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@ Mother Of All Excuses: http://madtbone.tripod.com/ [it's not my fault]
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# 1557 Woodcut - UFO Over Arabia: http://www.sightings.com/general2/1557.htm
# Giant 10-Foot Half-Ton Bird May Have Gone Extinct Only 300 Years Ago. Hel-
  ped create legend of the griffin: www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_7689.html
# Bigfoot Sighting in Penn. http://www.sightings.com/general2/bigfoot.htm

# Mountain Lions in UK? Somerset Mutilations Linked to Beast of Blackdown.
  A female puma and a litter of young cubs are believed to be living in a
  lair in England. Nice kitty. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/abc_uk21.htm

# SCIENCE AND DIVINE ACTION: http://ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4141
# Eight-legged biotech revolution bred in goats. Growing larger amounts
  of silk in goats than spiders allow has made the new natural building
  material a possibility. Whir: http://exn.ca/Stories/2000/06/19/56.cfm

# Smart house unveiled. (BBC) A new "Smart House" has been designed to cater
  to the needs of elderly people who are becoming forgetful or developing
  dementia. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_799000/799128.stm

: Are houses, goats, pumas, spiders, bigfoots, ETs all smarter than you? Are
you surrounded by intelligent entities? Do they cheat you? Do you notice? Do
ETs/gods/birds shape your research? Is your spun-silk smart-house haunted??
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# UK Govt Releases More UFO Files: www.farshore.force9.co.uk/uforep04.htm
@ SECOND PETITION to RE-IMAGE CYDONIA: Please Sign - It is important that
  each of us sign the latest petition before June 30th. Important to some-
  body: http://www.petitionpetition.com/cgi-bin/cgi12.cgi?petition_id=496

# UFOs & The US & UK Govts: http://www.sightings.com/general2/ufosuk.htm
# Campaigner Ringing MoD Over Menwith Hill - UK forced to explain the goings
  on at a shadowy US military nuclear installation in a remote part of the
  Yorkshire Dales. 'Fess up: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/mewith00.htm

# Quantum physics used to create 'unhackable' systems. (IDG) -- Scientists
  at Los Alamos and elsewhere are harnessing the laws of quantum physics
  to develop what they hope will be impregnable data encryption systems.
  G'luck: http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/20/physics.unhack.idg/

: D'ya trust your govt to tell you the truth about UFOs/nukes/Mars/codes? Do
you collude with govt/corporate/church/alien agents to create/perfect/spread
disinformation? Are you getting very good at doing disinfo? How can we tell?
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# INDIAN COPS KILL WITNESS TO PRIEST'S MURDER - Archbishop of Agra Presents
  Formal Complaint to Court: http://ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4212
# INDIAN CHURCH LEADER KILLED IN CAR CRASH - assassination arranged by
  Hindu militants? http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4218
# INDIAN OPPOSITION DEMANDS PROBE OF ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANS - Hindu nation-
  alists linked: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4152

# ELEVEN DAYS - FOUR RIOTS - WHAT'S NEXT? We're moving into the long, hot
  summer of anarchy, rape and race riots that our sources have predicted.
  Grab a seat: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=3724

# MORE THAN HUNDRED DEAD AS MUSLIMS ATTACK IN INDONESIA - 152 Christians and
  8 Muslims were snuffed: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4198
# AUSCHWITZ: FINAL COUNT: www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=3733

: Does your belief system promote genocide, race riots, mass rape, anarchy,
fun? D'ya keep count of your victims,or leave minor details to your deities?
D'ya do atrocities for religious/political/economic/artistic reasons? When?
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# MAYBE CELL PHONES ARE GOOD FOR THE BRAIN. A study from Finland turned up a
  possible beneficial effect from cell phones - it seems that radiofrequency
  could improve reaction times. Call me and tune yourself up. Do it now, eh?
  http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=36366&src=n2

# Marijuana 'helps tumours grow' (BBC) A key ingredient of marijuana may
  encourage the growth of cancerous tumours, according to researchers.
  Yow. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_798000/798424.stm

# New Chip Mimics Human Brain. (AP) Scientists have developed an electronic
  circuit that mimics the wiring of the human brain - may revolutionize
  computer science and improve understanding of how nature's most powerful
  processor works. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000621/14/brain-circuit

: Have you modified/traumatized/energized your brain lately? D'ya use drugs,
electronics, hypnosis, meditation, parasites, prayer,sex? Have sacred worms
eaten out your brains yet? Are they crawling out your ears? Are they tasty??
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# Abortion militants head for UK. A direct action anti-abortion group is
  planning to extend its controversial campaign to cities in England for the
  1st time. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_797000/797727.stm
# NORTH IRELAND ASSEMBLY OPPOSES EXTENSION OF ABORTION ACT - Prods fearful
  of being out-bred: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4220

# Teenagers flock to contraception clinics.(BBC) Twice as many teenage girls
  are seeking contraception advice compared with 10 years ago, say official
  figures. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_798000/798424.stm
# German Scientists Plan to Import US Embryo Cells - exploiting legal loop-
  hole? http://news.excite.com/news/r/000620/09/science-germany-embryos-dc

: What's y'r favorite reproductive issue? Does your belief system manipulate
reproductive issues? Are these issues basic to your faith, or must your Game
Rules be torturously construed to justify your manipulations? Are they fun?

# Nigeria state celebrates Sharia. Huge crowds in Nigeria's largest northern
  state gather for the adoption of Islamic law,against Christian opposition.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_798000/798630.stm
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# DRUG MONEY MAY INFLUENCE DOCTORS' DECISIONS. To solve a mystery, you need
  to follow the money.Reporting on drug advances requires the same strategy.
  http://www.healthcentral.com/peoplespharmacy/PharmFullText.cfm?ID=36098
# Hepatitis B Vaccine Linked To Onset Of Diabetes - but not enough victims
  to tell for sure: http://my.webmd.com/content/article/1728.58430

# In Gamble, Clinton Supports Russian Germ Warfare Scientists. Useful??
  http://nytimes.com/library/national/science/062000sci-russia-germs.html
# Bill Clinton To Flee To Britain To Avoid Future Prosecution And Prison?
  He's seeking a British home: http://www.sightings.com/general2/prison.htm

: Do economic/political/esoteric/pragmatic considerations influence y'r most
most critical decisions? Do voices in your head tell you what to do? Do they
always leave you an escape route? Do they plot revenge, profit, redemption?

@ A Few Important Esoteric Documents:
  Part 1: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=3715
  Part 2: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=3717
  Part 3: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=3722
  Part 4: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=3723
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  -- PETAL: People for the Ethical Treatment of Artificial Lifeforms --

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@ stinkymeat: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,,00.html
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# Fatima to be revealed? The Vatican will soon release the so-called Third
  Secret of Fatima, a message from the Virgin Mary that has been kept secret
  for nearly a century. Shh. http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal062102.html
# Elian Is Tainted By Voodoo: http://www.sightings.com/general2/voodoo.htm

# Monks Pray for Dead at Pet Oven. SAO BERNARDO, Brazil. Franciscan monks
  blessed & solemnly inaugurated Latin America's 1st pet crematorium, a $5
  mln state-of-the-art complex where folks can say a final farewell to their
  pets. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000619/10/odd-brazil-crematorium-dc

# Priest: ETs are brethren. An Argentinean Jesuit priest says ETs "exist
  and are our brothers." http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal061901.html
@ Comparing Pope John Paul II to Pius IX in the same easy, off-hand way
  that you might compare the price of last week's eggs with today's, OK?
  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/FocusBooks/20000617/BKWILL.html

: What's your favorite Roman Catholic ritual? Is Catholicism manipulated/in-
spired by ETs? Is your dog Catholic? Should it have a church burial? Should
you? Do paranormal entities speak to you? Are y'r conversations secret? Why?
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# Liposuction is the most popular cosmetic surgical procedure in America.
  But it is also more likely to kill you than a traffic accident. Beauty
  and/or death: http://www.georgemag.com/xp6/George/Features/beauty.xml
# They Are Trying To Kill Me. http://www.sightings.com/general2/trykill.htm

# CONSUMER DRUG ADS CHANGE FACE OF MEDICINE. More people take a prescription
  drug as a result of seeing a magazine advertisement than of viewing a TV
  ad. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=36118&src=n22
# Who Do You Target? Should advertisers pitch directly to children? Crass
  manipulation: http://www.marketplace.org/archives/rundown/2000/06.20.html

@ Dog shoes. <http://muttluks.com/> Glowing dogs. <http://www.glowdog.com/>
  Holiday outfits. http://www.gsdvlp.com/graphics/posh/outfits/holidayl.jpg
  Any time is a good time for canine couture. Aliens eat your brain, turn
  you into a dog. Now see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Fashion/ -- woof.

: Have you been mind-controlled into buying medicines, body sculpting, weird
clothes lately? Do you design such mindcontrol? Would you rather mindcontrol
children, teens, adults, seniors, corpses, fetuses, Reptilioids, robots, me?
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# BLUETOOTH DANGER TO WORLD NUCLEAR BALANCE - messes with French military.
  A visit to Intel's wireless communication centre here in Stockholm today
  revealed that the designers have not quite got worldwide agreement on
  frequencies. Kaboom: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11474.html

# Taiwanese Army Mobilized to Battle Banana Glut - kill those rhizomes,
  soldier! Now! http://news.excite.com/news/r/000621/07/odd-banana-dc
# Peruvian Military Declares War on Plague of Locusts - disaster on a
  biblical scale: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000621/07/odd-locusts-dc

@ A world turned upside down by ideological enthusiasm - carnival of terror:
  http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000618mag-ancheemin.html
# Moralistic critics of urban sprawl need to recognize that suburbia exists
  because it happily serves some people's needs. So what if global human
  survival itself is endangered? http://www.reason.com/0006/bk.tp.not.html

: What's your favorite security threat? Are military responses always best?
Have you engaged any military/moral/monopolistic forces lately? Do voices in
your head drive y'r reactions? Are you threatened by cities, suburbs, farms?
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# Virtual Advertising. You see ads on oranges, on billboards and on peoples'
  cars. Well now there's a whole new breed... virtual advertising. These are
  the ads that TV advertisers create & paint into the background of sporting
  events. The troubling thing is they're now getting put in entertainment
  shows. Lies: http://www.marketplace.org/archives/rundown/2000/06.19.html

@ If you have a furby <http://homestead.com/hackfurby/> and you're stupid,
  you can send it away to "camp" <http://www.furbycamp.com/> to "socialize"
  <http://www.veg.nildram.co.uk/furby.htm#tech> with other furbys. Robotic
  interaction, what ho? Now go see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Toys/

# Coral Castle mystifies visitors. Did a diminutive man find the secret of
  the Pyramids & apply his vision to the elaborate Coral Castle he built in
  Florida? Mystery with no answer: www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal062101.html
@ Anti-Salt - Correct over-salty foods: http://halfbakery.com/idea/anti-salt

: Have you been sold any secrets/images/fantasies/mysteries lately?D'ya like
to spend money on such? How hard d'ya work for your money? Are your efforts
fairly exchanged for your desires/entertainments/distractions/fulfillments??
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# Canuck Farmer In Crucial GM Food War With Monsanto. SASKATOON,Saskatchewan
  (ENN) - On the Great Plains of Canada, farmer Percy Schmeiser has engaged
  in a David & Goliath battle which could save farmers and consumers around
  the world from a genetically modified food nightmare beyond anything they
  have experienced so far. http://www.sightings.com/general2/war.htm

# HISSY FIT OVER GENOME MAP. (Wired) Who gets to announce the mapping
  of the human genome? Scientists and politicians are falling all over
  themselves trying to garner the most attention. Look at ME, look at
  MEEEE!!! http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37113,00.html

# COMMON DRUGS MAY REDUCE ALZHEIMER RISK. Most researchers suggest that
  a person's genetic makeup is probably the strongest single factor in
  determining whether or not they will eventually develop Alzheimer's
  disease. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=35922

: What's your favorite genetic conflict/issue/crisis? Have your genes been
mapped yet? Is your map crumpled, stained, torn? Should/can/will your genes
be modified? Will you be a better person? Will you be worth anything? What?
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# Iranian Transsexual Unhappy With Experience As Woman. TEHRAN (Reuters) -
  An Iranian man who recently had a sex change to become a woman wants to
  reverse the operation because she finds life as a woman insufferable in
  Iran. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000619/10/odd-iran-transexual-dc

# 20,000 Women Raped During Kosovo War - Babies Now Arriving - price of
  war: http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,194119,00.html
# LARA!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_798000/798566.stm
@ Britney! Britney! http://modernhumorist.com/mh/0006/britney/index.cfm
# Jane Fonda, Woman Of The Century: http://sightings.com/general2/100.htm

# 'Superwaif' regulation call. (BBC) Teenage girls, magazine editors and
  ministers urge the media to impose guidelines over images of thin models.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_799000/799629.stm
# Also - Models link to teenage anorexia - marketing malnutrition:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_769000/769290.stm

: Would'ya rather be male/female/neither/both, fat/thin/medium/zero/infinite
human/alien/robotic/virtual/cyborg? Have you changed your gender/species/IQ
lately? Is life intolerable in your current body/home/year/faith? D'ya hope?
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@ Ugly People: http://www.uglypeople.com/
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# Abductions Through Windows And Doors - a possible metaphor-made-real.
  alternatives: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m19-025.shtml
# All Abductee/Experiencers Should Be Wary - get written guarantees of
  anonymity: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m19-006.shtml

# Aliens invade downtown! "Liquid Sky," the downtown cult hit from 1983, has
  been re-released on VHS & DVD. It tells of aliens in a small flying saucer
  who land atop Margaret's downtown penthouse in search of a chemical prod-
  uced during sex.They satisfy their hunger by preying on Margaret's lovers,
  both male & female,who die & disintegrate at the moment of orgasm.Margaret
  survives each liaison. http://www.alienzoo.com/news/e/200006200004.cfm

: Have you documented any abductions/exploitations/disintegrations lately?
Have you and/or your partner(s) disintegrated during orgasm lately? Was it
worth it? Would you rather be abducted, absorbed, abstracted, absolved? Why?

# Man fights space invaders in court. ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Gov. Gilmore isn't
  doing enough to repel alien invaders from outer space. At least that's
  what a local activist alleges in a lawsuit claiming Gilmore has failed in
  his constitutional duty to protect the commonwealth from attack, in this
  case extraterrestrial. http://www.alienzoo.com/news/u/200006200002.cfm
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# Filer's Files #24: MD SURVEY REPORTS 11% OF PATIENTS SIGHTED UFOs. REPORTS
  INCREASE IN UK, NEW YORK, GEORGIA, COLORADO AND OREGON. CONNECTICUT BOLIDE
  METEOR MISSES AIRPLANE. NEW YORK BRIGHT CYLINDER SPOTTED. VIRGINIA LIGHTS.
  GEORGIA UFOs. MISSOURI SILVER OVAL DISK SEEN. TEXAS FLYING SAUCER. COLOR-
  ADO UPSURGE IN UFO REPORTS. NEW MEXICO. WASHINGTON: FOURTEEN UFOs SIGHTED.
  HAWAII. UNITED KINGDOM UFO SIGHTINGS INCREASE. AUSTRALIA DISC. INTELLI-
  GENCE FAILURES: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m19-028.shtml

# NASA SPEAKS: BREAKTHROUGH SOL ANOMALIES: http://www.caus.org/os062100.htm
# Scientists & Secrecy - The Trials of Secret Science - The Rocky Marriage
  of Security & Scientists. The open culture of science inevitably conflicts
  with closed govt secrecy demands imposed in the umbrella interest of nati-
  onal security. http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m19-003.shtml

: Has your govt/firm/church/plot suppressed your research lately? If public
control is not exercised, do organizations tend to suppress all knowledge?
Have you reported anything lately? Have you been intimidated? Did it hurt?
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# Stonehenge opens to public. STONEHENGE, England (AP) - For the first time
  in 16 years, ordinary observers of the summer solstice had permission to
  spend the night at the prehistoric Stonehenge monument to watch the sun
  rise on the year's longest day. Revelers were banned from holding solstice
  ceremonies at the 5000-year-old Stonehenge site in 1985 after clashes with
  police, and a four-mile exclusion order was later put in place. The stones
  are the remnants of the last in a sequence of circular monuments aligned
  along the rising of the sun at the midsummer solstice - the longest day of
  the year. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567505774-cc9

# Stonehenge's new dawn. BED sheets are being ironed, druidical headdresses
  polished & oak leaves gathered for the first public summer solstice cele-
  bration at Stonehenge since 1984. But the Druids, pagans and white witches
  are expected to be outnumbered by New Age travellers, born-again hippies
  and the simply curious when the sun rises over the Heel Stone at 4.44am
  on Wednesday morning. http://www.alienzoo.com/news/p/200006200003.cfm

: What's y'r favorite solsticial festival? Where d'ya prefer to do solstice?
Have you celebrated (m)any solar rituals lately? D'ya drape yourself in bed-
sheets, ivy,gold chains, human skulls, kelp,oak leaves, beads, spiders, air?
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# U.S. PROBE FINDS 'DISTURBING' DRUG TRIAL RECRUITING. Drug firms & doctors
  are employing "disturbing" recruiting techniques for clinical trials in
  the rush to get new medicines onto the competitive pharmaceutical market.
  http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=35947&src=n22
# GREEDY PLASTIC SURGEON SUES -- TO REPOSSESS GAL'S BREAST IMPLANTS!
  LOS ANGELES, Calif. http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1986.html

# The chain letter <http://www.nuketown.com/hoaxes/mcdonalds_heroin/> about
  finding used hypodermic needles in McDonald's molecule pools is not true,
  sez <http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/columnists/galloway/2000/1/9/>
  the Houston Chronicle and <http://www.urbanlegends.com/ulz/kevin.html>
  UrbanLegends.Com. There are no needles in pay phone coin return slots or
  gas pump handles either, so the best places to find them are still govt
  <http://www.osha-slc.gov/OshDoc/Interp_data/I19930629.html> recycling
  centers and <http://okanaganlife.com/lb99lake.html> bodies of water.
  Get the whole story and more at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Drugs/

: Have you found any needles/breasts/drugs/subjects lately? Did you look in
junkpiles, payphones, windows, govt agencies, beaches/lakes? Do you have any
alien breast implants? Do you recruit experimental subject via mindcontrol?
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Faith-R-Us:

# Foot cult members arrested. Nine members of a religious cult that claimed
  to cure diseases by inspecting the soles of people's feet have been arres-
  ted for allegedly defrauding believers out of zillions & zillions of yen.
  Cheeky: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/japan_religion-world_151604.html

# Sect member said injected with drug. BEIJING (AP) - A follower of the
  banned Falun Gong spiritual movement died after his release from detention
  in a psychiatric hospital, where he was injected with nerve-destroying
  drugs: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567433634-494

# Sex change vicar to keep his job. A transsexual vicar from Swindon is to
  become the first serving Church of England minister to have a sex change.
  Hello: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/religion_uk-sex-change_84233.html

# Hagelin wants Reform nomination - Transcendental Meditation candidate says
  he's not channeling the Mahareeshi Mahesh Yogi, just doing nuclear physics
  as usual: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567492836-926

# Police protect Indian Christians. A special police squad has been set up
  in India to protect Christian churches and their parishioners after recent
  outbreaks of violence. Pow: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_7365.html

# Prayer continuing, despite order - "Fuck the constitution, we're gonna
  PRAY!" - http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567497227-5b5
# Anti-abortion group sues U.S. Supreme Court - suppressing free speech,
  protest: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567499960-c17
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  "Render unto man the things which are man's and unto the computer
   the things which are the computer's." --Norbert Weiner

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# When your cellphone becomes a laser gun - Fight the alien menace with your
  own mobile phone. (BBC) Your mobile phone is about to become a device for
  waging intergalactic war. You could become a casualty. Shields up! Engage!
  Phhtt! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_783000/783219.stm

# Brit minisat turns junkbuster. A tiny satellite could clean up vast accum-
  ulated junk of old space missions currently orbiting Earth. Set phasers to
  BURN: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_797000/797338.stm

# WotS: Mysteries Of Coral Castle -Space Travelers & Genesis of Human Form -
  Remote Viewing, Are We Confused Yet? -Guests Choose Inns For Ghostly Amen-
  ities - Witches Welcomed By Pentagon -Ghost Hunters Take Cameras In Search
  For Spirits! - Giant Crystal Cave Discovered! - FOIA Request Frustrations:
  Searching For Truth: http://www.worldofthestrange.com/Archives/061900.htm

: Have you vanquished any alien menaces lately? Were you aided by witches,
cats, lasers, DotComs, the military, robots,me? Would you rather burn space-
craft, ghosts, crystals, phones, actors? Have you achieved human form yet??
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# 'Smart gene' makes for brainy mice. (BBC) Scientists have engineered mice
  that, in mazes at least, can run rings around ordinary rodents. Research
  shows the importance of nerve growth in boosting brain performance. Are we
  next? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_797000/797471.stm

# Brain patients' recovery studied; more brains needed for research; donors
  sought: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567490770-b4e
# GM+IQ: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_435000/435816.stm

# FAT-CAT COLLECTORS BUYING SHRUNKEN HEADS -- OF BABIES! QUITO, Ecuador --
  Cold-blooded black marketeers are making a fortune from trading in the
  shrunken heads of babies -- babies killed by their own moms to provide
  a supply of grisly trophies! http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2005.html

# Posthuman Condition: Ecce Robo: http://feedmag.com/feature/fr347lofi.html
# I Spy With My Super Eye www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37032,00.html
@ GM Foods Supersite: http://special.northernlight.com/gmfoods

: Have you collected any heads/brains/minds/souls lately? Have you enhanced/
engineered/supercharged their performance? Would you rather be pre/post/meta
human? Does the world need smarter mice? What conspiracies do they further?
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# Water 'found on Mars' (BBC) There is currently water on the surface of
  Mars, Nasa scientists believe. The evidence is contained in pictures taken
  by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, which is in orbit around the Red
  Planet. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_799000/799552.stm

# Also - New Mars meteorite found - we didn't even know it was lost:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_625000/625982.stm
# Water found in meteorite - interstellar water-slides forthcoming:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_431000/431496.stm
# Life on Mars - new claims - insurance agents gearing up for deluge:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_289000/289214.stm
# Do nanobacteria rule Earth and Mars? Do they control your mind? How?
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_300000/300949.stm

: If water has been found on the surface of Mars, can nude beaches and toxic
waste spills be far behind?On how many planets have you polluted open bodies
of water? Can nanobots clean up your mess/body/mind? Are they/you insured??
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# 'Stages' Worm Hits Australian Corporates. Oz systems sicken, perish.
  G'die: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2590808,00.html
# FBI issues fresh virus alert - "Lifestages", "Funny" and "Jokes" .SHS
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_799000/799016.stm

# Virus Shuts E-Mail Servers, Spreads Slowly. A computer virus that masks
  itself as a text file has hit several corporate networks, prompting secur-
  ity experts to issue warnings as well as potential fixes for the worm.
  http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2108936.html?tag=st.ne.ron.lthd.ni

# Internet exiles - Concrete fort in the North Sea may be an "e-data haven"
  beyond govt control: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_224330.html
# BELL, GTE MERGER APPROVED: http://CNN.com/cnnfn/2000/06/16/deals/gte/
# AETNA WIDENS BUYOUT TALKS: www.CNN.com/cnnfn/2000/06/16/companies/aetna/

: Has your govt/firm/army/church/mafia/preschool infected many systems with
pathological software lately? Have you combined forces with others to exert/
prevent control of your systems? Have you merged/aquired/invaded lately? Eh?
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ConspiroRama:

# FBI testimony barred in Waco trial - plaintiffs shifting gears:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567505773-54f
# Key Lockerbie witness testifies - admits manufacturing timers:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567493123-e82
# French halt Auschwitz doctor case - too old and demented. Bother:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567490028-1d7

@ Subliminal JFK. Oliver Stone's "JFK" - Subliminal Images Analysis -
  A Masonic Connection: http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/mbs.cgi/mb1075995
@ US Military Non-Lethal Weapons: http://www.cdsar.af.mil/apj/mcgowan.html
# Nickelodeon-the Brainwashing Network: www.sierratimes.com/edcb061900.htm

# Philippine rebels, bin Laden linked - funneled funds for heavy weapons
  from N.Korea http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567489617-bd5
# Russia documents slave trade in Chechnya to show it to the world. We are
  justified to kill them: http://indiaexpress.com/news/world/20000615-1.html
# Los Alamos disks' timeframe unclear - what was lost and when? Who had them
  and when? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567490141-e51

# WW II G.I. FOUND ON SOUTH PACIFIC ISLAND JUST DAYS AGO! SECRET government
 photo shows the elderly G.I. with a tattered flag and the ragged uniform he
 was wearing when he was found. http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2004.html

# HARVARD AND THE MAKING OF THE UNABOMBER - Programming Kaczynski For Fun
  & Profit: http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/2000/06/chase.htm
# These days, it's extremely hard to be a man at all connected to a brain.
  Take the easy way out - surrender: http://tnr.com/062600/trb062600.html
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   warm, compassionate and pretty damn handy with a rib spreader."
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