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Wednesday, March 8, 2000 03:39 p.m. SkeptiNews 000308c - - - - - - - - - - -
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 evil blasphemers or their books were burnt to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Secrets Online: http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/files.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Resurrecting life on Mars? Can bacteria leave fossils? Debate on this contentious question is central to the mystery of whether or not there is, or ever was, life on Mars. And it is a debate that has just re-opened. Next: cloning Martians: http://helix.nature.com/nsu/000309/000309-3.html # Photo: USAF Jet Caught Spraying Chemtrails - NOT A Fuel Dump. Someone finally got a close up photo of a RC or EC 135 that is dumping "some- thing" that forms contrails. The fuel dump valves on a 707 type air- craft are in the wing tips. http://www.sightings.com/politics6/chemrl.htm : Have you seeded any planets lately? Do you use vapors, liquids, particles? Can your spores be resurrected? Do your seedcraft sometimes crash and burn? Do you attempt to evade observation? D'ya employ diversionary tactics? How? # The Windsor UFO Fireball Incident - Crash And Subsequent Cover-Up - just what are they hiding? http://www.sightings.com/politics6/windsor.htm @ Remote Viewing: www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/5862/pan19remote.html @ BRIGHTSPARKS - Free Energy Sources: http://www2.murray.net.au/users/egel/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Battle over book in Greece. ATHENS (AP) It began with a small fire. About 200 religious zealots & ultra-conservatives fed the flames with copies of a book they call blasphemous, writing of the possible sexual longings of Jesus Christ. Now a full-scale cultural war is raging. God on a stick: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564821545-91e : Have you burnt any books/(un)believers/demagogues lately? Does your belief system promote arson/incineration, shooting/stabbing, stoning/squashing, or other methods of disposing of opponents and their artifacts? Do you kindle? # Suspect's note attacks Christ: 'Costly mistake putting white people on the face of the earth' www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20000307taylor1.asp # Pope John Paul marks Ash Wednesday - pigs-out on Big Mac, fries, vanilla malt: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564822715-375 # Muslims flock to prophet's mosque - annual Hajj is in full swing: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564826266-993 # More Falun Gong followers detained - China busting foreigners: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564824657-756 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # JUPITER'S TERRIBLE TIDES. (Nasa) Powerful tidal forces from Jupiter have molded two of the solar system's most bizarre worlds, fiery Io and icy Europa. Images released this week reveal new details of tidal action on the two moons. http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast08mar_1.htm # MYSTERY OF THE DISAPPEARING ROCKS. 1340's super-high tide won't repeat until 3089: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s107608.htm # LACK OF THUNDERSTORMS 'BORING.' (Nasa) Without El Nino to spice up life along the Gulf Coast, it’s been "a boring year" for thunderstorm watchers, say scientists who have found an interesting correlation between El Nino and lightning. http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/essd08mar_1.htm @ Sea it all: news:alt.binaries.images.underwater : Are you bothered by tidal forces? D'ya prefer tides on Bermuda, Luna, Io, a neutron star? Are you washed by tides of thought/energy/gravity/lust/odor/ magma/dogslobber? D'ya crave planetary action? Is ordinary life too boring? # Explaining Strange Behavior In Magma. New research has shed light on how glassy materials -- melts that have been quickly frozen -- are formed in exotic chunks of mantle, and how ascending magmas in the mantle can affect the lava output at Earth's surface through chemical, rather than thermal, reactions. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000307090435.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ RETURN OF THE PHOENIX. 10,500 BC, 2000 AD, Ancient Civilizations, Ancient Egypt, Ancient History,Ancient Memory, Archeology, Atlantis,Catastrophism, Chandler’s Wobble, Christianity,Clairvoyance, Crustal Motion, Earthquakes, Edgar Cayce, End Times, Geology, Geophysics, Giza, Great Pyramid, Hall of Initiation, Hapgood, Hermes and Hermetic Philosophy, History of the 20th Century, Legends, Location of the Poles, Magnetic Reversals, Metaphysics, Millennium, Mythology and Metaphor of the Phoenix, Mythology, Orion, Plate Tectonics & Geophysics thereof, Polar Ice Caps, Polar Motion, Pole Shift, Precognition, Prophecy, Prophets, Psychic Phenomenon, Religion, Sphinx, Validation and Verification of Psychic Accuracy, Volcanism, Wisconsin Ice Age, Y'shua. http://members.aa.net/~mwm/phoenix/trilogy/rptrilogyfront.htm $ Three Charts: Vortex Textonics Trend Charts, get'em whilst they're hot: http://www.aa.net/~mwm/phoenix/trilogy/briefs/Xwavechartrelease.htm : Is this a good start? Why no revelations of the Illuminati,Priory de Sion, Zeta Reticulans, JFK removal, Giant Rock, Stonehenge, League of Babylon, Old Catholicism, Montauk, Paracelsus, Anabaptists? What are they trying to hide? # Icke Drawing Heavy Fire - Getting Too Close To The Truth? "New Age Meets The Third Reich - David Icke & the Politics Of Madness. Icke's politics are a very weird blend of New Age guru, anti-Semitism and neofascism. He is also antichoice." http://www.sightings.com/politics6/madness.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiSexaRama: # Child Porn or Innocent Photos? Family Members Charged for Nude Snapshots: http://apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/03/07/kidporn0307_01.html @ http://www.apbnews.com/forums/index.asp?section=16&message=21661&S=NC # California passes gay marriage ban - legalized pogroms to follow: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564813080-910 # Human ovarian tissue grown in rats. Researchers have transplanted human ovarian tissue into rats; may be able to produce eggs. It's the first time scientists have developed human ovaries in the bodies of another species. www.scmp.com/News/Front/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-20000308021642799.asp # Scientists assail book on rape - techniques are inadequate: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564814911-f7d # Chopra Wins Sex Harassment Suit; Still Fighting Verdict in Blackmail Case: http://apbnews.com/media/celebnews/2000/03/07/chopraverdict0307_01.html # Gymnastics Delays Puberty/Growth: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9488707 # Transsexual Gets 2nd Shot at School. TOKYO (Reuters) A male-turned-female transsexual will get another shot at high school after a district court told the school not to bar the 30-year-old graduate from re-enrolling as a woman. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000308/09/odd-transsexual # UK Hookers On Strike. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000308/09/odd-strike @ Rate Y'r Romance: http://www.excite.com/horoscopes/fun/rate_your_romance/ # T-Babe OK? http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/670000/audio/_670061_babe.ram @ Love-O-Meter: http://www.excite.com/horoscopes/fun/love_o_meter/ # Rio's Carnival party winds down - clothes reluctantly donned: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564807174-74e # New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras - nudity ban mostly unenforced: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564804508-516 # NoLa ankle-deep in trash: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9490730 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy." --Joseph Campbell [thanks, Marcus!] * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of: Science, Faith, Paranormal, Conspiracy, Sex, Dope, Art Wednesday, March 8, 2000 01:50 p.m. SkeptiNews 000308b - - - - - - - - - - -
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 electrons were rigged to produce this bulletin. Wait til polarization. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ I HATE YOU: http://www.theyrehere.com/ihateyou/ihateyou.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SCHOOL'S INTERRACIAL DATING POLICY REQUIRES PARENTAL APPROVAL. Students who want to take advantage of Bob Jones University's decision to drop its ban on interracial dating will need a note from their parents. Daddy, may I please have some hot monkey love? Please please please please please?? http://CNN.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/03/07/bob.jones.dating.ap/ # Unpacking a particle problem. (BBC) US researchers have put forward a new view on a problem that has fascinated mathematicians since biblical times. Holy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_670000/670429.stm # Divine intervention saved boy from falling bell! Praise Allah! Aiiieee!! http://www.omaha.com/Omaha/OWH/StoryViewer/1,3153,311869,00.html # Priest thanks God for St. Joseph statue's return: http://www.abqjournal.com/news/1statue03-07-00.htm : Have you unpacked any deities/saints/demons lately? Do your deities frown on dating other races/nationalities/species/genders? Do y'r deities save you from accidents, self-destruction, fate? D'ya thank your deities enough? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FBI & CIA HEADS SAY CHINA POSES 'VERY SERIOUS' ESPIONAGE THREAT - push for greater counterintelligence resources to cope with increased spying. Send lawyers guns & money: http://CNN.com/2000/US/03/08/freeh.spy/index.html # FORMER CIA LAWYER PLEADS FIFTH AMENDMENT IN SENATE PROBE - won't blab on John Deutch's security lapses: http://CNN.com/2000/US/03/07/cia.deutch.ap/ @ The State of Unclassified and Commercial Technology Capable of Electronic Mind Control Effects."Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electrical stimulation of the brain." http://www.raven1.net/uncom.htm : Do you control spies/generals/politicos/aliens? Do they control you? D'ya interact in formulaic ways? D'ya visualize your prospects, threats, options? Do you penetrate y'r opponents? Do they penetrate you? Is this sensual? Eh? @ NODE 1: The basic model for human-computer interaction - Levels of obser- vation - (Multi-) Modality - Multimodal vs. multimedia vs. virtual reality system - Communication channels - The Psychophysical Law - Uncertainty and discrimination: http://hwr.nici.kun.nl/~miami/taxonomy/node1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Food web theory suggests ecology may be governed by general rules. SAN FRANCISCO -- Chemistry has the periodic table of the elements, physics has the law of gravity,biology has natural selection. Ecology may also one day get its own set of natural laws. Research shows deep similarities between highly diverse ecosystems, suggesting the rules could be generalized. Take all the fun away: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/sfsu-fwt030600.html # SOCIALLY Dominant Birds Stay Leaner Than Their Subordinates: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000308081403.htm # BIOFOODS NOT ORGANIC http://CNN.com/2000/FOOD/news/03/07/organic.foods.01/ # Should biofoods be labeled? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9489701 : Have you mapped any deep similarities lately? What's your favorite model of reality? D'ya prefer edible models? Do you play with your food? Have you broken any laws of food lately? Have you eaten any genes? Fried, baked, raw? # A Call for Genome Peace. (Wired) While researchers in a race to map the entire human genome argue over the terms of a collaboration, observers say a team effort could hasten the real fruits of their labor. Let's all get very rich: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34815,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # POT/HEART ATTACK LINK OVERBLOWN. The headlines make it sound like every baby-boomer who smokes pot is at risk for a heart attack, but the actual numbers from this study are pretty insignificant. Other lifestyle factors: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=28808 # Diabetes drug may spur heart failure - definitely destroys livers: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564804450-eb8 # Mexican heroin trafficking emerges - officials demand bribes: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564811216-fce # Fungus May Kill Coca: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9495875 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_670000/670607.stm # BOOZE CLUES - Could a brain steroid explain why men drink more than women? http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns222921 : What's your favorite drug? Are you preprogrammed by genetics/biology, god, aliens, CIA agents, language/consciousness, BillGates, me? Do you ingest pot daily? Do you invent new symbols? Have you forgotten them all? Try again?? @ STAR LANGUAGES are a unique Ascension tool comprising many different "alien" languages in pictographic or symbolic form. These languages were channelled by five Australian Lightworkers, under the guidance of the Egyptian Lightbeing, Akhnaton. There have been over 300 of these symbols brought forth and decoded. A select number of these Star Languages have been released in the form of cardsets, for personal, transformational use. Change yourself now: http://www.eagleswings.com.au/introduction.html $ Introductory kit: http://www.eagleswings.com.au/languages.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New Cryogenic Detectors Probe Recent Evidence For Dark Matter Particle. A new breed of particle detector, operating near absolute zero, has proven extremely accurate in identifying the particles that crash through it. The novel detector, buried 35 feet underground on the Stanford U. campus, has searched for more than a year for exotic & elusive particles that, accor- ding to some theories, make up more than 90 percent of the mass of the universe. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000308081842.htm # New light on dark matter. (BBC) Astronomers have made the first ever map of the mysterious "dark matter" of the Cosmos. Not folded/torn yet: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_670000/670207.stm # Also - Viper telescope probes Big Bang 'echo' - cosmic walls rattled: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_506000/506349.stm # Universe is 12 billion years old - doesn't look a day over 11.75: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_352000/352563.stm : D'ya prefer dark/medium/light matter; mental matter; no matter? # For the First Time in 14 Years, Astronomers Spot Two "Shepherd" Uranian Moons. ITHACA, N.Y. - One day before the space shuttle Challenger tragedy, Voyager II scientists proudly announced the discovery of two small moons around the planet Uranus. Initially dubbed 1986 U7 & U8, the moons later officially received the Shakespearean names Cordelia & Ophelia. And in the 14 years since their detection, astronomers have been unable to find them. Until now. www.news.cornell.edu/releases/March00/UranusMoons.bpf.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "The tree of Liberty must from time to time be watered by the urine of craven cowards and traitors, tied to it and executed by firing squad." --Thos. Jefferson's secret diary * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of: Science, Faith, Paranormal, Conspiracy, Sex, Dope, Art Wednesday, March 8, 2000 11:02 a.m. SkeptiNews 000308a - - - - - - - - - - -
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 elections were rigged to produce this bulletin. Wait until November. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Capitol gets meditation paths. WASHINGTON (AP) - Members of Congress accustomed to navigating the mazes of lawmaking will have one or more labyrinths - curved paths intended to help walkers reach inner peace - laid out for Lent on the Capitol's East Lawn. Now, members and visitor to the Capitol will be able to walk through the labyrinths and meditate. "A labyrinth is a simple path...tool for personal, psychological and spiritual transformation. They are right-brain activity enhancers." See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564802578-dac @ ILLUMINATI NEWS. "No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will... pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation." D.Spangler, Dir.Planetary Initiative, United Nations. http://mercury.spaceports.com/~persewen/illum_index.htm : Should politicos be encouraged to engage in right/left/no-brain exercises? Do/should/can/must your political/social/cultural/ideological leaders avoid meditation, masturbation, menstruation, ministration, mediation, medication? # Amphibians in Asian food markets are pounded to death and stacked up in frog-shaped globs of pale pink jelly. Culture, cruelty, or both? Or just entertainment? http://www.mojones.com/news_wire/animalmarket.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The EMR mind machine does indeed exists. The Microwaves frequency of EMR mind machine can also be used as a weapon, and it has already been used to harass & harm many innocent Americans all over the country. Numerous cases of abuse by corrupted officers: http://www.netti.fi/%7Emakako/mind/yu.txt # COOKING YOUR BRAIN. The mind (machine) control system is the national security system of Taiwan from the late 1970s and should be the same in US or lots free countries. Its name means the machine can be used to read the human mind. Mind control operators attempt to fry my brain daily as I post to many Usenet newsgroups. Furthermore, the operators frequently use the EMP weapon to damage my car since they intend to force me living [in poverty] without car. http://deskmerc.simplenet.com/kooks/alanyu.htm : Has your brain burnt out lately? Have govt/military/corporate/Illuminati operatives cooked y'r synapses with microwaves/lasers/rap? Are you unwilling to obey the voices in your head? Do they tell you to perform unnatural acts? # THE VOICES IN MY HEAD? Real time direct pulsing to the brain cortex via remote telemetry delivered from satellite based platforms, or possible subprojects of MKULTRA called Mensa and Scrabble Systems directly pulsed to the targeted brain cortex. http://www.konformist.com/1998/voices.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MAGNET THERAPY ATTRACTS THE GULLIBLE. Finally, a controlled, double-blind study on magnet therapy for back pain. Result: it works about as well as a placebo. That is, it didn't do much to relieve pain or low back problems. Tsk. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=29027 @ Memes have taken over our brains, so the theory goes. They are not our creations: we are theirs. Is this an idea that skates close to nonsense? www.calendarlive.com/calendarlive/books/bookreview/20000305/t000000143.html : What's your favorite meme? Does it control you? Who controls it? And what controls that controller? And all the way back... Have you remote-viewed the controllers? Do they remote-view you? Do they use magnets? Do you? Working? @ NWO - MKULTRA: http://www.vegaspreacher.com/conspiracy/newworld.htm @ New world order & ELF. psychotronic tyranny: http://dnai.com/~zap/elf.htm # Ghost Time: The Dunta & Other Encounters http://www.caus.org/pc030800.htm # Three More Flying Triangle Reports: http://www.caus.org/ft030800.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MEN/WOMEN FROM THE SAME PLANET AFTER ALL. Are men really from Mars & women really from Venus, as a recent best-seller suggests? Not according to this study: men and women suffering from depression are both troubled by the same concerns -- relationship problems and professional achievement issues. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=28773 @ The Chinese Pyramids - An Extraterrestrial Legacy. According to ancient Chinese legend, over 100 pyramids discovered in China are the legacy of extraterrestrial visitors. The pyramids belong to an age when the "old emperors" reigned in China, and the emperors always stressed the fact that they did not originate on Earth. Rather they were the descendants of the "sons of heaven, who roared down to this planet on their fiery metallic dragons". http://www.alphaomega.se/english/chinesepyr.html : Are you male/female/other? Are you from Earth/Mar/Venus/other? D'ya ever take your fiery metallic dragon to a carwash, bodyshop, Earl Scheib studio? Are you depressed by failed relationships/achievements/domination? D'ya cry? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # US Unprepared For BioWar Attack. THE US has again been reminded that it is woefully ill-prepared to handle threats of biological terrorism. General Accounting Office charges govt has failed to properly manage resources to protect the public from the scourge of potentially devastating biological weapons. http://online.hkstandard.com/FulStory/20000303/aop053C.htm # TIME TRAVELER. She was brought into "security projects" for her psychic abilities and for real combat. Such specialists are preened to do what no ordinary soldier can do, and yet later they are treated like unwanted refuge by cowardly project-Fuhrers. http://www.caus.org/os030800.htm : Are you prepared for NBC [Nuclear/Biological/Chemical] attacks, psychic/ temporal combat, spiritual/moral devastation, political subversion, electro- digital hacks/cracks/jams, other possible threats? Is y'r budget sufficient? # BUSH & GORE STOMP - military-corporate establishment maintains power in US: http://CNN.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/03/08/super.tuesday/index.html # HIGH TURNOUT: www.CNN.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/03/07/tuesday.turnout/ # BREEDERS 4 BUSH: www.CNN.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/03/07/bushabort.ap/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # "Good kid" school bomber may go to Air Academy. A year ago, A.J. Walker faced charges of trying to blow up his high school. Today, he's being recruited by the USAF Academy, which has dubbed the youth a "blue-chip athlete." A.J.'s attorney says: "This is a good kid if you get beyond the hysteria of this incident." So, forget those charges of attempted second- degree murder; armed burglary; making, throwing and placing a destructive device; and conspiracy, for putting a petrol bomb in a classroom ceiling. http://sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,29000000000107706,00.html [ via http://www.obscurestore.com/ ] : Should warriors/terrorists/bombers start their training in grade-school, kindergarten, gestation? Should violence be taught or self-taught? Do you prefer pipebombs, firebombs, tactical/strategic nukes, Kevin Costner flics? # I'LL SEE YOU ALL IN HELL: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9488088 # Oklahoma bombing convict appealing, but judge refuses kiss: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564814925-8be _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "This punishment is not boring and pointless." --Bart Simpson * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of: Science, Faith, Paranormal, Conspiracy, Sex, Dope, Art | |
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