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# SATAN! http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/bruins/sabres/20000309/bfx101
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# More UFO Sightings, Some Recorded On Video. NEW JERSEY HOVERING UFO; MARY
-LAND UFO VIDEOS; GEORGIA INVESTIGATION OF LIGHTS; GEORGIA CIRCLE OF LIGHTS
FROM UFO - ILLINOIS PHOTO GETS UFOs ON FILM - ARKANSAS FIRE FROM SPACE -
SO.ARIZONA UFO SIGHTINGS - MALAYSIA CRATER IS CLAIMED TO BE UFO LANDING
SPOT - UK BLACK TRIANGLES: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/filers31200.htm

@ MKULTRA Docs; may be triggering: http://209.207.141.249/ds/mkultradocs.htm
# Recent BC And Yukon UFO Sightings: http://www.ufobc.org/recent.htm
# Firefighters And UFOs: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/fire.htm

@ It's A Great, Big, Wonderful World We Live On... And Some ETs Are Trying
To Help. We live on one of the great jewels in the universe and that is
one of the main reason we are being visited. The visitors have been giving
us a message, but many cannot see it or understand it. The blind fools...
But they'll learn. THEY'LL learn!! http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/big.htm
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# Robot reduces spinal surgery risk. Scientists are developing a robot that
can reduce the risks associated with extremely delicate surgery on the
spine. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_672000/672815.stm

@ Links - Spinal Injuries Association: http://www.spinal.co.uk/
@ Spinal Cord Injury Resource Center: http://www.spinalinjury.net/
@ National Spinal Cord Injury Association: http://www.spinalcord.org/

: Are your favorite surgeons human, alien, robotic, spiritual, mental? Are
your paralyzing injuries divine will? Should surgeons be allowed to muck
around with you? Do surgeons conspire against you? Have they chopped you up?

# Are you smarter than a robot? The world's largest experiment on
artificial intelligence starts today. Test yourself and see, hu-man.
www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000343180237640&pg=/et/00/3/9/ecftur09.html
# New Law for Quantum Computers Disclosed - stricter enforcement urged:
http://www.alphagalileo.org/fetchpn.asp?id=3182&accept_language=en
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# Pope In Historic Plea To Pardon Church Sins. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) In one
of the most significant acts of his papacy, Pope John Paul asked forgive-
ness for the *many* past sins of his Church, including its treatment of
Jews, heretics, women and native peoples. But apology for fish on Friday.
Ewww. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000312/ts/pope_forgiveness_4.html

# The Inquisition - Catholic Church's 700 Years Of Mass Murder. VATICAN CITY
(AFP) - The Roman Catholic Inquisition, for which Pope John Paul II sought
forgiveness Sunday, was a 700-year campaign of persecution of heretics in
which hundreds of thousands of people were tortured and killed. Suppressed
many dissidents, reformers: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/inquiz.htm

: Have you apologized lately? Should you have? Did you go far enough? D'your
operatives smile grimly and continue towards their goal? D'ya prefer child
molestation, mind-control, dissident-incineration, granting indulgences??

# Giordano Bruno - Philosopher & Scientist Burnt At The Stake 400 Years Ago.
(Sun) "I cleave to the heavens, and soar to the infinite. What others see
from afar, I leave far behind me." http://sightings.com/politics6/gio.htm
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# Einstein Experiment Faces Crucial Test This Summer. Gravity Probe B (GPB),
a half billion-dollar space mission designed to prove Einstein right or
wrong, is struggling with technical difficulties, rising costs and a
receding launch date. http://space.com/science/grav_probe_b_000310.html

# Also: Gravitational Waves: Einstein's Elusive Children:
http://space.com/science/astronomy/ligo_waves_991116.html
# The World's Largest Gravitational-Wave Observatory Goes Online:
http://space.com/science/astronomy/ligo_open_991116.html
# How Gravitational Waves Lead to Space-Time Ripples:
http://space.com/science/astronomy/LIGO_works_991115.html

: Have you probed gravity lately? Has gravity probed you? Have you struggled
with gravity? Who won? Have you detected/generated/manipulated any gravity
waves lately? Was it difficult? Should you change your diet? Should we all?
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# Failed rocket plunges into ocean - British hopes dashed. (BBC) A rocket
takes its telecoms satellite payload to a watery grave after a failed
launch from a converted oil platform in the Pacific. Yanks retain domin-
ance: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_675000/675359.stm
# UK/Russ Launch Bombs: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000312/19/sea-launch

# Also - Satellite firm plans rocket relaunch - more splashes mean more
contracts: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_675000/675317.stm
# The roaring business of rockets - "Once the rockets go up, who cares
where the come down? That's not my department!" says Werner von Braun...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_556000/556780.stm
# Japan's rocket hopes explode - just can't seem to get it right:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_521000/521382.stm

: Have you triggered any rockets/jets/trains to crash lately? Do you have a
financial interest in such crashes? Does your conspiracy specialize in crash
plots, or do you diversify? Do we all operate in failure mode most times??
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# NEWSFLASH: Scientists Decode First Message from Alien Civilization.
"SIMPLY SEND 6 TIMES 10 TO THE 50 ATOMS OF HYDROGEN TO THE STAR SYSTEM AT
THE TOP OF THE LIST, CROSS OFF THAT STAR SYSTEM, THEN PUT YOUR STAR SYSTEM
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST AND SEND IT TO 100 OTHER STAR SYSTEMS. WITHIN
ONE TENTH GALACTIC ROTATION YOU WILL RECEIVE ENOUGH HYDROGREN TO POWER
YOUR CIVILIZATION UNTIL ENTROPY REACHES ITS MAXIMUM! TRY IT. IT REALLY
WORKS!" http://www.panix.com/userdirs/clocke/EGR/ [thanks, Unit4!]

# Biometric Bouncing Technology. BOSTON (AP) The same technology that helps
secure nuclear plants and roots-out welfare fraud is about to be used to
help keep the riffraff out of bars. UFOlogists are apprehensive about the
prospects: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000312/12/exp-biometric-bouncer

: Have you developed any advanced technologies lately? Have you communicated
your results? Is your technology inclusive/exclusive/repulsive? Will it make
profits, sort riffraff, make the world better? Are drugs involved? Which??

# 'We want friends not medicine'. (BBC) People with mental health problems
want someone to listen to their problems, not drugs. But nobody asked ME.
Bother. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_672000/672796.stm
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# Devil! http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/bolivia/carnival/19991230/oru03
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# HOME INTRUDER INSISTS: ALIENS PUT ME HERE! [via http://obscurestore.com/ ]
Mike Roberts came home to find blood on his floor and a stranger on his
couch. "He acted like he belonged there," says Roberts. "I grabbed him and
threw him on the floor and screamed at him. He said, 'Don't hurt me, don't
hurt me.'" The man had a good explanation: Aliens abducted him and put him
in the home. http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4788993/10719354.html

# The Other Dead Media. (Wired) Magazines, books, newspapers, and other
traditional forms of expression aren't the only things headed for the
dustbin. So is "Humanity," as we currently know it. "It's only a matter
of time before your Aunt Susie is cross-pollinated with a parrot." Is
that so wrong? http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,34905,00.html

: Would you rather be abducted by aliens/angels, hoodlums, cybernauts, govt
agents, robots, deities/demons, me? Have they cross-pollinated you with a
parrot/poodle/paramecium yet? How many abductees have morphed into chimerae?

# ALIEN ENCOUNTERS: Relax! You haven't been abducted. Yet.
http://tlc.discovery.com/tlcpages/encounters/encounters.html
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# Unheeded warnings - Predictions of floods in Mozambique were ignored -
unnecessary deaths: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_222924.html

: Have you predicted any disasters lately? Were you ignored? Were you right?

# Low CO2 Levels in Atmosphere During Glacial Periods May Be Caused by Ant-
arctic Sea Ice. Conclusion: Global warming, further melting icecaps, may
raise atmospheric CO2 levels, triggering catastrophic "greenhouse effect"
!! www.sio.ucsd.edu/supp_groups/siocomm/pressreleases/RkeelingNature.html

# Melting of Earth's Ice Cover Reaches New High - faster than at any time
since record keeping began: http://www.worldwatch.org/alerts/000306.html
# Driving Ice-Age Cycles: http://www.nature.com/nature/fow/000302.html

: What's your favorite climate event? Have you modified climate lately? Are
you working real hard to trigger an unstoppable greenhouse-effect event? Do
your Venusian masters compensate you adequately for Venuforming the earth??

# Live Climate Data: http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/fbin/climate_server
@ Global Change Data and Information: http://www.gcdis.usgcrp.gov/
@ Climatic Extremes and Weather Events (NOAA/NCDC):
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/severeweather/severeweather.html
@ CLIMATOLOGY! http://www.scicentral.com/S-meteor.html#articles
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# Film Your Own Blockbuster - Making Animation Child's Play. (Wired) Enter-
prising filmmakers are using sophisticated rendering engines of computer
games to create movies full of dazzling effects without buying expensive
software. Cheapos: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,34871,00.html
# IMAC DV: http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/03/10/imacdv/index.html
# MS Pushes XBox Gaming: http://CNN.com/cnnfn/2000/03/10/technology/xbox/

: Are you an enterprising, budget-conscious propagandist? D'ya need to make
your mind-control videos, filled with subliminal suggestion & posthypnotic
controls, for a fraction of your competitors' costs? When you get more bang
for the buck, do you: pocket the difference; make more propaganda; research
more effective mind-control techniques; bribe/suborn more co-conspirators?

@ Clueless in Seattle. The WTO street protestors wanted to halt technology,
save jobs, and save the environment. Their agenda would produce the exact
opposite: http://www.hudson.org/American_Outlook/articles_wn00/avery1.htm
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# BASH'O'RAMA: They're Doing It To Us. A Catholic group in New York monitors
Catholic-bashing <http://detnews.com/1999/religion/9902/18/02190008.htm>
and publishes nationwide alerts. But they don't bother detailing injustice
to Muslims <http://detnews.com/2000/religion/0003/10/03090014.htm> [who
issue their own reports]. Neither Catholics or Muslims have much to say on
Jewish <http://detnews.com/1999/religion/9912/13/12130047.htm> rights. And
Protestants <http://detnews.com/2000/religion/0002/25/02260012.htm> aren't
bashed - unless you listen to Pat Robertson. Are Scientology & Catholicism
cults? See http://detnews.com/2000/religion/0003/10/03110015.htm

@ Jesus Christ: http://members.aol.com/Jesus316/index.htm
@ Only Sheep Need A Shepherd: http://195.11.167.147/atheism/
@ Antichrist Superstar: http://www.hnet.net/~molekh/apokalypsis.html
@ BLESSED BE THE WATER HEMLOCK - First Church of Christ, Abortionist:
http://loiosh.andrew.cmu.edu/org/fcca/homepage.html
@ Church of Euthanasia: http://churchofeuthanasia.org/
@ Die Well: http://www.islandnet.com/~deathnet/

: Have you bashed any believers lately? Have they bashed you? Do you merrily
bash each others? D'ya encourage your religious opponents to euthenize them-
selves? Do your sheep resist other shepherds?Can you resist suicide's lures?

# BREATHARIANS: LIBERATED FROM FOOD, DRINK AND GOOD SENSE. Here's one you're
not going to believe - a cult that advocates living on air, exposure to
sunlight and their own urine - released from the drudgery of food & drink.
For obvious reasons, this cult's numbers are not really growing very fast.
Nice. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=29389
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SkeptiBriefs:

# ‘Hactivists’ plan DDoS Web attack. Electrohippies’ software could be as
effective as distributed denial of service tools used in last month’s
Web attacks. Targets to be warned: http://www.msnbc.com/news/380065.asp
# Doctor says WTO gassing led to health problems - chemical weapons used
against civilians: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000307/health-96

@ I'VE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA. WHAT AM I UP AGAINST? A person who
is schizophrenic can't tell what's real from what's not real. They might
hear voices or have delusions. It's good that you are feeling okay on the
medication; modern psychopharmocology can help keep the symptoms in check.
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=29405

# SECURITY TEST GONE WRONG FORCES JET TO MAKE EMERGENCY LANDING - fake
explosive backfired: http://cnn.com/2000/US/03/11/seattle.jet/index.html
# Radio jock dropped chicken off building - gravity and speed experiments:
http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0310d.htm [bad science, or... ???]
@ The Search for the Manchurian Candidate - The CIA and Mind Control.
Full text: http://www.psychedelic-library.org/marks.htm

@ "Guy (Note1), a skilled telegrapher, arranged for his father, a retired
railroad telegrapher, to operate a key, each closure and opening of which
resulted in a pulse of microwave energy. By directing the radiations at
his own head, complex messages via the Continental Morse Code were
readily received by Guy." http://www.raven1.net/v2succes.htm:
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"Goldfish don't bounce." --Bart Simpson

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