything used from poker cards to the Cat People deck to Aleister Crowley's Book of Thoth, and there was truth in all of them. The vital thing to learn is that the cards themselves HOLD NO POWER. Listen to this. Memorize it. It's import- ant. There will be a test on Tuesday. There are no dark gods or omnipotent presences that control the Tarot. the ability to divine events with the arcana comes from within your own heart soul. It doesn't matter whether your cards were designed by ancient gypsies, a playing card manufacturer from Utah, or even yourself. YOU are the one using the magick. The only power the cards themselves hold is whatever meaning you take from them. See http://www.paranormalnews.com/features/features062999.html : Do tarot cards symbolize power? Do all symbols contain power? Do symbolic powers manifest in your head, in the external world, in parallel universes? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Want Fries With That Close Encounter? UFO has landed in Hollywood. 13 feet in diameter, perched on retractable hydraulic legs topped by a flashing red beacon, the craft sits in a mini-mall parking lot. For six months the spaceship has been in terrestrial layover, parked in front of what used to be Tom's #25 Hamburgers. The eatery is now called the Area 51
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990701b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Scientologists were deprogrammed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Religion trumps porn in Web popularity. (IDG) Overcome by its fascination with pornography's presence of the Web, the press has overlooked the skin trade's leading contender: online religion. On AltaVista, a search on the word "porn" produced 4,794,806 Web page hits, while a search on the word "God" produced 6,396,150 hits. Could it be that the scales have tipped to the bright side? http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/30/religion.idg/ # Pat Robertson's Net Adventure derailed: http://idg.net/go.cgi?id=137773 # Jesse slams Valley discrimination: http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=137774 # HateFilter blocks racist Websites: http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=137776 # Porn cases spark surveillance debate: http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=13 : Do you prefer religion, sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, implant stimulation, the torture of small fuzzy animals, daytime television, hamburgers, vacuum, me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientology loses Swiss appeal. LAUSANNE (AP) Switzerland's supreme court threw out an appeal by the Church of Scientology, upholding a law aimed at keeping people from being "dishonestly" accosted on the street. The court ruled that the Basel law involved an intervention in religious freedom but did not infringe it. But the judges questioned whether the law, which was prompted by efforts to curb Scientology, could be enforced and said a blanket ban on recruitment in public places would be inadmissible. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560128008-5ba : Is any group that claims to be a religion REALLY a religion? How to tell? Should religions be regulated by gov't? Should govt's be run by religions? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Japanese call on Govt to get tough on cult. Hundreds of representatives of local communities across Japan have held a rally in Tokyo calling on the national government to get tough with the Aum Supreme Truth religious sect. There are increasing concerns the cult, linked to the 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways, may be regrouping. The national police agency estimates Aum has about 500 priests and 1,000 followers still living. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-1jul1999-69.htm : What's your favorite death cult? Do you prefer murder or suicide cults? Do you have/plan a death cult? What are the criteria for membership? Is it fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Bangladesh sculptor threatened. DHAKA (AP) A well-known sculptor in Bang- ladesh has sought police protection after Islamic extremists denounced her work and threatened to torture her to death. The threat to Shamim Sikdar came from the Taliban Bahini, an obscure militant Islamic group. Sikdar's latest sculpture at Dhaka U., where she teaches art, features Bangladeshi women who fought for the country's independence against Pakistan in 1971. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560128521-632 : Does your belief system promote torture/murder? Are artistic/cultural/pol- itical/religious/economic leaders fair game for assassination? Are there any writers/artists/musicians you want to kill for ideological reasons? Who??? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # COMING SOON: BACK ORIFICE 2000. The Cult of the Dead Cow preps a new, more powerful mix of its notorious hacking program - just in time for DefCon7. http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/technology/story/20493.html # Microsoft charged with racist link. SAN DIEGO (AP) - A lawsuit accuses Mi- crosoft of including a "racially-charged" message linking black people to monkeys in its Publisher 1998 software. MS has agreed to alter the pro- gram. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560126075-164 and see: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2286412,00.html # 'July Killer' virus may hit Thursday. A computer virus dubbed July Killer is expected to strike July 1. Active only during July, it will infect Microsoft's Word 97 documents via a Visual Basic macro, say antivirus specialists. http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9907/01/killer.idg/index.html : Do you prefer to hack military/gov't sites, racist corporate warez, banks? Will you write a virus that targets Bill Gates' financial holdings? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AUSTRALIAN NET CENSOR LAW PASSES. In passing a sweeping law that seeks to bar offensive content from the Internet, Australia joins nations such as China and Iran with strict rules about what can be seen online. Shudder: http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/politics/story/20499.html : What do the voices in your head tell you should be censored from the Net? Does your belief system promote suppression of
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990610b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 screams of the damned were heard during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China's secret manned spacecraft revealed. (BBC) Pictures of the secret rocket and space capsule that China will use to put a man in space have been revealed on the Internet. It is a serious lapse of the high security surrounding China's plans to put a man into space. Spying on China: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_365000/365934.stm # Also: China to test 'space shuttle' in October: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_342000/342936.stm # Chinese manned spaceflight probable: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_286000/286931.stm @ Links: China Space Shuttle: http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/english/sandt/prcspace.html @ Dragon in Space: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/1921/ : Would you rather go into orbit atop a US, Euro, Russian or Chinese rocket? Who'll have better food, sexier stewardesses, higher tech, tighter security? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Japan delays launch of lunar probe. TOKYO (AP) The launch of Japan's first lunar probe will be delayed for at least three years because of defective equipment. The launch of the Lunar-A - originally planned for the summer of 1997 - had already been postponed twice by the Institute of Space and Astro- nautical Science due to mechanical problems. Sensors cracked, destroying measurement circuits and making it impossible to collect some data. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559868142-008 : D'ya prefer Chinese, Japanese, Western spacecraft? Are aliens, Americans, Armenians zapping the Japanese space effort? Who benefits if Japan fails? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FEDS BATTEN DOWN THE ONLINE HATCHES. A growing wave of hacker attacks on federal World Wide Web sites, including an attack that resulted in the FBI shutting down its site for more than a week, has raised agencies' awareness of their vulnerabilities and spurred efforts to increase their online secu- rity. As a result, agencies recently have upgraded their security products, set new security policies and changed systems' architectures to keep one step ahead of hackers. No web system is completely secure, especially yours: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/09/batten.idg/index.html : What gov't agency do you most like to attack? Do you attack the gov't on your own, or at the behest of your masters? How are you rewarded? What else? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Millions at risk from deadly bug. (BBC) 70% of people at risk from the po- tentially fatal pneumococcus bacteria have not been vaccinated against the bug. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_365000/365149.stm # TUBERCULOSIS CASES BALLOON IN RUSSIA, COULD SPREAD. Cases of tuberculosis are increasing in Russia, prompting fears that the disease could spread worldwide, Russian and international health officials said. Nearly 25,000 died last year: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9906/09/russia.tuberculosis.reut/ # UK Government damps down blood virus fears. (BBC) The Department of Health says there is not enough evidence to screen blood donors for a newly-discovered virus that some scientists have linked to liver disease. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_365000/365234.stm : What's your favorite plague? Will humanity be felled by a plague? Which? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Potential haemophilia cure (BBC) A genetically engineered virus may offer a long-term treatment - or even a cure - for the most common type of haem- ophilia. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_365000/365093.stm # Coffee may prevent gallstones. (BBC) Drinking caffeinated coffee can reduce the chance of painful and dangerous gallstones developing, says a study. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_363000/363860.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Russia rehabilitates dead royals. MOSCOW (AP) - The Russian prosecutor general's office officially rehabilitated four members of the royal Romanov family Wednesday who were executed by the Bolsheviks after the Russian rev- olution. The posthumous rehabilitation was extended to Grand Prince Pavel Alexandrovich, a son of Czar Alexander II, and grand princes Nikolai Mik- hailovich, Georgy Mikhailovich and Dmitry Konstantinovich, nephews of the czar. The princes were declared enemies of the state and executed in the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg Jan. 24, 1919. Safely dead: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559864041-ff7 : Does this clear the way for the restoration of monarchy in Russia? Will the Imperial banners fly again? Will other royals regain power? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # House again bans abortion pills - US Congress favors
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990506b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GENETIC TESTS IN THE WORKPLACE: THE NEXT STEP? Some employers are taking what is probably an inevitable step - they are requiring genetic tests of new hires to see if they are predisposed to disease that might interfere with their work. We've accepted drug and medical pre-employment tests - should we object to these? Of course, there are ethical questions about discrimination: www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=12061 : Who should examine your genes: your employer, your gov't, your neighbors, your dog, your lenders, your realtor, your mechanic, your insurer, or me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ PEOPLE OF THE SECRET. "Are biological evolution and human history directed by a hierarchy of Intelligences, the lowest level of which makes physical contact with mankind? Do invisible guardians of this planet "seed" ideas into the earth's cultures to prepare human beings for huge steps in their development?" See http://www.ishkbooks.com/bookservice2.html : Who are your most and least favorite "invisible guardians"? Is everything in the universe totally planned-out? Are you less than a cog? Is it fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Rocky road around Earth - more places for asteroids to live. (BBC) There is probably a very thin belt of asteroids very close to the Earth. But the Oxford astronomers who have predicted the existence of the space rocks, after carrying out computer simulation work, say there is little to worry about - a collision with Earth is unlikely. "These are good guys, so to speak." http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_336000/336106.stm Links: Asteroid/Comet impact hazards: http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/index.html Asteroid facts: http://nssdc.gsfc.gov/planetary/factsheet/asteroidfact.html Near Earth Asteroid Tracking: http://huey.jpl.nasa.gov/~spravdo/neat.html : Who placed this protective band around Earth: gods, aliens, NASA, me? Are you surprised that Earth is shielded? Should all planets be shielded? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ALTERNATIVE THEORY ON THE CAUSE OF B.S.E. "I consider that I have proved the link between OPs [OrganoPhosphates] and BSE ["Mad Cow" disease]. What I could never see was a link between BSE and nv CJD, unless nv CJD was some other form of chemical poisoning. Had these two conditions been the same, there would not have been any OP victims left alive to tell the tale." They did it to me: http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Villa/2836/index.html @ MAKE YOUR OWN CONSPIRACY THEORY. Confused about how the world works? Why not make sense of it all with a grand conspiracy theory! However, there are just too many of these floating around. Here you can come up with a Wacko Right Wing Conspiracy Theory of your very own. Simply enter your selections, click the button at the bottom of the page and print it out. You'll be the hero of your next militia meeting. Have fun, and remember... They ARE Watching You! http://www.cjnetworks.com/~cubsfan/conspiracy.html : What're your favorite theories about MadCowDisease, prions, flesh-eating bacteria, chem.poisonings, biowar experiments, gene.mods, the Illuminati? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Matter or antimatter, that is the question. (BBC) BaBar: Looking for the key - A new experiment is designed to answer the most fundamental question about our Universe - why it is made of matter and not antimatter. Stanford LAC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_336000/336001.stm # Also: 'Sensational' anti-matter discovery: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_291000/291299.stm # Ghostly particles rule the universe: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_106000/106629.stm : Why are *you* made of matter? Would you rather be anti-matter? What would it do for you? Is there a normal-matter conspiracy? Who's in charge? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SansComment: # 'Mouse massacre' in labs. (BBC) UK bioethicists express concern about the rapidly rising number of laboratory mice slaughtered as "waste" by genetic splicers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_336000/336104.stm # MAYBE SHE DOES GET A KICK FROM VIAGRA. In contrast to previous studies, researchers in a new study have found that Viagra caused an increase in genital blood flow in women - after sexual stimulation with a 15-minute erotic video and a vibrator. Since other studies have found Viagra *isn't* a stimulant for women, I imagine we'll see more studies on this subject in the future. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=12060 # Ancient 'tool factory' uncovered - The stones throw light on life two million years ago. (BBC) A 2.34-million-year-old 'tool factory' has been unearthed in Kenya. The team behind the find say it shows that our pre-hu- man ancestors
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990429b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Gov't Warn Cult Against Threatening "Social Stability". BEIJING (Reuters) China warned followers of a cult-like martial arts group that they would be punished if they jeopardized social stability and called their 10,000-strong weekend protest "wrong". Fa Lun Gong sect shocks China. http://www.insidechina.com/china/news/1999042801.html : Does your cult threaten social stability? Do you care? Is stable society boring? Are your cult activities exciting? Do you attract ETs? Are they fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Muslim women settle dress row. WASHINGTON (AP) 7 Muslim women who say they were fired for refusing to remove religious head scarves while working security jobs at Dulles International Airport learned they could return to work. Settlement was reached with Argenbright Security Inc. in an effort to avoid an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559349430-357 : Does your political/religious/economic/artistic belief system prescribe/ proscribe dress standards? Do you conflict with gov't? Do the voices in your head tell you how or how not to dress? Would you like to join the Totally Nude Church Of The Naked Christ? Would gov't interfere with your worship? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Vine uses petals to lure bats. (AP) A Central American vine that relies on bats for pollination attracts them by using its flower petals like tiny satellite dishes to bounce sonar signals back at them. Each blossom of the Mucuna vine has a special petal with a concave acoustical "mirror." The petal directs signals back toward any nectar-feeding bat that chirps toward it. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559353875-025 : Does your alien implant work like this, or does it use another mechanism? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ US Surgeon General calls violence a public health issue. Surgeon General David Satcher called for a comprehensive program to combat youth violence, calling it a public health problem since it is preventable and predictable. Although he declined to address the Littleton, Colorado, shooting last week, Satcher said violence is placing an annual burden of at least $4 billion on the nation's health care system. Also noted: 13 U.S. kids fatally shot each day - http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9904/28/school.shooting.violence.ap/index.html Newsmagazines dominate ratings with Littleton stories. TV networks respon- ded quickly last week to public hunger for news about the Colorado school massacre. 6 prime-time newsmagazines, each one with reports on the Littleton shooting, were among the 12 most-watched programs measured by Nielsen Media Research during the past week, some with record ratings. CBS criticized for slow response - http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/TV/9904/28/nielsens.ap/index.html : Do shootings help TV profits? Would abductions get higher ratings? Is teen violence an acceptable trade-off for lively entertainment? Is TV a disease? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Short Takes: # KILLING W/O CONSCIENCE. "Children don't naturally kill, it is a learned behavior," says Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, U.S. Army (Ret.), an expert in the field on human aggression and the roots of violence and violent crime. http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/0426-116.htm # TSHIRTS AND OTHER Y2KWEAR. From company logos, pagan themes, and logos proclaiming the "Queer Millennium," a vast wardrobe of Y2K-themed T-Shirts is waiting to come home with you. Are you dressed up for Apocalypse with nowhere to go? http://www.y2kculture.com/arts/19990429.tshirts.html # 90210 MEETS Y2K. Tonight on Fox's 90210, glamorboy Steve Sanders becomes a Y2K survivalist. Will he trade the Vette for a stash of rice and beans? Would you? http://www.y2kculture.com/arts/19990428.90210.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks - UFO Sites [from EXCITE]: @ Abductee.net - Comprehensive info on aliens and UFOs. www.abductee.net/ @ Exoscience UFO - Lots of UFO related infomation here. Formerly AUFORA. http://exosci.com/ufo/ @ The Alberta UFO Research Association (AUFORA) - Providers of "information, articles, news, pictures and links on all aspects of UFOlogy." http://ume.med.ucalgary.ca/~watanabe/ufo.html @ UFOINFO - Extensive UFO related resources from museums and conferences to sighting reports and radio programs. http://ufoinfo.com/ @ Beyond Science - UFOs, Paranormal Resources, and Conspiracies. http://beyondscience.wreckingcrew.org/ @ Deb's UFO Research Information Clearinghouse - News, research groups and conference info, links, and a FAQ on her own experiences with aliens. http://www.debshome.com/ @ exoScience UFO - Lots of stuff for the UFO enthusiast, including tons of photos, from aliens to cattle mutilations.
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990401b - - - - - - - - - - - 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BRAINS: USE 'EM OR LOSE 'EM. The best defense against brain disease in old age? A stimulating childhood environment and lifelong learning. Keep going: www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/18892.html # INNER PEACE: WATCH OUT, IT MIGHT BE CATCHING. Beware the plague of Inner Peace - if you catch it, you just might find yourself enjoying life more, and worrying less. And that wouldn't help the economy any, would it now? See http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=11046 : Do you value your mental health and intelligence? Did you work for them, or evolve them, or were they given to you by aliens? Would you miss them? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Y2K kills promise keepers rally. DENVER (AP) Worried about possible Y2K problems, the men's ministry Promise Keepers is canceling plans to hold ral- lies at state capitals nationwide on New Year's Day 2000. Law enforcement officials in several states have expressed concerns about "the prospects of large gatherings, public safety personnel needs and too many unknowns con- nected with Y2K." Members of the Christian organization are instead being encouraged to stay at home with their families. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559019772-047 : Does your belief system encompass The End Of The World? Would you cancel festivities marking your system's culmination, because you might be wrong? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Mammoth bones, other fossils found. HEMET, Calif. (AP) Digging for a new reservoir in Southern California has uncovered a huge array of ice age fos- sils, including a mammoth that may be the best-preserved bones of the eleph- ant ancestor found in the region. "It's huge, it's going to rewrite North American paleontology." Mastodons have been found in the better-known La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, but nobody suspected they would be found so far inland, 75 miles east of Los Angeles. And they call it a cultural waste- land - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559018803-3bd : Are these real fossils, or were they, like all other 'fossils', placed there by the creator deities/aliens, to fool us into swallowing evolution? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # TWICE IN A BLUE MOON. A "blue moon" is said to occur when there's a full moon twice within a calendar month. That phenomenon happens twice during 1999, although an astronomy magazine says the term is a misnomer -- for which it may be to blame. Well hey, it was an honest mistake, don't sue us. See http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/18886.html *** Definition of 'blue moon' corrected. BOSTON (AP) A 53-year-old goof over the term "blue moon" has journalists red in the face. Sky Telescope maga- zine has admitted it made an error in an article which said "blue moon" ref- erred to the second full moon within the same month; actually, when a season contains four full moons, the third is called a blue moon. The mistake went unnoticed - see www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559017436-eeb : However it's defined, a "blue moon" is only an artifact of a calendar with irregular month lengths - it's a bookkeeping anomoly, so why the hell does ANYONE get worked up about it, let alone its misdefinition? Do Blue Moon junkies have organic brain defects, misfiring alien implants, fevers? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Pat Robertson eyes 'cooler' bible. NEW YORK (AP) - It was quite a holy coterie: gospel singers, tap ancers and Pat Robertson introducing a "cooler" Bible. In what is eing billed as "the largest Bible-reading campaign in the history of America," the TV preacher hit the stage at Grand Central Termi- nal. "We want to make Bible reading cool in America," said Robertson, introduced by actress Lynn Whitfield as strobe lights flashed across the ceiling of the station's Vanderbilt Hall. TV ads for "The Book" - in both a hip-hop and a country-western version - feature Smokey Robinson, MC Hammer, Chaka Khan, Andrae and Sandra Crouch, Charlie Daniels and Naomi Judd. The ad campaign is costing $7 million. And it's worth every tax-exempt penny - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559011260-2f3 : Which Bible version would you prefer: HipHip, CW, Pig Latin, DeathMetal, Klingon, Pachuco, ValGal, Beatnik, Techno, Multiple Drug Abuse, Pentagonese, Satanic, BirdCall, Cajun, Tantric, Garlic Lover's, Punk? Which is 'coolest'? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Pacemaker warning. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Guidant Corp. has asked doctors to monitor patients who wear certain Guidant pacemakers, saying the batteries that power the devices can wear out much sooner than expected. Batteries in the units typically last seven years, but could drain in six months. Oops - see
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-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: JoAnne Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] "ric carter" [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: : However it's defined, a "blue moon" is only an artifact of a calendar with irregular month lengths Well, it's really an artifact of the fact that 12 lunar months is not 12 calendar months; it's 11 days short. It's only multiple blue moons in a year that can always be blamed on irregular calendar month lengths. The obvious solution to the Blue Moon quandary is to have the 12 30-day months comprise a 360-day year, with the remaining 5 or 6 days [depending on leap-year] as an extra-calenderic period, Jubilee, unattached to the 'year'. Or we could ask the Reptilioids to blast Luna out of orbit. Ric "cutting right to the heart of the problem" Carter DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Colleen Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are two divine revelations by this old Tokyo Rosehowever, on February 5, 1962, the son of King Hussein was born...he now rules in Jordan. His mother was English Any documentation to support this claim that that date is in fact his birthday? And was he born at the TIME Dixon claimed the birth occured on that date? And was he born in Egypt? As I remember, Dixon was very specific about the time and place of the birth, and never claimed this birth represented the messiah, only someone who would be messiah-like... I was taking an astrology class at the time I read her book with this data, and had a horoscope erected based on the data she gave...it IS an extremely interesting horoscope... Unless Hussein was born at the exact time and place that Dixon specified, he's only one of thousands of babies born on that date... What - one of the only friends we have in the Holy Land, and he is the anti-Christ..or, was he the messiah as first proclaimed by Mrs. Dixon's revelations.however, her favorite pasttime was marking Kennedys for murder, and her last great prophecy The prophecy regarding Kennedy wasn't anything special...it'd been speculated that every President starting with Lincoln who was elected in a year ending in zero would die in office, Dixon didn't come up with anything new... I doubt ANY astrologer has the power to 'mark' anyone, least of all the President of the United States, for murder...and especially to carry out an effective coverup of the assassination decades later... RUSSIA WILL BEAT US TO THE MOON Something wrong here; she brought her masters much profit with her gainsaying, but who's payroll was she really on.not ours, surely. You act like this is NEWS? I thought EVERYONE knew that a goodly number of famous soothsayers have ties to the spook community... June *===* Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty. -- Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale IV.iii *===* *---* revcoal AT connix DOT com *---* It is UNLAWFUL to send unsolicited commercial email to this email address per United States Code Title 47 Sec. 227. I assess a fee of $500.00 US currency for reading and deleting such unsolicited commercial email. Sending such email to this address denotes acceptance of these terms. My posting messages to Usenet neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. ** 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- It has been 30 years since I looked that up; but I made a point to so do. Jeanne Dixon came to town; I had just met Bobby Kennedy, and within 2 weeks he was dead; however, the newspaper had a front page story, headline lead story, "Divine Prophetess Jeanne Dixon" and it was then I realized something was wrong. So - I nailed her on a soothsaying charge and astrology without license; Sybil Leek was astrologer, etc., and she said I was right about her. She was a political propagandist.it is easy to mark someone for murder, over and over and over, and suddenly, its like the press going against you - everybody when Bobby was killled, just knew it would happen. When I contacted Ted Kennedy's office, within 3 weeks, he notified King Publishing or Syndicate to keep his name and his family out of her column. She was NOT an astrologer; and when she left town, she was furious. Caroll Righter, or however that is spelled, shortly therefter said he wished she owuld get out of astrology, she was giving them a bad name. Well later, the psychic astrologers went after Gerald Ford, resulting in the 'scientists" re Eric Severied coming down on them, and they laid off.. The ony person at the time of importance to be in the almanac ws this child of King Hussein - the mother then was killed in a heliocopter accident. My sister who was a devout Catholic (I am not) actually believed she was a Saint; and then, when she saw what was happening, etc., that is when my brotherinlaw who was top secret, etc., in military, forbid me to talk about it anymore, because I said the Alpollo had been sabotaged. This woman was a menace. She sent me her books with prayer cards, on Children to Children paper, envelopes, postage, etc., and this money it ws later brougt out, she was misusing for her own politcla gain. Gulf Oil and other H.L. Hunt, etc., connections. Anyway, that was her life. A friend of mine met her, and said she looked like a gypsydon't insult the gypsy tribes. A received a phone call from Peter Hurkos ex-wife, and also from the woman who actually wrote jeanne dixon's astrology column. She was not an astrologer; that would take a brain. Sybil knew Mickey Dahn, and Linda Goodman - some of the good ones. So - I have not been to bed yet, and it is time to get up agian. If you still have her books..read about the cleansing peirod, where we are all going to burn.she was a vicious woman, she was not a prophetess, let alone an astrologer - I wasn only interested in the "divine" status. Also, I had written Bud Fensterald and Mry Ferrell, researchres and Assass. Committee, what I would do - and sent Mary lall aritcles. So, I do not have this for record. Colleen DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- By the way, Jeanne Dixon was NOT in intelligence - she wasn't that smartshe was on Hearst payroll, King Syndicate, and ended up with Star...Enquirer was CIA stuff. Also, Kennedy had grey eyes, not blue.she tought Walter Reuther would win. Anyway, that soothsaying charge even hit Woman's Daily Wear, and Ronald Reagan got into the act.It lowered her self-inflicted divine status; and that is all I wanted. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Skeptic News Thursday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990311b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 Martian meteorite found. (BBC) A rock discovered in the Sahara Desert is only the 14th meteorite known to have come from Mars. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_294000/294187.stm # Also: Live volcanoes on Mars? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_281000/281207.stm @ Links: Mars Meteorites: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/ @ The Whole Mars Catalog: http://www.reston.com/astro/mars/ @ Meteoritical Society: http://cavern.uark.edu/studorg/metsoc/metbull.htm : Would you like to inhabit a meteor? Which one? Are meteors good tools for spreading life around the universe? Do ETs ride meteors? Are they efficient? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Magnet theory to life on Mars. (BBC) Scientists reveal what may be the best evidence yet for past life in a rock from Mars - tiny magnetic grains. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_294000/294313.stm and http://www.anomalous-images.com/news/news381.html # Also: Life on Mars - new claims: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_289000/289214.stm : Is life an alien plot, a holy mystery, inevitable, a miracle, a bother? Did life come to Earth from Mars, or vice versa, or somewhere else, or not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Colossal solar storms which can destroy communication satellites and knock out power grids on Earth may be predictable. (BBC) Scientists have found that unusual S-shaped [sigmoid] patterns on the sun are frequently followed by eruptions a few days later. If early warning of the eruptions can be given, protective measures could be put in place on satellites and on Earth. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_293000/293638.stm and http://www.anomalous-images.com/news/news379.html @ Links: Corronal mass ejection prediction: http://solar.physics.montana.edu/press/ssu_index.html @ Yohkoh satellite: http://solar.physics.montana.edu/YPOP/ @ SOHO: Corronal mass ejection: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/cme/ # And: Where the solar wind blows: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_272000/272386.stm # Grabbing a piece of the sun: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_166000/166278.stm # Solar pictures amaze scientists: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_85000/85027.stm : Does this mean that all those old sci-fi stories about solar storms are obsolete, as dead as tales of jungles on Venus and canal-cultures on Mars? Can ETs make the Sun go nova? Can the CIA? Can we predict a nova? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Spacecraft Begins Mapping of Mars. LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Mars Global Surveyor has finally begun mapping the red planet, turning an array of instruments on Earth's dusty neighbor a year later than originally planned. "All our instruments are on now": www.anomalous-images.com/news/news380.html # Also: "Face on Mars" Activist Richard Hoagland Suffers Heart Attack: http://www.enterprisemission.com/medstats.html : Has the convenient MGS delay allowed all the incriminating artifacts to be removed? Is Hoagland's anomalous coronary condition linked to the cover-up? Who is orchestrating all this? Are all planetary missions manipulated? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cranking Up the Windup Computer. The South African company behind the windup radio will bring a new human-powered generator to laptop computers. http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/18381.html # Physicists Tie the Knot. Cambridge University physicists use mathematical models to map the four most common necktie knots -- and come up with six new ones. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/18270.html : Should all portable electronics be wind-up? Would you use a wind-up UFO detector? If a wind-up computer tied your mathematical tie with a program glitch, would you strangle? Do good mathematicians wear ties? Do aliens? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 5 Mar 99 Washington, DC 3. FREE ENERGY: STATE DEPARTMENT OPENS ITS DOORS TO NEW AGERS. Something called the Integrity Research Institute has announced the First Internatio- nal Conference on Free Energy (CoFE), April 29-30. IRI markets books and videos with such titles as The Race to Zero Point Energy, Anti-Gravity: The Dream Made Reality, and Holistic Physics and Consciousness. It is headed by a US Patent Examiner named Tom Valone, who has been recruiting other open- minded people to become Patent Examiners (WN 20 Nov 98). The speakers list for CoFE is certainly open minded; topics include: assisted nuclear reac- tions (a.k.a. cold fusion), sonoluminesence (a.k.a. cold fusion), hydrogen technologies (a.k.a. cold fusion), tabletop nuclear transformations (a.k.a. cold fusion), as well as zero point energy generation, negative resistance and... well, you
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990127b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with : are editorial comments to provoke discussion. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HA, HA, STICK ME AGAIN. Laughter is nature's false alarm signal, telling others that there's no danger from what may appear to be an ominous situ- ation. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=9010 # VATICAN ISSUES EXORCISM INSTRUCTIONS: DON'T LISTEN TO SHRINKS. The Vatican issued updated guidelines for driving the devil out of "possessed" people. Apparently the guidelines for exorcism haven't changed since 1614, and the instructions to priests who perform the rite have remained almost intact. There is one novel instruction, however. Exorcists are cautioned against taking psychiatric medicine into account. What do those doctors know, any-way? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=9011 : If you laugh at exorcism and similar primitive rituals, does that mean they're not really ominous? Can exorcism kill? [Hint: yes] Do you care? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Church Burned During Indonesia Riots. HILA-KAITETU, Indonesia (AP) One of the oldest churches in Southeast Asia was burned down by Muslim rioters last week. The Gereja Tua, or Old Church, in the twin villages of Hila-Kai- tetu on Ambon Island, was built in 1780 by Roman Catholic Portuguese colon- izers who came to the archipelago in search of rare spices. The church had been rebuilt or renovated many times and had been in constant use until religious rioting erupted on Jan. 21. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558236211-e92 Technology Sheds Light On Charred Ancient Texts. (DN) While his quest has never included the Holy Grail, Steven Booras has a handle on high adventure for a researcher, that is. He's working to shed new light on some ancient religious scrolls found at the site made famous by Harrison Ford in the last of his movie stints as the adventuring archaeologist, Indiana Jones. Petra, the Red City - http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,30007775,00.html? : What old religious objects and structures should be saved? What religious objects and structures would you like to destroy? Why? Are all religions of equal cultural value? Are their artifacts? Are religious artifacts kewl? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Think the Nets secure? Think again: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody990125.html # STUD PILLS, PASSION PILLS AND OTHER INTERNET SNAKE OIL SWINDLES. Old wine in new bottles? The Internet is fast becoming a swindler's playground with a rash of illicit "miracle supplement" cures out. Beware. It's *your* life. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=9013 # A PILL THAT INCREASES BREAST SIZE? This is a preposterous and ridiculous thing for women to fall for in this day and age. However, it is understan- dable because we have made such a big deal about it in our society. It's expensive and it feeds wrong thinking - but it may not do any actual harm. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=9017 : How about buying an Alien Implant Detector, Kirlianscope, Brain Circuitry Enhancers, Quantum Aphrodisiacs, all via Secure NetLink? Maybe a bridge too? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 1999 Is A Good Year To Cast Eyes Skyward To The Moon. (DN) It rules the oceans and the hearts of lovers, affects human fertility and religious holy days and sometimes determines when enemies to go to war. It's the moon, one of the most beautiful and mysterious objects of the sky, and if ever there was a year to pay attention to the moon it is 1999. No cow jumping over it, see http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,30008326,00.html? : What do you see in the moon? Have you seen the alien Nazi bases? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Human history due to twists of fate? ANAHEIM, Calif. (Reuters) Accidents of geography and animal and plant diversity, and not superior human genes, helped Europeans conquer much of the world. Some simple twists of fate the layout of the continents and the distribution of tamable plant and animal species are what helped a few small groups expand and take over most of the planet. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,30007887,00.html? : Are simple twists of fate the same as divine destiny, alien intervention? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Five Explorer mission proposals face feasibility studies. (NASA) Spacecraft to help answer some of the biggest questions in space science are candidates for NASA's medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) program. These MIDEX proposals are: 1) The Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer, a 3-telescope space observatory to study gamma ray bursts. 2) The Next Generation Sky Survey (NGSS), a 4-chan- nel, supercooled infrared telescope to survey the entire sky with 1,000 times more sensitivity than before. 3) The Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer (FAME), a space telescope to obtain highly precise measurements of 40 million stars. 4) The
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991118b - - - - - - - - - - - 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, he? * No dinosaurs were charbroiled during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Advanced AI detects cat on keyboard: http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/pawsense-faq.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Flood Of Evidence: Scientists inundated with 'new proof' of Noah's deluge. Scientists have discovered an ancient coastline 550 feet below the surface of the Black Sea, dramatic new evidence of a sudden, catastrophic flood around 7,500 years ago - the possible source of the Old Testament story of Noah. http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/A13897-1999Nov17.html : Do most cultures living around rivers/lakes/seas have flood myths? Do most cultures living far from water have very few flood myths? Can you guess why? # Paul Bowles, whose name evoked dark Moroccan streets scorching deserts, has died in Tangier at the age of 88. Author, composer, translator: www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/11/19/timobiobi03003.html?999 http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/late/19bowles-nyt.html http://cnn.com/books/news/9911/18/obit.bowles.ap/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE BATTLE FOR YOUR MIND. The Birth of Conversion: Brainwashing in Chris- tian Revivalism in 1735. The Three Brain Phases: The Pavlovian Explanation. How Revivalist Preachers Work. Six Conversion Techniques. Not Always a Bad Thing. Cults: A Captive Course in Stockholm Syndrome. The Only Hope of Imm- unity. US Marines as a Brainwashing Cult. Steps in the Decognition Process. Thought Stopping Techniques. True believers mass movements. Persuasion techniques. Subliminal Programming. Vibrato. Extra-low Frequency Vibrations (ELFs). The Neurophone. Technological Tools for Mass Manipulation. Brain- washing'R'Us: http://www.magnet.ch/serendipity/sutphen/brainwsh.html : Has your brain been washed lately? Was it really scungy? Was lots of soap needed? Did it work? Do you think nice clean thoughts now? About what? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HELL ON EARTH - Were the last dinosaurs roasted alive? New theory suggests firestorm grilled 'T-bone Rex'. THE DINOSAURS may have perished in a gas- fuelled firestorm of unimaginable intensity, claims a team of American oceanographers. They think the impact of a giant asteroid or comet in the Gulf of Mexico unleashed vast blasts of methane that set the air ablaze. Smokin' - http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991120/newsstory1.html : Have you roasted any reptiles, amphibians, saurians lately? Do they taste just like chicken? Did the scent of roasted dinos permeate the collective unconsciousness of the surviving mammals, passed down via racial memory to this very day? Is that why Col. Saunders / KFC is such a success? Really?? # Kids go crazy for buffalo hot dogs, Forget the old pork'n'rat-hair type - kids seem to think buffalo dogs are the best. Sez a 7-year-old: "It was better than a regular hotdog. I can't say why,it just tastes like buffalo" http://sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,245132304,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ CE2s and Frustrated Science. Unfortunately, the resistance to UFOs by many scientists ensures that the kind of investigation CE2s require is seldom accomplished. A properly conducted inquiry requires scientifically trained investigators who have access to the necessary field instruments. It also must have laboratories and personnel willing and able to analyze samples or other relevant materials. Since all of this is expensive, the investi- gation must also be well funded. http://www.caus.org/pn111799.htm : Has your CE2 [Close Encounter of the Second Type] been well investigated? Did anyone care? Was the investigation suppressed? By who? Are you afraid?? # Mexican UFO Sightings Continue - - Wave Began In 1991: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/mexr.htm # Thousands In New Guinea Area See HUGE UFOs...Some Just Meters Above The Sea: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/guinea.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hitler race project revealed. BERLIN (AP) Records of children born under a Nazi project to breed a German master race will be opened to the children now trying to track down their roots. The archives may hold files of some 1,000 children born from Adolf Hitler's quest for a race of tall, blond, blue-eyed Germans. The files could help some identify the parents of those children who did not meet the Nazi racist criteria and were sent to orpha- nages. Under the breeding program known as Lebensborn, or Fount of Life, women deemed by the Nazis to fit the ideals of the German race were mated with selected men to "bear a child for the Fuehrer." Eugenics'R'Us - see
