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@ World's Worst Convenience Foods: http://www.bertc.com/worlds_8_worst.htm
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# ET-SEx (Not what you might think). Forget the New York Stock Exchange, the
  NASDAQ hi-tech index, & other mundane benchmarks of stock market activity.
  Alien Zoo's Jim Dilettoso (www.alienzoo.com) has come up with what might
  just be "the" definitive strategy for multiplying your equity capital. He
  calls it the "Extra Terrestrial Stock Exchange" (or ETSEx for short.) And
  although he calls this fruit of his research "just for fun... for now,"
  Dilettoso's newly developed index may be just as accurate as, say, Louis
  Rukeyser's. Gimmee: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal061402.html

# Shadow Worlds. It may be all around us, a parallel universe of mirror gal-
  axies,mirror plants...even mirror life. THE WORLD on the other side of the
  mirror is a favorite of fantasists: everything is subtly twisted; things
  impossible in our world can happen. Scores of fictional adventurers, from
  Alice onwards,have stepped through into that reflected realm. But it could
  be that the world on the other side of the mirror is more than a fantasy.
  Reality check: http://newscientist.com/features/features.jsp?id=ns224324

: Do your thoughts/deities/finances exist in paranormal realms? Do you track
the mirror stock market? Do financial markets operate by different economic
rules in mirror/parallel/alternate universes? Are y'r finances just fantasy?
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# Addict deaths pinpointed in Britain. LONDON (AP) Scientists blame a highly
  toxic bacteria as the cause of a mysterious illness that's killed at least
  35 heroin addicts. Clostridium bacterium - not the next AIDS, just contam-
  ination: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567362886-ad3

# A Possible Solution to Cell Phones Causing Hypothyroidism? From: XXXXXXXXX
  I'm using a device on my cellular phone which alters the radiation pattern
  on the phone and renders it harmless. I know it sounds strange, but I got
  it from my Dr. Marshall and I trust him. I also have devices on my regular
  phones, tv's, and computer monitors to do much the same thing with them.
  You can get information on it from his office if you call for it. The
  number is: 310-320-1132.  [ via www.topica.com/lists/ewar ]

# MAGNETS ATTRACT LEGAL JUDGMENT. Prosecutors in Napa and Sonoma Counties in
  No.California seem to be the only ones going after bogus health products.
  This time, it's magnet makers who're caught making unsubstantiated claims.
  http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=36051&src=n2

: Do magnets/bacteria/cellphones/reptoids/narcotics affect your health? Are
you searching for relief? Is death the greatest relief of all? Should we all
die so we won't hurt anymore? Is your conspiracy working to achieve that???
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# The Code Cracks. "God does not play dice with the universe," Einstein fam-
  ously remarked. But he didn't rule out numerical puzzles. (WSJ) The Bible
  Code, a 1997 bestseller by Michael Drosnin,argued that hidden messages are
  embedded in bible texts. Similar books followed; a movie was even made on
  this theme ("The Omega Code"). The popular press, no doubt intimidated by
  the code's statistical complexity, wrote of it with cautious respect. To
  this day, there is the lingering impression that,no matter how far-fetched
  it seems, a code may be buried in the Bible for a computer to discover.
  This impression is badly misguided. Recent analysis has done a great deal
  to refute the whole idea. http://www.stats.org/statswork/biblecode.htm

# REPUBLICANS JOIN ANTI-HOLY SEE UN CAMPAIGN - conservatives conspiring
  against Vatican: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4001
# Rwandan Court Acquits Roman Catholic Bishop Of Genocide - persecuted by
  politicos: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567366174-e56

: Do your deities play games, create numerical/cryptological puzzles, enjoy
watching you dangle? Do your politicos play games with your deities? Do your
legal/religious/scientific/mystical codes decode into anything recognizable?
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# UFO Roundup: CHUPACABRAS GO ON THE RAMPAGE IN CHILE - GERMAN POLICE HUNT
  FOR LANDED UFO - SECURITY GUARD SIGHTS HUGE DISC-SHAPED UFO IN GLOUCESTER-
  SHIRE - CROP CIRCLE DISCOVERED SOUTH OF MILAN, ITALY - DISC UFO KILLS A
  CAR'S ENGINE IN WISCONSIN - HOVERING BLUE SPHERE SEEN IN AUBURN, NEW YORK
  - BLACK HELICOPTERS AND GIANT DAYLIGHT DISC SEEN IN DALLAS, TEXAS - VERY
  BRIGHT UFO SIGHTED IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA - MYSTERIOUS CAVE WRITINGS
  DISCOVERED IN EGYPT - MORE CHEMTRAILS SIGHTED IN SOUTH DAKOTA - STRANGE
  CRUISE OF THE MINNIE H. :: http://ufoinfo.com/roundup/v05/rnd05_24.shtml

# Collider creates no black hole. Physicists successfully achieved near-
  light-speed particle collisions at Brookhaven National Laboratory this
  week, after persistent fear and speculation in some circles that the
  experiment would launch a new "black hole" that would threaten Earth.
  Try again next week: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal061501.html

: Have you recreated/destroyed/altered any universes/galaxies/planets/slums
lately? Did you hover overhead in a blue sphere first? Did you warn the poor
victims? Did they pay any attention? Does anyone? D'ya go unnoticed? Where?
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SkeptiBriefs:

# Weaving dates back 27k years. Woven clothing was being produced on looms
  27,000 years ago, far earlier than had been thought. It had been thought
  that the first farmers developed weaving 5,000-10,000 years ago. Back to
  work: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_790000/790569.stm

# US BISHOPS CRITICIZE "CIVIL UNION" LAW - "marry in the Church or not
  at all, heathens!" http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=3985
@ A Nipple Too Far: http://www.nerve.com/ScienceOfSex/05-16-00/05-16-00.html

# Expert accuses US of dumping GM food in Orissa. NEW DELHI: Leading Indian
  food security expert Vandana Shiva in a startling revelation has accused
  the US government of using the Orissa super cyclone victims as "guinea
  pigs" by distributing genetically-modified foodstuff as relief material
  to them. Lab wogs: http://www.timesofindia.com/120600/12hlth2.htm

# Supreme Court Upholds Due Process in Waco Case - new evidence disallowed.
  The coverup proceeds: http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/6/13/220557
# FBI Agent Immune. The FBI agent who killed the wife of white separatist
  Randy Weaver in the Ruby Ridge standoff is immune from state prosecution
  in Idaho: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567351927-6ee

# Hurricanes on the rise again. WASHINGTON (AP) - Hurricane activity in the
  Atlantic seems to alternate between active and slow periods of several
  decades, with a new busy period now under way. Natural cycles or weather
  control? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567343663-8b8
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  "When the truth is revealed, everyone will be inspecting their own undies
   for poop. Including the Snuh nuts." -- "Twonky" <twonky@mindspring.com>

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@ Watch the corn grow: http://www.iowafarmer.com/corncam/corn.html
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# Report Of Chupacabra 'Eggs' Now Part Of The Mystery. The strange creature
  took prodigious leaps and bounds and at one point gave the impression of
  floating in the air(might it have something similar to wings?). The patrol
  returned with several "eggs" found at the location where the creatures
  were taken by surprise. http://www.sightings.com/general2/chupss.htm

# FIELDS OF DREAMS - The Crop Circle Phenomenon in Canada. The UFO 2000
  Conference, a leading Canadian research forum, will be held July 7-9 in
  St. Paul, Alberta (near Edmonton), featuring presentations by researchers
  in ufology, cerealogy and other fields of unexplained phenomena. Be there
  or be circular: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m15-005.shtml

# Videos: Daylight UFOs Over London. A London resident filmed 4 separate UFO
  incidents in the space of 90 minutes. The UFOs are of the 'sphere' type
  reported & recorded so often in Mexico. http://www.ufomag.co.uk/he501.htm
# UFOs over New York: http://www.westchesterweekly.com/articles/ufos.html

: Have Chupacabras chewed circles in your crops lately? Have you thrown any
Chupacabra eggs in the air, videotaped them,and called them UFOs? Would you
rather study cerealogy, videography,chupacagraphy, iridiology, sexology, me?
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# Mars & July 2000: Are We Lambs to the Slaughter, Mr.President? So could it
  be that Comet 76P passed Mars, caused Phobos to become even more unstable,
  to a point where, in the course of the next ten days or so, it finally
  breaks free of its Mars orbit? If that is the case, does anyone out there
  have a clue how long it would take Phobos & Earth to reach the same point
  in space? http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/marshit3.html

# Atomic Ruins 8 Millennia Ago. A construction team discovered the site in
  Rajasthan, India while preparing to build a housing development. The heavy
  layer of radioactive ash in a 3-mile-square area concealed "an ancient
  city where evidence shows an atomic blast dating back thousands of years,
  from 8,000 to 12,000 years, destroyed most of the buildings and probably
  a half-million people." http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal061302.html

: Have you blasted any cities/planets/galaxies lately? D'ya use planetoids,
bombs, black holes, divine wrath, antimatter, propaganda? D'ya give adequate
warning? Is it fun to watch the doomed populace squirm,panic, self-destruct?
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# RETIRED US ARMY RESERVE COLONEL ACCUSED OF SPYING FOR USSR. A retired U.S.
  Army Reserve colonel is under arrest & accused of passing military secrets
  to the KGB -- the secret police of the former Soviet Union -- during the
  height of the Cold War. Arrested -- and released -- by Germans years six
  ago: http://www.CNN.com/2000/US/06/14/military.espionage.03/index.html

@ Liberals & conservatives agree that "Third Way" is an empty,abused phrase.
  But discussion is still alive & well, provided you don't call it by name:
  www.consider.net/forum_new.php3?newTemplate=OpenObject&newTop=200006120015
# Germans Dumping Nuclear Power. The German govt and the electric industry
  agree to gradually phase-out nuclear power plants throughout the country.
  http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36937,00.html?tw=wn20000613

@ While the slashdot crowd orders <http://www.m-ms.com/colorworks/> Bulk
  M&M's and <http://www.lego.com/bulk/default.asp> Bulk Legos, I will be
  ordering <http://www.bulkammo.com/> Bulk Ammo so I can defend my terri-
  tory. Let's do business at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Commerce/

: Have you succumbed to any old paradigms lately? Is polarization obsolete?
Are you sorry for the ways you've behaved under old/new/any paradigms? Will
capitalism replace all other paradigms? Will orgone replace other energies?
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# VIRTUAL REALITY REVOLUTIONIZING THE WAY DOCTORS VIEW, TREAT PATIENTS. A
  medical resident wearing black-rimmed goggles stands before a projection
  screen and uses a computer to navigate through an oversized 3-D image of
  the human pelvis -- a notoriously difficult part of the body to learn.
  http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=35390&src=n22

@ Neurology and neuroscience have taken over the world of novels, shaping
  literary form and content in the way that Freud's ideas once did. Just
  what the world needs: http://prospect.org/archives/V11-13/blume-h.html

# DIGITAL COMPRESSION OF X-RAYS CAN AFFECT QUALITY. Although sending x-rays
  via e-mail can help doctors speed diagnoses, the potentially poor quality
  of these images may increase the odds of a wrong diagnosis. Death By
  Email: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=35433

: Have you looked at any digitized neural/biological/cyborg systems lately?
Are the errors negligible? Did you fix any damaged systems? Are the patches
hardly noticable? Do they almost act the same? Are they feeling much better?
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# Internet Satellites Going Cheap. (Wired) Why spend billions on a satellite
  network when you could spend a mere $4 million? One entrepreneur proposes
  a satellite system worked up from Apple G4s & Airport wireless technology.
  http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36964,00.html?tw=wn20000614

# Israeli firm kicks off robotic lawn mower ads. DALLAS. Hoping to pioneer
  a market that hardly exists, Friendly Robotics this week kicked off U.S.
  advertising for a robotic lawn mower, the first of a range of robotic
  consumer appliances it says it has under development. Mechanical slavery:
  http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-2020624.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni

# Bluetooth's Promises, Hurdles. It's exciting for those who already believe
  in it. But analysts say it will be years before bluetooth replaces current
 wireless systems. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36970,00.html
@ For obsolete vidgame fans, <http://thelogbook.com/phosphor/> Phosphor Dot
  Fossiles is an essential reference. via http://memepool.com/Subject/Games/

: Have you inspired/penetrated/controlled any new technologies/markets/ideas
lately? Do you prefer new/old/virtual/impossible stuff? Is your stuff better
than my stuff? How can you tell? Will cheap stuff ruin your co-conspirators?
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# Animal magnetism - Do creatures use a chemical compass to find their way?
  THE internal compasses of some animals might work by detecting minute
  changes in the pace of biochemical reactions in different magnetic fields.
  Theoretical studies could contribute to the debate on whether the electro-
  magnetic fields of powerlines cause diseases such as cancer. Or they might
  be ignored again: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns224239

# Navy sonar may have killed whales. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Autopsies
  of whales that beached in the Bahamas suggest a possible link between Navy
  sonar tests and ear hemorrhages that disoriented the animals, a biologist
  sez: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567344189-240

: Have you confused/killed/misled many animals lately?Are they easy to dupe?
Are you? How's your sonar? Are you sometimes misdirected? Do you crash into
obstacles, curse,try again, drown? Is your chemical compass psychedelicized?
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  "I didn't do it, and I promise that I'll never do it again."

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@ Tarantulas'R'Us: http://hem.spray.se/minax/index/welcome_e.html
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@ Sitchin Certification Seminar. Zecharia Sitchin, whose work challenges
  everything we thought we knew about human civilization, is presenting the
  Zecharia Sitchin Certification Seminar, produced by The Prophets Conferen-
  ces, in Santa Fe, New Mexico during the weekend of September 15-17, 2000.
  Those completing the Seminar will be granted a certificate by Mr. Sitchin
  enabling them to teach and lead study and discussion groups, and conduct
  workshops regarding his teaching. http://www.greatmystery.org/sitchin.html

# REPTILIAN HUMANOIDS 7. Research into ritual abuse at U.Colorado at Boulder
  found that all of those questioned had been subjected to intercourse or
  molestation; 97% saw or took part in animal sacrifice; 97%, forced to take
  part in sex with adults ; 97% experienced torture; 94% were sodomised; 88%
  were forced to watch or take part in human sacrifice; 88% in cannibalism.
  Not nice at all: http://www.angelfire.com/ut/branton/reptilians7.html

: Has your civilization been created/manipulated/distorted/destroyed by ETs?
Would you rather be manipulated by superhumans, Reptilioids, deities, Space
Brothers/Sisters, govt/biz/church agents, robots, me? Are you certified??
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# Well Dressed - The Suit That Makes You Feel as Good As Prozac. In UK labs,
  surrounded by perfume vials & surgical microtubes, researchers are design-
  ing the must-have outfit of the fashion future: the aroma shirt. Once it's
  equipped with electronic sensors that react to changes in the body's vital
  signs,the garment will know when to deliver scents to the cuffs & neckline
  from a perfume reservoir hidden in its lining. Aromatherapy buffs are sure
  to embrace a shirt that reacts to stress signs by puffing calming vanilla
  scents or emit energy-boosting geranium spritzes during interminable meet-
  ings. http://www10.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000611mag-suit.html

# WHO ISSUES ANTIBIOTIC ALERT. The World Health Organization warned that
  increasingly drug-resistant infections in rich and developing nations
  alike are threatening to make once-treatable diseases incurable. Yow.
  http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=35795&src=n22

: What biochemical agents do you most want to apply to your food/body/mind?
Are you developing smart robots to send pheromones/vaccines/purifiers into
organisms? Will such robots be as gods, controlling all our (re)actions??
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# RWANDA BISHOP FACES DEATH PENALTY IN GENOCIDE TRIAL. A Roman Catholic
  bishop on trial for genocide and crimes against humanity faces a possible
  death sentence when a Rwandan criminal court pronounces its verdict.
  Framed? http://www.CNN.com/2000/ASIANOW/east/06/15/korea.summit.03/

# Southern Baptist say 'no' to women. ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The Southern
  Baptist Convention approved a revised statement of faith that said women
  should not serve as pastors. They might as well be Roman Catholics,
  eh? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567338767-7c8

# Holy MP3: A Downloadable Bible. If you don't have enough time to sit down
  and read the Good Book, now you can download it for free. A Virginia oil
  refinery worker is creating the first public domain, downloadable audio
  Bible. http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,36936,00.html?tw=wn20000613

: Is your belief system well-grounded? Does the Divine Word guide all your
(re)actions? Have your deities told you to kill, rape, discriminate, down-

load? Do you always follow the orders of the voices in your head? Why not?
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# Greek Church Escalates ID Battle. THESSALONIKI - The leader of the Greek
  Orthodox Church told followers to unite against the govt in an identity
  card dispute that has set Greece's most powerful institutions against each
  other. The showdown began with govt plans to strip a religious affiliation
  entry from state ID cards. Be marked by OUR Beast, let US know who you are
  - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567342176-169

# VIRGINIA SCHOOLS WON'T SAY "PRAY" THIS FALL - succumbing to secular
  power-plays: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4002
# Judge voids state school prayer law. MONROE, La.  A federal judge struck
  down a Louisiana law that allows public schools to set aside time for
  prayer. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567348078-9a9

# Bishop bars Gore at church hospital - "campaign elsewhere, heathen!" -
  VP stricken: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4007
@ Encyclopedia Mythica: http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/

: What's your favorite religious myth? Do your religious myths conflict with
the Game Rules of other belief systems? Does your faith fight/control/ignore
other belief/power systems? Are you surrounded by heathens? Are they smelly?
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# New technology sees through things. (AP) - Thought only cartoon superheros
  could see thru walls to detect the villains? New technology called ultra-
  wideband will soon allow mere mortals to detect objects buried underground
  and to build cars enhanced with sensors that help avoid collisions. Closer
  surveillance: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567356322-545

# Software allows stealth monitoring. (AP)- Beware, corporate snitches loose
  with company secrets - your boss may have a new tool to track what you do
  with your computer. Raytheon's "SilentRunner" software is the vanguard of
  net.monitoring. Rather than just rely on searches for suspicious keywords,
  the program uses algorithms to analyze communications patterns, then turns
  its analysis into 3-D pictures. By looking at the pictures, monitors can
  follow traffic patterns and detect "backdoors" or other anomalies that may
  mean sensitive data is at risk. And it's all undetectable by those being
  monitored. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567345693-8be

: Have you been surveilled by corporate/govt/church/alien agents lately? Do
they know everything you do? Do they look thru your walls/clothes/firewalls/
membranes? Do they analyze/control/know you completely? Are you despairing??
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  "My God!!! It's ALIVE!!!!" cried the nubile young lab assistant, whose
   sensitive baby-blues cast a knowing glance away from the microscope to
   the grotesque hunchback drooling darkly in the corner, so overwhelmed
   with searing passion she didn't hear the shot ring out or the maid
   scream, or notice the delicate scent of magnolia blossoms drifting
   in through the portholes of the saucer hovering over the plantation,
   thinking only of the previous night, when Harry Hungstud had thrown
   her naked on the bed and forced -- yes, FORCED!!! -- her to caress
   his motorcycle boots with her tongue, for in her consuming ambition
   to be chairman of the board of Intergalactic Perfumes, Inc., there was
   no depravity, no perversity, no unspeakable descent into utter animal
   self-degradation that Harriet would not endure. --J.J.Pollock

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