To: bpr-list@philologos.org (BPR Mailing List)
Subject: [BPR] - May 30, 1999 TV Programs
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 08:43:23 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

8:00 PM Eastern

 TLC - ASTEROID IMPACT - Astronomy and space probes predict
   collisions with the Earth.(CC)(TVG)

9:00

 FOX - THE X-FILES (Repeat) - "Rain King" - Mulder and
   Scully meet a man who claims to control the
   weather.(CC)(TVPG)

 HIST - SWORN TO SECRECY - "WWI: Germany's Secret Gambles" -
   Germany's covert campaigns of World War II.(CC)(TVG)

 TLC - DOOMSDAY ASTEROID - Using computer graphics,
   scientists describe the cataclysmic effects of a comet
   colliding with Earth.(CC)(TVG)

10:00

 HIST - HISTORY UNDERCOVER - "Piercing the Reich:
   American Spies Inside Nazi Germany" - The U.S. secret service
   infiltrates Germany to capture
   Hitler.(CC)(TVPG)

 TLC - IMPACT: EARTH - A random comet or asteroid could
   collide with Earth.(CC)(TVG)

--- BPR

BPR Web Site - http://philologos.org/bpr

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Subject: [BPR] - Weather control: Bulgarian Vegetables A Casualty of War
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 08:48:18 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

Bulgarian Vegetables A Casualty Of War

5-28-99

SOFIA, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Bulgaria's valuable vegetable crop has
become the latest casualty of NATO's air war against neighboring
Yugoslavia.

The Agriculture Ministry said Wednesday that hailstorms destroyed
millions of dollars of crops this month because anti-hail radar
systems were turned off to avoid attracting the hostile attention of
NATO warplanes en route to Yugoslavia.

"The anti-hail systems have been switched off because they use radar
to detect hailstorm clouds and guide anti-hail missiles to destroy
them," an official told Reuters.

"NATO planes can easily mistake these radars with anti-aircraft
defenses in Yugoslavia," the official said. The two systems use
similar frequencies.

Anti-hail missiles are designed to cause the ice in hailstorm clouds
to turn to water or evaporate.

Hailstorms damaged 77,000 acres across Bulgaria by May 22, the
ministry said. Some 40 percent of crops in those areas were considered
lost, with damage estimated at $8.7 million.

Bulgaria allowed NATO to use its airspace for strikes against
Yugoslavia on May 4. Bulgaria and Yugoslavia have similar types of
Russian-built air defenses.

Five stray NATO air-to-ground HARM missiles and another Russian-made
missile have hit Bulgarian territory near the western border with
Yugoslavia.

Agriculture accounts for about 20 percent of Bulgaria's gross domestic
product.

via: New Millennium <hblonde1@tampabay.rr.com>

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Subject: [BPR] - Pacific out of whack
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 08:51:07 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

May 29, 1999

New TOPEX/Poseidon image shows entire Pacific out of whack

NASA/JPL News Release

Southern California's seasonal "June gloom" weather, caused by a
marine layer that traps smog over the Los Angeles basin, may linger
throughout the summer due to a large area of abnormally cool water
sitting off the North American coast, according to scientists studying
new ocean measurements from the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite.

New sea surface height measurements from the U.S./French satellite
show that the sea evel and temperature of the entire Pacific is "out
of balance," including a large area of cool water from Alaska to Baja
California that scientists say will influence regional weather
patterns along the west coast of the Americas this summer.

"Our data certainly show that the unusual oceanic climatic conditions
that gave rise to the El Ni=F1o to La Ni=F1a are not returning to a normal
state," said oceanographer Dr. William Patzert of JPL. "Instead, our
planet's climate system continues to exhibit rather wild behavior.
These large warm and cold, high and low sea levels are slow-developing
and long-lasting, and will certainly influence global climate and
weather for the coming summer and into next fall."

According to Patzert, "the condition could keep Southern California's
seasonal 'June gloom' marine layer, which helps trap smog over the Los
Angeles basin, hovering over the region all summer." The unusually
cool water extends from the Gulf of Alaska along the North American
coast, sweeping south-westward from Baja California, where it merges
with the remnants of La Ni=F1a. The La Ni=F1a phenomenon's cool, lower sea
levels across the equator continue to weaken and break into patches.

via: New Millennium <hblonde1@tampabay.rr.com>

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Subject: [BPR] - New Star Explodes Into Nova In Southern Skies
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 08:52:42 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

New Star Explodes Into Nova In Southern Skies

By Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online Science Editor

5-27-99

A bright new star has exploded into visibility in the southern skies.
It is so bright it can be seen with the unaided eye.

Astronomers say it is a once in a decade event.

Nova Velorum 1999, named after the constellation in which it was
found, was detected independently on 22 May by Peter Williams in
Australia and Alan Gilmore of Mt John University Observatory in New
Zealand.

Previously, it was too dim to be seen with the naked eye. But last
week, it exploded and became one of the brightest objects in the sky.

It is now estimated to have a brightness of magnitude 2, making it
more luminous than many famous bright stars.

Giant explosion

It is what astronomers call a nova - an explosion that occurs in a
system of two orbiting stars, a red giant and a white dwarf star. A
white dwarf is a star at the end of its normal life. It is incredibly
dense, cramming roughly the mass of our Sun into the size of the
Earth.

The white dwarf sucks material from the atmosphere of its larger
companion. Its intense gravity compresses the gas as it falls. Because
of this, its temperature rises to over a million degrees starting a
runaway thermonuclear explosion.

The ejected gas gets even hotter. It is like a star turned inside out.
The nuclear reactions that normally occur deep within a star take
place in the superheated gas.

But the material cannot expand and cool and radiation cannot carry
away the heat fast enough.

One million degrees

The first few minutes of a nova explosion have never been observed.
Computer simulations suggest that the surface temperature of the white
dwarf can exceed one million degrees and that the hot gases are blown
away at more than 5,000 kilometres (3,000 miles) per second.

The last nova as bright as Velorum was Nova Cygni 1975, which peaked
just brighter than magnitude 2.

How the nova will appear over the next few weeks is uncertain, but the
exploding debris will probably fade beyond detectability over the next
few years.

via: New Millennium <hblonde1@tampabay.rr.com>

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To: bpr-list@philologos.org (BPR Mailing List)
Subject: [BPR] - Arutz-7 News items (5/30/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 13:01:53 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

ARABS UNHAPPY WITH CRUCIAL MA'ALEH ADUMIM PLAN
The Palestinian Authority's Nabil Amr has labeled it a "provocation
and a declaration of war against the Palestinian Authority and against
Palestinian soil." The U.S. has also expressed its dismay at it, as
has Labor MK Yossi Beilin. At issue is the decision by the outgoing
Netanyahu government to officially expand the municipal borders of the
town of Ma'aleh Adumim. The plans - signed by Defense Minister Moshe
Arens, who said that it was decided on before the elections - concern
12,500 dunams (3,120 acres) of land initially expropriated in 1993 by
the Rabin government. Prime Minister-elect Barak has refused to
comment on the move, but Beilin assured listeners of Voice of Israel
radio late last week that the new Barak government will not permit the
implementation of the plan.

Arutz-7 correspondent Haggai Huberman explained the importance of the
decision today. "The expansion of Ma'aleh Adumim, which will allow
uninterrupted Jewish construction from there to Jerusalem's French
Hill neighborhood, has even greater strategic significance for Israel
than Har Homa or Ras-Al-Amud (Ma'aleh HaZeitim on Mt. of Olives), as
vital as those projects are," said Huberman. "The Palestinian
Authority is attempting, through mostly illegal construction, to
establish its own territorial contiguity from Bethlehem to Ramallah.
Its plans are to expand the current Arab construction in Abu Dis
northward to the village of Azayim, to Anata [hometown of the prophet
Jeremiah], across to Hizma (north of Jerusalem's Pisgat Ze'ev
neighborhood) to A-Ram, which borders Ramallah. The Palestinian plan
is clearly strategic in nature: to create facts on the ground such
that the slated Palestinian state will stretch on the east from
Jerusalem's northern to its southern boundaries. Eastern Jerusalem is
set to be the heart - the capital - of the nascent state. Expanding
Ma'aleh Adumim westward to Jerusalem will ensure that this contiguity
is broken."

Huberman continued, "Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat indicated that
he understands the implications of the Netanyahu decision very well,
when he exclaimed, 'Israel is trying to prevent us from establishing
our state!' In actuality, the expansion of Ma'aleh Adumim won't block
the formation of a state, but it will create an entity comprised of
several different cantons that will enable Israeli supervision over
the traffic between the areas. This may include Israel imposing
sanctions on the PA should Palestinian actions warrant it."

TEMPLE MOUNT CONSTRUCTION
Prime Minister Netanyahu convened his security cabinet today for
another meeting on the attempts by the Moslems to change the status
quo on the Temple Mount. Journalist Nadav Shraga'i told Arutz-7 that
the Arabs are now working on a new hall under the Temple Mount
surface. "They discovered it while working under the El Aksa mosque
[at the southern end of the Mount], during works which Israel
retroactively approved - only after they began working without a
permit - last year. The current works are, in a sense, a continuation
of the sub-El Aksa works. The size of the new hall that they are
presently preparing for a fourth mosque is over 100 square meters
large, which can hold many more people and be used for storage...
Solomon's Stables, under El Aksa, basically became the third mosque.
Another significant development is that Israeli Arabs and the Islamic
Movement are becoming more involved in what is going on at the Temple
Mount."

Shraga'i explained that the works are not only religiously-motivated,
but also politically: "Over the years, various compromise plans have
been proposed in which sites on the Temple Mount have been allocated
for public Jewish worship. The Arabs have carried out their works in
these places, thus eliminating them as sites for a synagogue. They
are gradually making it impossible for Jews to pray there."

In a related matter, the Supreme Court appeared on its way to
canceling the indictment of Chai Vekayam members who prayed on the
Temple Mount. The Court ordered the Prosecutor's Office to explain
within 15 days why they indicted persons who simply recited the Sh'ma
prayer and sat down on the steps of the Temple Mount in protest of not
being allowed to pray. Yehuda Etzion, Chai Vekayam chairman, said,
"This is an interesting development, in that until now the Court
usually rejects our appeals, while here it appeared to be upset about
the very indictment itself."

NETANYAHU ADMITS TALKS WITH SYRIA
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu convened a cabinet meeting of his
outgoing government, in which he stated that he and the ministers
would do all they could to ensure a smooth transfer of power to the
new government. In the wake of press reports concerning negotiations
with Syria during his term in office, Netanyahu clarified that for a
period of about one year, unofficial contacts with Syria were
conducted along various channels. These contacts did not lead to any
agreement, he said, since Israel did not consent to Syria's
territorial demands. Outgoing Minister Avigdor Kahalani said, in
reaction to the talks, that the country has abandoned all its basic
ideals. Netanyahu said that immediately after his government was
formed, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher clarified, in a
special letter written at the Prime Minister's request, that Israel is
not legally committed to the position which Prime Minister Yitzchak
Rabin had previously communicated to the United States. Certain
progress in the security sphere was also recorded during these
negotiations, Netanyahu said, and added that he will apprise the Prime
Minister-elect of this.

WATER CRISIS WORSENS
The water crisis is on the verge of exploding. Seven communities are
about to use up their yearly water quota, but plan to continue to
water their crops anyway. The seven - including Yad Mordechai,
Lachish, and HaGoshrim - claim that the reparations that the
government planned to pay them in exchange for the reduced water
quotas are not sufficient. Agricultural Center Water Supervisor Yoram
Tamari warns that another ten settlements will be in the same
situation within a month, and "if an arrangement is not found,
Israel's water economy will become chaos."

Arutz Sheva News Service
     <http://www.a7.org>
Sunday, May 30, 1999 / Sivan 15, 5759

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To: bpr-list@philologos.org (BPR Mailing List)
Subject: [BPR] - Tehran told to cut water use amid drought
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 13:03:46 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

Tehran told to cut water use amid drought

May 30, 1999
8:41 AM EDT (1241 GMT)

TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- Tehran water authorities have warned
residents
to rein in consumption of water or risk a cut in their supplies, as
the country faces its worst drought in 30 years, newspapers reported
on Sunday.

"About 50 percent of the water currently used is needlessly wasted,"
the head of northern Tehran's water board, Abdolmahmoud Rahimi, was
quoted as saying by the paper Salam.

He said a plan to increase water bills exponentially, to encourage
people to use less, was useless as prices were so cheap it would make
no difference.

Rahimi warned residents in high-rise flats, which have mushroomed in
Tehranin the past decade, that anyone living above the fourth floor
might not get water in the summer, as authorities would reduce water
pressure in the network.

He also blamed state sector offices for wasting water, which they get
free.

Another official said Tehran's water use must be cut by at least 10
percent, following a fall of 35 to 40 percent in the water levels in
rivers and dams supplying the capital's water, the newspaper Hamshahri
said.

In the northern Caspian province of Gilan, an area which normally has
abundant water and where rice and wheat are grown, officials said the
key Sefidroud dam was expected to dry up in the next 20 days.

But the government has promised artificial rain for the province, by
seeding clouds with the help of Russian scientists.

Agriculture officials have said the drought was the worst in 30 years.
Agriculture Minister Issa Kalantari said in April farmers were short
of 1.2 billion cubic metres of water.

via: New Millennium <hblonde1@tampabay.rr.com>

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To: bpr-list@philologos.org (BPR Mailing List)
Subject: [BPR] - What's New at BPR?
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 12:53:17 -0500

From: <owner-bpr@philologos.org>

Bible Prophecy Research
Additions and updates made since May 17 1999
Number 24
May 30, 1999
=======================================

Hi everyone...

We have several items to mention:

> Added: Late 1999 Sky Signs
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/Sky_Signs/ss-011.htm
Submitted by: Moza

There's a bunch of interesting things going on in the heavens!

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> Added: Ehud Barak, Israel's New Prime Minister
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/Misc_Studies/ms-026.htm
Submitted by: Moza

"My Online Bible says that the name Ehud means 'I will give thanks: I
will be praised' or 'undivided, union.' Ehud's story is told in Judges
3:15-30 where he is described as a lefthanded deliverer with a two
edged dagger that was worn on his right thigh."

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> Added: Water Flowing from the Temple Mount
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/Misc_Studies/ms-027.htm
Submitted by: Moza

"Tue May 18 , 1999 -- One of the most exciting events over the
last few days has been the news of the water flowing from the
holy rock of Abraham and Isaac on the Temple Mount which was
in the midst of the First and Second Temples."

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> Added: Scarlet Worm
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/w-010.htm
Submitted by: Moza

"Look at the 22nd Psalm. This is the great Psalm of the crucifixion of
Christ written 1,000 years before it was fulfilled. It describes in great
detail the sufferings of Christ on the cross. 'My God, my God, why
hast thou forsaken me?' he cries out. Then down in verse 6...he says
'But I am a worm (08438), and no man; a reproach of men, and despised
of the people.' What did he mean by saying 'I am a worm'?" -- From the
Bible & Science tape series, Henry Morris.

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> Added: Gogmagog
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/g-002.htm
Submitted by: David

"'Folklore describes giants as mortals who inhabited the world in
early times. Corineus, the legendary hero of Cornwall, in England,
is supposed to have slain the giant Gogmagog by hurling him
from a cliff. But Gogmagog was not believed to have been the
only giant inhabiting Cornwall in that distant age -- just the
greatest of them. Another version of the same story has Brutus,
the legendary founder of Britain, capturing two Cornish giants,
Gog and Magog.'"

An interesting look at historical migrations and ancestries by one
of our list members.

------------

> Added: Number Patterns in Scripture
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/Misc_Studies/ms-028.htm
Submitted by: Susan

"Have you noticed how often certain numbers appear together in
Scripture passages? Information that is not hidden in Hebrew or Greek
letter values or in letters found after repeated spacings, but right on
the surface as words in the text. A number code available to anyone
who can read. The numbers 7, 12, 40, and 50 occur frequently within
the same Bible passage. God as the master mathematician talks in
number patterns. To begin a discussion on number patterns in
Scriptures, first we need to see the pattern, then ask what does it
mean?"

A very interesting and indepth study in number patterns by one
of our list members.

================
The News That Was
Headlines from a year ago this week
Storylines from Morrock News Service
(http://morrock.com)

May 30, 1998 - PAKISTAN TESTS ANOTHER NUCLEAR BOMB

May 30, 1998 - KILLER QUAKE IN AFGHANISTAN

May 30, 1998 - OREGON FLOODING LEAVES HUNDREDS
HOMELESS

May 29, 1998 - YELTSIN FIRES RUSSIA'S TAX MAN

Jun 1, 1998 - AFGHAN QUAKE TOLL AT 2,500

Jun 1, 1998 - DENGUE FEVER OUTBREAK IN INDONESIA

Jun 3, 1998 - SIERRA LEONE REFUGEES JAM CAMPS:
Some 243,000 refugees are packed into camps in Liberia
and Guinea as the result of vicious rebel attacks in Sierra
Leone, the U.N. said.

Jun 3, 1998 - U.S. SPIES CRITICIZED: The failure of
intelligence agencies to anticipate India's recent nuclear
tests is symptomatic of weaknesses throughout the U.S.
spy network and culture, according to an independent
review by a retired Navy admiral.

Jun 3, 1998 - MORE TORNADO DEATHS: In what is
coming to be known as the year of the twister, tornadoes
ripped through Pennsylvania overnight, killing two
people, destroying homes, and cutting power to 50,000
residents. Fourteen twisters hit southwestern
Pennsylvania after 6 p.m. (Eastern), according to the
National Weather Service.

Jun 4, 1998 - VIRUS HITS TAIWAN: Twenty-six children
have died, and as many as 9,000 are infected, as a viral
epidemic spreads in Taiwan. Newborns and small
children are hardest hit.

Jun 4, 1998 - MAJOR DISRUPTIONS PREDICTED FROM Y2K
BUG

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Receiving duplicates of this newsletter? Let me know.

Have a good couple of weeks!

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To: bpr-list@philologos.org (BPR Mailing List)
Subject: [BPR] - Y2K Headlines
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 08:46:35 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

CAP GEMINI: BIG COMPANIES FALLING BEHIND IN YEAR 2000 REPAIRS
Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/biztech/articles/17bug.html

PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL URGES LOCAL Y2K MEETINGS
Link:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ap/technology/story.html?s=v/ap/1
99 90524/tc/y2k_meetings_1.html

The NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY COUNCIL (NERC) has strongly
endorsed the Y2K COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS CAMPAIGN
NERC Website: http://www.nerc.com/y2k/
Link: http://www.nerc.com/pressrelease/

Y2K WORRY TOPPLES BANK STOCKS
Link:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/tc/story.html?s=v/nm/19990525/tc/
mi llennium_securities_1.html
Link: http://www.y2knewswire.com/19990525.htm

FDA: Y2K READINESS FOR HUNDREDS OF MEDICAL DEVICES UNKNOWN
FDA Website: http://www.fda.gov
Link: http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1999/0524/web-fda-5-25-99.html

The SECURITIES INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (SIA) has announced it has
conquered the dreaded Y2K computer problem.
SIA report (Adobe Acrobat required): http://www.sia.com
Link: http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/19844.html

GARTNERGROUP: Y2K TO KILL TWO-THIRDS OF BALTIC & RUSSIAN BUSINESSES
Link: http://www.y2ktimebomb.com/IW/AK/iw9920.htm

VENEZUELA IN SERIOUS TROUBLE
Link
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/tc/story.html?s=v/nm/19990526/tc/
yk _venezuela_1.html

ITALIAN Y2K PREPARATIONS IN CHAOS
Link:
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/05/14/timfgneur01003.html

BRITISH POLICE FORCES AT RISK
Link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000785813933552&rtmo=3q8AuxYM&atmo
=9 9999999&pg=/et/99/5/20/ecnmet20.html

CANADIAN FORCES TO HOLD SECOND NATIONAL Y2K EXERCISE
Link: http://www.canoe.ca/OttawaNews/OS.OS-05-18-0038.html

AFRICA DECLARES MILLENNIUM BUG AN EMERGENCY
Link: http://www.africanews.org/PANA/news/19990515/feat4.html
Link: http://www.africanews.org/atlarge/stories/19990514_feat9.html

ASIAN BANKING CRISIS DIVERTING ENERGY FROM Y2K IN
INDONESIA
Link:
http://infoseek.go.com/Content?arn=a3625LBY473reulb-19990525&qt=y2k&sv
=I S&lk=noframes&col=NX&kt=A&ak=news1486

ASIAN AIR TRAFFIC TO BE CUT BY TWO-THIRDS ON NEW YEARS
Link: http://www.bkkpost.samart.co.th/

EURO LAUNCH TOOK BRITISH BANKING TO BRINK OF CHAOS
http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/AC/setguestcookie.cgi?section=News&host
=w
ww%2Enewsunlimited%2Eco%2Euk&uri=%2FThe%5FPaper%2FDaily%2FStory%2F0%2C
36 04%2C50176%2C00%2Ehtml&userid=4G9Dbb01

CAP GEMINI: MORE COMPANIES EXPERIENCING Y2K FAILURES
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=7577255
9
Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/biztech/articles/17bug.html

POWER OUTAGE SHUTS DOWN LA CITY HALL ELEVATORS DURING Y2K TEST
Link:
http://www.latimes.com/search/findcgi?action=View&VdkVgwKey=%2E%2E%2F%
2E
%2E%2FCNS%5FDAYS%2F990526%2Ft000047246%2Ehtml&DocOffset=1&DocsFound=1&
Qu
eryZip=Power+Outage+Makes+City+Hall+Y2K+Drill+a+Little+Too+Realistic&C
ol lection=Hunter&ViewTemplate=search3%2Ehts

NIAGARA MOHAWK RUNS INTO TROUBLE WITH NEW BILLING SYSTEM
Link: http://www.y2ktimebomb.com/PP/RC/dm9919.htm

KOSKINEN WARNS STATE OFFICIALS TO PREPARE FOR THREE-WEEK POWER OUTAGE
Link: http://home.ica.net/~njarc/Docs/ckpower499.html

 "CANDID CAMERA" OFFERS VACCINATIONS FOR Y2K VIRUS
"I can't believe what I saw on the TV program 'Candid Camera': They
were convincing folks to get vaccinated against the Y2K bug that is
being spread by a computer virus. People were agreeing that it was
necessary. One woman who was uncertain, agreed to go ahead with the
vaccine after she was told her employer's health insurance covered the
costs. Vaccine awareness has a long way to go."
--- Sylvie Morin, Palm Bay, Florida

Y2K Report 27, 5/30/99
http://dispatch.mail-list.com/archives/nhnelist/

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To: bpr-list@philologos.org (BPR Mailing List)
Subject: [BPR] - May 31, 1999
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 08:46:35 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

8:00 PM Eastern

 CNN - NEWSSTAND: TIME - Chinese students' 1989 fight
   for democracy in Beijing's Tiananmen
   Square.(CC)

 HIST - FORGOTTEN WARS - Military campaigns all but
   lost to history include an 1871 Korean
   conflict.(CC)(TVG)

 TLC - NATURE'S FURY - Examines powerful forces of nature:
   floods; tornadoes; hurricanes; earthquakes.(CC)(TVG)

9:00

 PBS - THE BERLIN CRISIS - The Allies airlift food and
   supplies to the city.(CC)(TVPG)

 TLC - SLIDE! - Earth slides result when erosion meets
   gravity; mudslides in Malibu; rockslides in Yosemite;
   avalanches in Utah.(CC)(TVG)

10:00

 CBS - CBS NEWS/TIME 100: PEOPLE OF THE CENTURY: HEROES AND
   ICONS - A U.S. soldier who landed at Normandy crusades
   for a D-Day memorial in his town; Princess Diana; Muhammad
   Ali; Jackie Robinson; Billy Graham; Marilyn
   Monroe.(CC)

 HIST - STEALTH TECHNOLOGY - The innovation keeps planes and
   missiles from being detected by enemy radar.(CC)(TVG)

 TLC - FEROCIOUS OCEANS - The ocean's power feeds intense
   storms and waves; a couple struggles to survive an Australian
   tropical storm.(CC)(TVG)

--- BPR

BPR Web Site - http://philologos.org/bpr

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To: bpr-list@philologos.org (BPR Mailing List)
Subject: [BPR] - Int'l Drivers License
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 08:55:08 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

This came in my personal email this morning. If someone sent it to
me, thank you. If it's unsolicited junk mail, it's still interesting.

-----begin-----

INTERNATIONAL DRIVER'S LICENSE

Need a new driver's license?

Too many points or other trouble?

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To: bpr-list@philologos.org (BPR Mailing List)
Subject: [BPR] - Weekend News Today items (5/30/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 08:59:26 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

Israel's water crisis worsens

Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: Arutz

Sun May 30 , 1999 -- The water crisis is on the verge of exploding.
Seven communities are about to use up their yearly water quota, but
plan to continue to water their crops anyway.The seven - including Yad
Mordechai, Lachish, and HaGoshrim - claim that the reparations that
the government planned to pay them in exchange for the reduced water
quotas are not sufficient. Agricultural Center Water Supervisor Yoram
Tamari warns that another ten settlements will be in the same
situation within a month, and "if an arrangement is not found,
Israel's water economy will become chaos."

Israel's water crisis worsens

Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: Arutz

Sun May 30 , 1999 -- The water crisis is on the verge of exploding.
Seven communities are about to use up their yearly water quota, but
plan to continue to water their crops anyway.The seven - including Yad
Mordechai, Lachish, and HaGoshrim - claim that the reparations that
the government planned to pay them in exchange for the reduced water
quotas are not sufficient. Agricultural Center Water Supervisor Yoram
Tamari warns that another ten settlements will be in the same
situation within a month, and "if an arrangement is not found,
Israel's water economy will become chaos."

Cambodia: Cholera outbreak claims 96 lives

Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: Yahoo!

Sun May 30 , 1999 -- A cholera outbreak in northeast Cambodia has
killed at least 96 people and infected 1,538 since late April, AP
said. At least 89 people have died in the sparsely populated
Ratanakiri province, and seven other deaths were reported in
neighboring Stung Treng province.

PA calls 'Day of Anger' against settlements

Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Jerusalem Post

Sun May 30 , 1999 -- Concerned there may be little territory left to
talk about in final-status negotiations, Palestinian Authority
officials, meeting in Ramallah yesterday, called for confrontations to
protest the government's decision to add 3,000 acres to Ma'aleh Adumim
and other settlement activity. A conference of senior Palestinian
officials and negotiators set Thursday as a Palestinian "Day of Anger"
to be marked by marches throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip and
protests at settlement sites. "We must translate our anger into
confrontations on the ground to stop the building and expansion of
settlements," said PA Secretary-General Tayeb Abdel Rahim. The Ma'aleh
Adumim expansion is aimed at linking it to areas of Jerusalem that
Israel captured during the Six Day War and then annexed. The plan will
make the settlement, which has about 25,000 residents, larger than Tel
Aviv. It is to be carried out on land that has been expropriated from
Palestinians in nearby Issawiya, Anata, A-Tur, Abu Dis, and Eizariya.
Proponents of the move say it will strengthen Israel's hold on
Jerusalem as its capital.

India trains men for holy war over Kashmir

Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: IsraelWire

Sun May 30 , 1999 -- In the mountains of Pakistan, thousands of
Islamic militants are preparing for a holy war next door in India.
They crawl on their bellies, plant land mines and practice
marksmanship. Their enemies are the Indian soldiers trying to crush a
decade-old insurgency in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, the
only Indian state that has a Muslim majority. Last week India launched
its strongest assault yet on insurgents, using warplanes and
helicopter gunships to pound their mountain positions along the border
with Pakistan. In the mountains that divide Kashmir between India and
Pakistan, militants are training at dozens of camps on Pakistani
territory. The fighters give little thought to international worries
about a large-scale war erupting between longtime foes India and
Pakistan, for them the war already is raging. Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi,
chief of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, one of the most militant fighting groups,
said there is no shortage of recruits. The mother organization of his
group, Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad, runs 2,200 religious schools across
Pakistan where its students learn Islam and prepare for jihad, or holy
war, he said. "Only Pakistani people help mujahedeen (religious
fighters) through donations, and many join their ranks for jihad
against India, he said. Politicians in Pakistani-controlled parts of
Kashmir openly acknowledge the presence of militants on their soil.
They preach a restrictive and austere interpretation of Islam. Most
forms of light entertainment, including music and television, are
banned. The men, all in untrimmed beards, don't allow photographs.
They wear the traditional baggy pants and long shirt; Western clothes
are forbidden. Their training includes instruction on sabotage
techniques, shooting skills and hit-and-run raids as well as hours
spent studying the Muslim holy book, the Koran.

via: bible_prophecy-news@onelist.com

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Subject: [BPR] - Solar Storm Peak Seen in 2000
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 20:34:58 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/
sc/story.html?s=v/nm/19990531/sc/science_sunspots_1.html

Monday May 31 4:17 PM ET

Solar Storm Peak Seen In 2000

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The year 2000 could see electrical power outages,
satellites veering off-course and cellular phone and pager disruptions
as the number of sunspots and flares, solar storms and other ``space
weather'' hits its cyclical maximum, scientists said Monday.

``We call this the other Y2K problem,'' said JoAnn Joselyn, leader of
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Environment
Center, during the 194th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
``We don't quite know how bad the effects are going to be. We do know
the ionosphere is going to be disturbed.''

Geomagnetic storms on earth and other results of the increased solar
activity are expected to reach their 11-year peak between January and
April 2000, said Richard Altrock of the Air Force Research Laboratory
in Sunspot, New Mexico.

Altrock devised a new method of watching and timing sun surface
activity and applied it to the last three solar cycles to pinpoint the
roughly four-month window during which he expects solar activity to
reach its maximum next year.

He also predicted the number of sunspots in the coming maxima, dubbed
Cycle 23, will reach approximately 160, roughly the same number as
seen during the most-recent two peaks in 1989 and 1979.

The cyclical increase in solar activity occurs as the sun's magnetic
field reverses every 10 or 11 years.

The accompanying release of highly charged particles and radiation
toward earth on solar winds at speeds of up to 1 million mph can
disrupt radio communications, form sky displays known as northern
lights and create enough drag to cause satellites to lose altitude,
explained Joselyn.

The magnetic fields in the sky also create currents on the ground,
usually small and subtle but which can be magnified via long
high-voltage power lines.

This can burn out power companies' electrical transformers and cause
power outages such as occurred in 1989 in parts of the East Coast and
across Canada's Quebec province, she said.

Related events such as solar flares occur more frequently before the
solar maximum, but major flares can continue for two or three years
afterward.

Each solar flare releases energy equivalent to 1 million,
hundred-megaton nuclear explosions and accelerate particles through
space that are hazardous to satellites and astronauts and can disturb
radio transmissions.

Richard Canfield, a physicist at Montana State University in Bozeman,
said his researchers by early 2001 will operate two powerful new
instruments -- a spectroscopic imager and a suite of solar telescopes
-- designed to study solar flares.

In the meantime, Joselyn said her group in Boulder, Colo., will
continue operating round-the-clock, using a satellite to monitor the
solar winds, and can give companies and the public 30- to 60-minute
advance warnings of increased solar activity incidents to help them
prepare.

``So we can tell what's coming,'' she said.

via: isml@onelist.com

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