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@ Beware This Alien: http://www.nbarker.demon.co.uk/demon.jpg
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* Apology - I inadvertently neglected to include a contributor's questions
* along with the piece he sent, used in a earlier bulletin. Here they are:

# Privacy-loving space aliens smack down on SETI - pulsating blue sky-beam
  destroys radio-telescope: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000419-000004.html

; Do your alien race hate SETI eavesdroping, do it interfere with Porn TV/
  *Net reception, do it causes headaches/psicosis/implant misfiring,  what´s
  your leaders next target, Hubble/Arecibo/Mauna Kea, is SETI a coverup for
  interestellar Echelon ?? Did they hear you saying President ,  Allah( Or
  alien equivalent), when you were calling your Momma? Does your alien race
  contacted V***GER (remember trekkie fans?) & it says "destroy, kill, kick,
  bring seti down, nuke earth with your blue beams "), or it was a test fire
  of "ION CANNON" from Command & Conquer, or maybe it was Goldeneye.
  From: "Gerardo E. Arceri" <gerardo.arceri@informationsys.com>
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@ A new kind of object: From Rorschach to Relationship. A new kind of
  computational object is provoking striking new changes in the narrative
  of human development, especially in the way people think about life,
  and about what kind of relationships it is appropriate to have with
  a machine. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/101.html

$ Evil. Handcrafted with love: http://www.tccorp.com/outsider/doll.html
# Blair and Pikachu: http://www.drinkfromthefurrycup.com/news/51.shtml
@ Fuzzy Logic: http://www.brunching.com/features/feature-fuzzylogic.html
# Ananova speaks - cyberrubbish. More long-winded than a govt minister.
  And no tits: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000419-000008.html

: Do you have meaningful relationships with humans/ETs/machines/vegetables/
spirits/me? What relationships are appropriate? What relationships can you
just barely tolerate? Do mind-control rays broaden your tolerance? When??
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# Catholics: Jesus-starring PETA billboard is sacreligious. The animal-lov-
  ing group's billboard features a Christ-like figure. "I said, 'Thou shalt
  not kill,'" sez the ad, obviously referring to animal butchery. A Catholic
  Action League official calls the billboard a "tawdry shock tactic," and
  adds: "They're using Jesus as a vehicle for advertising. It's offensive,
  inappropriate and in poor taste." [via http://www.obscurestore.com/]
  http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/peta04172000.htm

# Jesus video distribution offends Florida Jews - pisses me off too:
  www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,30000000000116540,00.html
# EXTREMIST ISLAMIC REGIME IMPOVERISHES WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN- Prohibits Them
  Working: http://www.zenit.org/english/archive/0004/ZE000417.html#item3
@ Mosque Clock - not to be missed: http://www.mosqueclock.com/hard_sell.htm

: D'ya market your religious/political/economic/artistic beliefs? D'ya have
trademarked icons? Are you angered/wrathful/litigious when someone from ano-
ther belief system appropriates your icons? Do you invoke divine punishment?
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# RANDI BEGS BENNETH, "KILL ME WITH YOUR VOODOO" - Randi writes, 'I'm told
  that one of the nut cases out there has declared that "negative vibes" can
  be sent out against individuals. You know, voodoo, bad thoughts, curses,
  the whole spectrum.  Okay, let's do a test.  I invite ALL the bad guys out
  there to curse me,point-the-bone at me,send me "bad cess," and in general
  wish me real bad stuff. Try to get me dead by thinking me dead, by putting
  out every evil wish you can summon up, and let's see what happens.'
  http://x40.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=585583909&CONTEXT=953719051.752418831

# Parents try psychic in search. HAYDEN, Colo. The parents of Marie Blee
  are turning to a psychic to help find the body of the 15-year-old girl
  who disappeared more than 20 years ago. Blee, a Hayden resident, vanished
  Nov. 21, 1979, after going to a party in nearby Craig. Rumors about her
  disappearance have swept small towns in northwestern Colorado for two
  decades. http://insidedenver.com/news/0418regio.shtml

: Have you had any notable positive/negative/indeterminate interactions with
psychics/wizards/spoonbenders lately? Are people claiming paranormal powers
cruel/craven/crazy by nature/nurture? Is death too important for psychics??
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# Planet Earth gets a makeover. (BBC) Nasa has created a stunning composite
  image of the Earth using data from three different satellite instruments.
  Zowie. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_719000/719244.stm

# Also - Eye over the Amazon: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9703695
# Eyeing the London Eye from space: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9703694
# Sat snaps a mighty sandstorm: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9703693
# Launching New Weather Sat: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9703859

: When you're orbiting Earth, d'ya prefer to look up/down/sideways/inwards?
How much Earth surveillance is enough? Is Earth-watching really just navel-
gazing? D'ya prefer to look directly into the Sun, where the power is? How?

@ Giza - The Truth: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~lawtoni/
# Long way to go in Stonehenge haul - recreating monument's construction:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/wales/newsid_707000/707228.stm
@ Complete Stonehenge: http://www.amherst.edu/~ermace/sth/sth.html
@ The Millennium Stone: http://www.bluestone.org.uk/
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# Understanding The Last Evolutionary Stages Of Low-Mass Stars. When low-
  mass stars called red supergiants die, they fade away on a wimpy wind – or
  so scientists have thought. New research, just published, suggests that
  the exact opposite may be true. These stars, in fact, may die with a bang
  and not with a whimper. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9703862

# April's Lyrid Meteor Shower (NASA) The oldest known meteor shower peaks
  on the morning of April 22.  Bright moonlight will reduce the number of
  shooting stars that are easy to see, but many meteor enthusiasts will be
  watching anyway because it's been over 3 months since the last major
  meteor display. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast18apr_1m.htm

# MORE EVIDENCE THAT EUROPA LIVES: http://spacedaily.com/news/life-00p1.html
# WAS MGS ROTATED OFF-NADIR TO IMAGE THE FACE ON MARS ON FEBRUARY 17, 2000?
  http://www.psrw.com/~markc/Articles/Nerbun_April2000/nerbun.html
# NEW MARS IMAGES REVEAL EXOTIC LANDSCAPE - exotic dancers sighted:
  http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/04/11/mars.ice.ap/index.html

: Would we Earthlings be able to recognize, let alone communicate with, life
on Mars, Europa, meteors, stars? Would we rather face such life, turn away
from it, fantasize something else entirely? Are we ready for life's reality?
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  "Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment
   turns the state into a gay dungeon-master." -- Emo Philips

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@ You Are Here: http://www.zompist.com/langmaps.html
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# Milky Way On Collision Course With Andromeda Galaxy - Run! Run!
  We're all doomed! http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9703575
# UFO SHOCKER! Spaceships Collide Over Brazil In Game Of 'Chicken'
  http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/archive/stories/1375.html

@ Can You Prove That Sputniks Are Tracking You? Yes, I can prove sputniks
  are tracking me now and in the past. And people with Geiger Counters in
  the past can never understand why the radiation levels are too high near
  me for them to explain.  That always freaks them. Always.
  http://community-2.webtv.net/NancyLuft/CanYouProveThat/

: Should Sputniks track cars/UFOs/galaxies so they don't collide? Have you
been tracked by Sputniks lately? Is everyone? Do you feel more/less secure?
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# Pentagon: No ETs in Our Programs. WASHINGTON (AP) - Believe it or not, the
  Pentagon denied Tuesday that extraterrestrials participate in classified
  U.S. military programs. Spokesman Ken Bacon was responding to reporters'
  questions about Monday's Internet posting of the first detailed satellite
  images of Area 51, the supersecret Air Force test site in Nevada that UFO
  buffs think holds alien technology. Asked if the Internet posting revealed
  military secrets, Bacon said he was "not aware that any information was
  revealed that compromised" military activities. Not that they'd tell HIM,
  OF COURSE. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000418/19/pentagon-space-aliens

# New Non-Lethal Weapons May Be Used Against US Citizens
  Part One: http://www.sightings.com/general/nonleth.htm
  Part Two: http://www.sightings.com/general/nonleth2.htm

: Have you colluded with any aliens lately to develop (non)lethal weapons;
mind-control / mind-reading / intelligence-gathering systems; ground/space
transport systems; sexual enhancers; entertainment electronics? Why not??
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# SPECTACULAR WAVE OF UFO SIGHTINGS SWEEPS HOLY LAND! JERUSALEM - A new wave
  of UFO sightings in the Holy Land has convinced pilgrims,religious leaders
  and Bible scholars that a religious event of earthshaking proportions is
  imminent. http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/archive/stories/1783.html

# Secret UFO base revealed: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9703518
# ET Contact. Military reports that 110 different ET species visit
  the Earth monthly. http://www.caus.org/mc041900.htm
# German Fighter Ace Red Baron Shot Down A Ufo In 1917!
  http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/archive/stories/1293.html
# Couple Chases UFO in Yukon: http://www.caus.org/mu041800.htm

: Have you sighted/downed/avoided any UFOs lately? Does your UFO experience
portend great tumult in the galaxy/world/region/neighborhood? How many ETs
do you bump into daily/weekly/monthly? Are they well-groomed, smelly, thin?
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# Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology. Many researchers into the UFO enigma
  tend to overlook a very important fact. While it assumed that most flying
  saucers are of alien, or perhaps Govt/Military origin, another possible
  origin of UFOs is ancient India & Atlantis. http://caus.org/pn041900.htm

# Cuzco is Portal to Agartha: The inner world corresponding to earth's
  morphogenetic fields. http://www.caus.org/os041900.htm
# How to tell if you've been contacted by space aliens:
  http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/archive/stories/1347.html
# USAF Warns: One In Four Ufo Pilots Is Drunk!
  http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/archive/stories/1638.html

: Have you had any near-misses with inebriated UFO pilots lately? Were they
flying new/old Indian/Govt/Alien/Nazi craft? Were you/they aiming for those
subterranean portals when you/they augered in? Should the portals be bigger?
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# Dotcom CEOs are vapid, empty, shallow - and that's the good ones. Able
  staff are hard to find: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000418-000003.html
# She wanted to turn herself into a dot-com, but found that an unemployed
  philosopher already owned her name. Along with 130 other writers. Darn.
 http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/03/29/timartart02003.html

# THE MARKET ON PROZAC? The press has been preoccupied with explanations for
  the current extraordinary boom. Many articles say, as they always do while
  a bubble grows,that this market is "different." Some attribute the differ-
  ence to new information technology.Others credit changes in foreign trade,
  or the baby boomer's lack of experience with a real economic depression.
  But you never see a serious story about the possibility that this market
  is different because investor's brains are different. There is good reason
  to suspect that they are. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/100.html

: Has your conspiracy manipulated the global economy lately?Have you planted
mind-controlled zombies in the management of technology/investment/research
firms?When your overload their implants at a crucial moment, will it all go?
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# Ugandan cult leader linked to Aussie doomsdayers. Former Ugandan cult
  leader Joseph Kibwetere, wanted in connection with the massacre of
  hundreds of his followers, has been linked to an Australian doomsday
  sect. Documents from an Australian group known as Little Pebble, or the
  Marian Workers of Atonement, were found at Kibwetere's home in Uganda:
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,211053,00.html

# Scottish firm suffers eternal damnation for auction of popesfuneral.com -
  Cash's good, so wotdahell: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000418-000004.html
# Scottish Priest Faces Discipline For Attacking Pope, Cardinal - whack his
  weinie hard: http://www.cwnews.com/news/getstory.cfm?recnum=12742&auth=No
@ New Jerusalem Church Conquers the World, Loudly: http://www.njchurch.org/

: Is your doomsday cult tied to other doomsday cults? Are all doomsday cults
linked? Is there a grand doomsday conspiracy? Are all cults based on dooms-
day predictions? Do some postpone doomsday to further their temporal power?
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# ART VS RELIGION: [via http://www.artsjournal.com/] Art and religion have
  a long history together. Russia's Church of the Intercession is "the only
  intact example of 17th-century Moscow Baroque to have survived the ransac-
  king of Napoleonic invaders and the desecrations of Stalin. It is a jewel
  of the Baroque, lovingly preserved by curators from the Rublev Museum. But
  Pres. Vladimir Putin plans to restore the building to the Russian Orthodox
  Church, which is likely to return it to its original function as a parish
  church open to the public 12 hours a day. Art experts aghast at the pros-
  pect of a pious crush of stout, wet-coated babushki imperiling the fragile
  interior. So what to do? Defend and preserve it or use and lose it? Yow.
  http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/04/19/timartarc01001.html

: Is your art religious? Is your religion artistic? Are your art & religion
inspired/controlled/impeded by aliens/angels/demons/deities/robots/me? Is
your religion more artistic than your govt? Is all true art revolutionary?
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  On going to war over religion: "You're basically killing each
  other to see who's got the better imaginary friend."  - Rich Jeni

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# Ananova: http://www.ananova.com./video/launchpad.html
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# Privacy-loving space aliens smack down on SETI! A SETI radio telescope has
  been destroyed and scientists fear that space aliens may be responsible. A
  "pulsating blue beam" streaked out of the sky & slammed into the 250-foot
  Rand Wilson telescope near Johannesburg, South Africa, lighting up the
  facility and a quarter-mile area surrounding it. Now tangle of twisted
  metal: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000419-000004.html [Thanks, Gerardo!]

# Mysterious 'Area 51' Photos Prompt Web Meltdown. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -
  Perhaps the aliens pulled the plug. A US firm's move to post Russian spy
  satellite photos of 'Area 51', the mysterious USAF test site in Nevada, on
  the Internet prompted a Web meltdown on Tuesday as UFO buffs jammed its
  computers. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000418/wr/life_area_1.html
@ Join the Area51 Photo Jam Now: http://www.fas.org/irp/overhead/groom.htm

: Have you been attacked by aliens lately? Were you attacked physically/dig-
itally/virtually/spiritually? Have you defended yourself? Are you effective?
Do you have photos of the battlegrounds/bases/destruction? Posted'em yet???
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# Native American Astronomy - Observatory in Stone? Tribe Near Tacoma May
  Have Mapped the Stars. TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Archaeologists are studying a
  mysterious "Skystone" they believe could have been used as an observatory
  200 years ago by ancestors of the Puyallup Tribe. A 3-dimensional map of
  the heavens and Earth: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9699789

: Have you read PREHISTORIC ASTRONOMY IN THE SOUTHWEST by Malville & Putnam
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1555661165/sr=1-4/104-0957235-0653221
lately? Or maybe EARLY MAN AND THE COSMOS by Evan Hadingham [a little older]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0806119195/sr=1-2/104-0957235-0653221
or anything else relevant to Native American archaeoastronomy? Do you know
about the observatories of the Pawnee, Chumash, 'Anasazi', Incas, etc? Were
these peoples aided/controlled by ETs, or did they figure it out themselves?

# Argentina Building Largest Cosmic Ray Observatory - targeted by aliens
  already? http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20000418_3718.html
# Universities & Telescope Envy: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9700405
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# Space rockets to fire from plane. (BBC) A Russian firm planning to launch
  satellites into space from rockets dropped out of planes says it will be
  ready for its first mission in 2003. Much cheaper to put satellites into
  orbit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_718000/718351.stm

# Sea Launch crash is bitter blow: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9699317
# Ariane soars to success (BBC) http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9699316
# The roaring business of rockets: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9699315

# Microsoft: World spins in wrong direction - but don't worry, their tech
  staff has a fix: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000418-000012.html

: Have you launched any rockets from land/sea/plane/balloon/space lately? Do
you have to account for the direction of Earth's rotation? Do your rockets
always crash because you point'em the wrong way? Can BillGates fix that? Eh?
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@ GENETICS PLUS TIME. It does look as if Darwin was, more or less, right.
  Most new discoveries fit well into his ideas. At the end of the century
  biology looks like a more straight-forward science than it did even 20
  years ago, which is a bit surprising, because, to the public, life seems
  fundamentally a mess. http://edge.org/3rd_culture/jones/jones_index.html

@ Doctor’s Office: Enter at your own risk! When a patient comes into a med-
  ical office, there are invisible forces that are put into play. The doctor
  sees it as his duty to "fix your symptoms" and thus rob you of discovering
  what created them in the first place. Your compromised state of mind:
  http://www.homeopathyusa.com/doctors_office_enter_at_your_own.htm

: Does your homeopathist know/care what the scientific method is? Does your
biologist know/care what homeopathy is? D'ya mind that homeopathy predates
the germ theory of disease, and has no doctrines infection? Do you worry??
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# i-don't believe it! Council kiosks to change the world. More government
  guff. Hype breeds hatred: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000418-000021.html
# Turkey Debates Cyberspace Controls - guard against security threats,
  see http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000416/wr/turkey_internet_1.html
# US: More Cyber Defenses: www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35742,00.html
# GW Bush parody Web site escapes FEC axe - Far too trifling a matter for
  Commission's attention: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000418-000019.html

# National Front march banned - fears that neo-Nazi march could spark
  violence: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_718000/718257.stm
# German cops arrest 8 neo-Nazis in arson attack on home for foreigners and
  the poor: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565789273-0a3
# STUDY: ABORIGINES DISADVANTAGED IN LIFE AND DEATH - Govt: Abos don't vote
  for us; so? http://CNN.com/2000/HEALTH/04/17/australia.aborigines.reut/

: Has your govt/firm/church/club done anything stupid lately? Compared to
individual humans, are organizations smart/dumb/insane/other? Does your govt
promote/prevent/mandate violence? Are all organizations basically violent??
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# ‘Whistler’ OS reappears on the Web. For the second time, a supersecret
  version of the upcoming Microsoft Windows operating system leaks out on
  the Internet. Bill's pissed: http://www.msnbc.com/news/396047.asp?cp1=1
# Microsoft mole spills beans on weenies - Relic of the browser wars,
  staffer claims: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000417-000001.html

# Canadian juvenile charged with February 'denial of service' attacks - goes
  by the computer name "mafiaboy." http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9702559
# Pro-Napster hackers hit Metallica - Raid the Lightning. Hell hath no fury
  like a NapsterFan spurned: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000417-000010.html
# Dr. Dre Raps Napster: http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,35749,00.html

# Nielsen, Replay join to track digital TV viewing - they'll know all that
  you watch: http://www.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/17/television.replay.ap/
# Europe considers spying controls - Laws lag tech, no longer protect pers-
 onal privacy. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2550372,00.html

: Have you hacked/cracked/jammed/snooped lately? What's your favorite elec-
trodigital sabotage? Are your victims/opponents worthy? Are you? Have your
techniques evolved much?Will only the smartest survive? For how much longer?
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  "Do we really want this kid [Elian Gonzales] raised by guys stupid
   enough to get into a hostage situation with Janet Reno?" --Bill Maher

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