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Top Document: FAQ: Air Traveler's Handbook 1/4 [Monthly posting] Previous Document: [1-22] Discount Airlines See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Airline "tour" desks (e.g., Flyaway Vacations on American) are excellent sources of good fares on relatively short notice. For example, "bulk" or unpublished fares are available with as little as four days notice (and a $15 late booking fee if the reservation is made less than 14 days prior to arrival) to many popular destinations. The only catch is that a minimum land package must be booked; after all, it is a "tour" package. But for some destinations (e.g., Hawaii from the west coast), that's only a minimum two-day rental car. Other embarkation points require a three-day minimum hotel stay, but the rates are very attractive. Other cities require a two-day minimum hotel stay, but this can be in connection with the Holiday Inn voucher program (runs as little as $79 per room per night depending on the hotel category). The passenger must book a "tour room" directly with a participating Holiday Inn -- and the airline rarely checks if the passenger actually made the reservations. Also, the vouchers do not have to be used in connection with a flight, and can be used anytime within a year from the date of the trip. To combat fraud, such as folks cancelling the car rental and applying for a refund, the land segment is usually non-refundable. Bulk fares are also often blacked out during holidays, but this can vary by the destination. In essence, a tour package combines airfare with a minimum hotel stay and/or car rental. Requirements vary with the destination and embarkation point, but if you can meet the requirements, you may find yourself saving some money. These tour packages can be particularly useful to business folks who don't want to stay over a Saturday night. The savings on the flight can more than make up the cost of the hotel stay, especially when compared with the cost of a last-minute non-supersaver fare. Many airlines are starting to outsource their tour calls to contractors, as they aren't very profitable to the airlines. How this will affect the availability of such deals is unknown. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ;;; *EOF* User Contributions:Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic:Top Document: FAQ: Air Traveler's Handbook 1/4 [Monthly posting] Previous Document: [1-22] Discount Airlines Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: mkant@cs.cmu.edu
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Throughout time, we can see how we have been slowly conditioned to come to this point where we are on the verge of a cashless society. Did you know that the Bible foretold of this event almost 2,000 years ago?
In Revelation 13:16-18, we will read,
"He (the false prophet who deceives many by his miracles--Revelation 19:20) causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666."
Speaking to the last generation, this could only be speaking of a cashless society. Why's that? Revelation 13:17 says that we cannot buy or sell unless we receive the mark of the beast. If physical money was still in use, we could buy or sell with one another without receiving the mark. This would contradict scripture that states we need the mark to buy or sell!
These verses could not be referring to something purely spiritual as scripture references two physical locations (our right hand or forehead) stating the mark will be on one "OR" the other. If this mark was purely spiritual, it would indicate both places, or one--not one OR the other!
This is where it really starts to come together. It is incredible how accurate the Bible is concerning the implantable RFID microchip. This is information from a man named Carl Sanders who worked with a team of engineers to help develop this RFID chip:
"Carl Sanders sat in seventeen New World Order meetings with heads-of-state officials such as Henry Kissinger and Bob Gates of the C.I.A. to discuss plans on how to bring about this one-world system. The government commissioned Carl Sanders to design a microchip for identifying and controlling the peoples of the world—a microchip that could be inserted under the skin with a hypodermic needle (a quick, convenient method that would be gradually accepted by society).
Carl Sanders, with a team of engineers behind him, with U.S. grant monies supplied by tax dollars, took on this project and designed a microchip that is powered by a lithium battery, rechargeable through the temperature changes in our skin. Without the knowledge of the Bible (Brother Sanders was not a Christian at the time), these engineers spent one-and-a-half-million dollars doing research on the best and most convenient place to have the microchip inserted.
Guess what? These researchers found that the forehead and the back of the hand (the two places the Bible says the mark will go) are not just the most convenient places, but are also the only viable places for rapid, consistent temperature changes in the skin to recharge the lithium battery. The microchip is approximately seven millimeters in length, .75 millimeters in diameter, about the size of a grain of rice. It is capable of storing pages upon pages of information about you. All your general history, work history, criminal record, health history, and financial data can be stored on this chip.
Brother Sanders believes that this microchip, which he regretfully helped design, is the “mark” spoken about in Revelation 13:16–18. The original Greek word for “mark” is “charagma,” which means a “scratch or etching.” It is also interesting to note that the number 666 is actually a word in the original Greek. The word is “chi xi stigma,” with the last part, “stigma,” also meaning “to stick or prick.” Carl believes this is referring to a hypodermic needle when they poke into the skin to inject the microchip."
Mr. Sanders asked a doctor what would happen if the lithium contained within the RFID microchip leaked into the body. The doctor replied by saying a (...)