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* No ETs devoured liberal politicos during the production of this bulletin.
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# PENGUIN GOES PUNK: http://www.metropolismag.com/new/may_content/pen.htm
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# Circles crop up in Tennessee. New series of crop circles have sprung up in
  fields between Nashville and Memphis. The witness to the circle said she
  discovered it across from her home in a winter wheat field. She said a
  crop-duster in her area reported similar phenomenon "all over the place"
  in other fields nearby. http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal050901.html

# SPACE ALIEN BACKS BUSH FOR PREZ! WASHINGTON. In a surprise move that has
  astonished political pundits, the space alien that endorsed Bill Clinton
  in 1992 has switched party allegiance and is backing GOP Presidential
  contender George W. Bush! http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1885.html
# Bigfoot, lake monster get more attention - they've been feeling terribly
  neglected of late: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal050501.html

: Have paranormal/extraterrestrial/political events been happening "all over
the place" lately? Do they get all the attention they deserve? Do they/you/I
deserve any attention? Do aliens interfere in political/digestive processes?
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# Pope To Reveal Third Secret of Fatima - dastardly attacks against Church
  and Christians continue: http://newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/5/13/182325
@ "The Fatima secret was the worst thing you could ever imagine and then go
  way beyond that" -- http://geocities.com/Area51/Shuttle/5604/fatima.html
$ THE FINAL WARNING: http://www.finalwarningthebook.com/

# CANNIBALS ORDER PIZZA -- THEN EAT DELIVERYMAN! MANAUS, Brazil - A tribe of
  jungle cannibals ordered pizza for the first time -- and ate the delivery
  man the moment he arrived http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1896.html
@ WAIT. Suspense is delay. It is the lovely agony of waiting for something
  to happen. During moments of suspense, nothing happens. Nothing. At all.
  Happens... http://www.georgejr.com/98/essays/zackel.html

: Has anything happened to you lately?Was it predicted? Are you predictable?
Have you made any predictions lately? Have you devoured anyone lately? Have
they devoured/predicted/postponed you? Are you tired of waiting for events?
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@ The Black Legion. (FBI) This cult organization operated in the midwest in
  the 1930's supposedly to protect the country from various forms of "isms".
  Members wore black costumes with skull & crossbones insignia and were al-
  legedly responsible for numerous murders. http://foia.fbi.gov/blackleg.htm

@ Do you <http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Dugout/1453/celebmuscle.html>
  dream of muscled women? What about nice girls beating the tar out of each
  <http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Dugout/1453/dww1.jpg> other? If so,
  then Boxinman's Celebrity Muscle/Female Boxing Web Site is dream fodder
  <http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Dugout/1453/mine.html> for months,
  my friend, months. And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Sports/

: What are your favorite violent conspiracies? Are they historical, contemp-
orary, futuristic? Have you planned violence for a long time? D'ya prefer it
to be wholesale/retail/virtual/psychic? Are you muscled, undressed, savage?
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# Old SciFi Drives New Space Research. (BBC) The European Space Agency (Esa)
  is studying science fiction written in the early decades of the last
  century for ideas & technologies that could be used in future missions.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_744000/744019.stm

# NASA FINDS ALIEN 'PORT-A-POTTY' ON THE MOON! PASADENA, Ca -- In one of the
  most important scientific discoveries in the history of the space program,
  NASA has found startling proof that alien travelers once used a secluded
  lunar crater as a rest room! http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1886.html

# Take that, Copernicus - Earth is special after all. We knew it all along.
  Coincidence, or... ?? http://www.alienzoo.com/news/n/200005120001.cfm
@ TeslaRama: http://www.hiddenymsteries.com/redir/index0.html

: Have you learnt anything important lately? Did you research it carefully?
Are you full of shit anyway? Do you use old fantasies to guide your future
directions? Are old fantasies better/cheaper/faster than new fantasies? How?
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# How ulcer bug travelled the world. (BBC) Scientists uncover more about the
  world history of that scourge of middle-aged execs, the stomach ulcer.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_746000/746580.stm
# Ulcer bug found in Egyptian mummies - ancient biowar engineering?
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_291000/291133.stm

@ EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES - Historical Trends Related to Bioterrorism:
  An Empirical Analysis: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol5no4/tucker.htm
@ Cargo Cult Science: http://w3.pppl.gov/~mbeer/cargo_cult_science.html

# THE BEST PLACE TO CONCEIVE: CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN? In a survey done by the
  maker of an ovulation prediction monitor, seven percent of Moms-to-be say
  they would like to conceive a child on a mountaintop under the stars.
  http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=33718&src=n2

: What's your favorite medical condition? How/where/when/why is it induced?
Is it caused by love, hate, curiosity, strategy, fantasy, ideology, puberty,
integrity, germs, aliens, angels, robots, me? Have you analyzed it lately??
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# SOME CONSUMERS SHOPPING ON WEB FOR SURGICAL OPTIONS. Consumers who like to
  surf the Internet for good deals now have the chance to shop the Web for
  surgical procedures -- from facelifts and tummy tucks to eye operations &
  even heart surgery. http://CNN.com/2000/HEALTH/05/12/surgery.online.ap/

@ Tour the Museum <http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/pathology/Pathmus/> of Human
  Disease, full of images and information about conditions such as infective
  <http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/pathology/Pathmus/m1004089.htm> endocarditis
  and breast <http://med.unsw.edu.au/pathology/Pathmus/m1007070.htm> cancer.
  And, if ordinary images aren't enough, see number of interactive  images.
  http://med.unsw.edu.au/pathology/Pathmus/pathmus.htm#InteractiveImages
  Then improve your health over at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Health/

: Do you depend on the Net for y'r medical recommendations/treatments/infor-
mation/entertainment? Who's your favorite online/psychic/robot surgeon? D'ya
prefer surgery to be interactive, offline, deferred, undetectable, magickal?
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  "Transported from 1987 Mill Valley to 399 B.B. Athens by his fiery time
   machine -- a nuclear-powered, turbo-charged BMW -- Randy Esterhaus recal-
   led all his intensive est classes,standing on the steps of the Parthenon,
   confronting the Grecian gadfly, and gushing like a chilly cheerleader at
   homecoming, 'But look on the bright side -- that vial of hemlock you have
   at home is not half-empty, it's half-full!'"" --Tom Suddick

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  several were interviewed under less-than-sanitary conditions. Groady...
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@ Panty Cat: http://www.kibo.com/exegesis/panty_cat.shtml
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# News service surveys UFOlogists. A news service specializing in Ufology
  and extraterrestrial reports has surveyed experts in the field for their
  assessment of the status and progress of research into life beyond Earth.
  But they missed me: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal050902.html

# The stressful life of a ufologist. With the pace of life at the speed of
  thought, it's no secret that today's civilizations face stress in their
  lives unknown in simpler times. And so it is with ufologists. Managing the
  unique stress that might plague a typical ufologist -- beyond the stress
  of job, family, health, illness, death, divorce, finances everyone faces
  at one time or another. http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal050502.html

: Are you a UFOlogist? Are you stressed? Is it a filthy job but somebody's
got to do it? Have you been surveyed/abducted/divorced/imprinted/devoured?
Are you ignored? D'ya just hate ignorance? Do Reptilioids tease you? When?
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# Lethal guinea pig kills virtual people - victims of a virtual virus. (BBC)
  Virtual personhood is proving to be a bit too real for some computer game
  enthusiasts. Artificial people created by players of The Sims are falling
  victim to a virtual virus introduced into the game via computerised guinea
  pig. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_746000/746700.stm

@ Links - The Sims home page: http://www.thesims.com/us/
@ Simeden - a Sim fan site: http://www.simeden.com/

@ Nonconsensual Brainwave & Personality Studies by the US Government.
  Recognize the "plutonium vitamin pill" of mind control technology before
  the US govt admits to its use. http://www.calweb.com/~welsh/brn-stdy.htm
# Battlefield Of Dreams: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/e/200005120002.cfm

: Have you experimented upon any real/virtual people/aliens/robots lately?
Would you rather deal with real/virtual/divine viruses? Do Reptilioids/Rep-
ublicans/revisionists experiment on you? D'ya take plutonium vitamin pills?
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# Talmudic, Biblical scholars find common ET ground. When a New York Hebrew
  scholar meets an Italian Catholic theologian, one might expect a debate
  and discussion over the theological differences in their faiths. But when
  Zecharia Sitchin sat down with the Vatican's Msgr. Corrado Balducci, the
  discussion took a decidedly more universal direction: The commonalities
  in Judaism and Christianity in the possibility of intelligent life beyond
  Earth. Holy Moly, Batman: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal050802.html

# Methodists say LDS is outside Xian tradition - Rebaptism a must for ex-
  Mormon converts: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,165011909,00.html
# Slamming Gays: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,165011911,00.html
# US BISHOP'S CONFERENCE CONDEMNS "CATHOLICS FOR A FREE CHOICE", CALLS THEM
  ANTI-CATHOLIC BIGOTS: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=2664

: Was your belief system founded/massaged/distorted by ETs? Do they distort
all other belief systems? Have you read my rules for founding your own new
religion? <http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/religion.htm> Do they work for you?
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# SKULLS POINT TO EARLY HUMAN MIGRATION OUT OF AFRICA. Three skulls dug
  from under a mediaeval Georgian town and dating back 1.7 million years
  may represent the first pre-humans who migrated out of Africa and into
  Europe: http://www.CNN.com/2000/NATURE/05/12/science.ancestors.reut/
  Or: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_745000/745080.stm

# Also - Near complete ape-man skull found - Alley Oop, come home:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_726000/726597.stm
# Ancient 'tool factory' uncovered - activists decry unsafe conditions:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_336000/336555.stm
# A taste for meat - McFood exploits ancient genetic programming:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_255000/255725.stm

: Did your ancestors come from Europe/Europa/Africa/Altair/Heaven/Hell? Did
they make a better living in their new home? Have you migrated lately? Does
your conspiracy promote migration for geopolitical/economic/artistic ends??
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# Prayers stir fuss in D.C. On 18 Sept 1793, Pres. George Washington donned
  his Masonic apron & helped lay the US Capitol's cornerstone. Evangelicals
  would rather talk of Washington kneeling in prayer on a battlefield than
  discuss Washington the Mason leading rites that some consider bizarre or
  occult. http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,165011628,00.html?

# New Ohio Motto: "With the Tooth Fairy, all things are possible":
# Former NFL Player Ordained Episcopal Bishop - football IS faith:
# 4-day Eucharistic Confab In Mexico Culminates With Massive Mass:
# Offended Jewish Residents Send Back Videotape Mailing On Christ:
  http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,165011686,00.html?

: Have you performed any pagan political rituals lately? What's y'r favorite
ritual? D'ya wear aprons/robes/armor/electrodes/minks/nothing when perform-
ing your rituals? Are your rituals/propaganda/habits offensive? D'ya care?

@ Second Coming of Jesus: http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-01/gardner.html
@ DOs & DON'Ts FOR DEITIES: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/deities.htm
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# Farrakhan Admits Guilt. (AP) Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan admits
  his complicity in the 1965 murder of Malcolm X while seated across the
  table from the civil rights leader's oldest daughter in a "60 Minutes"
  interview: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,165011378,00.html?

@ NSA JFK Assassination Archive: http://nsa.gov/docs/efoia/released/jfk.html
@ The Birth of the NSA: http://www.nsa.gov/docs/efoia/released/truman.html
# Waco - FLIR Proof: See For Yourself: http://sightings.com/general/flir.htm
# Waco - More Major Media Disinfo: http://sightings.com/general/wacomfd.htm

# Preparing for the worst. For survivalists, conspiracy theorists & others
  who fear the advent of a New World Order, a Utah security consultant is
  offering a unique service-securing your home and life against unwanted
  intrusions or disasters. http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal051101.html

: Have you conspired to assassinate/surveill/discombobulate anyone lately?
Do security experts help/hinder your efforts? Are you a security/religious/
disinformation expert? Are you prepared for the worst? D'ya make disasters?
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  "I'm not going to bother trying to change the lighting in the house when
   what I really need to change is the lighting in my head." --Vivre Draco

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* Several chupacabras were barbecued festively to produce this bulletin.
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@ USMC KC-130 prepares to crash suicidally into the Great Pyramid at
  Giza, Egypt: http://dodimagery2.afis.osd.mil/LBOX/mini/185846.jpg
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# AREA 51 OR BUST! FRACAS! MIND-CONTROLLED CLONES! ANCIENT CANNIBALISM! SAB-
  OTAGE! ALIENS! BEACONS! ENDLESS WIND! DISINFO! PLANETARY ALIGNMENT! BLACK
  MAILBOX! CAMO DUDES! AREA51! FEAR FOR SAFETY!LOST IN TRACKLESS WILDERNESS!
  JAMMED! CYCLOPEAN RUINS! OMINOUS TRANSMITTERS! GHOST TOWNS! CASTLE TOWER!
  MINDCONTROL, ABDUCTIONS, GAMESMANSHIP! SURGING JET FIGHTERS! BLIZZARD!
  ESCAPE? IMPLANT! http://www.sonic.net/~ric/adventure/may2k/may2k.htm

# SHAPE-SHIFTING ROBOTS - A droid for all seasons - No job is too unusual
  for a breed of robots that reinvent themselves. IMAGINE an automaton
  that can design itself, assemble itself and even kill itself. No, it's
  not the liquid metal robot from Terminator 2--but this droid can certainly
  build itself to perform a particular task, melt itself down and recycle
  itself. Be very fearful: http://www.newscientist.com/nl/0513/droid.html

: Have you been menaced by protean aliens/robots/deities/agents lately? Have
they followed you through time & space & matter & energy & emotion? Have you
lived to tell the tale? Are you surrounded by shape-shifters? Are you sure?
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@ GUIDES, GAMES, JOURNALS: The UFOlogy Game -- If Death is a Game Then Here
  Are The Rules -- THE BORG GAME: If Resistance Is Futile Then Here Are The
  Rules -- If Alien Abduction is a Game Then Here Are The Rules -- THEOPOLY:
  The Damnation & Salvation Game -- If Paranormal Research is a Game Then
  Here Are The Rules -- If Spontaneous Human Combustion is a Game Then
  Here Are The Rules -- ASSASSINOPOLY: Termination With Extreme Prejudice
  (in preparation) -- Care & Feeding Of The Soul, If Any -- DOs & DON'Ts for
  DELICIOUS DEITIES -- How to Design & Promote a Conspiracy Theory -- Start
  Your Own Religion For Phun & Prophet! -- CalCac: A Guide To The Cacti Of
  California (in preparation) -- How To Wrap TinFoil Around Your Head To
  Keep Mind-Control Rays From Beaming In -- How to Produce Perpetual Motion
  Without Being Assassinated: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/index.htm

: Have you devised/developed/defeated any games lately? Have you changed the
rules? Is reality always changing the rules on you? Is this infuriating? Do
you wrap tinfoil around your head to keep the rules/radiation/rotifers out?
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# Carter ET investigation scuttled? Add to the reports and legends of
  presidential experiences with UFO and ET issues a new book that describes
  President Jimmy Carter's encounter with government cover-up. "Exopolitics"
  reports that a White House study of extraterrestrial communication was
  "secretly suppressed at the behest of Pentagon officials" in 1977-78.
  The lousy swine: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal051102.html

@ Official US Navy UFO FAQ: http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq29-1.htm
@ CIA UFO Archive: http://www.foia.ucia.gov/scripts/popdoc.asp?docType=ufo
@ NSA UFO Archive: http://www.nsa.gov:8080/docs/efoia/released/ufo.html
@ FBI X-Files - Unusual Phenomena: http://foia.fbi.gov/unusual.htm

: Has your military/political/corporate/church/artistic organization suppre-
ssed any UFO studies lately? Did you need to exercise a lot of influence to
do so? How many chips did you call in? What favors did you owe afterward??
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# Chupacabras Attack More Farms in Chile: http://www.caus.org/pn051200.htm
# Louisiana Abduction? Or family squabble? http://www.caus.org/pc051100.htm
# N.Jersey Blue Lights - vice squad called: http://www.caus.org/mu051100.htm
# New York UFOs Dive into Ocean - Giuliani blamed: www.caus.org/mu051000.htm
# UFOS, BEAMS OF LIGHT- ARGENTINA: http://sightings.com/general/argentin.htm

@ Detecting UFO Neutrinos. (Lawrence Berkeley Lab) If you watch StarTrek,
  you will note that they often do neutrino scans of objects, occasionally
  they find that all the neutrinos are left-handed. If they are, then we'll
  notice. http://aether.lbl.gov/www/projects/neutrino/UFO.html
@ Warp Drive, When? http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/PAO/warp.htm

: Have you detected any UFOs/neutrinos/chupacabras/abductees/scams lately?
What's your favorite abnormal performance? Have you squabble with/over/for
any aliens lately? Are aliens more fun than dolphins? Are they attracted?
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# Public OKd for Stonehenge solstice. LONDON (AP) The public will be able to
  greet the dawn of the millennium's 1st summer at the ancient stone circle
  of Stonehenge, the first time in 16 years the site has been opened for the
  summer solstice. Stonehenge will be opened the night of June 20 for eight
  hours under tight security. Camping, fires, dogs and amplified music will
  be forbidden at the site on Salisbury Plain, 80 miles southwest of London.
  In the past, Stonehenge - a stone circle erected by prehistoric Brits 5000
  years ago - has been a magnet for unruly revelers. During the 1980s, a 4-
  mile exclusion zone was established around the stones on solstice night
  following a series of disruptions. In 1998, 100 people were allowed to
  attend the solstice by prior arrangement, but riot police had to be called
  in last year after gatecrashers pushed down fences and clambered on the
  stones. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566440192-240

: What's your favorite pagan festival? Have you celebrated any solstices/eq-
quinxi/twilights/eclipses/supernovae lately?Is a simulated/recreated/virtual
sacred site almost as good as the original? Been to concrete Stonehenge yet?
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@ INTRINSIC VALUE? RG 341, Records of HQ USAF ATIC, Wright-Patterson AFB,
  Ohio. Aerial Phenomena Branch. Three related series of audiovisual records
  composed of photos (7,280), sound recordings (23) and motion pictures (20)
  from "Project Blue Book." 1950-67. 7,323 items. Arranged by case number.
  Audiovisual records in different formats created, acquired or collected by
  the USAF during official investigations into the existence of UFO's. There
  are photos (35 mm negatives) of 21 alleged sightings of UFOs, including
  some photos recorded on roll film that show timed radar responses of the
  observed phenomena. The motion pictures (8 mm & 16 mm) are composed mainly
  of original camera footage (unedited) filmed by military personnel & civ-
  ilians. The sound recordings were recorded or acquired by the USAF and
  contain interviews with individuals claiming to have seen UFO's as well
  as sound recordings made at the time of the alleged sightings. Related
  textual records are in accompanying series of case files and project files
  of "Project Blue Book." http://www.nara.gov/arch/techinfo/intrin.html

: Do you have any (semi)official audiovisual recordings of paranormal/alien/
divine/satanic phenomena? Are your recordings of any intrinsic value? D'ya
budget for their preservation/enhancement/concealment? Is your budget tight?
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  "In polite society the answer to that question is 'fine.' In impolite
   society the answer to that question is a bullet through the head."
   --Vivre Draco

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