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@ Atlantis http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/germany/clock/20000329/dus101
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### C.A.U.S. COURT CASE DISMISSED -- NO D.O.D. COVERUP -- DETAILS SOON ###

@ Can You See What I See? http://www.caus.org/pn033000.htm
@ Try: http://web.pitas.com/skepticon/27_03_2000.html#000327a
# SASQUATCH A DIFFERENT SPECIES: http://www.earthfiles.com/earth122.htm

# Agony in the garden - A Santa Rosa, California diocese recovers from a
  sex-abuse scandal, and finds that healing comes through facing the truth.
  Not that I noticed: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/03/30/abuse/

# New Age Takes Up Residence On Oregon Coast - A California group that lives
  communally & believes in extraterrestrials will move its businesses here.
  GARDINER -- The former headquarters of a forest-industry giant soon will
  be home to a New Age religious group from California that espouses love,
  spiritual power & communal living, while selling liquor-license consulting
  services. Residents of this former mill town don't know quite what to
  expect. Hopefully it won't be another doomsday cult with mass graves, eh?
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/00/03/nw_
71love25.frame

: Has your cult/sect/plot/firm/govt taken over any small towns lately? Has
your small town been taken over lately? Were you swamped with drugs, orgies,
chants, vibes, yetis? Did the Space Brothers land? Will they ever go away?
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# Wife: Man Didn't Control Uganda Cult. KABUMBA, Uganda (AP) - Eight years
  after Joseph Kibwetere abandoned his family to help form a doomsday sect,
  his faded black-and-white photographs still adorn his wife's home, along-
  side pictures of Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Pope. No indict-
  ments yet: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000330/17/uganda-cult-deaths

# Further cult horrors unearthed. (BBC) The extent of the doomsday cult
  deaths in Uganda is emerging as a fifth mass grave is found. Awesome.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_696000/696254.stm

# Also - Priest who 'murdered' his flock - just as all shepherds do:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_696000/696254.stm
# Death cult activities 'ignored' - watch out for Scientology now:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_695000/695268.stm
@ TALKING POINT - Cult crazy - Are cults a danger to society? Discuss:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/newsid_684000/684006.stm
# Pope Says Holy Land Trip 'Unforgettable' - as long as he keeps taking his
  hormones: http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=00_03_29&item=#954362487

: Has your belief system and/or it's leadership amassed incredible wealth?
Have any members of your sect survived? For how long? Does your sect provide
a spiritual uplift? How much is that worth? How much do you have? Any more?

@ Even biblical moralists will now defend their codes of conduct with
  psychobabble. How did self-esteem become religion's chief objective?
  http://www.thepublicinterest.com/current/article1.html [Spring 2000]
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# The Noise of Hate Music: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9607939
# Learning the Songs of Animals: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9610511
@ America is drowning in its own soundtrack. Music crams every inch of
  public space. You can't even find a bar where you can nurse a quiet
  drink: http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/2000/03/bottum.htm

# DON'T LIKE IT? BLAME THE AUDIENCE: A composer/scientist has undertaken
  a series of performance in Zurich with his computer-generated music.
  The computer "reads" the audience - fidgets, coughs, shifting in the
  chairs - and translates the variables into music. John Cage, eat your
  ambient heart out! http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223142.html

: Are you enveloped in audiovisual/socioeconomic/spiritual noise? D'ya have
a quiet place within/without yourself? Can you share the quiet? Does anybody
listen to your quiet? Do voices in your head tell you to shut the fuck UP!?!

@ AstroHunger: http://www.bobs.com/Recordings/Lyrics.cgi?Meat_On_The_Moon
@ The New Economy: http://www.bobs.com/Recordings/Lyrics.cgi?Food_To_Rent
@ Sing It Out Loud, Eh? http://www.google.com/search?q=moose+turd+pie
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# Author warns of psychological danger of bioterrorism hype. BERGEN, NJ.
  Publicity given to threats of bioterrorism is almost as disruptive as
  an actual attack, an expert on biological and chemical warfare said
  Wednesday. "There's a clear relation between the hype and giving bad
  ideas to people." Yow. http://www.bergen.com/bnwc/biobg200003301.htm

@ Sample Hypnosis: http://www.raven1.net/ssnz.htm [you are getting sleepy]
@ SURVEILLANCE/HARASSMENT TECHNOLOGIES: http://www.greenpages.com.au/baird/
@ Mind Programming: http://www.sutphenpublishing.com/articles/howmind.htm
@ Battle For Your Mind: http://sutphenpublishing.com/articles/battle.htm

: Would you rather give/sell/rent good/bad/dull ideas to people; steal their
ideas for your own use; distort/destroy competing ideas; rebuild people so
they possess the ideas YOU think they need? Is terrorism good mind-control?

# VIOLENT NEIGHBORHOODS, VIOLENT KIDS - The Real Causes And Cures Of
  Youthful Crime: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/pubs/violvict.html#178248
# NETROPOLITAN - Undesirable argument - Eugenicists have their say in Cyber-
  space. But so do you: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223250.html
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# EU officials: no evidence to confirm Echelon spying allegations.
  BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- European Union officials told the European
  Parliament today that there is no evidence to confirm a report that a
  U.S.-led spy network has been snooping on billions of phone calls, e-
  mails and faxes. http://www.mercurycenter.com/breaking/docs/018356.htm

# US Denies SpyBiz. (BBC) The US seeks to reassure the European Parliament
  that the Echelon surveillance system is not used for industrial espionage.
  Uh. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_695000/695535.stm

: Have you undermined any socio/politico/economic systems lately? Has your
system been attacked? Have you retaliated? Does your conspiracy orchestrate
such attacks all over the world? Has your conspiracy factionalized? Where?

@ Lenin's politics were based on violence. He rarely showed emotion and
  deprived himself of music or flowers, because they made him "soft."
  http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/03/19/stibooboo01015.html
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  "If I had not slipped that day in a puddle of cat vomit and slid into
   the arms of Jason, the building contractor, thus triggering a sneezing
   fit because of my allergies which responded to the coating of dry-wall
   dust on his blue denim leisure suit, my life might have been quite
   different." --Christine Freeman

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@ Free Stuff: http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/03/30/free.stuff4.idg/
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# LAND OF THE LIVING DEAD - Bohemian vampires rise again... and again... and
  again... (Prague Post) Time and again, archeologists working in the Czech
  Republic come across what they believe are vampire graves. The skeletons
  they find have been mutilated using methods that, in the superstition-
  fueled middle ages, were thought to destroy the suckers once and for all.
  Bodies were exhumed, stakes driven, limbs severed, bones broken. Today
  it may seem like overkill. But when vampires stalked the land, it was
  better to be safe than sorry. http://www.praguepost.cz/feat032900a.html

# Bounty on Indian Scalps to Be Reconsidered. HALIFAX (Reuters) Canada will
  consider striking down a 244-year-old provincial law that offers hunters
  a bounty for Indian scalps, following complaints by native groups. Bounty
  on Realtors remains: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000330/09/odd-indians

: Have you killed any non/sub/super-humans lately? Would you prefer extinct-
ion for vampires, Indians, bears, aliens, cockroaches, atheists, skaters? Do
you have a strategy for escaping extinction? Is anyone hunting you? Why not?

# Escaped German Polar Bears Killed: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9608461
# Earth Needs 10 Million Years To Recover From A Mass Extinction - in your
  case, maybe longer: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000329080536.htm
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# Nun Held in Probe of Fellow Nun's Murder. BOGOTA (Reuters) Police detained
  a Colombian nun on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a fellow nun
  whose burned & mutilated body was found dumped on a highway outside Bogota
  late last year. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000330/09/odd-nun
@ The Atheism Web: http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/orgs.html

# Silence, Celibacy Before Death: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9608465
# 'Summer Time' Ruins Sex: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000330/09/odd-time
# Fanatical Cult - Silent Death: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9608340
@ 'Dear Police Officer...' I don't want to kill you. I don't even want to
  wound you. But I must. http://www.sightings.com/general/dearpolice.htm

: Has your (non)belief system driven you to kill/kiss/klone anybody lately?
Do you worship death and call it life, and/or vice-versa, and/or something
else entirely? Is your life enhanced/diminished/empowered by (non)beliefs?

# Hippys Rule: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_695000/695976.stm
@ We Owe All To Hippies: http://members.aye.net/~hippie/hippie/special_.htm
@ Grateful Dead Lyric Finder: http://www3.clearlight.com/~acsa/intro.htm
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# Locust Forced To Watch Star Wars (Press Assn) A locust has been made to
  watch battle scenes from the movie Star Wars to help scientists from
  Newcastle University develop a new collision avoidance system for cars.
  www.excite.co.uk/news/news_story/technology/pa_tech_20000329203000_2.txt
# BUGS BEHIND THE WHEEL: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223238.html

# Rover, Over and Over: Here Comes Pet Cloning - Genetic Savings & Clone
  will preserve your pet's DNA for the day when it can be used to make a
  copy. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2000/nf00329c.htm

: Are there limits to what is acceptable in biotech research? Have you tor-

tured any bugs lately - physically/mentally/spiritually? Have you enhanced/

diminished any animals/plants/people/aliens/ideas? Are you driven by demons?

# EU To Speed Clone Patents: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9608935
# US To Overhaul Net Patents: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9609107
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# Australia now a 'GM laboratory.' CANBERRA - Australia has become an inter-
  national laboratory for the development of genetically modified food crops
  a British farming expert warned yesterday. Enhanced wallabies shouted him
  down, spat: http://www.theage.com.au/news/20000331/A40298-2000Mar30.html

@ Who has saved more human lives than anyone else in history? Despite his
  Nobel Peace Prize, you may never have heard of Norman Borlaug. Try GREEN
  REVOLUTION then: http://www.reason.com/0004/fe.rb.billions.html

: Should humanity be fed? Why? How? Will food shortages, environmental degr-
adation, lack of quality-of-life, be sufficient motivation for humanity to
leave Earth and conquer the universe? Can humanity meet the challenge? How?

# FORMIDABLE FROTH - The GM beer that can keep its head while you lose yours
  - Oz culture threatened: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223237.html
# CRISP AND DRY - Can chemical engineers give us healthier French fries? Is
  that what we really want? http://newscientist.com/news/news_223235.html
# Feed the world - Could GM rice put a stop to food shortages and help curb
  global warming? Really? http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223230.html
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Sex-A-Rama:

@ Every S&M wannabe <http://www.sexuality.org/bdsm.html> has handcuffs, but

  only the most dedicated freaks have <http://www.blacksteel.com/hcs.html>

  gigantic, online collections. Now see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Sex/

@ What's wrong with being a sex object? asks 78-year-old Helen Gurley Brown.
  "At least it means men want to go to bed with you" - and it's better than
  loneliness: http://www.nationalpost.com/artslife.asp?f=000323/240035

  "Thirty-five is a very attractive age, London society is full of women
  of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained
  thirty-five for years." --Oscar Wilde

# THE XX FILES - A choice of chromosomes may help women live longer than
  men. I'll take 3 more: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223234.html
# The genetics of aging: New study says cell division errors may be the
  common link. Get fixed: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9609472
# HANDY HINTS - Can a person's fingers reveal their sexual orientation?
  Pull my finger: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223251.html

@ Girls who dream of being the erotic project of an older man, said Colette,
  have an "ugly desire which they expiate by fulfilling" - which doesn't
  bother the older men much: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n06/cast2206.htm

: Are you young/old, non/sexual, un/wanted, implanted, mind-controlled? Are
you driven/repulsed by sex, violence, power, possessions, images, robotics?
Will teledildonics assure your immortality? Will that be satisfactory? How?

@ Touchy, tormented, violent, and greedy for human warmth, Arthur Koestler
  was less a user than an abuser -- of women, alcohol, cars, drugs, and
  ideas: http://www.thenation.com/issue/000410/0410leonard.shtml
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  "Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they
  say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind,
  just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals." --Oscar Wilde

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@ BIRDS ATTACK! ALIENS ABDUCT! www.sonic.net/~ric/adventure/mar2k/M2K82.JPG
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# Mysterious Calf Deaths In Brothers, Oregon. (EarthFiles) The high desert
  area Southeast of Bend, Oregon has long been associated with unusual ani-
  mal deaths known as "animal mutilations." www.earthfiles.com/earth124.htm

@ Society's Best Interests. "If the government is withholding evidence
  concerning UFOs, particularly of extraterrestrial aliens, it may be in
  society's best interest to be ignorant of the details. It is possible
  that such truth has adverse consequences to society in terms of political,
  religious, and social stability." http://www.caus.org/mc032700.htm

: Have you mutilated/abducted/molested any/many animals/humans/aliens/robots
lately? Was it valid research; police/military action; political necessity;
good clean fun; nutritious? Is society better off not knowing about it? Why?

# In pursuit of the ultimate weapon - Wartime scientists have revealed how
  they tested chemicals on themselves as they searched for new weapons with
  which to fight the Germans. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9608015
# 'Did my husband die from lethal injection?' Deadly research in the best
  interests of society: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9608016
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# ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE PRACTITIONERS ASK SENATORS FOR MORE FEDERAL FUNDING.
  "Give us the money or we'll cast negative Feng Shui vibes all over you!"
  http://www.CNN.com/2000/HEALTH/alternative/03/29/alternative.medicine/

# LIVING BETTER WITH YOGA. Yogan practitioners say that the ancient
  practice helps them feel healthier and more energized. Doctors say
  it might help with heart disease and stress as well. And it's cheap:
  http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=30205

: Are your medical alternatives effective, economical, entertaining? Do the
voices in your head tell you that you feel much better now? Do survivors of
alternative treatments feel better than non-survivors? Have you survived??

# GENOME 2/3 MAPPED: http://CNN.com/2000/HEALTH/03/29/biotech.genome.reut/
@ WHY DO I FEEL NUMB WHEN I HAVE SEX? Maybe alien implant is misfiring:
  http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=30621
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# JUNK of the day: Agent Orange & Diabetes - The most recent USAF report on
  <http://www.brooks.af.mil/AFRL/HED/hedb/afhs/97report.shtml> the personnel
  exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War reports "a significant and
  potentially meaningful adverse relation between serum dioxin levels and
  diabetes." http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/03/29/agent.orange.diabetes/
  But the alleged "adverse relation" is weak & statistically insignificant.
  And the observed diabetes was likely a result of obesity, an established
  risk factor. Why did the USAF draw an unwarranted conclusion? Politics. It
  wants to show Congress that,indeed, Air Force scientists were sufficiently
  diligent in finding some harm caused by Agent Orange exposure -- even if
  that harm had to be fabricated. [ via http://www.junkscience.com/ ]

: Have you fabricated any results lately? Are you well-rewarded? What's your
favorite fabricated result? Should we believe ANYTHING you say? Should any-
thing ANYONE says be believed? Is everything a lie? Is life a deception? Eh?

@ USELESS KNOWLEDGE but it's true: http://www.uselessknowledge.com
@ Real Live History: http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/
@ Real Live Technology History: http://www.thetech.org
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# GOD ON THE GRIDIRON. Religion is the year's biggest sports story. Why is
  it getting so little play? http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es307_master.html
@ Why the resurgence of religion in sports? Should media cover this more?
www.feedmag.com/cgi-bin/loop/loop.cgi?function=areaview&document=es307.shtml

: Should sport-worship be tax-exempt? Should teams pray? Should nonbelievers
be excluded from sports? Should sports divide on sectarian lines? If Hindus
beat Xians, is {JHWH} dead? If Raelians beat Muslims, did ETs zap Mohammad?

# HARRY POTTER'S WIZARDRY BANNED FROM BRITISH SCHOOL - his magical powers go
  against the Bible: http://CNN.com/2000/books/news/03/29/potter.banned.reut
# Prince Charles Gives Up Lunch for Lent - subsists on air, water and kinky
  sado-masochistic sex: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000330/09/odd-charles

@ MEET YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL: http://www.angeldoorway.com/ [put something on]
# Saudi Cleric Blasts Rights Report: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9608459
# Disturbing Look into Ugandan Cult: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9608465
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# ARGENTINE CULT MAYHEM - Two daughters (21 and 29 years old), members of a
  cult called "transmutar" (from the old alchemist term), slaughtered their
  father in an attempt to "remove" the evil from him. When police arrived at
  the house, called by neighbours after strange screams and satanic prayers
  were said to be heard at night, they found the younger had stabbed her
  father 100 times, removed his eyes with the same knife and then sliced the
  mouth of the old man wide open and started to pull out organs from the in-
  side.The older daughter then began eating parts of the man; after that the
  other daughter thinking that when she ate it the demon was now inside her,
  tried to stab her too. The scene was so horrible that some cops even puked
  at the sight. The sisters were found naked praying frenetically, bathed in
  blood. Really awful. There had been many reports from neighbors of strange
  noises from the house; some of them really believed that somebody inside
  was really possessed by Satan, after some poltergeist-like effects showed
  up on his house (documented on TV!) LINKS - Some local newspaper notes on
  the case: http://www.clarin.com/diario/2000-03-30/e-03801d.htm
  Transmutar web page: http://www.transmutar.com.ar [follow the ring]
  From: Gerardo Arceri <gerardo.arceri@informationsys.com> [thanks!]

: Have you devoured any evil lately? Has evil devoured you? Were any spicy
sauces involved? Do internal organs need tenderizing? Does bathing in blood
keep your skin soft? How do you resolve family issues? Do you pray naked??

# Satanic Killing Sisters Said Deranged. BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) A doctor who
  evaluated two Argentine sisters accused of stabbing their father to death
  in a grisly murder with Satanic overtones said both had serious mental
  problems and should be institutionalized. "No shit, Sherlock. But did you
  check for implants?" http://news.excite.com/news/r/000330/09/odd-satanic
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Thousands'R'Us:

# THOUSANDS FORM HUMAN CROSS IN SUPPORT OF ELIAN:
  http://www.CNN.com/2000/US/03/30/cuba.boy/index.html
# THOUSANDS MAINTAIN VIGIL AS JAPAN VOLCANO READY TO ERUPT:
  http://CNN.com/2000/ASIANOW/east/03/30/japan.volcano.03/
# Thousands Watch The Launch Of Slave Schooner's Replica:
  http://deseretnews.com:80/dn/view/0,1249,155012910,00.html
# Thousands of Protesters Rally Before Start of Biotech Convention:
  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/biotechrally000326.html
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  "I will not sleep through my education." --Bart Simpson

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