From Toronto Globe & Mail, 14 January, 1999:
Four if by cyberspace
Computers are the new weapon of choice for the U.S. military with the official declaration of cyberspace as the fourth battleground, according to Federal Computer Week. The Pentagon's new doctrine takes warfare beyond air, land and sea territory and states that human decision-making is the "ultimate target" of an information war. Yet experts doubt that the U.S. government is equipped to protect its own computer networks from threats by other armies. A report from the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies titled Cyber-Crime, CyberTerrorism and Cyber-warfare calls for a complete overhaul of all U.S. national security agencies to avoid crippling sabotage of the country's information infrastructure.

From Toronto Globe & Mail, 19 January, 1999:
Henge may date to 2500 BC
- Dublin A huge circular structure, believed to be an enclosure for pagan rituals in Stone Age times, has been discovered by archeologists on Ireland's Hill of Tara, the former seat of the country's high kings. Joe Fenwick, archeology lecturer with the NUI university in Galway, said the enclosure may have been an "absolutely enormous" wooden henge similar to Britain's Stonehenge. The henge, with a diameter of about a kilometre, was discovered using geophysical techniques that allow underground features to be mapped.
COMMENT: The British-Israel-World-Federation has been engaged for many years in placing before the public the historic connection of Tara with the Middle Eastern Princess, the remaining "seed-royal" of the Davidic line of monarchy in Jerusalem, who accompanied The Prophet Jeremiah to Ireland according to such sources as The late Rev. W. M. H. Milner, M.A. in his book, "The Royal House of Britain An Enduring Dynasty" - Covenant Publishers, Twelfth Edition, 1952, and "Tara Vindicata, the Hebrew Episode in Irish History Verified", 1903. "Jacob's Pilow Stone", also called "Lia Fail" and "The Coronation Stone", together with a "Great Chest" and, if memory serves, a royal banner, (presumed to have depicted the Lion of Judah, later seen as the Royal Banner in Scotland), were said to have been brought by the small royal party fleeing the Babylonian conquest and resultant disturbances in Jerusalem. Also brought according to the account, was the symbolic Harp of King David, which was later used in the heraldry of the Royal Standard.
The female figure on the harp, one authority has attributed to "the pagan goddess"of the island of Ibernia (Ireland), during the reign of the Emperor Diocletian , whom he calls "the pagan goddess Hibernia and the harp was her emblem." However, the actual source of this heraldric device is said to be found in the figure of Tamar Tephi, or Scota, the Princess, borne westward over the blue of the sea, with the curl of spray at her feet, carried forward by the sails (wings) of the ship which brought her with the harp of David, her ancestor, to Ireland. Here she married the Heremon Eochaid c. 580 B.C., thus continuing the prophetic line of David to the present day in the subsequent history of the British Monarchy. Mr. Raymond Capt's book, "Jacob's Pillar", sold through the B.I.W.F. book rooms, is a good source of further information on the subject. The Rev. A. B. Grimaldi, wrote a pamphlet (Revised Ed. in 1914), which draws from a number of sources in listing 155 generations "from David to David" i.e. King David the Psalmist to David the then Prince of Wales. In this he also mentions another independent connection between King David and the British Monarchy, stating "The Saxon kings traced themselves back to Odin, who was considered to be descended from David, according a very ancient MS. in the Heralds' College, London, and as set forth in Sharon Turner's 'History of the Anglo-Saxons,' Vol. I."!

From Toronto Globe & Mail, 22 January, 1999:
STATISTICS 46 million abortions a year
WASHINGTON. Millions of women around the world terminate their pregnancies each year, with half of all unplanned pregnancies ending in abortion, according to a report issued yesterday. The nonprofit Alan Guttmacher Institute found that 38 per cent of all pregnancies are unplanned. On average, 22 per cent of the world's 210 million pregnancies each year end in abortion. This means every year about 46 million women have an abortion, the institute that researches reproductive health issues reported.
COMMENT: These abortions are taking away the necessary numbers of new births in our population, statistically required to support those population cohorts which are rapidly reaching an age of relative infirmity both financially and in health. This is made the excuse by governments to open the flood-gates of immigration to those of foreign extraction and diverse culture, with the claim that they are necessary to replace our own people missing from the lower (younger) "branches" of the Canadian "population tree" graph! Isn't there something wrong with this picture? God's word condemns the killing of infants, whether in or out of the womb.

From THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH Issue No. 389, of January 6-12, 1999:
In an article titled Millennium time warp, by David Ewing Duncan we find some interesting statements which may be useful in clarifying the Y2k situation for those who are not familiar with British Israel exactitudes in regard to studies of timechart prophecies: "...it so happens that the year 2000 is not the true beginning of the Millennium. The simple reason for this is that the concept of zero did not exist when our timeline was invented in the sixth century. Then - as now - they counted the years starting with the year one, passing from 1BC to AD1, with no numeral in between. Here's where a bit of addition comes in. By adding 2000 to the year one, we get 2001, not 2000 - a point adamantly made by 2001 purists at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, and elsewhere. But for everyone else, it's the zeros." "...efforts to tell time across history have consistently failed, the debate over 'zero' versus 'one' being merely one of an eternal series of blunders along the road to the new Millennium - whenever it is. This includes a truly cosmic blooper made by the little fellow who is most directly responsible for the year 2000. His name was Dionysius Exiguus, literally Dennis the Little. An abbot and mathematician living in 6th -century Rome, it was he who invented the timeline that is rushing us towards mountains of Millennium chamagne, Millennium cars, Millennium hedge-funds, and gold-plated Millennium watches. The wee abbot's inspiration came when he set out in 525, by order of the Pope, to calculate future dates for Easter. Then, as now, this was a cumbersome proposition, given the formula adopted by the early church: that Easter shall fall on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. Dennis made his calculations, creating a chart of future dates, beginning in 531; except that nobody in Rome then used '531'. Most used either the year 1284 - counting from the founding of Rome - or 247, based on a calendar that started with the first year of the reign of emperor Diocletian. Neither date appealed to the pious Dennis, so he decided to calculate his dates based on the birthdate of Christ, calling the first year in his chart, anno Domini nostri Jesu Christi DXXXI, the year of our Lord Jesus Christ 531 - or AD 531. This all sounds fine, but Dennis had his dates wrong. Jesus of Nazareth was most likely not born in AD 1. No one knows his true birthday, but the Gospels provide a few clues, such as Matthew's story of Herod the great ordering the slaughter of all firstborn children under the age of two. Herod died in 4 BC, leading most biblical scholars today to put Christ's birthday in 4 or 5 BC. If they're right, then the true anno Domini 2000 arrived in 1995 or 1996, with nary a clink of a champagne glass. Dennis never suspected that he had made the blunder of all time - literally. Neither did anyone else in Europe, where his dating scheme was universally ignored until Britain's Venerable Bede adopted it in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, published in 731... ."
COMMENT: There is much more to the article, which continues to detail the parts played by Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, Sosigenes, the British friar Roger Bacon, Pope Gregory XIII and Philip Dormer Stanhope, the Earl of Chesterfield. A curious point mentioned in the article is that in London, after calendar corrections were brought in, (correcting an eleven-day surplus of dates by cutting those in 1752 between Wednesday, September 2 and Thursday September 14) bankers refused to pay taxes on the usual date of March 25. "They paid up 11 days later, on April 5 - still the tax day in Britain." A further point of note is that the year 2000 will be the year 5760 in the Jewish calendar. We might add that studies by some who hold B.I. beliefs, and have looked at the evidence with care, have provided historic evidence that, in fact, Jesus was quite possibly born at the Feast of Trumpets in 2 BC. If this evidence is accepted, it could shift speculative "year 2000" attention to the Feast of Trumpets in 1999!

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN - January, 1999
carries an interesting, authoritative, well-prepared and well-illustrated five-page article by Peter de Jager entitled "Y2K: So Many Bugs... So Little Time", which relates some of the possible computer software complexities which may be encountered as our computers transit into the year 2000.

Biblical Archaeology Review - January/February, 1999
contains a number of articles which may be of interest to readers. Two in particular caught the eye of your Editor. One, entitled "Has David Been Found in Egypt" provides possible evidence to buttress the Biblical record of the times of that Monarch. Another article in the same journal, "Pharaoh's Workers - How the Israelites Lived in Egypt" by Leonard & Barbara Lesko gives insights derived from excavations at Deir el-Medina, Egypt, pertaining to community life roughly from the times of the Hyksos to the Ramesside empire; the centuries leading up to The Exodus.

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