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Thursday, March 16, 2000 01:43 p.m. P.S.T. SkeptiNews 000316b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To
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* Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/15_03_2000.html * 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 crusading porn tsars were sexually abused to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Elder Gods: http://www.sightings.com/splashscreens/elder.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Basis for power beads much older than recent trend (U-WIRE) WACO, Texas -- Though just a recent trend for some, the popular power beads hold deeper meaning for others. Power beads are elastic beaded bracelets that come in various colors and are usually worn by females. . "I wasn't feeling very confident the day of my calculus test, so I wore my amethyst bracelet for brain power and intelligence. Now I believe the bracelets work because I ended up doing really well." http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000315/odd-70 : Do you channel power through rocks? Do you use tiny/little/medium/big/huge crystals/pebbles/meteorites? Do your rocks move you further/same/closer to material gain, personal satisfaction, good sex, eternal salvation? Would you kill for rocks? Would rocks kill for you? D'ya have many rocks in your head? # Hajj pilgrims told: Westward, NO!. (BBC) Muslim pilgrims performing the Hajj have been urged to shun Western traditions and materialism. Learn to be happy with superstition, poverty, dictators. And kill the Jews too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_679000/679624.stm @ Hajj Information: http://www.mecjv.com/hajj3.htm @ Hajj Information Centre: http://islam.org/islamicity/hajj/ @ Saudi Arabia Information Resource: http://www.saudinf.com/main/start.htm : Note: the holiest ritual in Islam revolves around a giant meteorite that was worshipped in pre-Muslim times - nothing like absorbing paganism, eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Utah has America's 1st 'porn czar' - Law coming to 'codify our highest moral aspirations' - http://www.asahi.com/english/nyt/0316/nyt031605.html # Libraries allow Internet sex crimes? Tons of online porn - burn all books: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_dougherty/20000316_xnjdo_libraries_.shtml @ Hot Vintage Robot Porn: http://www.iamlost.com/features/robotporn/ # Roman Catholic priest will help ordain his son - mom was a nun: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564988078-9e0 # Slow Gals: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000315/16/women-vs-men : Does your life/religion/culture revolve around sex? Can you be religious without sex? Can you be sexy without religion? Does your belief system make predictions? Does it tell you if you'll "get lucky?" Does it send ex-clerics /robots/images/athletes to you for sex/salvation/salivation? Are they hot? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pol Turns to Gypsy Fortune Teller. MOSCOW (Reuters) Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, his poll ratings stuck in the cellar, turned to a Gypsy fortune teller for good news on his campaign for the March 26 presi- dential election. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000316/12/odd-zhirinovsky # Grumpy atheists fight back - TAKE YOUR GOD AND SHOVE IT! www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_ronthal/20000316_xcint_grumpy_ath.shtml # AND THE WINNER IS... 'Christian Oscars' presented in Hollywood [yawn] http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/20000316_xex_and_winner_.shtml # Fine for torching 'gay-pride' flag - GOD MADE ME DO IT! GOD WON! http://www.dispatch.com/news/newsfea00/mar00/207358.html : What's y'r favorite paranormal/religious/political/cultural/sexual belief? Are most Gypsy fortune-tellers more entertaining/honest than Xian cinema? Do your deities tell you what to do/think/feel? Are your deities grumpy? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Young stars in cosmic dance. (BBC) A trio of newborn stars, 1,400 light- years distant, are engaged in a complex dance revealed by Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Two are now closely embracing, while the third has been thrown from their company. Stellar deities do a menage-a-trois: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_679000/679903.stm # SCIENTISTS MAP 'DARK MATTER' - US Navy seeks to have map classified: http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000310/space_darkmatter.html # INTERESTING STRUCTURAL FEATURES ON EROS ASTEROID - skull face seen: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/0003/08nearfeatures/index.html # IMPACT EVENTS SHAPED RISE OF CIVILIZATION - devastated early cultures: http://www.spacer.com/spacecast/news/deepimpact-00a.html : Have you consorted with many stellar deities lately?Are they hot? Do their thrashings threaten to upset/crush your stellar/planetary/social system? Can you make them slow down? Have you thrown any asteroids at them? Did it work? # YUKON METEORITE RECOVERED - May Provide "New Window Into the Universe". Fragments of a meteor that exploded over the Yukon in January, 2000, have been collected and turned over to Canadian and NASA scientists for analysis. Potentially the most important space rock in at least 31 years. http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast16mar_1.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Conspiracies'R'Us: # Pakistan has ingredients for lighter nuke - can put plutonium warheads in M-11 missiles: http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=71670 # THREAT OF CHINESE INVASION INTENSIFIES; TAIWAN STOCKS FALL - Beijing manipulating vote? http://CNN.com/2000/ASIANOW/east/03/16/taiwan.china/ # China's military links forces - Will boost ability to fight with combined army, navy, air power: http://208.246.212.80/world/default-20003162315.htm # BIRDS LOST http://news.excite.com/news/r/000315/14/science-science-pigeons # Fuel-cell future for gasoline? Researchers find way to run 'green' engines on hydrocarbons - but it ain't solar yet: http://msnbc.com/news/382483.asp # Feds blamed for high gas prices - 'endless government meddling' or what? http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_dougherty/20000316_xnjdo_feds_blame.shtml # Don't cry for Bush, Argentina - Dubya uses family name in foreign affairs, oil dealings: http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MA00/argentina.html # Oil is well for Bush - Kuwaiti campaign chicanery - ruin economy to win: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_excomm/20000316_xex_oil_well_wit.shtml # Bin Laden 'dying of kidney failure' - self-abuse or poisoned? http://news.excite.com/news/r/000316/04/afghan-binladen @ Urine Therapy For Health: http://www.skepdic.com/urine.html @ Firewalking For Hot Fun: http://www.mastery.net/firewalk/ # I-Opening Hack: $200 PC www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34977,00.html # Mattel subsidiary sues censorware hackers - Cyber Patrol® lashes out, froths, spasms: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564992136-b62 # Hacker tracker developed - New system can trace intruders even in worst conditions: www.koreaherald.co.kr/news/2000/03/__10/20000316_1047.htm # Man arrested in job cyber attack - used codes to disable computers: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564991297-8a8 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "I saw nothing unusual in the teacher's lounge." --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 Thursday, March 16, 2000 07:34 a.m. P.S.T. 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* Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/15_03_2000.html * 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 porcine transplants were sexually abused to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Invaders: http://www.sightings.com/splashscreens/invad.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PREPARING FOR UFOs. Washington, DC - Public awareness of the politics of UFOs/disclosure continues to grow. Over a span of six days, a confluence of media events, based in part or in full on UFO/ET phenomena, has taken place. I believe in TV: http://persweb.direct.ca/psa/prg2-10-00.html # The Windsor Incident - Meteor or UFO? http://www.caus.org/mu031600.htm @ Arch skeptic Robt Park tells us never to underestimate the human capacity for self-delusion. He admits that even he once believed in UFOs -- for a few seconds: http://www.salon.com/books/it/2000/03/15/voodoo/print.html @ ALIEN ALPHABET: http://www.futuramaoutlet.com/alphabet.shtml : Have you deluded yourself lately? When/why/how did you stop? DID you stop? Do alien/divine/robotic symbols/images/thoughts insinuate themselves in your mind; keep you stressed-out; give your life purpose? What else obsesses you? @ LETTER TO GRAYS: Dear Mr. Short Gray Entity: I am an abductee, and I do not know for certain whether "they" are good or bad. What I do know is that the secrecy that surrounds this entire UFO/Abduction scenario is absolutely destructive, and has greatly added to our suffering. "The Truth shall set you Free." Really? http://www.caus.org/mc031600.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pig Organ Transplants Raise Ethical Dilemmas. LONDON (Reuters) The cloning of pigs could relieve a global shortage of donor organs but critics chal- lenged the ethics of changing the genetic makeup of animal species & using their organs in humans. So it's more ethical just to let people suffer & die, eh? http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000315/sc/health_pigs_3.html # Jail For Cloning Humans? TOKYO - Scientists who try to clone human beings will face fines or prison terms under a new bill being drafted by govt: www.scmp.com/News/Asia/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-20000315030100766.asp : Does/should/can cloning raise legal/ethical/spiritual problems? Aren't we all natural clones? Isn't gene-engineering just a faster form of selective breeding? Would you like to re-engineer humans? Would GM-people be tastier? # LAST ONES STANDING: New research suggests that there may have been some 20 prehistoric human types that may have existed. But now only Homo sapiens remains. Did we off the other humans? Were we just stronger? What exactly did we do to all the others? Assimilation, cannibalism, extermination - you decide: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/Arts/20000315/RV15HOM.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Waco: Sect lawyers say evidence lost, altered - ask judge to sanction US govt: http://dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/49653_WACO16.html # Tennessee Farm Is Laboratory of Human Flesh - rotting bodies everywhere: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000314/12/science-life-bodyfarm # Libertarians once predicted the tech revolution would bring about the end of big government. So where's the brave new world? Seen any govts wither away? http://www.hudson.org/American_Outlook/articles_wn00/rubenstein.htm # SS Parade: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564997916-e4f # Man Armed With Wallet Holds NY Cops Hostage http://bobsfridge.com/skew.htm : Have you subverted any courts/govts/societies lately? Have you taken over any cultural phenomena for y'r own gain? Have you exploited human death/fear /weakness for fun and profit? Do you induce illusions/reality/desires/hate? # MAD MONK RETURNS: 80 years after vanishing, a 500-page dossier on Rasputin comes to light. It seems to confirm that the semi-literate peasant prophet did have an affair with the Czarina Alexandra. The papers have cast new light on myths, sexual conquests and power of the legendary figure in the Romanov court. http://www.nationalpost.com/artslife.asp?f=000315/232882 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sex Is Best: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000315/15/science-science-sex @ The puritanical prosecution of DJs, raves, & clubs disguises the sad fact that rave subculture has been fully consumed by mainstream, hip capital- ism: http://salon.com/ent/music/feature/2000/03/14/machinesoul/print.html # Rings of Desire. Millions of Asian consumers find out whether cellphones can improve their sex lives. http://feedmag.com/essay/es304_master.html # EMF, suicide risk linked. RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Chronic exposure to low- frequency electromagnetic fields may be responsible for a higher suicide risk among electric utility workers. Or maybe their alien implants mis- fire: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564990289-c17 # Divorce -> Suicide: http://CNN.com/2000/HEALTH/03/15/divorce.suicide.wmd/ : What are the links between relationships, electronics, prosecutors, sexual need, dysfunction, music, communications, conspiracies, phone psychics, and suicide? Has anything driven you to suicide lately? Is despair nurtured?? # King book undownloadable: http://CNN.com/2000/books/news/03/15/king.ebook/ # HiTech Supremes: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564987884-387 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Fossils of Tiny Primates Found. Some ancestors of monkeys, apes & humans were so tiny that they could have stood atop a person's thumb - the "little people?" http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000316/01/tiny-primates # Fill-in: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000315/14/science-science-fossils @ Should you <http://users.uniserve.com/~sbarclay/ask.htm#neuter> neuter y'r Sea Monkey? How big <http://users.uniserve.com/~sbarclay/ask.htm#q5> will you Sea Monkey may get? See <http://users.uniserve.com/~sbarclay/ask.htm> the Sea Monkey Lady for answers to these questions and more. You can also come to terms with your grief (or is that guilt?) for your ex-Sea Monkeys via <http://users.uniserve.com/~sbarclay/dead.htm> the Sea Monkey Wall of Grief. And look beyond grief to http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Pets/ : Are you enamoured of very very very very little 'people?' Are Lilliputian primates easy to control/manipulate/engineer? Do you share their grief/joy/ hope/rage/sensuality? Are humans "little people" / "sea monkeys" for others? # U.N.: Biotechnology a Boon But Use With Care: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000315/13/science-food-biotech # Gene-enlarged fish lead to more pain than profit - not survivors: http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/scitech/docs/fish14.htm # U.S.: Free Gene Research Access Meant to Spur Profit: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000315/09/science-health-genome _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "There's something about Garelamaisama She rarely ignores our prayers She takes our enemies to torment You really don't want to know where Take your pissant deities, stranger And whimper your pissant pleas There's something about Garelamaisama You'd better get down on your knees" http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/saints.htm#some * 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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