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Subject: [BPR] - ReligionToday News Item
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Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 10:47:01 -0500

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Americans are odd folks, a British author says. They are
simultaneously absorbed with making money and with finding
themselves spiritually, says Roger Housden, who traveled around
the United States and chronicled his journey in the recently
released book Sacred America: The Emerging Spirit of the People.
...Housden spoke with a range of people, from Hollywood producers to
letter carriers. He found them trying to live "sacred" lives, though
they don't know how to do it, he told The Boston Globe. Americans want
authenticity in their lives, which means "to live by what one knows to
be true," he says. But they don't necessarily want to adopt a dogma or
traditional religious institution, Housden said. The spirituality he
found is "leaderless," he said. ...Americans seem driven to do good
works such as helping the homeless, he said. They still believe that
in spite of everything that is wrong with the country, "that there is
something sacred about the United States of America."

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Subject: [BPR] - IT meltdown
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 13:58:16 -0500

IT meltdown

http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,218263,00.html

FBI - NIPC Advice & Warning <http://www.fbi.gov/nipc/nipcaaw.htm>

Sophos virus information <http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo>

Jason Burke and Nick Paton Walsh
Sunday May 7, 2000

Renegade computer programmers have developed dozens of
'superviruses' that each have the capability to inflict
massive damage on global computer systems.

The new viruses have many times the destructive power of
the 'love bug' which wreaked havoc last week, and there are
fears that criminals and terrorists could use them to
blackmail governments and private institutions.

Anti-virus experts say '20 to 30' variants of the new-
generation viruses have been found by specialist
researchers. None has yet been sent into circulation by its
authors, though it would only take minutes to launch such
an attack.

FBI sources last week described the new bugs as a 'very
serious threat'. Experts at commercial anti-virus firms
said such an attack could be 'a catastrophe'. 'It's a
disaster waiting to happen,' said one. 'And it's a question
of when, not if.'

The new viruses combine the speed of last week's love bug -
the fastest-spreading virus ever seen - with the
destructive 'payload' of older viruses such as 'Chernobyl',
which last year irreparably damaged hundreds of thousands
of computers in the Middle East and Asia by wiping their
hard disks.

The most dangerous feature of the new viruses is that many
are triggered simply by checking an e-mail in-box. Even if
a user does not click on the infected e-mail - let alone
open an attachment - the virus will cause huge damage and
send itself to every other address in the computer's e-mail
software.

'The capability to cause massive destruction now exists,'
said Dan Schrader, chief security analyst with TrendMicro,
a global anti-virus company. 'There has been an explosion
of professionalism in virus-writing. The authors have
increasing resources and experience behind them. Where
these resources come from is ever more worrying.'

Investigators are still unsure of who was behind the bug
sent to millions of computers worldwide last week. Police
were closing in on their prime suspect last night. They
said a 23-year-old living in a surburb of Manila, the
capital of the Philippines, had been put under
surveillance. Local investigators were preparing to seize
computers that the bug's author is suspected of using.

There has also been speculation that the real
responsibility lies elsewhere. Much of the love bug's
computer coding - the programming instructions sent into
computers when the e-mail's attachment is launched -
appears to have been derived from a website in Germany
visited by many hackers, particularly those linked to
anarchist movements. A Swedish computer expert told
newspapers yesterday that the author of the love bug was a
German hacker known as Mikael.

At least 10 mutations of the love bug have now appeared.
One bears a subject heading in Lithuanian, prompting
authorities there to start an inquiry. Experts fear that
hundreds of love-bug variants could appear in coming weeks.

There are also fears over a virus called Smash95 which it
is thought will trigger itself on Bastille Day - 14 July.
Though it has already been found on tens of thousands of
computers worldwide, nobody is sure how it is spread. All
that is known is that it has a destructive 'payload' or
'bomb' that will go off on the set date.

The FBI is leading the hunt for the author of the original
program -technically known as a 'worm', not a virus - and
says it is liaising with dozens of law enforcement
authorities worldwide. Scotland Yard confirmed last night
that its specialist computer crime unit was working with
the Americans.

The stakes are high. It is estimated that the love bug has
already caused more than a billion pounds of damage
worldwide. The impact of a supervirus would be far greater.

Yesterday active virus writers in America and Europe told
The Observer that the only thing stopping so-called 'cyber-
vandals' launching the new superviruses was the fear of
getting caught.

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Subject: [BPR] - Radio Pulse Revolution
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 14:01:17 -0500

Radio Pulse Revolution
By Mary Motta <mailto:mmotta@space.com>
Senior Business Correspondent
posted: 10:37 am ET 27 April 2000

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/pulse_technology_00
0427.html

Forget e-technology. Welcome to the world of p-
technology, which promises to revolutionize the way we
communicate in our homes, cars and offices. The "p" in
technology stands for "pulse," which operates in a part of
the radio spectrum called ultra-wide-band (UWB). This
revolutionary technology is being transformed into a new
world of wireless communications by one small company: Time
Domain <http://www.time-domain.com/> in Huntsville, Alabama.

In Time Domain's world, there will be cars with collision
avoidance systems that signal a car to brake when it gets
too close to another vehicle. Retailers will be able to
send signals to potential customers' cell phones
advertising sales as the customer walks by their store.
Military and human rights' groups will be able to detect
land mines in fields, saving lives.

The possibilities are endless, according to Ralph Petroff,
chief executive officer of the company. "The thing that is
so cool is that [the technology] allows you to do entirely
different things, he said. "You don't know what it is going
to morph into next." Rather than using conventional radio
waves, p-technology incorporates small radio-signal pulses
that are transmitted at extremely low power levels spread
across the UWB area of the spectrum using many frequencies
at once. Because it is a mixture of so many frequencies, it
passes unnoticed through conventional receivers listening
for a particular message at a single frequency. In a time
when radio spectrum is becoming scarce due to the
government auctioning it off for public and private use,
Time Domain sees UWB as a new frontier that could get
around the spectrum logjam.

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Subject: [BPR] - USA to launch strip poker
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 18:30:36 -0400

USA TO LAUNCH STRIP POKER: USA Network on Tuesday will launch a
new game show, Strip Poker, in which players must remove an article of
clothing for each incorrect answer. The show, which has already aired locally
on TV stations in Miami, Dallas and Atlanta, debuts on USA in the 11
pm/ET slot.

via: TVGuide@LISTSERV.TVGUIDE.COM

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Subject: [BPR] - May 9, 2000 TV Program
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 18:36:07 -0400

10:00 PM Eastern

PBS - FRONTLINE - "Return of the Czar" - The future of
Russia under the leadership of Vladimir
Putin.(CC)

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Subject: [BPR] - Syria warns Israel against 'trickery'/Assad abroad
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 18:39:45 -0400

Syria warns Israel against 'trickery'

Monday, 8 May 2000 16:05 (ET)

Syria warns Israel against 'trickery'
By ELIZABETH BRYANT

CAIRO, May 8 (UPI) -- Syria warned Israel today against resorting to any
"trickery" during its planned pullout from southern Lebanon by July.

In remarks to the press following a meeting in Cairo between Syrian and
Egyptian leaders, Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al Shara asserted that
Damascus had "legitimate fears" that Israel would fail to completely pull
out of Lebanon.

Moreover, Shara added in remarks broadcast on Egyptian television, Israel
might also find other ways to threaten Lebanon.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa also told reporters that Arab
countries were suspicious about Israel's announced withdrawal.

Foreign ministers from several Arab countries will gather for a
mini-summit shortly, state TV reported.

The diplomats' remarks follow Israeli statements that the planned
withdrawal from Lebanon may take place earlier than a scheduled July
deadline. Cross-border violence between Israeli troops and Lebanese fighters
flared anew last week, killing two Lebanese civilians and an Israeli
soldier.

But today's brief visit to Egypt today by President Hafez al Assad was
noteworthy in itself.

Britain's Sunday Telegraph reported late last month that the Syrian leader
has suffered a debilitating stroke that left him unable to deliver key
public address, and attend Independence Day proceedings. The British
newspaper cited American intelligence as concluding "he has only months to
live."

In televised images of Assad meeting with Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak, the Syrian leader appeared frail but attentive. He did not appear,
during the brief shots, to be in ill health.

The Syrian president travels rarely outside his country.

When peace talks began with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak last year,
Assad dispatched his foreign minister to lead the Syrian delegation. He
made
a rare trip to Geneva earlier this year, to meet with President Clinton
about the roadblocks facing Middle East peace. But Assad has not visited
Cairo in over a year.
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Copyright 2000 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.

http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=84709

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Subject: [BPR] - More earthquakes
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 19:00:16 -0400

http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/qed/qed.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Quietly State Dept. Turns Over American Islands to Russia, Others
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 19:06:30 -0400

Quietly State Dept. Turns Over American Islands to Russia, Others

Stephan Archer
May 8, 2000

In recent years several U.S. islands have been ceded to Russia and other
countries, without congressional approval or public debate.

These islands, many uninhabited, are significant because they hold
potential mineral, gas, oil and fishing rights – not to mention
potential strategic military value.

So where exactly are these disputed islands?

The Arctic islands, which lie west of Alaska and north of Siberia,
include the islands of Wrangell, Herald, Bennett, Jeannette and
Henrietta.

The islands in the Bering Sea make up the westernmost point in Alaska�s
Aleutian chain and include Copper Island, Sea Otter Rock and Sea Lion
Rock. These islands together have more square mileage than the states of
Rhode Island and Delaware combined.

Though the United States had staked claim to these islands for more than
a century, the State Department has been anxious to turn them back to
Russia.

The tranfer would have gone unnoticed were it not for State Department
Watch, a Washington-based group that monitors State Department
acitivities.

Retired U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Carl Olson, who heads State Department
Watch, recently checked with the Census Bureau, asking if it had plans
to count the inhabitants of these disputed islands in the current
census.

Olson was stunned by the response he received from the Census Bureau.

"Census Bureau officials were informed by the U.S. Department of State
that these islands remain under the jurisdiction of Russia," wrote
Kenneth Prewitt, director of the Census Bureau in a letter to Olson.

"Without confirmation and appropriate documentation from the Department
of State to the contrary, the Census Bureau cannot include these islands
as part of the State of Alaska," Prewitt concluded.

Americans Become Russians

Olson notes that the Census Bureau, with the approval of the State
Dept., has just stripped Americans of their citizenship.

Consider the inhabitants of Wrangell Island, the largest of eight
disputed islands – five lying in the Arctic Ocean and three in the
Bering Sea.

Geographically speaking, the island�s inhabitants would also be citizens
of the state of Alaska since no other American state comes even close to
the proximity of the islands.

But if anyone desired to visit Wrangell Island, they would be greeted
not by the Stars and Stripes waving proudly in the brisk air but by a
Russian military tower.

According to Olson, the islands including Wrangell have 18 Russian
soldiers and one officer and 50 to 100 inhabitants.

Olson insists these people have been made to endure foreign occupation
by the Russian military and believes the U.S. government should do
something about taking the islands back.

NewsMax.com contacted Mark Seidenberg, a former senior traffic
management specialist within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and
asked him if he believed the United States should pursue its sovereignty
on the islands. Seidenberg, without hesitation, said "yes."

U.S. Territory for Long Time

U.S. claims for these islands are strong.

When the United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, the
impending treaty included all of the Aleutian Islands, including Copper
Island, Sea Otter Rock and Sea Lion Rock.

A number of years later, in 1881, U.S. Captain Calvin L. Hooper landed
on Wrangell Island and claimed it for the United States. One of the
landing party was famed explorer John Muir.

Also in 1881, the U.S. Navy claimed Bennett, Jeannette and Henrietta
islands for the United States. Later that century, the British gave up
their claim to Herald Island, allowing the Americans to take it over.

Claims of these islands, however, didn�t become an important issue
between the former Soviet Union and the United States until the 1970s,
when the concept of international fishing zones 200 miles from national
coastlines went into affect.

With both the Soviet Union and Alaska having coastlines within a much
closer proximity than the needed 400-mile buffer zone, a maritime
boundary had to be established.

Secret Transfer

The resulting U.S.-U.S.S.R. Maritime Boundary Treaty was passed by the
Senate and ratified by former President George Bush in 1991. Russia,
however, never ratified the treaty because its leaders complained that
the U.S.S.R. didn�t benefit enough from it.

Nevertheless, former U.S. Secretary of State Jim Baker and the Soviet
Union�s Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze signed a secretive
executive agreement the year before that bound both governments to the
treaty.

Currently, Russia is demanding hundreds of millions of pounds more
fishing rights from the United States that would undermine the Alaskan
fish industry and, subsequently, the state�s economy.

A wealth of petroleum and natural gas hang in the balance as well.

When NewsMax.com contacted the State Department for an explanation, a
spokesman said he wasn�t aware of any issue involving the Wrangell
Islands and the U.S. government and that it was his belief that the
islands have been recognized as a part of Russia since the 1800s. During
the course of the interview, the State Department official asked if he
was being "put on."

Even though now recognizing Russian jurisdiction over the islands, the
State Department had testified at the June 13, 1991, treaty hearing that
the maritime boundary agreement "does not recognize Soviet sovereignty
over these [five Arctic] islands."

Enraged by the turnover of Alaska�s sovereign land, Rep. John Coghill
Jr. of that state�s legislature sponsored House Joint Resolution 27,
which beseeches the Department of State to inform the Alaska Legislature
of any decisions regarding the maritime agreement.

The resolution further points out that setting a maritime boundary
between Alaska and Russia is a "constitutional issue of states� rights."

One of the issues over these islands and the surrounding waters are the
fishing rights of Alaskan fishermen. Oil, of which Alaska has the
largest national reserves, may also be abundant in the disputed
territory.

Military Value

Olson notes the area's strategic value as well.

Beneath the icy waters around the islands, submarine warfare has taken
place in the past between the former Soviet Union and the United States.
The ice is now one of the last places for submarines to hide. The
islands could also be hosts to vital facilities tracking hostile
government movements.

"Everybody knows that the shortest distance between the U.S. mainland
and Asia is the polar route, giving easy access to aircraft and whatever
else," Olson explained. "And the Asian mainland doesn�t just consist of
Russia. It includes China."

More American Islands Lost

Olson adds that the Arctic islands are not the only American islands the
State Dept. has been giving away without congressional approval or
treaty.

In recent years four American Pacific Islands – Washington, Fanning,
Makin and Little Makin – have been ceded to the island nation of
Kiribati without a treaty.

"Lost” islands include Nassau Island in the Pacific Ocean and Bajo Nuevo
and Serranilla Bank in the Caribbean Sea. The islands became American
territory under the Guano Act in the late 1800s.

Regarding these three lost islands, the Census Bureau's Prewitt, in a
letter dated March 15, stated, "With respect to Nassau Island, Bajo
Nuevo, or Serranilla Bank, the Department of State has not informed the
Census Bureau that claims to these islands have been certified."

In addition to the abandonment of the islands is the loss of all
resources within a 200-mile economic zone of each island. As is the case
with most of the Arctic islands, the economic zones around each of the
islands may be more important than the islands themselves.

http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/5/7/153932

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