SkeptiNews

Tuesday, March 28, 2000 10:25 p.m. P.S.T.

SkeptiNews 000328c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterweek's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/17_03_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * NEW path to notices, excuses, sightings etc: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No alien-loving race-car drivers were harmed to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ WarBot: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/chile/air/show/20000327/stg06d _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # By jamming people into tall buildings in a small area and by using high- tech foods and fuel, large cities leave most of the earth free for green, wooded wilderness: http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_how_cities.html # Getting set to spruce up space station: http://msnbc.com/news/387466.asp # Vomit Comet: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000328084813.htm : Have you jammed many people into small spaces lately? Do they tend to go insane? D'ya need to run your mindcontrol-beams full-blast to keep'em docile enough? Would you like to shove people into space stations? Tight fit, eh? # Life's Origins Possible In Volcanic Gases. New calculations show how life might have arisen on Earth, Mars and other celestial bodies from volcanic gases. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000328085015.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # U.S. births rose 2% in 1998 - first increase since 1990 - screwing like weasels: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565264635-f2c # Polish leader vetoes anti-porn bill - stiffs conservatives and religious fanatics: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565246387-235 # Are genes for blue eyes a winning smile the next direct-mail must-have? Really? http://www.publishersweekly.com/articles/20000306_85142.asp # A Nude Dr. Laura to Star Again on clublove.com; Seth Warshavsky Revives Sexy 'Dirty Dozen' Photos To Support Gay Rights Protesters: http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000328/wa-ieg-clublove.com : Have you redirected your sexual/reproductive activity lately? Did you do so willingly, or under compulsion? Have you ordered any new genes lately? Do you exercise great caution when selecting genes, or will just anybody's do? @ He teaches the work of Foucault & Judith Butler. He thinks of himself as tolerant, liberal, progressive. But is he prepared to shop with his son for fishnet stockings? http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i29/29b00401.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Grim evidence of worst cult slaughter - Up to 1,000 followers feared dead as more graves found in Uganda - in preparation for the end of the world: http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,153423,00.html # Suicide Cult Bosses 'Escaped With Loot.' The leaders of a Ugandan doomsday cult probably escaped with a hoard of cash and valuables after instigating the mass murder of hundreds of devotees. This is a traditional practice of organized religion: http://www.smh.com.au/news/0003/27/text/world15.html @ Photos Showing Some of the Primary Cult Leaders: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/uganda/cult/deaths/20000321/kam101 http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/uganda/cult/deaths/20000321/kam102 @ Other Cult Massacre Photos: http://news.excite.com/photo/location/uga : When the end of the world is at hand, would you rather give all your valu- ables to priests, politicos, pundits, aliens, robots, me? Have you obtained much of value from your followers yet? Have you brainwashed them enough?? # AIDS, poverty, Uganda's Roman Catholic church blamed for rise in cults: The usual suspects. http://www.herald.com/content/tue/digdocs/090777.htm # Cults, some deadly, flourish in Africa - Some governments fear groups will challenge their authority: http://www.msnbc.com/news/386327.asp?cp1=1 # Bury me in fire: http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20000328tony.asp _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Millions of Web-Surfing Christians See Pope Live In First-Ever Visit to the Holy Land. NetPilgrims: http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000324/xosoft # Penitent pope wins hearts, minds among Jews throughout Israel - speeches not translated into Arabic: www.deseretnews.com/dn/rne/0,1565,1,00.html # RAEL: The World's Fastest Religious Leader Will Race For The First Time In Charlotte NC: http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000327/nc-rael-religion-fast # If Your Computer Tells You to Get a Chicken & a Knife, It May Be the Work of.. SATAN!!! http://www.sltrib.com/2000/mar/03252000/religion/36015.htm : Do you prefer the leaders of your belief system to be televised, Webbed, invisible? Should they be speeding down racetracks; slow-moving with stately grace; slithering, levitating, hiding? What encourages y'r personal beliefs? # Holier-than-thou Reggie White's coke-hound pal is jail-bound. The gay- hating football "great" will now be ministering in jail to his "best friend," a reverend who peddled cocaine and illegally possessed guns. The pal will stew in jail for a decade. PLUS: Who torched Reggie's church? Hmmmm. http://www.jsonline.com/news/nat/mar00/knox28032700.asp [ via http://www.obscurestore.com/ ] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Religion in China 'weak, growing'. (AP) Religious persecution in China is the exception, not the rule, sez the leader of a govt-approved church org- anization. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565248392-0fb # Group Claims China Arrested 21,000. (AP) Before the well-known roundup of Falun Gong sect members began last year, Chinese cops had already arrested 21,000 people in a two-year campaign against superstitious activities, sez Amnesty Int'l: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000323/10/int-china-sects : D'ya enjoy watching the action when political/religious/economic/artistic belief systems wage war on each other? Who do you root for? Can you tell the players without a program? Does your conspiracy interfere in the play? How? # Bless The Bikers: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,155012928,00.html # Holy KidProp Boom: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,155012378,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Conspiracies'R'Us: # Belgrade plot to kill NATO chiefs - CIA feared Serbs would launch SAMs: http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/03/28/timfgneur01005.html # Albright to visit Central Asia - US to annex Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565263567-79f # Pakistan council KOs death sentence - dismemberment violates tenets of Islam: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565242471-ae7 # Measles kills 900 in Afghanistan - Taliban blames "Western devils" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565263616-b45 # Principles of Islamic Investing - Dow Jones course applies Islamic law to business: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,155013328,00.html # Cisco surpasses Microsoft in value - Gates vows revenge "beyond grave" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565263026-15b # Iranian newspaper prints US flag - mullahs vow revenge "beyond grave" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565261399-d66 # Branch Davidians' Lawyers Question Reno About Waco - think she's lying: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000328/ts/crime_davidians_1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "I didn't do it, and I promise never to do it again, ever." * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skeptilog.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...

Tuesday, March 28, 2000 03:39 p.m. P.S.T.

SkeptiNews 000328b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterweek's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/17_03_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * NEW path to notices, excuses, sightings etc: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No defrocked RC priests were ritually tortured to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Visualize World Keanu! http://www.empirenet.com/~rdaeley/skc/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Space symphony: We are the worlds - Natural emissions cause Earth, planets to sing like canaries - any louder, and we'd all be deafened. Huh? Whadja say? Eh? http://space.com/science/planetearth/space_symphony_000323.html # Also - Listening to the Music of a Sphere: http://space.com/science/solarsystem/sounds_solarsystem_000131.html # Dynamics of Earth's Core Reveal Hurricanes Under Your Feet: http://space.com/science/planetearth/core_cyclones_991110.html : Have you heard any/many/all planet[oid]s lately? Do you prefer celestial body that sing, chant, grunt, flash, wiggle, burp, fart, meditate? Is your home planet[oid] artistic, musical, dormant? Does this affect your attitude? # Image Probe In Orbit, Ready To See The Invisible. Instruments on the IMAGE spacecraft will provide never-before-seen global images of Earth’s magnet- osphere – an area of space around our planet that is controlled by Earth's mag.field. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000328085849.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Canada: The Great Hacking North? A US intelligence agency has found that up to 80% of foreign attacks on US computers either originate or pass thru Canada. This follows suspicions that some recent hacker attacks were routed through Canadian computers. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/nb/nb5.htm # Is the US stealing trade secrets from the EU? Are EU secrets worth theft? http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/03/27/industrial.theft/index.html # FBI:CyberCrimeWave! www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2486464,00.html # Melissa @ 1: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2474610,00.html : Have you hacked internationally lately? D'ya use cybertools for good/evil/ profit? When the world is totally cybernetized, will we all be susceptible to evil hacking? What nations/people/tools would you most like to hack? Why? # Giving computers a sense of touch - virtual tools doing our dirty work: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:COMP12/1:COMP120326100.html # SMARTER, SHARPER KNIVES - 'Smart scalpel' spots cancer cells (BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_686000/686892.stm @ Relax, Alexander-style: http://www.alexandertechnique.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Alarmist London cops warn banks to watch for "cyberterrorists." LOOK OUT! There's a Cyberterrorist about! London police are warning banks to beware of cyber terrorists when recruiting staff. Anarchist sympathisers may try to infiltrate companies & sabotage computer systems to help the anti-City protests expected in May: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000328-000016.html # 1,000 Biotech Foes Protest in Boston - "Our genes are not for sale!" Oh, yes they are... http://www.azstarnet.com/public/dnews/000327iBiotech.html # AntiBiotech Protest Draws Thousands: http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos04336.html # A16's General Advice for Protesters: http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos04334.html : Have you infiltrated a financial/biotech/internet/marketing firm lately? Should/can/will you subvert capitalism from the inside? Is capitalism bigger /stronger/smarter/better than you? Can anarchy ever beat organized greed?? # GeneMap Only BabyStep: www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34857,00.html @ GENETICS REVOLUTION: http://www.time.com/time/daily/special/genetics/ @ Temporary Autonomous Zone: http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/taz.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cult deaths reach 700, more bodies found.(CBC) Another mass grave has been discovered at the home of an excommunicated Catholic priest, and doomsday cult leader, in Uganda. Police are also working at three more sites used by the Christian Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments. They are expecting to uncover more mass graves. Mass murder, not suicides: http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2000/03/28/ugandacult000328 # MASS GRAVES- CATHOLIC SECT: http://cbc.ca/cp/world/000328/w032880.html # More bodies from doomsday sect - Searchers stunned by overpowering stench: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Africa/2000-03/stench280300.shtml : What's your favorite doomsday cult? Have you organized any mass murders lately? D'ya prefer strangulation, poisoning, burning-at-stakes, breaking- on-wheels, impalement, fat-ingestion? Do McFooders burn better than Vegans? If Decalogues are posted in schools, will more school mass-murders result? @ MetaLogos: http://www.etext.org/Religious.Texts/Metagospels/ @ Enochian Rituals: http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/enochrit.txt @ Magick in Theory and Practice: www.sacred-texts.com/pag/mtp.txt _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Be an Irish Catholic Priest.com - (Wired) The talent pool for Irish Catholic priests is dwindling, and church leaders are looking for a solution. What to do? Why, put the word out on the Web, of course. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,35230,00.html # The Pope's Carefully Crafted Holy Land Tour - Pilgrimage for Fun And Prophet: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,41876,00.html # Lord's Prayer row in Canada - group wants ban enforced at public meetings: http://jpost.com/Editions/2000/03/27/JewishWorld/JewishWorld.4651.html # Lutherans rally to resist alliance - "We don't want to be Episcopals!" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565236868-0e3 : Have you subverted any belief systems lately? Should all belief systems be deliberately destabilized/undermined, or left to mutate/rot on their own? Do you promote y'r own belief system by undermining others? Have you prevailed? @ Window On The Armenian Church: http://www.sain.org/window/ @ Virtual Ani [Ancient Armenia]: http://www.virtualani.freeserve.co.uk/ @ Ancient Scripts of the World: http://rabbitmoon.home.mindspring.com/asw/ [ via http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Lindsay/weblog/latest.html ] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE TRANS-MAMMAL LOVE CONNECTION. Hey Ladies!!! Tired of looking for the right man? Think the entire male species leaves something to be desired? You may be more right than you know. Men are pigs, you know this, we know this, so why waste time with pigs... when you could be having a ball with the dolphins! Glub glub: http://www.brunching.com/cheap/cheap-mammal.html # 'Ally' McBanned in Singapore - govt nixes McBeal episode of women kissing: www.marketwatch.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Con7Q0dictwnczwfSqMfUBMvK&FQ $ Meet Someone Online Today! Get Fucked! http://one-and-only.com/index.htm @ Porn or Pony? Testing: http://www.brunching.com/toys/toy-pornorpony.html : D'ya have/want/need a good man/woman/dolphin/dog/alien/robot/fantasy? D'ya yearn for someone/thing perfect/better/adequate? Did implants/rays/fat alter your life-partnership goals? Have you fished for love lately? Netted anyone? @ Sex and Schopenhauer: why are so many people so sadly unlucky in love? Because, alas, happiness was never part of the plan. Calculating joy: www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000166941319210&pg=/et/00/3/25/tlepic25.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "I will not torment the emotionally frail." --Bart Simpson * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skeptilog.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...

Tuesday, March 28, 2000 08:47 a.m. P.S.T.

SkeptiNews 000328a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterweek's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/17_03_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Entry to notices, excuses, sightings, stuff: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No Reptilioid skateboarders were sexually used to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Hell 4 Skateboarders: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/adventure/mar2k/M2K32.JPG _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # My Sasquatch/UFO Hunt: HOT EMF BEAMED INTO OUR HEADS! CRASHED UFO! COYOTE CORPSES! YOLLA BOLLY YETI! NO UFOs! NARROW ESCAPES! TROUBLE! UFO! BIGFOOT! ET TRACKS! HYDROIDS! CHEMTRAILS! WITCH! PETROGLYPHS! ALIEN FACE! FEY MINE! GUNNERS! SASQUATCH! BIRDS ATTACK! ALIENS ABDUCT! And I got most of it on videotape! Proof: http://web.pitas.com/skepticon/27_03_2000.html#000327a # Hovering Triangle Outside Las Vegas, NV: http://caus.org/ft032800.htm # Small Delta-Shaped UFO in Rochester, NY: http://caus.org/mu032700.htm # Spherical Orange UFOs in Australia:: http://www.caus.org/mu032300.htm : How many sightings/encounters/intrusions can you pack into a few days? How many are enough? D'ya prefer paranormal experiences in retail/wholesale/vast quantities? Is quantity more vital than quality? What's y'r best abduction?? # New Roswell Eyewitness To Crash Scene And ET Ship Comes Forward! Testifying before death: http://www.sightings.com/general/rewros.htm # New Mexico - The UFO State: http://www.sightings.com/general/newmex.htm @ Roswell Wallpaper: http://wallpaper.worldprints.com/startpage?sid=5009 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ We've all seen born-agains of the overboard variety who display extreme obsession with demons... but <http://www.demonbuster.com/> this guy is a shade beyond the garden-variety hellfire-and-brimstone wacko. Warning the flock to not celebrate <http://demonbuster.com/halloween.html> Halloween is commonplace... but <http://www.demonbuster.com/easter.html> Easter is evil, too? This guy sees his demons everywhere... in paisley print fabric, <www.demonbuster.com/paisley.html> in <http://demonbuster.com/sports.html> "extreme" sports, and in <http://www.demonbuster.com/idols.html> Lucky Charms marshmallow cereal, among a great many other things. There seems to be nothing that he doesn't consider demonic...even Christmas is supposed to be <http://www.demonbuster.com/christmas.html> evil (can't argue with that one.) And of course the <http://www.demonbuster.com/fatdemon.html> anti-perspirant demon. Get demonic at: http://memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/ : What's your favorite obsession? Are you possessed by demons? D'ya possess demons, humans, aliens, robots, me? What's the difference between possession & inspiration & channeling? Is born-again-ism a form of demonic possession?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Gravity research gets off the ground. (BBC) A leading UK firm is challen- ging what we thought were fundamental laws of physics. The military wing of the hi-tech group BAe Systems, formerly British Aerospace, confirms it has launched an anti-gravity research programme. Production of Cavorite soon? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_692000/692968.stm @ links: Electrogravity: http://www.electrogravity.com/ @ Breakthrough Propulsion: http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/ @ Project Greenglow: http://www.greenglow.co.uk/ : What's your favorite antigravity device/process/meditation? Have you levi- tated lately? Were fighters scrambled to intercept you? Did you evade them? @ Gravity: http://etronica.com/xweb.exe/etronica/search.html?query=Gravity # Serious Progress Hinted In Secret British Anti-Gravity Projects: http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,151331,00.html # Britain's 1950's 'Flying Saucer' Stealth Craft Revealed - RAF's UFO: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/03/26/stinwenws02024.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Secrets Of The Giza Plateau Revealed. Canadian and Swansea (Wales UK) researchers affiliated to the Ambilac Corporation (To Search for the truth) have combined resources to analyse and interpret the ultimate meaning of the Giza Plateau Pyramid complex Near Cairo Egypt. Using data from Genesis and Exodus, combined with archaeoastronomical data, crucial evidence has been discovered as to the true purpose and meaning of the complete physical layout of the Pyramid Complex on the Giza Plateau Egypt. The findings offer an incredible and profound re-interpretation as to our very origins both on and off this planet earth, findings that not only show our true heritage as homo sapiens, but to the very make up of our solar system and beyond. http://www.sightings.com/general/secretsg.htm : Have you decoded any ancient secrets/puzzles/paradoxi lately? Have your evidence/analysis been verified by independent researchers? Are'ya inspired? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Nasa braces for impact. (BBC) A damning report on the way Nasa has managed its missions to Mars will be published on Tuesday. Will heads roll? Sure. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_693000/693033.stm # Also: Nasa rejects 'cold firing' claims - "We boiled'em first" http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_687000/687283.stm # Nasa 'knew Mars mission would fail' - gluttons for punishment? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_686000/686224.stm # Nasa's disastrous year - sabotaged by Reptilioids or Communists? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_686000/686674.stm : Has your space program been disabled by your opponents? Are they internal, external, human, alien, robotic, divine/demonic? Have you worked to disable any space programs? Are your masters pleased with your work? Do they stroke? # Japanese Space Program Stuck on Launch Pad: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000327/10/science-space-japan # Space Station Warranty To Expire: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000326/12/exp-expired-space-station _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CULTURAL COLD WAR: [via http://artsjournal.com/] A new book documents the CIA's "promotion of a non-Communist left" through lavish post-war funding of American intellectuals and artists. "The most disturbing revelations... are not so much what the CIA did as whom it persuaded-openly or under cov- er-to do the dirty work of propaganda." The roster includes some decidedly unusual suspects: Stephen Spender, Mark Rothko, Mary McCarthy, Dizzy Gill- espie, Robert Lowell, Peter Matthiessen, and many others. "Such people were foot soldiers in a cultural cold war. For two decades they accepted grants, travel stipends, and commissions from a wide variety of CIA front organizations designed to win the hearts and minds of intellectuals tempted by 'neutralism.'" http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i30/30a01901.htm : Have you bought/sold/rented/corrupted any intellectuals lately? Are they like rilly rilly easy to 'fix?' Are you an intellectual? Have you been fixed lately? What conspiracy owns you? Are you a willing co-conspirator? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Is that a UFO in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skeptilog.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...