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Thursday, June 29, 2000 03:17 p.m. P.D.T.

SkeptiNews 000629c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/28_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? * The Thought Leader's words overflow here:: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No Laotian royals were reinstated during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Maxims: http://user.tninet.se/~dfr732s/show-off.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Into the Triangle and Beyond - Flying Triangles & their secret & stealthy counterparts, developed especially by the US military since WWII -- and a 16th century Spanish account of Cortez's expeditionary force observing "a strange pyramid of light" prior to their landing in Mexico. Area51 is old, old, old, old... http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/jj_itb.htm @ RING THEORY. The ring is a electric motor that produces a voltage, deter- mined by the windings of the coils and rpm of the core/ring. The ring has some unusal advantages to its behavior first the spinning mass produces a stabilizing effect. That's cool because now we have a stable power supply. satalites can be powered & stable. Never pay another electric bill because the electric company is paying you. Or a electric car without batteries to charge hell you could power your house with your car. It gets better never plug anything into the wall imagine everything you buy with a wonder power supply built in. Zowie: http://www8.50megs.com/terryhewett/ringtheory.html : Have you been absorbing/fermenting/discharging power for a long long time? Does free energy propel your flying triangle/saucer/quadruped/teacup/squid? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Priest's killer invited to Vatican - shoot a few more liberals: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567737199-c22 # Scientology case judge faces probe - fraud with lost evidence? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567737367-716 @ Is it the real Jesus or is it Memorex? Peter Jennings' search for Christ: http://www.beliefnet.com/story/30/story_3053_1.html # Orthodox flock to relic in Ukraine - saint's head is on display: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567738208-be3 # Court bars Hell's Angels tombstone - epitaph sacrilegious, scary: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567738059-764 # Man charged with stealing urn from President Harrison's grave: http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/06/27/bc.gravethefts.ap/index.html : Is religious ritual always a grave experience? Should epitaphs scare the hell out of everyone? Should your head be displayed? Should the Pope's? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SexaRama: # Do I know you? Socially inept rodents give a clearer picture of how "love hormone" shapes our relationships www.newscientist.com/news/news_224531.html # Naked ballers busted: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000629/11/odd-nude-dc # Vermont preps for 'gay' unions - Some clerks open offices at midnight Saturday for 'people in love' http://timesargus.nybor.com/Story/9335.html # City had 'duty' to stop 'gay' ads - Judge calls hope-for-homosexuals cam- paign 'hate speech' http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/A0011944.html # SOME WON'T LOVE, HONOR OR OBEY VERMONT LAW ON SAME SEX MARRIAGES. Susan Fortunati has no intention of complying with a new state law that requires all 247 town clerks across Vermont to issue civil union licenses to same- sex couples. So lock up the scofflaw: http://chblue.com/Article.asp?ID=381 # Testosterone/cancer? http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/mwc-ita062300.html # WONDER PILL LETS WOMEN CONCEIVE AT SIXTY - just what every woman wants, eh? http://www.lineone.net/express/00/06/29/news/n0100splash-d.html @ Oprah Winfrey has achieved a kind of perfection, slinging truths, half- truths & outright nonsense to flatter America with its favorite fallacies. http://www.weeklystandard.com/magazine/mag_5_40_00/skinner_feat_5_40_00.html # Relatively Few Watch Penile Implant Webcast - occupied with Oprah: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000629/10/odd-implant-dc _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New dementia guidelines: http://uchospitals.edu/news/Dement.html # Mental illness 'diagnosed too quickly' (BBC) The mentally ill may be receiving inadequate treatment because of 'quick' diagnoses!!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_809000/809681.stm @ ELECTRONIC MIND CONTROL: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/electronic.htm # Davidian denies sect fired 1st - Survivor testifies: 'There was no plan to commit suicide' http://dallasnews.com/waco/103542_waco_29tex.ART.html # WARNING SIGNS OF TEEN SUICIDE - know the warning signs & be on the alert: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=36568&src=n2 # NO DRUG TESTS FOR LOUISIANA POLITICIANS, NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY DESERVE TESTING: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567737048-729 # Flush School Drugs: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000629/10/odd-toilets-dc # LET LOGIC WIN OVER FEAR: FLYING IS REALLY SAFER THAN DRIVING. Ya, sure. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=36976 : Are you demented/controlled/immolated/suicidal/drugged/tested/afraid? Why? Is your mindcontrol wearing off? Are you starting to think for y'rself? D'ya think you'd like some drugs/booze/matches/guns? Will you share them with us? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Conspiracies-R-Us: # Fire Roars at Nuke Range. RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) - A huge wildfire roaring across the Hanford nuclear reservation burned out of control within miles of areas contaminated by radioactivity. Supposedly started by a fatal car wreck: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567740468-4b5 : First, Los Alamos, now Hanford -- who's torching US nuke sites? Why? What are they trying to destroy/hide/divert/illuminate? Who has what to gain?How? # Lyndon LaRouche For President? www.feedmag.com/daily/dy062600_master.html # Anti-Hate-Crime Legislation: http://feedmag.com/daily/dy062200_master.html # Network Storm - UnBrainWash: http://mediaguru.org/video-netwk%20storm.html : Have you brainwashed anyone lately? Do they love/hate/disregard you? Why? Who d'ya love to hate? Who d'ya hate to love? Who can wash your brain now? # Trade Treaties Help Prevent Wars - trade agreements between countries may make military conflicts less likely. Countries belonging to the same pref- erential trade arrangements with each other are 30% to 45% less likely to become involved in military disputes than countries that don't share such agreements. http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/osu-tah062900.html # World Bank, IMF blamed for poverty - NGOs outraged by UN suckup: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567715504-b18 # West Bank water taps drying up - Palestine drought presages war: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567713391-0ae : Has y'r conspiracy prevented/provoked (m)any trade/ethnic/ideological wars lately? Should/can/do you stir up more trouble over water, trade, religion, sport, music, sex? If you & your opponents own each other, is war worthless? # Exiled Laotian royals visit US - conspiring to overthrow Commies: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567716109-f50 @ Do We Believe In Conspiracies? "The Top/Down Conspiracy is the "figure" to the "ground" of the Bottom/Up Conspiracy Effects" Sure, of course: http://www.mediaguru.org/video_copy(1).html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Click... click... click... click... click..." * 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...

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Thursday, June 29, 2000 11:30 a.m. P.D.T.

SkeptiNews 000629b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/28_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? * All the latest notices/gripes/humiliations: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * Few secure systems were penetrated during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Feeling Spaced-Out! No-one has yet unearthed the remains of ancient flying machines but evidence of their existence is well documented in historical texts, illustrated on wall paintings, rock carvings, and even as miniature models dating to far antiquity. Extraordinary descriptions of human flight extend back some 4000 years: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/jj_fso.htm # Taking On The Aliens: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/u/200006280012.cfm # Chupacabras Documentary: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/chupavid.htm # The Politics of UFOs? http://www.alienzoo.com/features/b/200006140001.cfm # COW ABDUCTION, MUTILATION: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000628/odd-1 @ Alien Abduction. DO ET'S EVER CURB THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS THEY ABDUCT FROM PLANET'S? IF SO, WHY? REPLY:...YES!!! The Aliens ("Fallen Angels") will curb the number of Individuals they ("Fallen Angels") Abduct for but a short period of time! http://www.intercom.net/user/davids/abduct-a.html : Have'ya participated in (m)any abductions/mutilations/implantations/orgies lately? Were the processes documented? What other evidence is there? Do the voices in your head force you to ignore/manufacture/destroy/lose evidence? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Evidence of 'Big Bang' Gas Found at Galactic Center. Call it a gentle rain from near the beginning of time. A gargantuan deuterium gas cloud: http://space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/deuterium_galactic_000628.html # 'Invisible' galaxies, distorted arcs and galactic rings revealed by first images from INGRID: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/ingt-igd062900.html # ECLIPSE. On July 1, a partial solar eclipse will be visible from South America and the southern Pacific Ocean. http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/ # Interstellar Lighthouses: http://alienzoo.com/features/j/200006280002.cfm # NASA, Mars, And Disclosure: http://www.sightings.com/general2/nasaex.htm # Great Moon Hoax: http://surfingtheapocalypse.com/space.html#moonhoax1835 # OMAN ROCK IS MARS METEORITE http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_met24.htm # FETCHING OZ'S GUYRA METEORITE http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_myst5.htm # Oregon tribes agree to share their sacred meteorite with NYC museum: http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/22/meteoritedeal.ap/index.html : Are your more excited by gargantuan gas clouds; invisible/distorted/fried galaxies; uncovered hoaxes; sacred meteorites? Would you share your sacred meteorites/galaxies/lighthouses/hoaxes with anyone? Would you demand sex? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tombs of Egyptian Priests to Be Opened to Public. GIZA, Egypt (Reuters) Three tombs sealed about 4,500 years ago and discovered in the 1930s will be opened to the public for the first time within a few weeks. Terrible truths? http://news.excite.com/news/r/000629/04/science-egypt-tombs-dc # Barak OKs Temple Mount digging - archaeologists, politicos protest: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567716083-5df # Skeletons Of Giants Found In Midwest Mounds - eight-foot-tall Indians? Get the measuring tape: http://www.sightings.com/general2/giants.htm @ SPHINX TEMPLE. The Riddle Of The Sphinx - Recent Sphinx Field Research - Atlantis: History Of Golden Ages - Accessible Remains of Atlantis - The Incredible Dogon Knowledge - Archaeological Developments At Giza, Egypt - Subterranean Tunnels & the Hollow Earth - The Yonaguni Site - The Bimini Stones - Gods in Rocks - Mayan Civilization - Mysteries of The Mayans - The Mayan Legacy - Clues to Maya Mysteries - Thomas Lee - The "Burdick Print" -- http://sphinxtemple.virtualave.net/articles/articles.html : Are you more excited by Sphinx/Pyramid stuff; Atlantis stuff; Dogon stuff; Yonaguni stuff; Bimini [& Scott Stones] stuff; Mayan/Indian stuff; Jerusalem stuff; other stuff? Do you have more stuff than you know what to do with?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CONSUMERS FIGHT BACK FOR PRIVACY: as technology advances, privacy recedes. Bummer: http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/28/anonymous.consumers.idg/ @ Everyone's phone number in the USA, and email: http://www.four11.com/ @ Worldwide: http://zdnet.com/yil/content/surfschool/guru/guru000628.html # Collecting your data in secret http://cosmiverse.com/paranormal062901.html # UK looks to eavesdrop on Net - Analysts say it sets precedent for global standard of wiretapping http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cti161.htm # Big Brother on the Net: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal062902.html $ Freedom Library: http://www.dxmarket.com/worldnetdaily/products/C0001.html # Migration to Mars? Mars could do Earth a big favor. Which is, to serve as a habitable dumping ground for all forms of human garbage -mostly politi- cians. "Houston, requesting permission to jettison politicians, do we have a green light?" Bombs away http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/200006280004.cfm : How much privacy can you tolerate/afford/require? Is y'r privacy likely to be compromised by govt, business, churches, aliens, robots, me? Who controls the evesdroppers? If they're sent to Mars, will the Martians send them back? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Intel flogs new computer chip - Pentium 4 is 50% faster, "clock speed" of 1.5 GHz: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567716880-8e0 # P4 Warning: graphics intensive: www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11678.html # IBM unveils new supercomputer.(AP) IBM announced the most powerful box ever - 12.3 trillion operations per second - simulates testing of nuclear weapons: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567718649-e1d # IBM Bombs Right Along: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11661.html # The world’s smallest Web server is the size of a matchbox & has the power of a desktop PC. Within a few years, you may carry one in your pocket. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/CuttingEdge/cuttingedge000623.html # These Boots Were Made for Talking. The inventor of windup radio is field testing a pair of boots that charge a cellphone from the energy generated by walking. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37276,00.html : When will microscopic super-duper-computers be woven into a network within your brain/skin/guts/soul? Do you look forward to being totally wired with hope/fear/resignation/numbness? How fast d'ya need to compute/recharge/cum?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Software Bugs Chew Through MS IE, Outlook. Microsoft runs scared over bugs that could open the door to "Love" bug-grade security scenarios. Doomed: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2167152.html?tag=st.ne.ron.lthd.ni # PHILIPPINE COPS CHARGE 'LOVE BUG' COMPUTER VIRUS SUSPECT - gotcha, weasel: http://www.CNN.com/2000/ASIANOW/southeast/06/29/philippines.lovebug.01.ap/ # Outages Strike Yahoo Services - Yahoo was hit with service interruptions today, with people complaining they were locked out of multiple areas. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2162697.html?tag=st.ne.ron.lthd.ni # Inept crackers stung by intended 'victim' - Whacked by honey pot sting - That'll learn ya: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11602.html # FIRE RAGES AT NUCLEAR SITE: http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/06/29/hanford.fire/ # Kohl wiped computer files: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10038932 # NSA memos suggest ECHELON exists - Not quite a smoking gun, but close enough - surprised? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11630.html : Have'ya penetrated any software/hardware/political/nuclear systems lately? Are your systems vulnerable to penetration? Are all systems? Do all systems operate in failure mode, kept afloat only by Herculean efforts of heroes?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ * 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...

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Thursday, June 29, 2000 07:40 a.m. P.D.T.

SkeptiNews 000629a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/28_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 skeptics were irradiated during production of this bulletin. I hope. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ THE MODIFIED LIBRARIAN: http://www.bmeworld.com/gailcat/ [for Treighsea] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Irish Press On France's COMETA UFO Report. UFOs, once the preserve of the purely paranoid, are now being taken seriously. Astronauts, Generals and a number of influential scientists are hammering away at the crust of international skepticism. http://www.independent.ie/2000/178/d14c.shtml # Amazing '3-Dimensional' Crop Circles Appear In England - lawnmowers work overtime: http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2000/june2000.html # AZTEC SONGS AND POETRY FOR ALIEN VISITORS - all together now: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/forbidden.html#aztecaliensongs # THE LEGENDARY SOUNDS OF HELL - AS FEATURED ON THE ART BELL SHOW: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/unexplained.html#hellsounds @ Sleep Paralysis Vs Abduction. It's often said that "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," but if you are alleging that thousands, or even millions, of people are physically abducted from their homes repeatedly, are you sure it isn't? www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m29-001.shtml : What is evidence? What is proof?What is convincing? How much skepticism is too much? What is (un)knowable, (un)provable, (un)fathomable? What patterns d'ya perceive that are(n't) there? Which senses/instruments/tales to trust? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists Urge Caution In Mars Water View. While water MAY be responsible for the striking gully-like features seen in recent pictures from the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, there are other explanations. Spoilsports: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/water_caution_000629.html # Mars 2001 Lander Might Yet Fly: www.spacedaily.com/news/mars2001-00a.html # NASA: 2 for 2003: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-general-00h.html # Mars Camp Gets Underway in Arctic: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10034867 # SETTING SAIL FOR THE STARS - latest developments in solar sail technology. The Interstellar Probe mission could journey beyond the edge of the solar system by 2018. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast28jun_1m.htm # Versace may redesign Russian cosmonauts' uniforms - NASA consulting with Karl Lagerfeld, Kostas Murkudis: http://www.cnn.com/2000/STYLE/ELLE/06/26/ : When preparing for interplanetary missions, are you mostly concerned about logistics, intelligence, entertainment, practice,fashion, propulsion,sanity, alien intervention, political manipulation, commercial exploitation? Why?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CyberDome in Kansas. Visitors to the new Boeing CyberDome Theater opening today in Wichita KS can travel from Earth to Mars, working collectively to deter the craft from crashing. If they make it safely to the ground, they can then roam about Mars, seeing its sights. Or, they can voyage through a human body. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10034869 # '98 Russian Imagery Of Area 51 Available - Barewalls.com Unveils Elusive 'Area 51' Collection. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Kept under wraps for the last two years, aerial imagery of Nevada's notorious "Area 51" is now available to the public. http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m29-004.shtml # NEW IMAGES - FAST SERVER. Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) - Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)-- http://www.marsdaily.com/spacedaily-image-server.html # New Wave Of Colour Video: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10033963 : Have you flown any virtual-reality missions to Mars/Area51/Luna/Graceland lately? Did you encounter Reptilioids/Elvis/R2D2/RuPaul/me? D'ya prefer real /virtual/divine/gritty imagery? What's your favorite image? Does it flicker? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AFTER DARWIN: "Nature? Nurture? Neither?" Is it time to retire the age-old debate about biodeterminism? A more-nuanced look at our genes, how we're reared, what makes us tick - moving away from the ideologically charged center of the argument. http://www.feedmag.com/feature/fr352_master.html # SKEPTICS ATTACK GENOME WORK: http://cosmiverse.com/paranormal062801.html # DNA Vaccine Zaps Measles: http://unisci.com/stories/20002/0629001.htm # Transgenic Lamb Clones Could Herald New Transplant Techniques - chimerae for human immortality? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10037373 # Major advance in altering sheep DNA.(AP) - Scientists have developed a way to alter genes in sheep & insert new ones with unprecedented precision, a step toward creating healthier livestock and using animals as organ banks. Holy Grail: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567714681-23a : Have you gone transgenic/transgender/transdimensional lately? What's your favorite genus/gender/game/goddess? Would you rather interbreed with sheep the old-fashioned natural way; by genetic manipulation in the lab; mentally? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # France's Cogema To Take Greenpeace To Court. French nuclear fuels group Cogema has filed a lawsuit against Greenpeace for allegedly damaging its property while filming radioactive discharges from the French coast. You wanks: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000628/15/net-nuclear-greenpeace-dc # GREENPEACE: Live Webcam Of Radioactive Dumping Into The Sea - France's Nuclear Discharge Pipe: http://www.greenpeace.org/~nuclear/ospar2000/ # Particulates Kill www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567716671-ab4 # DISEASES PREVENTABLE: http://cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/06/28/uk.disasters/ # Food unfilling for fatties: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10037335 # Smoking Sickens: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567714854-cb9 # E.coli - death grip on guts: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10037336 : Have you exposed/suppressed/manipulated any medical/environmental/mental devastation lately? What's your favorite preventable ailment? Does your gang of plotters work hard to exacerbate the effects? Are you well paid? By whom? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Davidians testify about conditions. WACO, Texas (AP) - Branch Davidians believed sect leader David Koresh was a manifestation of "God, made flesh," and if God asked someone do to something,it would not be considered a sin, a survivor of the 1993 siege testified. "We gave ourselves, totally, to God." http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567719979-7f6 # Education of a Holy Warrior. In a Pakistani religious school called the Haqqania madrasa, Osama bin Laden is a hero, Taliban leaders are famous alums and the next generation of mujahedeen is being militantly groomed. http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000625mag-taliban.html # SHIP WITH 270 REFUGEES FLEEING RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE SINKS IN EASTERN INDON- ESIA. http://CNN.com/2000/ASIANOW/southeast/06/29/indonesia.sinking.01.ap/ # TEXAS ARCHBISHOP FREED: http://www.CNN.com/2000/US/06/29/archbishop.freed/ : Has y'r belief system indoctrinated you carefully/sloppily/virtually? D'ya accept responsibility for the consequences of everything your belief system perpetrates? Are y'r leaders deities incarnate; ascended masters; hucksters? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If it wasn't for bad vibes, I wouldn't have no vibes at all." * 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...