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Subject: [BPR] - Aug 20, 2000 TV Programs
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Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 11:31:37 -0400

8:00 PM Eastern

HIST - SUICIDE MISSIONS - "Human Guinea Pigs" - People
put themselves at risk to prove new technology or medical
treatment.(CC)(TVPG)

9:00

PBS - OUT OF INDIA - Author William Dalrymple travels
across India to research Hindu pilgrims, holy men and an
ancient manuscript.(CC)(TVG)

HIST - MILITARY BLUNDERS - "The U-2 Affair; The
   Spanish H-Bomb Crash" - Spy plane shot down over the
   U.S.S.R.; the U.S. drops a hydrogen bomb on
   Spain.(CC)(TVG)

MSNBC - MSNBC INVESTIGATES: TATTOOS! SKIN DEEP -
Tattoos are popular partly as symbols of ritual and
rebellion.(CC)

10:00

CNN - MILLENNIUM - "Century of the Telescope" - Jesuits
guide scientific advances in the West; the Jamestown Colony;
the slave trade; Dutch explorations.(CC)

HIST - HISTORY UNDERCOVER - "Secrets of Soviet Space
Disasters" - Soviet space disasters cause more than 150
deaths.(CC)(TVG)

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Subject: [BPR] - Australia - New martial law comes armed and dangerous
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 11:37:06 -0400

August 16, 2000

New martial law comes
armed and dangerous

                 Proposed powers for the military mean troops
                 could be mobilised against ordinary civilians
                 with orders to shoot to kill, writes Bob Brown.

                 IN THE lead-up to the Sydney Olympics and the
                 World Economic Forum in Melbourne, the
                 Howard Government, with Labor support, has
                 passed a bill in the House of Representatives
                 which will allow the military sweeping new powers
                 to become involved in civilian affairs.

                 The Defence Legislation Amendment (Aid to
                 Civilian Authorities) Bill 2000 authorises the Prime
                 Minister to call out the armed services where
                 "domestic violence" is occurring or is "likely to
                 occur". This eliminates the provisions of the
                 Constitution and the 1903 Defence Act which
                 require a request from a State government before
                 such intervention can occur.

                 The term domestic violence is undefined. Many, if
                 not most, legitimate peaceful protests and political
                 demonstrations can be perceived as involving the
                 likelihood of "domestic violence". The bill states
                 that troops do not have the power to "stop or
                 restrict any lawful protest", but almost all protests
                 can be declared unlawful simply by withdrawing
                 the necessary permission.

                 The gamut of this power should be measured
                 against laws introduced in Queensland by the
                 former premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen which made
                 any assembly of more than three citizens illegal.
                 And it would have enabled the then prime minister
                 Malcolm Fraser to heed the call of a Liberal
                 backbencher in 1982 for the Army to be brought
                 in against thousands of peaceful protesters at
                 Tasmania's Franklin River blockade.

                 Imagine what might have happened if this bill had
                 been in place during the Vietnam moratorium
                 marches in Sydney. It could have opened the way
                 for armed suppression of demonstrators, even
                 against the wishes of State Parliament. This bill will
                 inevitably raise the temptation for military
                 intervention in civil protests in the future.

                 State and Territory police forces are equipped and
                 trained to deal with civilian protests. Military
                 forces are not. That is why several States - NSW,
                 Victoria, Western Australia and Tasmania - have
                 voiced opposition to the bill. The Director-General
                 of the NSW Cabinet Office, Roger Wilkins, has
                 observed that the legislation "leaves open the
                 possibility of conflict between State police and
                 Commonwealth defence forces, which should
                 obviously be avoided at all costs".

                 Even if police are unable to quell domestic crises,
                 the legislation should say that troops cannot be
                 deployed without a call from the State government
                 and must not be used against unarmed protesters.
                 Removing such safeguards sees Australia take a
                 giant step towards the Americanisation of our
                 domestic security operations.

                 The bill provides for the military, once deployed,
                 to have a range of powers not normally available
                 to police. Soldiers without previous experience
                 would be empowered to search premises without
                 a warrant and detain people without explanation.
                 They would also be allowed to shoot to kill.

                 There are important safeguards built into police
                 training for handling difficult protest or even
                 terrorist situations. But the guide has been that the
                 State police are there to maintain the domestic
                 peace and the Commonwealth military to defend
                 Australia from foreign aggression.

                 In Brisbane on Sunday the Defence Minister, John
                 Moore, said that the Olympics Games were the
                 main reason this legislation was required. This bill
                 should have a sunset clause so that it ceases to
                 exist after the Games. There has always been the
                 proviso that a State could request the help of the
                 armed services. Even so, the Commonwealth has
                 been expressly prohibited from using the
                 emergency and reserve forces against strikers. The
                 Labor prime minister Ben Chifley used troops to
                 load coal during the miners' strike of 1949 and
                 Bob Hawke used the RAAF during the pilots'
                 dispute of 1989. But armed Australian servicemen
                 and women have never directly confronted
                 strikers. This legislation opens up that possibility,
                 even where a State government is opposed.

                 It is a little-known aspect of Australian history that
                 between Federation in 1901 and 1928,
                 Queensland, WA, Tasmania and South Australia
                 requested military intervention from the
                 Commonwealth to suppress domestic upheavals
                 where violence was feared. On every occasion the
                 prime minister refused.

                 It is a sign of the changing balance of power and
                 responsibilities in Australia (and around the globe)
                 that the States are now a necessary check on any
                 misdirected impulse of a prime minister to call in
                 the troops against fellow Australians. That check
                 must be left in place.

Senator Bob Brown is the leader of the
Australian Greens.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/0008/16/features/features6.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Santa Fe Reincarnation Effort Fails
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 11:41:28 -0400

August 18, 2000

Santa Fe Reincarnation Effort Fails

The Associated Press SANTA FE — The sister and friends of a woman who
died last week kept her body in an apartment room for four days, hoping
for reincarnation, police said. "They all believe in spiritual healing,
and they were all waiting for that healing to occur through
reincarnation," Deputy Police Chief Beverly Lennen said Thursday. "They
believed that their religion rather than medication would heal them,"
Lennen said. "Upon the one female's death, they gave her a period for
reincarnation to occur, and when that did not occur, they notified us."
Linda Washburn, 50, is believed to have died of natural causes last week,
but Santa Fe police were awaiting the results of an autopsy. "There is no
indication whatsoever of foul play," Lennen said. "In this case, all were
adults and all appeared to be able to take care of themselves. But once
all the results are received, it will be reviewed to assure us that there
is nothing to suggest either neglect or foul play." Officers learned of
the woman's death Sunday, when a woman called police to say her sister was
dead "next to her in bed." The caller later was identified as the dead
woman's sister, Ann Washburn, 52. The officers then were told "the
approximate time of death would have been some time on the previous
Wednesday (Aug. 9)," Lennen said. Ann Washburn and the dead woman's
roommate, Mark Angell, 29, said they hadn't notified authorities "because
they wanted to see if Linda would be reincarnated. They reported the death
on Aug. 13, after a four-day wake period," a police report states. "There
was an issue on the condition of the body so they gave up hope of
reincarnation and felt they needed to contact us already," Lennen said.
"There was an odor in the room; decomposition had begun." Investigators
collected items that could indicate some type of "religious activity" took
place, Lennen said. She would not disclose the items.

http://www.abqjournal.com/news/1reincar08-18-00.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - Russian plane lands at Baghdad airport
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 11:43:39 -0400

Russian plane lands at Baghdad airport

By Huda Majeed Saleh

BAGHDAD, Aug 19 (Reuters) - A Russian aircraft landed at Baghdad's newly
reopened international airport on Saturday in the first direct flight from
Moscow to the Iraqi capital since the 1991 Gulf War, state INA news agency
reported.

It said the plane landed at 18:05 p.m. (1405 GMT), carrying Deputy
Emergencies Minister Ruslan Tsalikov, who is scheduled to hold talks with
Iraqi officials on U.N. sanctions and bilateral relations.

Russia's Itar-Tass news agency said the plane was carrying 3.5 tonnes in
humanitarian aid, mainly baby food, medicine and medical equipment.

Iraq says there are no U.N. Security Council resolutions that prevent
Baghdad from flying civilian planes into and out of the country.

But the U.N. sanctions committee on Iraq maintains that civil flights to and
from Iraq are an economic resource whose reinstatement would be a breach
of sanctions regime.

Iraq reopened Baghdad's international airport on Thursday after 10 years of
enforced closure.

Civilian air traffic at Baghdad airport ceased when sanctions were imposed
on Iraq days after President Saddam Hussein sent his forces into Kuwait in
August 1990.

That made Baghdad one of the few capitals in the world inaccessible to
scheduled international flights.

For the past three years, Iraq has defied U.N. sanctions and sent civilian
planes laden with pligrims to perform haj in Saudi Arabia.

Moscow, which initially backed U.N. sanctions against Iraq, now says the
measures imposed on Baghdad after it invaded neighbouring Kuwait in 1990
have proved ineffective and should be scrapped.

Russia, keen to boost its role as an independent international player, has
held a series of high-level meetings with senior Iraqi officials.

via: Third_Watch@egroups.com

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Subject: [BPR] - Palestinian official says Israelis could become "hostages" after statehood
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 12:02:42 -0400

Palestinian official says Israelis could become "hostages" after statehood

JERUSALEM, Aug 20 (AFP) - A Palestinian official warned on Sunday that
Jews living in the occupied territories could become "hostages" if Israel took
any action in the event of a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood.

"Israel has a presence inside the Palestinian territories and they will become
hostages in the hands of the Palestinians," cabinet secretary Ahmed Abdel
Rahman told Voice of Palestine radio, asked about Israeli "threats" in the
event of such a declaration.

"Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories will be isolated and subject to
real danger," he said. "Palestinians who are under siege have the right to do
whatever they can to destroy this siege."

Israel has warned that a unilateral declaration of statehood could sink the
peace process and Prime Minister Ehud Barak has hinted that Israel could
respond by annexing parts of the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Central Council is set to meet early next month to decide
whether to declare a state on September 13, the deadline for a final peace
accord with Israel.

Barak has said that in the event of a peace accord around one-fifth of the
some 200,000 settlers would be evacuated or live under Palestinian control.

Palestinian minister of parliamentary affairs Nabil Amr also said that the
declaration of the state was not connected to the negotiations.

"The issue of declaring the state is not the subject of negotiations. It is a
Palestinian decision of sovereignty and not a bargaining issue," he told the
radio.

Meanwhile, Abdel Rahman also said he did not believe Barak was serious
about peace, and ruled out any "bargaining" over Jerusalem and refugees,
two of the most intractable issues standing in the way of an agreement.

"We are not going to bargain over our land ... We are not going to bargain
over Jerusalem and the refugees right to return," he said.

Discord over Jerusalem in particular led to the breakdown of the Camp David
peace summit last month after two weeks of intensive negotiations, and US
Mideast envoy Dennis Ross is currently in the region to try to overcome the
obstacles.

Abdel Rahman said the Palestinians had told the United States it had
already made "great concessions" and that talks should be resumed on the
basis of implementation of international resolutions.

He said the Palestinians had agreed to establish a state on only 20 percent
of the former Palestine.

"It is clear that the world wishes to see the declaration (of statehood) as an
outcome of negotiations. Some countries of the world believe Barak is
serious in the peace process. But I believe he is not," Abdel Rahman added.

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Subject: [BPR] - What's New at BPR?
From: bpr-list@philologos.org
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 12:08:41 -0500

Bible Prophecy Research
Additions and updates made since Aug 4, 2000
Issue #49
August 20, 2000
http://philologos.org/bpr
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> Added: "...great hail...about the weight of a talent...'
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/g003.htm

"There are predictions that as objects collide in space
they produce, say, 1,000 fragments. Each of those fragments
has the potential to go on and collide with other
satellites with each of those producing 1,000 fragments. So
we can get a run-away situation called a cascade. This
would lead to a debris belt forming around the earth..."

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> Updated: The United Nations Meditation Room
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/Misc_Studies/ms023.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - 'Frankengrass' creates multi-coloured lawns
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:52:06 -0400

'Frankengrass' creates multi-coloured lawns

The traditional green colour of the lawn could become a thing of the past as
scientists develop lawns in different colours and even lawns that light up at
night.

The new grasses will also kill pests by producing a designer toxin that uses a
gene taken from a poisonous fungus.

The new range of genetically-modified lawns have been called
"Frankengrass" by
environmentalists who are warning the grass could cross-breed with other
species.

But garden products company Scotts believe their work will revolutionise
gardens, golf courses and golf pitches.

Chief executive Charles Berger said: "In the next five years lawns will need
less fertiliser, water and mowing - and pest insects won't come near."

The company is already researching the grasses after buying the gardening
arm of GM crop producer Monsanto, The Sunday Times reports.

Around 40 test sites in the US have been vandalised by an anarchist
organisation.

If you could change the colour of something, what would it be and why? Tell
Ananova

Last updated: 09:53 Sunday 20th August 2000.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_40728.html

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