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Subject: [BPR] - Aug 29, 2000 TV Programs
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:42:20 -0400

Noon Eastern

C-SPAN European Security and Defense Identity
Security and defense experts discuss the proposed creation of a separate
european defense force and how it would be comprised.

8:00

All this week at 8:00 pm eastern C-Span will be showing programs on "The
Global Community." Tonight's forum is "Peace, Global Security and Human
Rights."

10:00

HIST - SPY TECHNOLOGY - Gadgets are the mainstay of
spies for more than 4,000 years.(CC)(TVG)

From: moza@butterfly.mv.com

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Subject: [BPR] - Re: Moon Goddess & Sun Goddess BARBIE DOLLS?
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Alan")
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:10:21 -0500

I went to ebay and did a search and there are plenty of Bob Mackey barbies
out there here is what I used to search:

barbie goddess mackie

and here is the link

http://search-desc.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ebay
tag1=ebayreg&ht=1&query=barbie+goddess+mackie&ebaytag1code=0&srchdesc=y&Sort
Property=MetaEndSort

Most all have pictures if you want a look.

Alan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan" <bpr-list@philologos.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 8:46 AM
Subject: [BPR] - Re: Moon Goddess & Sun Goddess BARBIE DOLLS?

>
> I saw the ad for the sun goddess barbie - I can scan if for you (if I
> can find it) if you'd like. Jan
>
> Shophar_Sho_Good wrote:
>
> > Trying to confirm that a line of Barbies is out there by Bob Mackie...
> > "Moon Goddess Barbie" & "Sun Goddess Barbie". Any Barbie fans out
> > there???

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Subject: [BPR] - Joint Statement issued by Palestinian Muslim and Christian leaders (7/29/00)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 09:21:42 -0400

Orient House release

July 29, 2000

Joint Statement issued by Palestinian Muslim and Christian leaders

On Saturday July 29, approximately forty Palestinian Christian and Muslim
leaders held a meeting at the Orient House in East Jerusalem to issue a
joint statement on the future status of Jerusalem. The religious leaders,
which included the Mufti of Jerusalem and numerous Bishops and other
clergy as well as secular leaders including Faisal Husseini, member of the
PLO Executive Committee, issued a ten point statement calling for an end to
the Israeli occupation of Jerusalem and affirming the strong unity of the
Palestinian Christian and Muslim community.

In the statement, the leaders stressed that the Muslim and Christian
community are one united body sharing the same history and civilization.
The participants denounced Israeli measures to de-Arabize Jerusalem and
warned that any future agreement in Jerusalem that does not entail the
dismantling of the Israeli occupation and the establishment of full
Palestinian sovereignty will fail.

http://www.nad.gov.ps/press/nad/nad4.html

From: moza@butterfly.mv.com

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Subject: [BPR] - MORNING AFTER PILL SET FOR SCHOOLS
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:45:07 -0500

Monday, August 28, 2000

MORNING AFTER PILL SET FOR SCHOOLS
http://www.record-mail.co.uk/shtml/NEWS/P4S11.shtml

A DOCTOR has proposed making the morning-after pill available on
demand
to teenage schoolgirls.

Dr Anna Glasier, director for family planning of Lothian Primary Care
Trust, will tell a conference in Edinburgh school nurses should be
able
to prescribe the pill.

The move, criticised by church leaders, has won the support of school
nurses.

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Subject: [BPR] - Re: Moon Goddess & Sun Goddess BARBIE DOLLS?
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Jan")
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:46:22 -0500

I saw the ad for the sun goddess barbie - I can scan if for you (if I
can find it) if you'd like. Jan

Shophar_Sho_Good wrote:

> Trying to confirm that a line of Barbies is out there by Bob Mackie...
> "Moon Goddess Barbie" & "Sun Goddess Barbie". Any Barbie fans out
> there???

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Subject: [BPR] - FOR SOME, CYBERSPACE OFFERS NEW ROUTE TO GOD
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:54:27 -0500

FOR SOME, CYBERSPACE OFFERS NEW ROUTE TO GOD

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/printedition/article/0,2669,SAV
-0
0082 80012,FF.html

By John Blake
Cox News Service
August 28, 2000
In cyberspace, no one can hear you scream.

You can't shout anyone down, can't wag your finger in someone's face,
can't storm out of the room. In short, it's a great place for people
of
various faiths to talk about the potentially explosive issue of
religion.

That's what Rev. Charles Henderson, pastor of the First Church of
Cyberspace, discovered after creating and leading an online church
that
is open to people of many beliefs.

Henderson's 4-year-old cybercongregation--he says his church budget is
only $19.95, the monthly Internet fee--includes Christians, Jews,
atheists and pagans. Between debates on religion, these virtual
parishioners share personal struggles, prayers and cyberhugs.

The 58-year-old Henderson is an ordained Presbyterian pastor who has
been in the ministry for three decades, but he has never pastored a
congregation like his online church.

"It's tremendously diverse," said Henderson from the church's office
in
New York. "It has pagans, Wiccans, liberals, gays, straight. That's
what
makes it so exciting."

You don't have to confine your search for God to a house of worship
anymore. God has gone online. Internet experts say that religion has
become one of the more popular stops in cyberspace. At least 25
percent
of the estimated 100 million Americans online use the Internet
regularly
to seek or share spirituality, according to a 1998 study by the Barna
Research Group, an organization that tracks religious trends.

The conventional image of a religious community--like-minded believers
who gather in a mosque, synagogue or church--is being revolutionized
by
cyber spirituality.

Internet experts are divided on where such connections will lead.

Some warn that faith communities that don't go online will eventually
perish. Others view the popularity of cyber religion in less Darwinian
terms. They say the Internet will profoundly change how faith
communities interact with one another and the world but believe online
sites will never replace actual communities of worship.

Henderson thinks there will always be churches, the type made of wood
and bricks and stained-glass windows. "People want to be at a place at
the same time," he said.

But even the most traditional religious leaders have seen the wisdom
of
going online.

Rev. Timothy McDonald, pastor of the First Iconium Baptist Church in
Atlanta, delivers spirited sermons, dresses in conservative suits and
still wears an Afro.

But McDonald is also a cyberevangelist who rattles off technical
computer jargon like Scripture and gushes over the Internet's impact
on
his ministry. He uses the Internet to e-mail members, research sermons
and welcome out-of-town visitors and others to his biblical passages,
and said he appreciates too many religious traditions to label himself
by any particular faith.

"I don't know what I am," he said.

He has discovered that the Internet is a powerful tool for satisfying
his spiritual yearning.

Spiritual guides are only a click away, he learned after e-mailing a
Catholic monk who had written a book on "centering prayer." The monk
was
stationed in China as a missionary.

Reaching someone thousands of miles away is a bonus offered by the
computer age. But reaching a person across the street still involves
personal contact. That's why McDonald isn't worried about the Web and
what it offers.

It will never replace holding hands in prayer, he thinks, but it will
bring additional people to God.

McDonald said he has noticed that the anonymity of the Web encourages
people to be more open. He recently counseled a drug addict too
ashamed
to reveal his problem in person.

"Some people won't go to their church but they will go to another
pastor
on the Internet," said McDonald, who treats his laptop like his
Bible--it's a constant companion.

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Subject: [BPR] - Re: WHAT IS AGENDA 21?
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Tracy")
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 12:55:02 -0400

When you copied this article you missed something on the bottom that is
very important.

"For further information contact your local Bahá'í community."

It only took one search to come up with information about Baha'i. It is
a religion. Seems to follow a "prophet" with the name "Bahá'u'lláh"

This "prophet" claims to be greater that all previous prophets including
Jesus!

It seems as though they are putting together a slick commercial for
there religion. "no more war, hatred, and will abolish poverty"
(poverty or the poor?)

They are open for all races and religions.

They are pushing for the Agenda 21 which to me is a lot like a slick way
of revers communism. Instead of the peoples government owning all of
the property and businesses, the businesses own the people!

This Bahá'u'lláh I believe is one of the false prophets. And this Agent
21 and the U.N. looks a lot like the beast. " the beast looked like a
leopard, but had feet like a bear, and a mouth like a lion"

1. The leopard has many spots, The U.N. is made up of many peoples
(spots)
2. Had feet like a bear, Russia is the bear. Russia is the
traditional communist. This system is a take off of communism.

3. The mouth like a lion, the lions mouth has a powerful bite
(economic sanctions) and sharp teeth (invasion of "peace keepers")

4. "The seven heads are the seven hills, and seven kings" . That to me
is the G7. The beast is the 8th "once was, then was not and now is
again for a short time" That sounds like Russia, the 8th country to
join the old g7 which is now the g8. Russia was on the brink of
collapse and is surging ahead, specially when they get the new oil
pipeline going!

5. The second beast could be this religion. Because it would have "the
authority of the first beast". "Agenda 21 is a guide for individuals,
businesses and governments in making choices for development that help
society and the environment. If we do not tackle the issues it
concerns, we all face higher and higher levels of human suffering".
That is a quote. There are many phrases that are used that can
establish religious persecution. 1. "enabling an environment for social
development" 2. "Ensuring that "structural adjustment programs" include
"social goals"; A better "resourcing" for social development; A better
"framework" for international co-operation for "social development"".

Think about this. If China is harvesting oil with the islamic front in
the Sudan, Russia is harvesting oil with Turkey and several other
Islamic states, The oil in the middle east is harvested by Islamic
states! Only one little problem stands in the way of having most of the
world oil ..... Israel!

If the P.L.O. declares there own country in east Jerusalem, Israel
said they will attack. That would be enough of an excuse for many
Islamic states to invade Israel.

Off topic, the thought just came to me. With China "reaching out" like
they are and Russia doing the same, both looking for strongholds on
oil, Russia is moving south, and China north. This is interesting
because Nostr'edomus (confused on spelling) Predicted the great war
between the Dragon and the Bear. If these two go at it stay out of New
York city! Kaboom! Sadam speaks. Then according to predictions the
Eagle and the Bear will Destroy Iraq obliterate would be more accurate.
And Iraq is Babylon! Funny thing is that the economy is also what
Babylon is and New York is the "King" of the economy. In New York there
is Long Island, in Long Island there is a city called...... Babylon.
Which would not survive a Nuclear bomb. That prophesy could be met both
ways.

Looks like thing are starting to heat up.

Tracy

Shophar_Sho_Good wrote:

> WHAT IS AGENDA 21?
>
> http://www.iol.ie/~isp/agenda21/watsa21.htm
>
> Agenda 21 is a blueprint for sustainable development into the 21st
> Century. Its basis was agreed during the "Earth Summit" at Rio in
> 1992,
> and signed by 179 Heads of State and Government.

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Subject: [BPR] - Re: Joint Statement issued by Palestinian Muslim and Christianleaders (7/29/00)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Tracy")
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:03:32 -0400

It is funny that the Jews want to "de-arabize" Jerusalem. Has anyone
ever asked themselves "how did moses pass as a egyptian when the Jews
are white?". The Jews that occupy Israel now are not the same Jews in
the line of David. They are mostly from Europe. They middle eastern
Jews would have been dark skinned..... Or the Egyptians were color
blind! So why are they trying to remove people who are more closely
related to the original Jews than they are. Maybe they should go home.

Moza wrote:

> Orient House release
>
> July 29, 2000
>
> Joint Statement issued by Palestinian Muslim and Christian leaders
>
> On Saturday July 29, approximately forty Palestinian Christian and Muslim
> leaders held a meeting at the Orient House in East Jerusalem to issue a
> joint statement on the future status of Jerusalem. The religious leaders,
> which included the Mufti of Jerusalem and numerous Bishops and other
> clergy as well as secular leaders including Faisal Husseini, member of the
> PLO Executive Committee, issued a ten point statement calling for an end to
> the Israeli occupation of Jerusalem and affirming the strong unity of the
> Palestinian Christian and Muslim community.

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Subject: [BPR] - Reality scares Alice
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 12:20:18 -0500

Reality scares Alice
http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicMetal/aug29_cooper.html

By JANE STEVENSON -- Toronto Sun
TORONTO -- It's not such a wonderful, wonderful world anymore, Alice Cooper
said yesterday during a promotional trip in Toronto.

That explains the title of his latest album, the hard-rocking,
apocalyptic-themed Brutal Planet.

"It's by far the darkest thing I've ever written, because it's
reality-based," said The Coop, 52, during a Canadian newspaper exclusive
with The Sun. "Reality's pretty dark."

This from the man who pioneered theatrical shock rock in the early '70s with
simulated executions on stage.

'SCARIEST SONGS'

"When I'm writing things that are fictional -- like Welcome To My Nightmare
and Last Temptation, I'm creating places to take Alice that are all
fictionally based, so they're lighter, they're generally fun," he said.
"Brutal Planet -- I started writing it as a piece of fiction and realized
that the three or four scariest songs on the album were all from CNN."

They are Blow Me A Kiss (about the Columbine shootings), Wicked Young Man
(about hate groups in America) and Pick Up The Bones (about the war in
Kosovo).

"I literally saw that on CNN," said Cooper about the latter song. "I saw the
guy collecting his family in a pillow case. I couldn't believe it. I sat
there and I said, 'Stephen King couldn't write this.' Nobody would believe
it. I was in the midst of writing Brutal Planet, and I started getting all
this evidence that we're already there."

WE DON'T REACT

The even greater horror, said Cooper, is that we don't react.

"We live in these convenient little pockets called Toronto, Phoenix," said
the Arizona-based rocker. "We might as well have the glass bubble put over
top of us, because we're so insulated. There are 65 wars going on this
planet right now! But everybody talks about how enlightened we are.
Everybody talks about how technology is bringing the global community
together, and 'Isn't it great that we're living in such a time of peace?'
Genocide is rampant!"

As you might expect, some of Brutal Planet's lyrics are heavy, and Cooper
expects some flak, particularly when it comes to Wicked Young Man, in which
the protagonist talks about having 'a pocketful of bullets and a blueprint
of the school.'

"Well, don't you think we ought to know who this guy is?" he said.

"I think Alice should write about him, should describe him, should warn you
about him. He's here. We can't just sweep him under the rug. As much as I
hate Columbine, we can't just let that be just another page in history. We
need for that to be something that's in our face for quite a while, because,
I mean, if that wasn't a wake-up call, what was?"

Cooper, who has three children, aged seven to 19, said he is genuinely
concerned about the state of the planet. But he would never put the blame on
increasingly violent entertainment.

"I took exception to their blaming rock and roll because, of course, it's
the easiest target. Rock and roll! How does a parent not know his kid's got
50 bombs in the garage. I have a 15-year-old son. I know if he's got a
firecracker. I know if he's got a BB gun. I'm in touch with him. I'm
connected to him. How do you not know your kid's got (enough) to wipe out an
army with weapons?"

Still, Cooper, who won't perform in Toronto until spring, did say he has
some problems with his '90s counterpart -- Marilyn Manson.

"I'm Christian and I'm sitting there going, 'How dare you tear up the bible
on stage?' He even pissed me off. And this whole AntiChrist Superstar.
Personally, as a Christian, I took real exception to that. I wasn't
surprised by it."

He was surprised, however, that Manson adopted a style similar to his.

"I figured anybody that creative would go out of his way not to look like
Alice Cooper. To name yourself Marilyn Manson -- that's like coming out with
a band that looks like KISS and calling yourself 'Smooch.'

"It's a little too close, isn't it?"

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Subject: [BPR] - Arutz-7 News items (8/29/00)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:11:41 -0400

BELIN AND BEN-ANI BROACH TEMPLE MOUNT GIVEAWAY

Justice Minister Yossi Beilin and Acting Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami
have volunteered to kick off the government's campaign paving the way for
the transfer of control of the Temple Mount to Moslem hands. Speaking on
Army Radio today, Beilin said that the Mount has not been under Israeli
control since it was captured in 1967, and "all that remains is to legally
formalize the situation." Ben-Ami, at a press conference in Paris yesterday,
said, "The dispute is only about symbols. After all, ever since the days of
Dayan [Defense Minister during the 1967 Six-Day War], the Palestinians
have had functional autonomy on the Temple Mount. No matter what, there
will be no major changes there."

The Moslem countries' Jerusalem conference ended with the usual call for
Moslem rights to Jerusalem - but nothing more. Sixteen Arab foreign
ministers and the King of Morocco, who convened yesterday in Agadir,
Morocco, made it clear that the return of the Arab refugees must be one of
the main principles of any final-status agreement. They negated any division
of eastern Jerusalem and insisted on total Palestinian sovereignty over the
area - but the most extreme remarks about Jerusalem were made by Arafat
himself. In his speech before the conference, Arafat said that there is no
basis to Jewish claims on the Temple Mount, and that "we will never agree to
give up on the Temple Mount or Jerusalem."

OLMERT RESPONDS

Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert said today that the fight for Jerusalem is
taking place under unfair conditions: "The members of the Arab and Moslem
world are uniting totally behind the Moslem claim to the city, while the
government of Israel appears to be uniting for the same cause - in favor of the
Moslem claim. This is a tragedy of historic proportions..." When asked how
he would respond to those who say that hardly any Jews frequent eastern
Jerusalem neighborhoods, Olmert responded with scorn: "This argument is
totally absurd. When was the last time most Jerusalem residents were in
Me'ah She'arim, or in Har HaHotzvim Hi-Tech Center? When was the last
time most Israelis were in Kiryat Shemonah? Should we give these away,
too?"

Jerusalem municipality bulldozers razed three illegal Arab structures in
Shuafat today. Large police forces and even a helicopter protected those
carrying out the work, and the incident passed peacefully.

MEETINGS IN CAIRO, THEN NEW YORK

American mediator Dennis Ross flew to Jerusalem today to brief Prime
Minister Barak on this morning's meeting between U.S. President Clinton
and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo. Clinton and Mubarak dealt
with the latest proposals regarding Jerusalem. Prime Minister Barak said
later that Arafat has still not shown signs of flexibility, and that chances for a
final-status agreement remain "fifty-fifty." Clinton will meet early next week,
separately, with Barak and Arafat in New York, at which point the chances
for reaching a final agreement will become clearer. After today's Clinton-
Mubarak meeting, Ross summed up ambiguously, "There is a chance that a
final-agreement will be signed, but there are also difficulties."

NO COOPERATION IN THE JUNGLE

Likud MK Uzi Landau said that, in light of Saturday night's bungled attempt
to apprehend terrorist leader Abu Honod near Shechem, and the killing there
of three Israeli soldiers, "any attempt by government ministers to portray the
Palestinian Authority as a partner in the war against terrorism is an act of
deceit that is designed to justify the government's policy of concessions."
Landau, who served as Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee in the last Knesset, said that the PA arrests terrorists only after
receiving intelligence from Israel's GSS, and releases them under the
"revolving door" policy.

The Palestinians are not pleased with the comparison made yesterday by a
senior Prime Minister's Office member - MK Ahmed Tibi says it was the
Prime Minister himself - between the Palestinians and crocodiles. The quote
at issue posited that the Palestinians are similar to crocodiles, in that both
are never satisfied with the food given them and always want more. Tibi
complained today that Israelis have apparently adopted an approach of
comparing Palestinians to various animals - "Raful once called us
cockroaches, Rabbi Ovadiah called us snakes, Begin said that we are two-
legged animals, and now Barak=85 Barak once called the Middle East a
'jungle' - he looks at us like animals, as if he is a hunter in the jungle...."
Barak's office refused to respond to Tibi's remarks, but a Labor party
spokesman told Arutz-7 today that Tibi has apparently forgotten that Yasser
Arafat has called the Jews "pigs and monkeys" several times in the past.

YESHA TOWN GROWS BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS

A new 18-unit neighborhood will be dedicated today in the Har Hevron
community of Karmei Tzur. Groundbreaking for still another neighborhood
will take place there today as well. All 18 homes have been sold, and
interest in the new neighborhood is great, according to reports from Karmei
Tzur, despite the unclear political future facing the town.

A Karmei Tzur resident told Arutz-7 today: "We are constantly growing in
size, and are now over 90 families. Within days after families leave their
caravans to move into the new houses, new people move in - sometimes
even before we get to paint the old homes. What we see is that Faith and
Action are stronger than anything else. This is not just a cliche, but
something that we truly see is true in practice." She said that she is very
optimistic about the future, although admitted that she is "worried about the
weakness of our leadership."

***SPECIAL INSERT: CNN'S BIAS
Andrea Levin, Executive Director of CAMERA - Committee for Accuracy in
Middle East Reporting in America - has written a hard-hitting article
revealing the anti-Israel bias in CNN's coverage of the Middle East. The
entire article will be posted soon on www.camera.org; excerpts can be read
below.

CNN got clobbered recently by a deluge of angry e-mail about its detaching
Jerusalem from Israel in a weather page on the heavily trafficked CNN.com
website... Jerusalem was restored with an asterisk whose footnote states:
"The status of Jerusalem, the seat of Israeli government, is the most
contentious issue in the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Palestinian and Arab
leaders consider part of Jerusalem the capital of a prospective Palestinian
state." In no other case where a city's sovereignty is contested, such as
Lhasa, Taipei or Jammu, does CNN qualify the national affiliation with a
political notation...

A similar sequence of events had occurred earlier when American Muslims
for Jerusalem denounced CNN for referring to Jerusalem as Israel's capital on
another web page... The very same day AMJ Executive Director Khalid
Turaani boasted in a follow-up e-mail about CNN's "quick response to the
community" when network officials capitulated, striking out reference to
Jerusalem as Israel's capital in a Millennium-related web page. AMJ exulted
that their campaign had "lasted just three hours." [In contrast,] it took a
month to restore the reference to Jerusalem [as Israel's capital], and, once
again, the correction came with a qualifier...

When CNN aired a particularly blatant error, claiming harsh Israeli policies
have led to a "dwindling" of the Arab population of Jerusalem, the network
stonewalled for a year before issuing a retraction. Volumes of data and
evidence provided to CNN demonstrating the dramatic growth of that
population availed nothing. Only under the duress of extended public
pressure, including ads in newspapers such as the New York Times
exposing the absurdity of the statement, did the network broadcast a
correction and an accurate report.

The same CNN penchant for espousing Arab views can be seen even now on
the network's website. A feature entitled "The Struggle For Middle East
Peace" includes a timeline filled with biased, if frequently moronic,
statements about the history of the region. The overarching distortion is the
deleting of Arab aggression against the Jews. Events in 1929, for example,
when anti-Jewish rioting was fomented by Arab leaders and led to the murder
of scores of Jews throughout Palestine, especially in Hebron, are glossed by
CNN as entailing "a dispute at the Wailing Wall" which "ignited an Arab riot
and call for Islamic Jihad. Consequently, Jews began arming themselves and
both sides waged terrorist attacks."

Likewise, the sole reference to the bloody record of PLO terrorism in the
1970's is a line about the killing of Israeli athletes at the1972 Munich
Olympics. Unmentioned is the PLO-sponsored murder three months earlier
of 27 civilians at Israel's Lod airport. The heinous Palestinian terrorist attack
in 1974 on an Israeli elementary school and the slaughter of 22 children is
similarly omitted, as is the 1978 PLO hijacking of a bus on the Tel Aviv-Haifa
Road. That killing spree took 34 lives.

Amazingly, even the unprecedented series of bus bombings in Jerusalem
and Tel Aviv in the 1990's are also censored out. Yet CNN gives separate
mention (with a photograph) to victims of Baruch Goldstein's killing of Muslim
worshipers in Hebron in 1994. Thus is the record blurred to obscure the
fearsome campaigns of terrorism by Palestinians against Jews, while
singling out the lone act on a similar scale of Jewish violence against
innocent Arabs.

The same deferential distortions are accorded Yasser Arafat in a biographical
article in the "Struggle for Peace" section. As though echoing the career of
Dr. Martin Luther King, CNN describes Arafat repeatedly as pursuing the
"dream" a Palestinian state. "That dream," writes CNN, "sustained him
during his years as a guerilla fighter with a pistol on his hip, and it has
guided him through his leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization.."
Here too only sanitized mention is made of Arafat's bloodstained past -- his
organization, Al Fatah, is said to have launched "guerilla raids and terrorist
attacks into Israel." CNN labors especially hard to find oblique phrasing for
Arafat's role in the1972 Munich massacre, writing that Arafat "came to be
regarded as a villain for his suspected involvement in the murder of Israeli
athletes by Black September Arab terrorists..."

No doubt if CNN.com carried an honest and accurate biography of Arafat and
a truthful timeline chronicling the record of Arab aggression and violence,
there would be a new deluge of Arab complaint. Probably CNN reporters fear
being denied access to Palestinian officials, and perhaps the network seeks
to open new bureaus in the Arab world and so prefers to avoid offending
future customers. Whatever the cause, the propensity at CNN for advocating
Arab views over journalistic objectivity and factual accuracy, and only
reluctantly and belatedly making adjustments when challenged on the facts,
is professionally derelict -- and disgraceful.

Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2000 / Av 28, 5760

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Subject: [BPR] - Weekend News Today items (8/29/00)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 19:03:01 -0400

GLOBAL laws on cyberspace

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: Nando Times

Tue Aug 29,2000 -- A co-creator of the World Wide Web says it is time for
cyberspace, to require user's net permits/licenses, and a global legal
framework. Robert Cailliau's interview is published in Thursday's issue of New
Scientist. "The Net is a space in which you encounter others, so there has
to be some regulation of behavior, not content," Cailliau said. He suggests
that people be educated in how to use the Internet, rather as schools teach
children how to read, and that they take a test to acquire a Net permit.
These would be "exactly like driving licenses," Cailliau says. "They do not
ensure that you will not break the speed limit, but they can be taken away if
you do. "(...) What I want is behavior regulation. We should all know what our
rights and duties are. Teach it in schools. Hand out a license that shows one
has passed a test of minimal awareness." With the rising incidence of
computer vandalism, pornography and fraud and other cross-border crimes,
it's exposing gaping holes in national laws. Cailliau's at odds with the usual
viewpoint of the Net's founders. This generation is very opposed to any
regulation of cyberspace. It fears that the freedoms of the invention could be
stripped by government interference & censorship especially. Cailliau stops
short of suggesting who should decide regulation of the Internet and what
body should enforce it. "That is something to implement in international
conventions and for citizens to reflect and decide on," he says.
"Unfortunately we have a global network, a global economy and global
companies, but we have not got a global legal system. Never before have we
lived in a situation like this."

Russian military ends exercises, plans maneuvers with Japan

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: UPI

Tue Aug 29,2000 -- Russian military exercises in the Far East, involving units
from the Defense, Interior and Emergency Situations ministries, and the
Federal Border Guard, have been concluded, Russia's Interfax news agency
reported Tuesday. The exercises, conducted at several locations, were
designed to improve cooperation between different units training to contain
and stamp out regional conflicts.

A separate Interfax report said Russia and Japan would hold joint naval
exercises in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the Kamchatka peninsula on
Sept. 11. Japan will send two destroyers and three helicopters to take part in
a simulated rescue operation, while Russia would contribute a patrol boat, an
anti-submarine vessel and a rescue aircraft. The joint maneuvers are the third
such operation in recent years. Ties between the Russian and Japanese
navies have steadily improved in recent years, and the exercises will take
place after Russian President Vladimir Putin makes a visit
to Japan set for Sept. 3-5.

Satellites set to fall from sky

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Washington Post

Tue Aug 29,2000 -- There are 88 of them weighing more than half a ton each,
and they could start falling toward Earth next month--chunks of them
splashing down in oceans and outbacks. Not killer asteroids, but $4 billion
worth of Iridium global communication satellites launched within the last five
years--but for which no one in the world can seem to find a use. Motorola
Inc., the system's largest backer, last week gave notice to a U.S.
bankruptcy court and to the Clinton administration that it is set to begin the
process of controlled "deorbiting" and destruction of the network, which failed
to attract many customers to its telephone services.

If the 53 tons of Iridium cast-offs find no rescuer, they will join a rain of junk
that has been peppering Earth throughout much of the space age. Officials
say the Iridium hardware is within government guidelines for acceptable risk:
less than a one in 10,000 chance of hitting a person on the ground. But the
risk is not zero, experts note. Not all of the Iridium components will burn up
during the fiery reentry through the atmosphere.

No room for religious bigotry says U.N. Secretary-General

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Reuters

Tue Aug 29,2000 -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told world religious
leaders Tuesday there was no room for religious bigotry in the 21st century
and said they had not always spoken out forcefully against such intolerance.
"Religion has often been yoked to nationalism, stoking the flames of violent
conflict and setting group against group," Annan told the participants at a
four-day religious conference gathered in the U.N. General Assembly
chamber. "Religious leaders have not always spoken out when their voices
could have helped combat hatred and persecution, or could have roused
people from indifference," Annan added. More than 1,000 religious leaders
opened their "Millennium World Peace Summit" Monday.

Ozone hole expected to increase much this year!

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: AP

Tue Aug 29,2000 -- The hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic is
expected to increase in size this year as early measurements show
significant ozone depletion. Four observation stations in the Antarctic this
month reported a decrease in ozone of between 20 and 35 percent compared
with the period between 1964 and 1976, before the "ozone hole" was
observed, said Taysir al-Ghanem, spokesman for the World Meteorological
Organization. "We cannot be optimistic with these latest measurements," al-
Ghanem said. "We are expecting that the ozone hole this year is going to be
quite large, probably more than last year."The biggest hole yet was recorded
in 1998, when it reached some 4.63 million square miles, partly helped by
strong polar winds. Last year, the hole reached 3.86 million square miles.
The protective ozone layer shields the earth from damaging ultraviolet rays.
Reduction of the ozone layer can let rays from the sun reach the earth's
surface. Too much UV radiation can cause skin cancer and destroy tiny
plants at the beginning of the food chain. The agency says it could be 20
years before ozone levels recover noticeably.

Barak believes he has legal authorization to sign peace deal

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Jerusalem Post

Tue Aug 29,2000 -- Prime Minister Ehud Barak is confident that he is both
legally authorized and has the public support to sign a deal with the
Palestinians, even if the Knesset votes for early elections, a senior
diplomatic source said yesterday. The same source added that U.S.
President Bill Clinton and other participants in the diplomatic negotiations
are fully aware of Barak's stance. "The government always has full authority
to act, as long as it is in power. This is not a matter of creating irreversible
facts, but of signing an agreement which will stipulate that it needs to be
ratified in a referendum," the source added.

Israel is expecting that Clinton, who is paying a short visit to President Hosni
Mubarak in Cairo as part of his African tour, will persuade the Egyptians to
try to convince Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat of the need to show
flexibility in his negotiating positions.The two presidents are expected to
meet for an hour and a half, concentrating mostly on the peace process and
the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa
said on Sunday that "Egypt will hear the Americans' views on ways of
minimizing the gap between the Israeli and Palestinian positions, and Egypt
will also present its position."

Last week, Mubarak announced that the current efforts between Israel and
the Palestinians are focused on reaching a "framework agreement" rather
than an "agreement." On the issue of Jerusalem, Clinton is expected to urge
his Egyptian counterpart to work together with the Palestinians in
reformulating their stance on the city, which has been a stumbling block in
the negotiations. The president is trying to create a situation in which Arafat
and Barak will find sufficient common ground when they meet with him at the
United Nations General Assembly next week to agree on another summit.

Tokyo now at 10times norm of Sulfur Dioxide in the air!

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: Yahoo/ AP

Tue Aug 29,2000 -- TOKYO - The Mt. Oyama volcano on an island south of
Tokyo that awoke last month from a 17-year slumber erupted twice on
Tuesday, causing officials to order the evacuation of all remaining school
children. It erupted at 4:35 a.m., shrouding the island in a cloud of smoke
that rose more than 5 miles. And the volcano erupted again at 2:53 p.m.,
sending another column of ash nearly 2 miles into the air, the Meteorological
Agency said. Residents were urged to stay indoors, keep away from
windows, and refrain from driving because of falling ash and reduced visibility.
Now, sulfur dioxide from all the recent eruptions has been blown toward
Tokyo, where levels of the noxious gas have risen to about 10 times normal.
No health warnings have been issued yet. High levels of sulfur dioxide can
cause eye irritation and respiratory difficulties. Tuesday's was the largest
eruption since the volcano rumbled back to life early last month. The latest
eruption sent as much as 6 inches of ash covering parts of the island, local
police said. The government established headquarters to monitor
developments on the island and assist those who wish to evacuate. More
than one-fourth of the 4,000 residents have fled the island, most of them
seeking refuge in Tokyo. Experts have said that shifts in huge underground
pools of magma are responsible for the recent volcanic and seismic activity
on Miyake, about 120 miles south of Tokyo. Miyake and neighboring islands
have also been shaken by many thousands of earthquakes, during a big
increase of quakes in recent months.

http://www.upway.com/cgi/readnews.cgi?day=00_08_29&item=#967587447

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Subject: [BPR] - Updated & Corrected Coming Events
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 19:25:15 -0400

August 28-31. 2000
Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders
[One of my sources states there will be full coverage on CNN.]

August 28, 3000
In Morocco, an Arab Summit on Jerusalem

September, 2000
Iridium satellites (88 of them) may come crashing to earth.

September 4, 2000
Beginning of seven-day State of the World Forum
[Now in its fifth year, the State of the World Forum was created by Mikhail
Gorbachev to advance a mostly left-leaning agenda and to gather "the
creative genius of the human family, its elders and innovators, in search for
solutions to the critical challenges facing humanity in the 21st century."
Organizers call it "a powerful common evolutionary enterprise for our
species." http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/28/193748]

September 6-8, 2000
UN Security Council Millennium Summit
[The Millennium Summit will bring together up to 150 heads of state in what
is purported to be the largest such gathering in history. Conservative radio
has buzzed that this meeting will establish a permanent standing U.N. army,
make gun registration mandatory, establish a U.N. bank with U.N. currency,
and bring all international financial institutions under U.N. control. Many of
these ideas have percolated among radical non-governmental organizations
for years, and some may even get a hearing at the Millennium Summit. Still,
the summit is expected only to call for the ratification of seven existing U.N.
treaties, including the highly suspect International Criminal Court. It is also
expected to call for a world conference on nuclear disarmament.
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/28/193748]

September 11, 2000
Russia & Japan joint naval exercises

September 13, 2000
Anniversary of "Declaration of Principles" Accord signed on September 13,
1993 between Israel and Palestinians.

September 29 - October 1, 2000
Rosh HaShanah

October 7, 2000
Pope to consecrate Millennium to Mary.

October 8/9, 2000
Yom Kippur

October 13, 2000
Anniversary of date "Declaration of Principles" Accord enters into force.

October 13/14, 2000
Beginning of Feast of Tabernacles

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