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punched, folded, spindled, mutilated

Tuesday, June 27, 2000 05:14 a.m. P.D.T.

SkeptiNews 000626c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/25_06_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 magic pythons were devoured during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ DENSA - take the test: http://www.pressanykey.com/densa/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Big Hopes Riding on Bigfoot Museum. Willow Creek, CA [AP] - Some people believe in Bigfoot. Most don't. Some aren't sure what might be tramping around California's backcountry. Margaret Wooden is skeptical, but she knows one thing: Bigfoot could be good for business. "He's quite a drawing card," said Wooden, who helped organize the Willow Creek-China Flat Museum's new "Bigfoot Wing." http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/bfoot04.htm @ THE SAGE SEZ: You cannot assume that if ETs are visiting us, that all ETs must have evil intentions. Clearly, if we assume 99% of all ETs visiting us are pure evil, that would sabotage whatever hope we could have had of making friends with the remaining 1% -- and we need all the friends we can get in this universe! Be my friend: http://www.caus.org/mc062300.htm : Are you paranoid/hopeful/exploitative/resigned about UFOs/yetis/ETs/me? Do you hope for the best but plan for the worst? Have Bigfoots/ETs/agents ever mistreated you? Have you ever mistreated them? Is there a cosmic balance?? # Colorado Upsurge in UFO Reports. ALAMOSA COUNTY - SAN LUIS LAKES - MAXIVILLE - CHAMA, NEW MEXICO: http://www.caus.org/mu062600.htm @ Carbonist Manifesto: http://www.voicenet.com/~eric/z/carbonism.txt _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Reincarnated Python's Lottery Win. Kula Lumpur - Thousands of people have been flocking to a tribal settlement in Malaysia's Sarawak state on Borneo island, to consult a "python of fortune" which reportedly caused villagers to win big in a recent lottery. Most of the visitors to the Iban longhouse in Selangau district, near Sibu town, were lottery punters who offered prayers, food, money as well as pieces of paper with numbers written on them to the python. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/p_python.htm # Youth emphasizing the ‘I’ in Jewish - Study finds more attachment to Judaism but less to ritual: http://www.msnbc.com/news/424453.asp # PLANNED PARENTHOOD SAYS VATICAN WAGING WAR ON WOMEN - church ignores Geneva Conventions: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4376 # Jehovah's Witnesses: Members say church beliefs are often misunderstood - don't know why. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,175014325,00.html : Is y'r belief system belligerent/misunderstood/ritualistic/fortunate? Have you benefited from your beliefs? Has anyone? Do serpents play a large role in your beliefs? Have you fed (on) any serpents/women/Jews/witnesses lately? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # It all makes sense at Crank Dot Net. (UsaToday) Everything you know is wrong. Earth is hollow, and flat, and routinely visited by beings not of this world. It gets worse. The original Constitution banned lawyers from holding office, at least one of our presidential candidates is in fact a shape-shifting lizard, and one individual has gone so far as to declare himself Emperor of America. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_crank.htm # Get Metaphysical. There's a rumor going around that the place is haunted. http://www.premieremag.com/Premiere/Article/New/0,2050,205_3981_1,00.html @ UnIskcon. Experiences, impressions, feelings & viewpoints of writers whose childhoods were spent in residential schools called gurukulas in the reli- gious organization of Iskcon, AKA Hare Krishnas. http://ccrgroup.com/voice/ : Do your beliefs invite negative reactions from the rest of the world? D'ya ignore the ridicule/persecution/disenfranchisement/defenestrations? Have any shape-shifting lizards presented themselves to you lately? Did you quiver?? # China vows to close Tibet monastery after busting four monks for shouting anti-China slogans: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,175014622,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Gay Pride marked coast-to-coast - Straight Shame fests flounder - media conspiracy? http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567643800-4ca # Cops Bust 80 Gay Rights Activists: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10020170 @ PLANETOUT: Pride - People - Advocacy - News: http://www.planetout.com/pno/ # Gay unions endorse perversion: http://timesargus.nybor.com/Story/9117.html # Group seeks to block civil unions - Vermont's same-sex opponents ask judge to quash statute http://rutlandherald.nybor.com/News/State/Story/9065.html @ ADVOCATE - National Gay & Lesbian Newsmagazine: http://www.advocate.com/ @ Do you write erotica? Please avoid the <http://modemac.com/cliches.html> lame clichés of news:alt.sex.stories when writing your masterpiece. Yes please. Now have a good laugh at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Humor/ : Is human sexuality simple enough that you can say anything meaningful/true about the origins/morality/profundity/vitality of such sexuality? Are you so simple that you think you can? Do your genitals annoy/frighten/deaden you?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # V-chips, filters not used. (AP) - U.S. parents are not making wide use of readily available technology that can restrict what they consider object- ionable TV shows or Internet sites from being viewed by their children. Baffled: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567651937-742 # GPS: New Tool for Terrorists? http://www.msnbc.com/news/423817.asp # US UNPREPARED TO BIOTERROR ATTACK: http://chblue.com/Article.asp?ID=353 # Second thoughts on recycling - Are contaminated products slipping through the cracks? Where? http://www.msnbc.com/news/425461.asp # More possible nuke lab breaches - Los Alamos leaks like a sieve: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567627063-1d3 # Security? What security? http://chblue.com/Article.asp?ID=355 # 'Smart Antennas' http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10020990 : Would you rather be terrorized by TV/radio/contrails/recyclers/nuktivists/ biowarriors/spies/me? Have terrible messages oozed into your life lately? Do you have the tools to filter/block/neutralize them? D'ya know where you are? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Another New World, DNA. Now that we've have mapped most of the new world of human genes, the next step is to plot out what the 3 bln letters of DNA mean. http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2000/0625discovering.htm # BIOETHICS EXPERTS WARN OF GENOME PROJECT'S POTENTIAL TO DESTROY HUMAN LIFE. (all.org) Father Joseph Howard, director of the American Bioethics Advisory Commission (ABAC), said, "The Human Gene Project must not be used in any way to discriminate against or to destroy human life." Then he devoured a lamb: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4375 # UK Lion Savages Sheep - Mystery Of Big Black Cat. A mysterious & powerful black animal is being blamed for sheep savaging. One lamb died after being attacked; another was seriously hurt. Both had claw-marks that looked like large, feline paws. Meow. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/abc_uk22.htm : Are you a lamb? Have you been devoured by lions/Catholics/Muslims/Mormons/ Hindus/atheists/aliens lately? Have you been genetically modified to have 2 heads, 8 legs, 12 brains, 16 gonads? D'ya frolic & laugh, gymbal & gyre? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "A woman's rule of thumb: If it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it." --anon * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews info & (un)subscribing: http://sonic.net/~ric/vsub.htm * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...

snarks!?! snarks?!? why'd it have to be SNARKS!?!

Monday, June 26, 2000 09:56 a.m. P.D.T.

SkeptiNews 000626b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/25_06_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 snarks were fatally bitten during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ SnarkBite! http://www.snarkbite.com/sasr0300.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Travis AFB Area Abduction. The Travis AFB/Vacaville (CA) area has been the center of much anomalous aerial activity going back some 20 years. The area near the Grizzly Island wetland sanctuary is a particular hot spot -- in and around Birds Landing especially. http://www.caus.org/pc062600.htm # Flying Saucer Wind Tunnel Testing at Wright-Patterson: http://www.destinationspace.net/ufo/birds.asp#tunnel # LETTER FROM BARRY GOLDWATER ABOUT UFO & WRIGHT-PATTERSON: http://www.sightings.com/general2/goldw.htm @ Symbolism - The Language of the Illuminati http://www.davidicke.com/icke/symbolism/menu.html @ UFO ENIGMA: http://www.destinationspace.net/ufo/ufo.asp # I live 60 miles from Birds Landing as the UFO flies - is that too near/far /upscale/dry? If I move closer, can I abducted too? Have you abducted (m)any victims/enigmas/symbols/saucers lately? Did you test those in wind-tunnels? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SPACEVIEWS 2000.26. WATER ON MARS - MirCorp Announces 1st Space Tourist to Mir - House Passes NASA Budget - Proton Launches RussSat - NASA Probing Shuttle Engine Problem - U.S. Politicos Vent Over "Faster Better Cheaper" Missions - 900 Large Potentially Hazardous Asteroids - The U.S. Navy in the Space Age - My Mother The Car: http://www.spaceviews.com/2000/0626/ # SPIDERS FROM OUTER SPACE. A group of astronauts now training for a shuttle mission all have 8 legs. They're also big web users.Slated to liftoff next year, their work in space may play a large part in the future of aerospace engineering & ET colonisation.And some Earth-bound goats have an interest in their exploits. http://www.beyond2000.com/news/Jun_00/story_668.html # How to reach Martian water: http://alienzoo.com/news/a/200006230007.cfm # Mars life would be primitive: http://alienzoo.com/news/a/200006230005.cfm # Water damage ... on Mars: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/200006230004.cfm # Pie in the Sky - better things to do with astrophysics degree than baking cake in zero gravity? http://www.bergen.com/previews/comic23200006231.htm : Mars? Mars? Mars? Mars? Mars? Mars? Mars? Mars? Mars? Mars? Mars? Mars? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Anti-drug policies 'ineffective' (BBC) Experts call for urgent steps to be taken to reduce the number of deaths among drug addicts. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_806000/806326.stm # Also - Drug misuse research announced - here's how to shoot-up: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_746000/746186.stm # Heroin: The full facts - *everything* you *ever* wanted to know: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/medical_notes/newsid_85000/85691.stm @ Rather not face up to the task of making an indiscreet point? GentleHints <http://www.gentlehints.com/> lets the coward in you send an anonymous letter <http://www.gentlehints.com/handwash.htm> and helpful gift. Now get a cultural scrub at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Culture/ @ Barbara Hartwell - survivor of CIA MK ULTRA & PHOENIX Project, trained & utilized by CIA as a deep cover operative & professional CIA asset, under mind control programming, which the perpetrators believed was "guaranteed under National Security." http://www.ulster.net/~babs7/ : What's your favorite behavioural-modification technique? D'ya prefer drugs /hints/rays/implants/hypnosis/culture/surgery? Have you and/or y'r behaviour been altered lately? Are you now an effective operative/assassin/politician? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Practicing religion in public doesn't have a prayer. We begin with an official prayer. Let's all pray to Satan. What? You're not a Satanist? You're just inferior: http://insidedenver.com/kravitz/0625bobco.shtml # Does prayer helps health? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10012465 # Game prayer backers decry loss of tradition - spirits won't aid players anymore - damn damn damn: http://www.cincypost.com/news/pray062000.html # Remain standing for the invocation - except that there won't be one. So sit down now. Now. http://www.ardemgaz.com/today/edi/wopJERRYCOX26.html # Catholics Pack Chicago Stadium - 30,000 carry grandstands off for fiery ritual: http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2000/0625catholics.htm # Let us pray: And crucify 'em. Anyone who confuses the Holy Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit with the gridiron trinity of mayhem, manhandling and maiming has an odd set of priorities. Surprise! http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/jun00/jackson25062400.asp : Have you prayed for yourself/me/them/it/us lately? D'ya pray for conquest/ victory/health/wealth/sex/damnation? Should my taxes pay for your prayers?? Should your taxes pay for my prayers? Should we just give each other money?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Beetles are eating up historic S.F. treasures. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) They've eaten through 200-year-old statues of saints & have left priceless wooden carvings crumbling. They have munched treasures dating back to when S.F. was little more than fishing villages and sand dunes. They are powderpost beetles, and they're invading Mission Dolores, California's oldest intact church. http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,175014629,00.html # STEALING HISTORY: a brief history of looting of cultural artifacts and treasures. http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/stealhist.html # Historic submarine part moved ashore - Confederate Navy plans new fleet exercises: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567635999-896 # Dead Sea Scrolls reborn in exhibit. NAUVOO, Ill. — Copies of the oldest known version of the Old Testament went on display here, and there's a 2,000-year-old doomsday cult to thank for it. Your cult may be valuable someday too: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,175014632,00.html : Have you eaten/replicated/stolen/floated any history lately? Is it best on toast/tofu/blood? Does your original/replicated/fabricated history bring a good price on the open market? Are your beetles sacred? D'ya eat them too?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sperm heating could foil HIV. (BBC) Heating sperm could massively reduce the risk of HIV-positive men passing the virus to their children. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_806000/806400.stm # Also - Circumcision cuts HIV risk - and death reduces promiscuity: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_782000/782656.stm # Live HIV vaccine 'is possible' - unlike compassionate conservatism: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_790000/790559.stm # Death doesn't become her or him - Experts predict technology will help reverse aging, replace parts. The consensus was that soon we should all be able to live for a very long time - and possibly even forever - if only we could find a way to replace a clapped-out brain. Well hell, clone it too: http://www.smh.com.au/news/0006/26/world/world11.html : What are the greatest impediments of reaching/enjoying/manipulating immor- tality? How much health/immortality/godhood/happiness can you take? Have you heated any sperm/ova/genes/brains/experts lately? D'ya use a flame thrower? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Beauty is only a light switch away." --anon * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews info & (un)subscribing: http://sonic.net/~ric/vsub.htm * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...

Fatima, Fatima, let down your hair!

Monday, June 26, 2000 07:56 a.m. P.D.T.

SkeptiNews 000626a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/25_06_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 * Several mystical secrets were lost during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A.HOVANESS: www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-a-hovhaness.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Vatican's Fatima details. (AP) The Vatican delivered a surprise revelation recently in the so-called 3rd secret of Fatima, saying the vision foretold the shooting of the pope, and not a doomsday prophecy. The details are due out today. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567636717-eee # PRESENTATION OF TEXT OF THIRD SECRET OF FATIMA. VATICAN CITY (VIS) - This morning in the Holy See Press Office, the document "The Message Of Fatima" was presented. Lookit: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4322 # COMPLETE TRANSLATION. "I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine. http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4323 # PENANCE IS THE KEY TO THE "SECRET." The "key word" of the third secret of Fatima "is the triple cry, 'Penance, Penance, Penance!'" So let's see a whole bunch of guilt: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4324 : Have you revealed/hidden/manipulated/interpreted any revelations lately? What's your favorite mystical secret? Do you number your secrets? Are they easily digitized? Are your deities digital/analog/virtual/ephemeral/muddy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Leader's Tapes with Astrologer Released. PARIS (Reuters) Taped recordings of some of the late French President Francois Mitterrand's consultations with his favorite astrologer were released by her on Saturday. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000626/09/odd-mitterrand-dc @ View your Horoscope: http://www.indiaexpress.com/horsocope/ # A Maharishi follower sued his guru because he never learned how to fly! Maharishi International University promised him he would, the student claimed. Besides, he said, the twice-daily practice of chanting did not reverse the aging process or bring him "the perfect state of life." Jury awarded him $137,890. http://www.nationalenquirer.com/stories/11943.html # Psychic's mission: Bring the world of the dead to life. Litany Burns sees dead people. "And they see me," she says. "I'm the person who gets invited to haunted houses. I talk to dead people ... and they talk back." What do they say? Find out: http://detnews.com/2000/features/0006/22/e07-79323.htm : Have you talked/eaten/fornicated/prayed with the living/dead/other lately? Is your life perfect/forecast/taped/revised/miserable? D'ya seek advise on paranormal matters? D'ya take that advise? Is it expensive/actionable/plain? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The UFO Cover-up. Almost from the moment that Kenneth Arnold made his UFO report in June 1947, we, in the UFO community have been suggesting there was a coverup. Today we have the documentation to prove that there was a secret Air Force investigation of UFOs, that information was concealed by various Air Force and civilian agencies, and that a cover-up, in one form or another existed. http://www.destinationspace.net/ufo/randle/coverup.asp # Firmage-Sagan link - 'Project Voyager' flies - An Integrated Media Network: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m25-005.shtml @ WHAT-IF GAME: "What if..." someone with a lot of money and a serious interest in UFOs decided that he could simply 'buy' any insider infor- mation he wanted to directly from the most well known researchers in the field? http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m26-006.shtml : Have you (un)covered any UFOs lately? If UFO (un)coverups are games, what are the rules? Does your conspiracy have strict protocols to run all phases of your (un)coverup? D'ya have inside information? Does it want to be free? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 250 MARS PHOTOS SHOW SIGNS OF WATER http://www.earthfiles.com/earth153.htm # DRILLING TECHNOLOGY FOR MARS IS IN THE WORKS; drill your own planet today: http://space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_drilling_000623.html # Mars rover prototype tested in Nevada - BLACK ROCK SUMMIT, interplanetary driving school: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567636001-eb5 # Cydonian Imperative - Mars Missions and Extraterrestrial Artifacts: Where We Stand: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m25-003.shtml # Would-be astronaut patiently awaits date with space station - commander without a command: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10020460 # NASA Reveals Emerging Technologies For Astrophysics -- advances in detectors play key role: http://unisci.com/stories/20002/0626001.htm # Scheme Proposed For Nanometer-Size Locomotives - tiny trains to haul coal, mail, inmates in your body: http://unisci.com/stories/20002/0626002.htm : What're y'r favorite (inter)planetary technologies? Have you tested (m)any technologies lately? D'ya routinely drill planets/implants/inmates/ovaries? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Depression, Loneliness, Drinking: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10020912 # Psych Health Improves With Age: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10020913 @ ORIGINS OF PEACE & VIOLENCE - Deprivation of Physical Affection as a Main Cause of Depression, Aggression & Drug Abuse. http://www.violence.de/ # Bleak House: A Case of Nazi-Style Experimental Psychiatry in Canada. "Dr. Barker's program was run by the inmates. The staff observed and approved their decisions." http://www.geocities.com/plasticsmith/index1.html @ "The Truth About Circumcision" This article may be triggering for survivors. http://www.universalway.org/circtruth.html # Cambodian torture rampant, official and unofficial - all fucked: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567643260-69f @ There are huge imbalances in the memory of the West. We joke about the Russian experience in ways we'd never about the Holocaust. Most of us, anyway: http://www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/amis.html : Have you committed much torture/abuse/genocide lately? Has your work been trivialized/sensationalized/ignored by the media?Can mental health be cured? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Advances For Infertile Women.(AP) Scientists have for the first time tran- splanted defrosted human ovarian tissue into a mouse, extracted eggs and made them potentially fertilizable - an advance that could allow women to delay motherhood or safely restore fertility to women with their ovaries removed. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567645738-533 # TEST-TUBE HEAT: Should cancer patients undergo IVF to store frozen embryos and later have kids? Why shouldn't embryos be cloned to produce 2 embryos and artificial twins? Why are lesbians often excluded from IVF treatment? What's wrong with a gal having a child from sperm taken from her dead partner? http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/mwc-cia062300.html # New womb surgery technique: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10020857 # Scientists crack human code. (BBC) Scientists announce they have completed the first draft of the entire genetic code of human beings. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_805000/805803.stm # Science or drama? http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37206,00.html : What's your favorite reproductive technology? Have you sculpted/molded/set any humans lately? D'ya prefer to sculpt males/females/genes/eggs/aliens/me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Don't trust anything that bleeds for 5 days and doesn't die." --anon * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews info & (un)subscribing: http://sonic.net/~ric/vsub.htm * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...