The Prophetic Expositors issued in December, 2000 and January, 2001 omitted sections devoted to news clippings and comments thereon. The following items were printed in the February, 2001 issue of The Prophetic Expositor:

In this issue of The Prophetic Expositor, we must attempt to catch up with about six months of news clippings, so we will be brief. A couple of small ones have been languishing in the crush at the bottom of the file since August, but brought a smile when we read them! From The Weekly Telegraph No. 473 of August 16-22, 2000, quoting the Chester Standard it appears that "The girls choir has a long-standing booking to sin in Amsterdam in August." We trust they carried out their duties in a respectable lady-like fashion! And The Toronto Globe and Mail of 18 August carried the following "morning smile: "While it is usually true that 'The early bird gets the worm,' remember: 'It's the SECOND mouse that gets the cheese." - Author unknown.

From The Toronto Globe & Mail of August 30 2000: "Bronze Age temple found in Germany" Agence France-Press, Berlin - Archeologists in Germany say they have discovered the remains of a huge prehistoric temple- comparable to, but earlier than, the Stonehenge of the ancient Britons.
- The early Bronze Age temple unearthed at Kyhna near Deliztsch in the east German state of Saxony is believed to have been built around 5000 B.C., which would make it about 2,000 years older than the British edifice.
- "There has never been such a spectacular discovery made in Germany," Hanning Hassmann of the regional archeological office said.
- Like Stonehenge and other similar ancient remains in Europe, the stones of the Kyhna site, north of Leipzig, were laid out in precise alignment with the rays of the sun at the summer solstice.
- The stones can no longer be seen, but their position and that of related earthworks is indicated by a variation in the plant life on the earth's surface.
- Aerial photographs of the agricultural land in question clearly show two sets of concentric circles, one of four circles and the other of two, with the largest being 120 metres in diameter.

From The Toronto Globe & Mail of 31 August, 2000: "Divine solution urged for Jerusalem" COMMENT: These things do take a little time to work out! It is, after all an historic site, and such places see the centuries pass very easily.

From The Toronto Globe & Mail of August 30 2000: "Reviled pope nears sainthood - Uproar greets decision to beatify Pius IX, who called Jews 'dogs'" heads a short article on the proposal to beatify Pius IX and John XXIII.

From The Toronto Globe & Mail of September 6 2000: "Only Catholicism 'proper': Vatican" with sub-heading "'There exists a single Church of Christ,' decree says, dismissing all Protestant faiths." A quote, beneath a photograph quotes Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger as stating "The 'principle of tolerance and respect for freedom' promoted by the Second Vatican Council is being 'manipulated.'" The article begins: AFP and AP, Vatican City - The redemption and salvation of sinners is possible only through the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican stated yesterday, arguing that Christian communities, such as Anglicans or other Protestants, "are not churches in the proper sense."
- COMMENT: The position emerged from a 36-page document, entitled "On the Unity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church." Continuing with the theme, and claiming authority through Peter, the pronouncement, which dismissed other branches of Christendom doubtless came as quite a shock to church leaders who had been, to all appearance, yielding principles to gain ecumenical "togetherness." A typical reaction emerged from George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury: "the idea that Anglican and other churches are not 'proper churches' seems to question the considerable gains we have made."
- The Weekly Telegraph No. 476 of September 6-12, 2000 carried a parallel article headed "Rome is mother of churches, says Cardinal." Significantly, it states: "The term 'sister churches' ... could only be used to describe certain local Catholic churches, including the Orthodox, which had a valid episcopate, and Eucharist." The next issue of The Weekly Telegraph, No. 477, of September 13-19, 2000 carries Archbishop Carey's statement rejecting the position, and stating "Of course the Church of England, and the Anglican Communion, does not for one moment accept that its orders of ministry and Eucharist are deficient in any way... ."
- It would seem rather that the Cardinal should be thanked for clarifying the true position for the good Archbishop and others who in our opinion, should have known better.

From The Toronto Globe & Mail of September 6 2000: " Tree-ring record holds secret to ancient disaster, scientist says" Reuters News Agency, London
- Something catastrophic occurred on earth 1,500 years ago, and it may be linked to the onset of the Dark Ages. The event also coincided with the end of the Roman Empire and the death of King Arthur, a scientist said yesterday. It could have been a bombardment of cometary debris or the eruption of a super volcano. But whatever it was, it is clearly etched in the chronology of tree rings from around the world, said Professor Mike Baillie of Queen's University in Belfast.
- The global environmental event that occurred around the year 540 is not recorded in any history books. But the tree-ring chronologies compiled from samples of trees, some preserved in bogs, which date back thousands of years, single out something that was quite extraordinary.
- "It was a catastrophic environmental downturn that shows up in trees all over the world," Prof. Baillie told a news conference at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Prof. Baillie believes the slowdown of tree growth was due to a bombardment of cometary debris.

By the way, remember Steven Thoburn? He is the grocer whose scales were not metric, and now he is charged in the courts for his grave crime! The Weekly Telegraph No. 477 of September 13-19, 2000 notes that He is supported by members of the UK Independence Party that is bringing a civil action demanding immediate return of the scales and compensation. We will continue to monitor his situation as news arrives.

That "NO" vote of the Danes (The Weekly Telegraph, No. 478, September 20-26, 2000) may yet prove most important psychologically in the anti-Euro camp. Stay tuned! From the same issue, we see that the godless "Millennium Dome" is costing a mint, and is a great embarrassment to the U.K. Government. It could be torn down within the year. The same issue carried the news that 'Home of Noah' found 300ft below Black Sea, which is something which we noted from The National Geographic in the July Prophetic Expositor.
- Also from The Weekly Telegraph No. 480, of October 4-10, 2000: Sir Thomas More is to become the patron saint of politicians. We wonder if he would be happy with such a prospect!

The Globe & Mail of October 3, 2000 carried the report of the passage in Britain of a Human Rights Act, which incorporates into British law the European Convention on Human Rights. Judges can now issue a declaration stating that an existing British law is incompatible with the new Human Rights Act.

From The Weekly Telegraph No. 481, of October 11-17, 2000: Shrine is wrecked as troops withdraw. Palestinian police failed to halt the destruction and burning of Joseph's tomb, which is deemed a "Jewish" site by enraged Palestinians, who are apparently unaware that Joseph was not a Jew. Jews did not emerge into Biblical history until the Babylonian Captivity of Judah returned under Ezra and Nehemiah, according to Josephus. The first mention of the word "Jew" in the AV is II Kings 16:6, where the Jews are warring against Israel.

The Globe & Mail of October 20, 2000 carried the Obituary of Lady SARAH SPENCER-CHURCHILL, 78, in Connecticut, as did The Weekly Telegraph No. 483, of October 25-31, 2000. The latter also carried an item "Money changers in the Temple" which states that "THE CHURCH of England is drawing up plans to install hole-in-the-wall cash machines in thousands of rural churches. Officials want to exploit the vacuum left by the closure of bank branches and post offices across the country by encouraging churches to revert to their medieval role as centres of the community. Banks said there would be no difficulty installing dispensers in naves or church halls, but the prospect has dismayed traditionalists who point out that Christ threw the money changers out of the Temple."
- A further item from the same issue tells us that Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, England doesn't have "a clue" who General Charles James Napier and Major General Sir Henry Havelock are, and thinks their statues should be removed from Trafalgar Square. Napier had military successes in India, and was a parliamentary radical who supported Chartist demands, while Havelock's 78th Highlanders lifted the siege of Lucknow.

The Toronto Globe & Mail of October 24, 2000 carried the Obituary of John Worsley, the British artist who, as a prisoner of the Germans in the Second World War, created a dummy PoW called "Albert" of papier-mâché. It had human hair and Ping-Pong balls for eyes, made to blink by a sardine-tin pendulum. The body was of wire frame covered with a naval greatcoat and sleeves stuffed into the pockets.

From The Weekly Telegraph No. 481, of November 1-7, 2000: Britain now 'a society of atheists' says Carey. The Archbishop paints a gloomy portrait of the average Briton today.

Toronto Globe & Mail of November 8, 2000, Arts Notebook, with a heading "Pinpointing daddy of a famous mummy" takes us to Cairo where Japanese and Egyptian researchers will start probing the mummy of King Tutankhamun for DNA samples to determine his lineage, and possibly establish him as the son of Amenhotep III.