World's smallest microchip unveiled
Aljazeera reports, "Malaysia has bought the rights from a Japanese firm to the world's smallest microchip that can be embedded in everything from currencies to human bodies.Announcing this on Thursday, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Muhammad said the microchip would boost the global “anti-terror” war. Mahathir said the revolutionary miniature chip, developed by Japan's FEC Inc., could be combined with current technology to "greatly prevent the possibilities of terrorist acts" as well as banknote and document counterfeiting. Chief executive Kunioki Ichioka told reporters that the chip can also be inserted into the human body, animals, bullets, credit cards and other items for verification purposes, and can replace price bar codes used to tag products." :: Submitted for your mark of the beast (Rev 13:16-18) files on ID chip technology.
Sunday, September 07, 2003
Abbas Resignation Imperils Peace Plan
AP reports, "Shocked by the resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, the Bush administration said Saturday the Palestinians must find a new leader who stands apart from 'a corrupt few tainted by terror' and will continue to seek peace based on a U.S.-backed blueprint." :: Submitted for your covenant with many files on the search for Mideast peace.
AP reports, "Shocked by the resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, the Bush administration said Saturday the Palestinians must find a new leader who stands apart from 'a corrupt few tainted by terror' and will continue to seek peace based on a U.S.-backed blueprint." :: Submitted for your covenant with many files on the search for Mideast peace.
Abbas Resignation Imperils Peace Plan
AP reports, "Shocked by the resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, the Bush administration said Saturday the Palestinians must find a new leader who stands apart from 'a corrupt few tainted by terror' and will continue to seek peace based on a U.S.-backed blueprint." :: Submitted for your covenant with many files on the search for Mideast peace.
AP reports, "Shocked by the resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, the Bush administration said Saturday the Palestinians must find a new leader who stands apart from 'a corrupt few tainted by terror' and will continue to seek peace based on a U.S.-backed blueprint." :: Submitted for your covenant with many files on the search for Mideast peace.
Abbas Resignation Imperils Peace Plan
AP reports, "Shocked by the resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, the Bush administration said Saturday the Palestinians must find a new leader who stands apart from 'a corrupt few tainted by terror' and will continue to seek peace based on a U.S.-backed blueprint." :: Submitted for your covenant with many files on the search for Mideast peace.
AP reports, "Shocked by the resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, the Bush administration said Saturday the Palestinians must find a new leader who stands apart from 'a corrupt few tainted by terror' and will continue to seek peace based on a U.S.-backed blueprint." :: Submitted for your covenant with many files on the search for Mideast peace.
Abbas Resignation Imperils Peace Plan
AP reports, "Shocked by the resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, the Bush administration said Saturday the Palestinians must find a new leader who stands apart from 'a corrupt few tainted by terror' and will continue to seek peace based on a U.S.-backed blueprint." :: Submitted for your covenant with many files on the search for Mideast peace.
AP reports, "Shocked by the resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, the Bush administration said Saturday the Palestinians must find a new leader who stands apart from 'a corrupt few tainted by terror' and will continue to seek peace based on a U.S.-backed blueprint." :: Submitted for your covenant with many files on the search for Mideast peace.
Abbas Resignation Imperils Peace Plan
AP reports, "Shocked by the resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, the Bush administration said Saturday the Palestinians must find a new leader who stands apart from 'a corrupt few tainted by terror' and will continue to seek peace based on a U.S.-backed blueprint." :: Submitted for your covenant with many files on the search for Mideast peace.
AP reports, "Shocked by the resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, the Bush administration said Saturday the Palestinians must find a new leader who stands apart from 'a corrupt few tainted by terror' and will continue to seek peace based on a U.S.-backed blueprint." :: Submitted for your covenant with many files on the search for Mideast peace.
Abbas Resignation Imperils Peace Plan
AP reports, "Shocked by the resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, the Bush administration said Saturday the Palestinians must find a new leader who stands apart from 'a corrupt few tainted by terror' and will continue to seek peace based on a U.S.-backed blueprint." :: Submitted for your covenant with many files on the search for Mideast peace.
AP reports, "Shocked by the resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, the Bush administration said Saturday the Palestinians must find a new leader who stands apart from 'a corrupt few tainted by terror' and will continue to seek peace based on a U.S.-backed blueprint." :: Submitted for your covenant with many files on the search for Mideast peace.
Friday, September 05, 2003
Defending Muslim Women from Beatings
From MEMRI. Specifically, a columnist in _Al-Sharq Al-Awsat_ states that the last thing that Muslims need is for any of them actually to defend the practice of a husband striking his wife physically. Interestingly, the Koran does prescribe wife-beating. Surah 4:14 does in fact state, "And [as to] those on whose part you fear disobedience, admonish them, expel them from the bed, and beat them." This is no "conspiracy theory."
Understand this: Wife-beating is unacceptable and inexcusable. The Bible even tells husband and wife both not to expel one another from the marriage bed, unless they both agree to such prolonged abstinence as a form of fasting. [I Corinthians 7:1-7] The Bible admonishes a woman to defer and even to submit to her husband, but also constrains the husband to treat his wife in a loving manner. That is not a matter of "equality," but of simple decency, and of the proper model of the relationship between Christ and His church.
What's troubling about this "reformist" column is that its author makes the same kinds of arguments in support of reform that we hear today in Christian circles as arguments for women in elderships, deaconships, and even bishoprics, recognition and even blessing of homosexual unions, winking and nodding at adultery, and much other extra-biblical "reform" that is nothing less than a taking of a pick-ax at the foundations of the church. Indeed, that is all that reformist voices in Islam are left with. This is not even a matter of the fundamental documents having been written for a now-superseded culture. In the first place, you have many voices in Islam wanting to get "back to the Koran" in every particular, including the one above. In the second, the desert tribal culture that is the background of the Koran survives to this day. (Many who have traveled in the Middle East report a sensation of having stepped through Irwin Allen's Time Tunnel to a time twelve or thirteen hundred years past.) And in the third, wife-beating was never acceptable by any objective standard whatsoever. More to the point, the entire Koran is a pack of lies from beginning to end.
I would ask all who read this the same thing that a deacon at my present church asked me: Why should we base our trust of another religion on the departure, by that religion's so-called adherents, from their own fundamental documents? It's absurd--and yet it is the foreign policy of the United States today.::Submitted for your itching ears [2 Timothy 4:2-4] files.
From MEMRI. Specifically, a columnist in _Al-Sharq Al-Awsat_ states that the last thing that Muslims need is for any of them actually to defend the practice of a husband striking his wife physically. Interestingly, the Koran does prescribe wife-beating. Surah 4:14 does in fact state, "And [as to] those on whose part you fear disobedience, admonish them, expel them from the bed, and beat them." This is no "conspiracy theory."
Understand this: Wife-beating is unacceptable and inexcusable. The Bible even tells husband and wife both not to expel one another from the marriage bed, unless they both agree to such prolonged abstinence as a form of fasting. [I Corinthians 7:1-7] The Bible admonishes a woman to defer and even to submit to her husband, but also constrains the husband to treat his wife in a loving manner. That is not a matter of "equality," but of simple decency, and of the proper model of the relationship between Christ and His church.
What's troubling about this "reformist" column is that its author makes the same kinds of arguments in support of reform that we hear today in Christian circles as arguments for women in elderships, deaconships, and even bishoprics, recognition and even blessing of homosexual unions, winking and nodding at adultery, and much other extra-biblical "reform" that is nothing less than a taking of a pick-ax at the foundations of the church. Indeed, that is all that reformist voices in Islam are left with. This is not even a matter of the fundamental documents having been written for a now-superseded culture. In the first place, you have many voices in Islam wanting to get "back to the Koran" in every particular, including the one above. In the second, the desert tribal culture that is the background of the Koran survives to this day. (Many who have traveled in the Middle East report a sensation of having stepped through Irwin Allen's Time Tunnel to a time twelve or thirteen hundred years past.) And in the third, wife-beating was never acceptable by any objective standard whatsoever. More to the point, the entire Koran is a pack of lies from beginning to end.
I would ask all who read this the same thing that a deacon at my present church asked me: Why should we base our trust of another religion on the departure, by that religion's so-called adherents, from their own fundamental documents? It's absurd--and yet it is the foreign policy of the United States today.::Submitted for your itching ears [2 Timothy 4:2-4] files.
Thursday, September 04, 2003
Medium-Sized Earthquake Jolts Bay Area
AP reports, "A medium-sized earthquake sent a sharp, short jolt through the San Francisco Bay area Thursday evening. Police said they received no reports of major damage or injuries." :: Submitted for your quake (Matthew 24:7) files.
AP reports, "A medium-sized earthquake sent a sharp, short jolt through the San Francisco Bay area Thursday evening. Police said they received no reports of major damage or injuries." :: Submitted for your quake (Matthew 24:7) files.
CDC Readying for Possible New SARS Season
AP reports, "A new surveillance system and improved tests are in place in case SARS re-emerges in the United States this fall, federal health officials said. Officials of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaking Wednesday evening at a monthly meeting of researchers, said they don't know if SARS will reappear this fall or winter, but they believe the virus easily could return." :: Submitted for your pestilence (Luke 21:11) files on the SARS virus.
AP reports, "A new surveillance system and improved tests are in place in case SARS re-emerges in the United States this fall, federal health officials said. Officials of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaking Wednesday evening at a monthly meeting of researchers, said they don't know if SARS will reappear this fall or winter, but they believe the virus easily could return." :: Submitted for your pestilence (Luke 21:11) files on the SARS virus.
Killer' Asteroid will Miss
Universe Today reports, "Additional observations from astronomers have decreased the likelihood to virtually zero that Asteroid 2003 QQ47 will strike the Earth in 2014. The asteroid was first discovered on August 24 by thLINEAR observatory and astronomers put its odds at 1 in 909,000 at hitting the Earth, but the additional observations on Monday night extended those odds to 1 in 2.2 million, which is below the background risk of asteroid strikes on any given year. If the 1.3 km asteroid were to strike the Earth, it would cause immense damage on a continental scale... but it won't." :: Submitted for your signs in the heavens (Luke 21:11) and fear for the future (Luke 21:26) files.
Universe Today reports, "Additional observations from astronomers have decreased the likelihood to virtually zero that Asteroid 2003 QQ47 will strike the Earth in 2014. The asteroid was first discovered on August 24 by thLINEAR observatory and astronomers put its odds at 1 in 909,000 at hitting the Earth, but the additional observations on Monday night extended those odds to 1 in 2.2 million, which is below the background risk of asteroid strikes on any given year. If the 1.3 km asteroid were to strike the Earth, it would cause immense damage on a continental scale... but it won't." :: Submitted for your signs in the heavens (Luke 21:11) and fear for the future (Luke 21:26) files.
Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 99: The Damascus Blood Libel (1840) as Told by Syria's Minister of Defense, Mustafa Tlass
From MEMRI. In light of more recent whoppers from Mr. Tlass, I thought it appropriate to post MEMRI's extensive Inquiry and Analysis into the controversy surrounding the Damascus Blood Libel and Mr. Tlass' book repeating it.::Submitted for your war and rumor of war [Matthew 24:6] files.
From MEMRI. In light of more recent whoppers from Mr. Tlass, I thought it appropriate to post MEMRI's extensive Inquiry and Analysis into the controversy surrounding the Damascus Blood Libel and Mr. Tlass' book repeating it.::Submitted for your war and rumor of war [Matthew 24:6] files.
Syrian Defense Minister: Lebanese Resistance Is Justified, My Book 'The Matzah of Zion' Is Not Antisemitic
From MEMRI Talk about having it backwards! To begin with, if Saudi Arabia "suffers from terrorism," then the only "suffering" that I see comes from a family feud--the feuding family being, of course, the House of Saud. And "Lebanese resistance to occupation"? Oh--does he mean the occupation of Lebanon by Syria? And why can't we stop calling it "Palestine"? "Palestine" is "Philistia" with a Roman post-nasal drip problem. Emperor Hadrian gave that ridiculous name to Judea after Simon bar Hochva's admittedly ill-advised rebellion.
This is also, by his own admission, the same man who wrote the libelous screed titled The Matzah of Zion, a repeat of the 1841 Damascus Blood Libel. But again, why are we surprised? He tells bigger lies than Bill Clinton did. "All ethnic groups live in peace in the Arab region" is right up there with "I did not. Have. Sexual. Relations. With that woman." Not to mention "The American forces are nowhere near Baghdad!"::Submitted for your war and rumor of war [Matthew 24:6] files.
From MEMRI Talk about having it backwards! To begin with, if Saudi Arabia "suffers from terrorism," then the only "suffering" that I see comes from a family feud--the feuding family being, of course, the House of Saud. And "Lebanese resistance to occupation"? Oh--does he mean the occupation of Lebanon by Syria? And why can't we stop calling it "Palestine"? "Palestine" is "Philistia" with a Roman post-nasal drip problem. Emperor Hadrian gave that ridiculous name to Judea after Simon bar Hochva's admittedly ill-advised rebellion.
This is also, by his own admission, the same man who wrote the libelous screed titled The Matzah of Zion, a repeat of the 1841 Damascus Blood Libel. But again, why are we surprised? He tells bigger lies than Bill Clinton did. "All ethnic groups live in peace in the Arab region" is right up there with "I did not. Have. Sexual. Relations. With that woman." Not to mention "The American forces are nowhere near Baghdad!"::Submitted for your war and rumor of war [Matthew 24:6] files.
Syrian Gov't Media: Israel Bombed Baghdad's U.N. Headquarters, Jordanian Embassy, Abu Gharib Prison and Water Main
From MEMRI. Ridiculous, of course, and what does this say about where Syria stands? The Syrians note--correctly--that it serves no rational Arab interest for the UN to take a hit, and especially not the Jordanians, nor Iraq's infrastructure. But who said that Arabs do things rationally? They just don't want to admit that Arabs are guilty of anything worthy of reproach, that's all.::Submitted for your war and rumor of war [Matthew 24:6] files.
From MEMRI. Ridiculous, of course, and what does this say about where Syria stands? The Syrians note--correctly--that it serves no rational Arab interest for the UN to take a hit, and especially not the Jordanians, nor Iraq's infrastructure. But who said that Arabs do things rationally? They just don't want to admit that Arabs are guilty of anything worthy of reproach, that's all.::Submitted for your war and rumor of war [Matthew 24:6] files.
The Golden Report - The near future doesn't look so good! That is unless you are looking up.
Yasser Arafat has recently declared that the "Road Map" is dead--no surprise, either from Arafat or that the plan would never have worked anyway. While I am not sure that "the Illuminati" are anything more than a product of F. Anton Wilson's imagination (misappropriated without attribution or due royalty in violation of his copyright, I might add), I'll be the first to suggest that George W. Bush's foreign policy toward Israel is misguided and counterproductive. It might also be the prelude to the Gog-Magog War [Ezekiel 38-9].
Yasser Arafat has recently declared that the "Road Map" is dead--no surprise, either from Arafat or that the plan would never have worked anyway. While I am not sure that "the Illuminati" are anything more than a product of F. Anton Wilson's imagination (misappropriated without attribution or due royalty in violation of his copyright, I might add), I'll be the first to suggest that George W. Bush's foreign policy toward Israel is misguided and counterproductive. It might also be the prelude to the Gog-Magog War [Ezekiel 38-9].
Wednesday, September 03, 2003
Egyptian Ministry of Culture Publication: The Prophet Muhammad's 'Night Journey' was Not to Jerusalem but to Medina
From MEMRI. The Ministry of Culture is now saying that a correct reading of the Koran does not describe a "Night Journey" from Mecca to Jerusalem. The "Night Journey" was to Medina, not Jerusalem, and was the very same as the "Hijra" or "Hegira" that is the epochal starting point of the Muslim calendar. If true, this severely weakens Muslim claims to the Temple Mount and even exposes them as interlopers. But we knew that all the time, did we not? Question for everyone: Why is this coming out today? Could someone be laying the basis for the Covenant with the Many [Daniel 9:27]?
From MEMRI. The Ministry of Culture is now saying that a correct reading of the Koran does not describe a "Night Journey" from Mecca to Jerusalem. The "Night Journey" was to Medina, not Jerusalem, and was the very same as the "Hijra" or "Hegira" that is the epochal starting point of the Muslim calendar. If true, this severely weakens Muslim claims to the Temple Mount and even exposes them as interlopers. But we knew that all the time, did we not? Question for everyone: Why is this coming out today? Could someone be laying the basis for the Covenant with the Many [Daniel 9:27]?
The Scotsman - International - Malay Islamic leader warns lipstick and perfume are rape risks
Now I would be the last to suggest that we need a Muslim to tell Christian women--or any other women--about modest dress. Still, the Bible itself makes that point. The Bible also puts the onus on men to mind their eyes and hands.
Sexual sin has been a problem for man since the beginning, but the problem is especially acute when men and women live in the relatively close quarters of an organized city. That might be part of the reason why God initially told Abraham and Isaac and Jacob to stay out of cities and not build any of their own.::Submitted for your adultery in your heart [Matthew 5:28] and repented they not of their sexual immoralities [Revelation 9:21] files.
Now I would be the last to suggest that we need a Muslim to tell Christian women--or any other women--about modest dress. Still, the Bible itself makes that point. The Bible also puts the onus on men to mind their eyes and hands.
Sexual sin has been a problem for man since the beginning, but the problem is especially acute when men and women live in the relatively close quarters of an organized city. That might be part of the reason why God initially told Abraham and Isaac and Jacob to stay out of cities and not build any of their own.::Submitted for your adultery in your heart [Matthew 5:28] and repented they not of their sexual immoralities [Revelation 9:21] files.
Tuesday, September 02, 2003
Asteroid Heading for Earth, May Hit in 2014
Reuters reports, "A giant asteroid is heading for Earth and could hit in 2014, U.S. astronomers have warned British space monitors." :: Submitted for your fear and trepidation for the future (Luke 21:26) files on near-Earth asteroids.
Reuters reports, "A giant asteroid is heading for Earth and could hit in 2014, U.S. astronomers have warned British space monitors." :: Submitted for your fear and trepidation for the future (Luke 21:26) files on near-Earth asteroids.
Monday, September 01, 2003
NEWS.com.au | 'Dog is dead' sparked Najaf arrests (September 1, 2003)
Specifically, Iraqi bystanders caught those two sending their boastful e-mail, grabbed them, and turned them in to the Najaf Police. This goes to show that foreign infiltration of terrorists is occurring, and that ordinary Iraqis for the most part do not support terrorist infiltration or their missions.::Submitted for your war and rumor of war [Matthew 24:6] files.
Specifically, Iraqi bystanders caught those two sending their boastful e-mail, grabbed them, and turned them in to the Najaf Police. This goes to show that foreign infiltration of terrorists is occurring, and that ordinary Iraqis for the most part do not support terrorist infiltration or their missions.::Submitted for your war and rumor of war [Matthew 24:6] files.
Egyptian Government Daily Al-Ahram: The U.S. is Behind the Najaf Bombing
Oh, now we've heard everything. The same Egyptian government who lends credence to Holocaust denial now says that American forces assassinated Ayatollah al-Hakim to provide yet another pretext for our continued presence in Iraq.::Submitted for your war and rumor of war [Matthew 24:6] files.
Oh, now we've heard everything. The same Egyptian government who lends credence to Holocaust denial now says that American forces assassinated Ayatollah al-Hakim to provide yet another pretext for our continued presence in Iraq.::Submitted for your war and rumor of war [Matthew 24:6] files.
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