Skeptic News - Monday #1
Ric Carter
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@ Hi, Bye: http://www.powazek.com/nikon/iranbyitlikealunatic.html
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# PLA Revises the Art of War. ‘Asymmetrical’ warfare – terrorism, computer
hacking, economic sabotage, assassination of US citizens – is the Chinese
military’s strategy to defeat the US. PLA flag officers are looking beyond
the nuclear age to a new and more stealthy form of war. Can this be turned
against China too? http://insightmag.com/archive/200002063.shtml
# The West engineered better foods but China may reap the harvest. The US &
have spent billions doing basic research in genetically modified crops and
animals to make foods that are better-tasting, more nutritious & kinder to
the environment. Will China now step in and charge the US and Europe steep
royalties for the right to grow the new organisms that result from this
research? Those are strong possibilities, in the wake of Greenpeace's
stunningly swift and successful campaign to ban GM foods and crops.
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/sun/opinion/news_1e6avery.html
: Would you rather wage war with troops, assassins, spies, (bio)engineers,
economists, terrorists, hackers, lawyers, pond scum, robots? If any side in
a conflict employs any specific tactic, how long until that same tactic is
used in return? What leaders/engineers/scientists/economists/hackers would
you like to assassinate? Would anyone bother to assassinate you? Really??
@ Peculiar Feedback Loops That Drive Media Reporting of Technological
and Science Issues: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/74.html
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# MYSTERY ICE LANDS IN SURREY, BC. Canada joins Spain and Italy with
reports of mystery ice chunks falling from the sky since early January.
It's a good thing cows don't fly: http://ufobc.org/whizzbang.htm
# MYSTERY ICE FALLS IN OTTAWA, ONTARIO. More falling ice in Canada. More
gleeful Forteans on the Web: http://persweb.direct.ca/psa/ottawaice.html
# The Return of the Phoenix Lights: http://www.caus.org/ft020700.htm
: Have UFOs dropped anything on you lately? Is your backyard a dump for UFO
debris/icefalls/sewage? Do lights circle overhead, spewing chemtails & ice &
confetti messages in unknowable alphabets? Are you getting tired of this??
# Chemtrail Pattern Photos: http://www.sightings.com/health3/chemphot.htm
# Chemtrails - Another Explanation? www.sightings.com/politics6/chemex.htm
# Chemtrails DataPage: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/chemdatapage.html
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# Computer Creates Fiction. TROY, NY (AP) Brutus creates stories about lies,
self-deception & acts of betrayal. There is no dark muse inspiring Brutus,
though. No torturous plumbing of the writer's soul. Brutus is a computer
program. Brutus.1 can write stories because its creators have condensed
the complexities of deceit and double-crosses into mathematical equations
it can understand. Characters & facts of the story are fed into Brutus.1,
and out comes 500-word tales that read very much like human prose.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2000/feb/06/020600849.html
: Do computers entertain you, lie to you, deceive you, program you? How many
popular writers are actually computers, robots, aliens? Is everything propa-
ganda, programming, fiction? Are these questions being written by computer?
@ The Walkie-Talkie Theory -- Bipedalism Was Necessary For Human
Speech Evolution: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/61.html
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# Dolly-Team In Cystic Fibrosis Experiment. SCIENTISTS plan to create the
world's first sheep with human cystic fibrosis, involving the team that
cloned Dolly the sheep. It would be the first example of genetically
engineering a large animal to give it a human disease. Mice and rats
have already been used in such experiments, but the idea of cloning
larger animals with the intention of making them sick raises a new
question in a field of science which is already an ethical minefield.
www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/02/06/stiscosco01001.html?999
: Would you rather experiment on human diseases and their cures by working
on natural/re-engineered humans, animals, aliens, lawyers, me? If language
is a virus, should we infect animals? Should mosquitoes be re-engineered to
deliver vaccines, gene therapies, mutagens? Are animals morally equivalent
to humans before/after being physically/mentally enhanced? Is morality bad?
# West Nile Virus About To Return? Mass War On Mosquitoes?
http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/mos.htm
@ Infection Is Much Bigger Than We Thought:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/92.html
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# TROJ_SUB7GOLD.21 - new hacking tool being spread on the Internet. Recently
we received numerous reports of TROJ_SUB7GOLD.21, a new backdoor Trojan,
which allows hackers to remotely control an infected computer. As with
many backdoors, TROJ_SUB7GOLD.21 arrives as an executable. Once executed,
the backdoor Trojan installs itself on the system, then allows hackers to
connect & control the computer; it may then try to collect confidential
information, such as login data, passwords & credit card information. To
prevent hackers from accessing your system, we advise you to avoid running
any suspicious or unexpected files. If you have a suspicious file or think
you may have a virus, email it to virus_...@trendmicro.com for our team
of virus doctors to review -- a free service provided by Trend Micro.
TROJ_SUB7GOLD.21 is detected with Trend pattern file #652 and higher.
http://antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=TROJ_SUB7GOLD.21
: What's your favorite virus? If language is a virus, how do computers talk
to each other? Will the perfect computer evolve that will take control of
the Net and all its components, then the users [we humans], then the world,
the galaxy, the universe? Are we destined to be virus-fodder? Can we resist?
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# Arizona Makes Preparations For Secession From U.S. An Arizona state legis-
lative committee has approved a resolution calling for the dissolution of
the federal government in the event that it abolishes the US Constitution,
declares martial law or confiscates firearms -- scenarios some say are not
unrealistic. http://www.sightings.com/politics6/ARIZONA.HTM
: From what nation would you like to secede? Will you receive aid from ETs,
the Illuminati, robots, me? What's your favorite secessionist fantasy? Do
others in your area wish to secede from you? How far can you fragment??
# Decent housing elusive for Navajos - 3rd-World America. On US Indian res-
ervations, housing is in desperately short supply & often substandard.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563970534-ebd
# Also: Statistics of the Navajo Nation, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563970633-107
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"Red meat is not bad for you. Fuzzy green meat is bad for you." --anon
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AlecHol
># Dolly-Team In Cystic Fibrosis Experiment. SCIENTISTS plan to create the
> world's first sheep with human cystic fibrosis, involving the team that
> cloned Dolly the sheep. It would be the first example of genetically
> engineering a large animal to give it a human disease. Mice and rats
> have already been used in such experiments, but the idea of cloning
> larger animals with the intention of making them sick raises a new
> question in a field of science which is already an ethical minefield.
> www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/02/06/stiscosco01001.html?999
That`s it......it`s all off now.........
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AlecHol
ric carter
> Ric Carter wrote:
> > SkeptiNews 000207a - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question
> etc.
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> You can access your very own source of Skeptic News right away.
> Find out here at:
> http://www.elgarsden.com/0zpxd.htm
Interesting, if non-canonical. You'll be in an upcoming bulletin.
BTW if I had to choose between:
1) Potatoes, grease, and char
2) Brownie mix, frosting, and hash
3) ASCII characters, LCDs, and nervous tissue
4) All of the above
5) Any combination of the above
6) None of the above
I'd look for option #7: Some of the above, plus other stuff.
* Reality is whatever bites your ass * http://i.am/nutz *
Ric Carter
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@ Non-skeptical but timely comments: http://skepticon.pitas.com/
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# UFO Occupant. Around the center of the craft were alternating blue and
white lights. The craft hovered in total silence for a least ten minutes
when from the bottom center of the craft a figure resembling an astronaut
was let down to ground on a thin silver light or luminous rope. The
astronaut was wearing a silvery suit. http://www.caus.org/mu021400.htm
: Who's your favorite UFO occupant? Have you ever occupied a UFO? Are they
crowded, smelly, badly decorated, dusty? Is it all your fault? Do you use
fireballs for the interior cleanup? D'ya just feel like crashing sometimes?
# NASA's NEAR spacecraft has entered orbit around asteroid 433 Eros.
http://www.spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast14feb_1.htm
# Green & Blue Fireballs: http://www.caus.org/hk021400.htm
@ The Monolith on Phobos: http://www.caus.org/pn021400.htm
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# Armed Interview. BASSETERRE, St.Kitts(AP) Carrying a gun & a grudge, a man
wanted by US drug cops visited a newspaper on the island of St. Kitts to
bitch about news coverage & give a rambling interview claiming to be a
former CIA agent. Charles "Little Nut" Miller walked into The Observer of
St. Kitts with 4 men unannounced. With a gun tucked in his belt, Miller
groused about coverage of US efforts to have him extradited on drug traf-
ficking charges. He said he was pissed The Observer printed his picture,
spit on a copy of the newspaper & threw it in the garbage. He then talked
to reporters for an hour on the condition that details of the interview
not be published. During the conversation, he claimed to have worked with
the CIA fighting leftists in Jamaica in the 1970s. Just another Agency
guy: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564220229-238
: Has the quality of spies greatly declined over the years? Would James Bond
ever have given a news interview, dissed the media, rambled? Is "Little Nut"
a real spy or is he spreading disinfo about spies, drug traffickers, you??
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# Post Abduction Syndrome (PAS) - Description of an Emerging Syndrome. PAS
is an anxiety disorder closely related to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
It is characterized by the reexperiencing of abduction related memories,
fragments, or distortions of those memories and is accompanied by symptoms
of increased anxiety and by avoidance of stimuli related to abduction
memories or abduction related events. The affected person may experience
levels of anxiety that interfere with functioning in personal, occupa-
tional, or social areas. http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/pas.htm
: Do you remember your most recent abduction? Do you relive it sporadically,
constantly, randomly? Do you avoid triggering sequences? Does your implant
malfunction occasionally? Do such malfs hurt? Do you blame the Reptoids??
@ The Nibiruan Council. "Serving The Worlds" - We Welcome all Lightworkers,
Starseeds, walk-ins and all who seek the higher perspective of universal
and mankind's history! Come and join us. http://www.NibiruanCouncil.com
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# China Busts Archbishop. BEIJING (AP) Authorities have again arrested an
80-year-old archbishop of China's underground Roman Catholic Church who
had previously spent nearly three decades in prison. About 150 police took
Archbishop John Yang Shudao into custody around midnight Feb.10 in Fuzhou.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564229606-9ff
: How many cops does your govt need to arrest one 80-year-old priest? How
many priests does your belief system need to over throw one govt? Should all
archbishops be arrested? Should all govts be overthrown? Is China doomed??
# China releases U.S. detainee - busted for photographing Falun Gong demo:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564171340-ac3
# Follow-up: Falun Gong member back in U.S., see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564188992-7a7
# Also: Writers arrested in China, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564174238-e3b
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$ INTRODUCING ELECTROSHIELD OF NORTH AMERICA. Esona.com represents a growing
network of professionals dedicated to finding a practical solutions to
environmental EMF (electromagnetic field) pollution. With the massive pro-
liferation of wireless technologies and cell phone use, the tissue of the
human body absorbs an ever increasing amount and an ever broadening spec-
trum of energy frequencies. In high doses or over an extended period of
time, this electromagnetism can be deadly. http://esona.com/home.html
$ The PSI-bernetics company sells "psychotronic, radionic & psionic devices"
<http://www8.bcity.com/psi_bernetics/> that you wear on various body parts
to amplify psi frequencies. How do you like their high-quality catalog
<http://www8.bcity.com/psi_bernetics/psibase.html> illustrations? How do
you like the <http://www8.bcity.com/psi_bernetics/warranty.html> warranty?
How would you measure "regular usage" of a psionic device? What else would
you like to <http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Wearables/> wear?
@ MICROWAVE TECHNOLOGY AND ITS USE AGAINST HUMANITY:
http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/Orvotron/marapr94.txt
@ NONLETHAL WEAPONS [for MindControl]: TERMS AND REFERENCES:
http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/nonlethal.html
: Have any electronic/psionic devices been utilized against you lately? Can
you shield yourself against electro/psi attacks? If you were more bionic,
would you be more/less vulnerable to electro/psi attacks? Would you care??
# Bionic man takes Metal Mickey: www.theregister.co.uk/000214-000002.html
@ The Mobot Vision System - a light weight, low power, ultra-low cost vision
system designed for use on board a mobile robot. Plug one into your head:
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/vision%2Dmachine/mobot%2Dvision%2Dsystem.html
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# Rushdie sentence still in effect. LONDON (AP) - Iranian hard-liners said
the 1989 death sentence ordered against British novelist Salman Rushdie
remained in effect, despite the Iranian govt's statements more than a year
ago that appeared to lift it. "Based on divine principles ... the ruling
against the apostate Salman Rushdie is still valid and nothing can change
this." http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564219964-8d8
# 10-Yera-Old Afghan Boy Executes Father's Killer - thousands watch:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564210450-de4
# Also: Saudi, 2 Yemenis suffer amputation for theft, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564209192-162
: Have you executed/amputated/maimed anyone lately? Does your belief system
promote mayhem? Do all belief systems? Would you rather punish members of
your own or other sects? Have you purged any heretics/apostates lately? Eh?
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"Don't knock on Death's door. Ring the bell and run away.
He hates that." --Keith Norris
Dave Bethke
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> # UFO Occupant. Around the center of the craft were alternating blue and
> white lights. The craft hovered in total silence for a least ten minutes
> when from the bottom center of the craft a figure resembling an
astronaut
> was let down to ground on a thin silver light or luminous rope. The
> astronaut was wearing a silvery suit.
The suit had wide lapels and bell bottom pants with a pattern of sequins.
Upon removing his helmet, it was noted the astronaut had a wavy black
pompadour with long sideburns and was wearing sunglasses. He seemed to be
muttering "Thankyouverymuch".