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Tuesday, June 13, 2000 08:18 a.m. P.D.T. SkeptiNews 000613b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To
Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/12_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 two-faced Chupacabras were birthed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Satanic Music? http://members.iinet.net.au/~nickl/crumhorn.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Astronomy Optics Give Humans Super Vision. Adapting technology originally developed by astronomers to get better images of the heavens, a scientist has developed an optical system that gives test subjects an unprecedented quality of eyesight. The research dramatically improves the sight even of people who have 20/20 vision. http://unisci.com/stories/20002/0612001.htm # TRANSHUMAN. Prospective cyborg, mad scientist, transhuman? Prof. of Cyber- netics at U. of Reading in England, Kevin Warwick investigates the use of artificial implants in the human body and just wants to be as one with his computer. http://laspirale.org/pages/afficheArticle.php3?id=48&lang=en # Letting Silicon-Chip Implants Do the Talking - and the thinking? http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/project170.html # Tiny Human-Borne Monitoring Device Sparks Privacy Fears - worry? http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/project175.html # Big Brother Gets Under Your Skin - and into your mind - relax... http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/project176.html # Why You Should Get a Chip Implant - because we tell you to, eh?? http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/project181.html : What's your favorite bionic enhancement? How many chips d'ya want to have implanted in your brain/groin/biceps/thyroid/ankle? Do your implants desire more implants to keep them company? Have you tried to demagnetize them? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ANGRY YOUNG SPACEMAN - full text: http://www.yip.org/jim/IMadeMain.htm # Lights glow on Moon. (BBC) The Moon is not dead says an astronomer who has seen glowing lights on its surface. Close the pod bay door, Hal. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_789000/789095.stm # Also - Moon not quite dead - vibrant Chupacabra colony sighted: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_481000/481455.stm # Moon's orbit betrays its violent birth - take THAT, you dirty rat! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_645000/645007.stm # Mysterious Martian Ridges. One of the most puzzling findings of Mars Global Surveyor has been the discovery of many sharp, parallel ridges and grooves on the planet's surfaces that first look like dunes, but turn out to be something else. http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0005/29ridgedmars/ # Overview of Artificial Structures on Mars http://www.caus.org/pn061300.htm : Have you seen evidences of life/love/liberty on other planet(oid)s lately? Are all planet(oid)s conceived, born, maintained and terminated in violence? Aren't we all? Are you a planetoid?Have lights been seen on you? Where else? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Alleged NASA Role In Chilean Chupacabras? SANTIAGO (EFE)- Chilean space researchers announced that they will ask their government, through the Ministry of Defense, to investigate the alleged responsibility of NASA, the United States space agency, in the manifestations of the so-called "Chupacabras" which has caused the deaths of hundreds of domestic animals in this country. http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m13-004.shtml # Kitten with two faces is rejected by mom and dies. Image the kitty expired after getting too cold, says vet. "Its mother did not accept it too much," the doc notes. The kitten was born with one head & brain, but mirror sets of eyes, noses and mouths. An earlier story includes a picture of Image and quotes a vet saying the kitten's chances of survival were good. Oops. http://www.phillynews.com/content/inquirer/2000/06/11/city/PIMAGE11.htm # Report: Dead kitten is being kept in a freezer - owner planning to exploit corpse? http://www.phillyburbs.com/couriertimes/packages/0611image.shtml [ via http://www.obscurestore.com/ of course] : Have'ya engineered/kidnapped/terminated any Chupacabras/kittens/Catholics lately? Do you store engineered corpses in your freezer? Is it rather full? Have you collaborated with NASA in your efforts? Will the truth be revealed? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientology church charges dropped. CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - Prosecutors have dropped abuse and medical neglect charges against the Church of Scientology, saying they couldn't depend on the testimony of the county medical examiner in the case of a woman who died in the church's care. Inconsistent: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567295122-441 # Ex-Hare Krishna Students Sue for $400 Million. DALLAS (Reuters) More than 40 former students of Hare Krishna schools allege they were sexually and physically abused as children over the course of two decades. So what else is new? http://news.excite.com/news/r/000613/01/news-crime-krishna-dc @ Elijah Muhammad was a "squeaky little man teaching hate." Yet for all his foibles and failures, he did alter the course of American black culture & politics: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/0006/pipes.html : What's y'r favorite religious foible? Is your belief system overwhelmed by foibles? Are you? Does your belief system abuse kids/gals/dogs/ETs/gods/me? Has your belief system been sued lately? Should it be? Are your lawyers ETs? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hell is back in business. (Salon) Trends come & go, so don't be surprised when you hear the latest: Hades is hot, angels are not. Spiritual need: eternal damnation. http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/06/12/hell/ # And - Devil http://www.salon.com/special/aprilone/2000/bc_satan/index.html # Angel Craze http://salonmagazine.com/march97/columnists/shoales970320.html # Purgatory For Pesky In-Laws: http://www.salon.com/sept97/dianalist.html # Send'Em To Hell: http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/02/04/texas/index.html @ Also - THE JOURNAL OF MUNDANE BEHAVIOR: http://www.mundanebehavior.org # Egypt is trapped in the fire of its own kind of Salman Rushdie affair. A new novel has ignited a violent student protest. Kill the writers: http://www.calendarlive.com/calendarlive/books/20000512/t000044888.html : Have you been to Hell lately? Except for the heat and lack of water, is it OK, kind of like Texas? Have you sent anyone to Hell lately? Did they appre- ciate the change? Does Hell consist of people? Is Hell better than the iNet? @ Spotted The Extreme Teen Bible <http://www.nelsonbibles.com/extreme/> at a West Virginia Wal-Mart, and couldn't wait to try a Google Search for <http://google.com/search?q=%22extreme+teen%22> "extreme teen" to learn more about Getting Extreme for Jesus. http://memepool.com/Subject/Books/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "As she fell face down into the black muck of the mud-wrestling pit, her sweaty, three-hundred-pound opponent muttering soft curses in Latin on top of her, Sister Marie thought, 'There is no doubt about it: the Pope has betrayed me!'" --Richard J. Savastio * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews info & (un)subscribing: http://sonic.net/~ric/vsub.htm * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...
Tuesday, June 13, 2000 06:45 a.m. P.D.T. SkeptiNews 000613a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To
Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/12_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 Neandertals ordered cheeseburgers during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ How-2 brush a cat's teeth: www.placervillevet.com/cat%20toothbrushing.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ah, The Harvest... Of Crop Circles. As sure as April showers bring May flowers - and farm crops throughout the Northern Hemisphere - reports of crop circles are likely to occur. Sources report a slow start to the mys- terious field formations this year, with the "hot spot" in England even reporting fewer and less spectacular formations. Are the aliens too busy elsewhere? Where else? http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal061202.html # TWO NEW CROP FORMATIONS AT SILBURY HILL - crop circles never die, they just square off: http://surfingtheapocalypse.com/crops.html#2newsilbury # LARGE HOLE IN ENGLAND'S SILBURY HILL: http://earthfiles.com/earth142.htm @ Stalking the UFO Meme on the Internet: http://www.ctheory.com/a43.html # On Witness Intimidation - The Debunkers' Basic Weapon - by Budd Hopkins: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m11-011.shtml : Have you seen/created/abandoned any crop circles lately? Are you afraid to report crop circles? Do anti-cerealists intimidate you, stalk you, reprogram you, circularize you? Do the voices in your head drive you ever-onward? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFOs Over New York. Review of local sightings & people associated with the area, site of the famous Hudson Valley UFO sightings,where huge triangular objects were seen with surprising regularity throughout the 1980s. Immort- alized in COMMUNION, Whitley Streiber's autobiographical tale of abduction from his cabin in Pine Bush, New York. The sightings continue to this day. This hour.This minute. http://www.westchesterweekly.com/articles/ufos.html # Sightings: SOLAR FLARE ACTIVITY, FIREBALLS & SAUCERS - NEW JERSEY SPHERE - VIRGINIA FLYING SAUCER - FLORIDA SAUCER WITH DOMES - ALABAMA NEON GREEN OVAL SHAPED CRAFT - WISCONSIN FLYING DISC LANDS - TEXAS ENORMOUS SILVER DISC SIGHTED - CALIFORNIA SIGHTING OF FLYING TRIANGLE & UK PILOT HAS UFO NEAR-MISS - GERMANY TREETOP UFO VANISHES - GEORGIA ABDUCTIONS AND INNER- TERRESTRIALS (INTS) - OHIO WRIGHT PATERSON AFB - WORLD'S FIRST RAY GUN ZAPS MISSILE: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m12-013.shtml : Have you reported (m)any sightings lately? Have your reports successfully masked military psy-ops/test-flight activities? Does anyone suspect you of promulgating disinformation? Were you forced to cause their disappearance? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Is The Chupacabra A 'Thinking' Animal? Something jumped at her back, the woman turned around and came face to face with a strange animal. She felt paralysed in front of this horrible entity.Later,she described it as being full of dark hair, 4.1 feet tall, with large,oval luminous orange eyes and a large snout. http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m12-015.shtml # Neanderthals ate mostly meat. (AP)If a Neanderthal walked into a hamburger joint today, he probably would order a double burger. And hold the bun,the lettuce,tomato and onion. A new study of 28,000-year-old Neanderthal bones suggests the ancient hominid ate meat, lots of it, and very little else. "This means they were efficient hunters and not just scavengers" - complex society: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567290511-628 # IMMORTAL. Super longevity, post-humanity, the marriage of man and machine? Extropian artist, technophile bodybuilder and convinced cryonic, Natasha Vita More shares her optimistic vision of the future of the human race. Chimerical: http://laspirale.org/pages/afficheArticle.php3?id=46&lang=en : In a dark alley,would you rather meet a Chupacabra/Neandertal/Chimera/me? Have you met any Neandertal bodybuilders lately? Does meat-eating help/hurt Neandertal/Chupacabra/Transhuman survival? Are you cryonic? Should you be? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Conspiracies-R-Us: # Los Alamos nuclear secrets missing - civilization is doomed: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567301176-b32 # Also: Los Alamos workers worry about image, espresso, style: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567296073-832 # NEW MISSION PLANNED FOR MIR AS CURRENT ONE WRAPS UP - bomb rack or mindcontrol base? http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/space/06/12/mir.mission/ # Scientists oppose missile shield - it just won't work, period: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567290803-9fd @ MICROSOFT AND THE BAVARIAN ILLUMINATI. A conspiracy tale: the terrible cosmic secrets concealed beneath the facade of a successful software company that most people have heard of these days. BillGates IS the AntiChrist? http://laspirale.org/pages/afficheArticle.php3?id=45&lang=en # JAVA TO FUEL WIRELESS DEVICES - MicroSoft shut out - BillGates plots revenge: http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/12/wireless.java.idg/ # Egypt pressing Flight 990 theory - machinery, not conspiracy: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567288562-364 @ NEWS FROM THE FRONTLINE: The dark side of Reverend Moon: the Moon sect, <http://www.delve.com/moon.html> its links with American conservatists, the Bush clan and the drugs trade, General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Standard Oil, IT&T, Chase National Bank... The lowdown on the economic relationships and connections which existed between corporate America and <http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/4229/usnz.html> the Nazi régime... @ The archives of the official Black Panther fanzine are accessible online: http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/> Highlights the comparative vacuity of our own time... A widely distributed coloring book which was purported <http://www.accessone.com/%7Erivero/POLITICS/COINTELPRO/coloring.html> to be the work of the Black Panthers, a claim which was vehemently refuted by the movement, has finally been revealed as an FBI tactic to discredit the organisation. [via http://www.laspirale.org/ ] # Columbine tapes reveal chaos, blood, mind-control, teen angst: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567295827-097 # Waco judge won't consider whether federal agents shot at sect: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567292371-e5b # Muckraking Arkansas journalist killed - investigator hit by truck - plot? http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_dougherty/20000613_xnjdo_muckraking.shtml # Tony, we hardly knew ye - the reporter who knew too much - who ordered it? http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_polak/20000613_xcmlp_the_tony_m.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Castrated, frustrated, and inundated with blessings, the young high priest of the lowlands bowed his head to the winds of love and looked down the long, lonely street of life to an unconsummated dream just beyond the pale, having turned the emollient, proverbial corner with his vows of celibacy, nevermore to embrace his beloved Herr Dresser." --Diane Redus Holcomb * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews info & (un)subscribing: http://sonic.net/~ric/vsub.htm * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding... |
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