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In This Edition: Why The Centre May Yet Hold - Afghanistani Peace Means Iraq Is About To Get A Pasting - Peace Is
Infectious - Meanwhile... Sharon Is Not To Be Left Behind - Those Who Live By The Sword…
By March 2002, the United States Bush administration will be ready to begin construction of silos and a testing command
centre for a futuristic and expensive U.S. anti-missile defence shield near Fairbanks in Alaska. This is US Superpower
Nuclear Dominance.
An excerpt from the Book of Mate: Ch 5, verses 6-16.
"The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces." -Maureen
Murphy
In this edition: Ross Ewing Feeds Back To Mike Campbell’s Feedback Re Axing The Skyhawks - Mike Campbell’s Comments
Timely But Ill-informed - Missiles on the RNZAF's Orions
Two Jewish members of the Jewish Defense League were arrested in Los Angeles early Wednesday in connection with an
alleged plot to bomb Arab-American and Islamic institutions in Culver City, California.
The United States today vetoed a Security Council resolution condemning "acts of terror" against Israelis and
Palestinians - the veto prevents the United Nations from attempting to stop deaths in the Middle East through diplomatic
means.
Auckland/Southern Oceans - 14th December 2001: Greenpeace today announced it’s presence in Antarctica to protest
whaling. In the early hours of this morning a Japanese Greenpeace campaigner on board the MV Arctic Sunrise (1), spoke
directly to the crew of the ...
Auckland, Friday 7th December 2001 – At launch events in Auckland and Wellington, PeopleSoft Inc. (Nasdaq: PSFT) has
demonstrated the industry’s first pure internet Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, PeopleSoft 8 CRM.
Rural Southland schools are being hammered by a change in Government education policy, according to National leader and
Clutha-Southland MP Bill English.
The United States’ announcement today of its withdrawal from the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty, signed between the US
and the USSR in 1972, is disappointing, Disarmament and Arms Control Minister Matt Robson said today.
This opinion piece is the ninth in a new series of "PC's Weekly Opinion" - a pithy, heavily spiced editorial from Peter
Cresswell that can be delivered to your in-box once a week. If you like what you read then feel free to forward it to
...
Peter Jackson's latest movie in progress The Lord Of The Rings was recently given a sneak preview at the 'ShoWEST' Trade
Fair in Paris.
Amsterdam, 14 th December 2001- Following Greenpeace’s first encounter with the Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctica,
the Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) – a private institute that catches whales under a license from the Fisheries
Agency ...
The Green Party said today it would not support any Government moves to introduce a "flatulence tax" on farm animals as
a way of meeting Kyoto Protocol targets.
Lord of the Rings' Princess Arwen (Liv Tyler) is pictured with what looks a lot like a digital camera. Source -
Anonymous. See also... Ringswatch: Our Liv Freaks Out In Battle - Scoop Images: Wellywood's Favourite Starlet - Scoop
Images: Liv Meets ...
Christmas deadlines being what they are, I haven't managed to fit in a bulletin this week. But I will be back next week
to sign off for 2001. See y'all then.
The Defense Department has released a videotape of Al Qaida leader Usama bin Laden discussing the September 11 terrorist
attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon during a courtesy visit with an unidentified Shaykh that is
believed ...
The United States' fight against terrorism involves looking for high-tech solutions to combat terrorism and the US
Government (Under Secretary of Defence for Acquisition Technology and Logistics) has issued an open tender to technology
companies around ...
Transcript Of Message From Shaykh Usaamah Ibn Laadin (Osama bin Laden) broadcast November 3rd by Al-Jazeera satellite
television channel
There’s a story that a friend of Sunday’s 2001 Turner Prize winner, artist Martin Creed, visited London’s Tate Britain
art galleries three times and couldn’t find Creed’s celebrated work. Hardly surprising if he wasn’t aware that The
Lights Going ...
Ross Ewing's contradictory bleating about the retirement of the fast strike and training arm of the air force is as
contradictory as it is imaginative.
AUCKLAND, December 12, 2001 - Intel Corporation researchers have released at no cost software that allows developers to
build computers that can view thee world the way people do - in stereo.
Thirteen witnesses are now prepared to say that when Flight 587 out of JFK in New York crashed on November 12 killing
all 265 on board, the tail did not mysteriously fall off. Truth will out! Maree Howard writes.
Dr. Seiji Ohsumi, Director General of the Institute of Cetacean Research in Tokyo today referred to Greenpeace as an
“eco-terrorist organization” and issued a public statement following the sighting of the Greenpeace vessel Arctic
Sunrise in the Antarctic ...
The Front-Page lead story in French Newspaper Le Figaro on Wednesday, October 31, 2001 is that Osama bin Laden was in an
American Hospital in Dubai, in July, and had contacts with the CIA. The story, also featured on Radio France
Internationale and ...
New Zealand's most ferocious predators, the stoat, has been bred in captivity for the first time in the Southern
Hemisphere. Scientists say this will help them find ways to stop stoats breeding as prolifically in the wild.
Upton-on-line notes french reaction to the slaying of Sir Peter Blake, gives a glimpse of how one young diasporan,
Hamish Coop, thinks about New Zealand from afar and describes the sorry tale of an aborted submarine expedition of Lake
Taupo by the Institute ...
The following pictures show film director Peter Jackson with members of the cast and crew of the Lord of the Rings
trilogy of films, the filming of which is now drawing to a close in the Wellington region.
Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs Remarks to Transatlantic Policy Network
Washington, DC November 30, 2001
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