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    Conspiracy of silence won't silence conspiracy theories

    Demos fears government terror strategy 'fuels mistrust' Secrecy surrounding counter-terrorism operations is fuelling mistrust of authorities, a study by independent think tank Demos suggests. It urges the government and secret services to be more open to stop extremist groups using...
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    Aliens blamed for Chorley powercut

    Aliens are being blamed for a massive power cut which affected more than 14,000 people in Chorley. Last week, thousands of homes and businesses across the borough were left in semi-darkness when two primary sub stations lost power for several minutes. John Szwarc, of Greenside, Euxton, was...
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    The politics of fear

    The title of the thread is a reference to a book I've just finished reading which argues that much of modern politics is dominated by sentiments of fear about various things (worthwhile but could have been much better, imo). Anyway, this argument seems to tie in quite nicely with this little...
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    Belief In Conspiracy Theories: Public Survey

    I can't actually find the details of how the survey was carried out or what the questions were, unfortunately. Anyway, I'm slightly surprised Area 51 tops the poll not to mention some of the omissions Top conspiracy theories Of the many conspiracy theories to surface over recent years...
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    Jury Finds Saliva Of HIV-Positive Man 'A Deadly Weapon'

    A 42 year-old HIV-positive man from Texas who spat at a police officer during his 2006 arrest for being drunk and disorderly has been sentenced to 35 years in prison by a Dallas court and must serve at least half of his sentence before being eligible for parole because the jury found that his...
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    Corporate Myths

    Beware urban myths which catch the unwary in a web of lies The lads' magazine Loaded had to issue a grovelling apology to Heinz, the baked beans maker, this month. The magazine, as part of a piece called Pointless But True, had fallen for a persistent urban myth that Heinz once manufactured a...
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    Sarajevo Municipality Bans Fortunetelling

    SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina: A municipality in Sarajevo has banned fortunetelling and sorcery and will impose fines on those caught practicing either, it said in a statement Wednesday. The Novo Sarajevo municipality's new regulation said that people involved in "sorcery, fortunetelling and...
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    'Sobbing child poltergeist' forces family to flee home

    A poltergeist that has forced a terrified Carlisle family to flee their home is to be 'cleansed' by a vicar. Spooky happenings prompted Allison Marshall, 27, to bundle her family out of the house in Mardale Road, Raffles, in the middle of the night. Carlisle Housing Association, which owns...
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    Conspiracies Exhibition, Blackpool

    I haven't come across any mention of this on here but has anybody else visited this? It cuts across a number of Fortean topics as the conspiracy involves the obscuring of much new science, ufology, ancient astronauts, esoterica and religious truths. It's also on the site of the old Doctor Who...
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    George Galloway

    The gorgeous one has just delivered a tour de force in the commons but is heading towards a suspension nonetheless. In his speech he's made various allegations of conspiracy (politically biased commitee, chair of the inquiry making no effort to find out where various pieces of known frauds...
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    Floods are judgment on society, say bishops

    Floods are judgment on society, say bishops The floods that have devastated swathes of the country are God's judgment on the immorality and greed of modern society, according to senior Church of England bishops. One diocesan bishop has even claimed that laws that have undermined...
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    Omnipotence

    Is God genuinely omnipotent? By that I mean not only can he be everywhere at once but would he be able to spread his message simultaneously, across the internet for example? Is Google the new anti-christ?
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    Cartoon to tempt teenagers into priesthood

    Cartoon to tempt teenagers into priesthood Japanese manga cartoons have become a multi-billion pound global market, commonly associated with martial arts warriors rather than with nuns and monks. But the Catholic Church in England and Wales is launching its own comic strip this week to...
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    Wal-Mart recruits intelligence officers

    Wal-Mart recruits intelligence officers BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has been recruiting former military and government intelligence officers for a branch of its global security office aimed at identifying threats to the world's largest retailer, including from 'suspect...
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    Rowan Williams says anti-gays misread Bible

    Rowan Williams says anti-gays misread Bible The spiritual leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans has said conservative Christians who cite the Bible to condemn homosexuality are misreading a key passage written by Saint Paul almost 2,000 years ago. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan...
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    Company Logos And Paganism / Satanism

    Procter & Gamble Awarded $19 Million In Damages For False Rumors Of Satanic Connections Four defendants, one from Ogden, spread the lie while working as distributors for Amway By Pamela Manson A federal jury in Salt Lake City has awarded more than $19 million to Procter & Gamble for damage...
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    Suspiciously Common Russian 'Falling' Deaths

    (Copied from the Anna Politkovskaya murder thread) https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/anna-politkovskaya-murdered.27920/ http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2334908.ece
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    Evangelists create unholy row over plan to put ancient bones

    DEEP in the dusty, unlit corridors of Kenya's national museum, locked away in a plain-looking cabinet, lies one of mankind's oldest secrets. Turkana Boy, 1.6 million years old, is the most complete skeleton of a prehistoric human found. But his first public display this year is at the heart...
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    Germany seeks arrest of CIA 'rendition' agents

    A German court has issued arrest warrants for 13 people, thought to be CIA agents, suspected of organising the abduction of a man mistaken for a terrorist. Christian Schmidt-Sommerfeld, a prosecutor from Munich, said that the warrants were issued in connection with the so-called...
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    Poisoned: Spy Who Quit Russia For Britain (Aleksander Litvinenko)

    SCOTLAND YARD is investigating a suspected plot to assassinate a former Russian spy in Britain by poisoning him with thallium, the deadly metal. Aleksander Litvinenko, who defected to Britain six years ago, is fighting for his life in a London hospital. A toxicology test at Guy’s hospital last...
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    Film fans faint at Saw III show

    Film fans faint at Saw III show Staff at a UK cinema have had to call emergency services three times in one night because of a spate of people passing out during horror film Saw III. One woman was taken to hospital and two other adults were treated by medics after fainting in Stevenage...
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    Pope Abolishes the State of Limbo

    The Pope will this week overturn a belief held by Roman Catholics since medieval times by abolishing the concept of Limbo. Limbo is traditionally held to be the place where the souls of children go if they die before they can be baptised and so freed from original sin. It is also the...
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    Bomb-plot suspect halts evidence, references ISI

    (sounds a little walter mitty to me) A Briton accused of a fertiliser bomb plot has refused to give further evidence in court because he fears for the safety of his family in Pakistan. Omar Khyam, 24, of Crawley, West Sussex, was the first of seven Britons accused of the plot to give...
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    Muslim anger builds over Pope's speech

    A statement from the Vatican has failed to dampen growing anger among Muslims around the world at a speech by the Pope in which he discussed the concept of holy war. The Vatican said last night that Benedict XVI had not intended to offend when he quoted a 14th-century Christian emperor as...
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    Beer-Froth Jesus Will Lead Christmas Campaign

    By Martha Linden, PA An advertisement featuring the face of Jesus as a `miraculous' apparition on a beer glass is to be the centrepiece of a campaign to encourage church-going this Christmas, it was announced today. The image of Jesus in the froth left on the sides of an almost empty pint...
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    KGB Used Clairvoyants As Agents

    Allegations that Soviet rulers enlisted the services of clairvoyants to spy on their enemies seem to have found confirmation, a popular Russian tabloid claims. Correspondents of the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily said that not long before he passed away, Professor Alexander Spirkin, well-known...
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    Irish museum clarifies mix-up over Israel bog text

    DUBLIN (Reuters) - An ancient Irish manuscript found in a bog last week does not refer to 'wiping out Israel', the National Museum of Ireland said on Thursday, after a flood of enquiries wondering at the timing of the discovery. The National Museum of Ireland announced on Tuesday what it said...
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    Fossil Points To Time When Fish Walked Ashore

    FOSSIL POINTS TO TIME WHEN FISH WALKED ASHORE By Jennifer Sym, PA A 383-million-year-old fossil has given scientists an insight into a major evolutionary change: when fish first transformed fins into limbs. It took six years of searches in the icy wilderness of the Canadian Arctic before...
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    The Miracles of Jesus Christ

    don't know if this should be in new science, religion or fortean news stories. :? anyway... JESUS MAY HAVE WALKED ON FROZEN WATER, SCIENTISTS CLAIM By Rachel Williams, PA, in New York Jesus may not have walked on water as the Bible says but on a unique type of floating ice...
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    Could brain implants control people remotely?

    In theory yes, although you would not be able to do much useful with them. The news this week that US researchers have produced a radio-controlled dogfish and plan to extend the technology to sharks raises the question of what the military, which funded the research, want to do it for. The...
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    Top Hoaxing

    NOTE TO SUBSCRIBERS - Re Narnia walks out of talks Please disregard item 'Narnia walks out of talks..' which appeared on wire at 12.01 GMT. Story was a hoax and inadvertently transmitted to wire. Link :lol: :lol: here's the original story in full... WTO MEETING - Narnia walks...
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    Saucy Jack: Life imitates art

    anyone for tap? It's a ripper of a project for Vince Musician's new CD based on notorious serial killer Dunstable's answer to Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber has a new musical CD out based on the story of Jack the Ripper.Vince Wilson, 42, from Victoria Street, has been holed up in his studio...
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    Bowie to play Tesla in new movie

    Bowie lands new movie role Rock idol David Bowie has landed a new movie role, playing the inventor and electrical genius Nikola Tesla. Bowie, 58, will star alongside Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale and Michael Caine in forthcoming film The Prestige, according to movie industry magazine...
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    Labour's 'dirty tricks'

    Labour's 'dirty tricks' The Government was accused of waging a 'dirty tricks' campaign last night over a potentially explosive file on David Cameron's personal life. Allies of Mr Cameron cried foul after the Treasury issued an unprecedented statement revealing that it held sensitive...
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    Tissue / Organ / Limb Regeneration

    'Miracle mouse' can grow back lost limbs August 28, 2005 'Miracle mouse' can grow back lost limbs Jonathan Leake, Science Editor SCIENTISTS have created a "miracle mouse" that can regenerate amputated limbs or badly damaged organs, making it able to recover from injuries that would kill or...
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    Book 'tells Jesus' family tree'

    Book 'tells Jesus' family tree' The book gives family trees and biographical details of biblical figures An historical document purporting to give a complete family history of Jesus and other biblical figures has been found at Wales' national library. The manuscript, believed to date...
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    Out Of Place Daleks

    Police stop Dalek invasion ARMED POLICE were called to Parliament after a lone Dalek was spotted outside Westminster. According to the Sunday Mail, machine gun touting coppers faced off against the Dalek and demanded it put down its plunger and cease to attempting to exterminate anyone...
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    Hackers put Bush in power

    Hackers put Bush in power THE MISSUS of failed democrat presidential candidate John Kerry, Teresa has told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that she thinks that the only reason her husband lost to George Bush was because of hackers. Mrs Kerry is still skeptical about George Bush's victory...
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    Lizard Army Develops Copulating Robot

    Lizard Army develops copulating robot Odds and Sods: RoTM" We're obliged this week to vigilant members of the neoLuddite Resistance Army (NRA) who have monitored with alarm the news that a South Korean professor claims to have developed artificial chromosomes which will eventually lead to...
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    Gone for a Halliburton?

    from reuters european business wire - 24/09/2004 ......................................................................................................... Halliburton CEO to meet Nigeria head over dispute By Deepa Babington NEW YORK, Sept 23 (Reuters) -...
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    Scream mask killer guilty

    Scream mask killer guilty By SUN ONLINE REPORTER Dressed in a white cloak and wearing a Scream mask, Heather Stephenson-Snell, 46, shot Robert Wilkie, 43, in the stomach with a sawn-off shotgun. A jury at Manchester Crown Court found her guilty of one count of murder and one count of...
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    Scientists make monkeys boring

    <headline>Scientists make monkeys boring</headline> SUPERMONKEYS ARE NO LONGER science fiction, they're science fact thanks to some whacky scientists in the US experimenting with gene therapy. Your average monkey will only work hard if he or she knows there's going to be a reward in it...
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    Belarus deports Chernobyl expert

    Belarus deports Chernobyl expert Chernobyl was the world's worst nuclear disaster A British scientist who studied the Chernobyl disaster in the former Soviet Union has been mysteriously deported from Belarus while on a lecture tour. The decision to rescind his visa was made by the...
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    Waxwork Hitler's Hair Growing (Madame Tussauds)

    can anybody provide me with any documentary evidence of the story of hitler's hair continuing to grow in madame tussaud's? websites particularly helpful
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    balls to the bilderbergs

    might be fun to see how far this little fella gets given his bilderberg connections. http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?_BALLS_EDWARD_ <headline>Brown aide quits to be an MP</headline> Gordon Brown's right-hand man resigned today after being selected to stand for Parliament in a...
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    Sonic Weapons / Acoustic Weapons

    recall some interesting stuff about this in the ft a year or two ago. cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/03/03/sonic.weapon.ap/index.html Link is dead. The MIA webpage can be accessed via the Wayback Machine...
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    Yukos

    worth checking out for any chelsea fans. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_881439.html
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