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another nybble of knowledge

Monday, April 24, 2000 02:29 p.m. P.D.T.

SkeptiNews 000424c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * The weekend's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/23_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No gene-spliced nipples were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Nipple Project: http://www.cultofmarms.org/ [ via http://www.fark.com/ ] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scores of UFOnoids Flock to Nevada Desert to Witness Planetary Alignment Fulfilling Ancient Prophecy - World's First Alien Beacon. On the eve of the historic [5 May 2000] five-planet alignment, masses of UFO enthusiasts donning intergalactic costumes will converge upon the world-famous Little A'Le'Inn, located on the Extraterrestrial Highway (Highway 375), near Area 51. To mark this historic event [and promote their film], DreamWorks Home Entertainment will dedicate of the world's first alien beacon -- a giant flying saucer emitting a powerful beam of light into cosmos to welcome all inter-galactic & terrestrial visitors. DreamWorks also will host an alien costume contest [with valuable prizes], followed by a free outdoor screen- ing of Galaxy Quest to entertain the crowds as they await the prophesized alien arrivals. http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000424/ca-dreamworks-galaxy : Since the original ET Hwy fete was a promotion for ID4, can we expect more SciFi film marketing to take place in Rachel, NV? Will you go there to join me? [I'll be the the tall bespectacled silver-haired guy flying SkeptiNews <http://skeptinews.pitas.com/> logos, biking a BikeE <http://www.bikee.com> recumbent with full fairing, and waving digital recording devices around.] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Snooping's Not Just for Spies Any More - Area51 For Everyone: http://www.nytimes.com/library/review/043200satellite-review.html # Uncle Sam, show us the UFOs: http://www.fas.org/eye/000124-ikonos.htm # Unmanned SpyPlane Test-Deployed: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9720283 @ Ground Truth - US spy shops: http://www.fas.org/irp/facility/index.html @ Overhead the Intelligence Community - overhead imagery & maps of intelli- gence and related facilities: http://www.fas.org/irp/overhead/index.html @ Overhead- SOURCES AND METHODS: http://www.fas.org/irp/overhead/source.htm # Missing Laptop Had Secret Arms Data: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9720291 # How to keep your handheld from falling into the wrong hands - promiscuous synch, NO! http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/04/24/pda.disaster.idg/ # Feds Seize Cuban Hacker! http://www.1freespace.com/yellowsnow/elian.html : Have you stolen/borrowed/bought/sold/rented any secret information lately? Was it cheap at the price? What's your favorite secret info? How did you get it? Can you tell me? If I show you mine, will you show me yours? Why not?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ultra Wideband Innovation May Lead Charge in Yet Another Revolution - fast net-coms, wall-piercing radar, anything's possible down around the 'noise floor' -- http://latimes.com/news/science/science/20000424/t000038496.html # OUR MESSAGE, BEAMED INTO YOUR SLEEPING BRAIN - Advertising in your Dreams. A Scottish firm plans to broadcast adverts directly into people's dreams. "While trying to create interactive switches between the brain and a computer we discovered we could transmit complex signals directly to the human brain, rather like a TV transmitter sends out signals that are picked up by your telly. http://www.jpb.com/cyberstar/0102.html : D'ya routinely track victims thru walls with microband radar? D'ya often beam the tracking signals into y'r sleeping brain so their movement patterns are embedded in y'r subconscious?Does this make stalking much easier/faster? # New 3-D Flyover Of Los Angeles-Area Quake Faults - zoom over LaLa-land in safety: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000424092214.htm @ 'I have destroyed all intelligent life on Earth. Twice.' Not that anybody noticed, eh? http://www.miscmedia.com/RoboBug.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Best images yet of Jupiter's inner moons - The Galileo probe has taken a risky spin through Jupiter's lethal radiation belts to capture the high- est-resolution images yet of 3 of the planet's 4 innermost moons, Thebe, Amalthea and Metis. http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/cu-biy042400.html # Moonstruck: A New Route to Mars - lunar waystation a requirement: http://www.space.com/peopleinterviews/schmitt_update_000421.html # Experiment Could Lead To Spacecraft Design Breakthrough - headed for the stars soon: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000301164116.htm # Don't Tread on Me: Group Wants to Protect Apollo Site - no shopping malls please: http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/save_footprints_000418.html : What's your favorite inter-planetary/stellar/galactic voyage? Do you look closely at where you're going; where you are; where you've been? Do you plan your voyages carefully, or just wing it? Do you sometimes end up elsewhere? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mormon kids love "Fight Club" antics. The church recommends its members stay home with family on Monday nights, but some Mormon college students are choosing to beat the bejesus out of others in "Fight Club"-like comp- etitions. Whammo. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/0423fight.shtml # When devotion means death - doomsday cults for almost everybody: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_682000/682357.stm # "Why I joined a cult" - spiritual food for the alienated & distracted: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_688000/688317.stm # Saudis defend beheading. Tranquilized prisoners are led to a public square blindfolded, feet shackled,hands cuffed behind their backs. With one swing of the sword,they're beheaded for crimes ranging from murder to drug traf- ficking. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565973344-b42 # Sudanese beheaded www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565971030-3a4 : Has your cult encouraged you to beat/kill/annoy anyone lately? Does true devotion always lead to death?Are human brains directly wired for this? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Holy Promotion! Sinead Shows Her True Collars. SINEAD O’CONNOR is climbing the ecclesiastical ladder quickly, with news that she's been promoted to Archdeacon of the Tridentine Church after 12 months. Having taken the name Mother Bernadette Mary, O’Connor has also been named a Doctor of Divinity in Divine Healing. Hail! http://music365.co.uk/autocontent/news_029804.htm # Easter play has Jesus referring to disciples as "dudes". In this modern <http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local07_20000424.html> production, Jesus was sentenced to deletion, not crucifixion, & Judas was called a "twisted punk." Sez the pastor: "We tried to push the boundaries a little bit and the creative level a little bit." [ via http://www.obscurestore.com/ ] : Since I declared all sentient entities in the universe to be DEITIES a few years ago, Sinead is of course a goddess - why doesn't she acknowledge her divine status? Why don't you? Are gods entitled to rebuild reality at will? # Pope Vacations - Club Med? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9726213 # St.Francis, Original Ecologist: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9709703 # Pope Imprisoned In Body: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9722992 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species." --Desmond Morris * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...

another byte of beauty

Monday, April 24, 2000 08:11 a.m. P.D.T.

SkeptiNews 000424b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * The weekend's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/23_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No mutant lobsters were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ What Area51 SpyPix Mean: http://www.fas.org/irp/overhead/groom.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # St Elmo's Fire Grips Concorde Aircraft. A Concorde came within seconds of plunging to disaster when vital controls were knocked out by freakish weather. Saved by a miracle: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_stelmo.htm # POLL: Most Americans Believe In Miracles - and they eat at MacDonald's http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/so/a18866-2000apr22.htm # Seed Miracle: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,160009388,00.html # The Miracle Detective - A doctor for the Vatican describes his work: http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/so/a18982-2000apr23.htm # Cult silenced members, deterred officials before murders. KANUNGU, Uganda. They separated their followers from home & family. They tricked or bribed local authorities, and they kept their flock hungry & silent. An intricate system of controls allowed leaders of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God to orchestrate the murders of hundreds of followers. http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,165006823,00.html : What's your favorite miracle? What's the difference between miracles and mindcontrol? Have you ever witnessed something that couldn't happen? Was it miraculous? Are there more good/evil/neutral miracles? Do you record them? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Human nerve cells cloned in Australian lab. Super kangaroo-human hybrids next: http://miamiherald.com/content/today/news/world/digdocs/048132.htm @ THE LONGEVITY GAME: http://northwesternmutual.com/games/longevity/ # Gene Mutation Upsets Mammalian Biological Clock - we can be re-tuned for other worlds: http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000424085959.htm # Pig Organs For Humans Soon. MILLIONS of Nigerians who suffer from diabetes or are in need of new organs may be rescued from death or daily injections shortly, with a one-off transplant of cells from a genetically modified pig. But is it kosher? http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/news2/nn783305.html # Biotech brings world to eve of new age. If parents could ensure their kids a life free from cystic fibrosis, cancer or famine,who among them wouldn't jump at that opportunity? But what if the same technology that rendered the world disease-free also opened the door to ravaging,herbicide-tolerant pests or the rise of a Hitleresque super race? Should we kill the scien- tists now? http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,160009481,00.html : Who's y'r favorite clone/cyborg/robot? Do immortal humans deserve immortal pests? D'ya prefer your super-race to be Hitleresque, Disneyesque, Madonna- esque, BigBirdesque? Should your pig-organs be timed for Venusian rotation?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mutant lobster is food of the future. (SunTimes) THEY could call it Claws. Geneticists hope to create the world's biggest lobster after finding how to block the genes that limit animals' natural growth. In secret experi- ments,scientists have already applied the technique to make giant chickens and sheep and are also working on other livestock, including cattle. Yum. http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/04/23/stinwenws02008.html # THE GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD RIGHT-TO-KNOW ACT, S. 2080 - more labels to be ignored by consumers: http://www.konformist.com/2000/gebill.htm @ TUNA-FREE DOLPHIN MEAT! One man's heroic struggle to return millions of fish fingers to the sea. http://www.tunafree.com.au [thanx, Unit4] : What's your favorite mutant food? D'ya want to know if your food is mutant or gene-spliced or cloned or synthesized? D'ya care, as long as it's tasty/ low-fat/hallucinogenic/cheap? Have you freed any mutant tunas lately? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # STELLAR SHOCKWAVE PASSES EARTH. (NASA) An interplanetary shock wave passed by NASA's ACE spacecraft. The conditions are likely to create geomagnetic disturbances on Earth and possible displays of aurora borealis at middle latitudes. Watch the skies at midnight. More: http://www.spaceweather.com # Milky Way Collides with Andromeda http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9726470 # Stardust Spacecraft Catching Dust In The Wind. Like an excited kid hoping to snag a fly ball at a pro game, NASA's Stardust probe has extended its high-tech "catcher's mitt" to grab a valuable space souvenir: interstellar dust particles. http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000424092256.htm : Have you seen/grabbed/lost any (inter)stellar artifacts lately? If there's interstellar dust, are there interstellar dustmites? Are they huge? Do they masquerade as Motherships? Are they feeding on humans at this very moment?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Demos Duped. Site proclaims "Jim Williams: Congress 2000," and the slogan of the congressional campaign: "Vote for me and I'll kiss your ass." On the campaign platform: promises to deport Jerry Falwell and put a picture of X-Files star Gillian Anderson on the new $100 bill. Sounds pretty good to me: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565948446-387 # UNREPENTANT: [ via http://www.artsjournal.com/Digest.html ] David Irving was disemboweled when he lost his defamation suit, but he hasn't changed his ideas or actions. On TV interviews he was "unrepentant, chilling, and scary. The worst was the way he kept repeating in an insinuating manner that if he were Jewish, he would be asking himself exactly what his people had been doing for thousands of years to make everyone hate them so much." http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/04/21/Culture/CultureNews.5744.html : What's your favorite political position? Do people hate/love you? Do you make promises? Are you believed/believable? Does your conspiracy attempt to attract/repel people? Are people irrelevant? Is everything irrelevant? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Conspir-O-Rama: # Agents didn't fire at Waco - flashes were just sunlight reflecting off debris: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565924151-383 # US MUNGED KEY WACO EVIDENCE? http://CNN.com/2000/US/04/24/wacolawsuit.ap/ @ DID THE JEDI HAVE IT COMING? Why so many Jedi in the Old Republic? The answer is simple: increasing market share. Just another organization: http://space.com/sciencefiction/movies/dismantling_jedi_order_000418.html # "I SHOT JFK!" - Confesses: http://konformist.com/mkkafe/tcasey/tcasey.htm # "I DIDN'T SHOOT JFK AFTER ALL!!!" T. Casey Brennan: Dishwasher, Comic Book Writer, JFK Assassin: http://www.konformist.com/mkkafe/tcasey/jfkno.htm @ The leisure society the experts predicted back in the 1960s didn't happen. Instead, we work harder and longer, and achieve less and less: http://www.consider.net/forum_new.php3?&newDisplayURN=200004170020 # Britain changes phone numbers - communications chaos ensues - Net access collapses: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565919261-cee @ Illuminati'R'Us: http://mercury.spaceports.com/~persewen/illum_index.htm # Myanmar's rulers block Internet - fear dissent, loss of power, escape of sex slaves: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565946533-8d2 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Termites eating out my brains, but what do I care?" --Pinnocchio * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...

just a dot in the matrix of life

Monday, April 24, 2000 06:31 a.m. P.D.T.

SkeptiNews 000424a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * The weekend's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/23_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No lesbian goddesses were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Readied: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/space/shuttle/20000423/ksc02 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sightings: INDIANA: UFO HOVERS OVER CHEMICAL PLANT - ARKANSAS: FLYING CIGAR STOPS CAR, STEALS MEMORY, FRIES WIRES: www.caus.org/mu042300.htm # "It was like someone flying up to heaven." Unidentified light was seen in various provinces of China: http://www.rumormillnews.com/ufo.htm # First Known Authentic Picture of a UFO: http://www.caus.org/pn042300.htm # 4 PEOPLE VANISH WITHOUT A TRACE IN PORTABLE TOILET! CHICAGO -- A stunned and outraged public is demanding to know the whereabouts of 4 people who went into a portable toilet in a public park -- and never came out! Alien abduction turning shitty: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1861.html @ WHITLEY STRIEBER VIDEO GALLERY: http://www.strieber.com/adv-video.html : Do you loiter in your UFO around chemical plants, highways, porta-potties, horse farms, the Great Wall? Have you ever been arrested for loitering in a UFO? Did you escape? Are there any authentic pictures of your UFO? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Princess Di Portrayed As The Madonna: http://www.rumormillnews.com/mad.htm # The Making of Goddess Di: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/goddess.html @ ANOTHER DIANA SIGHTING/BOOK. Yet another book has been released purporting to be the "true" message from Princess Di. Yet more evidence for Rayelan Allan's book: Diana Queen Of Heaven <http://www.dianaqueenofheaven.com/>. Princess Diana dictates her experiences in the afterlife through Christine Toomey. Why her? http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=2774 # Millions of beautiful gals are becoming lesbians... because guys can't cut the mustard, says sociologist! MIAMI- Millions of America's most beautiful women have become so fed up with their male lovers that they're giving the guys the boot -- and turning to other women to satisfy their sexual needs, a shocking new study reveals! http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1863.html : Who's your favorite goddess? Is she bisexual, lesbian, transgendered? Do goddesses communicate with you regularly? Do they promote alternative sexu- ality/economics/politics/faith/sports/art? D'ya wanna be a goddess someday? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ELIAN TRADED TO CUBA FOR HARD-THROWING RIGHTHANDER! In a deal that has the backing of the U.S. Department of Justice and representatives of Miami's Cuban-American community, Elian Gonzalez was traded to Cuba today for right-handed pitcher Jose Ariel Contreras and a defector to be named later. "This is a win-win deal," Attorney General Janet Reno said. "Contreras will contribute right away to one of our ballclubs and Elian's father gets to raise his son in the peace and quiet of an embargoed communist bloc nation." http://www.drudge.com/retort.shtml # Quiet descends on Elian case - mindcontrol drugs kick in big-time - aliens feeding: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565961754-bc1 # ELIAN! THE MOVIE: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=2773 and maybe http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/WolfFiles/wolffiles.html # Elian sparks heated emails: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9722242 # DoJ Had A Warrant? http://www.CNN.com/2000/US/04/24/cuba.boy/index.html : Who/what would you like to trade/give/sell/unload to Cuba? Is your conspi- racy working to unite Cuba & Florida? Does Castro deserve Florida? Would the US be better off without Florida? Will global warming submerge Florida/Cuba? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Chinese sect members detained - Falun Gongers busted every day: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565940910-d80 # Also: Falun Gong withstands challenge - "more of us than them" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565946896-b50 # And: China detains cult follower daughter - "nits make lice" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565929083-618 # Research Continues Into China's Wild Man - Bigfoot thought to be living in China - Yearlong trek yields traces of what some say is undiscovered species. Beijing, China -- Yuan Zhenxin keeps up his search for Bigfoot. Yuan is convinced that 1,000 to 2,000 of the apelike creatures roam the forests of central China: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/bfoot03.htm : Is Chinese Communism more threatened by Falun Gong, Bigfoot, Capitalism, famine, alien abductions, me? Are most Chinese too malnourished to be worth abducting? If you were an ET, would you rather abduct fat, dumb Americans? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Man playing Judas hangs. ROME (AP) A 23-year-old man hanged himself during a religious play in a small town while portraying Judas Iscariot. Regional RAI TV broadcast a video by an amateur who was watching the outdoor drama Saturday in Camerata Nuova, a hamlet of 200 people 45 miles from Rome. The video and audio of the performance depicting events leading up to Jesus' crucifixion captured the screams of fellow actors and the audience when they realized that Renato Di Paolo wasn't acting but was unconscious after the noose, lashed to a tree branch, pulled tightly around his neck. Encore unlikely: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565950709-1fa # Struggling With Pilgrims' Deaths: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9721236 # Easter Reaps Grim Toll in SA: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9725775 # Violent Easter Bunny Busted: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9703054 : Have you killed/assaulted/annoyed anyone for Easter lately? Was your vio- lence videotaped? Were screams clearly audible? D'ya scream a lot at Easter? Doesn't everyone? Is Easter a good time for suicide/homicide/deicide? Why?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Bishop Slams Dot.Com Values. (BBC) In his Easter message, the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned against putting the pursuit of money and power above spiritual wealth. Translation: his investments failed & his flock moved on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_723000/723394.stm # Couple Seized With Cocaine in Bible. MEDELLIN (Reuters) A husband and wife were seized at a Colombian airport on Good Friday as they tried to smuggle almost 7 pounds (3 kg) of cocaine hidden in the pages of a Bible onto a flight bound for Mexico http://news.excite.com/news/r/000424/07/odd-cocaine # Easter celebrated worldwide - spring fertility rituals complete, except for Eastern Orthodoxoi - crucifixion party next weekend: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565948316-aeb # Earth Day celebrated with exhibits, speeches, naked orgies: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565931103-e2a : What values d'ya most like to celebrate in the spring? D'ya prefer faith, money, sex, drugs, power, multimedia exhibits, speechifying, robotics, chess or me? Are your fertility rituals complete, or are more scheduled? Where?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "In times of crisis, a man may feel that his god is indifferent to his suffering when, in fact, his god is well aware of his pain and just thinks it's kinda funny." -- http://www.SleazyTabloid.com * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...