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Friday, March 10, 2000 09:54 p.m. SkeptiNews 000310c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 psychos were teleported to produce this bulletin; shot from cannon. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Baker Goes To Space: http://www.ape-o-naut.org/images/baker.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Chemtrails Activist Reports Harassment, Possible Attempt on Life: # CIA Probing NY Virus As Possible Terrorist Bio-Terrorism: # Y2K Effects To Last Throughout 2000 - the threat that never ends: # Could some UFOs Be Secret Military Aircraft? Submedical sez: all the poop - http://www.members.tripod.com/uforeview/news.html @ Investigators have been amply rewarded with reports of sightings, landings & contact with occupants originating in Peru, Brazil and Argentina, which have been the sites of some of the most spectacular UFO-related incidents recorded. Documented cases of contact between humans and nonhumans, see www.inexplicata.com/samizdat/paranormal/channelers_and_contacteesby.html : Where do you most like to go forsightings? Do you work UFO observations into your vacation plans? Do you visit Manchu Picchu, Sedona, Mt.Shasta, New Jersey for the vibes/saucers/implants? D'ya get a Frequent Flyers discount? # Lord Stanley: Hockey-Playing Robot. MONTREAL - He may be just spare parts but Lord Stanley wields a mean stick. Prize-winning, floor-hockey-player: http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2000/03/09/robot000309 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # THE BIGGEST THING IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM. NASA's durable Galileo spacecraft is joining up with Saturn-bound Cassini on a mission to study Jupiter's magnetosphere -- the biggest thing in the solar system. How big is it? If Jupiter's magnetosphere were visible, it would LOOK larger than the Sun or Moon in spite of its great distance from Earth. Also: plasma wave sounds were recorded by Galileo in 1996 as it sailed past Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede. Galileo will swing past Ganymede two more times before the end of 2000. Cowabunga! http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast10mar_1.htm # Galileo Spacecraft To Fly With A Friend, Earn Bonus Miles, See The Sights Around Jupiter, Get Laid: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9507646 # Actor's Mir Mission Still in Doubt - "All I need is lots and lots of cash" for the trip: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000310/16/russia-saving-mir # HST Maps Dying Stars InNearby Galaxy www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9507645 and see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_671000/671503.stm : What are your favorite stars/planet(oid)s/satellites? Have you aimed your probes carefully? Have you missed lately? Did you have a good excuse? Are your targets dying? Can you capture imagery/data/vibes before they're gone? # Orbiter reveals buried channels beneath Mars - formed by massive water flows. Possible presence of water makes scientists wonder about life on Mars: http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2000/03/10/mars000310 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ted Turner Turns Back Time. VERMEJO PARK RANCH, NM (AP) - Ted Turner, CNN mogul who threw America into the future, has embarked in just the opposite direction across the US West. Since 1987, he has bought a staggering 1.7 mln acres of the Great Plains [becoming the largest private landowner in the US] and is using his fortune to turn back the hands of time. He is restoring buffalo & other native animals & plants & tearing away barbed wire, bringing back the wide-open vistas that existed before the West was won. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564880726-1c8 # TRIBAL SPIRIT: http://metroactive.com/sonoma/nativeamerican-0010.html : Would you like to turn back the hands of time? How far would you go? Would you cover up evidence more effectively? Would you restore biosystems? Would you eliminate Hitler, Einstein, Custer, Luther, Attilla, Jesus, Moses, me? # Waco - Trooper Says Missing Door & Delta Force Body Removed By Government. A Texas state trooper who stood guard as the flames were subsiding April 19, 1993, at Mount Carmel, told lawyers that he saw a cargo van enter the property & leave carrying a body bag, that a rental truck spirited debris away from the scene and that he heard FBI agents discussing a gunfight. http://www.mysa.com/pantheon/homebase/hbm%26s/0903bwaco_body_0309nz.shtml @ The Waco Data Page: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/wacodatapage.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE PROPHETS CONFERENCE ~ MAYALAND: The Natures of Healing & Mind - Summer Solstice Y2K: Merida, Yucatan, Mexico; sacred Mayan sites Mayapan, Chichen Itza, Uxmal - Deepak Chopra MD, James Redfield, Norman Shealy MD, Uri Geller, Tom Kenyon MA, Doreen Virtue PhD, Elder Hunbatz Men, Kenneth Cohen MA, Ralph Metzner PhD, Salle Merrill Redfield, Russell Targ, Peter Gorman, Chamalu, Robert Mirabal: http://www.greatmystery.org/mayaconference.html @ ASTROLOGY METAPHYSICAL PSYCHOLOGY elist: For intuitives, tarotists, astro- logers & metaphysicians incorporating the mythology of the universal mind. Like mommy used to say, you can never have too many angels in your posse. To join send a blank e-mail to mailto:astro_psych-subscribe@eGroups.com : Are you psychic/psycho, metaphysical, metanomic, metanoic, metalloid, bad? Do you share the universal mind? Did you get a fair share of it? Is NewAge culture like a toildt bowl - al the really big turds float to the top? Why? # I COULD FEEL YOU STARING - OR NOT. Many people report that they can feel when someone they can't see is staring at them - but studies have shown that kind of psychic ability really doesn't exist. New eye implants should fix that: http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=29358 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiDroppings: # BLESSED MESS In My Backyard - New sex scandal rocks beleaguered Diocese. THE LATEST BLOW to the Diocese of Santa Rosa comes from an Oakmont priest arrested and charged this weekend with using the Internet to send porno- graphy to children. http://metroactive.com/sonoma/usualsuspects-0010.html # Geek Love - SiliValSex: http://metroactive.com/metro/slices-0010.html # Italy Doctors Find Antibody AIDS Promise. ROME (Reuters) An antibody that some people produce naturally in their bodies appears to "bar the door" to AIDS and could be an important new step toward the future development of a vaccine: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000310/13/science-aids-italy @ USAF Tortured Chimpanzees: http://www.savethechimps.org/faq.html # That's Mr. Search Engine to You - Replacing Machines With Humans. Zow: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34753,00.html?tw=wn20000310 @ To dream, perchance to be lucid, or maybe to have one's mind taken over by Reptoids: http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/ed-articles/dtopics.htm @ Psst! Hey! Want some drugs? Great stuff! http://www.biopsychiatry.com/ # Dinosaur Fossils Challenge Theories (AP) Scientists have found the bones of what could be largest meat-eating dinosaur ever to walk the Earth: a needle-nosed, razor-toothed beast more terrifying than even Tyrannosaurus rex. Yow. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000310/18/dinosaur-discovery @ From SMockovak: You're probably familiar with this because you're always talking about reptoids, but just in case, here's another link: http://www.davidicke.com/icke/temp/reptconn.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Young Elwell Overton's mama had told him many times that wakefulness is best cured by *counting* sheep; but he just knew he would have to be a damn fool to keep track of hundreds, or even thousands, of the woolly critters every night when, his way, six or seven, tops, put him out until morning." --Ashley Selleck * 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 Friday, March 10, 2000 06:02 p.m. SkeptiNews 000310b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 psychics were telephoned to produce this bulletin; dice were thrown. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Spinning: http://www.3quarks.com/GIF-Animations/Figurines/Alternative.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Raël love - A gorgeous group of alien spawn hones a hedonistic hankering for sex. Gimmee: http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/03/08/raelians/ # Norway searches for new gov't - ministers, lawmakers abducted by ETs: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564879310-811 @ God help Bob deliver us from evil - should Earth be destroyed, or what? Like, real soon now? http://www.bergen.com/yourtime/bob09200003092.htm # Life Support: Unlucky numbers - Psychics foretell a fat phone bill suckers: http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/20000308life8.asp : Would you rather be fucked by aliens, Raëlians, govt agents, telepsychics, televised demons/deities, robots, me? Will they/we respect you in the morn- ing? Will you pray for weather/luck/orgasms/wealth/identity/chocolate/wine? # AID GROUPS, FLOOD VICTIMS PRAY FOR END TO RAIN IN MOZAMBIQUE - dissident Navajos hired to consult on techniques for anti-Rain dances - human sac- rifices offered - http://CNN.com/2000/WORLD/africa/03/10/africa.floods/ @ Possessed & Dispossessed: Spirits, Identity, & Power in a Madagascar Town: http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/africa/sharp _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PROZAC'S REIGN AS TOP ANTIDEPRESSANT ENDING - newer, better drugs are online: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=28900 @ Nerves & Narratives: Cultural History of Hysteria in 19th-Century Britain: http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/literature/logan # Drug may remove women's facial hair - circus bearded ladies endangered, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564880964-d79 @ Contrary to the opinions of some <http://www.tommychong.com/> free-lance pharmaceutical researchers, herbal preparations (either taken before a test <http://www.testpure.com/index2.html> or used to adulterate your <http://store.yahoo.com/chongo/urineluck1.html> sample), won't help you <http://www.norml.org/canorml/testing/testing.tips.shtml> pass a drug <http://drugtesting.freeservers.com/search.htm> test. Alas, the only things that help are time <http://www.drugtestinfo.com/faqs.html#25> and <http://water.usgs.gov/> water. Via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Drugs/ : What's y'r favorite drug? Would'ya rather manipulate your mental/physical/ spiritual/financial status with drugs, electronics, auto-suggestion, metals, microbes, microwaves, perversion, literacy? How do you re-program yourself? # Microbe may cause toxic runoff. WASHINGTON (AP) A super bug that eats iron and can thrive in the equivalent of battery acid may be a major culprit in causing toxic metal & acid runoff from a California mine, researchers say. Burning: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564862049-2dd _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 1.5 mln Muslims crowd into Grand Mosque. MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) Despite calls for patience and courteousness, pilgrims pushed and shoved their way around the Grand Mosque, where more than 1.5 million Muslims gathered to pray. On this last Muslim Sabbath before the peak of the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to holy sites in Saudi Arabia, the prayer leader urged pilgrims to be "kind, gentle, patient and tolerant to other pilgrims while they are performing the rituals." But to no avail - frantic pilgrims pushed their way out of the mosque, sending many elderly men and women to the ground. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564881328-93e @ The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama'at-i Islami of Pakistan: http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/south_asia/nasr # Israel preps for Pope's visit - ready for crushed tourists, any crisis. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564848970-2ea : Do you like to crowd into religious sites? Are crowds of pilgrims a great excuse for boorish actions? Have you shoved/kicked/stomped/shot any pilgrims lately? Did the voices in your head instruct you? Did you feel satisfaction? # Witches reject Hollywood stereotypes (U-WIRE) TUCSON, Ariz. -- Hollywood has provided a stereotyped image of witches as old women with warts accom- panied by a black cat - but University of Arizona witches say the image is completely wrong. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000307/university-162 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The End of Anonymity? Top Clinton administration officials say that since law enforcement can't catch untraceable hackers, it may be necessary to provide police with increased abilities to trace users. Civil liberties groups worry that erasing anonymity may threaten privacy. Just a little bit pregnant: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34874,00.html @ United States Department of Justice FAQ on Encryption Policy: http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/cryptfaq.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/crypto.html : Do you hack untracably? Do you ruin things for the rest of us? Are you an agent provocateur, disrupting networks to give govt an excuse to wiretap us all? Are you well-paid for your infamy? Can you escape our vengeance? How? # Forecast for French Fraud. (Wired) A security-code busting formula posted on the Internet would make it easy to produce fake cards for buying train tickets and paying parking meters. Apparently the country's bank accounts are safe. Right. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34897,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Conspiracies'R'Us: # Tokyo Governor mulls over Falun Gong request - China exerting pressure: http://www.indiaserver.com/thehindu/2000/03/08/stories/0308000n.htm # Tokyo City Rejects Falungong Application For Non-Profit Status - Denied Caving-In To Beijing: http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=141016 # Sterilization suit dismissed - states may clip anyone they want: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564879184-c1d @ Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: The Limits of Political Realism: http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/classics/crane # U.S. set up fund for rock victims - 'Rage Against The Machine' excluded, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564845800-9b3 # Haider: Chirac A 'Pocket Napoleon' - Chirac: Haider A 'Nazi Dweeb' - scuffles: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564849245-da8 # Seoul Nazi Theme Bar Removes Decor - 'Third Reich' Wanted Unique Theme. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564844721-209 @ Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany - pre-Nazi: http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/history/saunders # 'Sanitation' Art Portrays Giuliani Among Nazis, Garbage Cans, Jackboots. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564841839-0d1 # NATO denies spy leaked Kosovo plans - "more Communist disinformation!" See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564849358-df9 # Iranians indicted for spying in US - "trying to steal the store!" See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564879822-fe6 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "I will not fake seizures." --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 Friday, March 10, 2000 08:48 a.m. SkeptiNews 000310a - - - - - - - - - -
- 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 parasitic diseases were engineered during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Protect trees: http://mmind.themes.tucows.com/zips/fantasy/BUBBLETREE.ZIP _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # POLICE MOBILIZED AS UFO HOVERS OVER MEXICO CITY - it hovered over soccer field on the grounds of the Center of Technical Research & Investigation. But "when (Mexican police) agents tried to enter the building to reach the football field, they were kept from doing so by members of the building's security force." Cops' watches stopped: http://www.caus.org/mu030900.htm # Malaysia UFO Landing Report. It's UFO, claim Kampung folk. TANAH MERAH, KELANTAN: A large object emitting rays of light was reported to have lan- ded on a piece of marshland here 3 days ago, holding some 1,000 people of Kampung Gobek in a state of high suspense. http://caus.org/mu031000.htm : Would you rather hover/land your UFO at a university, marshland, military base, suburb, toxic dump, nude beach, cemetery, desert, insane asylum, coca plantation, freeway, UFOlogy gathering, crack house, pinball parlor, farm?? @ UFO Enigma: New Review of Physical Evidence: http://caus.org/pn030900.htm @ "What's Up With This "9" Thing, Anyway?" Synchronicity ("meaningful coin- cidence") of the number "9" and language: http://www.caus.org/cz031000.htm @ Myth, Meaning, and Memory on Roman Sarcophagi - An Alien Viewpoint? See www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/classics/koortbojian _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Was Evolution Of Life Advanced By Comet Showers? Researchers analyzing the history of impact cratering on the moon has reported a surprising increase in the frequency of impacts over the past 400 million years. Those impacts may have played a central role in the evolution of life on Earth. Were we seeded by extraterrestrials? http://unisci.com/stories/20001/0310001.htm # 5-5-2000 Doomsday Planetary Alignment - Scientists Again Say 'No Way'. Prepare for The End. Or, at least get ready to hear a lot of people tell you its coming again. This time, a planetary alignment due May 5 is the purported culprit. The compound effect of gravity would be the means. All manner of earthly destruction would be the result. Especially to your bank balance: http://space.com/science/solarsystem/planet_alignment_000309.html @ ALIGNMENT: http://www.calendersign.ric.at/english/alignment2000random.htm : Are you aided/doomed/evolved by planetary/celestial events? Does a strong planetary alignment attract life-giving comet showers? D'ya prefer showers of comets, acid rain, frogs, angelpiss? D'ya comet-shower with a friend?? # Air pollution stops rain. (BBC) Urban and industrial air pollution can stop rain and snow falling, satellite data reveal. Human-caused droughts, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_672000/672802.stm # Also - Indonesia faces new smog menace - everyone will suffocate, die: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_672000/672633.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DID MONKEY SERUM IN A VACCINE CAUSE HIV? Research has traced the origins of HIV to primates in Africa, and from there it spread to human beings, but not from a bad batch of vaccines. It is not unusual for a disease to mutate, enabling it to be spread from one species to another. Now eat an egg: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=29204 # Over 20% of South African Teen Girls Now Have AIDS - steep rise blamed on sexual myths: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000308/hl/pse_2.html # Discovery Re: Feline Leukemia Virus May Shed Light On Mechanics Of Hiv Infection; no sex with cats: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9507647 # Nearly 400,000 Accidental NeedleSticks To US HealthWorkers Yearly; exposed to AIDS, Hep B&C: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000308/hl/psd_6.html : Have you engineered any diseases/plagues/pestilences lately? What's your favorite pestilence? Are plagues a necessary homeostatic mechanism to keep human populations in balance? If we conquer disease, will Earth be swamped? # Egypt's Health Campaign Spread Hep. (BBC) Research reveals a link between Egypt's hepatitis crisis & an earlier campaign against parasite bilharzia. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_672000/672241.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Brains grow furiously. (AP) - Children's brains change dramatically in key areas into puberty, says a new study that contradicts some long-standing assumptions about brain development. The anatomical changes - described as "fine-tuning" - surprised scientists doing the study. The changes occurred between ages 3 and 15, in some cases years after the brain has reached its full size. Scientists had believed that neural development slowed after the first few years of life, and the brain was essentially organized by the time a child enters first grade. In fact, they said, even in the mid- teens the amount of gray matter in some very active areas can double. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564845572-8a9 : Have your brains grown/changed much lately? Will juvenile hormones induce cerebral reorganization? D'ya prefer to alter your brains with magic, drugs, hormones, electricity, implants, radiation, subliminal suggestion, money? @ THE LIGHT: America At The Millennium - The New Profitable Civility Of Hate - The Mass Production Of Mental Illness - Tales On The Road To The Children's Insane Asylum - Save The Children? Of Course, We Need Them For Another Scam - Race Hate Goes High Tech: http://www.racism.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # QUEER TV #1. Tired of waiting for Will & Grace to get your weekly dose of queer TV? Now you can get it whenever you want, right here on PlanetOut! Queer TV is a highly entertaining, cutting-edge show produced weekly & delivered to your desktop via streaming video at any time of the day or night - so you don't have to worry about that pesky VCR. "Tranny Hotel" & Dyke Action Machine: http://www.planetout.com/multimedia/television/ # Military anti-gay activity said up - "ask & tell" - "lesbian baiting" - See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564848998-5a3 # Pentagon challenges report on gays - "we love our little queers and dykes!" http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564851905-e84 @ Another Kind of Love: Male Homosexual Desire in English Discourse: http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/literature/craft : D'ya prefer entertainments produced by hetero/homo/non-sexual humans/ETs? Is hetero-only culture dreadfully boring? Are anti-gay campaigns part of a plot to reduce mental stimulation, imposing rigid thought-control on us all? # KNIGHTFALL ON CALIFORNIA. Calif. overwhelmingly passed the Knight Initia- tive banning gay marriages. Here's why, what it means, and who's saying what on Prop. 22: http://www.planetout.com/news/roundups/1999/knight/ # Calif. Indian gambling expansion OK'd. Indian casinos are planning major expansion after voters massively passed Prop. 1A, allowing Nevada-style gambling: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564846453-e83 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "I'm here to probe my perversity It's always been rather troubling to me I wonder what kind of fucker to be? Sadistic, masochistic, celibate, straight? Dum da da, dum dum, doo doo doo, dit 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: 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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