Police arrested 150 demonstrators and used water cannon for the first time sinceIf they use water cannon today, what will they use tomorrow? How can the Sharon government possibly think this will work?
such protests began several months ago, dispersing youths blocking the main
entrance to Jerusalem.
Britain's plans to launch the world's most ambitious biometric identity cards cleared their first hurdle on Tuesday, despite the first revolt against Prime Minister Tony Blair since his re-election...The cards would use biometric technology in fingerprint, face and iris recognition.I think it is important to be aware of these trends in identification technology while noting that a very good argument can be made (The Mark of the Beast: Tattoos & Branding) that the mark will not be implanted technology at all, but could take the form of a digital watermark or even something as primitive as a tattoo.
Graham has preached to more than 210 million people in 185 countries. He has been sought out by U.S. presidents and leaders worldwide and, more than any other religious figure, has come to represent the American evangelical movement.One of the things I admire about Billy Graham is the way he has always preached the simplicity of the gospel message of salvation through faith in Jesus. Times have changed over the many years of his ministry and the church has changed in many ways, but his message has remained true to the gospel. For more information on the crusade and on Billy Graham, visit the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. [Gospel Preached to All Nations, Matthew 24:14]
More than a half-million people could die and more than 2.3 million could be hospitalized if a moderately severe strain of pandemic flu virus hits the United States, a research group said Friday. The report from the Trust for America's Health assumes that 25 percent of a country's population would become infected if a strain of avian flu became highly contagious and humans had no natural immunity against it. The researchers also assumed the severity of the strain would fall about midway between the pandemic of 1918 and the pandemic of 1968. The research group says the staggering number of potential deaths and hospitalizations would overwhelm the nation's health care system - and displays the need for greater planning and resources.I'm glad scientists and the health care community are taking steps now to plan for this. Previous reports have stated that it is only a matter of time before there is another global flu pandemic like the 1918 outbreak and the more they can do now to prepare and raise awareness so that the public won't panic, the better.
A Jewish rabbinical council has long labored to reconstitute the ancient Sanhedrin, which was the original high council that decided all matters of faith for the Jewish people. The Sanhedrin has not sat since the fifth century AD. Does it sit again? That depends on whom you talk to, since key leaders of both the Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jewish communities have refused to recognize the new "Sanhedrin" as such. But they are definitely moving forward to plan the rebuilding of the Temple. That one act could trigger Ezekiel's War [Ezekiel 38-39] and is also necessary to provide a context for the Tribulation [Daniel 9:27; Revelation 13-16].
That's right, Tony Blair will not seek either an act of Parliament or a referendum on the European Constitution in his country. Indeed, even the future of the euro is now in doubt, in that leading Germans, and now Italians, have called for referenda in their countries for the restoration of their respective national currencies. Is this a reversal of the trend toward a single currency and a single economic system? Or is this, as some stock-market gurus like to say, merely a bump in the road--a "bounce" as they like to put it? As Jesus Himself reminds us, only the Father knows for sure.
