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@ Bill: http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/700000/images/_701665_gates_supuf.gif
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# Ground-Penetrating Radar Showing Ancient Civilizations. Tunnels have been
  mapped under the Mayan pyramid complex at Tikal, which extend a full 800
  kilometres to the opposite side of the country. Investigators said it was
  possible to understand how half a million Mayans escaped the decimation
  of their culture. http://members.tripod.com/~Ravenwoods/index-55Giza.html

# POPE JOHN PAUL II TO TRAVEL TO FATIMA - likelihood of alien abduction is
  rated "very high" - http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48696
@ Have you been abducted by aliens lately? http://www.visitations.com
# END-TIMES TIMES: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5951 Hurry!!
# 2nd Giant Iceberg Amok: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9626569

: Have you terminated/hidden/discovered any civilizations lately? Will your
civilization be terminated/hidden/discovered anytime soon? Are aliens busy
abducting civilized folk while their cultures are being terminated? Why not?
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# Victims of Cult Fire Burned Alive. KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - The 530 people
  whose charred bodies were recovered after a doomsday cult's fiery climax
  were still alive when their gasoline-soaked chapel exploded in flames,
  forensics tests showed today. The doors and windows of the chapel were
  bolted from the outside. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9626995

# ABSTINENCE-ONLY BEST: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48714
@ Society for the Attainment of Total Abstinence: http://totalabstinence.com
# Crack Down On Body Piercing! http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9627047
# VATICAN MAGAZINE "CIVILTÀ CATTOLICA" WARNS ON RISKS OF ISLAMIC-CATHOLIC
  MIXED MARRIAGES: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48709

: Does y'r belief system grow mainly by: voluntary/forced conversion; births
into your creed; mindcontrol/programming? Do you keep your membership count
stable by: abstinence; immolation; sterilization; enslavement; harvesting?
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# Chinese begin cyber-mourning. (BBC) Thousands of Chinese are turning to
  the Net to continue the tradition of ancestor worship which dates back
  thousands of years. While past generations of Chinese would have turned
  to shrines or graves to pay their respects to dead relatives, modern
  urban Chinese are visiting virtual "memorial halls". A website devoted
  to the subject said it had 300,000 visits within days of its launch.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_701000/701459.stm

# IT'S GOOD TO BE KING. There's no need to be disenfranchised. Just start
  your own nation. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.03/kingdoms.html
@ ARMCHAIR ANTHROPOLOGY - don't miss the rituals: news:sci.anthropology

: Have you studied many human rituals/customs/mores lately? Do human rituals
& doctrines continuously evolve? D'ya have a hard time keeping up? Have you
automated your rituals/customs/mores/studies? Does death slow you down? How?
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# Church Logging Plan Opposed. A plan by the Catholic Church to log ancient
  redwood trees on 62 acres in rural Sonoma County tells environmentalists
  that nature is being sacrificed to solve cash woes. Church denies link to
  $16M sex-abuse-payoff debt: http://www.pressdemo.com/local/news/8238.html
@ Santa Rosa Diocese: http://www.pressdemo.com/evergreen/diocese/index.html
# CDF plans to cite loggers: http://www.pressdemo.com/local/news/48409.html

# Mormons hold historic conference - Members told to avoid porn & liquor,
  befriend non-members, pay tithes, drop extra spouses, wash behind ears:
  http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/20000404_xex_mormons_hold.shtml
# Mormon Conference - 'Miracle has been accomplished' - no beer:
  http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,155014831,00.html?

: Have you worked any miracles lately? Are miracles required when opposing
entrenched religious groups? Would you rather live without mates, churches,
beer, cash, porn, redwoods? Have you prayed over a clear-cut lately? Where?
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# New Chip Advance Mimics Human Eye. BOUYGES, France - Mimicking the human
  eye's neural networks and the brain, an electronic "eye" on a chip can
  now handle complex tasks ranging from reading sign language to avoiding
  collisions. http://www.techweb.com/wire/news/1997/09/0913vision.html

# HACKERS CAN TURN YOUR PC INTO A BOMB! Blow you to smithereens! WASHINGTON
  -- Right now, computer hackers have the ability to turn your home computer
  into a bomb and blow you to Kingdom Come -- and they can do it anonymously
  from thousands of miles away! http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1450.html
# We're geeks and we're proud! http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9627240

: What's your favorite high-tech advance? How smart/dangerous/insane is your
home computer? Have any chips turned on you lately? Are they programmed to
kill? Are we all? Should we kill all computers now, before they kill us? Eh?
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# Mob led by nobleman, churchman ruined GM crop - dawn raid on lab farm:
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Environment/2000-04/gm040400.shtml
# Concerns rise as ecoterrorists expand aim - Biotech research and fur
  farms are the latest targets of fringe groups on the far left:
  http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/04/03/fp3s3-csm.shtml

# Motorola Invests in Virtual Tissue Bank Firm - virtual biotech
  booms: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000404/09/science-tech-motorola
# Govt & Biz Are Missing The Green Wave - not taking full advantage
  of science and technology in innovating to protect the environment.
  http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/esr-gab040300.html

: Have you sabotaged/terrorized/subverted any advanced technologies lately?
Do your masters reward you well for impeding human survival? Which billions
of humans would you mist like to starve to death? Is the alien harvest soon?
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# Weird Path To Wired future - Cyber-elite plot. TORONTO -- Every spring for
  10 years, about 400 hackers, crackers & cryptographers -- as well as cops,
  legislators & journalists -- have met for a week to debate tech issues so
  cutting-edge that the rest of the world won't notice them for years. Com-
  puters, Freedom and Privacy (CFP) is the most important computer confab
  you've never heard of. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cth671.htm

# It's About Speed, Stupid. (Wired) Bottom line: For most people, the Web is
  just too slow to be of any real use. Now, a group of tech firms and ISPs
  will conspire to speed things up. Broadband Content Delivery Forum to rule
  the world? Soon: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,35411,00.html
# Space Symposium Convenes: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9627235

: What's your favorite hi-tech conspiracy? Have you plotted to rebuild/rule/
enmesh the world lately? Will instant communications mean instant control
of all humans? Who does the controlling? Who controls the controllers? How?
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  "Mankind was born free, and is everywhere in chainstores." --DoktorPete

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@ ALIEN RAPTURE: http://www.crystalinks.com/movabduction.gif
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# UFO Reports Up In March: Maine, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Mar-
  yland, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon,
  Sweden, England - ARE THE ROSWELL SYMBOLS NATIVE AMERICAN? - PLANETS CON-
  VERGE - BIOWAR TESTING? http://www.sightings.com/general/filers4400.htm

@ Underground Civilizations: http://www.crystalinks.com/underciv.html
@ Underground Bases & Tunnels: http://www.crystalinks.com/underbases.html
# New CIA MJ-12 Document Surfaces - TOP SECRET/MJ-12 Directive Draft Memo?
  http://home.earthlink.net/~rcollins637/reports/mj12_directive_memo.htm

: D'ya prefer non-human civilizations to be underground; in space; between
dimensions; collaborating with spies/scientists/bankers/terrorists/hackers?
Have you collaborated with any non-humans lately? Are they exasperating??
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# FIRST PRIVATELY-FUNDED MANNED SPACE MISSION BLASTS OFF FOR MIR. 2 Russian
  cosmonauts are on their way to staff the empty Mir space station, on the
  first-ever piloted space mission funded by private investment. Buying-out
  government: http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/space/04/04/russia.mir.01/index.html

# Satellites To Aid Alzheimer's Victims - tracking the demented:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565397168-c24
# Antioxidant Vitamins C And E May Protect Against Mental Decline And Some
  Dementias: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000331093955.htm

: Have you invested in space/dementia/control lately? Are you demented? Can
you be medicated/tracked/controlled? Have the voices in y'r head gone quiet?
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# THE DROPA STONES. 716 more grooved stone discs were uncovered in the same
  caves, telling the story of a "space probe" by the inhabitants of another
  planet that crash-landed in the Baya-Kara-Ula mountains. Many were hunted
  down and killed by Han tribesmen. http://www.crystalinks.com/dropa.html
@ ALL EXTRATERRESTRIALS, ALL THE TIME: http://www.crystalinks.com/extra.html

# Rare Tests On Neanderthal Infant Sheds Light On Early Human Development.
  Modern forensic DNA techniques normally used to determine the identity
  of modern humans have been applied to a Neanderthal infant.
  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000331091126.htm
@ Humans & Aliens: Any Difference? http://www.caus.org/mc040400.htm

: Have you tested any humans/robots/angels/aliens/deities/demons lately? Are
you certain of the hereditary relationships? Are you a monkey's uncle; your
keeper's brother; somebody's mother? Do artifacts establish relationships?
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# Reports On "Weird Life" Almost Better Than Fiction. "The world’s toughest
  bacterium" made the Guinness Book of World Records.Deinococcus radiodurans
  can withstand 10000 times the amount of radiation that would kill a human,
  earning it monikers like "Super Bug" and "Conan the Bacterium." But is it
  seductive? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000331090958.htm

# SEA CHANGE - Learning To Live With Global Warming:
  http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/20000403/t000031243.html
# From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria in England in the Little Ice Age:
  http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol6no1/reiter.htm

: What's your favorite lifeform? Is it tough? Can it withstand environmental
extremes? Can you? Are you tough? Can you survive radiation, heat, freezing,
dampness, mindcontrol/marketing/malaria? Are you adapted for catastrophe??
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# 3 Way Partition Of Israel In The Making. The Pope's Israel visit was more
  than a pilgrimage to Xian sites. The Israeli govt has secretly agreed with
  US and Euro negotiators to give up control of Jerusalem, to be partitioned
  into 3 separate zones - one each for Jews, Arabs, and Christians. The Pope
  was in Israel to stake out Catholic claims and to ensure that the Catholic
  Church has overall authority over the future Christian sector. Secret deal
  with NWO insiders: http://www.sightings.com/general/papalparse.htm

# RETURN TO SENDER: Representatives of 52 African countries want European
countries to return cultural treasures taken during colonial times. Likely?
http://infoculture.cbc.ca/archives/cultpol/cultpol_04032000_africanart.phtml

: What's your favorite cultural/political/economic/religious hegemony? Have
you forced any conquerors to divest themselves of their holding lately? Will
they only divest if their holdings are worthless? Do the Illuminati insist?
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# Surnames found in DNA. (BBC) Your surname may be written in your genes,
  according to a scientist who analysed the name Sykes. Track criminals,
  dads: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_701000/701286.stm
@ Cellular Genetics, Oxford U: http://phoenix.jr2.ox.ac.uk/CGG/Index.shtml
@ Am.Jrnl.of Human Genetics: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/journal

@ THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RAPE is the kind of specious tale that scientists
  swap over beer at the faculty club. "In science's pecking order, evoluti-
  onary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology
  than to physics." http://www.thenewrepublic.com/040300/coyne040300.html

: Is your history/destiny/character written into your genes? Are you geneti-
cally predisposed to violence/victimhood/vicissitude? Will future criminals
alter their genes to escape detection? Will underground gene labs flourish?
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# Fossil bridges land and sea. (BBC) A new fossil find could be the missing
  link in how our ancestors left the water to live on land 370 million years
  ago. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_701000/701008.stm

# Also - Ancestors walked on knuckles - some conservatives still do:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_687000/687341.stm
# Discovery challenges snake origins - "WE ARE NOT REPTILIOIDS!!"
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_680000/680116.stm
# Tiny bones tell evolution story - movie rights sold to Spielberg:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_678000/678458.stm

: Have you evolved much lately? Are you better than those who were created
and have no prospect for evolving? Who is your favorite missing link? Why?
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  "It is mentally and morally injurious to a man to do anything in which
  he does not find pleasure, and many forms of labour are quite pleasure-
  less activities and should be regarded as such... Man is made for some-
  thing better than disturbing dirt. All work of that kind should be done
  by a machine." --Oscar Wilde

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