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@ Halo: http://www.dailyradar.com/features/game_feature_page_899_1.html
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# Don't like the weather? Blame the Man on the Moon. According to new
  evidence, tides may have a major effect on deep-ocean circulation, which
  controls our climate. http://www.alienzoo.com/news/n/200006150002.cfm

# Earthquakes 'trigger early births' (BBC) Stress caused by being in
  an earthquake could cause mothers to give birth early. All shook out:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_793000/793464.stm

# 495: IT'S NOT JUST AN AREA CODE ANYMORE. During the course of playing
  around with alphanumerics & other forms of number crunching, some curious
  synchronicities turn up. Things that make you go, "Hmmm...." This past
  week the synch involved the number 495. http://www.caus.org/cz061600.htm

: Is your life/death/prelife/afterlife controlled by planetoids, tectonics,
alphanumerics, robotics, me? Were you shaken from a nice warm womb? Was 495
involved? Do you blame the lunar cycles? What's your favorite synchronicity?
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# Man guilty of killing dog he felt was gay. OCALA, Fla. (AP) A man accused
  of beating a dog to death because he thought it was gay was convicted of
  animal cruelty. http://www.bergen.com/morenews/dog16200006167.htm

# AMA passes reproductive measures - bends to Vatican pressure:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567371371-57c
# Nothing illegal about group sex! Charges against swingers dropped:
  http://www.herald.com/content/thu/news/broward/digdocs/036499.htm

@ I lack the words to describe <http://stormeireland.com/> Storme Ireland.
  The best I find I can do is "gender-bending con man supermodel wannabe".
  <http://www.westword.com/issues/2000-06-08/feature.html/page1.html> Now
  see even more at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/

: Have you or your dog/friends/computer/saviour bent any genders lately? Do
you bend genders often? Do you or anyone else react violently to ambiguous
gender signals? Do the voices in your head control your reactions? Quietly?
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@ "DAILY LESSON BY HIS DIVINE GRACE A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA" the
  front of the site screams in Real Audio at the Online Hare Krishna Temple,
  <http://www.harekrishnatemple.com/> at <http://supersoul.com/> Supersoul.
  Besides its great name, Supersoul also has a Krishnacore section (for you
  <http://www.supersoul.com/krishnacore/> punk types looking to sell cook-
  books and start a band) with a message I can't personally interpret. And
  what good is a religious site without an <http://www.krishnaculture.com/>
  online store? Vedic Resource has art and music, Krishna Culture has sastra
  and seva, for all your sastra and seva needs. If your religious thirsts
  aren't sufficiently quenched, see http://memepool.com/Subject/Religion/

: What's your favorite online religion? Are you bothered by the Hare Krishna
propensities for child abuse, murder, vegetarianism/cannibalism, poster art,
commercialism? What religion would you most like to model your faith upon??
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# Linnaeus hoped to feed the poor of Sweden, so he tried to grow bananas,
  coffee, and other tropical imports in frigid Uppsala. If only he'd known
  about recombinant DNA: http://www.linguafranca.com/br/0004/zencey.html

# The Ultimate Secret: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/t/200006150006.cfm
# Genome overhyped? No: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/t/200006150005.cfm
# Genome overhyped? Yes: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/t/200006150004.cfm

# Splosh but no splash. (BBC) French researchers show how to make falling
  drops of liquid stick to a surface rather than splash right off. Kinky,
  eh? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_792000/792098.stm

: Have you experimented on (m)any genes/liquids/bananas/Swedes lately? Have
they responded well? Do you keep your experiments/results/ideas secret? Does
your conspiracy have many experimental secrets? D'ya splosh around secretly?
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# Mobiles to beam into new age. (BBC) Soon your mobile phone may resemble
  the lapel badges worn by crewmembers on Star Trek. Beam me up, PacTel:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_792000/792577.stm

# Spam filters don't work shocks new survey - The truth always hurts - total
  bans may be necessary: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11416.html
# US bids to ban spam: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11380.html

# Sony bitten by Bluetooth. (BBC) Electronics giant Sony is planning to
  put Bluetooth wireless technology in almost every gadget it produces.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_791000/791297.stm

: When all devices/humans/locales are wired together into a vast inescapable
web, will spam be the worst virus? Have you been spammed by your pacemaker
lately?D'ya listen when y'r life-support system tries to sell you something?
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# Maybe prayer didn't stop fire, but something unexplained did. EDEN VALLEY
  Colo — Not even the firefighters can explain what happened here in the
  green velveteen swath they call the Eden Valley. To the 50-plus Seventh
  Day Adventists who live, learn, heal and pray here, there is only one
  explanation for why Satan was chased snakelike from their gardens.
  Miracles on demand: http://insidedenver.com/news/0615eden2.shtml

# Pope invites homeless to lunch - pontiff devours helpless waifs:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567368507-2b3
# County tries to quell lawsuit over Ten Commandments - "not that!"
  http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,175011990,00.html?

: Have you participated in any miracles lately? Is every event that occurs
in the universe miraculous, determined by deities, sacred? Are homelessness,
genocide, bigotry, propaganda, disasters, all planned by greater powers? Eh?
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# ART AS COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA: Altho the cultural climate in North Korea has
  become less politicized in the last few years, arts & culture are subordi-
  nated to political & economic aims and are tools for facilitating a Commie
  revolution. Now, state-run broadcasters are a bit more lax: they allow TV
  shows with once-prohibited scenes of men & women holding hands in a public
  park: http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/news/2000/06/__04/20000615_0432.htm

# ETHIOPIAN CHRISTIAN ART FOR 400: All you ever wanted to know about it.
  http://addistribune.ethiopiaonline.net/Archives/2000/05/26-05-00/Hist.htm
# TRUE PATH TO FREEDOM FOUND IN "JOYFUL SELF-EMPTYING" - empty your pockets
  today, now, NOW!! http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4026

: Is all art propaganda? Is all propaganda art? Does propaganda fulfill you?
Would you rather empty your heart/mind/purse/bladder/garage? What political/
economic/religious/sexual/artistic/athletic propaganda stirs you the most??
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  "I don't believe a word the powers and principalities spew. They'll
   fahk you everytime. Every chance they get. God bless the Militias!"
   -- "Twonky" <twonky@mindspring.com>

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SkeptiNews 000616a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question

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@ Burning: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/waco/questions/20000611/ny119
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# Flying Triangles on the Increase. UFO reports in the US were low with less
  than 200 in April compared to 400 last November. However, Flying Triangle
  reports have increased inferring these may not be of extraterrestrial ori-
  gin. It is possible that UFOs are maintaining a low profile while our Sun
  continues its heavy solar storm activity. http://www.caus.org/ft061500.htm

# UFO, Orb, Rod? From: Todd Lemire <tlemire@home.com>  -- I'd like to get
  some feedback on a video capture from some Hi8 Video I took while filming
  "rods".  This 2 second video clip shows an astounding maneuver by some
  type of "orb".  Any feedback would be greatly appreciated as I didn't put
  much effort into the study of "rods" until I started taping these myself.
  Any ideas what this could be? http://members.home.net/tlemire/rods.html

: Have UFOs/orbs/rods/triangles/pentagons/vapors been hiding/flaunting/expo-
sing/killing themselves? Is there a relationship with solar activity? D'ya
increase/decrease your paranormal activities during solar maxima? Why not?
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# First Interrogatories. The role of the Virginia National Guard (VNG) in
  collecting/analyzing/disseminating intelligence reports and other data
  about the incursion of the so-called "Flying Triangle" craft into the
  near-space envelope of Virginia skies: http://www.caus.org/pn061600.htm

# Misinfo at Space.com - June 13th article, "Mars Face Breaks Under Questio-
  ning" at http://www.space.com/opinionscolumns/opinions/ford_000613.html
  was filled with factual errors and opinions disguised as fact. NASA falsi-
  fication too. http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m15-010.shtml

# Lunar mission provokes more questions than answers. Watch the video
  animation of the Lunar Prospector's crash, and wonder where all the
  lunar water went: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal061301.html

: Does your govt agency promulgate disinfo re: aliens/UFOs/paranormals/space
/me? Has your (dis)info been questioned? Should we believe anything you or
any other operative says? How can we tell if you're really an operative??
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# PREVALENCE OF UFO SIGHTINGS, CONTACTS, AND ABDUCTIONS IN AN HMO PRACTICE
  There have been recent medical gatherings and media publications in which
  respected psychiatric professionals have supported the claims of people
  who say they were abducted by UFO's. Some of these people have been found
  to be suffering from a type of post-traumatic stress disorder. A recent
  survey found a 2% potential UFO abduction rate in the general population.
  To discover the prevalence of both UFO abductions and sightings, and to
  establish the veracity and clinical relevance of these claims, I undertook
  a survey of my own HMO practice members. http://www.caus.org/pn061500.htm

: Have you seriously studied UFOs/ETs? Have they seriously studied you? D'ya
tell the truth about what you've found? Do they? Does anyone? Is there any
truth? Where? Are the best truths embedded in fiction? Is all truth fictive?

# The X-Files Phenomena - abducted away: http://www.caus.org/mc061500.htm
# The Death of the Borg: http://www.alienzoo.com/pop/s/200006160001.cfm
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# First 'space tourist' announced. The world's first "citizen explorer" is
  revealed - the businessman will pay $20m to visit the Mir space station.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_792000/792292.stm

# Also - Mir company looks to the future - because the past is gone:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_763000/763661.stm
# Mir spacewalk tests new glue - stick yourself together with ET guts:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_745000/745318.stm
# Successful docking for Mir - longshoremen threaten strike over wages:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_703000/703047.stm

# IONS DRIVING EVER ONWARD. After nearly 40 years of development and the
  successful flight of Deep Space 1 in 1998-1999, ion propulsion is ready
  to go: http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast15jun_1.htm?list

: Have you toured space lately? How much will you pay? Should BillGates be
sent into orbit? Should he be allowed to return? What's your favorite space
propulsion/glue/hallucinogen? Do spacewalks wear out your soles/souls? How?
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# Ghostbuster - Spooked by spectral visits from Henry VIII's fifth wife,
  Hampton Court Palace calls in Richard Wiseman. A posse of spooks haunts
  its stately halls. Faced with such ghastly guests, who ya gonna call?
  Richard Wiseman, that's who. The 33-year-old magician turned academic
  has become Britain's leading ghostbuster, finding scientific explanations
  for supernatural claims. http://www.alienzoo.com/news/p/200006150001.cfm

# "Sniffing detective" ages corpses. Here's a new twist on carbon-based
  entity dating. Scientists at Oak Ridge National Labs in Tennessee have
  discovered that "a corpse's characteristic chemical cocktail could reveal
  the time of death." http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal061602.html

: Have you sniffed any corpses/ghosts/aliens/robots lately? Do you have any
rational explanations for your irrational perceptions? Does your dog smell
too? What's your favorite dead entity? How many dead wives are enough? Why?
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# UK Abduction Report. I had been abducted. As I had been driving along the
  whole lock, stock and barrel went up in the air. The car, everything went
  up into a ship, a spaceship! The "greys" did certain various "checks" on
  my person. Non-human looking creatures: http://www.caus.org/pc061600.htm

# Man, 68, falls in drain with alligator. "It's got me, it's got me," he
  shouted as a firefighter pulled him out by his feet. Reptoid foiled:
  http://www.sptimes.com/News/061600/TampaBay/Man_falls_in_with_all.shtml

# NASA's 'digital personnel' http://www.alienzoo.com/news/t/200006150011.cfm
# Octopus-Like ETs? http://ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m15-009.shtml
# Mapping universe then & now. http://alienzoo.com/news/y/200006150012.cfm
# BOfH Bloodies His Hands: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11291.html
# I was a crop-circle-making alien. www.alienzoo.com/news/u/200006150008.cfm

: Have you been abducted by reptilioids/octopoids/BOfHs/cerealogists/robots/
digitoids/greys lately? Have you escaped? Did you map the abduction site? Do
you remember it all clearly? Do the voices in your head remind you of it???
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  "There is poetry in the laughter of a child -- because they experience
   humor in its purest form and, mostly, because 'ha' rhymes with 'ha'."
   -- http://www.SleazyTabloid.com

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