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Subject: [BPR] - Aug 25, 2000 TV Programs
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 08:26:33 -0400

8:00 PM Eastern

C-SPAN - SIMULCAST OF C-SPAN RADIO 90 PROGRAM ON ARMY-
MCCARTHY HEARINGS - Historians discuss the Army-McCarthy
hearings.(CC)

DISC - ON THE INSIDE - "777: The 21st Century
Airliner" - The Boeing 777 aircraft is a technological
masterpiece.(CC)(TVG)

9:00

DISC - DISCOVERY NEWS - (CC)

HIST - THIS WEEK IN HISTORY - Cuban Missile Crisis;
Amelia Earhart's first transcontinental flight; Jack the
Ripper's first victim; vacuum cleaner.(CC)(TVG)

TLC - SEEKING NOAH'S FLOOD - Scientists probe the
mysterious waters of the Black Sea.(CC)

9:30

DISC - EXPLORE OUR WORLD - Upcoming projects, programs and
specials.(CC)

10:00

A&E - INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS - "Drugs at the Border" -
DEA agents patrol the 1,800-mile Mexican
border.(CC)

TLC - MAZES & LABYRINTHS: SOLVING ANCIENT PUZZLES -
Mazes offer security systems for Egyptian pyramids, adventure
for computer games.(CC)

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Subject: [BPR] - Locust summit seeks action plan
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 07:28:26 -0500

--- forwarded message ---

via: hblondel@tampabay.rr.com

23 August, 2000, 13:43 GMT 14:43 UK

Locust summit seeks action plan

Swarms of locusts have become an annual problem in Asia

Representatives from Russia and four central Asian states are meeting
in the Kazakh city of Al-Amati to discuss how they can best tackle
the annual invasion of locusts.

For years now countries across the region have faced the onslaught of
destructive locust swarms.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) which has organised
the two-day meeting, says one of the issues to be raised is how the
state could adopt a more co-ordinated approach.

A single swarm of locusts can be huge - one reported recently in
Russia was estimated to measure 10km long by 2km wide.

Last year locusts smothered buildings in the Kazakh capital, clogged
up car radiators and even flew out of briefcases and jackets.

Around seven million hectares of land were said to have been invaded.

This year, officials report, the situation seems to be better.

The UNDP says $10m has been spent on pesticides in Kazakhstan alone
and the state has treated three times more land than before.

Breeding ground

The locust problem has been getting worse since the end of the Soviet
Union.

Farmers often can't afford to buy the necessary pesticides and these
untended or abandoned fields provide a good breeding ground for
locusts.

But experts say it's not just a case of bigger funds.

They believe better organisation is needed too and part of the
problem is that swarms ignore national boundaries.

This year Kazakh officials blamed Russia for locusts they said came
from there.

Last year it was Russia who protested to Kazakhstan - China has also
been watching the situation with concern.

It fears that if Central Asia fails to contain the pests, swarms of
locusts might head in its direction too.

Now one expert has suggested a regional locust centre be set up which
would enable a much more co-ordinated approach to this recurrent
problem.

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Subject: [BPR] - Newsviewtoday links
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 08:38:32 -0400

Order makes the inability to speak English a protected civil right
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_dougherty/20000824_xnjdo_clinton_ma.shtml

Molester leads 'gays' in Scout protest
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/20000824_xnbre_child_mole.shtml

Lesbians ousted from stadium get apology
http://news.excite.com/news/r/000823/17/life-lesbians

Baptist Policeman Fired
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/08/24/trooper.dilemma.ap/index.html

Sydney Applauded for Making Queens Kings for a Day
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000824/od/dragqueens_dc_1.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Maranatha News Briefs
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 08:47:39 -0400

MARANATHA NEWS BRIEFS

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The federal government released final
guidelines Aug. 23 permitting taxpayer funding of research on
cells from human embryos amid a chorus of criticism from pro-life
advocates. The National Institutes of Health's rules, which have
been expected since they were issued in draft form in December,
will allow federal funds to be used for the study of stem cells
from early human embryos but not for the actual act of deriving
the stem cells, which requires the destruction of the embryos.
Full Story: http://www.mcjonline.com/news/00b/20000824a.htm

MEXICO -- The Mexican government has banned a group of American
and Canadian pro-life activists from returning to that country
for the next five years, for taking park in a pro-life
demonstration in Mexico City last week. Mexican law prohibits
foreigners from becoming involved in domestic politics.
Full Story: http://www.mcjonline.com/news/00b/20000824b.htm

AUSTRALIA -- Australian church groups are appalled that several
dozen 'drag queens' are expected to participate in the official
closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympics, saying the involvement
of men dressed as women does little to enhance the city or the
Games. Christians, meanwhile, have been prohibited from openly
displaying their faith.
Full Story: http://www.mcjonline.com/news/00b/20000824c.htm

NIGERIA -- Borno has become the seventh state in Nigeria's mostly
Muslim north to formally adopt Islamic law, or Sharia. Police in
the state capital of Maiduguri stood guard as the move became
official Saturday, fearing a possible backlash from non-Muslims.
Earlier this year more than 1,000 people died in clashes between
Christians and Muslims after Kaduna state announced it would
adopt Sharia.
Full Story: http://www.mcjonline.com/news/00b/20000824d.htm

NORTH CAROLINA -- Reynolds High School, scene of last week's We
Still Pray rally, might soon be seeing another religious
gathering on its grounds. This time, a regional pagan group is
asking to use the facilities. The Appalachian Pagan Alliance sent
letters to Reynolds principal Tony Baldwin and Buncombe County
Superintendent Cliff Dodson on Friday asking to hold a "We Still
Work Magic" rally.
Full Story: http://www.mcjonline.com/news/00b/20000824e.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - More Maranatha News
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 08:50:39 -0400

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A new measure sponsored by a Florida
congressman would restore Medicaid benefits lost to illegal
immigrants under a 1996 welfare reform bill if passed. Rep.
Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., has proposed the Legal Immigrant
Children's Health Improvement Act of 2000, which would restore
lost Medicaid benefits to pregnant illegal immigrants who arrived
in the U.S. after Aug. 22, 1996 -- the cut-off date set by
welfare reform legislation.

MARANATHA NEWS BRIEFS

CHINA -- Chinese police detained 130 members of a Protestant
house church movement in central Henan province Wednesday,
according to a Hong Kong-based human rights group. Among the
arrested were three American citizens, the Information Centre for
Human Rights and the Democratic Movement in China said.
Full Story: http://www.mcjonline.com/news/00b/20000823a.htm

CALIFORNIA -- A hurting world may be calling the church for
answers, but nobody's picking up the phone. A new study by the
Barna Research Group found that contact with a human being could
not be made by phone at 40 percent of America's churches, and
almost half of those churches (44 percent) did not even have an
answering machine available to take a message.
Full Story: http://www.mcjonline.com/news/00b/20000823b.htm

INDONESIA -- Conflict between Christians and Muslims in Indonesia
is intensifying with the arrival of new Muslim troops. Reports
from the Maluka islands accuse the white-clad jihad fighters of
numerous atrocities against the Christian population of the
islands. Indonesian churches are partnering with churches in
Australia to begin a mass evacuation of Ambon.
Full Story: http://www.mcjonline.com/news/00b/20000823d.htm

NORTH CAROLINA -- Christians across the country are being urged
to defy a ban on high school prayer. As the high school football
season kicks off in many parts tomorrow, Christians are being
asked to join in spontaneous public recitals of the Lord's
prayer. The guerrilla action is being endorsed by two groups,
following the June ruling by the Supreme Court that a Texas
school district's policy of allowing voluntary pregame prayer was
unconstitutional.
Full Story: http://www.mcjonline.com/news/00b/20000823e.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - Infobeat News items
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 08:59:47 -0400

*** Court gives Mexican gay man asylum

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A cross-dressing, gay Mexican man who claims he
was persecuted in his homeland because of his sexuality is entitled
to asylum in the U.S., a federal appeals panel ruled Thursday. The
decision by three judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
expanded the social circumstances of persecution that immigration
officials must consider during asylum hearings. The case decided
Thursday involves Geovanni Hernandez-Montiel, a gay Mexican citizen
who dresses and behaves as a woman. He testified that he was harassed
and persecuted by his family, school officials and police, who he
said sexually assaulted him. He was also hospitalized for a week
after a knife attack by a group of men who called him derogatory
names, he said. In 1995, he fled to the U.S. and requested asylum but
was denied. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569171637-c9c

*** Aspiring singer awarded $11 mln

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A jury Thursday awarded an aspiring opera
singer $11 million for injuries she suffered when an American
Airlines jet went off a runway last year while landing in a
thunderstorm. Eleven people were killed and more than 80 were injured
when the plane hit pylons supporting runway approach lights at Little
Rock National Airport and caught fire. The plane stopped just short
of the Arkansas River. The lawsuit brought by Kristin Maddox was the
first case dealing with the crash to go to trial. In it, Maddox
alleged the airline was negligent for allowing the plane to land
during the thunderstorm June 1, 1999. She had sought $35 million,
saying damage to her voice box and hands ruined her dream of having a
professional music career. American suggested an award of $3.6
million. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569170339-124

*** UN excludes Dalai Lama from summit

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations responded to the
"sensitivities" of China in excluding the Dalai Lama from a world
conference of religious leaders, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan
said Thursday. The Dalai Lama, the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner, is
the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists. He fled Tibet in 1959
after a failed revolt against Chinese rule of the mountain region.
More than 1,000 religious leaders have been invited to the Millennium
World Peace Summit from Aug. 28-31, which will be held in the U.N.
General Assembly chamber for the first two days although the United
Nations is not an official sponsor. Organizers have invited the Dalai
Lama to give the closing address at a New York hotel, but he declined
because he was left out of the main conference. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569171399-40f

*** Israel wants to add to peace talks

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel wants to put on paper the gains made at
U.S.-sponsored peace talks, a top negotiator said Thursday, in a
reversal of his country's previous declaration that all breakthroughs
from the talks were "null and void." Shlomo Ben-Ami, the acting
foreign minister, suggested that Israel was especially interested in
setting down in writing the taboo-breaking proposals the sides
arrived at on sharing the walled Old City of Jerusalem and its Muslim
and Jewish holy sites. Describing talks with U.S. mediator Dennis
Ross aimed at reconvening a summit, Ben Ami said Israel's "aspiration
is to try and produce a collective paper to express what the parties
understand is the product of Camp David on some core issues."
Palestinian officials said that they are not working on such a
document with the Israelis. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569170615-6b1 ***
Also: U.S. hopes for positive Mideast talks, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569170796-2fb

*** Jordan denies smuggling accusation

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Jordan on Thursday denied Peru's accusation that
it was involved in smuggling arms to Colombian guerrillas, saying the
weapons were legally sold to the Peruvian government two years ago.
The dispute began Monday when Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's
security adviser Vladimiro Montesinos said Jordanian arms had reached
Colombian guerrillas. He said a low-ranking Peruvian officer and
former soldier had been arrested. A senior Jordanian government
official said in an interview Thursday that the arms were sold in
1998 through legal channels and that Jordan was willing to show
Peruvian government officials all the documents pertaining to the
deal. A report by the official Petra news agency speculated that
Peruvian military officials had funneled the arms to Colombian
guerrillas. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569167621-203

*** Docs clear U.S. businessman for space

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian doctors have given California businessman
Dennis Tito a clean bill of health for space travel, bringing him
closer to becoming a "space tourist," according to the company
arranging the journey. MirCorp, a private company which arranged for
Tito to fly to the aging Mir space station, said in a statement
Wednesday that Tito will now start training at Russia's Star City
space facility. The blastoff is scheduled for mid-2001, according to
MirCorp. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569174477-454

*** Group explains Lewinsky job offer

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A group that wants to see a woman in the
White House said it was protesting the decisions by Al Gore and
George W. Bush to pick male running mates when it offered Monica
Lewinsky a job. American Women Presidents issued the explanation
Thursday, two days after it offered the former White House intern the
job - then quickly dropped it. "This was our way of protesting that
another generation of American girls will grow up without a role
model in the White House," spokeswoman Mosemarie Boyd said. "We
wanted to let people know that we were disappointed that neither Gore
nor Bush chose a woman vice presidential running mate," she said. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569173467-b6b

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Subject: [BPR] - Mating dance takes flight
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 09:31:24 -0500

Mating dance takes flight

Insect invasion is harmless, expected to end in a week
August 25, 2000

BY BEN SCHMITT
DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

Chalk up this week's flying ant invasion in southern Michigan to a
convergence of circumstances that created perfect conditions for ant love.
The nuptial flight won't last more than a week, state bug experts said
Thursday.

Swarms of the harmless insects blanketed Tigers fans Wednesday at Comerica
Park and were reported throughout metro Detroit.

"I've had reports of similar incidents in Flint, Lansing, Grand Blanc and
Frankenmuth," said Howard Russell, an entomologist with Michigan State
University's diagnostic lab in East Lansing.

Once a year, the male and queen ants develop wings and surface from their
underground nests to mate. After mating, the males die and queens drop to
the ground, twist off their wings, and form new colonies.

A mild winter, wet weather, and cooler summer temperatures have turned this
summer into a banner year for bugs. Fungus and moisture produced by this
year's climate are providing insects with a huge food supply, Russell
explained. Other insects that are thriving include Japanese beetles,
mosquitoes and earwigs.

Wednesday's high humidity and late-evening high temperatures may have
triggered the lovefest, he said.

Bug experts said that closer examination of the invaders made clear that
they weren't larger carpenter ants, as the Free Press reported Thursday.

"They swarm every year, just not to this degree," said Russell. "I think it
will be short-lived, no more than a week. People should just wait it out and
we won't see any more of this, at least until next year."

The ants also swarmed around the University of Michigan-Dearborn campus off
Evergreen, said Judy M. Nesmith, a biology lecturer who specializes in
entomology. Nesmith peered into her microscope to examine one of the insects
Thursday. She identified the ants as members of the ant subfamily
myrmicinae, the largest subfamily of ants, which contains 300 species.

Nesmith identified the subfamily by examining the insect's pedicel, or waist
area. She said the ant resembles a species known as the Monomorium minimum,
or little black ant, which is common in the Great Lakes area.

The ant she examined was about one-eighth of an inch long, she said.

However, Nesmith did not have the proper biological keys to fully identify
the species. She planned to send the sample to Michigan State University.

Nesmith did confirm that the ant is "absolutely not" a carpenter ant, as
believed by some entomologists. Those ants are much larger, about
three-fourths of an inch.
Comerica Park and the Detroit Tigers are treating the aerial assault as a
freak occurrence, said Tigers public relations manager Jim Anderson. No
refunds will be given to fans who left Wednesday night's game, since umpires
found no need to call the game, he said.

Joel Jerore, a manager in Dearborn for Rose Exterminator, which services the
ballpark, said no follow-up treatment was needed, since the Tigers are going
on the road for a week and the bugs did not originate from within the
stadium.

"We think they were blown in," he said. "There's really nothing you can do
to combat this -- not for a swarm like that."
Gene White, a staff entomologist for Rose Exterminator, said it's beneficial
for the ants to all begin swarming at the same time because it helps queens
and male ants find mates from other colonies.

"There was a lot of love going on at Comerica Park and everywhere else in
the region," he said.

Kristine Hahn, a consumer horticulture agent at Wayne County MSU Extension
in Detroit, urged bug haters to put down their cans of repellant.
"All of these bugs will be gone with the first frost," she said. "Either
we're going to have to share our living space with insects and other animals
without exterminating them, or we're going to end up poisoning ourselves."

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Subject: [BPR] - Games of the Slaughter/Sydney Olympics
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:34:02 -0400

The following is part of a discussion on one of Nostradamus' quatrains
taking place on a list that I am on. It revolves around the Sydney
Olympics and I'm sending it through just so that others can keep abreast
of what's being said. Pharaoh's magicians and sorcerers were quite
proficient in some areas, but they were NOT godly men:

  And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, When Pharaoh
  shall speak unto you, saying, Show a miracle for you: then thou shalt
  say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall
  become a serpent. And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did
  so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before
  Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent. Then
  Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of
  Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments. For they
  cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod
  swallowed up their rods.-- Exodus 7:8-12

(Please see the file entitled "Nostradamus" at
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/Misc_Studies/ms019.htm for more on my
views of the man and his methods.)

The quatrain reads as follows:

X 74
An revolu du grand nombre septiesme,
Apparoistra au temps jeux d'Hecatombe,
Non esloign� du grand eage milliesme,
Que les entrez sortirons de leur tombe.

The following is the interpretation of this quatrain according to the
person who wrote the post:

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A year past of the great number Seven,
(2000 in the Bible marks the beginning of the Seventh, Holy Millennium) It
will appear at the times of the games of the Hecatombe Not far from the
big millennial times, Those who shall enter them, shall rise from their
graves.

(A Hecatombe = mass slaughter of cattle. This was wrongfully believed by
Hewitt/Lorie to have been the Games of Barcelona. Of course bull fighting
gets a lot of cattle killed, but this apparently wasn't what he intended,
as nothing severe happened in May 1993, which they derived from this verse
via all kinds of complicated operation on the text. Their conclusion was
that within the year after these games, the 'big one' would strike
California. It hasn't, obviously, but their hunch may have been wrong in
timing only..)

My two cents: the year of the great number Seven has not been 1993
(2000-7), but it is 2000 itself. We are on the brink of the Seventh
Biblical Millennium, the Millennium of the return of God's Son onto the
Earth. (No Biblical reference other than historical intended :) )

-----end-----

Hecatomb according to Webster's is defined as: "1. an ancient Greek and
Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen or cattle; 2. the sacrifice or slaughter of
many victims."

The Sydney games are apparently "being held at a place called 'Homebush'
that happened to be the site of a slaughter yard" (quote from another
member of the same list).

Looking at the Games more closely myself (because of all the drag queen
stuff about the closing ceremonies) I found that: "Sydney's Opening and
Closing Ceremonies will be staged at the Olympic Stadium at Sydney Olympic
Park on Friday, 15 September 2000 and Sunday, 1 October 2000,
respectively." (I don't know whether their time zone puts it on different
dates in relation to Israel, but Rosh Hashanah is over 2 days so it should
overlap somewhere.)

The rising from the graves is also being referred to as a possible rapture
scenario. [The resurrection of the dead will take place on Rosh HaShanah
according to the Talmud, (RoshHaShanah 166).]

Rosh HaShanah this year runs from sundown Friday, Sept 29 through
sundown Sunday, Oct 1st. Sticking with the "cattle" theme I found the
following for "The Temple and Its Ministry" by Alfred Edesheim:

-----begin-----

New Year's Day in Jerusalem

During the whole of New Year's Day, trumpets and horns were blown in
Jerusalem from morning to evening. In the Temple it was done, even on a
Sabbath, but not outside its walls. Since the destruction of Jerusalem
this restriction has been removed, and the horn is blown in every
synagogue, even though the feast fall upon a Sabbath. It has already been
hinted that the instruments used were not the ordinary priests' trumpets,
but horns. The Mishnah holds that any kind of horns may be blown except
those of oxen or calves, in order not to remind God of the sin of the
golden calf.

-----end-----

(For more info on this particular time of the year, please see our "Rosh
HaShanah" file at http://philologos.org/bpr/files/Jewish_Feasts/js002.htm)

What does this mean? I don't know, I'm just relaying what I have
read/found. There is definitely no "Thus sayeth the Lord" in this post, so
take it for what it's worth,

Moza
moza@butterfly.mv.com

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Subject: [BPR] - U.N. Summit Document: Expand U.N. Power
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:21:29 -0400

U.N. Summit Document: Expand U.N. Power
Austin Ruse
Friday, Aug. 25, 2000

A closely guarded and highly controversial draft document that will be
negotiated by governments at the U.N. Millennium Summit reveals that the
United Nations plans to increase its influence and move closer to the
center of the world stage.

The document is also meant to burnish what has become an increasingly
tarnished U.N. reputation.

Among other things, the document calls for the ratification of seven U.N.
conventions and for a world conference on nuclear disarmament.

There is no question that powerful people within the U.N. and those
closely connected to it want to exponentially expand U.N. power into all
aspects of human life. This document, however, does not advance what many
see as an impending political apocalypse at the September meeting.

According to the "President's Working Draft" prepared for the U.N.
Millennium Summit:

* The working draft document reveals a United Nations that is eager to
regain lost credibility and to demand center stage. This comes after years
of U.N. crises, including notable U.N. "peacekeeping" failures, ongoing
financial and management problems and a string of controversial world
conferences that have caused a widening rift between the U.N. and many
governments.

* The summit will bring together what is being called the largest meeting
of heads of state and government in history. Up to 150 are expected for
the three-day meeting beginning Sept. 6 at U.N. headquarters in New York
City. The meeting, which up to now has been wrapped in the usual
pre-conference secrecy, has caused growing alarm among pro-family groups
that expect the summit to be a vehicle for expanded U.N. power.

* The "President's Working Draft," which won't be released to the public
until just before the conference, shows the desire of the U.N. to be the
central actor on the world stage. Summit participants will be asked to
affirm their "faith in the Organization and its Charter as indispensable
foundations of a more peaceful, prosperous and just world."

* Over seven sections of the draft document call for increased commitments
to peace, human rights, poverty reduction and environmental protection.
Opening sentences give the document's feel: "We will spare no effort to
free our peoples from the scourge of war." "We will spare no effort to
free our fellow men, women and children from ... conditions of extreme
poverty." "We must spare no effort to free all of humanity, and above all
our children and grandchildren, from the threat of living on a planet
irredeemably spoilt by human activities." "We will spare no effort to
promote democracy and strengthen the rule of law."

* The document calls for the increased capacity for the U.N. to conduct
peacekeeping operations, the timely paying of U.N. dues, the "speedy
reform and enlargement of the Security Council," the elimination of
nuclear weapons, the "prevention of trafficking in small arms and light
weapons," "debt relief for the least developed nations," and the
"promotion of gender equality in its own right."

* The document calls for the ratification of seven existing treaties,
including the Rome Statutes of the International Criminal Court, the
Ottawa Treaty banning land mines, the Kyoto Protocols on global warming,
the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention to Combat
Desertification, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the
Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict. The
document calls for one new treaty – a Convention Against Terrorism - and a
world conference on nuclear disarmament.

* The draft document will concern many. If they come to pass, some of the
ideas in the draft document will cause problems in the coming years.

http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/24/202112

via: Third_Watch@egroups.com

From: moza@butterfly.mv.com

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Subject: [BPR] - Real World News Items - 08/25/00
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:20:01 -0500

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REAL WORLD NEWS 08/25/2000

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CHURCHES BEING ZONED OUT ACROSS AMERICA
Power-crazed zoning boards all across the nation are making churches
an endangered species by using zoning laws to ban houses of worship
from what the authorities decide are inconvenient locations. Zoning
czars in cities as large as Chicago and as small as Sanford, N.C.,
are attempting to tell churches where they can and cannot meet to
worship God, according to CBN News. The situation has reached the
point where Congress has been forced to act to rein in local zoning
boards that arbitrarily decide where religious congregations can
gather for communal worship.
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/24/205739

U.N. SUMMIT DOCUMENT: EXPAND U.N. POWER
A closely guarded and highly controversial draft document that will
be negotiated by governments at the U.N. Millennium Summit reveals
that the United Nations plans to increase its influence and move
closer to the center of the world stage. The document is also meant
to burnish what has become an increasingly tarnished U.N. reputation.
Among other things, the document calls for the ratification of seven
U.N. conventions and for a world conference on nuclear disarmament.
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/24/202112

U.S. SEES MIDEAST DEAL POSSIBLE WITHIN TWO MONTHS
Israeli and Palestinian leaders could make a peace deal under U.S.
auspices within less than two months, a senior U.S. official said on
Thursday. But the prospects depend on complicated discussions now
under way between Israel, the Palestinians, the United States, Egypt,
Jordan and other parties, the official added. The official, who
asked not to be named, was briefing reporters about a tour of the
Arab world by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Edward Walker, whose
main mission was to sound out Arab opinion on the future of
Jerusalem.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000824/wl/mideast_usa_dc_1.html

ISRAEL SAYS U.S. OPTIMISM ON PEACE IS UNREALISTIC
The security adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Friday
that American optimism over reaching a Middle East peace deal within
two months may be unrealistic. Danny Yatom said while an agreement
might be reached despite the failure of the U.S.-sponsored Camp David
summit last month, there was also a possibility a deal would not be
clinched. ``I am not sure that the American optimism reflects
reality,'' Yatom told Israel Radio.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000825/ts/mideast_israel_dc_1.html

BARAK MOVES TOWARD UNITY GOVERNMENT
Prime Minister Ehud Barak yesterday took his first concrete step
toward establishing a national unity government by calling on the
Likud to join his government within a few weeks if the peace process
with the Palestinians fails. But Barak's call for unity generated
largely negative reactions, taken as an act of desperation - a last
move before a general election.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/htmls/kat7_3.asp

RUSSIA STICKS TO SUB COLLISION THEORY
Russian Defence Minister Igor Sergeyev says he still believes the
most likely explanation for the sinking of the nuclear submarine
Kursk is a collision with a foreign submarine. No firm evidence has
emerged to support such a theory, and the United States says neither
of its two submarines which were in the area at the time were
involved.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_895000/895815.stm

PUTIN GIVES ARMED FORCES, POLICE 20 PERCENT RAISE
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a 20 percent increase in
wages for the armed forces, police, prison guards, customs officials
and the tax police, the Kremlin said Thursday. A spokeswoman said by
telephone that the increases would take effect from December 1.
Putin, who has been under fire for his handling of the Kursk
submarine tragedy, had earlier met Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin and
agreed that defense and security spending would be among areas to
benefit from any windfalls in next year's budget.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000824/wl/russia_wages_dc_2.html

EURO RECOVERY SHORT-LIVED
Just one day after the single currency clawed its way back above the
90 cents mark, Asia's financial markets have knocked it down yet
again. One euro now buys $0.8987, and traders predict it could fall
to $0.87, which would be a new historic low.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_895000/895468.stm

AMERICAN PRIEST'S DEATH SHOCKS KENYA
Kenyans reacted with shock and dismay Friday to the shooting death of
an American priest, whose human rights work and criticism of the
government made him popular with some and brought death threats from
others. The Rev. John Kaiser, 67, of the Society of St. Joseph, also
known as the Mill Hill Fathers, was found dead on the side of a road
Thursday near Naivasha, 50 miles northwest of Nairobi, police said.
He had a shotgun wound to the head. The slaying of Kaiser was on the
front pages of all of Kenya's daily papers Friday and reverberated
throughout the human rights community.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/082500/kenya_kaiser.sml

CHENEY: MONUMENTS MAY BE RESCINDED
Republican vice presidential hopeful Dick Cheney raised the
possibility Thursday that some of the new national monuments created
by President Clinton could be reviewed and possibly rescinded if he
and George W. Bush are elected in November. ``Of course it's not my
decision to make. It's the president-elect who has to make the
decision,'' Cheney said, commenting on what is a hot topic in the
West. He said Clinton has used his executive authority ``willy-nilly
all over the West'' to create national monuments without considering
the desires of the people who will be affected.
http://chblue.com/a/ap.elections.presidential/20000824/39a596ac.4986.2
/a p.asp

CLONAID ANNOUNCES INTENT TO CLONE FIRST HUMAN BABY
CLONAID, the company which was launched by Rael, founder of the
Raelian religion with the purpose to perform human cloning, will soon
start its activities. Rael said: ``We just found a customer who is
ready to completely finance the whole process. It's a perfect case.
An American family who just lost their 10-month-old baby due to
medical malpractice in a hospital. No parents in the world would
disagree with this family's desire to bring back to life a baby that
was killed due to medical malpractice."
http://www.newsminute.com/clonaid.htm

GUIDELINES FOR STEM CELL RESEARCH DRAW OPPOSITION
Anti-abortion groups say new guidelines for stem cell research
violate a law that forbids federal funding of studies that involve
the death or injury of human embryos. The guidelines, announced
Wednesday by the National Institutes of Health, would allow federal
funding of research on stem cells that are removed from human
embryos, but forbid research on the embryo itself. Douglas Johnson of
the National Right to Life Committee said although the guidelines do
not permit the actual killing of the human embryo, they do encourage
research that leads to the death of embryos.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/082400/stemcells.sml

NEW SIGNS OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE
The possibility of finding extraterrestrial life in our solar system
has come one step closer according to scientists in the United
States. Writing in the journal Science, University of California
scientists say they have found new evidence that one of Jupiter's
moons, Europa, may have a liquid ocean deep beneath its surface.
Research shows that wherever there is water on Earth, there is life
in the form of bacteria. We cannot tell whether this is true on
Europa, but this new evidence suggests it would be a very good place
to look for extraterrestrials - even if they are only microbes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_895000/895057.stm

CHINA ARRESTS EVANGELICALS, INCLUDING 3 FROM THE U.S.
One hundred and thirty evangelical Christians, including three
visiting Americans on a religious mission, were arrested in central
China on Wednesday as they attended a revival, according to a human
rights monitor and the Americans' pastor in California. The raid was
part of a continuing pattern of arrests, fines and other harassment
of so-called house churches, mainly evangelical Protestant groups
that have quietly spread their faith to tens of millions of Chinese
while refusing to accept the authority of official religious bodies.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/082500china-religion.html

VATICAN: STEM-CELL RESEARCH 'GRAVELY IMMORAL'
The Vatican has condemned the Clinton administration's decision to
permit so-called stem-cell research as anti-life, claiming fully
fertilized eggs used by scientists to conduct experiments would, if
allowed, mature naturally into human beings. In a statement issued
yesterday, the Vatican's Pontifical Academy for Life said the Clinton
administration's new guidelines were "gravely immoral," and that the
good intention behind them "doesn't make good an action that in
itself is bad."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_dougherty/20000825_xnjdo_vatican_
st.shtml

WITCHES ARE TAKING TO THE WEB
Witches from around the world are taking to the Web to spread their
message: "The modern Neo-Pagan movement cannot be denied." Followers
of these so-called alternative religions have flocked to claim their
share of cyber space, creating one of the most prolific online
communities. "We thank the goddess every day for the Internet," said
Wren Walker, co-founder of Witchvox.com, also known as The Witch's
Voice. Walker says it is the most popular site on the Web for
information and news on witchcraft, Wicca and paganism.
http://www.foxnews.com/vtech/082500/witchweb.sml

NO TOLERANCE FOR BOY SCOUTS
If there is one attitude that self-styled "homosexual rights
activists" do not wish to see inculcated in society, it is tolerance.
As for coexistence - however peaceful - such a state of being holds
no allure for those committed to the cause of "homosexual rights."
Anyone in doubt need only look to the new front in the war on
traditionalism launched this week by homosexual rights activists
against the Boy Scouts of America.
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/ed-house-200082519642.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - RE: Games of the Slaughter/Sydney Olympics
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 13:49:32 -0500

Ideas that popped in------------

"An revolu du grand nombre septiesme,"
The great number 7 ?, 7 year tribulation period?

"Apparoistra au temps jeux d'Hecatombe,"
Could this have relevance to the reinstitution of temple sacrifice by
Israel?

Since the temple sacrifices are stopped in the middle (3 1/2 years) of the
trib period could this ref the beginning of the sacrifices 1 year into the
trib period? Sizeable amounts of livestock will be needed, from my meager
understanding of temple sacrifice protocol, to fulfil the Levitical
duties, yes?

"Non esloign� du grand eage milliesme,"
No grander/bigger millennium than the millennial reign!

"Que les entrez sortirons de leur tombe."
Still fits with the above...

Anybody out there qualified to address punctuation and how it applies to
these quatrains???

(ALSO AGREED, Nostradamus is definitely not scripture/canon. But he is
more than interesting, from a historical reference perspective)

Shophar

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(Please see the file entitled "Nostradamus" at
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/Misc_Studies/ms019.htm for more on my
views of the man and his methods.)

The quatrain reads as follows:

X 74
An revolu du grand nombre septiesme,
Apparoistra au temps jeux d'Hecatombe,
Non esloign� du grand eage milliesme,
Que les entrez sortirons de leur tombe.

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Subject: [BPR] - Infobeat News items (8/25/00)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 19:07:34 -0400

*** Zimbabwe to seize more farms

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - The government named another 509 white-owned
farms Friday it plans to confiscate for redistribution to landless
blacks, bringing to 1,542 the number it has targeted under a hastened
land seizure program. Farm leaders warn the announcement casts more
doubt over the viability of commercial farming in Zimbabwe's already
ailing agriculture-based economy. The owners of the targeted farms
have until Sept. 17 to lodge objections to the orders, Agriculture
Minister Joseph Made, said in an announcement published Friday in the
state-controlled Herald newspaper. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569182773-784

*** Greek wildfires claim 5 more lives

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Wildfires raging across Greece killed five more
people Friday as officials in one region declared a state of
emergency and civilian volunteers joined exhausted firefighters.
Several major fires, fed by gale-force winds, roared through parched
woodlands and threatened villages from the Albanian border to the
southern Arcadia province, where a state of emergency was declared.
Temperatures were expected to hover near 99 degrees. On Friday, the
remains of five women were found in three villages close to the
northern village of Aghia Marina, where an elderly couple was killed
by the fire on Thursday. The blaze, which originated in Albania, had
a front about 25 miles long, officials said. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569182014-113

*** Barak promises to protect mosques

JERUSALEM (AP) - Making a case for Israeli sovereignty over all holy
shrines in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Friday that
under Israeli rule no harm would ever come to the two major mosques
in the disputed city. The Palestinians dismissed Barak's assurances
and said they would not sign a peace treaty without being granted
sovereignty over east Jerusalem, which includes the walled Old City,
home to major holy sites of Islam, Christianity and Judaism. While
both sides repeated stated positions, there were hints of a
willingness to consider compromise. Israel's top negotiator, acting
Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, has placed the importance of the Old
City to Muslims on equal footing with its holiness to Jews, and
Palestinian negotiator Mohammed Dahlan has suggested sovereignty was
negotiable. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569186924-ce3

*** Germans find Iraqi missile factory

MUNICH, Germany (AP) - Germany's intelligence agency Friday confirmed
a report that it had discovered the location of a secret Iraqi
missile factory near Baghdad, supporting allegations that Saddam
Hussein has continued to build up his arsenal. About 250 technicians
are working on short-range missiles at the Al Mamoun Factory, said a
spokeswoman from the German Bundesnachrichtendienst. The report in
the Bild newspaper said the complex, which has many buildings, is
located 25 miles southwest of Baghdad, and gave the precise latitude
and longitude. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569186691-c7c

*** Domain owners fight to keep names

GENEVA (AP) - Go to the Web site www.barcelona.com and you can read
the latest news from Spain, buy jewelry inspired by the architect
Antoni Gaudi and check out the Spanish weather. But maybe not for
much longer, because a United Nations organization has ordered the
New York company that runs the site to hand over the domain name
barcelona.com to Barcelona's city council. That's just the sort of
decision that infuriates an increasingly vocal group of lobbyists who
claim that the World Intellectual Property Organization is stifling
free speech while protecting big business and vested interests at the
expense of entrepreneurs and ordinary people. Since the system was
introduced last December, WIPO has received 1,110 complaints about
domain names. Of the 525 cases completed by Aug. 10, almost 80% of
decisions went in favor of the complainant. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569187105-7c0 ***
Also: Madonna fights for Internet name, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569180939-45d

*** China quake damage said widespread

BEIJING (AP) - An earthquake earlier this week in southwest China
injured hundreds and left 177,000 homeless, a government official and
a state-run newspaper said Friday. Chinese seismologists initially
had said there were no reports of casualties or damage in the
magnitude-5.1 quake Monday in Wuding county, Yunnan province. But the
official from Wuding country and the China Daily on Friday both
described damage as widespread. Quoting what he said were the latest
figures, the official said 211 people were injured in the earthquake,
one seriously, and 177,457 people had lost their homes. Most of these
people have since been rehoused in tents, he added. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569184110-1cf ***
Also: 47 injured in China tornado, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569177935-637

*** Rare parasitic disease kills 21 dogs

MILLBROOK, N.Y. (AP) - A parasitic disease rarely found in this
country has killed 21 foxhounds and has sickened at least 20 others,
prompting the national fox-hunting organization to cancel events. The
disease can also affect humans. One after another, the hounds at
Millbrook Hunt in Dutchess County became lethargic. Losing weight and
patches of hair, the dogs developed enlarged joints, crusty skin
lesions and rope-like knots underneath their skin. The culprit was
identified this spring by researchers at North Carolina State
University as a strain of leishmaniasis, typically found in warm,
coastal areas like Brazil, the Mediterranean, India and the Sudan.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569185016-506

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