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@ 15 April 1912: RMS Titanic sinks in No. Atlantic http://www.titanic1.org/
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# MIRACLE CURES OF THE FLOATING NUN! BANGKOK, Thailand -- A remarkable
  Buddhist holy woman known as the floating nun miraculously heals even
  the gravely ill and dying, say those who have witnessed and felt her
  awesome power. http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1477.html
@ Excuse #203 - Psi-Missing: http://www.skepdic.com/psimiss.html
@ Spirits or Drugs? http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?13@@.ee9e569

@ CHURCH OF EUTHANASIA: The Church of Euthanasia was inspired by a dream in
  which Rev. Chris Korda confronted an alien intelligence known as The Being
  who speaks for inhabitants of Earth in other dimensions. The Being warned
  that our planet's ecosystem is failing, and that our leaders deny this.
  The Being asked why our leaders lie to us, and why so many of us believe
  these lies. Rev. Korda awoke from the dream moaning the Church's infamous
  slogan, SAVE THE PLANET--KILL YOURSELF!. http://www.enviroweb.org/coe/

: Are you ill/well/indeterminate? Would Earth be better off if you were dead
/alive/indeterminate? Should you be cured/killed/cloned? Are you a leader?
D'ya lie you others/yourself/me? D'ya make excuses for your failures? Yeah?
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# Artificial Anasazi: DigiIndians Farm Computerized Landscape in Prehistoric
  Arizona. Computer modeling allows us to recreate prehistoric landscapes &
  environments & populate them with virtual people — digital creations with
  some of the needs, independence, and capabilities of real-world humans. We
  can establish rules of conduct & replicate social units. Then we can turn
  down the rainfall — or turn up the population — and watch how this cyber-
  culture and its artificial people react. "The Sims" circa CE 1200:
  http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0800toc/8feature2-anasazi.shtml

# 3000 YEAR OLD GOLD MINE DISCOVERY CALLED 'AS IMPORTANT AS STONEHENGE'!
  Pagans & Druids are flocking to the site - sacrificing archaeologists?
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/wales/newsid_710000/710466.stm
# Indus Valley Mystery: One of Earth's First Great Civilizations is Still a
  Puzzle: http://discoveringarchaeology.com/0800toc/8feature1-indus.shtml

: Have you simulated any ancient/middle/recent environmental/cultural rela-
tionships lately? Was your civilization started/helped/destroyed by aliens/
angels/robots/me? Do you live inside a simulation? Are you artificial? Why?
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@ The KV5/Theban Mapping Project: http://www.kv5.com/
@ EXPLORING THE WONDERS OF ANCIENT EGYPT. The technology and benefits of the
  pyramid form was being taught to humanity by beings from galaxies & worlds
  outside our solar system. It was their intent to assist our world in an
  emerging new culture. http://spiritweb.org/Spirit/atlantis6-diandra.html

# Study: Did Fossils Inspire Mythology? -- The legendary beasts of classical
  mythology may have been inspired by fossil remains of prehistoric species.
  "Ancient authors turned to myths about heroes and giants to explain
  skeletons of amazing size that they observed firsthand in Asia Minor and
  Greece." http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000412/history_myths.html

: Have you explored any ancient worlds lately? Have you found traces of ETs,
monsters, deities, nonhumans, robots, me? D'ya make up wild tales to account
for your findings? Are you believed, marketed, honored, worshipped? Why not?
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@ ARE YOU WILLING TO BE AN ANGELIC EMMISARY? Messages From Archangel Michael
  Beloved masters, some time ago we asked you to envision yourselves moving
  back through the energetic skeins of times past, transmuting all the neg-
  ative memories along the way, as you also move in an upward spiral toward
  the future. http://www.spiritweb.org/Spirit/angelic-emissary-herman.html

@ Mobile Software Agents for Control in Telecommunications Networks:
  http://www.bt.com/bttj/vol18no1/today/papers/s_appleby/abstract.htm
@ Towards Human-Centred Intelligent Systems: The Intelligent Assistant:
  http://www.bt.com/bttj/vol18no1/today/papers/d_djian/abstract.htm
@ Using Genetics To Extract Information - Genetic Programming Queries:
  http://www.bt.com/bttj/vol18no1/today/papers/j_martin/abstract.htm

: Are you an agent for one or more paranormal entities? Have you willingly
enslaved yourself to their will? How do you differ from a cyberslave toiling
endlessly on the Web, extracting/parsing/transmitting information? D'ya spy?
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# Indonesia militants surrender arms. (BBC) Thousands of Muslims training
  for holy war in the Moluccan Is abandon their camp under police pressure.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_713000/713048.stm
@ Virtual war isn't just war that takes place on screens. It's war that
  makes unreal demands: war without risk, in the name of abstractions.
  http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/highlights/virtual_war/index.html

# American Bar Transformed Into Brothel For United Nations' Troops -
  Cedar Falls, Iowa USA  -  http://www.krug.org/unit/un/tonys.html
@ Secret Radar Stations in New Mexico - connexions to Dulce, Area51.
  part 1: http://www.earthfiles.com/earth125.htm
  part 2: http://www.earthfiles.com/earth126.htm

: D'ya prefer real/virtual/holy/economic/cultural/gender/nuclear/biological/
chemical/cyber warfare? Have you waged war lately? Were/are your goals real/
abstract/fantastic? Do voices in your head direct your strategy? D'ya win??

# Canada Gay Laws Pass: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49147
# Bush & Gays: http://www.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/04/14/cabin/
@ Americans For Purity: Winning The War On Masturbation. And just barely
  in time, too: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/2680/
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# Protesters headquarters raided. WASHINGTON (AP) Police staged a lightning
  raid & closed the HQ of world finance protesters, saying they found fire-
  bomb materials. http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2000/04/15/raid/index.html
# DC Cops Bust Many on Eve of IMF Meeting. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a clear
  show of force, Washington police arrested some 200 peaceful protesters:
  http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000415/ts/imf_protests_15.html

# PANIC! World economic collapse will come in June! WASHINGTON -- The world
  economy is on the verge of a collapse that will leave banks in total ruin,
  currency worthless -- and at least a billion people homeless and starving
  in the streets. Mega-panic: http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1471.html

: Have you manipulated any economic/political/military/legal systems lately?
Have you planted/fabricated/hidden/destroyed any evidence? Is y'r conspiracy
distracting public attention from what's really happening? Are you winning??

# World Trade Weekend: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/15/imf/
# Cops Hiding Badges: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/15/dupont/
# Ready To Rumble: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/15/mayor/
# FightClubIMF: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/14/imf_fightclub/
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  "I regret that I have but asterisk for my country." --anon

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SkeptiNews 000415a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question

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# Japanese Man Touches Captured UFO as Mind-Control Rays Beam Into His Eyes:
http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/japan/environmental/fair/20000414/tok105
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@ Technology Timeline- Life in 2020. We'll share Earth with synthetic intel-
  ligent lifeforms and they may even have legal rights. Some of our friends
  may be synthetic. Since our relationships will be net based, we won't even
  know which are or aren't: http://www.bt.com/bttj/vol18no1/tomorrow.htm

# Frankenfoods Safer Than Conventional Crops. WASHINGTON(Reuters) A Congres-
  sional panel said GM foods may be safer to eat than conventional crops,
  and blamed European activists for undermining public confidence in bio-
  foods. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000413/sc/food_biotech_6.html
# Pollen may contaminate GM-free food - purity is 'biologically impossible'
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000149243035591&pg=/et/00/4/14/ngm14.html

: D'ya prefer natural/synthetic/hybrid foods, friends, fuckers, forecasters?
D'ya already have close relationships with synthetic products/intelligences/
toys? Are you at greater risk from natural/synthetic/divine entities? Why??
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@ Evolution: the Best Possible Search Algorithm? Why is natural evolution so
  good at finding solutions to real-world problems? If this question can be
  understood & answered we'll have a powerful tool to solve many problems.
  http://www.bt.com/bttj/vol18no1/today/papers/f_stentiford/abstract.htm

@ Involuntary Implants: http://www.raven1.net/bcimplan.htm
@ All Channels Open: Multimodal Human-Computer Interfaces:
  http://www.bt.com/bttj/vol18no1/today/papers/p_wyard/abstract.htm
# Chip Speeds Fiber-optics: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9681969

# Tiny Machine Uses DNA to Do Its Work. (Reuters) - A tiny machine that can
  physically bend DNA is just the first of a new generation of micro-robots.
  http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000414/sc/science_nanomachine_1.html

: Can evolutionary processes be massaged/manipulated/induced to make better
people/plants/pets? Should/can/will you be implanted with tiny machines that
communicate quickly with your controller(s)?If they constantly stimulate y'r
pleasure centers, will you mind very much? D'ya wanna be an orgasmic slave?
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# News at CNN, NPR controlled by US Army PsyOps agents posing as interns:
  http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,,158410,00.html
# Fort Knox meets Mission Impossible - Net hardware at secure and secret
  California site: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20000411_4011.html
# Delhi simians have a notorious past - monkeys stealing files, attacking
  doctors and patients: http://www.timesofindia.com/today/14mdel15.htm

# Former Cardinal Cushing Tightly Linked To FBI & J. Edgar Hoover. Through-
  out the 1950s & 1960s, the FBI aggressively cultivated a warm relationship
  with Cardinal Richard J. Cushing, supplying the powerful leader of Boston
  Catholics with material for his speeches & logistical help in his travels.
  http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/104/metro/Cushing_FBI_linked-.shtml

: Are all political/economic/religious/military conspiracies/entities/sects
inextricably linked? Do they more-or-less effectively control the behaviour/
thoughts of humans, apes, other primates? Are their control centers secure?
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# Language was probably born of soap opera: the structure of human society
  is so complex that we had to evolve the gift of the gab. So evolve more:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000166941319210&pg=/et/00/4/6/ecflan06.html

@ Fare Well, My Clone! (Arthur C Clarke) Achieving human cloning via ET
  intervention and interception of human DNA on its inter-stellar journey.
  http://www.bt.com/bttj/vol18no1/today/papers/a_c_clarke/abstract.htm

# Last month, a British woman patented herself. A joke? Perhaps, but in
  today's surreal world of intellectual property rights, it may have been
  prudent. Not yet profitable: http://www.feedmag.com/dna/bookoflife.html
@ This is the end. Really. Nothing more: http://www.1112.net/lastpage.html

: Have you cloned/patented/described yourself lately? Does your talk evolve
faster than your mind/soul/body? Do talking entities have immense survival
advantages over the strong, silent types? Do ETs interfere with your talk??
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# Jamaican Woman Charged With Spouse Murder In Cult Death. KINGSTON, Jamaica
  (Reuters) - A self-styled pastor, who helped fatally beat her husband with
  a bible & a piece of wood to drive out demons,was charged with his murder:
  www.excite.co.uk/news/news_story/oddly/reuters_oddly_20000414210016_0.txt

# China Sect Shows Its Colors, and 50 Followers Are Arrested - Tiananmen Sq.
  Tussle: http://www10.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/041400china-sect.html
# GREAT NUMBER OF PILGRIMS EXPECTED IN JERUSALEM DURING HOLY WEEK - security
  forces on high alert: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49112
# NY CULT EXPERTS AID UGANDA: http://www.nypost.com/04102000/news/28057.htm

# Rwanda Cops Bust Cultists. KIGALI (AP) Fearing a repeat of the cult deaths
  that horrified neighboring Uganda, Rwanda has detained eight members of an
  obscure Christian sect on charges of illegal assembly and unauthorized
  worship. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000413/14/rwanda-cult-arrests

: Is your belief system immersed in violence? Are all belief systems? Do we
humans NEED violence to make the beliefs more palatable/entertaining/vivid?
Should all worship be authorized, monitored, controlled, pacified, drugged??
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# "Growing up greener: <http://www.msnbc.com/news/394171.asp?cp1=1>
  Earth Day 2000 targets youth" - MSNBC's eco-bonehead Francesca Lyman
  <http://www.junkscience.com/feb99/tampon.htm> hails the green-washing
  of our young. [ via http://www.junkscience.com/ and well worth it! ]

# 'Impossible' cloning a reality. (U-WIRE) WACO, Texas -- The cloning of
  "Dolly" may lead to the cloning of humans and the "Headless Frog" may lead
  to headless human clones. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000413/tech-90
# 73 year old man diagnosed with pregnancy - claims "immaculate conception"
  (BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_713000/713056.stm

# Thousands of Unwanted Embryos Perish. LONDON (Reuters) Zillions of frozen
  human embryos have been destroyed in Britain because couples are not using
  them for fertility treatment and they are not being donated to childless
  couples: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000414/08/science-britain-embryos

: Have you cloned any headless humans lately? Are you a headless human? Are
your unwanted embryos being destroyed? Should they be raised as green kids?
Have they been secretly implanted into old men? Has anyone else noticed??
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  "When it becomes a crime to love, you should probably consider
   dating outside the family." -- http://www.SleazyTabloid.com

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