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@ Beware Bird Bangs: http://www4.50megs.com/fuckedup/chickenexplode1x1.gif
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# Dead Harvested for Products. SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP)  Donated human remains
  are processed into medical products that generate hundreds of millions of
  dollars for U.S. companies despite laws barring profit from body parts.
  Give me my cut NOW! http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/4/16/145954

@ Clone of Silence - How did replicating humans mutate from sci-fi nightmare
  to sentimental dream? Genetic Savings & Clone joins a cultural mainstream:
  http://www10.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000416mag-clones.html

# Bloodsuckers of Old Are Poised for a Comeback. ODNIKI, Russia -- At the
 International Center for Medicinal Leeches here, Gennadi Nikonov has a true
 evangelical fire about bloodsucking & is determined to restore to the leech
 its good medieval name. http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38f7511a574d.htm

: Have you harvested/cloned/leeched anyone lately? Can you make good money?
Are you motivated by altruism, curiosity, greed, fear, aliens? What's your
favorite harvested/cloned/leeched body part? Do you have a full collection?
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@ Channeling by The Assembly of Light. There are many 'linkings' going on.
  There are many connections being made between now and the time of August.
  This is a very important time in which many energies and connections are
  forming. Many new paths or grids are being laid down here at this time.
  The energy patterns and alignments that are taking place now and for the
  next two to three months will be setting forth intentions and openings.
  It is laying a foundation for new experience to be brought forth. It is
  important at this time and particularly during the first week of May as
  well as the whole month, to bring forth new ideas and framework for the
  consciousness that you wish to see expanded. Et cetera.
  http://www.spiritweb.org/Spirit/teacher-within-haydon.html
@ Your Complete Guide To Life: http://rinkworks.com/brick/

: Have you channeled (m)any paranormal entities lately? D'ya deal with their
energy patterns, picking'em up and laying'em down and dancing'round? Do your
entities keep you hopping? Do they make you babble all sorts of odd stuff??
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# Church Offers Holocaust Apology. VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Lithuania's
  Catholic Church issued an official apology for not doing enough to prevent
  the massacre of some 220,000 Jews during the 1941-44 Nazi occupation. Ah,
  sorry: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000414/20/int-lithuania-apology

# The other children of Moses. 'Jews are totally shocked because the people
  I show in the film, who are Burmese, Chinese, Indian and Afghani, do not
  conform to their stereotype of what a Jew should look like... this really
  bothers them.' http://nationalpost.com/news.asp?f=000415/260606&s2=world

@ TABOO claims to offer proof that black athletes are aided by better
  genes, but it spares us the ambiguities of data that conflicts with
  its thesis: http://www.sciam.com/2000/0500issue/0500reviews1.html

: Have you made any assumptions about groups of people lately? D'ya base y'r
assumptions on physical/scientific/historic/literary evidence? D'ya exploit/
eradicate/ignore people due to your assumptions? Should you be so judged???
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# CASE STUDY: A documentary on violinist Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg raises
  questions about the relationship between manic depression and artists.
  "I think that people who suffer from depression may be able to use
  their creativity to help themselves out of it," says one doctor.
www.postnet.com/postnet/stories.nsf/ByDocId/E21B751FFE1134D2862568C2004E9C1F

# SERTRALINE EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
  (PTSD) - http://psychiatry.medscape.com/20149.rhtml
# WOMEN AND SCHIZOPHRENIA: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/20140.rhtml
# DEPRESSION LINKED IN MOMS/KIDS: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/19980.rhtml
# VIOLENT SUICIDE LINKED TO HIGH SERUM CHOLESTEROL LEVELS:
  http://psychiatry.medscape.com/19941.rhtml

: Have you or others exploited your madness lately? When all neurobiological
aliments are treated/cured, will art/creativity disappear? Does are require
mental disturbance? Should psychopathologies be promoted, for entertainment?
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# MOSSAD warns of attack on Vatican. AS the Pope led Palm Sunday ceremonies
  before 100000 people in St Peter's Square, police were on high alert after
  a warning to Italy & the Vatican that there could be an "Islamic terrorist
  attack" on him over the Easter period. Payoff from JP2's Jerusalem visit:
  http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/04/17/timfgneur01001.html

# FBI says dozens of attacks foiled. Just because a repeat of the Oklahoma
  City bombing hasn't occurred in the last 5 years doesn't mean there ain't
  been attempts at domestic terrorism. Authorities say they have thwarted
  dozens of plots, ranging from a New York subway bombing to an attack on a
  Texas military base. http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/freeget?ID=476166

: Have you terrorized anyone lately? Is a threat almost as good as a bomb,
if slightly less exciting? Do you phone in many terrorism threats? Have you
disrupted any institutions lately? Do you provide jobs for security forces?
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# IMF Protests Prompt Partial U.S. Gov't Shutdown. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
  The U.S. govt announced late on Sunday that only emergency workers should
  report to work on Monday in a large area surrounding the International
  Monetary Fund and World Bank, where thousands of protesters have clashed
  with cops. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000416/ts/imf_leadall_23.html

@ IMF NEWS: http://prorev.com/fastnews.htm and http://prorev.com/indexa.htm
@ The only real political struggle is the struggle against starvation and
  stupidity: http://iafrica.com/news/politics/barbwire.htm?src_id=tmp0414

# Fascism is dead. Jörg Haider does not present a Nazi threat. But he is
  an alarmingly common example of the xenophobia to be found in Austria,
  France, Italy, Germany... http://www.civmag.com/articles/C0004wor.html

: Have you immobilized any institutions/govts/cities/brains lately? Are you
xenophobic/technophobic/claustrophobic? Can/should/will you stop social/cul-
tural/economic/political evolution? If you don't evolve too, will you die??
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  "Lord Cecil leaned over the balustrade and surveyed the gowned and
   uniformed dancers whirling and writhing across the ebony-and-crimson-
   checkered ballroom floor, then drew deeply on his Cuban-Corona Maxima-
   extra cigar, and disdainfully flicked a drooping ash toward the floor,
   and watched it drift downward until it came to rest in Lady Beverly's
   décolletage, where it remained unnoticed until later in the evening
   when her lover, Baron Rodney, licked it from her skin while trying to
   lift the Hope diamond from about her crepey throat." --Earl Sullaway

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SkeptiNews 000416a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question

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@ Ladies Against Women (LAW) http://www.well.com/user/gail/ladies/index.html
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# 'UFO COVER-UP FADING' SAYS SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT. Washington.
  Unidentified Flying Objects, a term given for many years to unexplained
  sightings of craft in the skies over every state in the Union, are actual
  visitors from other worlds, believe a community of govt scientists and
  technicians. They should know: http://sightings.com/general/fading.htm

@ Abductions: The Crucible of Nightmares. While instances of alleged abduc-
  tion by UFO aliens are rife in North America, they are considerably less
  prevalent in the Spanish/Portuguese-speaking regions of the world. This is
  all the more curious considering that one of the earliest cases, and the
  one most readily memorable, is without question the Antonio Villas-Boas
  abduction (Brazil, 1952). http://www.llewellyn.com/fate/abductions.htm

: Have you covered-up any abductions lately? What's your favorite abduction?
D'ya work in alien abductions? D'ya prefer to abduct speakers of Latin/Asian
/Nordic/Semitic/other tongues? Are Anglophones easy to abduct, hard to hide?
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# LIFE FORCE - Are we all quantum computers at heart? YOUR BODY is teeming
  with quantum computers. Marching along your DNA and floating around your
  cells, several hundred million of these minuscule devices are rearranging
  your molecules in super-efficient quantum fashion. You are already
  implanted: http://www.newscientist.com/features/features_22341.html

# Molecular Computers Come Closer. Molecules can now do math, coming a step
  closer to building a supercomputer that might pack the power of a million
  silicon chips into a wrist-watched sized device and work a hundred times
  faster. http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000414/tech_molecular.html
# Physicists 'Play Pool' with Atoms - better techniques for nanofabrication.
  Fun, too: http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000413/tech_atoms.html

: D'ya fear being engulfed by nanocomputers/nanobots/demons? Is it too late?
Are you nothing more than a network of computers/robots doing as they will?
Is the universe an analog computer that computes itself? Do deities compute?
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# China Tries To Dispel Superstition. Beijing (AP) -- Olive-clad troops and
  schoolchildren in gym suits came to the capital's military museum by the
  busload to see optical illusions demystified and the magic of conception
  and birth explained. The exhibition, which is now set to tour the country,
  is part of an intense campaign by the government designed to encourage the
  Chinese to embrace science and reject increasingly popular superstitious
  beliefs -- and is the latest weapon in its bid to stamp out the Falun Gong
  spiritual movement. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_sustit.htm

# Church 'will be dead in 40 years' - With attendances falling faster than
  ever, a new report sees the future for Christianity in Britain as bleak:
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/This_Britain/2000-04/dead160400.shtml

: Does your belief system thrive/wither with govt opposition/support? Do you
provoke govt opposition to promote your sect? Is govt approval fatal to you?
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# 45,000 Britons volunteer to be watched by Big Brother - 24-hour monitoring
  by light/sound/infrared of lives, loves and bathroom habits - on Net & TV:
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001851641145319&pg=/et/00/4/16/nbro16.html

@ EMScandal: "Electromagnetic Signals-monitoring & signals-assault scandal"
  Great waste of money, brains: http://members1.visualcities.com/EMScandal
# First Virtual Police Station: http://www.sightings.com/general/vp.htm

@ Illuminati News: http://mercury.spaceports.com/~persewen/illum_index.htm
@ Erich von Däniken sees all, knows all, sells all: http://daniken.com
@ PSYCHIC ANIMALS: http://www.llewellyn.com/fate/psychic_animals.htm

: Have you been watched by corporate/govt/church/alien agents lately? Would
your rather be watched by agents, free-lancers, animals, aliens, robots, me?
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IMF-a-Rama:

# Police clash with IMF protesters. (BBC) Police fire tear gas at protesters
  trying to disrupt a meeting of the IMF in Washington - but the meet goes
  ahead: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_715000/715044.stm
# Protesters rally round common enemy: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9688279
Pix http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_715000/715949.stm

# Cops Raid Protesters' HQ: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9688792
# People Behind the Protests: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9688542
# IMF Starts Despite Protests: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9688530
@ Cops Chase Down Protesters: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9687934

# Early morning protest http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=547
# Flowers at police line: http://indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=538
# Celebration In the Streets: www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=533

# What are we fighting for? Anti free-trade protesters have converged on the
  nation's capital for the spring meetings of the World Bank & International
  Monetary Fund. Too bad so many are confused about what it is they don't
  like. http://newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/na/a18632-2000apr15.htm

@ What's really happening in DC: http://www.indymedia.org/ [thanks, Unit4]
@ Also - The Whirled Bank: http://www.whirledbank.org/
@ Mobilisation for Global Justice: http://www.a16.org/
@ More links: http://www.whirledbank.org/links.html
: Note - some of the above sites may be unavailable/overloaded/censored.

@ International Monetary Fund: http://www.imf.org/
@ World Trade Organization: http://www.wto.org/
@ World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org/

@ Can't figure out what's really going on at the IMF protests in downtown
  Washington, DC? Having trouble reading between the lines in AP & Reuters
  feeds? No problem. The A16 event, as it is so named, is well covered by
  its participants. The Mobilization for Global Justice <http://www.a16.org>
  is the primary organizer of the protest, with outspoken populist Michael
  Moore <http://www.michaelmoore.com/> leading the charge. Similarly, the
  Direct Action Network <http://www.agitprop.org/artandrevolution/> (DAN)
  is an interest group that emerged from the Seattle WTO protests. Corporate
  Watch <http://www.corpwatch.org/> can tell you the role of the man in all
  of this. Independent Media Center <http://www.indymedia.org/> is a depot
  for indy journalists working (and being busted at) the A16 protest, with
  articles <http://indymedia.org/search-process.php3?medium=text&keyword=>,
  pictures <http://indymedia.org/search-process.php3?medium=image&keyword=>,
  audio <http://www.indymedia.org/search-process.php3?medium=audio&keyword=>
  & videos <http://indymedia.org/search-process.php3?medium=video&keyword=>
  from the site. And, to place historical perspective on all of this, Z-
  Magazine <http://www.zmag.org/> is your one-stop shop for independent news
  and opinions. And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Media/ of course.
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  "Give a woman an orgasm and she's happy for a day.
   Teach a woman to give one to herself and buh-bye now!"
   -- http://www.SleazyTabloid.com

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