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Subject: [BPR] - Homemade computer-killing 'gun'
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:28:20 +0000

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

By Kevin Poulsen, ZDNN

Ex-Navy engineer David Schriner demos his homemade,
bargain-basement, computer-killing 'gun.'

WASHINGTON -- With $500 and a trip to the hardware store,
saboteurs can build a device capable of remotely disrupting
computers, automobiles, medical equipment and nearly
anything else dependant on electronics, according to a
California engineer who demonstrated a homebrew computer
death-ray at the InfowarCon '99 conference here Wednesday.

When an assistant activated the Rube Goldberg contraption by
connecting it to a car battery, the conference room filled
with a loud buzzing from the PA system and a PowerPoint
presentation on the projection screen flickered and
scattered. One of the computers instantly dropped out of its
screen saver.

When the device was switched off, both PCs were frozen, and
wouldn't respond to keyboard input.

The effects of High Energy Radio Frequency (HERF) emissions
on electronics are well known among engineers, and
info-warriors have expressed concern that adversarial
nations may someday include computer-killing devices in
their arsenals.

The full story can be found at:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2331772,00.html

--- BPR

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Subject: [BPR] - Infobeat News items (9/15/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:28:20 +0000

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

*** Study explains African AIDS spread

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) - Since the rise of AIDS in Africa 15 years ago,
researchers have been baffled by the wide disparity in infection rates
from city to city. A study released Tuesday gives the clearest reason
yet: cultural practices such as circumcision and early sexual
activity. The U.N. research, released at a major African AIDS
conference, found the disease spread more quickly in places where
girls became sexually active at an earlier age and where male
circumcision was uncommon, leaving men with a greater risk of
contracting the disease during unprotected sex. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561158377-463

*** Pageant changes not yet finalized

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - The head of the Miss America pageant
backed off plans Tuesday to allow women who have been divorced or
pregnant to compete for the title, saying the pageant's board of
directors would reconsider its decision. Robert L. Beck, CEO of the
Miss America Organization, said the board had agreed to hold off
implementing the new rules, which were to take effect starting next
year, pending talks with state pageant operators, who are furious
about the changes. The Associated Press reported Monday the pageant
had decided to break with nearly 50 years of tradition by striking
provisions in the contestant contracts that require women to swear
they have never been married and never been pregnant. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561159415-a0b ***
Also: Miss America preliminaries start, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561162523-8d5

*** Tower straightening work proceeds

PISA, Italy (AP) - Beginning one of the final phases in the bold plan
to straighten the leaning Tower of Pisa, workers have begun removing
the first blocks of lead that were shoring up the monument's base.
Italian news agencies reported Tuesday three 10-ton blocks - the first
of 96 blocks to be removed - were taken away without any harm done.
The tower actually leaned a bit with the removal, but experts said
that had been expected. Since 1993, when the first lead blocks were
placed around the base, the 12-century tower has started to
straighten. Then last year, two sets of steel suspenders, anchored to
giant winches dug into the ground about 100 yards from the tower, were
attached to the monument. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561161387-7f6

*** Artist plans Jerusalem ice wall

SEATTLE (AP) - An artist who creates fantastically colored works of
glass and plastic is sending 64 tons of ice blocks from an Alaskan
well to Jerusalem, where they will be stacked into a 60-foot-long wall
just outside the Old City. Dale Chihuly's vision is that tensions in
the Middle East someday will melt like his ice wall in the desert sun.
The wall, of course, will come down much faster than barriers between
Jews and Arabs in Israel - Chihuly's creation should take about a week
to melt after it is installed on Oct. 3. But Chihuly believes the
message will be clear. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561156802-fce

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Subject: [BPR] - Weekend News Today items (9/14/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:28:20 +0000

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

Disney acquiesces to UAE and Arab League pressure

Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: IsraelWire

Tue Sep 14,1999 -- According to a report by the Reuters News Agency,
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal has been assured that the
planned Jerusalem exhibit at the Millennium Village of Florida's Epcot
Center would not depict Jerusalem as the capital of Israel as
originally planned. According to the report, the Disney officials
assured Saudi officials that the planned exhibit which was to show the
accomplishments of the Jewish State and the Jewish People was to
depict Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The planned move was met
with threats of an international boycott by the Arab League and
officials in the United Arab Emirates. The prince is a nephew of Saudi
Arabia's King Fahd and has a high-profile international portfolio of
investments in banks, hotels, broadcasting, airlines, computers, cars
and real estate.{Editor's: No one can serve two masters. Either he
will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one
and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. Matthew
6:24} Officials of the Arab League are still planning to send a
delegation to Florida to review the planned exhibit prior to its
opening to the public to ensure it meets the standards of the
international Moslem community and does not in any way hint to
Jerusalem as being the capital of the Jewish State. Senior officials
in the PLO Authority have stated the status of Jerusalem may only be
determined in the final status talks, which got underway in Gaza on
Monday evening. Arab League officials have warned Disney that any
violation of the agreement was also a violation of United Nations
resolutions and would be met with attacks on "lucrative Disney
interests." Arab League Secretary-General Esmat Abdel Meguid told
reporters in Cairo he had received an apologetic letter from Michael
Eisner, Disney chairman and chief executive, explaining the exhibit
was not intended to offend Arabs or Palestinians. {This article is the
perfect example of how the world is stumbling over Jerusalem which is
forcing them to choose their pocketbooks and false sense of security
or to chose God: Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that
causes reeling to all the peoples around; and when the seige is
against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah. And it will come
about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the
peoples; all who lift it will be severly injured. And all the nations
of the earth will be gathered against it.Zech 12:2-3}

Leading Rabbis beginning to oppose Israel's giving away land

Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: IsraelWire

Tue Sep 14,1999 -- According to the "Kol Hazman" weekly newspaper, a
secret assembly took place last week and was attended by leading
rabbinical figures aligned with the national religious camp. At the
assembly, the rabbis decided to begin the battle to oppose government
plans to give away portions of the Land of Israel to the PLO Authority
(PA). The meeting was chaired by former chief rabbi, Rabbi Avraham
Shapira and was also attended by NRP MK Rabbi Haim Druckman, Rabbi
Zalman Melamed of Bet El, Rabbi Nahum Rabinovitz, dean of the Maale
Adumim Hesder Yeshiva and Rabbi Yossi Artziel, secretary of the Yesha
Rabbinical Assembly. The rabbis decided to launch demonstrations
opposing the government's plans to give away land to the PA and to
'reactivate' rulings prohibiting the giving away of portions of land
to foreign nations and banning IDF soldiers from participating in such
actions as contrary to the teachings of the Torah and Jewish law. The
rabbis decided to operate under the banner to be known as "The Forum
of the Chief Rabbi."

Israel airport officials to accommodate Moslem worshipers

Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: IsraelWire

Tue Sep 14,1999 -- Officials at Ben-Gurion International Airport have
announced that a mosque will be established at the airport to
accommodate Islamic worshippers. The decision follows a letter sent to
Transportation Minister Yitzhak Mordehai by Arab MK Abd-el Malek
Dahamsha of the United Arab List. Last week, the decision was made and
the MK was informed that a mosque would be established but a timetable
for the project has now been announced. {Editor's note: A mosque is
like a "high place" in God's eye: "And Judah did evil in the sight of
the LORD, and they provoked Him to jealousy more than all that their
fathers had done, with the sins which they committed. For they also
built for themselves "high places" and sacred pillars and Asherim on
every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree." 1 King 14:22-23 God
shows us how good or evil almost the kings of Judah and Israel were
partially by the way each handled the "high places" - see 1 and 2
Kings. For God's coming judgment because of the "high places" see Ez
6:4, 16:39; Hos 10:8; Mic 1:3.}

Divorce judgment forces Israeli children to live secular life

Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: IsraelWire

Tue Sep 14,1999 -- The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of
America, the largest mainstream Orthodox Jewish has been carefully
following a custodial case in Genoa, Italy whose progress has proved
cause for much concern. This custodial case, between a divorced
secular Israeli father and an Israeli mother who is a Ba'alat Teshuva
(returned to the Orthodox way of life), has caused alarm in the
worldwide Orthodox community due to the malicious characterization of
Orthodox Judaism as fanatical. The judgment rendered by the Minors
Court in Genoa in the case of Daniella and Devorah Dulberg, who are
ten and fourteen years old respectively, will, in essence, separate
these two young Israeli girls from their Israeli culture and religious
heritage, forcing upon them a secular way of life against their will.
The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America statement says,
"We have been appalled by the anti-religious attitudes and conduct of
the court which have ridiculed Orthodox Jewish practices and attempted
to depict Orthodox Judaism as a 'strange cult.' "This dangerous
precedent of attempting to deprive an Orthodox mother of custody of
her children in a court of law has serious implications on future
court cases, not only those that involve custody battles. The court
refused to admit the evidence of prominent and distinguished Israeli
legal scholars as well as that of the Chief Rabbi of Genoa, who was
barred from the court proceedings. Not even the grandparents were
allowed to appear and testify -- according to the court's decision,
they will only be allowed to speak to the children twice a month and
are forbidden to speak to them in Hebrew. "With this and other similar
rulings, the Court's decision separates the children from their family
and friends in Israel, a severe human rights violation which defies
universal standards of decency and fairness. In their father's
custody, they will not be allowed to speak Hebrew, will not be able to
practice their Jewish traditions or have the benefit of a Jewish
education and will be forced to "re-enter models of cultural life and
alternative conduct. The Orthodox Union strongly protests the decision
rendered by the Court. It has very serious implications regarding
prejudice against Orthodox Judaism and flies in the face of all values
that enlightened, democratic societies uphold. The Conference of
European Rabbis comprises virtually all leading Rabbis throughout
Europe (including Italy), and is recognized worldwide as one of the
leading rabbinical organizations. They issued the following statement
on the case. "We have previously stated in connection with the Dulberg
children's case our complete rejection of the argument that the
mother's claim is dismissed because it is alleged that she belongs to
'a religious cult', i.e.. Orthodox Judaism. '"This assertion is
libellous and utterly untenable, and will be acknowledged as such by
religious authorities throughout the world. "We assert that in Jewish
law children assume the faith of their mother, and must be raised
accordingly. Therefore the facilities must be such as will ensure
this, including environment, adequate schooling and the like, which
are utterly indispensable for the children to be raised in their
mother's faith. "The injustice of placing these children into an
impossible situation including the restricted manner in which they are
allowed to communicate with their mother is a total denial of their
human rights as well as of their Jewish tradition. "Therefore we
demand that the matter be urgently reviewed, giving their mother at
least equal access and allowing the children to maintain their
religious education, as hitherto, in Israel without disrupting their
stability and spiritual welfare.

Burger King boycott against Israel is growing

Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: IsraelWire

Tue Sep 14,1999 -- With increasing pressure being applied on the
Burger King franchise, corporate leaders have now put a hold on the
planned opening of its Latrun branch. The announcement comes a short
time following the burger giant's decision to order the closing of the
Maale Adumim store, in compliance with demands made by the Arab
League. The threatened boycott by the international Arab community
appears to have the burger giant concerned, now deciding to reconsider
its Latrun location which is located adjacent to the nation's memorial
for fallen members of the Tank Corps off the Tel-Aviv - Jerusalem
Highway. Benny Kashriel, the director-general of the Council of Jewish
Settlements of Judea, Samaria and Gaza (Yesha Council) and mayor of
Maale Adumim, warned the growing Arab boycott was not just aimed at
Yesha communities such as Maale Adumim, but was now striking out at
the heart of Israel, namely Latrun. Kashriel stated the boycott would
not just focus on Yesha and the time has come for Israel to deal with
the issues at hand.

Israeli official moves to eliminate Sabbath laws in Tel Aviv

Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: IsraelWire

Tue Sep 14,1999 -- Minister of the Interior Natan Sharansky of the
Yisrael B'Aliyah Party came under sharp attack from members of the
ultra-Orthodox Agudat Yisrael Party for amending the law to permit
entertainment establishments to operate on the Sabbath and Jewish
holidays. The amending of the law would permit businesses to host
educational and cultural events in response to requests and court
appeals by the Tel Aviv Municipality, which has been working to
eliminate the Sabbath laws. Sharansky defended his decision explaining
that one may not force residents to observe the Sabbath as they desire
to live otherwise. MK Rabbi Meir Porush lashed out at Sharansky and
his party accusing them of working to eliminate Sabbath observance in
Israel and destroy values that have maintained the Jewish people
throughout the centuries.

Hebron leaders call upon Barak to protect the Cave of the Patriarchs

Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: IsraelWire

Tue Sep 14,1999 -- The Hebron Jewish community has called upon PM Ehud
Barak to declare the Cave of the Patriarchs a national holy site,
thereby protecting its status as being under exclusive Jewish control.
Following the signing of the Wye-2 Agreement, reliable information
from senior government officials indicate the current administration
is planning to relinquish control of portions of the holy site to the
PA. Statements released by the Hebron community following the signing
at Sharm el-Sheik have indicated the government may have agreed to
permit PA security troops inside the complex, a move the Hebron
leaders feel would lead to the PA assuming control of certain areas of
the Jewish holy site.

According to Hebron leader David Wilder, a request to meet with Barak
has still not been answered but an unnamed government source has
assured community leaders that the status quo in the Machpelah would
not be changed in any way. Since the signing of the Wye-2 Agreement,
the Hebron leaders have expressed concerns over their continued
security in the holy city, pointing out that the opening of King David
(Shuhada) Street would place residents in jeopardy and provide another
access route for terrorists seeking to strike out at the community's
Jewish residents. Despite statements of denial from various sources
inside the government, Hebron leaders are accusing the current Barak
administration of compromising their security interests and are
calling upon the government to meet with them and work out a solution
to preserve the city's holy sites and permit Jewish residents to
continue living in the city without increased threats of terrorism and
daily attacks against them.

Report on Arab FM meeting

Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Arabic News

Tue Sep 14,1999 -- The Arab foreign ministers at the conclusion of
their meetings stressed backing to Syria, Lebanon and Palestine to
restore their occupied lands. The Arab foreign ministers on Monday
stressed their strong backing for Syria's just right to restore the
whole of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights according to basics of the
Middle East peace process and the international resolutions. The Arab
FM s called for Israel's full commitment to results previously
concluded and to the resumption of peace talks from the point at which
they broke off. In their final statement released on Monday in Cairo
following the end of the 112th session, the Arab FMs condemned
Israel's policy which they said aims at perpetuating its aggressions
against the Golan and considered these attempts as a defiance of the
will of the international community and UN resolutions, especially UN
resolution 497 of 1981 which considers the Israeli measures concerning
the Golan to be null and void. The Arab foreign ministers asserted
their support for the struggle mounted by the people of the Golan and
called for implementing the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 in
support of the Syrian citizens of the Golan. --On Israel's occupation
of south Lebanon and the western Bekaa, the Arab FMs condemned the
continued Israeli occupation of south Lebanon and the western Bekaa.
They called on the international community to work for implementing UN
resolution 425, which provides for Israel's unconditional withdrawal
from south Lebanon. --On the occupied Palestinian territories the
ministers voiced backing for the struggle of the Palestinians to
attain their legitimate rights and establish their own independent
state on their national soil with Jerusalem as its capital. --On the
Israeli nuclear weapons and the threat they pose to Arab national
security, the Arab foreign ministers stressed the need for contacts in
order to pressure Israel to join the NPT and subject its institutions
to the inspections of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The Arab
ministers expressed concern over the continued military cooperation
between Turkey and Israel and called on Turkey to reconsider this
cooperation, due to its adverse consequences on Arab national
security. On the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the Arab foreign
ministers expressed their concern over Turkey's continued building of
dams on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers without consulting Syria and
Iraq, the two countries which join Turkey in using the waters of the
two rivers according to international law. On the increased US aid to
Israel, the Arab FM s expressed their great concern over the annual US
military aid to Israel. They added that such things threaten security
and stability in the Middle East.

World leaders count on Morocco to continue Mideast peace role

Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Arabic News

Tue Sep 14,1999 -- The world leaders count on Morocco to continue its
role in backing the Middle-East peace process, Moroccan Prime
Minister, Abderrahmane Youssoufi, told French TV5 channel on Monday.
"The presence during the funeral of King Hassan II, last July 25, of
various officials or representatives of American Jewish associations,
showed to what extent people count on Morocco to continue its moderate
and backing role to the peace process," Youssoufi said. Morocco has
always played a key role to bring together Arabs and Jews and foster
peace in the Middle East. Youssoufi added that the Palestinians also
count on Morocco's mediation and intervention. The prime minister also
underlined the symbolic succession of King Mohammed VI to his father,
the late King Hassan II, to the presidency of the Al-Quds Committee.
The committee is in charge of safeguarding the Arab and Islamic
identity of Al-Quds (Jerusalem) against Israeli Judaization attempts.

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Subject: [BPR] - Arutz-7 News items (9/15/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:27:41 +0000

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

DEMAND FOR EQUAL RIGHTS AT MACHPELAH
Responding to the upcoming convening of a special Israeli-Palestinian
committee on the future status of the Machpelah Cave in Hevron,
Hevron's Jewish community has called on Prime Minister Ehud Barak to
declare the compound a "Jewish national holy site" administered by a
national authority. Community spokesman Noam Arnon told Arutz-7
correspondent Yosef Zalmanson today that the current final-status
talks call for a committee to discuss the cave, and "experience has
taught us that when the Palestinians make demands, the Israeli
representatives usually give in - even on holy sites and the like.
This is because their knowledge of our history and our land is simply
lacking. We therefore have provided the government with a short
background on the Jewish history in this area, showing that the Cave
was a Jewish site from the times of Abraham, and that the building
atop it was built by the Jews 600 years before the founding of Islam."
 

Arnon added that it's time that the Israelis make their own demands,
instead of merely listening to those of the Palestinians. "We
therefore demand the full recognition of our Jewish national rights to
this land, and we will of course allow persons of other faiths to pray
here as well," he said.

The statement issued by the community said that Jews are allotted less
than 1/5 of the entire 3,779 square-meter Machpelah Cave building,
while the Moslems receive the rest. "The Muslim Waqf (Religious
Trust) is solely responsible for the maintenance of Ma'arat
HaMachpelah, even on the Jewish side," continued the statement. "Jews
are forbidden to have any responsibility for its upkeep. The result is
continued magnificence and splendor on the Muslim side, while the
Jewish side is disgracefully neglected." It also states that while
Jews have no access to the Muslim side, Muslims are allowed on the
Jewish side, where they maintain an office and a special room for the
Muezzin from which Muslim prayers are broadcast over loudspeakers five
times a day - causing major disturbances during Jewish prayer
services. The full text of the "Demand for Equal Rights" may be seen
at <http://www.maara.hebron.org.il/>.

 KNESSET COMMITTEE ASKS FOR LESS VIOLENCE ON TV
The Knesset Interior Committee calls on the media not to grant wide
coverage to violent crimes. At a session with the participation of
the Chief Rabbis and the Minister of Religious Affairs today, the
Committee also called upon television channels not to screen violent
films.

TIDBITS

The Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot is taking concrete steps against the
Y2K bug. On the night between Dec. 31, 1999 and Jan. 1, 2000, a
guard will stand by the bed of each patient who is hooked up to a
respirator. In addition, volunteers will be prepared to act as
stretcher-bearers in case the elevators stop working...

 The largest cemetery in Israel, that of Holon, is closed as of today
 for further burials. Some 200,000 bodies have been buried there in
the past 30 years, and all the remaining plots have been sold. The
Tel Aviv Burial Society has announced that it will refer further
burials to the Yarkon Cemetery...

Arutz Sheva News Service
     <http://www.a7.org>
Wednesday, Sep. 15, 1999 / Tishrei 5, 5760