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Thursday, June 8, 2000 12:51 p.m. P.D.T. SkeptiNews 000608b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To
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* 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/20000607elin025.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? http://www.civmag.com/articles/C0006B01.html # Complicity in War Crimes: http://truthinmedia.org/Activism/wsj6-7-2K.html # NSA Farms Out InfoTech. FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) - The super-secret National Security Agency plans to turn management of most of its nonclassified information technology over to a private contractor. NSA officials said the move could save the govt $1 billion over 10 years, while allowing for faster modernization of the agency's computers and telecommunication systems. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567166832-953 : D'ya think you really know anything about intelligence/military/corporate agencies/agents/actions? If their conspiracies are sufficiently competent/ omnipotent/omniscient, don't they control everything you think you know? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Biotech holds worldwide promises, but hindered by concerns in UK. Based on history, one could have legitimately predicted that Britain would be among the world's leaders in developing biotechnology today. Instead,the U.K. is known worldwide as the nation most responsible for impeding introduction of this technology. http://agweb.com/news/news.cfm?id=6726&breakingnews=1 # Seed firm claims Whitehall said 'not to worry' over GM scare. Senior UK civil servants from two Whitehall ministries told the company that faces huge compensation payments to farmers for destroying crops contaminated with genetically modified seeds that the initial scare was 'not serious' http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,329547,00.html # GM firm sues Canuck farmer. US biotech giant Monsanto has taken a Canadian farmer to court, saying he illegally grew its genetically-modified crop. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_779000/779265.stm : Have you genetically modified any crops/animals/aliens/lawyers lately? Is a GM world a better world? Should/can/will the whole universe be genetically engineered? Can all entities be improved? <via http://www.junkscience.com/> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Ugh!" said Dir, an average Australopithecus robustus, as the saber- toothed tiger raked Dir's stomach with a massive paw only an instant before instantly dying as Dir's club smashed the big beast's skull into something resembling scrambled egg, colored red. --David Meltzer * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...
Thursday, June 8, 2000 09:54 a.m. P.D.T. SkeptiNews 000608a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To
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* Last batch of 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, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No conspiracies were unmasked to produce this bulletin. They're waiting. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Dealy Plaza Cam: http://www.earthcam.com/jfk/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # STONEHENGE OR BUST update http://sonic.net/~ric/adventure/may2k/may2k2.htm # Recent UK UFO Sighting: www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m07-007.shtml # Close encounter: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m07-014.shtml # Prophecy -- Dance Of Worlds -- Pleiades: http://www.caus.org/os052400.htm # UFO Update: CHILEANS SAY NASA TOOK CUSTODY OF CAPTURED CHUPACABRAS - TRIO CLAIMS ENCOUNTER WITH ALIEN IN IRELAND - HIGH-FLYING UFO SEEN IN CLINTON, MICHIGAN - MILLIONS OF FISH FALL FROM SKY ON ETHIOPIA - ZIMBABWE SHOCKED BY UNUSUAL HUMAN BIRTH - ASSASSIN AGREES WITH THE VATICAN ON FATIMA - RELIGIOUS MANIA SWEEPS MISSISSIPPI HIGH SCHOOL - CHEMTRAILS REPORTED IN TWO WESTERN STATES - FACE-TO-FACE WITH AUSTRALIA'S TERROR OF THE OUTBACK: http://www.ufoinfo.com/roundup/v05/rnd05_23.shtml : Have you been updated on paranormalities/abductions/UFOs/prophesy lately? Are you plugged-in to the latest? MUST you be, since you're reading this? Do you enjoy drowning in paranormal/conspiracy/science/sexuality data? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Discover the Truth About UFOs, Ancient Landing Sites, Crop Circles, The Bermuda Triangle, Pyramids and Good vs. Bad Aliens at FlyingSaucers.com http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000606/fl-flying-saucers # Alien Abductions: Video Case Studies With Budd Hopkins & Carol Rainey. Come and join us for an evening of discussion and video presentation involving recent case studies conducted by Budd Hopkins. Believe!!! http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m08-004.shtml # Elizabeth Baron -- Leading Trance Medium of Our Time, Unparalleled in Accuracy and Documentation -- Offers Proof of Life After Death. 'She's the best kept secret in America... the most well- documented medium in history and the hardest working 9-to-5 psychic in the country today' http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000605/sc-comen-detective : Are all theories about UFOs, paranormalities, afterlifes etc part of the well-orchestrated coverup of clandestine military/mindcontrol activities? Are you in the coverup? Are you well-rewarded by your Illuminati masters? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Did Aids originate in the 1950s when a live polio vaccine was introduced to Africa? This often ridiculed theory may just be right. What a pickle: http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/highlights/the_origin_of_aids/ # At 16, Theodore Kaczynski was duped into taking a series of brutal psychological tests. They may have shaped his belief in the evil of science: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/06/chase.htm @ The Phobia List: http://www.sonic.net/~fredd/phobia1.html # LOW-TECH DNA TEST MAY SEPARATE HUMANS FROM THE NEANDERTHALS - will you pass or fail? http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns224238 # Washing Machines Will Phone & Surf the Net: humans will be obsolete: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000607/wr/intermachines_dc_1.html : Has your conspiracy experimented much on humans/neanderthals/robots/me? Do you engineer new diseases/disorders/dysfunctions intentionally/accidentally/ randomly? What's your favorite phobia? How did you engineer it? Is it fun?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ CONTRAILS & CHEMTRAILS - "These “weaponized” pathogens target the elderly and other immune-compromised victims whose deaths go largely unremarked... The culling of “unfit, useless eaters” has begun, with an initial goal (based on known mycoplasma & brucellosis mortalities) of 4%-5% fatalities among those infected. While significant over time, such subtle increases in deaths among aged or ailing people already expected to die soon remain statistically stealthy - much less obtrusive than bodies piling up in the streets." http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/conchem.html # CHEMTRAILS OVER MINNEAPOLIS - ST PAUL AND DETROIT: http://www.sightings.com/general2/min.htm # LATEST CHEMTRAIL PHOTOS FROM AUSTRALIA: http://www.sightings.com/general2/latest.htm # SKEPTIC WATCHES CHEMTRAIL ASSAULT ON PORTLAND: http://www.sightings.com/general2/skep.htm : Have you poisoned the populace lately? Do you mask your biowar activities as UFO sightings, alien abductions, crop/sky/ocean/climate patterns, solar fireworks? Are "bodies piling up in the streets" an unsightly mess? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Vatican OKs US Catholic school rules.(AP)Controversial new rules asserting tighter control over who may teach theology at Americas 235 Roman Catholic colleges & universities have won Vatican approval. These rules could give bishops & ultimately the pope leverage to stem open dissent against church policy. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567168879-3fd # Season of gossip at the Vatican. (AP) Now that celebrations for Pope John Paul II's landmark 80th birthday are over, Vatican watchers have turned to that perennial guessing game: Who will succeed him? "Return to normalcy"? See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567167571-271 : Is your belief system experiencing periods of abnormalcy? Do you need to clamp-down evermore on dissent, schism, intrusion? Is your belief system a giant amoeba that fissions, each offspring then trying to devour the other? @ We have good public health and a strong economy, but we lack "equity" of "spiritual assets?" http://www.commentarymagazine.com/0006/bk.wilson.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mexican Govt Has Men Stripping to Win Votes. MEXICO CITY(Reuters) Mexico's long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, facing a tough test in July 2 presidential elections, has a secret weapon to win the female vote: male strippers. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000606/11/odd-mexico-strippers-dc # Can nudists wear clothes and still remain nudists? This vexed question divides Europe's largest nudist movement. Another mindcontrol dilemma: http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/05/29/timfeafea01001.html @ Liberace capsized gender with little hot pants, flamingo feather capes, and make-up that put him in some strange third sex: "He, She, and It". www.booksonline.co.uk/booksol?ac=002871592225354&pg=/00/5/27/bolib27.html : What's your favorite gender issue? Does your conspiracy use sex/gender for mind/social control? How many genders exist in nature? Should humans be lim- ited to just two? Haw many genders do your alien masters have/enjoy/require? # The Web is at once a steamy swamp of smut and debauchery, a new Library at Alexandria, and all else in between. And we wouldn't have it any other way, would we? http://www.nationalreview.com/19jun00/goldberg061900.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Yeah... Society has its head up its ass... So what else is new?" --Vivre Draco * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding... |
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