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Everything Is Fine

Friday, March 8, 2002 10:36 a.m. P.D.T.

Everything Is Fine In The USA

> ANACONDA 'RIGHT ON PLAN' - U.S.-led forces battled Mother Nature as well
  as al Qaeda and non-Afghan Taliban combatants in the mountains of eastern
  Afghanistan, after nearly a week of fighting. Despite wintry conditions,
  military officials said Operation Anaconda is "right on plan" and they
  are pleased to be battling with "hardened al Qaeda." More fun than sex!
  www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/03/08/ret.afghanistan.fighting/

> IN PICTURES: PENTAGON CRASH. Newly released pictures show the moments of
  impact of the hijacked plane that crashed into the Pentagon on 11 Sept.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1861000/1861977.stm

> WTC PUZZLE LINGERS. Better construction could have saved lives in the
  World Trade Center, but investigators are still puzzling over evidence.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1858000/1858491.stm

> KMART TO AXE 22,000 JOBS. Bankrupt US retailer Kmart says it will cut
  22,000 jobs in an attempt to return to profitability. Hello, welfare.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1862000/1862491.stm
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Everything Is Fine In Canada

* CLASSIFIED DISCS FOUND IN ALLEY NO THREAT TO SECURITY, SAYS DND.
  National defence officials insist computer discs found in an Ottawa
  alleyway marked "restricted" don't pose any threat to Canadian
  security, even though they contain info about navy submarines.
  http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/03/08/dnd_disks020308

* NAVY SAYS LEAKS ABOARD NEW SUB 'MINOR INCIDENT'.
  The Navy says a leak that caused a flood on its newly acquired
  submarine <I> HMCS Windsor </I> was too minor to mention. Oops.
  http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/03/07/hmcswindsor020306

* MORE CANADIAN SOLDIERS ON THEIR WAY TO KANDAHAR.
  Troops of the Second Battalion of the Princess Patricia's Canadian
  Light Infantry had to hasten their farewells to families and friends.
  http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/03/07/ppcli020307
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Everything Is Fine In The World

> SPIES MAY READ LED LIGHTS. By monitoring the flashes of LED lights on
  electronics equipment and the indirect glow from monitors, scientists in
  the US & UK have discovered ways to remotely eavesdrop on computer data.
  http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/03/07/led.snooping.reut/index.html

> SUPERBUG DYNASTIES CONQUER THE WORLD. The culprits behind antibiotic-
  resistant diseases now plaguing hospitals worldwide are members of only
  a few massive "superbug" families, which have spread out and conquered
  the globe. http://www.rockefeller.edu/pubinfo/sudberg030502.nr.html

> VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS MAY CAUSE ARCTIC OZONE HOLE. Following eruptions,
  volcanic sulfuric acid clouds would greatly add to the ozone-destroying
  power of polar stratospheric clouds, researchers said.  Then we'll be
  royally fucked. http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020304volcano.html
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Everything Is Fine Inside Your Head

* GODS AND GURUS HELP PREVENT SMOKING
  Teens with positive role models & religion less likely to use tobacco -
  smokers are anomic atheists: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?11206254
* Email From God: http://madblast.com/view.cfm?type=FunFlash&display=1030

* LTD Induction In Visual Cortex: Role of Stimulus Timing & Inhibition.
  One Hertz stimulation of afferents for 15 minutes with constant inter-
  stimulus intervals (regular stimulation) can induce long term depression
  (LTD) of synaptic strength in the neocortex. And then you're my slave
  forever: ftp://ftp.cnl.salk.edu/pub/eagleman/LTD_JNeurosci2001.pdf

* Transferring personality traits from one individual to another or to an
  inanimate object is an automatic brain function that can lead to absurd &
  comic associations. http://www.newsandevents.utoronto.ca/bin2/020122b.asp
* Thorough history of brains, illusions, peripheral stimulations, fatigue:
 ftp://ftp.cnl.salk.edu/pub/eagleman/Eagleman.NatureRevNeuro.Illusions.pdf

* Fear in Humans Dependent on Awareness of the Threat - Researchers have
  analyzed the brain activity underlying learned fear in humans and have
  found that it is sensitive to whether the subjects are aware of the
  threat, and is affected by reflexive fear responses such as sweating
  and increased heart rate. http://unisci.com/stories/20021/0214021.htm
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http://www.newzoid.com/nzheadlinecombo.asp

.................THIS NANOSECOND'S LATEST HEADLINES.........

  Unemployment Rate Returns to Florida to Help Brother, Republicans
  Rafsanjani Steels Not Connected, O'Neill Says
  Dior Watches ``Rabbit Fever'' Cases for Third Straight Quarter
  Study: Drugs Stemmed Cells Assume Role in U.S. Anthrax Attacks
  Thesp Trio Wanes as Mont Blanc Tunnel Reopens
  Senate Overwhelmingly Marks Women's Day but Burqas Rule Streets
  Al Qaeda Rampaged in Fierce Battle
  Bush Dips as Next NIH Director
  More Stress Among Spouses of Drug Side Effects
  Hormone Urged to Avoid 'Drink of His Papers
  Stocks Say Sex Abuse 'Criminal, Sinful'
  New Mexico First Encouraged by Job Data, but Still Concerned
  CDC Show Winter Wear in Charts
  Mugabe Digs Up 'Head' Remake
  Strange Illness Sets Up Judicial Probe to Tackle Corruption
  Baldwin, Sorvino Jailed with 111,000 Sit-Ups
  Filmmaker Left to Bleed to Death in the Hat'
  Iranian Dolls Wanes as U.S. Takes High Ground
  Online Porn Site to Launch 3rd Unmanned Spaceship Soon
  Richard Pryor Addresses Parliament
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  "In little more than a year we have gone from enjoying peace and
   the most prosperous economy in our history, to a nation plunged
   into war, recession and fear. This is a nation being transformed
   before our very eyes." http://www.truthout.com




Happy Stick Figures

Friday, March 8, 2002 09:31 a.m. P.D.T.

@ Happy Stick Figures: http://www.petting-zoo.org/Hardcore.html
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* UFOs Over Yugoslavia! "Authorities are investigating after hundreds of
  people in a Montenegrin village reported seeing a cluster of giant UFOs."
  Not just swamp gas: http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_538533.html
* Strange Dream: http://www.caus.org/updates/cu010602_1.shtml (abducted!)

* Maysville, KY UFO Flies Around Power Plant - Investigation Stymied:
  http://home.fuse.net/ufo/maysville.html (yet another damn coverup)
* The Enigma Of Frederick Bligh Bond And Glastonbury Abbey:
  http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/143_blighbond.shtml

What are your favorite enigmas, dreams, gasses, coverups, abductions, UFOs?
Have you seen any enigmas lately? Have they seen you? Do they stink? Do you?
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* Scientists Argue Whether Ancient Rock Hosts Oldest Life - but the rock
  just doesn't give a damn. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?11206183
* Why does USAF push ET UFO paradigm? http://home.gzinc.com/mmz/Hank2.htm
* Solar System Simulator: http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/ (go with the flow)

* NASA: Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have spotted a
  mysterious pulsing x-ray beacon near the north pole of the giant planet.
  It's probably Reptilioid aliens communicating with their home star system.
 http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/07mar_jupiterpuzzle.htm?list111399

What's your favorite Xray beacon? Have you pumped Xrays into ancient rocks
to create life lately? Have ETs simulated your solar system lately? Where?
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* Reverse their speech, find out what they're REALLY thinking. If you
  dare. Dare you? I dare, I dare! http://www.reversespeech.com/home.htm
* Is logical reality too much to hope for? http://logicalreality.com/
  Site contains realistic content, may be inappropriate for some viewers.

* Hacking with a Pringles tube - Empty cans of Pringles crisps could
  soon be helping malicious hackers spot wireless networks that are
  vulnerable to attack!! http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?11205927
* Solar Flares Zap Cellphones! http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?11204745

How much reality can you take at one time? Has your reality/cellphone/brain
been zapped lately? Have you been hacked, reversed, exposed, probed, dumped?
 
* Rivalino Is In Here: National Socialism and the occult:
  http://www.technoccult.net/columns/rivalino/rivalino2.html
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* Wakes & spokes: New motion-induced brightness illusions. Oooh...
  http://www-psy.ucsd.edu/~aholcombe/research/wakes/wakedemo.html
* OBSCENE INTERIORS: http://www.justinspace.com/obscene/oi1intro.html
* The Universe Is Beige: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?11205854

* EARLY HUMANS MIGRATED & INTERBRED. A new DNA study says humans migrated
  out of Africa several times and interbred with other populations, rather
  than killing them off. But of COURSE -- humans LIKE to interbreed. Even
  with other humans. http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/03/07/humanorigin020307

Have you explored the interiors/exteriors of other universes/illusions/pop-
ulations/nostrils lately? Are they hopelessly banal? Are you? Do you care?
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  "Sudanese, called himself a dervish, swallowed a fish-hook, cut himself
   open, took it out again. If an uneducated savage can do that, you can
   cut your own hair." --Giles Cooper




Bush: Create 500,000 Shitty Jobs By 2003

Wednesday, March 6, 2002 08:08 p.m. P.D.T.

* Bush Calls On Business Leaders To Create 500,000 Shitty Jobs By 2003
  WASHINGTON, DC — In a keynote address at the National Economic Summit,
  President Bush issued a bold challenge to the nation's business leaders
  Monday, calling on them to create 500,000 shitty jobs by next year.
  http://www.theonion.com/onion3808/bush_calls_on_business.html

* Grotesque Pentagon planning to annex Iraq into US-Israeli Empire:
  http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020311fa_FACT (Pax Dubya)
* Hail, Refuseniks! http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0306-03.htm
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* How bin Laden got away - "A day-by-day account of how Osama
  bin Laden eluded the world's most powerful military machine."
  Inshallah: http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0304/p01s03-wosc.html

* Ashcroft, American History, And Speaking In Tongues:
  http://www.rense.com/general20/ashcroftAMhistory.htm
* Alois Irlmaier, WWIII And The Shape Of Things To Come:
  http://www.rense.com/general20/shape.htm (bend over)
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* Conformity and seriousness are bigger threats today than chaos. We
  will soon be living in a country unworthy of P.T. Barnum, our true
  Founding Father. http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/03/brooks.htm

* The lure of Syracuse: Plato's failed attempt to tutor a tyrant was
  the start of a long line of baleful intellectual incursions into
  politics. http://www.policyreview.org/FEB02/menashi.html  And see
  http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/entertainment/books/2736292.htm




AXIS OF EVIL

Thursday, March 7, 2002 10:41 a.m. P.D.T.

@ Axis Of Evil: http://democraticunderground.com/store/images/home_axis.gif
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* The omnipotent God who the creationist thinks "designed" the universe was
  not limited by trade-offs or physical laws. So why is there evil? Is evil
  just a cruel divine prank? http://www.csicop.org/si/2001-09/design.html
* Queer Priests? Evil: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=24408

* It sounds as odd as saying, "Hitler's favorite rabbi," but it's true: the
  Führer did take advice from a *Jewish* clairvoyant. And the implications
  are? http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/02/27/hanussen/print.html
* Paranormal A to Z: http://www.paranormalatoz.com/index.html (but spotty)

Is your evil designed, created, destroyed, modified, consulted, approved???
_ _ _ _ _

> HACKER CLAIMS WORM MEANT TO COMBAT SEXISM. A hacker claiming to be a 17-
  year-old girl says she wrote a new worm targeting Microsoft Corp.'s .NET
  Web services platform to prove women are capable of creating computer
  viruses and make a statement against sexism.  You go, grrl!!
  http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/03/05/feminist.reut/index.html

* Bra Religion? http://www.madblast.com/view.cfm?type=FunFlash&display=1009
* She's Married to the Berlin Wall: http://www.geocities.com/berlinwall_se/
* Choose: Sex or quiet time? http://ananova.com/news/story/sm_534488.html

Have you married any objects/computers/clothes/animals/silences lately? Why?
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via "World Of The Strange" http://www.worldofthestrange.com [self-serving]

* Top 100 Sites
  http://www.worldwidetopsites.com/php/in.php?id=wots
* Top Mystery Sites
  http://millerservers.com/cgibin/mystery/topsites.cgi?brandi
* Topsite By Black Vault
  http://www.myblackvault.com/topsites/rankem.cgi?id=wots
* Sci- Feye Top 50 Sites
  http://matrix.mytopsitelist.com/jump.php?cmd=in&list_id=scifeye&site_id=wots

Are you stranger than anything that's been documented yet? In which ways??
_ _ _ _ _

* NUCLEAR FUSION IN A BEAKER? American researchers have created what appears
  to be a fusion reaction in a tabletop device no bigger than three stacked
  coffee cups. Twist of lemon: http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/03/04/fusion020304

* It seems there exists a niche for one whose life's calling is gleaning
  data by studying a lot of old crap http://www.scirpus.ca/dung/dung.shtml
  and taking notes about it. [via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Science/]

* It is no secret that our culture is accelerating. Not long ago one could
  get all the required asses kicked the old-fashioned way,but the times they
  are a changin', and so it was only a matter of time before the first fully
  automatic http://www.fred.net/turtle/asskicker/howitworks.html ass-kicker
  http://www.fred.net/turtle/asskicker/asskicker.html would appear. [ditto]
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  "You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained... I don't want
   to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction... I can get
   all that at home." --Peter Cook

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> I was blonde when I was little.  *hangs head in shame*

Purple dye can remedy that.  Or green dye, made from the
bodies of LGMs (Little Green Men ie ETs).  Or a shave.

Blonde jokes: http://www.natins.com/blond/index.html and
http://wwwedu.cs.utwente.nl/~biewenga/Cannonical_blondes.html

> I shall go back to www.despair.com and see what I can
> learn there.

Plain Ordinary Despair: http://despair.wuice.net/
Ages of Despair: http://www.agesofdespair.org/
Pit of Despair: http://www.isc.rit.edu/~ath4832/

Realms of Despair: http://www.game.org/main.html
  & unofficial: http://www.silverwolf-den.com/
  & maps: www.geocities.com/kimseym/rod/maps.htm

The Ecology of Fear, the Pornography of Despair:
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1998/09/cov_21feature.html




eat it

Monday, March 4, 2002 12:55 p.m. P.D.T.

@ Cook And Eat Aliens: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/cookets.htm
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* Eat bunny! Bunny Corp http://www.styledeficit.com/bunny/index.html offers
  many tasty selections for all bunny connoisseurs. Check out the full menu.
  http://www.styledeficit.com/bunny/menu/index.html I highly recommend the
  Fried Bunny. http://www.styledeficit.com/bunny/menu/fried.html Yummy-buns.

* In search of the cud-chewing soul of America,a Guardian scribe trekked to
  deepest Alabama. http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,658094,00.html
* He's trashed McDonald's outlets and marched with Palestinian farmers. But
  he still enjoys good dead meat: http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR24605.shtml
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* MAD ABOUT MILK. Got milk? If not, then thank your lucky stars. Because if
  you do,medical research shows that you are likely to be plagued by anemia,
  migraines, bloating, gas, indigestion, asthma, prostate cancer,and a host
  of potentially fatal allergies -- especially if you are a person of color.
  It's all a genocidal WASP plot: http://www.bohemian.com/dining-0209.html

* Don't ask me for a unified theory of food, or some principles of what
  eating must be, or any of that crap. I'm just a guy out for a good time.
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59730-2002Jan3.html Gulp.
* Universal substitution guide - Food Thesaurus: http://www.foodsubs.com/
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* [via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Food/ ] It appears PETA's Commando
  Chicks http://commandochicks.com/ have been given some reinforcements in
  the form of The Lettuce Ladies http://www.lettuceladies.com/meet.html and
  The Broccoli Boys. http://www.lettuceladies.com/broc.html Yumma-gootchie.

* For that Starbuck's steamed, mocha, cappu-frappo-Americano: a small is
  a tall, a medium is a grande, a large is a venti. Got it? Upsizing...
  http://www.vocabula.com/VRJAN02Epstein.htm (without even going metric)
* You need to eat a giant crab. http://www.hedge.net/fields/giantcrab.html
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* Experts Chew Fat Off New 'Remedy' - A Japan firm touts a fat-burning pill
  made from raspberry molecules. Skeptical nutritionists and scientists say,
 'Where's the beef?' http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,50530,00.html
* INTERACTIVE CATTLE MUTILATOR: http://www.t0.or.at/mutilate/mutilate.htm

* You prefer sushi to bananas. You also know how many bananas you'd trade
  for one slice of sushi. But ...uh... how much *money* are they worth?
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41329-2002Jan26.html
* Give them the gift of sausage. Now. http://www.sausagebymail.com/
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  "My advice, if you insist, on slimming:  Eat as much as you like --
   just don't swallow it." --Harry Secombe




DUCK AND COVER!

Monday, March 04, 2002 04:41 a.m. P.D.T.

@ Me, bad hair day: http://www.artsmia.org/mythology/full_jpg/15.jpg
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* Electronic UFO Detector Plans. Part I & Part II. Reports on the detection
  of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) using magnetic compass. You can build
  the detector from the plans. Also in text find: Use of electronic compass;
  Lists of UFO detectors; Availability of UFO Detector Kit. These are big
  files so you may have to take your time in the download. Remember the
  files will only be up for about 2 weeks then they will be taken down.
  No time to waste: http://hometown.aol.com/praoz/zjobs/detector.htm

* Intruders Foundation Seminar - CATTLE MUTILATIONS - PAST, PRESENT AND
  FUTURE - Intruders Foundation Website:  www.intrudersfoundation.org
* Paranormal Research Aus: http://members.aol.com/praufo/PRA1/Pra1.htm
* ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES: http://www.anomalous-images.com

Are all those "UFO Detector Kits" really UFO *attractors*??  Who profits?
_ _ _ _ _

* [ via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Memetics/ ] Attention, humans!
  After excessive websurfing, please subject yourself to the TotL.net
  Human Virus Scanner http://totl.net/VirusScanner/ to rid yourself of
  any memetic viruses that may have infected your brain.

* IF YOU HAD HEADACHES, CHECK THIS. Dates of all HAARP operations are
  given in our web page: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/recevent.html
* IT'S MONEY AND POWER, NOT JUST MIND CONTROL. Regarding HAARP Defensive
  Economic Warfare: http://www.superforce.com/email-releases/HAARP.htm:
* University of Albany Suspends Mind Control Implant Research Project
  Darn. http://www.davidicke.net/newsroom/global/020100a.html

Do you have any mind left to control? Who would want to bother with you??
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* DOES PRAYER WORK?  The world's religions got together a month ago to pray
  for peace. Has the planet seen any impact - and is there any evidence that
  praying works anyway? If you and they pray for opposites, who wins? Why?
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1844000/1844076.stm

* VATICAN DENOUNCES LIBERTARIANISM. "The ideology of radical libertarianism
  is both mistaken and harmful not least, to legitimate free expression in
  the service of truth.The error lies in exalting freedom to such an extent
  that it becomes an absolute." So if you believe in freedom, you're damned
  eternally. Yow. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50757,00.html

* Aye, the Farce is wit' ye, yiz bastads!  IF STAR WARS WAS SET IN GLASGOW:
  http://www.splange.freeserve.co.uk/memes/starwars.txt [Beam me down...]
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* after the flash - Duck And Cover: http://chicanery.akware.net/
* Symphonic Music Composed of the Magnetic Field of ELF of the Earth:
  http://home.pacbell.net/stevew77/Earth_Symphony_20HzLowpass_100x.mp3
* Alter of Heaven: http://www.archaeology.org/0003/newsbriefs/altar.html

* ARE THERE OTHER UNIVERSES? The irresistible, mind-boggling fantasy comes
  to just about everyone, sooner or later: What if everything we knew, our
  whole universe, was just a speck of dust on someone's
shoulder?www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/5mysteries_universes_
020205-1.html
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  "His thoughts, few that they were, lay silent in the privacy of his
   head." --Spike Milligan

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