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Subject: [BPR] - Media Silent on RU-486's Nazi Death Camp Pedigree
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 09:12:05 -0400

[Note: IG Farben is supposedly the firm that the pope worked for before
becoming a priest.--Moza]

Monday October 2, 2000; 11:46 AM EDT

Media Silent on RU-486's Nazi Death Camp
Pedigree

     Lost in all the commentary on last week's FDA approval of
     the abortion pill RU-486 is an inconvenient and
     extraordinarily chilling detail about the company that
     invented the drug, Rousell-Uclaf.

     Rousell, based in France, developed RU-486 in the 1980s,
     and after extensive testing the French government approved
     it for use in 1988. But Rousell's West German parent
     company, Hoechst AG, did not.

     Hoechst had two problems with the idea of making easy
     abortions available to a mass market. Not only was
     abortion illegal in largely Catholic pre-unification West
     Germany, but RU-486 was sure to conjure up memories of the
     darkest chapter in German history - the Holocaust.

     The chiefs at Hoechst AG, now one of the largest chemical
     companies in the world with over 145,000 employees, did
     not want their overseas customers to be reminded - or
     perhaps learn for the first time - about Hoescht's direct
     link to the Nazi death camps of World War II.

     Hoechst itself was born of the Nuremberg War Tribunal,
     which disbanded its precursor, the Nazi chemical giant IG
     Farben. The tribunal convicted twelve Farben executives of
     war atrocities, including "crimes against humanity,
     murder, extermination and enslavement."

Hoechst, Bayer and BASF became Farben's direct postwar
corporate descendants.

     Farbenworks factories at Hoechst, Degesch and Leverkusen
     worked overtime producing toxic gases for the Third Reich,
     including the deadly agent Zyklon B - the very poison that
     was used to exterminate millions in Hitler's gas chambers.

     The Buna Rubber facility at Auschwitz was also part of
     Farbenworks' Nazi operations, which even included a
     special corporate concentration camp at the site known as
     Monowitz. But Monowitz was just one of several slave labor
     camps operated by Hoechst's corporate ancestor throughout
     the Nazi empire before Hitler's defeat in 1945.

     No wonder today's pro-abortion journalists don't want to
     remind their readers about the connection between
     America's new abortion pill and the deadly history of the
     company that invented it.

http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2000/10/2/104509

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Subject: [BPR] - Radio Station Blasted for Prize
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 09:16:08 -0400

Wednesday October 4 10:02 AM ET
Radio Station Blasted for Prize

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish radio station was attacked by women's
groups for offering a breast enlargement operation as the first prize in a
competition.

The station, 106.7 Rock Classics, says it will award the prize to the woman
who gives the best reason for having the operation, as part of a campaign to
attract female listeners.

``The competition is voluntary. I see it as an opportunity for women who are
not satisfied with their breasts to alter them,'' the radio's manager Jessica
Melcher-Claesson said.

But Johanna Nystrom, who chairs the national sexual discrimination board,
fumed that the campaign ``sexualizes girls again, and tells them they're not
good enough as they are. It's disgraceful.''

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001004/od/prize_dc_1.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Giant wave could threaten US
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 09:20:23 -0400

Wednesday, 4 October, 2000, 18:06 GMT 19:06 UK

Giant wave could threaten US

The wave would sweep up to 20 km inland

A collapsing volcano in the Atlantic could unleash a giant wave of water
that would swamp the Caribbean and much of the eastern seaboard of the
United States, a scientist has claimed. Dr Simon Day, of the Benfield
Greig Hazard Research Centre at University College London, UK, believes
one flank of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma, in the
Canaries archipelago, is unstable and could plunge into the ocean.

If I was living in Miami or New York and I heard that the Cumbre Vieja
was erupting, I would keep a very close eye on the news

Prof Bill McGuire Swiss researchers who have modelled the landslide say
half a trillion tonnes of rock falling into the water all at once would
create a wave 650 metres high (2,130 feet) that would spread out and
travel across the Atlantic at high speed.

The wall of water would weaken as it crossed the ocean, but would still
be 40- 50 metres (130-160 feet) high by the time it hit land. The surge
would create havoc in North America as much as 20 kilometres (12 miles)
inland.

Dr Day told BBC Science's Horizon programme: "This event would be so
huge that it would affect not only the people on the island but people
way over on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean - people who've never
heard of La Palma.

Destructive power

His latest work on the subject has been published in the Journal of
Volcanology and Geothermal Research.

On the back of this work, the Geological Society of London is to write
to the UK science minister, Lord Sainsbury, to make him aware of the
dangers posed by so-called mega-tsunami in the Atlantic.

The society hopes he will take the issue as seriously as he has the
threat from asteroid strikes.

Scientists have known of the destructive power of tsunami - huge tidal
waves - for many centuries. As recently as 1998, over 2,000 people were
killed by a large wave hitting the coast of Papua New Guinea.

This was caused by an offshore earthquake. But researchers believe far
bigger phenomena can be created by giant landslides.

The largest wave in recorded history, witnessed in Alaska in 1958, was
caused by the collapse of a towering cliff at Letuya Bay. The resulting
wave was higher than any skyscraper on Earth and gouged out soil and
trees to a height of 500 metres (1,640) feet) above sea level.

Summit eruptions

Geological studies have found evidence of giant landslides elsewhere in
the world such as Hawaii, the Cape Verde Islands and Réunion in the
Indian Ocean.

Dr Day has identified dozens of volcanic vents in the Cumbre Vieja
volcano that have been formed by successive eruptions over the past
100,000 years.

He thinks water trapped between dykes of impermeable rock could create
pressures that eventually lead to the western flank of the mountain
falling away during some future eruption.

Dr Simon Day: This would be a huge event

Hermann Fritz, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, which has
equipment to model waves created by landslides, said: "If the Cumbre
Vieja were to collapse as one single block, it would lead to a giant
mega-tsunami with an initial wave height of 650 metres.

"It would have a wavelength of 30 to 40 kilometres (18 to 25 miles)
travelling westwards across the Atlantic at speeds up to 720 km/h (450
mph) towards America."

But researchers caution that such a catastrophe may not occur for many
decades.

"There could be five more summit eruptions of the Cumbre Vieja before
the western flank collapses," said Professor Bill McGuire, of the
Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre.

"There could be 10 or there could be 20 - we simply don't know. But put
it this way: if I was living in Miami or New York and I heard that the
Cumbre Vieja was erupting, I would keep a very close eye on the news."

Dr Simon Day's work is featured in a Horizon programme to be broadcast
on BBC Two on Thursday, 12 October.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_956000/956280.stm

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Subject: [BPR] - "Millennium Dome" Relegates Christianity To The Past
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 08:21:40 -0500

October 5, 3900 -- 8:19 am October 4, 3900 -- 5:17 pm
http://www.mcjonline.com/news/news3089.htm

"Millennium Dome" Relegates Christianity To The Past

LONDON, England (EP) -- England's new attraction, the Millennium Dome, gives
visitors a look at the nation's past and future. According to the Internet
newspaper Electronic Telegraph, Christianity is included-but only as part of
the past, and then only as one of 12 religious "elements."

Visitors enter the "Spirit Zone" by walking through a "mist curtain." The
Rev. Steve Chalke, a Baptist minister, says, "People go through a mist
curtain into a complete spiritual fog. This is all about dumbing-down and
you will come out none the wiser about anything."

Chalke condemned the attraction as a "fruit salad of religions."

One area, called "Living Witness," examines Christianity's "contribution to
social and cultural fabric." It will include portions of the Bible and
images of an early cathedral, a 19th century missionary, and a "living
Christian" who comments on "this historical tradition."

Other areas in the Spirit Zone include a look at a child's awareness of
spirituality, a section devoted to the ways various faiths mark life events,
and a large graffiti wall where people can leave personal messages.

The Rt. Rev. Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester, called on organizers of
the Millennium Dome to give Christianity greater prominence. "As it is the
2,000th anniversary of Jesus Christ's birth, the zone should begin with
Jesus Christ and the Christian religion in the country," he said.

(EP -- Evangelical Press News Service)

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Subject: [BPR] - Couple to Use New Laws in Fight to Have Baby Girl
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 09:24:59 -0400

Wednesday October 4 9:34 AM ET

Couple to Use New Laws in Fight to Have Baby Girl

EDINBURGH, Scotland (Reuters) - A Scottish couple with four
sons have pledged to use European human rights legislation
recently incorporated into British law in their fight to choose the
sex of their next child, the BBC reported Wednesday.

Alan and Louise Masterton from Monifieth near Dundee lost their
only daughter last year after an explosion at their home caused
when a gas-filled party balloon fell on a bonfire.

Since March, they have been battling to have another baby girl by
in-vitro fertilization.

Their efforts have been hampered by current rules on embryo
screening which ban couples from choosing the sex of their baby
unless there is a pressing medical reason -- normally a history of
genetic disorders related to a particular gender.

But the BBC said the couple were planning to mount a legal
challenge based on the European Convention on Human Rights
which was fully incorporated into United Kingdom law Monday.

Previously, British citizens had to go to the European Court of
Human Rights in Strasbourg to pursue rights cases -- a very costly
process which could take up to five years to complete.

The Convention was partially incorporated into Scottish law in May
last year, shortly before Scottish devolution, but until Monday
individual Scots still had to go to Strasbourg to stake their claim, a
Scottish legal source said.

The BBC said the Mastertons' case rested on two articles within
the Convention which guarantee individuals a ``fair hearing'' from
public bodies and which enshrine a person's right to ``respect for
his private and public life.''

The Mastertons argue that the Human Fertilization and Embryology
Authority (HFEA), the body which oversees the sex screening
rules, had not given them a fair hearing, the BBC said.

The HFEA said in a statement it sympathized with the Mastertons'
case, and had not rejected their application.

However, it reiterated its stance that the treatment ''should only be
used with couples at risk of passing on a serious, often life
threatening, genetic disorder to their children.''

The Mastertons' move comes just one week after doctors in
Minneapolis sparked huge ethical controversy by using stem cells
from the umbilical cord of a baby boy whose embryo was chosen
specifically to save his ill six-year-old sister.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001004/sc/britain_baby_dc_1.h
tml

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Subject: [BPR] - Witchcraft used on job, suit claims
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 09:52:57 -0400

Witchcraft used on job, suit claims
LINDA SATTER
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE

A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges that Pulaski County's chief
deputy assessor, Janet Ward, is a "self-proclaimed witch" who
tries to use sex, hexes and retaliatory firings to keep her
employees in line. Former assessor's office employee Barbara
Sparr alleges in the suit that she was fired Aug. 22 for refusing to
campaign for Ward or to become her chief deputy if she is elected
in November to replace retiring Assessor B.A. McIntosh. Ward, a
Democrat, is facing Republican Nora Harris, a property tax
opponent and president of Empower Arkansans. Allegations in the
suit are similar to those made in a lawsuit the county settled in
June for $25,000 with another former employee, Dale Wamsley. He
contended he was demoted because he refused to have sex with
Ward, who wanted to "mix blood" with him at midnight under a full
moon. Sparr's suit, filed by Luther Sutter, the same attorney who
filed Wamsley's suit, alleges that Sparr's outrage at the way
Wamsley was treated was part of the reason for her firing. Ward,
contacted Tuesday afternoon, declined to comment on the suit.
She referred a reporter to McIntosh, who is also named as a
defendant in Sparr's suit, and to the county's attorney, David
Fuqua. Fuqua couldn't be reached for comment, but McIntosh said
the allegations against Ward are ridiculous. "We have a lot of
disgruntled former employees," he said. He added that Ward is an
excellent employee, and that Sparr was fired "because she was
confrontational and spreading gossip, rumor and innuendo." "Janet
Ward has been a best friend to her," McIntosh said of Sparr. Ward
has said previously that she believes the inferences about
witchcraft came from her research into her family's Scottish
heritage. She acknowledged writing a book that contains a
character called the "woman of light" and involves mystical
elements tied to Scottish legends. She also said she has talked
openly with her co-workers about the book and her interest in
Scottish lore. The most recent suit, assigned to U.S. District Judge
Henry Woods, charges that Ward, who is married, told employees
that she and Wamsley were reincarnated "Fair Ones" who had
lived several lives together. Noting that McIntosh often left Ward in
charge of the office, the lawsuit speculated about "the reasons Ms.
Ward is able to exercise such extensive influence over Mr.
McIntosh." But McIntosh, asked Tuesday if he believes Ward has
cast a spell on him, merely groaned. The suit alleges that Ward
once said she had tried to put a hex on an employee who had
reported her misconduct to McIntosh, but "missed" and caused an
employee in an adjacent office to get cancer. The suit seeks
compensatory and punitive damages, as well as Sparr's
reinstatement or "front pay," and the appointment of a monitor to
ensure nondiscriminatory policies are implemented.

http://www.ardemgaz.com/search_week/wed/ark/b2_xwitch_4.html

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Subject: [BPR] - CSETI Visits the Vatican
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 09:58:54 -0400

CSETI Visits the Vatican
October 4, 2000 08:16 CDT

The director of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial
Intelligence has returned from a trip to Rome, reporting that one of
the Vatican's upper-level officials has agreed that governments
should disclose the presence of intelligent ET beings.

CSETI director Dr. Steven Greer said he met with Msr. Padre
Corrado Balducci in his home outside of Rome Sept. 23, "for what I
consider a rather historic event," said Paola Harris, a journalist who
accompanied Greer and cameraman Peter Sorenson to the
meeting.

"Padre Balducci agreed to be interviewed and filmed as part of a
major Greer's worldwide disclosure project. This project included
the filming of military witnesses, commercial pilots and scientists
and other involved parties in Italy who were directly involved with the
UFO phenomenon," writes Harris of the meeting.

"Of course there must be something between us and the angels"
Padre Balducci told the group. "If there are other beings, they are
surely more evolved than we are. We are at the bottom of the
ladder for our ability to 'see good but do evil'."

"Since all of Christianity is based on witness testimony, we must
realize how important testimony is. It would be a tragedy if we
began to be suspicious of all the people who report that they
experienced something unusual like seeing crafts in the sky
because there are some very credible witnesses who have seen
these and come forward," the Vatican official told the group. Harris
said he agreed with CSETI's disclosure initiative, including requests
to President Clinton that government confirmation of ET presence
be disclosed.

"Most interesting to me was a question that Steven posed
concerning whether the work of the Devil was included in this
phenomenon and it was appropriate that Padre Balducci should
answer since his specialty was demonologist for the Holy See,"
wrote Harris, quoting Balducci as saying that "the devil does not
need UFOs to manifest. Neither is most witnesses suffering from
disillusion as they have no reason to invent such a thing."

It's the third time this year that Catholic leadership has openly
discussed UFOs and their implications for the presence of
intelligent life beyond Earth. In April (Cosmiverse, May 8, 2000),
Hebrew scholar Zecharia Sitchin met with Msr. Balducci to discuss
the commonalities in Judaism and Christianity and the possibility
of intelligent life beyond Earth.

The two met during a conference in Bellaria, Italy that explored
"The Mystery of Human Existence."

"Extraterrestrials could exist on other planets; they can be more
advanced than we; and materially, Man could have been fashioned
from a pre-existing sentient being," the Vatican official told Sitchin.

And in June, an Argentinean Jesuit priest told an international
conference in Rome that he believes "extraterrestrials exist and are
our brothers." Jose Funes also is an astrophysicist and said he
thinks the odds are in favor of extraterrestrial life because of the
multitude of stars in multiple galaxies. "In a typical galaxy there
can exist a multiplicity of planets similar to our Earth, and with
living beings like ourselves. If it is as I believe, they must be
considered our brothers in creation," said Funes. He made the
comments during a Vatican Observatory conference in which more
than 250 discussed the theological implications of the galaxies in
the universe. (Cosmiverse, June 19, 2000).

While traditional modern governments are loathe to acknowledge
life beyond Earth, the Vatican, it appears, is becoming increasingly
willing to publicly discuss the topic.

The Msr. Balducci's meeting in September with Greer and CSETI,
however, is reported to be the first such discussion of a Vatican
official with a ufologist organization. More details and photos from
the September meeting can be found at their Website.

Staff Writer Sally Suddock

http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal100401.html

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Subject: [BPR] - RE: UN team wants more data on 'saucers'
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 09:00:11 -0500

Why is the UN getting involved with this?

-----Original Message Posted by Moza-----
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Subject: [BPR] - UN team wants more data on 'saucers'

UN team wants more data on 'saucers'

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Subject: [BPR] - Lost Souls
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:27:22 -0400

[I was watching TV last night and was startled by a commercial
that said something to the effect that "The Antichrist is coming...on
October 13, 2000." This is the info for that movie called "Lost
Souls" which is due to be released coincidentally on the
anniversary of the Fatima sightings.--Moza]

If WINONA RYDER's latest character wrote a personal ad, it would
go something like this: "Devout Catholic seeks confirmed atheist.
Must be handsome, sexy and able to resist demonic possession.
Ability to generate huge box-office bucks also a plus. Must meet
me on movie screens starting October 13."

In Ryder's upcoming release 'Lost Souls,' she's locked in a deadly
showdown with Satanic forces. The willowy Winona portrays Maya
Larkin, a deeply faithful Christian whose faith is literally put to the
test when she takes part in the exorcism of brutal psychopath
Henry Birdson (JOHN DIEHL). During the ceremony, Birdson
leaves a cryptic final warning which Maya later realizes is the name
of the next host body the Devil intends to inhabit: Peter Kelson.

2:00 trailer video

http://www.etonline.com/html/Movies/2313.html

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Subject: [BPR] - US for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:49:04 -0400

[This was forwarded to me by a list member.--Moza]

This is a document written from Sept.1961. I didn't have time to
read it thoroughly but I gave it my old "speed reading once over"
and thought someone may find it interesting reading. It's kind of
lengthy. There's talk of essentially replacing local police in cities
with UN Peace Forces.

http://www.newsmax.com/articles?a=2000/9/8/95004

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Subject: [BPR] - NewsScan items (10/5/00)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:34:13 -0400

RESEARCH COUNCIL PROPOSES WEB SOLUTIONS

A new report by the National Research Council recommends that
lawmakers refrain from changing the way the Internet operates in
their efforts to address such concerns as gambling and
pornography. "If gambling is illegal in a state, and people in that
state choose to gamble, we should not hold the Internet
responsible for the activities of its users," said Andrew Blau, a
member of the NRC. "Legal responses should be directed at the
activities of people, rather than trying to change the Internet and its
underlying architecture in order to respond to a series of social
policy questions." In addition, the report suggested several
possible ways to alleviate the "digital divide" that has kept many
low-income, rural and minority citizens from having Internet access,
including the creation of a subsidy program " akin to food stamp
programs." The report also proposed a solution to the Internet
sales tax debate: a flat tax on Web purchases, regardless of where
the buyer or seller resides, which the vendor would collect and
submit. (AP 4 Oct 2000)
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/001004/17/internet-vouchers

3COM OUT TO POLL THE WORLD

3Com is working with the Harris Poll and technology leaders such
as Sun Microsystems and Oracle to carry out its "Planet Project"
global survey next month. The poll will include 20 questions in
multiple languages on eight different topics, and will be
administered on the Web at www.planetproject.com. Topics
include religion, beliefs and fears; health and well-being; sleep and
dreams; self image; marriage; dating and sex; parenting and
education; and law and order. To reach those without access to the
Internet, pollsters with handheld computers and wireless
connections will query people in schools, senior centers and
remote areas such as Siberia and Myanmar. "The poll is the
biggest, fastest, most sophisticated survey of its kind ever
attempted," says 3Com CEO Bruce Claflin. "It's a bold
demonstration of how technology can be used to foster greater
understanding across geographic, cultural and economic barriers."
(AP 4 Oct 2000)
http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/478022l.h
tm

NETWORK SOLUTIONS TO REGISTER ASIAN-LANGUAGE
DOMAIN NAMES

Network Solutions says it's ready to begin accepting registrations
using Chinese characters, as well as Japanese and Korean
phonetic
symbols, reflecting the rapid growth of Internet use in the Asia-
Pacific region. In the first half of this year, domain-name
registrations more than doubled in South Korea and Japan. NSI's
interest in the Asian market signals a shift in the Internet from US-
English-language hegemony to more localization of both content
and languages, says a research analyst in Hong Kong. (Wall
Street Journal 5 Oct 2000)
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB970683663294982030.htm

NewsScan" <newsscan@newsscan.com

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Subject: [BPR] - Gambling with the Earth
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:37:05 -0400

Gambling with the Earth

If physicists create killer strangelets, we're all doomed. Should we
take the risk?

Photo: Hulton Getty

THE probability that dangerous Earth-devouring particles will be
born at a new particle accelerator in the US may be tiny, but
scientists have played down the devastating potential costs in their
risk assessments, a physicist now says.

Adrian Kent of Cambridge University accepts that the chances of
catastrophe are minuscule. But he claims physicists are not
accounting for the scale of the potential devastation--the
destruction of the entire planet--in their risk analysis. "Small
catastrophe risks are more costly than we've generally
considered," says Kent.

Last year, sensational newspaper reports suggested that a new
particle accelerator, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at
Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, could put the
Earth in peril. The accelerator might create blobs of matter called
strangelets containing "strange" quarks, as well as the usual "up"
and "down" types in ordinary matter. If a strangelet were stable and
negatively charged, it might begin eating the nuclei of ordinary
matter, converting them into strange matter. Eventually this could
consume the entire Earth.

Physicists reassured the public by pointing out that such a chain
of events is nigh-on impossible (New Scientist, 28 August 1999, p
24). The main reason for their confidence is that it's very unlikely
that strangelets would be stable or negatively charged.

Astronomical evidence is also reassuring. Heavy ion collisions
occur naturally, for instance when cosmic rays smash into heavy
nuclei on the Moon. Yet the Moon has existed for 5 billion years
without being devoured by a ravenous strangelet.

Arnon Dar, Alvaro De R=FAjula and Ulrich Heinz of the CERN particle
physics laboratory near Geneva used the fact that stars are not
being changed into strange matter at a significant rate to calculate
the maximum probability of the Brookhaven collider creating a
dangerous strangelet during the accelerator's lifetime. The result
was less than 20 chances in a billion, which the team called "a
safe and stringent upper bound" (Physics Letters B, vol 470, p
142). Thus reassured, the Brookhaven lab set RHIC running in
June.

Photo: Hulton Getty

But Kent now argues that this probability is far from acceptable
when compared with risk assessments of other possible hazards,
which factor in the scale of the devastation if things go wrong. He
points out that radiological protection policy in Britain deems it
unacceptable for solid nuclear waste to pose more than a one-in-a-
million chance of killing around five people a year on average. To
achieve the same level of risk, global annihilation by a strangelet
would have to have a probability of 1 in 10=AD15 or less, because it
has the potential to wipe out all 6 billion people on the planet.

John Marburger, director of the Brook-haven lab, does not accept
this line of argument. He says that the risk limit calculated by the
CERN researchers was not a safety assessment in the sense
used in nuclear energy safety analysis. "In my opinion, no such
risk assessment is possible," says Marburger. "We do not know
how a 'dangerous strangelet' would be created, and we do not know
the properties of one if it were."

De R=FAjula agrees. "We've been standing on our heads to try to
convince people it's not true and to come up with limits on it, and
this number comes from very, very pessimistic assumptions." He
says it is "absurd" to take such a minuscule maximum probability
and multiply it by the number of people who would die if a
strangelet swallowed the world. "It's not going to happen," he says.

Hazel Muir

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=3Dns225924

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Subject: [BPR] - Ghostly sacred image with a shadow of doubt
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:37:59 -0500

[The last sentence sums up the sad direction produced by these "personal
cathedrals" ]-Shophar

Ghostly sacred image with a shadow of doubt
http://theadvertiser.com.au/common/story_page/0,4511,1276588%255E2682,00.html
05oct00

A SHADOW cast by a tree in a Mid-North town is being hailed by some
residents as a religious apparition.

Port Germein takeaway-food store owner Shelley Brooks and a growing number
of witnesses believe the image is that of Jesus Christ.

Every day, as the sunlight fades and dusk descends on the seaside town of
150 residents, people gather to watch what some hope will become a national
sensation.

That is when a streetlight shining through a tree casts the shadow on to the
fence of the Port Germein Progress Association Caravan Park.

Mrs Brooks says the shadow clearly shows a long-haired, bearded Christ
wearing a crown of thorns.

She first noticed the shadow about five months ago across the road from her
store.

"I was sitting out on the verandah having a cup of tea and I looked across
at the fence and said, `Jesus Christ'," Mrs Brooks said yesterday.

"My husband was with me and he said, `What have I done now?' I said, `Jesus
Christ', again. My husband turned around, put his glasses on and he saw it
(the shadow).

"I took photos in case anyone thought I'd gone barmy."

Mrs Brooks has fielded calls from radio and television stations and
newspapers from around Australia and New Zealand about the shadow.

The story evokes comparisons with claims that a vision of the Virgin Mary
can be seen high on a wall of an Anglican church at Yankalilla, south of
Adelaide.

The 1996 announcement by Father Andrew Nutter (who recently changed his
surname to Notere) has attracted pilgrims and put Yankalilla on the
international map. Port Germein has a Uniting Church and a Catholic
community.

No-one is proclaiming the shadow a miracle, and busloads of big-spending
pilgrims have not yet appeared.

"We had a priest out from Port Pirie," Mrs Brooks said.

"He didn't say he saw it - but he didn't say he didn't see it." However,
spreading the good word in the hope of luring tourists has paid off.

"There has been a boost in visitors, oh yes - an influx. It's wonderful,"
Mrs Brooks said.

Caravan park owner Margot Montgomery said some residents scoffed at claims
that Christ put in a nightly appearance on her fence.

While not claiming it was Christ, she said the resemblance was immediately
apparent. "Unfortunately, you can't see it during the day."

Mrs Brooks - who is Catholic - said she was pleased but baffled by her
discovery.

"Why is it on the fence? Why is it opposite me?" she said.

"I look at it and it gives me a calming feeling, but I'm not off my rocker."

And she will not be spotted worshipping in the local pews this Sunday. "Why
do I need to go to church? Jesus Christ is on the fence," she said.

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Subject: [BPR] - Jesus Was No Vegetarian
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:39:25 -0500

Jesus Was No Vegetarian, Author Says; Animal-Rights Campaign Ignores Gospel
Accounts of Christ's Diet

http://199.97.97.16/contWriter/endprnewswire/2000/10/04/tXbXX/6614-0255-TX-P
angaeus-PETA...html

DALLAS, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, the animal-rights organization
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) chose the image of Jesus
on the Shroud of Turin as its new "poster boy," launching a massive
advertising campaign claiming that Christ was a member of a Jewish
vegetarian sect.

Not so, says Dallas-based Kevin Orlin Johnson, Ph.D., author of Why Do
Catholics Do That? (Ballantine), The Shroud and the Apocalypse (Pangaeus
Press), and many other books on Christian beliefs and practices. "The
Gospels -- the most detailed records we have -- say explicitly that he ate
fish and lamb regularly."

Specifically, Johnson cites the Gospel according to John (21:4-15),
which has Jesus asking his disciples for fish and then eating it, as well as
other passages like Luke 24:42, which says that "they offered him a piece of
broiled fish and a honey-comb," which "he ate in their presence."

The lamb appeared on the menu of the Jewish Passover feast that
Christians know as the Last Supper, as recorded in Matthew 14:12-14, Luke
22:7-8 and elsewhere in the Gospels.

Johnson also cites Luke's Gospel (5:1-11) as a reminder that Jesus
chose fishermen as his disciples and never said that it was wrong to eat
animal flesh. "On the contrary," he says, "In Luke (11:13) Jesus used the
eating of fish as an example of a good thing, and St. Peter was directly
told to eat meat (Acts 10:9-16)." Jesus also gave fish to others, Johnson
says, most remarkably in the multiplication of the loaves and fishes
described in Luke 9:14-17.

Johnson says he doesn't know how the group could make their claim when
the Gospel makes such a point of Jesus's use of animal food. "I guess they
didn't read it," he says.

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Subject: [BPR] - Jailed Egypt militant urges all Muslims to kill Jews
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:46:21 -0400

Jailed Egypt militant urges all Muslims to kill Jews

CAIRO, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Islamic militant Sheikh Omar Abdel-
Rahman, jailed for life for his part in a plot to bomb buildings in New
York, has called on all Muslims to kill Jews everywhere after a
week of Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed.

The blind cleric is the spiritual leader of Egypt's largest Islamic
militant group, al-Gama'a al-Islamiya (Islamic Group), which gained
infamy in 1997 for the massacre of 58 foreign tourists and four
Egyptians at a tourist site in Luxor.

``I call on Islamic scholars to play their role and issue a collective
fatwa (religious edict) urging the Islamic nation to fight and kill Jews
everywhere,'' the influential Egyptian cleric said in a statement,
dictated to Reuters by a London-based Islamic pressure group on
Thursday.

The Islamic Observation Centre, which monitors human rights
abuses in Islamic countries, received the statement from the
cleric's legal advisers. It is often used as a conduit for such
statements. Because the blind cleric is jailed, intermediaries relay
his remarks.

Sheikh Omar issued the call after the worst Israeli-Palestinian
violence in four years in which at least 67 people -- mostly
Palestinians -- have been killed.

``It is now confirmed that our people in Palestine failed to carry out
this duty (fighting Israelis) on their own...so Jihad (Holy War) is
now a duty for the entire (Islamic) nation until Palestine and the
Aqsa mosque are liberated and Jews are either pushed into their
graves or back where they came from,'' the sheikh's statement
said.

The al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem is one of Islam's holiest sites,
and the complex is at the heart of the most recent violence.

Palestinians say the clashes were sparked by Arab anger over a
visit by Israel's right-wing opposition leader Ariel Sharon to the holy
site in Jerusalem, which is holy to Muslims and Jews. Israel says
the Palestinians used the visit as a pretext for the violence.

The cleric referred to the recent clashes as ``barbaric actions'' by
Israel.

He especially called on young Muslims in the Palestinian
territories, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan -- the countries
surrounding the Jewish state -- to wage Jihad against Jews ``by all
means,'' either by killing individuals or targeting their interests and
their allies.

Sheikh Omar was sentenced in the United States to life in prison in
1995 for his part in the plot to bomb buildings in New York.

via: Third_Watch@egroups.com

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