February 17, 2000
THE TRUTH IS WAY OUT THERE
Get your tickets now if you
want your mind blown next month when David Icke returns to
Vancouver. If anyone can hurt your brain with
trippy-info-overload, it's this guy. Learn all about who
controls the money, who creates the wars, and who imprisons
humanity with mind control. Icke is not afraid to name
names (Kissinger, Bush, Queen Elizabeth), and doesn't
hesitate to reveal that the string-pullers on our planet
are actually an alien race from another dimension. Crazy?
Yeah. Brilliant? Absolutely. Find out why everything you
know is wrong on Sunday, Mar. 19th at the Vogue Theatre.
Plus, you'll have two chances to get attuned to his bizarre
world as he is interviewed on CFUN (AM 1410), first on
Saturday Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. and again on Sunday, Mar. 11 at
3 p.m. Tune in and trip out!
IF GOD HAD MEANT FROGS
TO FLY, HE WOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS
Researchers at the University of Nijmeen in the Netherlands
have succeeded in levitating a frog with a powerful
superconducting magnet, a device which slightly distorts
the electrons in the atoms of any object placed in its
path. The researchers were quick to point out that the frog
"looked comfortable" and that he "it went back to its
fellow frogs looking perfectly happy." The experiment also
succeeded with fish, grasshoppers and a cheese sandwich.
(New Scientist)
I SENSE SOMEONE SCAMMING YOU
The New
York City Human Resources Administration has been forced to
end a program that was giving career re-training to welfare
recipients. The training was to work as telephone psychics
for The Psychic Network, which charges callers $4.99 per
minute and offered to pay the "workfare" recipients $10 per
hour. The only qualifications necessary were a high school
diploma and the ability to read, write and speak English.
(AP)
AND THE FAKE BLOOD MADE ME FAINT
The Universal
Studios amusement park in Florida is being sued for $15,000
by a woman who claims the park's "Halloween Haunted House"
caused her "extreme fear, emotional distress and mental
anguish," when she was chased by a costumed employee
wielding a chain saw. (AP)
GEORGE ORWELL IS TURNING
IN HIS GRAVE
A company in Herndon, Virginia is developing
wristwatch-sized Global Positioning System satellite
receivers that will be hooked up to the internet, so you
can find the location of anything that is equipped with one
of these gadgets. Future uses include putting one on your
child, then going to the master website to find out where
he or she may be at any given time. (www.space.com)
THAT'S ONE WAY TO AVOID A PAINFUL DELIVERY
A Brazilian
women who has been in a coma since August and on life
support for the past five months has given birth to a
healthy baby boy. Doctors performed a Caesarean section to
save the baby, which weighed in at 4.4 pounds. (Reuters)
IN SPACE, NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM FOR A REALLY
STRONG COFFEE
Scientists have announced the discovery of a
"hibernation gene" in humans, which is hoped will
eventually allow for human astronauts to be put to sleep
for months or years while they travel the massive distances
of outer space (hey, they stole that idea from a movie!). A
more immediate application is to put donor organs into a
state of hibernation, thereby preserving them for weeks or
months until needed. (Sunday Times)
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