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Monday, March 6, 2000 09:21 p.m.
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http://www.intplsrv.net/jcems/californ.htm_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# Antichrist revelations -
Cardinal says Antichrist is disguised as caring
vegetarian animal
rights activist. (BBC) A leading conservative candidate
to succeed
Pope John Paul II has warned that the Antichrist foreseen in
the
Book of Revelations is already among us. Kill vegan PETAs now, NOW!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_668000/668048.stm@ pope vs pope: http://www.truecatholic.org/ [
via http://www.ntk.net/ ]
#
It's Mardi Gras Time. NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mardi Gras partiers swarmed
the
French Quarter and lined the city's streets to grab beads thrown
by oddly
costumed people on parade floats. The party will last in
heavily Catholic
southern Louisiana and along much of the Gulf Coast
until Mardi Gras, or
Fat Tuesday, traditionally the last day of
feasting and celebration before
Ash Wednesday & the sacrifices
of Lent. Has Antichrist crashed the party?
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564737762-7d0# Rio's Carnival Kickoff - Naked Women, Flashing Lights,
Drunken Orgies -
everybody's favorite religious bacchanal has the
usual rousing start:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_667000/667200.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_667000/667844.stm_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# Gene firm labeled a 'con
job' (BBC) The head of Britain's leading human
gene sequencing lab
has attacked a private American firm's intention to
patent genes as
a 'con job' - and he's sorry he didn't think of it first:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_667000/667606.stm# Also - Biology's new world - building people &
animals to order:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_545000/545541.stm# Genome race hots up - immense power & wealth at
stake in outcome:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_533000/533765.stm# A great landmark in science - but aren't they all?
Nothing minor:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_232000/232393.stm: Have you replaced your body's organic fibres with
buckytubes yet? Can you
reprogram genes to do the replacement for you, or
will you need nanobots?
Will you be virtually
indestructible/immortal/omnipotent when it's done?
# Nanotubes Show
Promise From TVs To Velcro. Nanotubes, once considered
the waste
material that sat at the bottom of chambers used for making
bucky
balls, are being looked at with newfound respect by physicists,
electrical engineers, and computer and materials scientists. Stuff
of
the future: http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000306075508.htm_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# Dreamland Game. Bethesda
Softworks will publish The Dreamland Chronicles:
Freedom Ridge, the
next game from Mythos Games, the original developer of
X-Com.
Freedom Ridge is a turn-based strategy game, combining a strategic
overlay with a 3D tactical engine. Set in the future, the game is
about
humanity's last-ditch stand against alien invaders. As in
X-Com, players
will start off with little intelligence about the
alien foes, and must
research new weapons and vehicles to combat
them. Players will also build
new bases, scavenge for parts, and
protect the surviving human population.
According to Bethesda, the
plot will involve such UFO-conspiracy staples
as Area 51, alien
abductions, and, of course, the mysterious Men in Black.
Any
Reptilioids? http://www.gamecenter.com/News/Item/0,3,0-3812,00.html# Reptile Diverts Royal - Rare lizard disrupts Queen's
Australian plans:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_667000/667556.stm: Have Reptoids interfered with y'r plans lately? Have
you become acclimated
to Reptoids, Area 51, MIBs, cattle mutilations? Do
your games program you?
Have you received many implants? How much of you is
human, how much machine?
@ Cyborg Anthropology: http://eff.org/pub/Net_culture/Cyborg_anthropology/@ Borgs 4 Dummies: http://landow.stg.brown.edu/cpace/cyborg/definition.html@ Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and
Socialist-Feminism in the Late
20th Century http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# Fiddling With Human
Behavior. (Wired) Researchers at Stanford are studying
technology
designed to persuade people to change the way they think & act.
What they're finding is pretty scary. You can be reprogrammed without
much
trouble, effort: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34526,00.html# Eunuch MP takes seat. (BBC) India's first eunuch MP has
taken a seat in
the assembly in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
No balls for politics:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_668000/668042.stm: Have you been modified lately? Were your modifications
physical, chemical,
electrical, molecular, mental, spiritual, virtual? D'ya
act/think/feel very
different
politically/economically/religiously/artistically/sexually? How?
# Lolo
dies - Porn star Lolo Ferrari dies at home in France - 71 inches:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_667000/667728.stm# Sex-change drowning woman identified - naked body found
in chains on a
beach: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_667000/667597.stm# Surviving abuse - Abusers are usually "little people
with a big ego"
http://woman.iafrica.com/relationships/counselling/?src_id=tmp0409_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# Women priests - Report
highlights taunts and bullying. (BBC) Some have
received hate mail,
some been branded witches and some threatened with
rape since the
ordination of women priests started six years ago. No
mercy:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_667000/667488.stm# LDS prophet targets mainstream - Want to be a
best-selling author? First,
get religion. http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,155008119,00.html# Tune Into Holy Ghost: www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,155008065,00.html@ Theological Essays <yawn> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5951/: Are you belief-system's messages
convincing/entrancing/stimulating/boring?
What's your favorite mindcontrol
program? Do you disguise your dogma as fun?
Is your dogma magnetic,
gender-specific, universal, modular, interchangable?
# Light Receptor
May Be Key In How Animals Use Earth's Magnetic Field. A
blue-light
photoreceptor found in nerve layers of the eyes & brains has
caught the attention of seeking the magnetic compass that lets
migratory
birds and many other creatures find home using the
magnetic field of
Earth. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000306080023.htm_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
"I'm here to honor my
complexity
It's always been a bother to
me
How to reach genetic
heterogeneity?
Gene-splicing, cloning,
atomic mutation?
Dar dee dar, da dee,
doo doo doo, dum
Gettin' in
touch with my inner
squid..."
http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs6.htm#imhe* Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX:
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Monday, March 6, 2000 05:02 p.m.
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No imperialist warmonger pigs were embarrassed to produce this bulletin.
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: Have you encountered any aliens lately? Have
they damaged your spacecraft?
Do they fart on you? Are ETs (un)friendly,
(dis)interested, (un)imaginable?
: Have you simulated any
planets/biospheres/atmospheres lately? Do you have
any working models? Are
you ready to scale them up? Where to put them, eh?
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: What's your favorite imperialist action? Is
all politics imperial? Is all
art political? Are all conspiracies sexual?
Does an army possess a nation
like a pimp possesses a whore? Is power a
trinket/payment/trifle/symbol??
# UNANSWERED. She thought that with her first
book published, she would feel
complete. But the hollow of anxiety
only deepened. She: "I began believing
spirits talked to me in the
bathtub and in the forest.. I knew my stuffed
animals had feelings
and language as I had...I saw the spirit of President
Lincoln
floating next to a beach cabana on Chappaquidick Island after some
friends & I summoned him on a Ouija board... I started silently
conversing
with Pequot Indians in the wooded areas near my father's
Connecticut house
,or with Thoreau at the ruins of his shelter on
Walden Pond, or with enig-
matic sea creatures in the dark, seaweedy
ocean of Hyannisport." Still
unanswered: http://www.blueear.com/articles/unanswered_022000.html
: Do you speak with unseen entities? With or
without a telephone? Do you see
disembodied entities? With the TV on or
off? Do bathtubs/oceans/ponds/rivers
fill y'r memories? Does snowfall on
your fluids deafen/depress/diminish you?
# Falling Snow Can Create A Noisy Nuisance ...
Underwater. Snowflakes
falling gently onto the water; nothing could
be more quiet and peaceful...
for humans. But new research shows
these falling flakes can create an
enormous racket to the ears of
marine animals and sensitive sonar.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000305122454.htm_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
: Does your govt/agency/firm/church/cabal have
enough surveillance power?
Can you allow The People any privacy at all?
Does privacy endanger you? Do
you routinely destroy all incriminating
evidence? Do you get away with it?
# Students rapped for Virgin Mary pro-choice
flyers. The prez of Providence
College says pro-choice posters that
feature Mary reflect "anti-Catholic
bigotry" and he's not about to
go easy on their creators. Three students
behind the messages have
been fined $1,000 each and kicked out of school:
http://projo.com/cgi-bin/frame_it.cgi?URL=/report/pjb/stories/03296001.htm
: Does your belief system insist on
high/medium/low moral standards? Should
your belief systems be mandatory?
If your now-dominant heresy ever loses its
dominance, should all your
fellow-believers be rooted out, purged, expelled?
: Who are your favorite saints? Does your
belief system has a unique set of
saints? Do any other belief systems
recognize them? Should prayer to/at your
saints/saviours/deities/demons be
mandatory in public affairs? Do they work?
"SURE I believe in GOD - I carved one
from soapstone this morning."
Monday, March 6, 2000 01:39 p.m.
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@ The Centre For The Easily
Amused: http://www.amused.com/_ _ _ _
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# SKULLS OF WISDOM. Ditton Wilson disappeared in August of
1996 during an
investigation into the a group of caves and tunnels
beneath Salt Lake
City, Utah. Before his disappearance he produced
the skulls, which he
claimed came from an Alien grave-yard he had
found in a giant cavern
underneath the Cross-Roads Mall: http://www.srv.net/~bhw/interest.htm@ Also - The Alien/LDS Connection: http://www.srv.net/~bhw/favorite.htm: Are you Mormon/Alien/subterranean? Have you found many
strange skulls in
caves/tunnels/bunkers under shopping centers? Do all
shopping centers cover
alien cemeteries? Are all shopping-center developers
in collusion with ETs?
@ NOTE TO THE PRESS: The govt of the US
continues to rely on your personal
and professional gullibility to
suppress the information contained herein.
Your cooperation over the
past 40 years has exceeded OUR wildest expecta-
tions and we salute
you. The sun does not revolve around the Earth. The
US Government
has been in business with little gray extraterrestrials
for about 20
years. http://www.xs4all.nl/~dannyvs/dulce-3.html_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# GENE SPLICING - How to
create a life without sex. The US govt maintains
that genetically
modified crops are basically the same as traditional
ones, not
exotic new life forms. Activists say they represent unprece-
dented
attempts to interfere with Mother Nature. The truth lies some-
where
in between. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/990726/26dnab.htm# Preserve Fertility By Egg-Freezing. Female cancer
patients and other women
at risk of losing their fertility because
of medical treatments can now
help preserve their childbearing
options via a new egg-freezing program at
Stanford. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000306075837.htm: Do you create/maintain/live/prefer life without sex? Is
it cleaner? Have
you arranged for external reproduction yet? Do you have
adequate hosts yet?
@ What mysterious factors make some marriages
thrive and others explode into
shards of acrimony & loneliness?
http://linguafranca.com/0003/lovelab.html@ WOMEN: Are you addicted to sex? The sex addict is
someone who needs to
have constant, unrelenting, continuous sexual
gratification. See if you
fit the profile: http://woman.iafrica.com/relationships/?src_id=tmp0407_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# DOTCOZA. In South Africa, a
remarkable project to investigate if an indi-
vidual can survive
living only off the Net for three months. The person,
called
"dotcoza", will arrive in a house today, with only a bed, a compu-
ter, Internet access, and clothes on his back - and survive without
leav-
ing the premises for the allotted time period. http://www.dotcoza.co.za#
World's population getting fatter - Reptoids will harvest us soon:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564741086-637: Is Web-survival a form of abuse? Are we being
conditioned for dependence
on the Web and similar remote/enmeshed systems,
like chickens isolated in
their little prisons to lay eggs? Are you
isolated? Do you need the eggs?
@ National Society of MicroSoft Haters:
http://www.tradepage.co.za/nsmh/@ Webgrrls of South Africa: http://www.webgrrls.co.za/@
(SAICSIT) http://www.cs.unp.ac.za/saicsit/_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# Firefighters & UFO's -
friends or foes? http://www.caus.org/hk030600.htm# UFOs And The Unexplained In Saskatchewan. There have
been thousands of
sightings in Saskatchewan. Mostly in remote areas,
farm land and Indian
reservations. But some sightings have occurred
in the cities of Saskatoon
and Regina. Not just drunks: http://www.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca/~aa711/u.html http://duke.usask.ca/~fowlerr/u2.html http://sightings.com/ufo6/sas.htm@ REPTOYS. If we are to discover if our planet is being
prepared for open
contact by the unseen faces & whispered names
of certain globalized broth-
erhoods, we must keep a careful eye on
the toy market to monitor what
images our children are
psychologically ingesting. From Barbie to Barney,
what does the
trend portend? http://www.reptoids.com/reptoys.htm@ All Reptilioids, All The Time: http://www.reptoids.com/:
Have you been adequately prepared for alien contact? Doe aliens
infiltrate
in the far North, in fire/rescue situations, in toy companies?
Are the ETs
watching everything we do? Are birds descended from dinosaurs,
thus Reptoid?
# 'Spy Hawk' Captured? NEW DELHI (Reuters) India's Border
Security Force
has caught a hawk allegedly used by Pakistan for
spying purposes. Slated
for routine torture: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000306/07/odd-hawk_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# Top Underground Author
Banned From Radio Show As 'Too Conspiratorial!'
Shunned by
"Dreamland!" http://www.sauderzone.com
Banished By Streiber &
Art Bell!! Scandal! http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/tooconspiratorial.htm# Proof Of Top Secret Underground Alien Vaults At
Wright-Patterson AFB:
http://home.sprintmail.com/~rigoletto/reports/wpafb_underground_vaults.htm# Judge won't release Columbine tapes - the truth will
never be known:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564722213-548# Drug czar criticizes medical pot - not as good as
Lebanese hashish:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564745466-9dd: Have you covered-up anything lately? D'ya prefer to
cover-up govt atrocit-
ies/conspiracies/collaborations/infiltrations? Have
you been infiltrated by
aliens/agents/angels/assholes/authors? Are you
well-drugged? Will you share?
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# Voice-activated
Net developing. (AP) - Drivers yapping on their cellphones
while
cruising down the street is one thing. But how about checking email,
getting stock quotes, even shopping online 'on the hoof?' Coming soon:
new
"voice portals" that let people using wireless gadgets navigate
the World
Wide Web by voice commands or even listen to e-mail
messages being read to
them: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564764166-7a6# France Wants Its Own Cyberspace Jargon. PARIS (Reuters)
Appalled by the
spread of English across the Internet, France has
stepped up efforts to
invent its own jargon to describe the rapidly
changing world of cyberspace
and e-commerce. Merde! http://news.excite.com/news/r/000306/07/odd-jargon: Would you rather voice-cruise the Web in English,
French, Japanese, Urdu,
Klingon, PigLatin, Cobol? Would you rather link
telepathically with the Net?
# Low-tech tools come in handy for
high-tech research. (U-WIRE) AMES, Iowa -
Aluminum foil, Vaseline,
paper clips, toothbrushes and sewing needles are
normal objects to
have around the house, but they are apparently often
seen in labs,
too. It works: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000303/odd-17_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
"A bird in the hand may
well be worth two in the bush. But a bird in
the bush
never craps in your hand." -- http://www.SleazyTabloid.com* Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736
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