Appendix 1: Increase of the world population in six years (1999-2005)

World population in   28 April 1999:  5.975.564.861

World population       28 April 2005:  6.516.898.695

This implies that in 6 years the world population has been increased by more than 541 million people! (Internet: World Population Information)

Appendix 2: Three examples of coincidence  (?) with the collapse of the World Trade Towers on September 11th 2001

Example 1:

In my article of 1999 I wrote:

In a special report in the Scientific American of December 1997 (Pelli) "Building the Biggest" a photo of  world's tallest building in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) was given. The pinnacles of the 88- story structures reach 451.9 meters. In 2003 they will erect a skyscraper of 106-story 508 meters high In Taipei, Taiwan!

 "The urge to build as high as possible appears to be a common trait of human cultures. From the Great Pyramid of Cheops to the Tower of Babel; towers that reached towards heaven". 

The comparison with the Tower of Babel is very illustrative. In Genesis 11:4,8

"And they said, Go to, let us make a city and tower, whose top may reach unto heaven (…) So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city". 

The arrogance of human mankind to govern this planet Earth, without having any respect for Nature, to pollute, to deplete in order to build  "towers" that must reach the sky. In order to survive we have to leave these "towers" and scatter over the earth!  

 

   

Figure 15 and 16: Left: In my article of April 1999 I published the painting of C.A.Teunissen (1499-1553) of the tower of Babel. Right: The remains of one of the towers of the World Trade Center 11th of September 2001.

Example 2:

Scientific American, Vol. 265, number 3, September 2001. Article: p.86, Voyages. Geological tours expose the innermost secrets of New York City and beyond.  (Published before September 11th!),

                                   

Figure 17. New York before September 11th 2001

The following text under the photograph:

"The Skyline of New York owes everything to geology. The financial district and Midtown support growing buildings because bedrock is no more than 38 to 80 feet below the surface. In Greenwich Village, however, it is abour 260 feet down".

The Headline: "Seeing the Earth for Its Faults" has a double meaning. I don't think that the editors had in mind with this text the collapse of the Twin Towers !?

Example 3:

In a Dutch Newspaper a financial and fiscal company  Loyens and Loeff published Saturday 8th of September 2001 the following advertisement:

                                      

Figure 18. Dutch advertissement in the Dutch newspaper NRC, 8th of September 2001

On the photograph we see at the location of the Twin Towers three thick books: Left upside : "Belasting Wetten"(Dutch Fiscal Laws); Right upside : "Burgerlijk Wetboek" (Dutch Cival Laws); Under the two books " van Dale Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal" ( Dictionary of the Netherlands language).

Did  the advertising company had a brainwave in seeing three days ahead in replacing the twin towers with books?

I could not realize that my  publication in April 1999: "WHERE IS OUR PLANET EARTH HEADING TO IN THE NEXT CENTURY" was more than reality six years later!