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Subject: RE: [bprlist] Bus Driver's Job At Risk Over Head Covering
From: "Elphick, David (WS)"
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:17:03 +1030

I think this is a case of selective readings and the Minister of her church
should know better.

1Cor 11:15 But if a woman should have long hair, it is a glory to her; FOR
HER HAIR IS GIVEN TO HER IN PLACE OF A VEIL.
16 But if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the
churches of God.

Such foolishness renders ridicule and it is applied generally to the body of
Christ.

David

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November 21, 2000 -- 9:59 am

      Bus Driver's Job At Risk Over Head Covering

PHILADELPHIA, PA (CHARISMA) -- A female bus driver in Philadelphia
stands to lose her job because she insists on wearing a head scarf instead
of a uniform cap. Kim Harris, a three-year veteran, says that the head
covering is important to her Christian faith, but public transport officials
have insisted she must follow the proper dress code.

Harris, 28, started wearing the scarf after being baptized earlier this
year. She told "The Philadelphia Daily News": "If I don't wear it, I'm dishonoring

God: First Corinthians, chapter 11, verses 1-16." Her pastor at the Church
of Christ, Reginald Young, has supported her stand and spoken to officials at
the city transport group, SEPTA.

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Subject: [bprlist] Thatcher against, Albright for EU army
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:04:50 -0000

Wednesday, 22 November, 2000, 09:39 GMT
Thatcher rounds on Blair

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1034000/1034811.st
m

Baroness Thatcher has marked the 10th anniversary of her downfall
with a forthright attack on Tony Blair's support for the new European
defence force.

The former prime minister attacked the proposed project as
a "monumental folly" and said it was political vanity that could
endanger the UK's security.

"The government's plans to create a new European army make no
military sense at all.

"It is a piece of monumental folly that puts our security at risk in
order to satisfy political vanity," she told the The Sun newspaper.

-- more --

==========================

It will improve Nato, say the Americans
By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?
ac=001851641145319&rtmo=fsYw03Ns&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/00/11/22/nforc22
2.html

THE United States has welcomed the creation of a European rapid
reaction force, describing it as a "strongly positive development"
that will strengthen Nato.

Washington's public backing for the EU force, despite the private
doubts of some US officials, will provide Tony Blair with powerful
ammunition against Tory critics who say the plan to create a 60,000-
strong unit is the first step towards a separate European army.

Senior Conservatives have claimed that the United States is opposed
to the force and fears that it will inevitably weaken Nato. But
Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State, effectively blunted their
attack on Monday night when she said: "This EU force will be
available to both Nato and the EU, in those cases where the Alliance
as a whole is not militarily engaged. It offers a valuable complement
to the efforts and capabilities of Nato."

But behind the show of support, there are signs that Washington still
has misgivings about the EU force. All year, US officials have been
dropping diplomatic warnings that the EU's defence initiative should
not undermine Nato or lead to the "decoupling" of Europe from the
United States, and that non-EU Nato members must be involved in its
actions.

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Subject: [bprlist] Car 54, where are you?
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:23:51 -0000

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 22 2000

Car 54, where are you?
by Hal Lindsey

=A9 2000 WorldNetDaily.com

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_lindsey/
20001122_xchal_car_54_whe.shtml

There was a popular TV program from the early '50s whose opening
jingle went something like this:

There's a hold-up in the Bronx;
Brooklyn's broken out in fights;
There's a traffic jam in Harlem
That's backed up to Jackson Heights.
There's a scout troop short a child;
Khrushchev's due at Idlewyld;
Car 54, where are you?

The jingle reminds me of this week's news, as we continue our
apparent slide into national and international chaos. It has an
unreal quality, as if all this really can't be happening.

In the Middle East, a shrapnel-spewing 120-millimeter mortar was
detonated by remote control alongside an Israeli-controlled road
heavily traveled by Jewish settlers who live inside the Gaza Strip.
The force of the blast killed two teachers and wounded nine other bus
passengers, including five children, three of them critically. The
three were siblings, ranging in age from 7 to 12, who had been
sitting together. Shrapnel tore 5-inch holes through the bus' steel
frame. Many of the wounded had arms or legs torn off. Many others
underwent amputations at hospitals. Somehow, the international press
has sought to blame Israel for the attack by virtue of the fact there
were Israelis too close to the mortar shell.

Israel responded by launching missile strikes against terrorist
strongholds in Gaza. The headquarters of Col. Mohammed Dahlan, head
of security in Gaza was hit at least a dozen times from three
different directions. Arafat did what Arafat does, exhorting his
people to violence, then denying responsibility after the fact.

The Palestinian police have officially received new rules of
engagement authorizing them to use weapons against Israeli troops.
They've been doing so for some time, but this is the first official
sanctioning of wartime rules of engagement.

"Our policemen will now use their guns in self defense in areas under
our full sovereignty. They have the right to respond," said Ahmed
Abdel-Rahman, general secretary of the Palestinian Authority, at a
news conference in Ramallah, on the West Bank. He went on to say that
the heavily armed PA "police" are now "in the same trench with our
people, on one front against the Israelis."

"The peace process is clinically dead now," said the chief
Palestinian negotiator, Ahmed Qureia.

Egypt, the first Arab nation to ever make peace with the Jewish
state, recalled its ambassador, but stopped just short of closing the
embassy in Tel Aviv and severing ties with Israel. For the time
being, that is. In praising the Egyptian decision, one PA cabinet
member, Hanan Asfour, who is also a "peace negotiator," called for
more attacks against both Israel and America. "We hope this will be
followed by real steps against Israel's aggressor government and we
are waiting for more steps against Israel and its ally the United
States."

And what of the United States, given the fact America is Arab
terrorism's No. 2 target of choice? Protesters are marching in the
streets in Florida. The fate of the presidency, for the first time in
modern history, is in doubt, while what very well may be a
legislative coup d'etat may hamstring the Congress and divide the
nation right down the middle at a time when America is in peril from
enemies both without, and within.

Political hacks, veins bulging and eyes protruding, shriek at one
another in a debate over 'fairness' in an election in which voters
who suspect they voted incorrectly are having their votes recounted
over and over, while military troops serving abroad are not having
their votes counted at all.

Al Gore may yet steal the U.S. presidential election, all the while
blaming George Bush for not conceding, despite the fact Bush is ahead
in every single recount. This is some kind of "alternate reality"
made that much weirder by the fact at least a third of America sees
nothing wrong with this kind of reasoning.

Lame duck president Bill Clinton returned home from Vietnam after
being lectured by the head of that nation's Communist Party -- a
particularly pathetic sight, given his efforts to avoid military
service there thirty years ago. For those who did heed the call of
their nation, it would have been a delicious irony, were it not so
sad.

The stock market is rapidly tanking. Wall Street's miracle run
appears to be over, thanks to the withdrawal of international
investment funds. The NASDAQ is down more than 25 percent, as a
leaderless America continues to pretend that non-Election 2000 is
business as usual.

Saddam Hussein continues to stockpile chemical and biological weapons
unchecked. At last count, his arsenal was capable of killing every
man, woman and child on earth several times over.

The United Nations is considering sending troops into Israel to quell
the violence. Germany has filed suit against America for executing
two convicted murderers (German nationals) in violation of the Vienna
Treaty. One wonders if the U.N. will soon contemplate sending the
Blue Helmets to New York or Washington?

Somehow, there is an oddly familiar feeling to all this, despite the
unique nature of the chaos that is unfolding before our eyes. It's a
feeling almost akin to d=E9j=E0 vu -- familiar, although one can't quite
put his finger on why. Like we've heard it all before. There's a
reason for that.

The Bible speaks clearly of conditions as they will exist in the last
days. Wars, rumors of wars, famines, pestilences, ethnic unrest and a
complete breakdown of social conventions. It speaks to the
marginalization of reality, a loss of what Paul calls "natural
affection," liars "speaking lies in hypocrisy," of "having a form of
godliness but denying the power thereof" and an overall picture of
national and international chaos.

Some people will call it "coincidence," but that's not surprising in
an environment where truth is whatever people say it is, facts
notwithstanding. The post election rhetoric clearly demonstrates some
folks' uncanny ability to disconnect from reality.

Reality is that all this was outlined, in detail, in advance. We read
the same words today that were being read and puzzled over in AD 555,
1492 or 1911. Today, they have a whole new meaning, although they are
precisely the same words.

We would do well to remember one more piece of text that takes on a
new dimension of reality as we read today's headlines. When
asked, "what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the
age?" Jesus Christ gave a detailed description of global conditions
that mirror today's headlines. And he warned that, "when these things
begin to happen, then look up, and lift up your heads, for your
redemption draws near."

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Subject: [bprlist] Is God A Republican?
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:32:11 -0000

[And before anyone comments -- no, I'm not endorsing Hal Lindsey.
Just sharing what I think are interesting articles. ]

Is God A Republican?
11/19/00
by Hal Lindsey and Jack Kinsella
http://www.hallindseyoracle.com

The email regarding our position on the election debacle seems to
suggest that many believe that we are Republicans. The fact is, we
are not partisan toward one side or the other. Granted, the
Republican platform on issues like abortion, homosexual rights, taxes
and so on are more closely in line with the values we hold, but we
regard the Republicans as the lesser of two evils.

On the other hand, the antics of the Democratic Party over the course
of the past eight years have earned our utter contempt, regardless of
other political issues. But that doesn't make us Republican. Although
Hal Lindsey is a registered Republican, it is simply because there is
nothing about the Democrats that is in harmony with his personal
convictions. Jack Kinsella, on the other hand, is an independent who
would just as soon call down a pox on both their houses.

Al Gore has proved himself to be an absolute cad, a man with no
allegiance to anyone except himself. Anybody who can switch from pro-
life to pro-choice as easily as one could switch from a T-shirt to a
sweater cannot help but be suspect. He stood with Bill Clinton,
easily the most reprehensible individual to ever break his oath of
office in the history of this country. Al Gore has been the target of
numerous criminal investigations. His protestations of 'no
controlling legal authority' and his now famous 'iced tea' defense
are utterly transparent, if not legally provable in court. Eight
years of Bill Clinton has prepared America for the kind of nonsense
we are seeing take place in Florida. It is unimaginable that public
opinion could have been so easily manipulated prior to the Clinton
era. Americans have become used to accepting smoke and mirrors in
place of substance, to the degree it is apparently impossible for at
least half of America to tell the difference. Al Gore is a known
quantity. He has proved to have an almost demonic ability to turn
liability into advantage. Somehow, and we can't quite see how, he has
managed to convince many Americans that George Bush is the one
responsible for the mess in Florida, and not himself and his minions.
It is amazing the number of people who believe that Bush should have
conceded defeat to spare the country the pain we are currently
enduring as the presidential election process has been turned into
bonanza for lawyers.

But nobody is asking the obvious questions. First, in what way does
it make sense for Bush to concede an election in which he is ahead?

And, given the fact that Bush is ahead, how can it be his fault that
Gore refused to concede? The ballots were counted. Bush won. They
were recounted, and he still won. They were recounted again, and Bush
won.

Now there is a hand count being undertaken, only in counties where
Gore's supporters outnumber Bush 9 to 1, and Bush is being painted as
the bad guy simply because he refuses to allow the Democrats to
overturn the results of the first three counts.

And at least half of Americans, according to the polls, don't see
what is going on. Or they don't care. The DNC has operatives
canvassing the Republican members of the Electoral College, doing a
little arm twisting to try and get them to vote against party lines
for Al Gore.

There are also rumors that Terry Lenzer, Bill Clinton's private
investigator, is digging up a little dirt on the electors to help
persuade them to switch sides. If true, this is nothing less than a
silent coup d'etat.

The DNC has sent out a five page document to its election workers
telling vote counters how to protest overseas ballots and ways to
disallow them. This kind of activity is reprehensible, but it is
routine. That isn't partisan politics, its reality on the ground.
Heartbreaking.

We don't want to see Bush win the election nearly as much as we want
to see Al Gore lose. He is bad news for America, based on his track
record. George Bush has no real track record to compare it to, but
what we do know doesn't suggest that he is anywhere near as utterly
evil as Al Gore & Co. It is hard to imagine that he could be, given
what we do know, however.

To date, the worst thing we know about Bush is that he used to drink
too much, and he got caught. Hardly a character trait we would like
to see in a President, but its considerably better than having an
openly dishonest Chief Executive who has proved throughout his public
life that his convictions are only as solid as the next poll tells
him they are. The hand count, as we understand it, obfuscates the
will of the people, rather than clarifying it.

One of the authors of this article [JK] worked with computer cards
similar to those now being counted in the military back in the
1970's. The biggest problem with keypunch cards is that those little
chads fall out, changing the information the card was supposed to
convey. After running through an EAM machine [similar to the machine
voter counting devices] a couple of times, the entire batch would
have to be redone, thanks to the new holes that would appear as a
result of over-handling.

That the election is being stolen through the chicanery in Florida is
a foregone conclusion. All the chads that keep showing up on the
floor are coming from somewhere.? What does that mean to the
integrity of the ballots? Are ballots being spoiled [thereby
disenfranchising the voters who cast them] through much handling?
Undoubtedly . And who speaks for those unknown voters? Supposedly,
the law, but it doesn't seem to matter unless it favors the
Democrats.

Now, to the question implicit in the title of this column. Is God a
Republican? No. God is the embodiment of truth. And neither side
seems to have more than a passing acquaintance with that concept. But
some things are obvious.

One of those things that is obvious is the fact that when the votes
are counted [three times] and the results favor one candidate, he
wins.

"Spin" is a euphemism for "lies". The facts are what they are, and
the facts are simply this. Using exactly the same criteria that gave
the State of California to Al Gore -- the vote count, George Bush won
the electoral vote in Florida. Period.

Anything else, whether you euphemistically call it "spin" or whether
you cut to the chase and call it "lies" is simply not true. Hand
recounts are nothing less than an obvious attempt to slant the
election in favor of Al Gore. It is obvious. "Spin notwithstanding.?

Until the lawyers are invited in and the Democratic operatives go to
work. Then the only thing that is obvious is that the guy who won the
first three counts ought to be the one to step aside.

It was Adolf Hitler who said that if you tell a lie, make sure it is
so monstrous that the people's first impression would be that nobody
would tell a lie that big, so it must be the truth. And repeat it
over and over, no matter what. His propaganda minister, Josef
Goebbels, turned the principle into an art form.

But compared to what's happening now, Goebbels was an amateur.

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Subject: [bprlist] Calvary Contender - Dec. 1, 2000
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 06:59:28 -0500

THE CALVARY CONTENDER
VOL. XVII NO. 23 Dec. 1, 2000
NEWS & VIEWS, NOTES & QUOTES, TO WARN & INFORM
Jerry Huffman-Editor=85.. contendr@hiwaay.net
1800 Sparkman Drive
Huntsville, AL 35816

[The Calvary Contender is sent to you by Messengers of Christ
Ministries as an aid in discernment. Please refer all questions to
Jerry Huffman]

MARINES FORCED INTO NEW AGE MOVEMENT? An effort is under way to drag
the Marine Corps into the New Age movement, complete with Eastern
mysticism, Zen meditation, pop psychology, etc. The Corps is
developing a new Marine Martial Art (10/9 Wall St. J. via 11/4
World). A pilot program has been expanded and 15,000 Marines are now
learning how to be ninjas. Plans are to make it mandatory for all
Marines. But forcing Christians (also Jews and Muslims) to participate
in pagan religious practices goes too far. All Marines are not forced
to attend Christian church services and should not be forced to
practice Eastern mysticism.

FONDA FUNDS ABORTIONS-Tax-exempt groups raised $97.3 million and spent
$132.6 million since July 1, to influence the fall elections. Actress
Jane Fonda, the largest single contributor on the list we saw,
personally bankrolled an $11.7 million campaign to inject the abortion
issue in battleground states (11/4 H.Times). She shelled out the $11.7
million of her own money in two checks Sept. 15 & 26. Pro Choice Vote
used her money to make large donations to abortion choice groups. Her
impending divorce and "conversion" as a born-again Christian were
widely reported last Jan. Something seems wrong, here!

GORE, CLINTON TAKE POLITICS TO CHURCHES ACLU, where are you? Why can
liberal political leaders campaign and promote candidates in church
pulpits, yet conservatives can't? Pres. Clinton (Oct. 29) begged
blacks at Shiloh Baptist Church (Washington, DC) to choose the
"outstretched hands" of Al Gore over the "clenched fists" of George W.
Bush (10/30 Wash. Times via 11/6 Chr. News). He said it would be a
"terrible mistake" to elect Bush. From Shiloh, Clinton went to Alfred
St. Baptist Church (Alexandria, VA) to continue stumping for Gore.
Gore appeared during church services at a Detroit church that day.
Barry Lynn (AUSCS) has filed an inquiry with the IRS over this, but
don't hold your breath. They will likely get the same "punishment" as
Jimmy Carter and Jesse Jackson got when they used church pulpits for
political ends. A double standard?

GOOD QUESTIONS-From the 11/11 World magazine Mailbag: "Christian
'beauty queens?' How can they speak with a straight face about purity
and chastity while marketing their flesh in evening gowns and bikinis?
And why do Christians watch and defend this trash?"

WORSHIP & MUSIC-Asbury Seminary President Maxie Dunnam asys "=85the
biggest revolution in the church today is in the area of worship and
music." Dunnam commends contemporary music and worship.

MOON MOVING TO BRAZIL-Billionaire cult leader Sun Myung Moon, the
self-proclaimed second coming of Christ, has become disappointed at
the American public's refusal to worship him and is moving to Northern
Brazil. His Family Federation for World Peace recently joined with
Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam to sponsor A Million Families March
on Washington, D.C.

CATHOLIC SHROUD A FRAUD Catholics, Mormons, and charismatics put great
emphasis on signs and visions (see Matt. 12:39). The Catholic Shroud
of Turin has been debated since it first surfaced in 1357 AD.
Scientific evidence continues to mount that it is one of the greatest
art frauds in history. Scientists from Oxford and Cambridge
universities have called it a fake and dated it around 1350 AD (see
10/15/88 CC). Bandaging was the custom for burial in Jesus' day. John
19:40 says Jesus' body was "wound" in linen clothes (plural), and 20:7
states that His head was covered with a napkin, not a shroud. The
local bishop when it was first exhibited in 1357 called the Shroud a
fraud, based on the testimony of the artist who made it. We believe
the Shroud is as phony as the twentieth-century Catholic visions of
Mary.

LIVE-BIRTH ABORTIONS-The Supreme Court, June 28, ruled that a Nebraska
law forbidding partial-birth abortions except in cases when required
for the life of the mother was "unconstitutional" because "the
Constitution offers basic protection to a woman's right to choose."
This method of abortion typically kills a viable child late in
pregnancy. A mother now has a "constitutional" right to have a medical
professional stab her child's brain when all but his tiny head is
protruding from the birth canal. In his dissenting opinion, Justice
Scalia rightly referred to this as "live-birth abortion." More
directly, it is infanticide -an act of murder that God forbids and
detests (Ex.20:13).

RADICAL FEMINIST MARY DALY A SPEAKER AT RE-IMAGINING EVENT-Mary Daly,
barred from teaching at Boston College after 25 years, was one of the
speakers at the eighth Re-Imagining Gathering in Minneapolis in Oct.
Daly, who abandoned her Catholic faith ("the patriarchal church") in
the early 1970s, describes herself as a radical feminist. She invited
participants to "an other-world journey" revealed through quantum
physics (11/11 H .Times). She encouraged them to have courage - "the
courage to leave patriarchal institutions, which all churches are. The
courage to sin The sin is to be - to be ourselves." The first
Re-Imagining Conference (1993), held in conjunction with the WCC,
caused quite a stir (see 4/15/94 CC) and used a controversial
incantation to "Our maker, Sophia."

NCC & SAME-SEX 'MARRIAGE'-Bob Edgar says his signature on the
Christian Declaration of Marriage may not mean what some think. Edgar,
general secretary of the National Council of Churches, signed the
document in Oct. It defines marriage as "a holy union of one man and
one woman" and calls for "a stronger commitment to this holy union."
But later the same week Edgar said he made a mistake, apologized, and
said his support had nothing to do with same-sex unions (11/18 HT). He
said churches in the ecumenical NCC disagree over same-sex unions. But
"there is unanimity among us in our longstanding advocacy for full
civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons.
Through our dialogues, we have come to celebrate the gifts and
challenges they present to us. We stand with them in our common battle
against hatred and violence and the pain of exclusion. In our
dangerously fragmented society, I regret and will resist any attempt
to interpret support for one beleaguered segment of society as an
attack on another." The NCC is trying to broaden its membership base.
It now has 35 mainline Protestant, black Protestant, and Orthodox
denominations, but announced plans in an Atlanta meeting to reach
out to Roman Catholics and evangelicals. It also reportedly is
 being forced into another round of staff cuts. [11/20 Religion
Today]

NAVIGATORS YOKE WITH CATHOLICS-The Navigators, a popular "evangelical"
parachurch group that has a vast discipleship and publishing
(NavPress) ministry, is yoking together with the Roman Catholic
Church. An e-mail sent to Navigator field staff Sept. 14 stated that
"God has led several staff to develop ministries with Catholics=85" and
cites an example of one Navigator staffer who now directs the small
group ministry at the largest Catholic church in Colorado Springs.
David Cloud (9/6 Chr. News). comments: "To preach the blessed gospel
to Roman Catholics is obedience to the Lord's command; to yoke
together in ministry with the Roman Catholic Church in any fashion
whatsoever is grave disobedience and confusion." We cited an example
in the April 1, 1997 CC of the extremes to which a NavPress book went
in promoting building bridges with Islam.

ROME ASSERTS PAPAL AUTHORITY-The Vatican, in its recent Dominus Iesus
document (see 10/1 & 15 CCs), declared Catholicism the sole path to
salvation and claimed that Peter and his successors were commissioned
by Jesus to rule the church (12/00 Proclaiming the Gospel). It said no
one can "interpret Sacred Scripture outside the Tradition and
Magisterium of the [RC] Church." By declaring that bishops have sole
authority to interpret Scriptures, the Vatican supplants God's
authority with its own authority.

LOVING WITNESS, OR HATE CRIME?-A group of liberal Protestants and
Roman Catholics asked Southern Baptist evangelistic teams not to come
to Chicago, that their coming would contribute to a climate conducive
to hate crimes (12/00 Moody). Southern Baptist Seminary President R.
Albert Mohler said there is a deepening hostility to authentic gospel
witness. He added: "These days, it is considered intolerant and
unloving to tell someone that without Jesus Christ, he will spend
eternity in hell. To claim that Jesus Christ is the only Savior is to
preach intolerance and imperialism." Post-modernists of our day say no
one can claim to know THE truth, for there are many truths.
Persecution and testing may be in store for those who seek to obey the
Great Commission.

HUMANIST, POSITIVE RELIGION- "The chief danger of the 20th century
will be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ,
forgiveness without repentance, and heaven without hell." (Gen. Wm.
Booth)

TIM LEE RUNS WITH SBC CROWD-Dynamic preacher Dr. Tim Lee's two 2001
Youth Alive conferences are scheduled for North Carolina and Houston,
according to his ad in Jerry Falwell's National Liberty Journal. His
Southern Baptist speakers include Jerry Johnston, and David Ring. His
two conferences this year included Southern Baptists Falwell, Johnston
and Ring. Falwell, who began as a fundamentalist, recently identified
with Southern Baptists. Lee seems to be pursuing the same course of
compromise as his mentor. In his March 1994 Target paper he said "the
lines of separation in Scripture are clear and they do not include
separating from our Bible-believing brethren." He listed Drs. W.A.
Criswell, Adrian Rogers, Charles Stanley, and other inerrantist (but
unequally-yoked) Southern Baptist leaders as fundamentalists. It is
sad to see Lee continuing to defect toward the SBC which is a major
supporter of the apostate Baptist World Alliance.

GRAHAM & THE MODESTO MANIFESTO-Elmer Towns, in the Nov. National
Liberty Journal, tells of a late 1940s meeting at Modesto, CA of four
young men that we know today as leaders of the Billy Graham
evangelistic team. The men fasted and prayed for the group's leader
(Billy Graham), and made a composite list of four major problems that
plagued evangelism: 1. Exaggeration, the common misuse of the truth
concerning size of crowds, number of converts, and need of money. 2.
Money - Because evangelists were always raising money, it appeared
many were in it for the money, so financial books would always be
open. 3. Agreed to never be alone with a member of the opposite sex.
4. A critical spirit - pledged themselves to a positive ministry, and
promote unity. Towns concluded that "the blessing of God is the main
reason God used Billy Graham." Indeed, many have been saved in
Graham's ecumenical evangelism crusades, in spite of his ministry of
disobedience (Phil. 1:18). But his "end justifies the means"
philosophy has done untold harm to the cause of Christ, leading him to
yoke up with false-gospel leaders, promote worldly rock music, and
blur the lines of Biblical separation thereby promoting a new
evangelicalism and the end-time one-world church of the
Antichrist.

MAINSTREAM ALABAMA BAPTISTS-Ala. Baptists recently affirmed the new
Baptist Faith & Message, but some walked out of the meeting and formed
a separate Mainstream Alabama Baptists group. The Bible and women
pastors are two main issues. Frances Jones of First Baptist Church,
Huntsville, said she worries that the new faith statement will stop
her from being a deacon in her church (11/16 Huntsville Times). She
said her worries began over two years ago when Baptist women were told
to be submissive to their husbands. "I don't want to be submissive to
my husband," said Jones.

CHARISMA SAYS: 'LET THE WOMEN PREACH!' The Southern Baptist Convention
recently passed a policy which states: "While both men and women are
gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to
men as qualified by Scripture." Charisma Editor Lee Grady responds to,
but fails to refute, this in a five-page article and an editorial.
Most Southern Baptists would likely agree with much of what he says in
giving Old and New Testament examples of women serving in various
roles. His interpretation of 1 Tim. 2:12 and 1 Cor. 14:34-35 passages
seems weak at best and seemingly a stretch. And we failed to see, in
all the six pages, any mention of a key-phrase requirement for a
pastor, "the husband of one wife" (1 Tim. 3:2). Women can serve the
Lord in a multitude of ways in a local church, but is not the SBC
restriction a Biblical one?

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Subject: [bprlist] Solar Sunrise hacker joins Mid-East cyber-war
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:34:40 -0500

Solar Sunrise hacker joins Mid-East cyber-war
By: Kevin Poulsen
Posted: 21/11/2000 at 15:52 GMT

The ongoing war of packet floods and Web defacements between pro-Israeli
and pro-Palestinian hacktivists saw a new and famous name enter the fray
last week: Ehud Tenebaum, the Israeli hacker known as "The Analyzer," who
was fingered by the US government in 1998 as the mastermind of one of the
biggest Pentagon hack-attacks in history.

The twenty-one year old Tenebaum is serving as CTO of the security firm
2XS. Two weeks ago, according to Tenebaum, he heard from a hacker group
he
founded in 1996, called the Israeli Internet Underground (IIU). The group
asked Tenebaum if his company would provide security solutions for Israeli
companies for free.

"They claimed they are going to help all the Israeli sites that are under
attack, or sites that there is a good reason to believe will be attacked,"
says Tenebaum. "I liked the idea in general."

The result was a partnership between 2XS, Tenebaum's company, and the
IIU,
now self-described white hat hackers aiming at a defensive role in the
mid-East cyberwar.

The IIU established a Web site listing the names of companies and
organizations in Israel that the group determined were vulnerable to
intrusions. Organizations that found themselves on that list could contact
2XS, which provided them with patches, workarounds or advice on how to
close the holes. "We agreed to provide a solution to anyone who wants a
solution," says Tenebaum.

The project ended on Saturday, and Tenebaum pronounces it a success. "I
can tell you we had hundreds of companies contacting 2XS."

Seven weeks of violence between Israelis and Palestinians has claimed at
least 256 lives, according to CNN, which counts the dead as 218
Palestinians, 25 Israeli Jews and 13 Israeli Arabs.

Groups supporting both sides of the conflict have brought it on line with
denial of service attacks, Web defacements and computer intrusions against
their opponents' networks. "It's wrong to take these kinds of things to
the Internet, because it involves a lot of companies that did nothing,"
says Tenebaum.

Israeli police searched Tenebaum's home, and detained Tenebaum, in March,
1998, while investigating what then-US Deputy Defence Secretary John
Hamre
called "the most organized and systematic attack to date" on US military
systems. The attacks exploited a well-known vulnerability in the Solaris
operating system, for which at that time a patch had been available for
months.

The raid was the culmination of an investigation code named "Solar
Sunrise," involving the FBI, the Air Force Office of Special
Investigations, NASA, the Department of Justice, the Defence Information
Systems Agency, the NSA, and the CIA. Two California teens were also
charged in the case; both later received probation.

"This arrest should send a message to would-be computer hackers all over
the world that the United States will treat computer intrusions as serious
crimes," US Attorney General Janet Reno said at the time. "We will work
around the world and in the depths of cyberspace to investigate and
prosecute those who attack computer networks."

After a brief stint in the military, Tenebaum was indicted under Israeli
computer crime laws in February 1999, and pleaded not guilty in September
of that year. The case has languished in the courts since then. "I would
prefer to have it finished soon," says Tenebaum. "This trial is keeping me
from doing a lot of stuff that I need to do in the business world."

=A9 2000 SecurityFocus.com. All rights reserved.

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Subject: [bprlist] Floating 'Smart Dust' May Be New Spy in the Sky
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:34:40 -0500

Floating 'Smart Dust' May Be New Spy in the Sky

By The San Francisco Chronicle
November 21, 2000

If Kristofer Pister has his way, we will never think about dust in quite
the same way again.

Pister is leading a team of researchers at the University of California at
Berkeley that is developing tiny, electronic devices called "smart dust,"
designed to capture mountains of information about their surroundings
while literally floating on air.

If the project is successful, clouds of smart dust could one day be used
in an astonishing array of applications, from following enemy troop
movements and hunting Scud missiles to detecting toxic chemicals in the
environment and monitoring weather patterns around the globe.

The idea behind smart dust is to pack sophisticated sensors, tiny
computers and wireless communicators onto minuscule "motes" of silicon
light enough to remain suspended in air for hours at a time. As the motes
drift on the wind, they can monitor the environment for light, sound,
temperature, chemical composition and a wide range of other information,
and beam that data back to a base station miles away.

Pister, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer
science at UC Berkeley, said he came up with the idea for smart dust eight
years ago at a conference on future technology. "I realized that sensors,
computers and communications were going to shrink down to ridiculously
small sizes," he said. "So why not package them into a single, tiny
device?"

Pister submitted a proposal to the federal Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency, a branch of the Defense Department, which agreed to
provide about $1.2 million over three years to fund the project.

Each mote of smart dust is composed of a number of microelectromechanical
systems, or MEMS, wired together to form a simple computer.

MEMS are made using the same photolithographic techniques used to make
computer chips. Once perfected, they are relatively easy and inexpensive
to mass-produce. But unlike computer chips, which are solid, MEMS contain
moving parts.

Patterns are etched with light into a silicon wafer to create structures
such as optical mirrors or tiny engines. Each mote contains a solar cell
to generate power, sensors that can be programmed to look for specific
information, a tiny computer that can store the information and sort out
which data is worth reporting, and a communicator that enables the mote to
be "interrogated" by the base unit.

Later versions may also contain a lilliputian lithium battery so the motes
can operate at night.

While much of the technology used to develop smart dust already exists,
the UC researchers are breaking new ground by integrating these systems
into remarkably small, self-powered packages.

"We are pushing the limits of miniaturization, integration and power
management," said Brett Warneke, a graduate student in electrical
engineering working on the project.

In one experiment to demonstrate the viability of the concept, researchers
deployed a golf ball-sized device on Twin Peaks in San Francisco that
measured weather conditions in the area - temperature, light, barometric
pressure and humidity - and beamed that information back to a base station
in Berkeley, more than 13 miles away.

So far, the smallest device the UC researchers have developed is 62 cubic
millimeters - about the size of a pea - but Pister expects to shrink the
devices to a nearly microscopic cubic millimeter by next summer. At that
scale, they would be truly like dust: small enough to remain suspended in
air, buoyed by the currents, sensing and communicating for hours.

One of the biggest hurdles the UC researchers face is building a mechanism
that can survive on extremely low power but is still capable of sensing,
sorting and sending vast amounts of information. For that reason, they
have designed a computer operating system called Tiny OS that can function
on a mere 512 bytes of RAM - about the amount of processing power found in
a toaster.

The UC researchers are also experimenting with an ingenious optical
communicator called a corner-cube reflector, which enables the motes to
communicate while expending virtually no energy.

Pioneered at the University of California at Los Angeles, the reflector is
essentially a tiny, hinged mirror that can flash millions of Morse
code-like signals per second. When a smart mote is illuminated by a laser
fired from the base station, the station can "read" the code reflected in
the twitching mirror. The mirror itself is powered by electrostatic
energy, the force that makes your socks cling together when they come out
of the dryer.

Smart dust devices are now capable of communicating only with a single
base station, but will eventually be able to share information with each
other. Such a system of "massively distributed intelligence" will vastly
increase their ability to organize and communicate information.

"They will be able to do things collectively that they can't do
individually, just like an ant colony," Warneke said. "An individual ant
isn't very smart, but collectively, they are very smart."

Researchers are exploring a number of methods for deploying smart dust.
One involves the use of tiny, unmanned aircraft that would spray motes
over an area like a miniature crop duster and relay the resulting
information back to a base station. MLB Co., a Palo Alto firm that
develops experimental aircraft, has already built such a plane - an 8-inch
radio-controlled aircraft equipped with a video camera that can stay aloft
for 18 minutes at a speed of 60 mph.

MLB's "micro air vehicle" could be useful in a battlefield situation where
low clouds impeded satellite surveillance. The tiny, unmanned plane could
soar undetected above the battlefield, disperse a swarm of smart dust and
begin relaying a stream of data about the movement of enemy troops and
equipment.

The UC researchers are also exploring ways to prolong the time smart dust
remains airborne by adding "wings" like those on maple seeds. A
cubic-millimeter-sized mote dropped at 30,000 feet would normally take
five hours to reach the ground. By attaching wings, the researchers hope
to extend that period two- or three-fold.

Other researchers are attaching tiny legs to the motes to create so-called
microbots or smart insects. Instead of wafting aimlessly through the air
like dust, microbots could be programmed to perform specific tasks, such
as crawling through a collapsed building to search for warm bodies.

"Smart dust is like the brain, and we're building the body," said Richard
Yeh, a graduate student researcher specializing in microrobotics who is
working on the smart dust project.

Yeh and his colleagues have already developed the basic components of a
smart insect - tiny, jointed members, which function as legs, and
minuscule motors, the equivalent of muscles. All that remains is to
connect the components to a mote of smart dust, a step Yeh expects to
accomplish within weeks.

Although the smart dust research is supported by the Defense Department,
its proponents see many nonmilitary applications for it, many for motes
that would stay in one place.

CRUNCHLESS CAP'N CRUNCH

They could be used to detect fires and earthquakes, tailor the climate in
office buildings to suit the preferences of individual workers, and
monitor product quality from factory to consumer (a mote of smart dust
could tell, for example, if a box of Cap'n Crunch had been exposed to high
humidity, and lost its crunch, or if a crate filled with delicate
electronic components had been dropped).

Like many other new technologies, smart dust clearly has the potential to
be used for nefarious purposes. Foreign governments (or our own),
terrorist organizations, criminals and industrial spies could use
high-tech motes to spy.

"This is a technology of total surveillance," said Richard Sclove, founder
of the Loka Institute, a nonprofit organization in Amherst, Mass., that
studies the social implications of technology.

"I have no doubt that there will be plenty of benign and wonderful
applications of this technology, but it's easier to imagine the lousy
ones. The CIA and the National Security Administration would love to get
their hands on this, and there's no way to control what they do with it."

While Pister acknowledges the possibility that smart dust could be
misused, he says the potential benefits of the technology "far, far
outweigh" any risks.

"You can find harmful effects in everything," added Yeh. "But the threat
is small. If a rogue state wanted to use them to spy on us, they could do
it, but not much more. They probably couldn't carry enough poison or gas
to do much damage."

The specter of millions, or even billions, of electronic motes drifting
around the globe has also raised concerns about the potential ill effects
on the environment and health.

But Pister dismissed such concerns. "Even in my wildest imagination, I
don't think we'll ever produce enough smart dust to bother anyone," he
said. "Most of these materials are not environmentally harmful.
Essentially they are made out of sand, and that's not toxic."

Potentially, the most dangerous element of a smart dust mote would be the
lithium battery, Pister says, but its minuscule size would pose little
risk.

"A small town throws away more batteries per year than we can distribute
across the entire universe," he said. "It's really a question of
trade-offs. If you can sprinkle a few ounces of battery over a rain forest
and thereby get a better understanding of the ecology, that's a trade-off
worth making."

And what if someone accidentally inhaled a mote of smart dust? "If by ill
chance you did inhale one, it would be like inhaling a gnat. You'd cough
it up post-haste. Unpleasant, but not very likely."

(c) 2000 The San Francisco Chronicle

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Subject: [bprlist] US slams 'white paper' against PA
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:34:41 -0500

Ha'aretz (and IMRA note on the importance of the white paper and its
distribution): U.S. slams 'white paper' against PA

By Aluf Benn Ha'aretz 22 November 2000

[IMRA note: A small number of copies of the 'white paper' were made
available to the press. There is no indication on the document as to who
produced it or that it is a government publication. The document was NOT
distributed electronically by the regular channels of the government nor
does it appear on the website of the Foreign Ministry or Prime Minister's
Office.

Yesterday IMRA asked the Foreign Ministry, Prime Minister's Office, Press
Office and Nachman Shai's office to make available the Word file version
of the document for distribution.

IMRA learned that Danny Yatom of the Prime Minister's Office had the file.

IMRA advised Yatom through the Prime Minister's Spokesman's Office that
IMRA already had a hard copy of the report and was going to distribute it
via Internet by the end of the day. IMRA asked that Yatom save it the
expense of converting the document and provide the computer file. Two
hours later the Prime Minister's Office replied that Yatom would not make
the file available. Six hours after that IMRA distributed the complete
text via Internet and placed it on the IMRA website www.imra.org.il.

While the document certainly raises serious questions regarding the
failure of the various Israeli Governments to come to grips with
Palestinian violations, it also has the potential to seriously damage the
US State Department for providing a series of false reports to the Senate
regarding Palestinian compliance. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee
will certainly be interested in finding out how the U.S. Government lied
to the Senate (the compliance reports were required by law).]

++++++

Senior U.S. officials yesterday sharply criticized a "white paper" released by
the Israeli government on Monday, which contains a series of accusations
against the Palestinian Authority and its chairman, Yasser Arafat. In private
discussions with Israeli counterparts, the U.S. officials said that the
document's main message is highly problematic. After perusing the White
Paper, "it's hard to be persuaded that Israel remains interested in engaging
the peace process with the Palestinians," they said. Meeting yesterday with
U.S. businessman and peace activist Danny Abrams, Barak indicated that
while it would be good to return to peace negotiations when Bill Clinton
remains in the Oval Office, the current level of violence must first subside.

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Subject: [bprlist] PA offshore oil rights challenged in court
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:34:41 -0500

Ha'aretz: PA offshore oil rights challenged in court

By Amiram Cohen Ha'aretz 22 November 2000

The Palestinian Authority is an autonomy, not a state and cannot, under
international law, issue licenses for oil and gas exploration off the Gaza
shore, Prof. Yoram Dinstein wrote in an opinion submitted to the High
Court of Justice.

It is part of a petition the Yam Thetis drilling consortium filed against
Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Dr. Yehezkel Drukman, who is in charge of
oil exploration at the National Infrastructure Ministry. The petition will
be heard today.

Dinstein writes that under international law, Israel alone may issue such
licenses and the state has not assigned any rights to the PA in its
territorial waters. Israel will have title over these rights until a
permanent agreement is signed with the PA.

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Subject: [bprlist] Daily World Affairs Report items (11/21/00)
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:34:41 -0500

A FAMILY'S TIME IN GERMANY RUNS OUT

The girl was pale and green-eyed, with blond hair to her shoulders. Now 12,
she had arrived in Germany from Kosovo almost 2 years ago; her German
was near perfect. At home in her adoptive land, she seemed a model
immigrant, bright and integrated. But Lumturije Bytyqi was expelled from
Germany on Monday along with her two brothers, 15 and 9, and her
parents. Earlier, they were told to gather outside their Munich asylum-
seekers' home for transport to the airport, where a special flight to Prist ina,
Kosovo's capital, would await the family and others like them.

For the German authorities, it was a clear-cut case. The Bytyqi family, lik e
about 160,000 other Kosovo Albanians, was admitted to Germany as a
refugee family because of persecution and a war; the war is now over, so
the Kosovars must return home. "Legal alternatives are exhausted," said
Stefanie Weber, a Bavarian Interior Ministry official. "They must go."
Deportation has become a nonword in German since Hitler, and no official
here would ever use the term "deportieren." But departures, forced or not,
have been proceeding briskly in the southern state of Bavaria, where about
22,000 Kosovo Albanians remained at the start of the year.

Of these, 16,000 have now left, said Hermann Weishaupt, an official
dealing with foreigners. About 12,000 flew out "voluntarily," another 3,000
chose freely to go overland, and 1,000 were "sent back." This drastic
measure, and the linguistic contortions dictated by history that surrounds it,
illustrates the highly charged nature of an intensifying debate about
immigration in Germany, the European country with the largest population
and, at 7mn, the largest number of foreigners.

As elsewhere in Europe, that debate centers on whether foreigners like the
Bytyqis should be allowed to stay and, if so, how much they should adapt to
the local culture. The discussion goes deeper: Should Germany, where
nationhood has long been associated with bloodlines and where it was more
traditional to emigrate than to integrate strangers, view itself as a "land  of
immigration" at all? These questions reflect what is now the fundamental
divide in many European countries, accentuated in Germany both by its past
and by the size of the foreign minority.

On one side stands a resurgent band of patriots angered by what they see
as the dilution of German national identity through an influx of foreigners ;
on the other are the German "Europeans" forged by postwar culture who
say the German nation-state died with Hitler and the only future for the
country is as a multicultural unit of the European Union.

This month, Bavaria's dominant CSU made its position clear. "Germany is
not a classical country of immigration and must not be in the future," it
stated. The party added that any foreigner in Germany must adapt to a
"leitkultur," or guiding culture, which it defined as having a "European
Western foundation of values rooted in Christianity, the Enlightenment and
humanism."

Given that the more than 2mn Turks in Germany are Muslims, as are most
Kosovars (though few of them are very religious), the reference to a
Western and Christian guiding culture was provocative. But similar
language has been used recently by several CDU politicians. Laurenz
Meyer declared this month: "I am proud to be a German" - the exact
language used on many badges of far-right parties.

Danijela Karic, the daughter of immigrants who came to Germany from
Yugoslavia in the 1960s under the country's former gastarbeiter, or guest
worker, program, now works for the Interior Ministry in Bavaria, the most
conservative and Roman Catholic of Germany's states.She has no doubts
about her current mission to send Kosovo Albanians home.

"You cannot compare the reasons why people like my parents came and
why those now here from Kosovo came. My father came as a guest
worker, with the idea that he would work for a few years and then go back.
But he had the will to stay and the readiness to learn the language and
accept the ground rules of German society. The Kosovars are not working,
the war is over, and German society is supporting them." Mr. Weishaupt of
the Bavarian Interior Ministry put the cost to the German taxpayer at about
$450 a month per immigrant. (Int'l Herald Tribune)

TALKS TO WIDEN E.U. FORCE

EU defence ministers are holding talks to try to spread the net of the new
Rapid Reaction Force as widely as possible across the continent. They are
meeting their counterparts from non-EU countries such as Poland on
Tuesday to try to get them involved. The EU's 15 member-states agreed on
Monday to create a new force involving 100,000 troops, planes and ships.
The UK will provide 1 in 5 of the troops for the new force. But several
senior military men - and some politicians - have come out against the idea .
General Sir Peter de la Billiere, a former commander in the Gulf War,
argues that the new force undermines Britain's role within NATO. (BBC)

PHANTOM ARMY: AN UNWARRANTED RISK WITH EUROPEAN
SECURITY

The EU was created to turn swords into ploughshares. Yesterday, EU
defence ministers gathered in Brussels to whet the blade of its shining new
sword. The EU is to have its own Rapid Reaction Force, capable by 2003
of deploying 60,000 troops within a 4,200-kilometre range and of keeping
them in the field for a year without relying on American participation.
Yesterday the 15 countries placed 100,000 troops, 400 combat aircraft and
100 warships at the EU=92s disposal =97 more than enough, on paper, to make
the EU a significant military power.

The EU=92s decision to create its own 100-strong military staff committee
inevitably, and whatever Robin Cook or Geoff Hoon may say to the
contrary, marks the end of NATO's decision-making monopoly on
collective defence in Europe. Since that is what the world =97 Russia and
the US Congress included =97 will conclude, the EU=92s assumption of a
formal military role is a major and disturbing political event.

Yet this is also a paper army; not a single new military unit is to be crea ted.
Britain, for example, has undertaken to field a force of 12,500 troops, 18
warships and 72 aircraft, backed by combat support elements such as
artillery, attack helicopters and logistic units for an EU operation. The
Government=92s pledge to sustain deployment for at least a year will, with
rotation, tie up as many troops again. That would tie up the greater part o f
Britain=92s elite combat units; but these same military assets are already
committed to NATO =97 and some are also earmarked for UN
peacekeeping.

NATO, British ministers insist, would always have first call; but plainly,
these forces cannot be in 3 places at once. The EU insists that it intends to
avoid =93duplication=94 with NATO; but a gaping hole in NATO=92s capabiliti es is
at least as great a risk; NATO could find itself calling on troops that wer e
unavailable because they were already deployed on an EU mission. It is
thus extremely disturbing that the EU has gone ahead when the all-
important question of its precise relationship to NATO is still the subject  of
what are, unsurprisingly, proving to be difficult negotiations.

Such impatience to so little purpose would have been unwise at any time; to
jump the gun now, between US Administrations and when there is talk in
Washington of a =93division of labour=94 by which the US would leave the
Europeans to take care of their own security, is unbelievably myopic. As
Alexander Vershbow, the US ambassador to NATO, has politely but
pointedly observed, a European defence policy will be welcome if it adds to
NATO=92s capabilities but =93done poorly, this process can divide the
transatlantic alliance, lead to decreased US engagement in European
security matters and diminish European capacity to manage crises=94.

This dubious enterprise has long shed its origins in the mid-1980s, when a
stronger EU input to NATO was intended to address US complaints about
unfair burden-sharing in NATO. There are arguments for closer defence
co-operation, particularly in procurement; Europeans get lamentably poor
value from their defence budgets. There are minor military tasks which
Europeans should be able to undertake without the US. But this grand
design is more likely to siphon off NATO assets than to add to them.

Yesterday the EU spoke airily of relying on NATO defence planning
mechanisms, almost as though NATO were a convenience store where it
can =93buy in=94 US technical and logistical assets. Were the US to put thi s
rhetoric to the test, the EU would fail miserably. Tony Blair has departed
from Britain=92s constant position that nothing must undermine NATO. He
has taken a leading role in creating this phantom army =97 not out of
conviction, but for a mess of political pottage. He has weakened Britain=92 s
credibility in Washington; he may find that he has weakened NATO too.
He started out deeply suspicious of this venture. His original instincts we re
correct. (The London Times - Editorial)

KURSK: "FOREIGN SUB SENT S.O.S."

A senior Russian commander says SOS signals from a foreign submarine
were recorded at the time its own nuclear vessel, the Kursk, was sinking in
the Barents Sea in August. In a newspaper interview, the commander of
the Northern Fleet, Vyacheslav Popov, said the signals had been picked up
by the Russian cruiser, Peter the Great. "Further spectral analysis made by
the Northern Fleet laboratory showed that the signal belonged to a foreign
submarine in the area," he said. Admiral Popov told the Nezavisimaya
Gazeta said this reinforced the possibility that the Kursk sank after a
collision with a foreign vessel. That is the Russian authorities' preferred
explanation for the disaster. (BBC)

HARD TIMES AHEAD

It is possible to celebrate the epilogue to the US's presidential election as a
triumph of American democracy in which every vote counts, and every
ballot is counted with civic gravity as the law demands. But the more time
passes, and the more the courts become involved in a matter that is being
corroded by the bile of party conflict and dubious attempts to alter the
outcome, the more difficult it will be for the new president to dispel doub ts
about his legitimacy.

Equality and fairness, the values that Democrat Al Gore claims to care
about here, sound great as basic values. But what is happening in Florida
during the hand count invites all kinds of allegations. It would be
unprecedented if the detective skills of electoral assistants in determinin g
voting intentions tipped the balance in favor of the next president. Be it Mr.
Gore or George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. president faces hard times ahead.
The losing party will mobilize its troops in Congress for a proxy war in
whose din the voices of bipartisan cooperation will be drowned out. The
danger is growing daily, week by week, that the next 2 years will have to b e
written off as a dead loss. (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Opinion)

MICHAEL TURNER
(mykelturner@airmail.net)

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Subject: [bprlist] Business in Israeli Arab sector has fallen 50%
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:34:41 -0500

Ha'aretz: Business activity in the Israeli Arab sector has fallen 50
percent since the outbreak of violence

By Avi Shmoul a'aretz Correspondent Ha'aretz 22 November 2000

Business activity in the Israeli Arab sector has fallen 50 percent since
the outbreak of violence, reported heads of the Arab business sector
during a meeting with the Manufacturers Association yesterday. The Arab
representatives told Oded Tira, president of the association, that
restaurants remained empty and that many feared to trade in the Arab
sector.

One representative reported that his factory was not affected directly by
the situation, but indirectly through the domino effect. The situation has
brought the construction business down drastically, "more than 50 percent"
said the representative, and this has had its knock-on effect on other
related industries.

One cement producer in the Arab sector complained that Jewish customers
were frightened to enter the area, "something that has not happened since
the establishment of the state." He reported that his cement outlets in
Nazareth, Arraba and Shefar'am had felt the effect, losing up to 25
percent of their usual business. Druze areas were even worse hit, he said.
The Central Bureau of Statistics could not fully reflect the full extent
of the damage, he claimed, as many Arab women are too embarrassed to
report to the unemployment offices.

Tira is a member of a special panel set up to find or create several
thousand new jobs in the Arab sector. The panel is exploring the
establishment of three or four new industrial zones near Arab towns, and a
team has been set up to investigate potential sites. Out of the 23 worst
hit unemployment sites in Israel, 18 are in the Arab and Bedouin sectors.

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Subject: [bprlist] Air Force Buys IBM Supercomputer to Identify UFOs
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:34:41 -0500

Wednesday November 22 12:03 AM ET

Air Force Buys IBM Supercomputer to Identify UFOs

NEW YORK (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM -
news) said on Wednesday it sold the U.S. Air Force a supercomputer to help
it to identify unidentified flying objects.

The Air Force's Space Surveillance Team, based in Maui, Hawaii, will use
the supercomputer to hunt outer space for old satellites, foreign
spacecraft, and other UFOs that may be hurtling toward Earth, IBM said.

The IBM system will be used to detect and identify some 9000 objects
currently flying around in Earth's orbit. The computer can process 480
billion calculations per second -- making it about 40 times faster than
the IBM ``Deep Blue'' supercomputer that defeated chess champion Garry
Kasparov in 1997.

That processing capability will be used to improve blurry telescopic
images of space objects, allowing Defense Department military officials to
identify the object.

The new supercomputer was part of a $10 million system upgrade, IBM said.

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Subject: [bprlist] Hitler's Lake
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:42:53 -0500

                    Hitler's Lake
After 55 Years, Nazi Secrets Discovered In Austrian Lake
Counterfeit Money Created To Crash British, American Economies

LAKE TOPLITZ, Austria, Nov. 21, 2000 (CBS) Imagine a lake more
mysterious than Loch Ness - a lake that hides a secret no one was meant to
discover. There is such a place high up in the Austrian Alps. It is a lake
called Toplitz.

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Subject: [bprlist] America's Problem is not Al Gore
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:27:34 -0500

------- Forwarded message follows -------

From: Chuck Baldwin Live
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 2:53 AM
To: chuckwagon@chuckbaldwinlive.com
Subject: Chuck Baldwin's Nov. 21 Column

America's Problem is not Al Gore
November 21, 2000

Something very important is being totally overlooked in all this election brouhaha. Overlooked are the great principles upon which our nation was founded. Even Benjamin Franklin (one of the least spiritual of the Founding Fathers) understood that "God governs in the affairs of men." Likewise, Patrick Henry, in his famous "Give me liberty, or give me death" speech said, "An appeal to . the God of Hosts is all that is left us!" He continued by saying, "[W] e shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations.."

In his first inaugural address, George Washington said much the same thing by stating, "No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States." The writings of the Founding Fathers are replete with such statements. These men really believed that they had but one duty: to stand for truth and freedom and to trust their cause to God. John Quincy Adams said it as succinctly as possible. He said, "Duty is ours; results are God's." This seems to be lost to most Americans today.

As I have said before, the election of Bill Clinton in 1992 signaled that America was willing to repudiate our nation's Godly heritage and turn its back on the fundamental principles of faith and morality. It was the popularconsent to the three infamous Supreme Court decisions in 1962, '63 and '73. And what did Christian America do? Did we fall prostrate before God in humility and in contrition? No. Did we fill the church prayer meetings? No.Did we follow the Biblical injunction to repent of our sins and seek the face of God? No.

Instead, we put our faith and trust in a political party. We declared the Republican Party to be our only hope and our ultimate salvation. Then when the party retreated from its promises and compromised our principles, we remained loyal and steadfast supporters. When the party turned a blind eye to communist infiltration and bribery of the Executive Branch of government, we continued to give it our approbation. As the party collaborated with socialists to increase federal spending at a rate not seen since Jimmy Carter and "Tip" O'Neil, we refused to stand and be counted. Even as the party's leadership tenaciously refused to remove a serial rapist from the White House, we continued to give them our undivided loyalty.

Conservatives became obsessed with putting a Republican in the Oval Office -no matter what! Nothing else mattered. Instead of holding our party accountable to the same standards of truth and integrity that we demanded of the other party, we elevated "the lesser of two evils" to sacred mantra status.

We sat still while Republicans allowed Clinton and his cronies to steal our nation's decency, rape our country's conscience and make a mockery of American justice. It was worth it, we thought, if it would help elect a Republican to the White House in 2000.

The truth is, Clinton's first election should have awakened us. It didn't. The impeachment debacle should have awakened us. It didn't. Now God is trying to get our attention one more time. Will the theft of this election awaken us? We shall see. In the mean time, the chickens are coming home to roost.

Christian America must wake up to the fact that our problem is not Al Gore; it is our own compromise and our own cowardice. Likewise, the solution is not electing a Republican to the White House; it is elevating God to His rightful place in our hearts, in our homes and in our society. It is not a political party that is going to save this nation. Liberty and national blessing are the gifts of God. They are given to those who are willing to stand and fight for the same sacred principles that our founders held so dear. Blaming third party candidates won't get the job done, either. The future of this republic rests not with George Bush and the Republican Party, but with each and every one of us being willing to hold ourselves, and those we elect, accountable to those same immutable laws.

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Subject: [bprlist] Europe's last "pagans".
From: Shophar_Sho_Good
Date: 22 Nov 00 12:34:18 EST

Foreign - Tuesday 21.11.2000

Perkele is a Lithuanian god

http://www.helsinki-hs.net/news.asp?id=3D20001121IE9&pvm=3D20001121

Ancient beliefs are still commonplace among the Balts
By Jukka Rislakki in Vilnius

The Lithuanians were Europe's last "pagans". Today they may seem quite arde nt
and conservative Catholics at first glance, but that impression can be
deceptive.

The Pope gave the order for the Livonian Crusade in the year 1199. German
knights and monks took the black cross to the Baltic States, aided by fire and
sword.

A chaotic, long and bloody war began, with the Teutonic Knights and their
allies forcing the Baltic tribes to their knees. Entire cultures were
destroyed. Baptised Balts repeatedly attempted to wash away the baptism in
their sacred springs and rivers.

The Germans were unable to conquer Lithuania. In the largest battle of the
Middle Ages in Tannenberg in 1410, the Lithuanians and Poles defeated them.
The Lithuanians were converted from within: their own kings decided to embr ace
Christianity.

Nowhere else in Europe have so many heathen rituals been preserved in every day
life and annual festivities than in the Baltic States.

We are currently experiencing the autumn celebration for spirits of the
deceased - velines in Lithuania, velu laiks in Latvia, and hingedep=E4ev in
Estonia. Relatives who have passed away are remembered, discussions are hel d
with them and they are prayed for. According to old beliefs, the family is
made up of both the living and the departed.

"The belief is similar to Japanese Shintoism", explains Gintaras Beresnevic ius
, a scientist studying religions. "The Catholic Church tries not to notice
this festival." Many Catholics now consider the tradition to be Christian.
Even the church has included the pagan velines in its calendar of official
holidays.

"In Lithuania, only the facade is Catholic", Beresnevicius maintains. "Pare nts
baptise their children out of habit, but they seldom actually go to church. "
Ten percent of the population are active churchgoers. Lithuania also lacks a
significant Christian political party.

One of the principal gods of ancient Lithuanians was Perkunas (Perkons in
Latvia), the god of thunder, fire, and warriors. The name is the same as th e
Finnish perkele - one of the many colourful expressions for the devil, and a
sign of the close ties between ancient Balts and Finno-Ugrian peoples.

Though Perkunas is a positive character, his name is also used for swearing :
"May Perkunas strike you down!"

The "high priest of pagans" in Lithuania is sociologist Jonas Trinkunas,
departmental head at the Ministry of Culture. "Officially we have no high
priest, but I suppose my position could be described as such." Trinkunas
claims he does not know if he has been baptised. His birth in 1939 was
followed by chaotic times, and his father died in the war.

His movement is called Romuva. The most significant sacred site of ancient
Balts, Romuva, was located in the territory of a Prussian tribe. The German s
were first to vanquish the Prussians.

In Latvia, the corresponding movement is called Dievturiiba and in Estonia,
the Taara-believers. The topic is written about and discussed in all three
countries, and a rock opera that tells the story of the events 800 years ag o
has premiered in Riga.

"A book has been published in Lithuania that contains pictures and informat ion
on one thousand sacred sites located in our country. They are stones, trees ,
springs and hills, and the knowledge of them has been passed on among the
people up until our times. Most of them still hold a religious meaning",
illustrates Trinkunas.

The Christians often claimed these sites and built their own churches on th e
sacred grounds of the pagans. There are many examples of syncretism: the
Virgin Mary has lived in perfect harmony with the Baltic gods. Hanging
crucifixes outside has also been a partly pagan tradition.

Romuva boasts some 300 active members. In the summer months the movement
organises camps that draw young people even from outside the Baltic region.  At
camp, beer and black bread are sacrificed to the gods and an "eternal fire"  is
lit.

The authorities have - ironically - registered Romuva as a "non-traditional
religion". It receives no monetary support from the government and cannot b e
taught at schools.

Romuva was permitted in the Soviet times from 1967 to 1971, and even
well-known politicians participated in the movement. After it was forbidden
their activities were channelled through musical groups that performed anci ent
song and dance. The groups still function today.

"The Soviets felt we were nationalists", Trinkunas explains. "And we were j ust
that", confirms his wife.
Now the neo-pagans are no longer nationalists, proof for which is the fact
that they worship Baltic, not Lithuanian, gods.

There are many gods (dievas), and among them several female ones, for examp le
Laima, goddess of destiny. Velnias, god of the deceased, lives underground.  He
is actually the devil, but he is not as negative a character as the Christi an
devil.

One extraordinary Lithuanian trait is the worship of snakes. In rural villa ges
snakes were kept inside as pets and no-one would have thought of killing th em.
The word for snake is derived from the same roots as the word for life.

Christianity came to the Baltic region centuries later than to the rest of
Europe. When did Lithuanians actually become Christians?

Trikunas says that paganism continued officially up until the early 15th
century, at which point the last tribe was said to be converted. "But
unofficially, we are actually still pagans", he smiles.

The Inquisition condemned heathen leaders, but the old religion lived on am ong
the peasants, even though the gentry forced the people to go to church.
"Church records show that there were organised pagan groups in Lithuania ev en
in the late 18th century, that practised their rituals secretly in the
forests."

Helsingin Sanomat / First published in print 14.11.2000
Romuva has an excellent website in both Lithuanian and English, which expla ins
in some detail the roots of the Baltic spiritual tradition, and how it
resurfaced a century or so ago.

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Subject: [bprlist] Hadera bus blast
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:34:55 -0500

**FLASH** Bus blast in Hadera (NOV.22 =96 17:35-IST)

     (IsraelWire-11/22) In the midst of the evening rush hour, a bomb seems
     to have blown up inside a bus traveling in Hadera. Initial reports fro m the
     scene appear the blast was very powerful and there are many injured at
     the scene.

IsraelWire will provide additional details as they are made available.

http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/israelwire/articles/980001.htm

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Hadera bus blast at about 5:20pm local time (NOV.22
     =9617:40-IST)

     (IsraelWire-11/22) Initial reports from EMS officials indicate over tw enty
     persons were injured in a powerful explosion on a local Hadera bus whi ch
     occurred at about 5:20pm local time. Police are uncertain at this time  but
     have indicated the blast may have been the result of a car bomb parked  in
     the area.

     According to senior Magen David Adom emergency medical service
     paramedic Doron Kotler, tens of ambulances are responding to area of 3 5
     HaNasi Street in Hadera. The bus destroyed in the blast was a local
     number 7 line that travels to and from Givat Olga and Hadera, a line t hat is
     generally full at this time of the day.

     The blast comes at a time when many residents are returning home from
     work and school. Police are calling upon the general public to stay aw ay
     from the area as emergency vehicles fight to make their way to the
scene.

     As was the case in past major attacks, the cellular telephone systems in
     the area have already collapsed from the immense call volume. Persons
     are seen on the scene running and screaming for assistance as
emergency
     responders and police continue to make their way to the blast area.

     Area hospitals and trauma centers have been placed on high alert and
staff
     are reporting to respective emergency rooms to standby.

     IsraelWire will provide additional details as they are made available.

http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/israelwire/articles/981001.htm

----------------

Hadera blast appears to be a car bomb (NOV.22 =96
     17:53-IST)

     (IsraelWire-11/22) Police bomb-demolition experts are working at a
     feverish pace to inspect area vehicles, fearing additional devices may  have
     been planted in the area to detonate while rescue workers are operatin g at
     the area.

     There are unconfirmed reports of over twenty injured and at least one
     fatality. Some of the blast victims have been transported to the Hille l Yaffe
     Hospital in Hadera.

     IsraelWire will provide additional details as they are made available.

http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/israelwire/articles/982001.htm

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     Hadera bombing update (NOV.22 =96 18:07-IST)

     (IsraelWire-11/22) Dr. Meir Oren, the director of Hillel Yaffe Hospita l in
     Hadera, is reporting at least five blast victims that have arrived in the
     emergency department are in serious condition.

     Eyewitnesses stated the car bomb exploded and the bus was lifted into the
     air, landing inside a store. Persons were instantly heard screaming an d
     moaning on the scene as shards of glass pierced the skin of many
     passengers and passersby. At this time, one can witness the horrific s ite,
     with many persons frozen in their footsteps as their stare at the carn age
     and destruction.

     EMS and police officials are still sifting through the remains of a nu mber 7
     buses while bomb-demolition experts comb the area for additional
     explosive devices.

     The blast was detonated at 5:20pm, a time when the bus which services
     the Kiryat Olga-Hadera line was full of persons returning home from
     work. The blast was detonated on Yehuda HaNasi Street, a major street
     in the city of Hadera.

     Over twenty persons have been injured, many seriously, and
     ISRAELWIRE has unconfirmed reports of at least four fatalities.

http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/israelwire/articles/984001.htm

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     Over 25 injured (NOV.22 =96 18:22-IST)

     (IsraelWire-11/22) Police at this time do not know what mechanism was
     used to detonate the deadly blast that has injured at least twenty-fiv e
     persons and appears to have killed at least four.

     Prime Minister/Defense Minister Ehud Barak was meeting with the Prime
     Minister of Turkey when he was notified of the blast which occurred at
     about 5:20pm local time. Israel Radio reports that Mr. Barak has place d
     the blame for the =93barbaric=94 attack directly on the PLO Authority (PA).

     According to Dr. Meir Oren of Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera, over 25
     blast victims have arrived in the emergency department. Two have been
     pronounced dead on arrival, four are listed in very serious condition with
     head, thorax, and abdominal injuries. At this time, helicopters are en  route
     to transport the more seriously injured to the trauma center of Haifa =92s
     Rambam Medical Center.

     The emergency information number is 06-634-1141.

     IsraelWire will provide additional details as they are made available.

http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/israelwire/articles/985001.htm

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     Update on blast victims (NOV.22 =96 18:53-IST)

     (IsraelWire-11/22) The following information was furnished moments ago
     by the director of Hadera=92s Hillel Yaffe Hospital, Dr. Meir Oren.

     1. Thirty-two (32) victims of the blast were transported to the emerge ncy
     department.

     2. Two (2) persons have been confirmed dead. (At this time, it remains
     unknown if there was a suicide bomber, and if so, if the bomber=92s bo dy is
     among the dead).

     3. One (1) very serious head injury patient was taken by helicopter to  the
     trauma center of Haifa=92s Rambam Hospital.

     4. Three (3) seriously injured patients are currently undergoing emerg ency
     surgery in Hillel Yaffe.

     5. Three (3) victims are listed in moderate-to-serious condition and a re
     undergoing first stages of treatment.

     6. The remainder of the victims are either injured less seriously and/ or
     being triaged/treated at this time.

     Dr. Oren pointed out that as he was giving this report, additional vic tims of
     the blast are still arriving.

     RAMBAM HOSPITAL

     According to Dr. Tzvi Ben-Yishai, the deputy director of the medical
     center, the serious head injury patient is being accepted at the hospi tal=92s
     heliport at this time and in a matter of minutes will be in the crash room
     where the persons condition will be evaluated.

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Subject: [bprlist] 'We're Trying to Change World History.'
From: Shophar_Sho_Good
Date: 22 Nov 00 12:36:12 EST

 
'We're Trying to Change World History.'

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/40/wf_swing.html

It sounds corny, but it's true: Bishop William Swing is a man on a mission.
His goal? To change the relationships among the world's religions, from
hostility to harmony.

by Chuck Salter
photographs by Robbie McClaran
from FC issue 40, page 230

William Edwin Swing, 64
Bishop
Episcopal Diocese of California
San Francisco, California

It isn't as unusual as it sounds: The Episcopal Bishop of California traveled
all the way to Wisconsin to address a group of high-school students.
Regardless of the audience, be it fellow clergy, interfaith groups, venture
capitalists, Rotarians, or curious teenagers, William Edwin Swing rarely turns
down an invitation to share his vision for groundbreaking cooperation among
the world's religions. His grassroots campaign is relatively young, with more
seeds to plant and more souls to stir. He can't predict if the reaction will
be favorable, but he can usually count on this: It will be impassioned.

Wisconsin didn't disappoint. Following Swing's talk on the United Religions
Initiative ( URI ), an international interfaith network inspired by the United
Nations, one of the students chased down the bishop as he was leaving for the
airport. "My father thinks you're the Antichrist," the boy said.

"Well, what do you think?" Swing asked.

The student said that he didn't agree, even though his father was an Episcopal
priest.

"Well, good."

"I just think you're nuts."

A "head case." A "heretic." An "egomaniac." During the seven years since Swing
began pursuing his vision of religious unity worldwide, he's heard his share
of insults and accusations. Of course, it helps that he receives encouragement
too. Numerous interfaith groups, as well as luminaries like Nobel Peace
Prize-winner Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama, have embraced his ideas.
Naturally, his supporters call him names at the other end of the spectrum,
praising him as a "visionary," an "inspiration," and a "devout servant."

After 21 years of overseeing the diocese of California, which once included
the entire state but now covers only the Bay Area, Swing, 64, is not only one
of the longest-serving and most-respected Episcopal bishops in the country, he
is also one of the more outspoken. During the early days of the AIDS epidemic,
he says he was the first bishop to speak publicly on behalf of victims and the
first to organize a conference exploring how the church could support those
victims. ( Conservatives called him the Antichrist then too. ) So as Swing set
out on a new cause to unite the religions of the world, religious and
interfaith communities took notice.

In a sense, he's an unassuming activist, a man whose gentle ways belie
passionate beliefs. He doesn't raise his voice, fidget, or rush his thoughts.
He lingers in the moment, never glancing at his watch -- because he doesn't
wear one. He has a quick wit that he doesn't show off, and he has an 8
handicap that he doesn't brag about. ( If you press him, however, he will tell
you about the time that he shot a hole-in-one in the Pebble Beach National
ProAm. ) He looks like the last person who'd want to shake things up. And yet
he's very much a change agent in a field that seems impervious to change. It
sounds corny, but it's true: He's a man on a mission.

As far as he can tell, there's never been a group quite like the URI -- a
global, grassroots religious network. Unlike interfaith organizations that
only admit the most well-established religions, the URI includes every
spiritual expression on the planet. Unlike groups that meet just once a year
and whose members rarely interact, the URI develops an ongoing conversation
among its interfaith members through steady email and frequent small-group
gatherings.

It's no great mystery why such an organization never has existed before, Swing
says. Since 1893, when the idea for an international interfaith body was first
broached at a meeting of the World's Parliament of Religion, a dozen similar
attempts have failed to get beyond the proposal stage. No matter how many
times that religious leaders have expressed support for meaningful
cooperation, they've been unable to overcome profound theological differences
or deeply conflicting opinions about how to run such an unusual assembly. Too
many divisive questions tripped them up. How can religions that feel
threatened by the existence of other faiths sit at the same table as people
who represent those faiths? Who gets to join -- and who doesn't get to? How do
members agree on anything when they disagree on so much? Who's in charge?

Swing still is figuring out many of the answers, but he believes that the URI
will succeed where others have failed largely because of how he and his
colleagues are building it. A radically new group needed radically new
thinking, so they sought solutions outside religious circles. "Religions know
a great deal about competition, but they don't know much about cooperation,"
Swing says. "If it were left up to religions, they wouldn't get together. They
would keep right on doing their own thing. It's like Albert Einstein said:
'Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.'
You have to rise above them to the next level."

The bishop found that "next level" of ideas in the business world: in the
ideas of David Cooperrider, 46, an associate business-school professor at Case
Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and of Dee Hock, 71, the founder of
Visa and a world-renowned organizational-design guru. Cooperrider helped
participants at the URI's early gatherings avoid inflammatory dogma and
endless debate, and instead helped them engage in constructive dialogue. Hock
convinced Swing and the design team to abandon hierarchical thinking in favor
of a flat organization with an evolving architecture.

Consequently, Swing doesn't run the URI. Neither does anyone else at the top
-- because there is no top, per se. There is no centralized authority. The
people who join the URI organize themselves into "cooperation circles" and
then decide how best to serve the group's overarching purposes of promoting
daily interfaith cooperation, of ending religious violence, and of creating
"cultures of peace, justice, and healing for the earth and for all living
beings."

The results? Swing's vision is becoming a reality, even though that reality
bears little resemblance to the United Nations model that he originally had in
mind. In June, after several years of networking, fund-raising, designing, and
redesigning, the bishop addressed more than 275 people -- Buddhists,
Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Sikhs, among others -- who came from five
continents to participate in a charter signing, the group's official kickoff.
The site was Pittsburgh, for symbolic reasons: That city has more bridges than
any other city in the United States -- and the URI is devoted to building
bridges across spiritual boundaries.

Swing also points with pride to the 72 Hours Project, which was carried out at
the beginning of the year. In its first global peace-building effort, the URI
invited religious communities around the world to perform an interfaith
activity focused on peace during the 72 hours from December 31, 1999 to
January 2, 2000. More than 400 communities in 60 countries conducted peace
marches, prayer vigils, and interfaith services on Australian hilltops, in Sri
Lankan villages, and in California prisons. Afterward, local organizers
emailed descriptions of what they'd done to the URI's San Francisco office.
Many of the missives sounded like those of the Reverend James Channan, OP, who
coordinated a 1,500-mile "Journey for Peace" across Pakistan. "What happened
in Khyber Pass was something that never, ever happened before in the history
of Pakistan," he wrote. It was just the kind of message that Swing was hoping
to hear. After all, he says, "We're trying to change world history."

One Message, Many Cultures

William Swing started out with far more modest ambitions. He was a small-town
priest who simply wanted to serve his congregation. After graduating from
Virginia Theological Seminary, he was assigned to two churches in West
Virginia. Both were located in mill towns -- one steel, the other pottery --
and on Sunday mornings, he drove back and forth between the two. One day, he
stopped at a local racetrack and volunteered to lead a weekly service there.
Those three congregations were a blend of nationalities, denominations, and
personalities. The jockeys and trainers, for instance, preferred a lively
debate to a sermon. Swing enjoyed the give-and-take. Among the three, he says,
"I learned how to translate one message into different cultures."

When he became rector at St. Columba's Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, the
challenge was to energize a suburban congregation that numbered around 90
people per Mass on Sunday. He took a chance and completely revamped one of the
weekly services for the youngest members of the congregation. There were more
songs, a shorter sermon, and Bible stories acted out by adults and children.
It was unorthodox, but Swing didn't ask anyone's permission. He just did it.
And it worked, filling the pews with children and their parents. The
congregation swelled to about 600 at that service.

Swing insists that the United Religions Initiative came out of the blue and
not out of some lifelong commitment to interfaith work. But it definitely
tapped into the compassion and the devotion that he has applied to other
ministries over the years. When Senator Dianne Feinstein was mayor of San
Francisco, she asked Swing how local churches could help to address the city's
homeless problem. His solution was to put 40 beds in the basement of majestic
Grace Cathedral, located in Nob Hill, that very night. It was the beginning of
the church's homeless ministry, which now provides 950 beds per night in
various San Francisco shelters. "If you do it one night, it's romantic," he
says. "If you do it every night, it's hard work."

Swing is a masterful fund-raiser. He knows that without money the most
ambitious social ministries fail. Last year, his diocese had $50 million worth
of projects under way. "We've got a hospital in the poorest part of town,
eight health clinics, six alcohol-rehab and drug-rehab centers, seven
life-care facilities, four facilities for the developmentally disabled, and
two facilities for Hispanic immigrants," he recites, pausing to catch his
breath. "And we're building a residential facility for homeless families."

Connections that go back 21 years help. Far more critical, though, is Swing's
ability to win people's trust and then persuade them to buy into his vision.
"We're giving people an opportunity to be as alive as they can be," he says.
"To heal the sick, to give shelter to the homeless, and to improve lives.
That's pretty compelling."

Imagine All the People...

The United Religions Initiative began in 1993 with a phone call. An official
at the United Nations asked Swing to organize an enormous interfaith worship
service at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco as part of an upcoming
50th-anniversary celebration of the signing of the UN charter. The historic
event had taken place in 1945 right across the square at the Fairmont Hotel.

The invitation got the bishop thinking. He was troubled that countries around
the world, including countries that had been at war against each other, had
managed to achieve what the world's religions had not: unity, dialogue,
cooperation. If nations could peaceably convene, Swing thought, why couldn't
religions?

Initially, Swing hoped to discover that a UN-style body of religions was
already in the works. But it wasn't. If the URI was going to exist, it was up
to Swing to get it started. Thinking that he'd model it after the UN, with an
assembly of religious leaders, he traveled around the world in 1996 pitching
it to religious and interfaith officials and scholars. Mother Teresa vowed
that she and the nuns in her order would pray for it. The Dalai Lama pledged
to participate. The Shankaracharya of Kancheepuram, one of the Hindu gurus,
giggled. "I found out that with these gurus, if they hear something that's
true, it elicits joy, so they giggle," says Swing. The Vatican was more
cryptic. "If this is of God, no one can stop it," one of the Pope's right-hand
cardinals told the bishop. "But if it is of man, it will fail."

According to prevailing opinion, it was a nice idea that didn't stand a
chance. The chief obstacle, Swing realized, was that the religions didn't know
how to have a dialogue with one another. Swing didn't know how to start that
dialogue, but David Cooperrider did.

Cooperrider teaches at Case Western's Weatherhead School of Management and
runs an organization called Social Innovations in Global Management ( SIGMA ).
After reading about the URI in a newspaper, he called Swing and asked if he
could study the organization. The bishop had a better idea: Why not help build
it? Cooperrider, who specializes in "appreciative inquiry," an alternative to
traditional problem solving, was more than willing.

Instead of focusing on problems, appreciative inquiry explores positive
outcomes, what Cooperrider calls "moments of highest engagement or passion."
At the URI's organizational summits and regional conferences in Africa, Asia,
Europe, and the United States, participants would interview each other -- Jew
and Muslim, Buddhist and Baha'i, Christian and indigenous believer. They would
ask each other questions like "How did you come to embrace your faith?" and
"What's the greatest gift that you've received from your religion?" The idea
is to develop a mutual respect, says Cooperrider -- to appreciate what's
important, even precious, to someone from a different faith. The participants
consider what they're trying to create, not what they're trying to eliminate:
Imagine the world 30 years from now and describe three positive changes that
have occurred.

Appreciative inquiry proved to be a powerful communication tool. "To this day,
it astonishes me," says the Reverend Canon Charles P. Gibbs, 49, the URI's
executive director in San Francisco. "We're bringing these improbable groups
of people together. They're usually uneasy and, in some cases, fearful about
being in the same room with one another. Yet, in the space of a few hours,
they come to see one another as folks who have much in common, instead of
seeing one another from across irreparable gulfs."

Going In Circles

William Swing and Dee Hock were a pretty improbable pair themselves: a bishop
and a former banker. But they hit it off immediately. Based on the URI's
brainstorming meetings, Swing and the design team realized that traditional
models wouldn't work. Since they couldn't rely on the participation of
religious leaders, they needed to build the URI from the bottom up, creating a
grassroots organization where members, not an executive committee, are in
control. Swing didn't know it, but they were speaking Hock's language.

"Our existing institutions are totally irrelevant to complex, systematic,
highly diverse problems, which are all we have now," says Hock. The
alternative to these top-down institutions is what he calls the "chaordic
organization," a marriage of chaos and order. The result is a highly adaptive
organization whose members work toward the same overall goal. ( See "The
Trillion-Dollar Vision of Dee Hock," October:November 1996. )

After three years of hammering out the initiative's purpose, principles, and
design, the URI now consists of self-organizing cooperation circles, which
include seven or more people who represent at least three spiritual
expressions. Although each circle agrees to abide by the URI's 21 guiding
principles -- such as no proselytizing fellow URI members -- the circles are
self-governing entities. The members decide which issues to act on, how to
support the circle financially, and how to make decisions. If a circle chooses
to, it can team with other circles and form a multicircle around one of the
URI's core themes: conflict resolution, social justice, and the environment.
The circles aren't building blocks, Hock says -- that's the old metaphor.
Rather, the circles are part of a living system. "It's exactly what your body
did when its cells divided and multiplied and organized themselves into
organs," he says. "And the next thing you know, you have a human being."

Currently, there are more than 100 circles around the world, in places such as
Quezon City, the Philippines; Woodstock, South Africa; and Johnson City,
Tennessee. In Israel, there is a multi-circle made up of five smaller circles.
Many early circles consist of interfaith groups that had been eager to be part
of a larger network.

The URI has been around for 7 years, but no one knows what it will look like a
year from now -- or 50 years from now. That's the beauty of a chaordic
organization, says Hock. "It's a living, breathing, adaptive thing, and living
things are never finished. They keep learning and struggling. The more they
grow, the more questions you'll be puzzling over."

Swing is already wrestling with such questions. "How do we keep the authority
from rising to the top in the future?" he asks. "What happens if someone goes
on a power trip? What happens to our integrity if some politician comes along
and wants to give us money? How do we find a collective voice? And who gets
that voice? I don't know, but we'll find the answers as we go along."

In the meantime, the bishop mentions the URI in his daily prayer.

Letting go of an organization and allowing it to organize itself requires a
leap of faith. Who better than the bishop to make that leap? "He has a totally
clear and absolute sense of direction," says Hock. "The goal is to end
religious violence. You can't get any clearer than that. But he is totally
open to how he gets there."

Chuck Salter ( csalter@fastcompany.com ) is a Fast Company senior writer.
Learn more about the United Religions Initiative on the Web (
http://www.united-religions.org ), or contact William Edwin Swing by email (
bishop@diocal.org ).

Sidebar: What's Fast

How do you unite parties as different and as disharmonious as the world's
religions and spiritual expressions? That's an ongoing challenge for William
Edwin Swing, founder of the United Religions Initiative ( URI ). Here are some
of his answers.

New ideas come from new sources. Swing couldn't count on religious leaders
alone to solve a problem that had plagued organized religions for hundreds,
even thousands, of years. He had to be entrepreneurial and had to look
elsewhere to find a fresh perspective on collaboration and on organizational
design. He got that perspective from a business-school professor and from a
former banker, both of whom were tackling similar challenges with other highly
complex global organizations.

Appreciate what others hold sacred. Debating who's right or who's wrong about
creation, about the nature of God, or about salvation isn't the least bit
constructive. But exploring what's meaningful to someone is. Through dialogue
that is based on "appreciative inquiry," people of different faiths can focus
on understanding the positive aspects of one another's faith. That leads to
mutual respect, which makes collaboration possible.

Amateurs attract experts. Swing believes in the value of experimentation, even
if it means failing. When he started the URI, he didn't know much about
creating a global organization. But once he started trying, people who knew a
lot more than he did came forward to help. His inexperience worked like a
magnet, he says. Experts like to practice their expertise -- so let them.

Connect, don't compete. When Swing looked at international interfaith groups
that existed, he discovered that they were inclusive of different religions
but often exclusive of one another. "The attitude was right out of a
big-business model that says you've got to corner your market," he says. "They
were saying, We've got to corner the interfaith market." The URI is designed
to be a network so that organizations can leverage one another's resources
while pursuing their mutual or individual goals.

Build from the bottom. Groups that may seem similar to the URI have failed
over the years, says Swing, because they've tried to organize themselves
around religious leaders. He tried that too -- before he realized that
authority belonged in the hands of the smallest unit of the organization, the
URI's cooperation circles. The United Nations, which inspired Swing when he
began his efforts, offers abstract representation. The URI, on the other hand,
gives its members tangible power to self-organize and self-govern.
 
 

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Subject: [bprlist] Scientists report 'alien' life
From: Shophar_Sho_Good
Date: 22 Nov 00 12:37:23 EST

Scientists report 'alien' life

Wednesday, 22 November 2000 10:19 (ET)

http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=138156

Scientists report 'alien' life

 LONDON, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Scientists in Wales said they discovered what may
be a tiny form of primitive alien life that a passing comet may have dropped
into Earth's atmosphere, London's Daily Mail newspaper reported Wednesday.

 Researchers said that in the filter of a high-flying balloon operated by
the Indian Space Research Organization, they found a strain of bacteria
unlike anything on Earth. The bacteria were found at an altitude of 10 miles
and scientists from the ISRO, Cardiff University and the University of Wales
College of Medicine said it may have come from a comet on a close approach
to earth, according to the Daily Mail.

 Prof. Chandra Wickramasinghe, who is based at Cardiff University, said the
discovery marked "the first time we have had direct evidence for the
hypothesis that comets seed life on other planets."

 Wickramasinghe and astronomer Fred Hoyle suggested the theory of
"panspermia" more than two decades ago, that the seeds of life, either DNA
or microbes, could be carried by asteroids or comets and dropped off on
planets such as earth to germinate life.

 The bacteria found in the balloon's filter "is a hitherto unknown strain,"
Wickramasinghe said. "It is so different from anything we've seen before
that there are only two possible explanations."

 One, he told the Daily Mail, is that "organisms have been lifted from the
earth to great heights in the skies and have somehow multiplied there and
changed over time." The second, he said, is "that this is an example of
primitive alien life."

 The newspaper said samples of the bacteria are under study at Cardiff's
Astrobiology Center, which Wickramasinghe and other scientists from ISRO,
Cardiff University and the College of Medicine have teamed up to form.

 Wickramasinghe rejected suggestions that the bacteria might the result of
contamination by earthly organisms. He said ISRO had imposed stringent
sterile conditions aboard the balloon.

 "The most recent geological evidence now suggests life on earth may be 4
billion years old," the professor was quoted as saying. "That is a very
significant time because it was a period when the earth was pounded by
comets and meteors."

 But his theory is not universally accepted in scientific circles. The
Daily Mail quoted Alan Penny, an astronomer at Britain's Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory, as warning that "we would be cautious about jumping to
conclusions."

 "Extraordinary claims," he said, "need extraordinary evidence."

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Subject: [bprlist] IDF: Summary of occurrences overnight (11/21,22/00)
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:38:42 -0500

IDF Spokesperson: SUMMARY OF OCCURRENCES OVERNIGHT 21-
22/11/00 (updated through 7:45 AM)

22 November 2000

JUDEA/SAMARIA:
Shots were fired overnight in the direction of THE SECURITY FORCES and
Israeli citizens at a number of positions, among them the Samaria Brigade
Headquarters:in Psagot, Bet El, in the direction of an IDF vehicle at the
Mitbachaim Junction south of Shechem (Nablus), at the IDF position at Ofra,
as well as toward a civilian bus adjacent to that post, Tel A-Ras, western
Tul-Karem, and at an Israeli civilian vehicle in the area of Maaleh Shomron.
Damage was caused to the tires of this latter vehicle, as was also the case
with one of the IDF vehicles at which fire was directed.

The IDF returned fire on the sources of the shooting in instances where it
was possible to identify them. There were no injuries in any of these
incidents.

GAZA:
An IDF soldier was lightly injured by shrapnel fragments when a hand
grenade was apparently thrown at an IDF post in Kfar Darom during the
evening hours. The soldier received medical treatment on the spot. IDF
troops returned fire, and there was an exchange of gunfire. Later, shots and a
hand grenade were directed to IDF forces in the area of the nurseries of Kfar
Darom. There were no injuries. The IDF troops returned fire toward the source
of the attack.

During the night, additional gunfire was directed from the Palestinian side at
IDF positions in a number of locales: IDF positions in the area of Neve
Dekelim as well as the industrial section of the community; at another IDF
post and armored vehicle at the Gush Katif intersection; at a position on the
Israel-Egypt border adjacent to Rafiah; and at an IDF position next to the
Erez Checkpoint. There were no injuries in these incidents. IDF troops
returned fire at the sources of the attacks.

Also during the night, the IDF leveled a structure known as "Bet Hadekelim"
at the Gush Katif intersection from which the gunfire had come that killed a
young Israeli yesterday.

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Subject: [bprlist] PLO leader Farouq Al-Qaddumi calls on Hamas to act
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:14:31 -0500

MEMRI: PLO leader Farouq Al-Qaddumi calls on Hamas to act

22 November 2000

"We have released members of Hamas, but they have not carried out even
one operation.

There is no (Sharm Al-Sheikh) security agreement, only a memorandum
of understanding signed by no one. Hamas did not participate in the
uprising. Those who carry out the activity are Fatah men. If Hamas
claimed that they cannot carry out any operation because they are in
(PA) jails, then they had their opportunity to answer to the Likud's
leader Sharon=92s provocation (when they were released). But Hamas did
not carry out anything against the Israelis. Instead they acted
against Palestinian hotels and restraints."

PLO Political Department Head Farouq Al-Qaddumi to Al Hayat
(26 October 2000)

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Subject: [bprlist] News Scan items (11/22/00)
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:16:15 -0500

NOSY E-MAIL Privacy advocates are concerned about the fact that the new
e-mail software system called HTML mail makes it possible for people
sending you messages to monitor when and what time of day you open
them, how often you reopen them, and whether you forward them to other
people. The marketing companies that use HTML mail say it helps them
develop more personalized promotions; individuals who use it claim they
have a right to monitor their own correspondence. Richard M. Smith, the
chief technology officer for the Privacy Foundations, argues: "You can buy
50,000 addresses of people who subscribe to The New Yorker. But you don't
know what articles they're reading in it, or what books they've bought or what
medical problems they've been researching lately. That's very much a
possibility within this technology." (New York Times 22 Nov 2000)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2000/11/22/technology/22NET.html

#SMART CLOTHES Working on an "intelligent clothing" research project
hoping to integrate sound, power, and communication into the clothes you
wear, Brussels-based Starlab is designing a track suit that "monitors you
starting to run. It configures data on your heartbeat. It plays a certain type of
music and adapts the rhythm of the music to push you harder or slow you
down. The mobile phone function in the clothing sends the data by e-mail to
your sports club, which receives the report on your training by the time
you've taken your shower," says Walter Van De Velde, head of the scientific
think-tank. Adidas, Levi Straus, and Samsonite are some of the companies
supporting and benefiting from the research. (Reuters/San Jose Mercury
News 22 Nov 2000)
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/015908.htm
 
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Subject: [bprlist] Harpazo.net News items (11/22/00)
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 18:35:29 -0500

 5,000 Homeless in Papua New Guinea

Late reports indicate that 5,000 people were left homeless in the aftermath  of
a magnitude 8.0 temblor and subsequent tidal wave that hit Papua New
Guinea last Thursday. The country's Post-Courier reported that the quake
destroyed homes on the islands of New Ireland, Bougainville and East New
Britain. Many of the traditional thatch homes were leveled and swept away
by a tsunami that reached 10 feet along some coastal stretches. At least
two deaths have been confirmed in New Ireland and in the low-lying Duke of
York Islands. More than 3,500 people on the northwest coast of mainland
Papua New Guinea were killed in 1997 when a huge tsunami hit near the city
of Aitapi. Earth Alert

Prime Minister Comments On Attack

(In response to the Hadera attack, Prime Minister Ehud Barak said that it
was, "yet another barbaric attack against innocent civilians. The Palestini an
Authority is totally responsible for the attack, releasing terrorists, Hama s and
Islamic Jihad members, encouraging them, guiding their people to carry out
terror attacks. The State of Israel will settle accounts with the perpatrat ors
and those that sent them." Barak again called for an emergency government
in light of the present situation. Barak is convening an emergency cabinet
meeting this evening at 23:00. Jerusalem Post

Second Jerusalem Bank Bomb Discovered

A second bomb was discovered in a Jerusalem bank on Wednesday
morning, in a Bank Leumi branch located in the Talpiot section of the capit al
at the intersection known as Banks Junction. The device was neutralized
without incident.

Another bomb did explode in a German Colony branch of Bank Leumi, a few
blocks away. There were no injuries in that attack.

Police report that earlier in the day, the manager of the main Bank Leumi
branch on Jerusalem=92s Jaffa Road received a telephone call telling him th at
bombs were placed in all twenty braches of the bank throughout the capital.
He was instructed to go downstairs to his car where he would find
instructions inside an envelope. The note stated the manager=92s wife and
children had been abducted and that his car was booby-trapped.

Police were called in and a short time later, the manager=92s family were
located safe and sound and it was determined that his car was not wired wit h
an explosive device. The note stated that only two of the twenty bombs were
real. Police immediately notified security personnel in all bank branches a nd
bomb demolition teams began making sweeps of banks, searching for
explosive devices.

Police report the incident is being investigated and they do not know if th e
motive was criminal or terrorist in nature. Police also report the real bom bs
contained a gas cylinder and a clock. No more information is available at t his
time. Israel Wire

IDF: 4 Tanzim Killed In Foiled Attack

The IDF says Tanzim (Fatah brigade) leader Jamal Hassan Razek, 30, was
one of the Palestinians killed in this morning's shooting near the settleme nt
of Morag in the Gaza Strip. According to Army sources, Razek was
responsible for several attacks on the IDF and Israeli civilians in the Gaz a
Strip. Soldiers earlier this morning fired upon two Palestinian vehicles ne ar
the entrance to the settlement of Morag in the Gaza Strip. The soldiers fir ed
at the two cars as they tried to evade a roadblock set up by the IDF. The I DF
said the cars were part of an attempted terrorist attack on the Israeli
community.

Gaza Palestinian Authority security head Mohammed Dahlan said the event
would only serve to escalate the situation, saying, "Israel's actions have
crossed all the red lines." He characterized this mornings shooting as, "A
declaration of was against the Palestinians," adding that, "it would lead t o an
explosion." Palestinian sources claimed the occupants were innocent
civilians, including one woman. Jerusalem Post

Five Dead in Latest Kosovo Violence

(Five people, including four police officers, have been killed in the lates t
outbreak of violence in Kosovo. One man has died following a bomb blast at
the official residence of Yugoslavia's chief representative in Kosovo. The dead
man was one of at least two injured in the explosion at the home of Stanimi r
Vukicevic -- who was not hurt -- in Pristina on Wednesday morning. CNN

Explosion Rocks Area Near Netzer Hazani

(9:05 IST) A large explosion was heard in the last hour originating in the
Palestinian controlled area east of the Netzer Hazani settlement in the Gaz a
Strip. Israel Radio reports that several Palestinian ambulances were seen
hurrying to the site of the blast. Jerusalem Post

Arafat Leaves for Cairo

Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat left for Cairo a short while a go.
In talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, he is expected to discuss
Cairo's decision to recall its ambassador to Israel. The subject is expecte d
to come up also when US Secretary of Defense William Cohen meets
Mubarak. Cohen will then come to Jerusalem, the last leg on his current
Middle East tour.

Meanwhile sources in Jerusalem, quoted by Israel Radio, have expressed
the fear that the US is becoming more pro-Palestinian because of a fear tha t
it will lose its standing in the eyes of the Moslem world. Jerusalem Post

Palestinians Urge Escalation in Violence, Warn Tel Aviv, Jerusalem Could
Be Targets

Palestinian Authority officials have urged escalation of the violence, sayi ng
Israeli attacks had given Palestinians a "green light" for Palestinian coun ter-
attacks and warning that Tel Aviv and Jerusalem could also become a
targets, Army Radio reported Wednesday.

Referring to widespread Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Monday in
retaliation for a deadly bombing of a settler school bus, Palestinian cabin et
minister Hassan Asfour, one of the architects of the Oslo accords, warned
overnight that if Gaza was within range of Israeli missiles, then Tel and
Jerusalem were "not far away from us."

Hussein al-Sheikh, Fatah movement secretary in the West Bank, told the
radio Wednesday that the Israeli helicopter gunship attacks had given the
Palestinians a green light to attack military and civilian targets.

"If the Israelis shell Gaza, this frees the hands of the Palestinians, and they
can return fire however and wherever they see a need for self-defence of th e
Palestinian people and Authority." Ha'aretz

Intense Gunbattles Overnight In Gaza

Intense gunbattles raged overnight between IDF troops and Palestinians in
the Gaza Strip, Army Radio reported Wednesday. It said one soldier was
very lightly wounded as Palestinians fired at Israeli outposts at Neve
Dekalim, Karni Junction, and Kfar Darom. Large numbers of troops are
currently deployed on main Gaza highways and are preventing Palestinian
travel from north to south, it said. Ha'aretz

Soldiers Being Withdrawn From Eastern Gush Etzion

The IDF senior command has given an order to withdraw 75 percent of all IDF
forces currently stationed in the eastern sector of the Gush Etzion area of
Judea. The order will be implemented on Wednesday morning. The major
withdrawal will impact the security being provided for the area from Meitza d
to the Shdema base near the PA autonomous area of Bet Sachur. No one
involved in the area=92s security questioned by ISRAELWIRE had any
explanation to offer for the =93bizarre=94 order, adding that it is a move that will
undoubtedly place the area residents in peril at a time when additional for ces
should be deployed. Israel Wire

White House Rejects Israeli Appeal,

Presses For Intifada Violence Probe As Soon As Possible The United
States, rejecting appeals from Israel, has asked that the investigative pan el
to probe the violence in the territories begin its work as soon as possible ,
Israel Radio reported Wednesday. A White House spokesman rejected
Israel's position, that the committee begin its work only after the violenc e had
abated. The spokesman said Israel's position would be taken into
consideration, and expressed hope that the sides would aid the panel in its
work. Panel chairman George Mitchell said Sunday he hoped to assemble a
technical team soon and send it to the territories. Ha'aretz

US Blasts Israel for 'Excessive Force'

The US yesterday leveled its strongest criticism of Israel since the curren t
wave of violence began, accusing it of using "excessive force" against the
Palestinians. Until now, the US has generally urged both sides to maintain
calm and to do more to prevent clashes. State Department spokesman
Richard Boucher reiterated the US position that the bombing in Kfar Darom
on Monday was a "heinous act," and that the Palestinians needed to work
harder to restrain attacks, but added: "While we're pressing the Palestinia ns,
we think the Israelis also need to understand that the use of excessive for ce
is not the right way to go." Boucher said the US was specifically concerned
about the amount of firepower being employed that is causing civilian
casualties.

Boucher also condemned Israel's plans to stiffen an economic blockade
around Palestinian towns. "I think basically we don't believe that squeezin g
the Palestinians economically is the right course of action," he told
reporters. The criticism sparked an outraged response from Jewish leaders
like Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman. In a letter
to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Foxman called the US
criticism"counterproductive to the goal of ending the violence and resuming
negotiations." Jerusalem Post

Clinton, Abdullah Discuss 'Dire Situation' in Mideast

President Bill Clinton spoke on Tuesday to Jordan"s King Abdullah about
efforts to restore calm to the Middle East after eight weeks of Israeli-
Palestinian fighting, the White House said. "Both leaders agreed to continu e
working with both parties to try to break the ongoing cycle of violence," s aid
P.J. Crowley, spokesman for the White House National Security Council.
"There"s a recognition by both the president and the king that we"re in a d ire
situation." Crowley said Abdullah and Clinton spoke for about 10 minutes,
focusing on "what we can do to help change the psychology on the ground."
Reuters

PA Authorizes Police to Shoot At IDF

Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, secretary-general of the Palestinian Authority, said
yesterday that police had been authorized to use guns to protect
demonstrators who come under Israeli army fire in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip. He told a news conference that Israel had "shot the peace process in
the heart" after missile strikes on Monday, in the eighth week of the lates t
Palestinian uprising. Asked if Palestinian policeman were now authorized to
protect protesters under Israeli fire, he said: "Yes, our policemen will no w
use their guns in self defense in areas under our full sovereignty. They ha ve
the right to respond." Jerusalem Post

Mideast U.N. Council Meeting Sought

The Egyptian U.N. representative Tuesday night called for an emergency
meeting of the Security Council to consider a Palestinian request for milit ary
observers in Israel. Ambassador Ahmed Abouigheit told United Press
International the request was "on behalf of the Arab League and supported b y
the Islamic Conference and, most likely, by the Non-Aligned Movement
tomorrow (Wednesday)." He expected it would take "more than one day to
deliberate" the compromise proposal worked out last week calling for the
unarmed observers, instead of an armed Palestinian protection force, and
said he did not expect consultations on Thursday, Thanksgiving Day. UPI

Deadly Landslides Hit Italy

At least five people in northern Italy were reported missing and hundreds o f
others were forced to evacuate on Monday as pounding rains triggered fresh
landslides. The new slides came after disastrous flooding hit the region in
mid-October, cutting a swath of destruction though the country. Many areas
in the stricken region have received more rainfall in the past month than a
normal year. Meteorologists reported that the mountainous region south of
Parma and Bologna would get as much as another 4 inches of rainfall by
Tuesday night. Disaster emergency officials in Parma remained on alert to
carry out additional evacuations. Earth Alert

Flooding Devastates Australian Communities

The worst flooding in eastern Australia in 40 years forced numerous
evacuations on Monday. The floods were fueled by two weeks of ongoing
downpours that have pushed 12 rivers in the region through their banks. At
least 3,000 people in Tarnworth, in northwestern New South Wales, were left
isolated after the Peel River burst its banks and surged through the city. The
entire city of Woolomin, 18 miles upriver from Tamworth, was evacuated to a
shelter when homes were inundated by floodwaters. Numerous other
communities braced for major flooding. In the city of Ashford, near the bor der
with Queensland, many homes were flooded to their ceilings on Monday
night. In the Queensland coastal city of Mackay, scores of homes were
flooded after more than 14 inches of rain fell in one day. Earth Alert

Deadly Cold Hits Northern Mexico

At least 21 people in northern Mexico have died as exceedingly cold weather
hovers over the region. Mexico's Interior Ministry reported that staff in t he
states of Sonora, Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon and Coahuila, which typically are
hardest hit by winter weather, have received extra training to prepare for the
cold season. Preventive measures have also been initiated in other states i n
the central part of the country. Authorities advised residents to dress war mly
and to drink enough fluids. Warnings were also issued to avoid the use of
heaters in unventilated rooms. Earth Alert

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Subject: [bprlist] Update on the injured in Hadera blast
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 18:42:57 -0500

Update on the injured in Hadera blast (NOV.22 =96
     21:18-IST)

     (IsraelWire-11/22) Hadera=92s Hillel Yaffe Hospital in reporting fifty -five
     (55) blast victims have been transported to or made their way to the
     emergency department.

     Two victims have been flown to the trauma and burn units of Haifa=92s
     Rambam Medical Center. One victim, an adult, with a serious head injur y
     was flown to Rambam among the first victims triaged following the blas t.
     Later on, a 1-year-old girl was diagnosed with 15 percent second and
     third degree burns and she too was evacuated by chopper to Rambam.
     One burn therapist explained to ISRAELWIRE that the major concern
     was the smoke inhalation in an infant is with her lungs since they are  so
     fragile at that tender age.

     There are several other blast victims listed in serious or
     moderate-to-serious condition, with some undergoing emergency surgery
     and others already post operative.

     Most of the victims fortunately sustained light and light-to-moderate
     injuries. The hospital=92s director, Dr. Meir Oren, stated his staff a nd the
     facility is well equipped to handle such multi casualty incidents,

     Some of the past attacks that were dealt with by Hillel Yaffe physicia ns
     include:

     1. April 13, 1994 - Five people were killed in a suicide bombing attac k
     on a bus in the Hadera Central Bus Station. HAMAS claimed
     responsibility for the attack.

     2. January 22, 1995 - Two consecutive bombs exploded at the Bet Lid
     junction near Netanya, killing 18 soldiers and one civilian. The ISLAM IC
     JIHAD claimed responsibility for the attack.

     3. November 7, 1999 - 28 civilians and two soldiers were wounded from
     three of four explosive charges that exploded in a garbage container i n
     Netanya. The fourth charge was neutralized by an Israel police bomb
     squad.

     At this time, Oren is hopeful that all the injured have arrived and th ere will
     not be additional victims. The families of the two fatalities a few mo ments
     ago endured the painful task of identifying their loved ones. They hav e just
     left the hospital.

     Social workers and other support personnel, including psychological ai d
     for victims and families, are among the major tasks working hand in ha nd
     with physicians and emergency department nurses.

     The blast scene is being cleared; the bus was towed away as was the ca r
     that contained the explosive device. Many curiosity seekers are arrivi ng at
     the scene to get a first hand look for themselves.

     In Jerusalem, senior police commanders are conferring, weighing the
     situation vis-=E0-vis the latest terrorist attack in the heart of a co astal city in
     Israel. Police are also concerned with security in other major cities in light
     of continuing Hamas and Islamic Jihad threats.

     The Security Cabinet is beginning its emergency meeting to make the
     necessary decisions. As in the past, the Security Cabinet remains
divided,
     with Minister Shahak indicating a harsh response is not the way to go,
and
     Ben-Eliezer pushing for a mighty military response. IT is being assume d
     that the dovish ministers, Beilin and Sarid, will not favor a might
response.

     Prime Minister/Defense Minister Ehud Barak must weigh the situation,
     realizing there is the security issue above all, but not forgetting pr essure
     from the right-wing, left-wing, and the growing international condemna tion
     of Israel=92s military strikes.

     In downtown Jerusalem, approximately 150,000 anti-government
     protestors are in downtown Jerusalem shouting, =93Let the IDF win!=94

     For the first time in many months, the Izzadin el-Kassim military wing  of
     the Hamas terror organization issued a new leaflet today, which among
     other things called for increased attacks as well as stating, =93Israe l is
     opening the door to hell!=94

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Subject: [bprlist] The Omega Code
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:01:20 -0500

The Omega Code
Thanksgiving Day
TBN
7:00 PM Pacific

Synopsis:
A prophetic code hidden within the Torah. A sinister plot sealed until the end
of the Age. Two men caught up in an ancient supernatural struggle to
determine the fate of the next millennium...

For thousands of years, mystics and scholars alike have searched for a key
to unlock the mysteries of our future. The key has been found. The end is
here.

Never before has our distant past so collided with our coming future. Never
before has modern technology uncovered such profound mathematical
complexities as revealed within the Bible Code. Never before has the world
seen so many ancient prophesies falling into place.

The Omega Code grabs hold of these elements, combining recent
discoveries of the Bible Code phenomenon with the edge of your seat
suspense and psychological horror to weave a millennial tale of international
intrigue.

Shot on location all over the globe, and filled with cutting edge special
effects, the film paints a world reshaped by the Code's treacherous web. It is
a world on the brink of supernatural terror, where ancient forces of light and
dark wage battle over men's souls. It is a world where the difference between
truth and myth grows ever more so thin...

Dr. Gillen Lane is a world famous motivational speaker and mythology expert
who joins European Union Chairman Stone Alexander in a quest to unite the
world in an era of global peace. But when a revolutionary Bible Code program
falls into the wrong hands, unseen forces begin scouring the code for an even
darker secret--the key to the ancient city Jerusalem. For it has been foretold
in the apocalyptic books of Daniel and Revelation that he who controls
Jerusalem in the last days will control the world.

As Lane becomes entrapped in the Omega Code's treacherous web of terror
and deceit, he finds his world and everything he believes turned upside down
and himself on the run to save all he loves from a power-crazed madman who
may just be the "Beast" from the book of Revelation...the incarnation of
Satan himself.

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