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Subject: [BPR] - Re: Bullinger correction?
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("John in NZ")
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 09:49:51 +1200

Hi,
there is also Seiss' Book "the Gospel in the Stars" which was reprinted by
Kregel about 15 years ago. It was written about the same time as Bullingers
book.
Covers similar ground in a similar way.

John in NZ.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill" <bpr-list@philologos.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, 5 September 2000 7:50 am
Subject: [BPR] - Re: Bullinger correction?

> This article makes me wonder what other books are available on this
subject?
>
> Bill

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Subject: [BPR] - Re: Bullinger correction?
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Tricia")
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:03:05 +0100

Hi all,
As long as this other list is soundly Christian and would not abuse the
research I am happy for it to be passed on.

The only books that I have seen that deal with this subject seem to be
heavily dependent on Bullinger's work, and add little new material, which is
a shame. He was a brilliant man but not infallible. We surely today, with
modern astronomical programs, could add to his findings.

I took another long look at both a sky-map and the Denderah zodiac this
afternoon and concluded that I need to find out exactly which stars and
constellations are portrayed in the Egyptian one - because from even a
cursory glance it appears there are some major deviations from what we today
see as the norm for constellations and figures.

But that will take me some time - I just thought I would add that, so as to
prepare you for the possibility that my message may need modification in
light of that. If anyone knows of a site giving the supposed stars mapped in
the Denderah engraving, please let me know as it would save me a lot of
time.

Dr Papke has a site with his findings at
http://home.t-online.de/home/Dr.Papke/messiap.htm
The drawing of the sign he says is Coma Berenices is different to that given
in Bullinger's book.

One other item related to this that may be of interest, although I don't
think it's particularly significant, but it just so happens that in Israel
at dawn on Rosh Hashanah (September 30th) this year, the sun will "clothe"
Virgo and the moon will be beneath her feet.

Tricia Tillin

[Moderator: On the topic of the "woman clothed with the sun" check out
our file at http://philologos.org/bpr/files/Sky_Signs/ss017.htm. It depicts
(or attempts to) the "clothing of the sun." ]

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Subject: [BPR] - British Doctor Calls For Anesthesia Before Abortion
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 08:45:08 -0400

British Doctor Calls For Anesthesia Before Abortion

LONDON, England (CNSNews) -- Pro-life organizations in Britain say leading
medical specialists who believe pre-born babies may feel the pain of
abortions and should thus be anaesthetized beforehand are missing the
point.

By anaesthetizing a baby in the womb, abortionists are acknowledging they
are killing "a living, growing human being," they argue.

An organization which carries out 50,000 abortions each year said in
response to queries Friday it would not support the administration of
anesthetic ahead of abortions, because it did not think it necessary.

The debate over when babies in the womb can feel pain was revived this
week by Prof. Vivette Glover, a London-based specialist, who said all
abortions at between 17 and 24 weeks gestation should be carried out under
anesthetic, as it was possible the unborn child could feel pain at that
stage of development.

Glover, who will chair a national conference on the issue in November, is
herself pro-abortion, and said she did not want to upset women who had had
abortions with the thought their babies may have suffered pain.

Her view on "fetal sentience" was echoed Wednesday by Oxford University
neuroscientist Prof. Susan Greenfield, who also said pain relief should be
used during abortions in the second trimester, to err on the side of
safety.

Most abortions in the UK occur before 13 weeks, although some 20,000 each
year take place after that. Abortion is legal after 24 weeks only where
two doctors certify that there is a substantial risk of "fetal
abnormality" or that abortion is necessary to save the woman from death or
permanent injury.

Glover's position contradicts a study by the Royal College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists in the UK, which examined the developing
brain and concluded there was no "awareness" before 26 weeks after
conception. Some pro-lifers say brain activity has been detected in a
developing baby at 10 weeks.

Life, Britain's largest pro-life organization, said the proposal to
anaesthetize babies before killing them was an attempt to sedate the
consciences of those carrying out abortions.

"The doctors want to anaesthetize pre-born children before destroying them
so that the victims will not suffer pain and the doctors who do the deed
will not feel so bad about what they are doing," Life said in a statement.

"Anything which makes it easier for the medical profession to depart yet
further from its basic commitment to healing and saving life, especially
children's lives, is to be deplored."

The director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, John
Smeaton, said the concerns expressed reflected "our sense of guilt at
killing a fellow human being."

Rather than calling for anesthetic or for the legal time-limit for
abortions to be lowered, the logical response would be to "pass
legislation which stops the current practice of abortion virtually on
demand, and which gives mothers-to- be the practical support worthy of a
civilized society," he said.

While it was critical of Glover, Life conceded the publication of her
views may in the long term encourage more women to decide against
abortions.

"And in the long run it may help to jerk society out of is complacency and
face the fact that abortion kills real human beings."

The Women and Children's Welfare Fund, a charity whose aim is to alleviate
pain in the pre-born, is raising funds for further scientific research in
this field.

"The right to ban cruelty to animals is being established.," it said.
"This right should apply equally to avoidable human suffering."

The charity noted that a 1986 law in Britain protects "pre-born vertebrate
animals" such as rats and guinea-pigs from undue suffering, but that no
comparable legislation existed to protected pre-born children.

Ann Furedi, spokesperson for the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, said
Friday "no new evidence had been presented to suggest that the fetus is
capable of experiencing pain."

"At BPAS, although the well-being of the woman is our primary concern, we
take all possible measures to treat the fetus with respect and care, and
we would not knowingly expose it to unnecessary suffering," Furedi said.

Of the 50,000 abortions carried out at BPAS centers each year, some 4,200
occur after 17 weeks gestation.

Asked whether the organization would support the use of anesthesia, Furedi
said this was unnecessary.

"With the exception of a few clinicians such as Prof. Glover, most
scientists who are cautious on this matter suggest that no pain could be
felt before 21 weeks gestation - because the brain is insufficiently
developed."

BPAS practitioners carrying out abortions after 20 week follow guidelines
which "insist that the fetal heart is humanely stopped prior to any
termination ... so an anesthetic would be unnecessary."

(Post date: September 5, 2000)

http://www.mcjonline.com/news/00b/20000905d.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - Religion Today News Items: Sept 6, 2000
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Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 09:23:19 -0500

Selected items from...

C U R R E N T N E W S S U M M A R Y
by the Editors of ReligionToday

September 6, 2000

Did the founders of Washington, D.C., deliberately align the city
with the stars, consecrating it to goddesses? That's the hypothesis
of British author David Ovason in his new book The Secret
Architecture of Our Nation's Capital. Almost all the men who surveyed
and laid out Washington were Freemasons, a secret brotherhood, and
everything about the city has astrological symbolism, Ovason wrote,
according to the The Washington Times (see link #3 below).
..Washington's founders consecrated the city to Virgo, also known as
the Egyptian goddess Isis, Ovason wrote. Every Aug. 10 three stars
form a right angle triangle between the Capitol, the White House, and
the constellation of Virgo, he said. Zodiacal symbolism has been
incorporated into scores of official buildings around Washington, he
said.
..Ovason's ideas have been met with skepticism but were applauded by
Fred Kelinknecht, sovereign grand commander of the 33rd-degree
Supreme Council of Freemasons, based in Detroit, the newspaper
reported.

China's underground Christian churches are "evil cults," Chinese
authorities said. The government is using laws passed to control the
Falun Gong spiritual movement against unregistered house churches,
according to news reports.
..Eighty-five members of a Protestant house church movement are
charged with "using an evil cult to obstruct justice," according to
police documents obtained by the Hong Kong-based Information Center
for Human Rights & Democracy, Reuters (see link #4 below) reported.
Henan province police Aug. 23 raided a house congregation belonging
to the China Fang-cheng Church, detaining 130 members and three
Taiwan-born U.S. citizens. The three missionaries later were released.
..The indictments are certain to lead to jail terms and could
indicate the beginning of a government crackdown on churches not
approved by the government, the center said. House churches are being
lumped in with spiritual movements that the Communist government
deems dangerous to society. At least 14 Christian groups were labeled
"evil sects" by the government last year, Henry Chu, one of the
American missionaries detained last month, told Reuters.
..Followers of the China Fang-cheng Church are "Bible-based
Christians," Chu said. The movement has at least 500,000 members,
according to the center. The Fang-cheng Church refuses to join the
government sanctioned Protestant church because of restrictions that
contradict the Bible, including strict rules on proselytizing and a
ban on teaching children the faith, Chu said.
..China's underground Catholic Church also suffers. Police in Fujian
province arrested a priest, two nuns, and 20 other Catholics loyal to
the Vatican last month, The Associated Press (see link #5 below)
reported. The priest, Liu Shaozhang, was beaten so badly that he was
bleeding and spitting up blood, witnesses said. Two of the nuns have
been released but the others are still in custody. Jiang Ming Yuan,
an auxiliary bishop, has been missing since police arrested him last
week, and two other bishops from Hebei have been missing since 1996,
AP said. An estimated 8 million Chinese worship outside China's
government-sanctioned Catholic Church, which does not recognize the
authority of the pope.

Christians will be running their own marathon during Sydney's Summer
Olympics Games. Churches, sports ministries, and other parachurch
groups will take part in the 17-day Quest Australia More than Gold
Worship Marathon, Australia's Religious Media Agency reported.
..The 24-hour-a-day worship service at The Church of the Good
Shepherd will last the length of the games, according to Quest
Australia, a network of ministries doing evangelistic outreaches at
the games. Services will begin as the opening ceremony starts at 6
p.m. Sept. 15 and conclude with the games' closing ceremony at 10
p.m. Oct. 1. The 388-hour event has been divided into 194 two-hour
time slots; a Kid's Worship program will be held every day from 2-4
p.m.
..The Christians will pray for the hundreds of evangelistic events
during the games, organizers said. The blending of worship styles
stemming from different Christian traditions will demonstrate the
unity of Christ's church "and pave the way for God to perform a
mighty work in this city," according to Quest Australia.

The Boy Scouts can hold their Jamboree on federal land (see link #6
below) after all. Attorney General Janet Reno said last week that an
executive order by President Clinton barring discrimination against
homosexuals "does not apply to private organizations that may use
federal lands for their own training programs." Boy Scout Jamborees
"are not federally conducted education or training programs," she
said. The government had ordered an investigation into the legality
of holding the event at Fort A.P. Hill, an Army post in Virginia. The
Scouts prohibit gays from being leaders.
..Membership in the Boy Scouts of America has grown 7 percent during
a three-year period when there has been much public debate on its
policy of barring homosexuals. Membership is 5 million youths and 1.2
million adults, a spokesman for the Scouts told the Washington Times.

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Subject: [BPR] - Gorbachev proposes huge U.N. expansion
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Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 13:43:53 -0500

WEDNESDAY
SEPTEMBER 6
2000

Gorbachev proposes huge U.N. expansion
New economic, environmental councils pushed by former soviet leader,
others

By Mary Jo Anderson
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com

NEW YORK -- It is reportedly the largest gathering of heads of state
in history.

New York traffic is snarled and Manhattanites are testier than usual
as the world's political heavyweights descend on the city. New York's
finest are braced as dozens of groups organize demonstrations against
various governments -- 91 protests are reportedly planned.

Yesterday afternoon, bomb squads were summoned to examine a
suspicious parcel left near the U.N.'s media liaison offices.
Helicopters traverse overhead and the city has moved into red alert
as the United Nation's Millennium Summit gets underway.

The leaders of nations will be urged to sign U.N. treaties in various
stages of global acceptance, including the controversial Rome Statute
that initiates the International Criminal Court, or ICC.

Across town at the State of the World Forum, Mikhail Gorbachev
demanded that a new and expanded role for the United Nations be
instituted. The Forum, a six-year-old project of the Gorbachev
Foundation headquartered in San Francisco, seeks dialogue among world
leaders in government and "civil society" sectors in search of a new
paradigm for civilization on the threshold of the millennium.

That paradigm -- the Forum vision -- sees the U.N. moving into the
power position that opened up at the close of the Cold War. During
yesterday's press conference at the New York Hilton Towers, Gorbachev
proposed a radical expansion of U.N. powers.

"In 1988, I spoke of a new role for the U.N., a new body. In addition
to the Security Council, we must have an Economic Council and an
Environmental Council with authority equal to that of the Security
Council."

The former Russian Premier denied that he was proposing controls on
economic freedom, but insisted, "I am suggesting that we must give
rights to this body [Economic Council], to develop rules to prevent
explosive situations." One observer questioned whether this proposal
was not simply an upscale version of Marxist central economic
control.

Gorbachev went on to explain that as unregulated capitalism
globalized world markets, failure of smaller economies brought
recessions, and rioting in the streets is the likely consequence. An
"Economic Council" with the power to regulate capital is designed to
"insure stability" and "ultimately transnational corporations will
have to accept this," Gorbachev said.

As the Forum -- scheduled to coincide with the main event, the U.N.'s
Millennium Summit -- moved into its third day, it became clear in
successive sessions that each speaker had a new angle on the same
idea: The United Nations should coordinate global governance.

Some speakers focused on environmental governance, others on
educational efforts aimed at producing citizens with a commitment to
global peace and justice. Global governance seeks stable world
conditions so as to ensure the rights of humanity to clean air,
stable markets and personal rights. Of course, some mechanism of
enforcement is required if the rights of all are to be protected, say
Forum participants.

Good globalism is a reshaped globalism, stripped of the "Washington
consensus" of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, said John Sweeney,
president of the AFL-CIO, a co-panelist with Gorbachev and Canadian
billionaire George Soros. "Corporate globalism," he said, "brought
inequality between nations" and a "violation of human rights."

Soros, introduced to the 500 Forum attendees as "the quintessential
voice of globalism," was blunt in his assessment of American
corporations and the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress.

"[They] are not a good example of 'compassionate conservatism'," he
said. Opposed to the U.S. desire to reduce the scope of the troubled
International Monetary Fund, Soros claimed, "that is not the
solution."

Instead, he suggested that IMF loans could be made directly to
individuals and Non-Governmental Organizations, or NGOs, without the
need for national guarantees. This plan in effect de-nationalizes
capital, an idea that brought rousing cheers from the NGOs present. A
free-floating market is a "moral hazard," the billionaire said, and
"it results in instability -- how much instability can the world
stand?" The answer, according to Soros, is for "civil society" to
promote international law. Citizens and NGOs were urged to pressure
their governments to sign U.N. treaties.

A New York physician attending the Forum said he was "stunned and
angry" at the overt anti-American sentiment that he felt
characterized several of the presentations.

"Most Americans have no clue what is happening in New York right
now," he commented. "Don't they know that other nations have the most
to gain and Americans the most to lose if these proposals are ever
adopted?"

Veteran U.N. observers cautioned, however, that it is important to
recall that the proposals made by U.N. staff and State of the World
backers are not synonymous with objectives of member nations. Nations
and their heads of state are not anxious to trade away sovereignty
and power for a "new paradigm" of globalism.

The State of the World Forum and the United Nations Millennium Summit
will run concurrently Wednesday through Friday.

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Subject: [BPR] - 'Jerusalem should be a unified world capital'
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Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 13:46:47 -0500

'Jerusalem should be a unified world capital'

Top Palestinian calls for special status if no deal is struck
Special report: Israel and the Middle East

Suzanne Goldenberg in Jerusalem
Wednesday September 6, 2000

On the eve of a last attempt by President Clinton to untangle the
most vexing problem in the Middle East - the status of Jerusalem -
one of Yasser Arafat's most trusted lieutenants said yesterday the
Palestinians would be willing to make bold compromises on their
claims to the holy city.

In a speech to the European parliament in Strasbourg, Ahmed Qureia
said the Palestinians would support internationalising all of
Jerusalem - including Arab East Jerusalem, occupied illegally by
Israel since 1967 - should the two sides fail to reach a final
settlement in the crucial weeks ahead.

"Unless we can reach an agreement on Jerusalem, I have to declare
that both parts of Jerusalem east and west should be a unified
international Jerusalem ... not just the capital of Israel or
Palestine, but a capital of the world," said Mr Qureia, who is
speaker of the Palestinian parliament.

The proposal revives a formula put forward by the UN in 1947 and
since repeatedly rejected by Israel, and opposed by the Palestinians,
though it still remains part of European foreign policy.

President Clinton is to begin talks today with Israel's prime
minister, Ehud Barak, and Mr Arafat, meeting each separately on the
sidelines of the millennium summit in New York.

The meetings at the Waldorf Astoria have caused some to hope that
during the hubbub of the three-day summit of 150 world leaders, Mr
Clinton will somehow produce the miracle that eluded him in two weeks
of concentrated negotiations at Camp David last July.

Mr Clinton has likened the experience of those talks to having teeth
extracted without painkillers, and strongly criticised Mr Arafat for
his unwillingness to match Israeli compromises on Jerusalem.

Some Palestinians hope that yesterday's proposal from such a senior
figure as Mr Qureia, popularly known as Abu Ala and seen as a
possible successor to the ailing Mr Arafat - could relieve some of
the pressure on the Palestinian leader during his New York talks.

"He said it to try to throw forward an idea that would be acceptable
among Europeans and internationally," said Nabil Khatib, director of
the media centre of Bir Zeit University in the West Bank town of
Ramallah.

"The Palestinians have a feeling that Israel is trying to give the
impression that they [the Israelis] are the only ones who are making
concessions. Abu Ala is trying to show that the Palestinian people
are also ready for concessions, but not one-sided, and not
concessions to Israel. The concession is to have a new kind of
solution."

Accepting current Israeli proposals on Jerusalem, which would
restrict Palestinian sovereignty to a few outer neighbourhoods of the
city, would be impossible for Mr Arafat to justify to his people.

"Mr Barak wants everyone to comply with his version of how things
should be: occupiers' law," said Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the
Palestinian legislative council. "But the issue is not just the holy
sites, the issue is Jerusalem as a city." Real solutions were needed,
not just symbolic ones.

Mr Clinton is to use the meetings with Mr Arafat and Mr Barak to see
whether to hold a second summit, possibly in October. But American
officials say they first need to see signs of further progress since
July's Camp David talks. "Unless there is forward progress, unless we
see a decisive way forward from this week ... this [reaching a deal]
gets more and more difficult," the US national security adviser,
Sandy Berger told reporters.

So far signs of progress do not appear forthcoming. Israeli and
Palestinian officials have tried to dampen expectations of a
breakthrough before September 13, the latest deadline for a final
settlement.

Israeli officials say it is up to Mr Arafat to react to proposals
since Camp David which blur the issue of sovereignty over the holy
places in the old walled city of Jerusalem. "Arafat's moment of truth
has come and the Palestinian leader must make political decisions
rather than turn the negotiations into a bickering match," the
Israeli foreign ministry said on Monday.

Instead, they are trying to press Mr Arafat to accept a dispensation
for Jerusalem, offered since Camp David, that would dodge the
question of ownership over the sanctified ground in the old walled
city by declaring God the sovereign of holy places.

The US version of these proposals would have Israel controlling the
Wailing Wall, the holiest shrine of Judaism, and the Palestinians in
control of the Haram al-Sharif, the third holiest site in Islam, with
God the sovereign of the passage between them.

Mr Arafat has come under mounting pressure from the US and Israel to
accept the proposals, which are endorsed by Egypt and Jordan. After
the last Camp David talks ended without agreement, Mr Arafat went to
more than two dozen countries looking for support but found himself
being urged to hold off on declaring a Palestinian state on September
13. On that, Mr Arafat appears to have yielded, and a meeting of
Palestinian legislators in Gaza at the weekend is likely to support
postponing such a declaration until later in the year. "September 13
is not a sacred date," said Faruq Qaddumi, a senior Palestinian
official.

But time is working against a settlement. The US presidential
election campaign is expected to occupy much of Mr Clinton's energy
from now until the vote in November, and Mr Barak is barely hanging
on to power. Stripped of a parliamentary majority, his government is
surviving thanks to the summer recess in the Israeli knesset.

If Mr Barak fails to reach a deal with Mr Arafat, he may resort to a
new coalition with the rightwing Likud party, which opposes the
compromises he offered at Camp David. Yesterday Mr Barak was hedging
his bets, telephoning the Likud party leader, Ariel Sharon, from New
York even as he awaited today's meeting with Mr Clinton.

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Subject: [BPR] - Weekend News Today items (9/6/00)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 17:19:06 -0400

Mufti of Jerusalem warns of 'explosion' over Temple Mt dig

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Jerusalem Post

Wed Sep 6,2000 -- The Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh a-Sabri, has called on
Israel not to continue archeological excavations at the Temple Mount
compound. The mufti said excavations to an underground tunnel were
endangering the mosques there and that this could lead to "an explosion,"
Israel Radio reports. But the antiquities department said that there were no
excavations at all under the Western Wall.

70 active fires blazing through Texas on Wednesday!

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: AP Texas Wire

Wed Sep 6,2000 -- The largest fire burning Wednesday in Texas, was almost
under control, but not before first burning up 12,000 acres so far. Also, there
are currently 70 active fires that have burned over 10,000 acres of Texas on
Wednesday, forest service officials said. Firefighters from states throughout
the southeast are battling the fires, and several communities were asking for
outside aid. Many areas are being swept by fires. About 30 miles northwest
of Austin, a fire blazed out of control Wednesday across 5,000 acres of
brushy ranchland, endangering 30 houses and 10 other structures. A fire
near about 60 miles northwest of San Antonio was under control Tuesday,
but then again blazed out of control Wednesday. The fire covered about
1,200 acres Wednesday and threatened to grow. Fires north of Houston were
still burning but contained Wednesday, Gay said. Though no fires threatened
the immediate city, acrid smoke wafting in from the north caused a 40
percent spike in 911 calls from worried residents. ``If people visibly see
flames and smoke, give us a call,'' Houston Fire Department spokesman
Rick Flanagan said. Early Wednesday, the 911 system was inundated with
calls on lines they need to stay open for other emergencies too. The Texas
Natural Resource Conservation Commission reported that the fires reduced
air quality in Beaumont and Houston, although winds dissipated the smoke
during the day.

Quakes jolt Indonesian Island

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: AP

Wed Sep 6,2000 -- An earthquake rocked Sumatra Island on Wednesday.
The magnitude 5.3 tremor struck at 2:08 a.m., and was centered beneath the
Indian Ocean, about 110 miles southwest of Bengkulu. This is the same city
that was just rocked by a major earthquake of 7.9 magnitude on June 4th of
this year. About 100 people died, and thousands were left homeless by the
June 4th quake. Indonesia is prone to the seismic upheavals. The
Meteorology and Geophysics Agency estimates that there is an average of
one earthquake a day, most of them occur beneath the sea. According to
the USGS, several quakes near 5 magnitudes have hit different areas of
Indonesia in the last few days.

Series of quakes jolt Western India

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: AP

Wed Sep 6,2000 -- Two moderate earthquakes and seven aftershocks jolted
parts of a western Indian state early Tuesday, causing walls to crack in a
mosque and in houses of several villages, officials said. The first in the recent
series of quakes was of 5.0 magnitude, (5.4 by USGS). ``The earth was
shaking and people ran out of their houses,'' said Varsha Shegde in the city
of Kohlapur. ``It lasted about half a minute or so. Then it was all normal.''
``We are quite used to tremors. This area is prone to them,'' said Shegde.
``But this was stronger than the previous one,'' a 3.5 magnitude quake on
May 25. Shock waves from the earthquake were felt in Bombay, India's
financial hub and the capital of Maharashtra. The temblors were located
within a seven-mile radius of the dams of Tandoli and Koyana, but no reports
of damage.

6 weeks of an intense 100ft. tall red waterspout phenomena!

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: Discovery Earth Alert

Wed Sep 6,2000 -- There's been a very strange sight on dry spanish soil for
6 weeks now, as a waterspout gushes nonstop. A huge column of red water
has been intensely spewing from Spanish soil for almost six weeks, baffling
geologists who have no explanation for the phenomenon. The 100-foot-high
gusher of reddish water, mixed with soil and carbon dioxide, is being shot
from the parched soil of La Mancha in central Spain at the rate of 13 gallons
per second. The water burst forth on July 25, as olive growers in the city of
Granatula de Calatrava were deepening an existing well. They tried very
unsuccessfully to stop the flow of water by piling rocks over the opening.

Geologists studying the site say that it is definitely not a geyser, because it
is not an intermittent event and the water is cool. Enrique Calleja, director of
hydrology for the Castilla-La Mancha regional government, also emphasized
that the region has not seen a volcano in hundreds of thousands of years. He
said that maybe it is from some below aquifer of water. But, the strange part
is that the water, which is emanating from a hole 460 feet deep, has shown
absolutely no sign of diminishing. Calleja said, "I've never heard of anything of
this intensity in Spain, Europe or anywhere else for that matter." Geologists
cautioned the masses of people flocking to the site to keep a safe distance,
as the highly concentrated amounts of carbon dioxide could be toxic. They
also warned of the possibility of rocks being shot forth in the spout.

Greek beaches covered in oil again

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: Discovery Earth Alert

Wed Sep 6,2000 -- At least 700 tons of fuel oil gushed from a tanker which
split in half off the Greek coast last week, washing over 25 miles of popular
tourist beaches northeast of Athens. The spill was already the second within
a week to pollute the Greek coastline. It was a race against time to contain
the slick, which was driven toward the coast by swift currents in the Gulf of
Evia. Authorities are still not certain what caused the accident. Widespread
pollution has been reported from as far away as the popular Attica seaside
resorts, where thousands of Greeks flock during the hot summer months.
The previous spill was only last Tuesday, when a freighter ran aground
leaving the rocky coastline covered in oil.

Pacific Ocean very busy with Tropical Systems

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: Discovery Earth Alert

Wed Sep 6,2000 -- While the Atlantic has had many formed Tropical
Systems fall apart one after another with all the wind shearing in the area,
the Pacific is keeping very busy. Typhoon Saomai formed over the western
Pacific south of Marcus Island during the weekend. It rapidly intensified as it
moved on NW at 8 mph. Saomai, was already packing winds of 115 mph,
and still predicted to steadily intensify during the next several days. The
storm was located about 230 miles east-northeast of the Marianas Islands'
city of Saipan.

Tropical Storm Wukong, located approximatley 280 nautical miles Southeast
of Hong Kong. It has tracked northwesterly at 3 knots over the past 6 hours.
The tropical storm is forecast to slowly intensify as it enters an improving
environment.

Typhoon Maria killed 47 people in southern China, and caused at least
US$157 million in damage when it roared ashore last Friday. Torrential rains
triggered flash flooding, leveling homes and disrupting power supplies. At
least 24 people in the neighboring province of Hunan were killed by
landslides or in houses wrecked by the typhoon. More than 4,500 homes as
well as 100,000 acres of cropland in Hunan were also destroyed by the
storm. Typhoon Maria rapidly dissipated as it moved inland after raging over
Guangdong and Hunan.

*According to the Central Pacific Hurricane Center: On average, between four
and five tropical cyclones are observed in the Central Pacific every year. This
has ranged from zero, most recently as 1979 to 11 in 1992 and 1994.

Over the eastern Pacific, Tropical Storm Lane formed over the eastern Pacific
Ocean on Tuesday and began moving on a westerly path away from
Mexico's west coast at 15 mph. The storm was located about 240 miles
west-southwest of Mazanillo, Mexico. Lane's winds were 52 mph, which
were also predicted to steadily intensify during the next several days.

Killer floods hit Cambodia

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: Discovery Earth Alert

Wed Sep 6,2000 -- At least eight people in the lowland areas of southeastern
Cambodia died during the weekend in the country's worst flooding in more
than 40 years. Most of the victims were children. In the worst-hit area, at
least 22,200 acres of rice were destroyed. The Mekong River is still rising
and threatening to engulf the capital city Phnom Penh. Lim Kean Hor,
Minister of Water Resources, announced a state of emergency due to the
rising height of the river. With the earlier than normal arrival of the country's
seasonal floods, officials to fear that the number of deaths and crop
destruction would be higher than normal also.

TWO volcanoes explode in Mexico & Guatemala on Monday

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: Discovery Earth Alert

Wed Sep 6,2000 -- Two volcanoes, near capital cities in Guatemala and
Mexico both exploded on Monday. Popocatepetl Volcano, only about 45
miles southwest of Mexico City, spewed ash for 25 minutes. The wind-driven
ash was carried over several cities nearby. Air traffic control in Mexico City
cautioned pilots to avoid the area. The snow-capped Popocatepetl became
active again in the year 1994.

The very same day as volcano "Popo" exploded near its capital city, yet
another volcano erupted near the capital city of Guatemala. Volcan de
Fuego, near Guatemala City, erupted shooting a 2,600-foot column of smoke
and ash into the sky. The volcano had just shown signs of renewed activity in
recent days, also prompting aviation officials to issue warnings for their area
too. The volcano is located near the colonial city of Antigua, only about 25
miles southwest of the capital.

Another volcano explodes in Japan

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: Discovery Earth Alert

Wed Sep 6,2000 -- Another volcano comes back to life in Japan, alongwith
the over 70,000 quakes felt since summer. Mount Komagatake Volcano, on
Japan's main island of Hokkaido, erupted on Tuesday morning for the first
time in almost two years. The Meteorological Observatory got its prewarning
of an impending eruption, when they first saw a 1,600-foot column of smoke
rising from the 3,740-foot-high volcano, early Tuesday morning. They
immediately issued warnings to the 60,000 residents of five nearby cities.
The volcano then exploded five hours later. Ash from the explosion covered
roofs and cars, but no evacuation orders had been issued. Professor Okada
surveyed the Komagatake volcano by helicopter later that day, finding no
fresh cracks or crevices on the volcano, but explained that "There are many
cinders popping out in wide areas."

http://www.upway.com/cgi/readnews.cgi?day=00_09_6&item=#968273433

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Subject: [BPR] - NewsScan items (9/6/00)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 17:21:14 -0400

PROGRESS REPORT ON DIGITAL PAPER
Researchers at Philips Electronics say they've created a soft plastic display
that could lead to floppy, foldable electronic newspapers. The display uses a
plastic-based semiconductor rather than a conventional silicon chip,
streamlining the manufacturing process and saving the expense involved in
maintaining the stringent "clean room" conditions necessary for silicon
production. "The image is crude, which is what you get with a 64 pixel by 64
pixel screen," says a Philips spokeswoman. "You still have to develop the
process, and it's difficult to estimate when you could have a product ready for
market... but in theory there's a huge cost advantage in plastic chips."
(AP/New York Times 5 Sep 2000)
http://partners.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Philips-Plastic-
Screen.html

GERMANY CONSIDERS COPYRIGHT FEE
The German government is considering levying a fee on manufacturers of
computer and telecommunications equipment that can be used to duplicate
protected works. The fee would be used to compensate authors and other
copyright holders. Included under the amendment would be such devices as
CD burners, computer printers, hard drives and high-speed modems that
facilitate large file downloads. Such fees are already levied on copy
machines. Industry officials have denounced the plan, which they say would
raise the price of such devices by 30% in Germany. A Hewlett-Packard
executive told the Berliner Zeitung that many companies would simply move
their operations out of Germany if the tax is passed. (AP/San Jose Mercury
News 5 Sep 2000)
http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/370219l.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - JVIM Update items (9/6/00)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 17:30:42 -0400

FORMER SOVIET LEADER GORBACHEV
PROPOSES HUGE UNITED NATIONS
EXPANSION post #1
Sept. 6, 2000

WorldNetDaily reported: “...The leaders of nations will be urged to sign U.N. treaties in various stages of global acceptance, including the controversial Rome Statute that initiates the International Criminal Court, or ICC. Across town at the State of the World Forum, Mikhail Gorbachev demanded that a new and expanded role for the United Nations be instituted. The Forum, a six-year-old project of the Gorbachev Foundation headquartered in San Francisco, seeks dialogue among world leaders in government and ‘civil society´ sectors in search of a new paradigm for civilization on the threshold of the millennium. That paradigm --the Forum vision -- sees the U.N. moving into the power position that opened up at the close of the Cold War. During yesterday's press conference at the New York Hilton Towers, Gorbachev proposed a radical expansion of U.N. powers...” continued on post #2

FORMER SOVIET LEADER GORBACHEV
PROPOSES HUGE UNITED NATIONS
EXPANSION post #2
Sept. 6, 2000

“...‘In 1988, I spoke of a new role for the U.N., a new body. In addition to the Security Council, we must have an Economic Council and an Environmental Council with authority equal to that of the Security Council.´ The former Russian Premier denied that he was proposing controls on economic freedom, but insisted, ‘I am suggesting that we must give rights to this body [Economic Council], to develop rules to prevent explosive situations.´ One observer questioned whether this proposal was not simply an upscale version of Marxist central economic control. Gorbachev went on to explain that as unregulated capitalism globalized world markets, failure of smaller economies brought recessions, and rioting in the streets is the likely consequence. An ‘Economic Council´ with the power to regulate capital is designed to ‘insure stability´ and ‘ultimately transnational corporations will have to accept this,´ Gorbachev said. As the Forum -- scheduled to coincide with the main event, the U.N.'s Millennium Summit -- moved into its third day, it became clear in successive sessions that each speaker had a new angle on the same idea: The United Nations should coordinate global governance...”

JERUSALEM PROPOSED TO BE
‘CAPTIAL OF THE WORLD´
Sept. 6, 2000

The London Guardian reported: “On the eve of a last attempt by President Clinton to untangle the most vexing problem in the Middle East - the status of Jerusalem - one of Yasser Arafat's most trusted lieutenants said yesterday the Palestinians would be willing to make bold compromises on their claims to the holy city. In a speech to the European parliament in Strasbourg, Ahmed Qureia said the Palestinians would support internationalizing all of Jerusalem - including Arab East Jerusalem, occupied illegally by Israel since 1967 - should the two sides fail to reach a final settlement in the crucial weeks ahead. ‘Unless we can reach an agreement on Jerusalem, I have to declare that both parts of Jerusalem east and west should be a unified international Jerusalem ... not just the capital of Israel or Palestine, but a capital of the world,´ said Mr Qureia, who is speaker of the Palestinian parliament. The proposal revives a formula put forward by the UN in 1947 and since repeatedly rejected by Israel, and opposed by the Palestinians, though it still remains part of European foreign policy...”

EUROPEAN UNION TO OPEN UP
EMBASSIES AROUND THE WORLD
Sept. 6, 2000

The London Telegraph reported: “The European Union would create a fully fledged foreign service, with its own embassies around the world and an elite training academy, under plans approved by the European Parliament yesterday. The proposals, which are not binding but reflect the thinking of senior officials, call for the gradual merging of British, French and German embassies as the EU takes prime responsibility for running foreign policy. The parliament also voted for a system of ‘co-ordinated representation´ in international bodies. If this came to pass, this would mean that Britain would lose its individual seat on the United Nations Security Council, as well as its vote on the boards of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Chris Patten, the External Affairs Commissioner, said that the European Commission would pay close attention to the proposals in drawing up its own plans for reform of the EU diplomatic staff, scheduled for release later this year… Geoffrey Van Orden, the Tory spokesman on foreign affairs in the European Parliament, said: ‘Its another building block in the construction of a European state. What they are really advocating is a European Foreign Office run by a single European foreign minister.´...”

WORLD SUMMIT CALLED ‘DEFINING
MOMENT´ FOR UNITED NATIONS
Sept. 6, 2000

The BBC reported: “...UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is expected to host more than 150 heads of government and their representatives… Mr Annan described the summit as ‘a defining moment for world leaders and for the United Nations.´ ‘As a unique forum for global debate and as an indispensable instrument for global progress, the United Nations must rise to the moment,´ he said. Amongst those in New York for the meeting is the Cuban President Fidel Castro on his fourth visit to the US since he took power 41 years ago. Also present is the Iranian leader Mohammad Khatami who has already been speaking at a fringe meeting on dialogue amongst the world's different civilizations. US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright changed her travel plans to attend the speech at a Unesco seminar in New York. The BBC Washington Correspondent says the US is keen to open a political and diplomatic dialogue with Iran for the first time since the Islamic revolution in 1979. President Clinton is expected to take the opportunity to kick-start the Middle East peace process with separate meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Mindful of the oratory opportunity the summit presents, delegates speeches are being restricted to five minutes..."

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Subject: [BPR] - Discovery of New `Extraordinary Magnetoresistance Materials'
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 17:49:32 -0400

Tuesday September 5, 7:58 am Eastern Time

Press Release

Discovery of New `Extraordinary
Magnetoresistance Materials' Holds
Potential To Dramatically Increase
Capacity of Data Storage

Breakthrough by NEC Research Institute Also Offers Widespread
Applications for Cellular, Automotive, and Many Other Technologies

PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2000-- In the near future,
magnetic disk drives may have the capacity to store up to 100 times more
data with the help of new composite materials discovered by researchers at
the NEC Research Institute (NECI). The new materials exhibit dramatically
high levels of magnetoresistance (MR) and have the potential to significantly
increase the performance of magnetic sensors used in a wide variety of other
important technologies, ranging from wireless communications to
automobiles and consumer electronics.

The complete findings of the NEC Research Institute are published in the
current issue of the scientific journal, Science.

The newly discovered materials exhibit what has been termed by NECI as
Extraordinary Magnetoresistance (EMR), which, according to Princeton, New
Jersey-based NECI researchers, is up to 400 times the magnetoresistance,
at the relevant magnetic fields, of materials being used for comparable
applications today.

NECI's EMR materials have the potential for rapid application to the read
heads of disk drives, which, together with the write heads and disk materials,
determine the overall capacity, speed and efficiency of magnetic recording
and storage devices. EMR composite materials will be able to respond up to
1,000 times faster than the materials used in conventional read heads.

``The use of EMR devices in high-density recording represents a new
approach to a highly complicated technological problem,'' said Dr. Stuart
Solin, a Fellow with the NEC Research Institute and leader of the research
team that discovered the EMR materials. ``There is a huge effort on the part
of many capable individuals to push conventional read-head sensor
technology from the current 13 Gigabits of data per square inch to 100
Gigabits per square inch. The discovery of these new nonmagnetic
composite materials has the potential to significantly advance magnetic
storage technology and bring the industry closer to its long range target of a
disk drive that will store a Terabit, or 1,000 Gigabits, of data per square inch.
A single 3.5'' disk that can hold 4 feature length films today, could have the
capacity to hold a personal library of multimedia data in the near future,`` Dr.
Solin said.

Dr. Solin explained that the magnetoresistance of materials refers to the
percentage change of electrical resistance in the presence of a magnetic
field. Most materials exhibit very small MR even at high fields. Copper, for
example, shows an MR of order 0.1 percent at room temperature even for
fields thousands of times larger than the earth's magnetic field, HE. During
the past decade, scientists have fabricated thin film metallic structures
exhibiting room temperature giant magnetoresistance (GMR) of order 20
percent at 100HE. Even though this change may seem small, such materials
have important technological applications in the area of high-density
magnetic recording. Another class of recently developed materials exhibits
what is generally referred to as colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) with MR
values as high as 100,000 percent at high field (40,000HE) and at very low
temperatures (- 200C). These materials, however, have very low MR at room
temperature.

The new materials discovered by NECI exhibit an EMR at room temperature
of the order 1,000,000 percent at high fields. More importantly, the new EMR
materials give record values of room temperature magnetoresistance at low
and moderate fields. Surprisingly, while the sensitivity of GMR and CMR
materials to magnetic fields arises from the fact that these materials are
magnetic in nature, the new NECI composites are made from nonmagnetic
semiconducting and metallic components.

The new EMR materials result from NECI's discovery that embedding a
highly conducting metal, such as gold, into a thin disk of a nonmagnetic
semiconductor, such as indium-antimonide (InSb), boosts the
magnetoresistance and offers a number of other advantageous properties.
These include very high thermal stability, the potential to be manufactured at
much lower unit costs than conventional sensors, and the capability of
operating at speeds up to 1,000 times higher than sensors fabricated from
magnetic materials. One characteristic of EMR sensors is that they require
at least three electrical contacts while conventional sensors require only two.

Dr. Solin added: ``One can easily envision countless other applications of
EMR sensors in areas such as consumer electronics, the wireless telephone
industry and the automobile industry, all of which utilize many magnetic
sensors in their products. Tomorrow's EMR sensors will deliver dramatically
greater sensitivity and will be considerably less expensive to produce. And it
is quite possible that we have yet to conceive of the most significant aspects
of this technology.''

Dr. Solin credits the 30-year-old work of scientists C.M. Wolfe, G.E. Stillman
and J.A. Rossi for stimulating the discovery of EMR materials. NEC will
pursue licensing agreements as well as explore the development of possible
devices that make use of its EMR technology.

The research was conducted in collaboration with Dr. Tineke Thio and Mr.
D.R. Hines of NEC Research Institute and with Prof. J.J. Heremans of Ohio
University.

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000905/nj_nec_res.html

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