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@ MARS - VENUS - BIG BANG - KOHOUTEK: http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/
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# Dr. Frank Stranges Reveals U. S. Government Has Had an Alien as a Guest
  for 3 Years. The mysterious visitor had no fingerprints, could read minds,
  & met a President: http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000619/dc-flyingsaucers

# FEW REMEMBER THE LOS ANGELES AIR RAID OF WORLD WAR II - UFOs and another
  Government Cover-Up: http://www.alienzoo.com/features/m/200006220001.cfm
# WacoTrial: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567579795-c71

@ PsychicSpy.Com -The REAL X-Files: http://seasurf.com/~radioman/index.html
# PROPHECY AND PLANETARY CHANGE - PART ONE: Fossil Fuels -Atmospheric and
  Crustal Displacement: http://www.alienzoo.com/features/w/200006200001.cfm

# COMMUNIST FILMS: Ever notice that are virtually no American films about
  communism? Holy War: http://www.reasonmag.com/0006/fe.kb.hollywoods.html
@ Meta-HyperText: http://www.spark-online.com/june00/media/giovanetto.html

: Have you suppressed much information lately?Is it too sensitive for public
release? Will the people rise up in wrath/fear/joy/perplexity/lust if your
info was publicized? How much alien/commie/church activity have you quashed?
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# Martian Water Comes in Explosive Bursts - water on Mars surface not found
  in bubbling springs or babbling brooks, but in explosive bursts of mud and
  cold steam: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000622/19/science-mars-water-dc

# MALIN 'DISCOVERS' WATER ON MARS - 20 YEARS TOO LATE WHILE IGNORING THE
  'GOOD STUFF' - tsk tsk: http://www.enterprisemission.com/plumbing.htm
# Mars Lake Discovered A Year Ago! http://cyberspaceorbit.com/steadlake.html
# Warm, Wet, Salty & Martian: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10014159

# SUDDENLY RESCHEDULED NASA 'MARS WATER ANNOUNCEMENT' STILL FAITHFUL
  TO 'ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RITUALS' http://64.62.15.181/images/water.jpg
@ MARS ANOMALIES: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/mars_anomalies.html

# LATEST ANOMALOUS MARTIAN FIND - PARKED OVAL SHAPED SPACESHIP?
  http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/mars_anomalies.html#spaceship
# THE PHOBOS II INCIDENT: HOSTILE ALIENS BASED ON MARS:
  http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/space.html#phobosII

: What's your favorite Martian discovery? Are all these Martian discoveries
real? Do they distract us from the real discoveries, the finds that are kept
secret? What filthy ancient occult rituals are involved? Who/what worships?
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# Earliest feathers fan controversy. (BBC) An ancient creature with what
  appear to be feathers re-ignites the debate about the evolution of birds
  and their connection with dinosaurs. Everything we know is wrong again.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_802000/802009.stm
# And http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000622/fs_feathers.html

# Wings for speed - jumping off cliffs doesn't achieve take-off:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_336000/336192.stm
# Turbocharged dinosaur - can you run fast enough to escape? Really??
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_259000/259902.stm

# Tasman home to ancient life. Hundreds of new species, some dating back to
  the age of dinosaurs, have been found living on extinct undersea volcanoes
  in the Tasman Sea. http://onenews.nzoom.com/world/2000/06/22/00027522.htm

: Have you found/hidden/lost any ancient creatures lately? Have you stashed
evidence away in dusty vaults for decades? Is more evidence hidden in/on old
underwater volcanoes? Where's the best place to hide evolutionary evidence?
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# Egyptian Worker Tombs Copied Pharaohs' -- Two mini-replicas of the great
  pyramids of Giza have been unearthed south of the Sphinx, at the eastern
  foot of the 3 great pyramids. Containing bodies of workers who built the
  pyramids & their supervisors,the limestone tombs may reshape our knowledge
  of the funerary traditions in ancient Egypt. "Now we can say that pyramid-
  shaped tombs were not a privilege reserved to kings and nobility. Ordinary
  people were also allowed to use the pyramid design to construct their own
  tombs." http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000623/hi_pyramids.html

@ During their brief reign, Akhenaten and Nefertiti were the John and Jackie
  Kennedy of the ancient world: http://linguafranca.com/br/0004/osborne.html
@ Pyramid Quest: http://www.discovery.com/exp/pyramidquest/pyramidquest.html
@ Tomb Tales: http://www.discovery.com/news/features/mummy/mummy.html

: Have you designed/built/dismantled/sanctified/decoded any pyramids lately?
Do you wear pyramid hats to keep your brains sharp? Do you want to be buried
in/under/over/beside a pyramid? Have you been already? Is it very relaxing??
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# Expedition Banned After Protests. The Sikkim govt has banned expeditions
  to Mt Kanchenjunga, 3rd highest peak in the world, due to strong religious
  sentiments among Buddhists. Locally known as “Khangchen-Dzonga”, the 8,598
  meter-high snow peak is revered by Buddhists in Sikkim and is considered
  by them as their "guardian deity". A govt decision to allow a 10-member
  Austrian expedition to the sacred peak stirred up a hornet’s nest in this
  Himalayan State. http://www.indiaexpress.com/news/travel/20000622-0.html

# Saudi beheaded: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567583738-c19
# Iran president visits China mosque - Falun Gongers conspicuously absent -
  where? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567584936-899
# Ancient gospels reveal secret sketches - life portrait of Jesus?
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_770000/770511.stm

: Have you desecrated (m)any holy sites/books/folks/ideas lately? Would you
rather desecrate people/places/things/thoughts? Do you allow public opinion
to alter your dedications/desecrations/executions? Is portraiture blasphemy?
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# Hospitals Embrace Alternative Care - anything to keep the customers happy
  and spending: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000623/10/alternative-care
# REMOVED FROM VAGINA: http://theonion.com/onion3623/eight_pound_man.html
# Speed Kills: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567586237-741
# British BioTech Drug Fails Again - cancer drug ineffective against brain
  cancer. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000623/03/science-british-biotech-dc

# Toxic Algae Behind Gator Deaths? http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10012164
# Man-Eating Lions Needed Dentists - Serious Dental Woes Drive Lions Wild.
  (AP) Two lions that killed and ate 135 railway workers in Kenya in 1898
  may have suffered from extremely painful toothaches that prevented them
  from attacking their normal prey. Jeffrey Dahmer may have been pained too:
  www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/Lions_eat_humans000621.html

# Genomics Clues Under the Sea? French scientists are studying fish to find
  how many genes comprise the human genome. The number may be a lot smaller
  than previously thought. Sounds fishy to me; must be Pisces; probably wor-
  king for scale. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37179,00.html

: Have you mastered/bungled/improved many biological entities lately?Can you
say "Keed Spills" ten times, faster? Do you eat people when your teeth hurt?
What's the fewest number of genes you need to build people, fish, lions, me?
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 "Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith." --Franz Kafka

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@ One hundred ways of looking at a youko: in praise of doujinshis:
  http://aestheticism.net/Visitors/editor/jeanne/dojinshi.htm
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# Mars Pix Make Experts Gush: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10012401
# Salty meteorite indicates Mars had Earth-like oceans - announcement
  of LIFE imminent? http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0006/23marsocean/
# Scientist ponders ETs: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal062301.html

# Bizarre Tubular Structures On The Surface Of Mars! NASA image reveals
  extraordinary artifacts: http://www.sightings.com/general2/marsaa1.htm
# Huge Cylindrical Structure/Tower Found Inside Crater On Mars - more odd
  anomalies forthcoming? http://www.sightings.com/general2/morestrange.htm

# ASTRONAUTS WANT HOOKERS ON SPACE FLIGHTS! HOUSTON, Texas. Angry astronauts
  say they're not going on any more long shuttle missions -- unless they're
  accompanied by hookers! The stunning, XXX-rated demand by America's flying
  heroes was refused by NASA. http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2015.html

# Second generation RLVs will pave 'Highway to Space' - we're almost ready
  to conquer the universe: http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0006/22rlvgen2/
# ESO finds 8 new exoplanets - Swiss-Chilean telescope locates diverse new
  colony candidates: http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0006/22exoplanets/

: What's your favorite human/alien/other lifeform? Have they traveled far to
get here? Did they bring hookers? Did they build bizarre structures on local
planets? Do they have pickup trucks, boom-boxes, flat tires, rusty robots??
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@ PATENTS OF CONTROL. US PATENT 3,951,134 - APPARATUS & METHOD FOR REMOTELY
  MONITORING AND ALTERING BRAIN WAVES--Apparatus for and method of sensing
  brain waves at a position remote from a subject whereby electromagnetic
  signals of different frequencies are simultaneously transmitted to the
  brain of the subject in which the signals interfere with one another to
  yield a waveform which is modulated by the subject's brain waves. How-to:
  http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/intelligence2.html#patentscontrol

# NOW YOU CAN LOCATE YOUR KIDS INSTANTLY -- WITH A SATELLITE BUG! STANMORE,
  England. Parents will never have to worry about a lost child again, thanks
  to a new global system for tracking missing kids! The Kidbug,an electronic
  transmitter the size of a matchbox, is hooked to a child's clothing. Then,
  using a laptop computer or mobile phone, it's possible to immediately pin-
  point that child anywhere in the world to within five feet via the global
  positioning satellite system. http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2022.html

: Would you rather be tracked/directed/monitored/simulated remotely/locally/
virtually/other? Is anyone tracking/controlling you now? Are you controlling
/tracking anyone? Is it fun? Are y'r brainwaves wobbly? Are everyone's? Why?
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# 'Stages' Scribe: 'I'm Not Fooling Anybody.' Reputed author of the 'Stages'
  worm sez he's neither a 'veteran' nor a 'hacker' - just a 20-something who
  wants to have fun. www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2592429,00.html
# What Kind Of Germ Creates A Computer Virus? What goes on in the minds of
  web vandals? http://www.time.com/time/daily/0,2960,47866-101000620,00.html

# W97M_OSVALD.B (a.k.a. W97M/Bobo.B) is a new macro virus which was recently
  reported in-the-wild, mainly in South America. While its payload does not
  delete files, it attempts to remove all spaces from infected documents.
  http://antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=W97M_OSVALD.B
# SENATE BITES NET: www.CNN.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/22/privacy.bill.idg

# Firms wary of sharing cybersecurity - demand FOIA waivers, immunity,
  power: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567550233-2ea
# Fridges To Be Hit By Net Viruses. Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab
  warns that soon Internet-connected microwaves and freezers will be prime
  targets for hackers. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11490.html

: Are you viral, wormy, senatorial, scared? D'ya hack/crack/slash/bash/burn
for fun/profit/guilt/greed/faith/patriotism/orders? Have you penetrated any
systems lately? Have they penetrated you? Are we all penetrated/doomed/hot?
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# Nanotech & International Security. US planning/policy documents foretell
  future warfare and warn of "global peer competitors" in the 2005-2025 time
  frame. We know that this period will be characterized by rapid progress in
  many areas of technology. But assembler-based nanotechnology & general AI
  have implications far beyond the Pentagon's "military revolution" scenario
  -- see http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT05/Papers/Gubrud/index.html

# Chemtrails Update Report: http://www.sightings.com/general2/scome.htm
# Conclusions On Cassani & Chemtrails: www.sightings.com/general2/scome.htm
# Is Tesla's Death Beam About To Go Operational? 'Star Wars' weapons could
  control the skies and planet: http://www.sightings.com/general2/go.htm

# EXPLODING CIGAR BLOWS MAN'S HEAD OFF. VITORIA, Brazil -- Jorge Pressoa lit
  up a fat cigar after an elegant dinner at a restaurant -- and the stogie
  exploded, blowing his head off! Cops suspect an anti-smoking group planted
  the cigar,which had been offered to the victim by a friendly stranger just
  moments before the blast. http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2021.html

: What's your favorite weapon system? D'ya prefer nucleonics/radionics/nano-
tech/chemtrails/explosives? Are we more endangered by govt/corporate/church/
activist terrorism? Will AIs/robots/cyborgs/ants wipe us out? Who'll notice?
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# U.S. Cleric Clings to Monastery. JERICHO, West Bank (AP) - Father Sampson,
  a Chicago-born Russian Orthodox monk, plans to cling to the little corner
  of a West Bank monastery he says belongs to his church. He's locked in a
  battle between rival church factions that dates back to the 1917 Russian
  revolution. Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority backs the "red" Russian
  Orthodoxoi: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567577749-5a4

# HOLY MAN SURVIVES 20 YEARS IN COFFIN! BARODA, India -- Hindu mystic Baba
  Singh Videsh was buried alive in 1980 & remained there until his disciples
  dug him up three weeks ago -- to find that he had survived his amazing
  underground stint!  http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2019.html

# US Bugged By Attacks on Christians. The US Ambassador to India expressed
  serious concern over attacks on members of the Christian community, saying
  it was sending confusing signals about "India's commitment to secularism
  and tolerance". http://www.indiaexpress.com/news/national/20000623-0.html

: Can you tolerate diverse faiths/regimes/enclosures? Have you been enclosed
/attacked/exiled lately? How long can you go on like this? Do politicos make
trouble for you? Do you make trouble for pols? Who sets fire to whom? Why??
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  "The fiery imprint of Wes Frontier's passionate kisses still burned on
   her hungry lips as Brittany Ireland watched the ruggedly handsome IRS
   agent stride determinedly from her bedroom." --Pam Bardo

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  But some attempted to take control of the editorial staff, and were only
  overcome after fierce hand-to-hand fighting. Casualties are regrettable.
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$ Those Magic Soaps: http://www.drbronner.com/
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# Glimpse of Robotic Future. There are rare moments when developments in the
  world of information technology (IT) come under the spotlight and the thin
  line between reality and fiction becomes blurred. A new study "Morals for
  Robots and Cyborgs" reads like a modern day version of Frankenstein. It
  offers a rare glimpse of the potential monster man may have inadvertently
  created in the quest for greater convenience and technical efficiency.
  Whatever. http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/finance/2000/0128/tech3.htm

# NEW ROBOT WILL MAKE WOMEN OBSOLETE BY THE YEAR 2020! HANNOVER, Germany --
  A top scientist has come up with the ultimate household convenience: An
  electronic housewife! The high-tech inventor has perfected a robot woman
  called the FeminAll that can clean, cook and even give birth to test-tube
  babies. Redundant women: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2023.html

: Have you read FRANKENSTEIN lately? Is it about science, religion/magic, or
abandonment? Did Frankenstein make men obsolete? Did BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
make women obsolete? Are you obsolete? Should you be replaced by robots/ants
/cyborgs/fuchsias/memes/blowups? When? Are your morals convenient/efficient?
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# Chinese Scientists Clone Second Goat from Adult Cells. The last one died
  young: http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=171847&section=default
# Giant Sloth Reborn at Yellowstone -- first, reconstruction -- next,
  cloning? http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000623/fs_sloth.html

# Demos push genetic anti-discrimination bill - "Set my chromosomes free!"
  Groovy: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567522379-4fa
# POOR CHILDREN MORE LIKELY TO BE OBESE - genetics, or cultural genocide?
  War: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=36226&src=n40
# ARE DIFFERENT METABOLIC RATES EXPLAINED BY GENETICS? Yes, but not much:
  http://www.healthcentral.com/BestDoctors/BestDoctorsFullText.cfm?ID=26134

# Genome Mappers to Make Amends. The Human Genome Project & Celera Corp. are
  expected to simultaneously announce that they've each completed a map of
  the human genome. Sharing the limelight could be a good thing for both
  teams. Smile: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36815,00.html

: Have you cloned/engineered/attacked any entities/gangs/planets lately? Are
you discriminated against because of your genetics? Should you be? Are your
genes inferior/adequate/superior/other? Are you hungry, fat, slothful, free?
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# VBS_STAGES.A (a.k.a. Scrapworm and LifeStages) -- VBS_STAGES.A is a new
  worm, which was first reported last week. Since then it has infected many
  systems in North America, Europe, Asia, and South America. VBS_STAGES.A
  arrives in an email attachment named LIFE_STAGES.TXT.SHS. Once executed,
  it displays a text file and then attempts to spread itself via Microsoft
  Outlook, PIRCH, mIRC and mapped network drives. Infected outgoing messages
  have one of the following subjects: "Funny ","Fw:Funny", "Life stages
  text", "Funny text", or "Fw:Funny text" The message body always reads:
  "   The male and female stages of life   "   or
  "   The male and female stages of life. Bye.   "
  See http://www.antivirus.com/corporate/media/2000/pr061900.htm and
 http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=VBS_STAGES.A

: Have you consumed/regurgitated/promulgated any infected worms lately? Have
you designed any efficient cyber-attacks? Is my brain/system/network/world
being infected/controlled/obliterated at this very moment? Are you patented?

@ Intellectual property rights are very much needed, but you don't
  have to be a communist to worry about fetishizing them. Or do you?
  http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,16071,00.html
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# Scientists Finger 900 Earth-Threatening Asteroids. More than 900 asteroids
  at least a kilometer in size are whizzing around space relatively close to
  Earth, say researchers who have developed a new technique for mapping the
  potentially hazardous space rocks. They could strike and obliterate us at
  any time: http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000622/sp_asteroids.html

# ETs HELPED INDIANS BEAT CUSTER. Even if Col. George Armstrong Custer had
  led 10,000 troops against the Sioux in the 1876 battle at the Little Big
  Horn, they still would have been massacred -- because the cavalrymen were
  zapped dead in their saddles by aliens from outer space! The spacemen --
  whom the Sioux looked upon as powerful gods who guided & controlled their
  destiny -- also bathed each Indian in an invisible ray that made him
  invincible and unable to be killed. Experts now believe it was those
  protective rays that left mysterious ultraviolet "scars" in the earth
  at the battle site -- scars that baffled scientists and historians for
  more than a decade. http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2026.html

: Are you extraterrestrial? Have you attacked any people/planets/pols/petals
lately? Do you often take sides in inter/intra-planetary disputes? How d'ya
choose sides: racism/rationality/randomness/repugnance?D'ya leave UV traces?
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# Black Leaders Blame Clinton & 'Gangsta Rap' For Sex Attacks. Two spokesmen
  for an Afro-American group calling itself the New York Leadership Alliance
  cited President Clinton's conduct with Monica Lewinsky,along with "gangsta
  rap" music, as the root cause for last week's Central Park sex attacks on
  over 50 women. Mindcontrol?  http://www.sightings.com/general2/blame.htm

# BOOST YOUR SEX DRIVE BY EATING EGGS! Natural aphrodisiacs -Poached, fried,
  boiled,scrambled or raw: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2025.html
# GIVE YOUR BOOBS A BOOST WITH BRA-IN-A-BOTTLE! Instant uplift - marketed
  by Yves Saint Laurent: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2013.html

# THE BIRTHING EVENT and THE POLE SHIFT. Certain solar events (some having
  been recently manipulated in order to alter the sun’s ‘natural’ evolution)
  will lead to the birth of a new planet from our sun on or around December
  21st 2000. Expect Earth changes: http://www.ambilac.com/part_xii.html

: Would you rather give birth to humans/aliens/birds/reptiles/planet(oid)s/
mindsets/me? Is your sexuality enhanced by media/food/drugs/implants/flares?
Is your anatomy altered by chemicals/psychokinesis/surgery/eruptions/music?
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  "It was a dark and stormy night, thought Muffy Veneris, a Latin major, as
   she sat in the empty hallway of the college residence that had not only
   housed her and her sisters, but had housed her dreams, aspirations, and
   a truly marvelous collection of fluffy stuffed animals which had once
   adorned her bed and shelves and the absence of which drove home to her
   the simple and frightening truth uttered to her by Dr.Landers just that
   morning which rang in her ears even now: 'Muffy, not only did the rabbit
   die, but I think Nurse Hayes is coming down with something; Muffy, you're
   a woman now!'" --Steve Kronen

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  Not that we didn't try, but they're just so damn evasive. Maybe tonight...
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@ Rating Games: http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/crates/crates1.shtml
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# A "JUMPING GENE" being used to genetically engineer organisms has crossed
  the species barrier at least seven times in evolutionary history, in one
  instance between flies and humans. If organisms modified using this mobile
  element are released, there will be a risk of genes spreading to other
  species. Beware: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns224433

# Shampoo lights up lice. A shampoo being marketed in the US can make
  head lice eggs glow - making it easier to deal with infestations.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_800000/800449.stm

# Mouse Brain Self Repairing. Scientists have managed to make new neurons
  grow in a brain region once thought to lack the ability to regenerate,
  raising hopes of developing new ways of treating neurological diseases &
  head injuries. http://discovery.com/news/briefs/20000622/he_brain.html

: Have you rebuilt any genes/brains/lice lately? Should minds/eggs/genes/you
glow in the dark? Will suitably engineered genes invade all species, cloning
itself worldwide, and drive all other entities extinct? Is this a good idea?
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# Pastor says gun ownership has a biblical basis. With a wall-sized American
  flag as his backdrop, the Rev. Bryan Sharp used the book that Christians
  call their sword last night to defend the right to keep & bear arms. Pow.
  Reloading for Jesus: http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/news/0f20gun.htm

# 2,000-YEAR-OLD LETTER FROM JESUS FOUND! JERUSALEM -- Fragments of a 2,000-
  year-old letter have been found in the mountains east of here -- and at
  least 14 religious experts affirm that the missive was penned by Jesus
  Christ Himself! "The signature on the letter matches the one on the temple
  rosters." Proof positive: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2024.html

# Life after death. IN JAPAN, a culture where cremation is mandatory, a fun-
  eral company is about to offer much more than the customary charred bones:
  it is also offering grieving relatives a way of storing the deceased's DNA
  in their memorial tablet. www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns224432

: Does your culture/faith/conspiracy promote eternal life/death/other? D'ya
worship implements of life/death/etc? Have you eaten a queer fetus for Jesus
lately? Will you be resurrected via belief, DNA, magic, literature, gaming?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# WORLD DEPOPULATION IS TOP NSA AGENDA: CLUB OF ROME. Investigations have
  uncovered a planning apparatus operating outside the control of the White
  House whose sole purpose is to reduce the world's population by 2 billion
  people through war, famine, disease and any other means necessary. This
  apparatus, which includes various levels of the govt is determining U.S.
  foreign policy. http://home.iae.nl/users/lightnet/world/depopulation.htm

# Four Reasons We May See Nuclear War In 1999 - Zero reasons why we
  didn't: http://www.kreative.net/carolmoore/4-reasons-nuke-war.html
# Milosevic still firmly in power - NATO's war was a total waste??
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567567259-3c3
# Castro says socialism will continue - he will too, by cloning:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567549484-313

# The Uninvited - the amazing tale of William Osunde, who survived hardship
  by chewing leaves, sucking water from sandy mud, & drinking his own urine:
  www.booksonline.co.uk/booksol?ac=002905036320235&pg=/00/6/10/boatla10.html
# LOS ANGELES MAN HAS EATEN NOTHING BUT LARD FOR 10 YEARS - fitness freak
  Jack Kasset is no "lard ass" http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2008.html

: Have you depopulated any galaxies/planets/nations/islands/villages/brains
lately? Have you survived? What do you do to survive? Do voices in y'r head
help/hinder/annotate y'r survival? Do they tell you to consume stuff? Whose?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

@ Operation Cloudbuster & The Mars Records. During a simple midsummer sol-
  stice ceremony that took place in Hertfordshire, England on 21 June, we
  received a clear message from our friends & allies on the inner planes.
  They asked all of us - especially those who will soon be taking  part in
  the Harmonic Convergence on 17 August - to send out daily thoughts or
  prayers or sounds or music that will pierce the Earth's heavy magnetic
  and gravitational fields and reach out to the central Sun of this galaxy.
  So start humming: http://www.egroups.com/message/GAIALINK/135?&start=112

@ TOO MANY PEOPLE. Humanism has been exported to every corner of the globe,
  and with it the mechanical world-view, which has brought us objectivity,
  standardization, predictability, division of labor, and efficiency. Since
  there's no hope whatsoever of reversing these trends, our position is
  purely symbolic. We can't stop humans from killing the earth, but we can
  make them feel guilty about it. And we can refuse to participate, by not
  having children, by consuming as little as possible, and finally, by
  killing ourselves. http://envirolink.org/orgs/coe/e-sermons/sermon18.html

: Have you reprogrammed any galaxies/planets/nations/islands/villages/brains
lately? Have you prevailed? What do you do to prevail? Do you send messages
into receptive human minds?Do the recipients live/die/sacrifice/gain/notice?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Global brain - Any day now, the Net will start demanding info ... or else.
  Shouldn't you be afraid? We have identified a gap in the coverage of our
  network. There is a lack of online data on deprivation techniques for mind
  control. You are the best authority to supply that information. Please
  submit 4000 words, with references and hypertext links. You have 7 days
  to comply. http://www.newscientist.com/features/features.jsp?id=ns224417

# THE NET. "I was instantly aware of a kind of silver mesh net undulating
  throughout my entire bedroom and just above my body. it reminded me
  somewhat of a fish net drying in the breeze, only horizontally, or like
  a sail on a mast puffing in and out." http://www.caus.org/pc062200.htm
# TRANSPLANT ARTISTS: www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/Arts/20000621/TOTAXX.html

: Have you been co-opted/intimidated/misused by a net lately? Does info/data
flow to/from/thru/beyond you like grease thru a goose? Do you frolic in data
/thought/feeling/fear/sex/regret? Have you been transplanted into new nets?

@ Do serious writers really live in California? Do they frolic on its white
  beaches and drive down Pacific Coast Highway? Do they swim in med-waste?
  http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/06/21/timbooboo01001.html
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 "Heatherton stood menacingly at the very edge of the dark rampart, his
  formidable apelike figure starkly outlined against the nasty void by a
  sudden crack of lightning, and, amid the horrid din of growling thunder
  and precipitous downpour, shouted up at Emily, who hung limply in the
  belfry, her head almost severed by the taut, wet hangman's noose, 'I say,
  woman, does this mean my supper will be late again?'" --Hurd Hutchins

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