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@ Flash: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_533000/533416.stm
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# Life on Jupiter's Moon Io? Forget for the moment about the evidence for
  life on Mars or Europa. Now we have evidence that life could be thriving
  within the sulphur spewing volcanos of Io, one of the moons of Jupiter.
  Hi, guys: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m10-004.shtml

# Titan: Moon of Mystery. SATURN's cloud-shrouded moon Titan is struggling
  to keep its secrets. French astronomers who have peered through the mist
  using ground telescopes say they have spotted polar caps & lofty mountains
  covered with methane ice. But a US researcher says that images from the
  Hubble telescope paint a different picture. http://caus.org/pn061200.htm

: Have you looked for life lately? Did you find any? Where? How? Why? When?
Do y'r planets/satellites/stars struggle to keep their secrets? Need they be
'persuaded' to confess? Have you tried mindcontrol on cosmic bodies? Where??
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# Russia's Surprise Publication Of Revealing Nuclear Weapons Book - every-
  thing you wanted to know: http://www.sightings.com/general2/rsss.htm
# Time Polarization - Significance & Weaponization. Full strategic strikes
  against the West scheduled: http://cseti.org/position/addition/time.htm

# Rival Russian Jewish groups trade barbs. MOSCOW (AP) - An angry dispute
  has broken out between two rival Jewish groups, with one alleging that
  the Kremlin is meddling in the community's politics - a rollback to the
  Soviet era, when the Communist leadership kept religious groups on a short
  leash. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567273789-56f

: What's your favorite Russian conspiracy? Does y'r conspiracy seek/maintain
control with military/religious/commercial/alien assistance? Is control elu-
sive? Are strategic strikes necessary? Will you nuke anyone soon? Who? When?
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# Aussie Attraction Spaces Out. Russia's version of space shuttle, which
  never actually flew in space, is being turned into a tourist attraction.
  Will visitors flock to check out its cramped cockpit and learn more about
  space exploration? http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,36870,00.html

# SPACEVIEWS 2000.24 - Proton Passes Key Test with CommSat Launch - Pegasus
  Launches USAF Sat - NEAR Instrument Shut Down - Compton Reentry Linked to
  Mir - Hale-Bopp Observations Give Clues to Its Origin - U.S. Removes
  Quotas on Ukrainian Launches - Supermassive Black Holes Tied to Galaxy
  Formation - House Committee Approves NASA Budget - Company to Fly First
  Web Server in Space - The Challenges of Hubble's Successor - Astronomers
  Weigh Universe with Galactic Map: http://www.spaceviews.com/2000/0612/

: What's your favorite spacey attraction? Should all failed/unused/surplus
space equipment be recycled for entertainment/education/propaganda? Have you
recycled/refurbished any obsolete spacecraft lately? Do they fly well?Where?
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# Pain relief substitute for morphine. (BBC) Scientists have developed a way
  to relieve pain that could provide a long-sought after alternative to mor-
  phine. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_783000/783921.stm

# Also - Scientists boost power of morphine - gimmee another superfix:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_576000/576089.stm
# Pain is in the genes, says study - we're wired to suffer. Bother.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_398000/398542.stm
@ Links - Opioids: http://hivpositive.com/f-PainHIV/Pain/PainMenu3a.html
@ Online pain journals: http://www.pain.com/onlinepainjournal/

# Cannabis Royale. LONDON (Reuters) A plant thought to be pot was found in a
  police raid on staff quarters at Buckingham Palace,home of Britain's Queen
  Elizabeth. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000612/10/odd-royals-pot-dc

: What's your fave pain relief procedure? Is pain best controlled by drugs,
surgery, mindcontrol rays, genetic reengineering, hypnosis, prayer, chance?
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# Hackers invade Malaysia Web sites. KUALA LUMPUR (AP) - Hackers have broken
  into dozens of Malaysian political Websites, leaving govt officials and
  opposition leaders fuming Sunday over images of rotting skulls and obscene
  messages. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567257754-636

# Taiwan: Silicon Island? www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,36920,00.html
# Cyber-pirates loot Asia's Web boom - easier than skyjacking, bank robbery,
  forgery: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567277361-762

# Chinese Hooked on Coffee Website. (Reuters) Chinese consumers have rushed
  to click on the International Coffee Organization's Chinese-language Web
  site (www.coffeelife.net.cn) to learn about Western coffee culture. There
  goes China: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000612/10/odd-coffee-china-dc

: Can Oriental/Occidental/Extraterrestrial cultures handle technology surges
better? Have you exploited any radical new technologies lately? D'ya use'em
for political/economic/military/religious/random advantage? Have you failed?
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# VBS_TIMOFONICA - a new Visual Basic Script worm was recently reported to
  us.Once an infected file is opened, VBS_TIMOFONICA mails an infected email
  attachment (Filename: TIMOFONICA.TXT.VBS) to all users in the Microsoft
  Outlook address book. The subject of the message is: "TIMOFONICA" and the
  message body is a long text in Spanish. For every recipient in the address
  book, VBS_TIMOFONICA also creates another message with a random numeric
  recipient at the "correo.moviestar.net" host, which is a SMS gateway that
  forwards email messages to pagers and mobile phones. More information:
  http://antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=VBS_TIMOFONICA

: Have you infected any systems lately? Have any systems infected you? When?
Are y'r cognitive systems most easily infected in any specific language? Eh?
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SkeptiBriefs:

# Sounds of silence echo around globe - Linguists predict half of 6,000
  world languages will soon die. In an unprecedented wave of destruction,
  half of the world's languages will likely die off. Should we care?
  http://newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/int/socu/a20953-2000jun11.htm

# 'History' Should Be History. LONDON (Reuters) The word "history" should be
  consigned to the past, according to managers at a British college who deem
  it sexist. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000612/10/odd-britain-words-dc

# Giant crystal cave discovered. (BBC) A huge cave containing transparent
  gypsum crystals has been discovered in an old silver mine in Almeria,
  Spain. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_787000/787776.stm

# Also - Lab grows monster crystal - threatens to devour entire planet:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_643000/643923.stm
# Bacteria with a silver lining - govt seeks taxation potential:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_533000/533416.stm

# Pufferfish: Sushi or Science? Berkeley scientist sez deciphering the genes
  of the Japanese pufferfish is the fastest way to help researchers locate
  human genes. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36911,00.html
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  "Detention is the mother of despair."

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@ Bad Burns: http://www.badburns.com/
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# OOPS! HUNTERS KILL 'BIGFOOT' -- THEN LEARN IT'S A GUY IN A GORILLA SUIT!
  CLARION, Pa. - Hunters Fred and Gerald Doemer whooped it up after shooting
  a huge, hairy monster they thought was a Bigfoot. But the good old boys'
  joy turned to despair when they discovered they'd gunned down a man who'd
  dressed in a gorilla suit -- to pull off an elaborate Bigfoot hoax! Single
 .30-.30 shot to the chest: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1976.html

# Court reverses Makah whaling ruling - don't kill whales for religion just
  yet: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567229258-32b
# Whaling ban set to end - Likely to send shockwaves through green movement
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_782000/782697.stm
# Alligators getting more aggressive - taking revenge on human interlopers.
  Chomp: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567260579-36e
# Where bacteria meet the beach - sewage spills fouling US coastal waters.
  yUCK: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567260592-45d

: Have you killed any living entities lately? Have they killed you? Do your
(crypto)zoological endeavours usually end in death/destruction/dismemberment
/disappointment/disgust? Have you devoured any organic entities lately? Raw?

# "Organically grown carrots" sound so wholesome. Would as many people eat
  them if they were properly labeled as "grown in excrement"? Ewww...
  http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/05/21/stirevnws02001.html
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# U.S. REPORT ON GLOBAL WARMING PREDICTS WIDESPREAD IMPACT. Global warming
  will produce widespread changes in the U.S. climate in future decades, a
  govt report to be released Monday predicts.  Drought-like conditions will
  hit every region of the country, sea levels will rise & urban populations
  may wilt under searing temperatures, according to "Climate Change Impacts
  on the United States." http://CNN.com/2000/NATURE/06/12/climate.changes/
# Warning http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2000/0610government.htm

# Solar Flare, CME, & Solar Wind Storm - All In One day! Equation: Sunspots
  = Solar Flares = Magnetic Shift = Shifting Ocean and Jet Stream Currents =
  Extreme Weather: http://earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2000/0611storm.htm

# ALERT SOHO C2 & C3: DEBRIS FLYING EVERYWHERE! Evidence of Comet Impact???
  Sky is falling: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=3593
# Was There A Comet-Planet Collision In Space? Something Is Very Wrong With
  Comet 76P! http://earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2000/0612collision.htm

: Has your home planet's climate changed lately? Is it altered by corporate/
govt/church/alien/divine/stellar/random intervention? Has anything fallen on
your head from space lately? Did you notice? Did you throw is back? Why not?
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# Marines hit beach in Kentucky today - Military training for US deployment
  features mock-terrorism, 'earthquake' - practice for NWO govt overthrow?
  http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/20000612_xnbre_marines_hi.shtml
# Quantum Potential Weapons: http://www.cseti.org/position/addition/qp.htm

# Cops getting 'fed' up - Uncle Sam has already taken over departments in 2
  states - more forthcoming: http://insightmag.com/archive/200007101.shtml
# US Locked In Civil War. East vs. West: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/atwar.htm
# Most Capital Cases Flawed; system collapsing under weight of own mistakes:
  http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000612/ts/death_penalty_appeals_5.html

# EU wants to force Net tax on U.S. - Europeans can now skirt fee - unfair:
  http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/20000612_xex_eu_wants_to_.shtml
# Info junkies hooked on Web - younger, better-educated Americans go online:
  http://politicslive.com/a/ap.washington/20000611/3943f14d.52cd.6/ap.asp
# AMERICAN CYNIC NEWSLETTER: http://www.americancynic.com

: Has your state been taken over by Illuminati/soldiers/foreigners/nerds/ETs
lately? Is a civil war raging? Would you notice if it wasn't pointed out to
you? Are all your govt systems fucked? Would you be better off with anarchy?
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# The Japanese Mafia and Free Energy. $900 million in Gold put their finger
  on the Scalar EM trigger. U.S. weather engineering now under the control
  of the Yakuza with leased Russian weapons.  The same technology was proven
  <http://cseti.org/bearden/aids/priore.htm> in the 1960's to cure cancers
  100%, but has been suppressed by a handful of nations for use in covert
  weaponry. Bastards: http://www.cseti.org/position/addition/yakuza.htm

# Astronaut's Boots Suppressed to hide Over-Unity secret - they won't let
  you have free energy: http://cseti.org/position/addition/astroboots.htm
# Patent awarded for extraction of Zero-Point Energy - so who will profit
  from it? How soon? Why not you? http://www.cseti.org/bearden/zpepatent.htm
# Secrets of Bedini Over-Unity Battery: http://cseti.org/bearden/bedini.htm

: Do you know the secrets of free energy? Have you profited handsomely? D'ya
maintain a tight grip on political/economic/military/cultural power with y'r
control of electrical power? Can/should/will free electrons doom you? When??

# Remote Viewing, Are We Confused Yet? The U.S. govt has openly acknowledged
  its psychic research.Not just research,but operation of a team of "psychic
  spies" for nearly 20 years. http://www.sightings.com/general2/remotec.htm
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# Baptists resist tempering messages - Homosexuality, women pastors topics
  at annual meeting: http://dallasnews.com/metro/94562_baptists_11met.html
# 'God's Army' gives up arms, for now - But twin 12-year-old fighters still
  seek revenge: http://www.bangkokpost.net/110600/110600_News03.html

# Let U.S. Pray -- to 'A Dad Called God' ROME (Reuters) For children of the
  new millennium, the Lord's prayer has undergone a makeover. Watch out for
  abuse: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000612/10/odd-religion-prayer-dc

# Feminism routed at UN confab - Dropped: 'Gay' rights,sex freedom for kids,
  abortion promotion: http://washtimes.com/national/default-200061222282.htm
# Marchers bare breasts in public - Women claim same right as men to remove
  tops. And why not? http://www.athensnews.com/issue20000608/main_a.html

: Does your belief system have strict dogmas on gender,violence, propaganda?
Are these dogmas debatable? Do you suppress dissent on these issues? Do your
deities empower you to crush your opposition? Do you purge heretics anyway?
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  "The besotted Rev. McNeely was his own congregation in the toy cathedral
   called Army of the Cross Tabernacle, and in the dank, lugubrious under-
   tones of guilt emanating from its cryptlike interior he found himself
   its sole living denizen, entombed there with the effigy of his Savior,
   who was enshrined over the alter, pinned to a stick of pine like a
   voodoo doll that has served its purpose." E.T.White (Jonathan E. Boys)

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@ RAYGUNS! http://www.toyraygun.com/galleryindex.html
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# Pulsating Orb Still Unexplained. According to the Astronomer it was simply
  the star Sirius; the flickering was the atmosphere. They said it is rarely
  visible in our hemisphere,and that is why it seemed so unusual.I find this
  very hard to believe, not because I want it to be something fantastic, but
  because I have been observing the sky and stars for a long time, and have
  never seen ANY star exhibit this behavior. http://caus.org/mu061200.htm

# The dog star's bone? An astronomical anomaly among the asteroids. Astro-
  nomers often speak of the cosmic zoo, reflecting the exotic variety of
  phenomena to be seen in the deep space. Pulsars, colliding galaxies and
  superluminous quasars are just a few of the bizarre images that telescopes
  pick up. But right here in the solar system, we still have a few surprises
  in store. Such as an asteroid shaped like a dog's bone. And Kermit the
  Frog on Mars:  http://www.alienzoo.com/news/y/200006090006.cfm

: Have you observed any cosmic bones/dogs/frogs/orbs lately?Do they pulsate?
Do you? What's your favorite cosmic anomaly? Are you anomalous? How much? Do
you collide with galaxies often; go superluminous; otherwise attract notice?
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# There's More to Space Than Space. Is there also more to life, death, sex,
  money? http://www.the-journal.co.uk/cfm/news_story.cfm?storyId=187044
# 'Area 51' - What's In A Name? Govt agencies cannot agree on a designation
  for this conglomerate facility: http://sightings.com/general2/area51n.htm
# Kuril Islands Explosion: http://www.cseti.org/bearden/ferdelance/s43.htm

@ Estimate Of The Situation 2000 - The Black Triangles. Mysterious aerial
  craft commonly called "flying triangles" and/or "black triangles" have
  been elbowing the classic, disk-shaped UFO aside in the last few years.
  These angular craft are seen more and more persistently. Are they a black
  budget, highly innovative form of craft from US govt/industry, or a new
  form of genuine UFO visiting us? http://sightings.com/general2/blackt.htm

# Pulsar signals "might be part of a vast interstellar communications
  network which we have stumbled upon" says MIT radio astronomer Professor
  Alan Barrett. Compelling case - talk to me: http://www.etheric.com/

: Have you detected any interstellar signals/crafts/entities/spasms lately?
Are UFOs/planets/pulsars/UFOlogists more/less than they seem? Are you wired
into any interstellar/galactic/dimensional communications nets yet? Why not?
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# METEOR BRIGHT AS THE SUN SCORCHES SKY - Vicotria, Australia - impact felt
  like earthquake: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=3603
# Percé, Gaspésie, Quebec Sighting - Hundreds of observers saw 3 white tri-
  angles hover: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m08-009.shtml
# "There goes Edwards AFB," says JPL scientist during mysterious night-time
  So.Calif. 1996 celestial overflight: http://www.cseti.org/crashes/161.htm

@ The Similarities Between 3 Different Pyramids. BARBURY CASTLE CROP FORM-
  ATION NOW FOUND TO BE PRECISELY-REFERENTIAL TO THE GREAT PYRAMID, THE
  QUETZALCOATL PYRAMID, AND 'THE D&M PYRAMID' AT CYDONIA ON MARS - all an
  alien plot, yup: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=3601

# Astronaut's UFO Encounter. MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA -- Don K. "Deke Slayton
  in his book gives his account of seeing a UFO. Deke was conducting a
  maintenance test flight in an F-51. http://www.caus.org/mu061200b.htm

: D'ya prefer black/white/red/green/blue/paisley/rippled triangles/pyramids/
polygons? D'ya prefer meteors to be hot, cold, lukewarm; bright, dim, trans-
parent; heavy, light, spongy? Do meteorites burn cropcircles? Fast or slow??
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# CIA Admits Tolerating Contra Cocaine Trafficking in 1980s. In secret con-
  gressional testimony, senior CIA officials admitted that the spy agency
  turned a blind eye to evidence of cocaine trafficking by U.S.-backed Nic-
  araguan contra rebels in the 1980s and generally did not treat drug smug-
  gling through Central America as a high priority during the Reagan admin-
  istration. Like this is news: http://www.consortiumnews.com/060800a.html

# 'OVERWILLING' DISORDERS MAY INCLUDE ADDICTION. Some psychiatric syndromes,
  including psychopathy & substance addiction, may be seen as disorders of
  "overwilling." "Mental illness has been thought of as a 'weakening of the
  will,' but in many cases it is the opposite: The will becomes overinvolved
  in the scheme of things." http://psychiatry.medscape.com/22592.rhtml

: Are you addicted because your will is weak/strong/distorted/controlled? Is
your psychiatric disorder organic/induced/random? Does your conspiracy deal
drugs/ideas/guns/money? Are you overwilling to conspire? Are you treatable?

# MANY RAVERS DON'T KNOW WHAT DRUG CAUSED OVERDOSE. The flyers are posted
  on phone poles or passed around at school, boasting music and a party to
  rave about. Russian Roulette: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/22594.rhtml
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# Mexico Catholic Church Warns Against Vote Fraud. "To collaborate directly
  or indirectly in electoral fraud is a serious sin that harms human rights
  and offends God." Next, the Vatican will declare that God is a Democrat.
  Right. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567273379-b4c

# Double Scandal Hits Cyprus Church. NICOSIA, Cyprus (Reuters) The church on
  Cyprus began probing allegations that one of its most senior clerics is
  gay and his subordinate is a womanizer who fathered two children. No dog-
  fuckers yet: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000612/10/odd-cyprus-scandal-dc

# Hundreds killed in Indonesia Christian-Muslim clashes - slaughtering for
  your god: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567257296-6b5
# Indonesia general denies war crimes.  Wiranto: "I don't think I am a war
  criminal." http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567261016-f01

: What's your favorite religious/cultural conflict? Have you elected a deity
lately? Do your elected deities intercede/pontificate/abdicate re: political
/sexual/financial improprieties? Do your deities approve of you? How much??

# Court Frees Women-Beaters. KUWAIT(Reuters) A Kuwaiti court acquitted 7 men
  accused of attacking a female student for not wearing a traditional Muslim
  headscarf. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000612/10/odd-kuwait-unveiled-dc
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  "The very last thing that Mary Immaculata, the newly appointed mother
   superior at Saint Gertrude's Convent, would have expected as she
   approached Pius IX Hall was that the cherub-cheeked novice Maureen
   Shannon who stood atop the steps to greet her was, in reality, and
   had been for three years, Rocco Genardi, a boy." --John Paul Vancini

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