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Created by the CIA in Saigon in 1967, Phoenix was a program aimed at "neutralizing"--through assassination, kidnapping,
and systematic torture--the civilian infrastructure that supported the Viet Cong insurgency in South Vietnam. It was a
terrifying "final solution" ...
The Glassons Breast Cancer Research Trust t-shirt campaign has now topped the $300,000 mark.
Here we go again. While postwar Iraq continues to crumble, the Bush administration is now setting its sights on a new
target—Iran—in its so-called effort to reshape most of the Middle East and bring democracy to countries ruled by vicious
dictators. ...
The recently released single from the Air New Zealand television commercial titled "Something New" has debuted at number
three on the New Zealand music charts.
Thank you for the invitation to speak to the Diplomatic Club. I thought it would be helpful to give you an insider's
view of the political scene and why Labour faces electoral defeat.
The contract is for a small, temporary network. Its price tag is $45 million for 5,000 to 10,000 phones, if there are no
cost overruns. That works out to $4,500 to $9,000 per phone. Since many people carry two or three phones, the cost per
user ...
While I find those images on the Internet of a blunt little mustache digitally-scribbled onto President Bush's upper lip
feeble and unhelpful, still, there are parts of Bush's character and behavior that strikingly resemble at least one
major biographer's interpretation ...
Q: Its a script straight out of Hollywood and the story that gave America an injection of patriotism. A raid in the dead
of night under enemy lines where US soldiers daringly rescued one Private Jessica Lynch held captive in an Iraqi
hospital. But a BBC reporter ...
After 15 years of putting her body on the line for her own highly successful brand of lingerie Elle Macpherson will no
longer appear as the model in the advertising images of Elle Macpherson Intimates.
Just an FYI to say that "Memory Hole" may have just found out about Operation Phoenix but in claiming "just uncovered"
is total rubbish. It was pretty well known publicly in the mid-seventies. I've got a book here from those times entitled
...
Every few days, opposition parties tell us that Prime Minister Helen Clark’s policies and comments have taken us another
step away from the holy grail of a free trade agreement (FTA) with the US.
In order to protect itself against plots hatched by US-funded dissidents the government will extend surveillance and
control of moderates to the extent of repressing such freedoms as already exist. Those attempting to speak in support of
liberty will be ...
W32.Sobig.B@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to all the email addresses, purporting to have been sent by
Microsoft (support@microsoft.com).
Washington Post Headline on 9/11 Inquiry May Prove Prophetic Says Watchdog Group - Witnesses not under oath raises
doubts about Commission process
The angry American reaction to Canada's move towards sanity on drug laws raises a question that is seldom asked, let
alone studied by academics or the media. Given that the drug war has been a demonstrable failure why does it continue to
be so strongly ...
IRAN 3-4, 9 Cooperative Dialogue with Iranians 4-5 Discussion on Nuclear Weapons Programs 4-7 Alleged al-Qaida Presence
in Iran 5-6 Calls for More Democratic System 8-9 Efforts to Combat Terrorism
Taranaki Regional Council's (TRC) State of the Environment report illustrates the benefits of a positive approach to
environmental stewardship based on education, communication, peer pressure and the ability of regional councils to
enforce compliance.
NEW YORK - A political explosion happened the weekend of May 17th-18th in New York, and it may be the big one that
gives Karl Rove nightmares. It could mean the end of George W. Bush's seemingly unending ability to tell overt lies to
the American ...
National MP Murray McCully and ACT MP Rodney Hide said today that the Te Mangai Paho funding scandal reported on today
was just a tip of a very large iceberg.
New Zealand First has distanced itself from the so-called “grand coalition” of political parties suggested by Act leader
Richard Prebble today and has described it “as a bit desperate”.
According to UNICEF figures from March 2003: - Half of Iraq's population of 24.5 million are children. - 1 in 8 children
die before age 8. - One in every four children under five is malnourished. - 70% of all child deaths are from diarrhea
or respiratory ...
22: Cheap Fuel at BP
BP is offering cheap fuel for today only with a 5 cent discount on its petrol and diesel.
This has been an exhausting and worrying week for all of us in Hebron. Our co-ordinator, Greg, was arrested on
Sunday18th May and has been in prison ever since. On Saturday 17th May we were horrified when a suicide bomber blew
himself and a settler couple ...
It hasn’t been reported in the U.S. press – until here, now – but Milan, Italy's chief prosecutor has obtained thousands
of documents that show how for more than 20 years Saddam Hussein used the Western bank and corporate secrecy system to
launder ...
The White House announced May 28 that the United States and Chile have reached a free trade agreement. U.S. Trade
Representative Robert Zoellick and Maria Soledad Alvear Valenzuela, the Chilean Foreign Minister will sign the agreement
in Miami, ...
Te Mangai Paho Board Chair Mr Toby Curtis today tendered his resignation to the Minister of Maori Affairs, following the
release of the external review into the way the organisation dealt with the employment of a former employee.
ISRAEL/PALESTINIANS 1-5 Preparations for Road Map Meetings 3 Possibility of Quartet Meetings 3-4 Detained Palestinian
Diplomat in Baghdad
The Karori Wildlife Sanctuary unveils its plans for the next stage of major development – the Gateway Project.
National's welfare discussion paper has diagnosed the problem, but its prescription is a rehash of 'hit 'em hard'
policies of the type that won't work in isolation, United Future's social services spokeswoman Judy Turner said today.
Ambassador Mary Beth West, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and Fisheries Statement before the
Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife, and Oceans, House Committee on Resources Washington, DC May 22, 2003