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From: "Ric Carter" <ric@sonic.net> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:37:38 -0800 |
SkeptiNews 990122a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question # HARDWIRING SECURITY. Beginning with the Pentium III, Intel will tag its processors, and include a random number generator with the chipset. The idea is to make it easier to encrypt data. The mark of the beast - see www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/business/story/17453.html : You won't mind if all your communications contain that ID#, will you? You won't miss your privacy, will you? This isn't a plot to tag & control everybody, is it? It's all for our own good, isn't it? Isn't it? --Ric *** Pope criticizes gay marriages. VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II deplored efforts to give gay unions the same recognition as marriages between men and women, lamenting the "widespread deterioration of the natural and religious sense of marriage." Irked by a few small cities and towns in Italy - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558133236-8a6 : If the Pope doesn't like gay marriage, he shouldn't have one, right? -Ric *** Pope to return to Mexico. MEXICO CITY (AP) - The pope travels to Mexico Friday to sign a document outlining church strategy for the Americas in the coming decades. Devoted to the Virgin of Guadalupe - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558129281-af2 : Does your church have a long-term international strategy? Are you devoted to any specific virgin? Do you plaster up pictures of her everywhere? -Ric *** Blood found in pollster's office. WASHINGTON (AP) Police may have found some DNA evidence from burglars who broke into the office of political stra- tegists working for an opposition prime ministership candidate in Israel's election. "Blood stains on glass suggest perpetrator was injured" - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558130728-a89 : Suppose it'n not human blood - would Netanyahu hire Reptilioids? Would you give a blood sample to prove it wasn't you? Should samples be required? -Ric *** Update: 24 die in Indonesia religious clash. JAKARTA (AP) Rioters fired flaming arrows at houses of worship during a third day of clashes between Christians and Muslims in eastern Indonesia. At least 24 people have been killed in the violence on two islands and fighting erupted on a third. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558131863-79d : Are flaming arrows hard to shoot? Are they better than Molotov cocktails? *** $6 mln in funding for coffee study. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Millions of Americans know the therapy a cup of coffee can deliver early in the morning. Researchers at Vanderbilt U. say it's possible coffee could do more, perhaps even help people who suffer from depression and alcoholism. "People drink coffee because they like it or they like the way it makes them feel - My suggestion is that we really don't know what causes those effects." See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558130010-3ad : What's your favorite stimulant? Does coffee help? Was caffeine a gift of the Reptilioids, to keep us lively? Is coke too strong? Too weak? Why? -Ric # In a press statement the Most Rev. Daniel P. Reilly, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcestor, MA, released preliminary findings of the Bishop's commission appointed to investigate the alleged Audrey Santo miracles. See: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/5840/miracle1.htm Summary report: http://www.worcesterdiocese.org/news/communications/releases/audrey.html : Do you believe in miracles? Are miracles dangerous, possible, fantasy? -R ### BELL TELLS. In a startling interview on Curtis Sliwa's radio program, Art Bell admitted that all his guests are frauds. "They're all imposters and psychotics", slurred Bell. He was guzzling a Slurpee made with Aqua Velva and Nyquil. "Boylan's an acidhead, and Hoagland is the most deluded, not to mention being light in the loafers", he rasped, just before coating Sliwa with blue vomit. The interview will be rerun on WABC. ### : Why can't all talkonalities confess their darkest secrets? Do you care? -R *** First lady honors Muslim holiday. WASHINGTON (AP) Under the smiling gaze of first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, the White House celebrated the Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr Thursday. "Religion should not serve as a weapon of war and division, but as a bridge to peace," she said. It was the third year Clinton invited Muslim families, academics, activists and dignitaries to a buffet reception in the Old Executive Office Building in the White House complex. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558137743-55e : What's your favorite state-sponsored religious observance? Are religions better at promoting war or peace? Is gov't better at waging war or peace? -R *** Militant charged in rabbi's death. BEIT EL, West Bank (AP) - An Islamic militant who was charged with killing an elderly rabbi and lobbing grenades into a crowded square and a bus stop said he had no regrets. "I only did my duty to my country and my people," said Salem Sarsour, a member of Hamas. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558137710-804 : Do your religious observances include hand grenades? Are they fun? --Ric *** Patient's cells may grow new organs. WASHINGTON (AP) - A patient's own cells may be used to grow new organs. These so-called stem cells, the foun- dation source of the body's tissue, have been identified as a way to make new skin, liver and other organs. Embryos may not be needed for research - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558136655-c69 : What new organs would you like? Would you like to rebuild your feet, face, brain, belly? If you replace enough organs, are you effectively immortal? -R *** Brazil orders moon ranch evacuation for pollution. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - A Brazilian court has barred hundreds of people from a ranch serving as the center of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Latin American operations, charging its sewage pollutes surrounding wetlands. 74,000-acre complex evacuated - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558137434-cf3 : Does your religion own huge ranches, spew garbage, have a foreign policy? # Space Mirror Will Light the Skies. Wear sunglasses at night? The crew of Mir plans to unfold a large space mirror which could reflect enough light to make it as bright as the moon. Long polar nights could get a beam of sun- shine. http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/space990121.html : Should night be banned? Is this terraforming? Will it attract ETs? Who? -R # Racially-targeted Weapons May Become Reality Soon. LONDON ó Biological and genetic weapons designed to kill specific ethnic or racial groups are no longer the stuff of science fiction. A designer plague that would only kill Serbs or a toxin engineered to affect Israelis or Kurds does not exist yet, but advances in biotechnology and the mapping of all human genes could be misused to develop lethal weapons within 5 to 10 years. Death on demand - see http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/weapons990121.html : Who'll first use these weapons? What ethnic groups would you use them on? * ric@sonic.net * http://www.sonic.net/~ric * ICQ# 19633976 * * *** SkeptiChat: sliding down the razor-blade of life *** now featuring SkeptiNews: All The News That's Fit To Question email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: majordomo@lists.sonic.net +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | UFOMIND MAILING LIST | | Supporting the World's Largest Paranormal Website | | www.ufomind.com Moderator: Glenn Campbell | | | | Archived at: http://www.ufomind.com/misc/ | | Submissions to: ufomind@lists.best.com | | "unsubscribe" (in body) to: ufomind-request@lists.best.com | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ RELEVANCE OF THIS MESSAGE: Interesting
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Created: Jan 23, 1999