Monthly Archives: July 2006

I just fired a note off to the NZ Herald about the following article – http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=4&ObjectID=10391395 I’m really no basketball fan, but any contest between NZ and Australia is a plainly matter of critical geopolitical importance (especially when NZ wins!), … Continue reading →

A little idle googling tonight led me to a pretty interesting audio stream (.mp3) on the subject of Christianity and Politics – a message by Gary DeLashmutt from Xenos Christian Fellowship in Columbus, Ohio. I’ve never heard of him or … Continue reading →

Further to the earlier reference to the alleged killing of Falun Gong members in China, the issue seemed serious enough for me to send off a letter to NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters. Here is is – Mr Peters, … Continue reading →

Mike Moore has this to say about the Doha nonsense in an article today in the NZ Herald. A deal in agriculture would give Africa four to five times more help than all the aid given by all nations. The … Continue reading →

Interesting article this week in the Sydney Morning Herald about an investigation by a Canadian humanrights lawyer and a former Canadian cabinet minister into alleged state killings of Falun Gong members in order to harvest human organs for transplant. The … Continue reading →

I read an article on cnn.com yesterday about a former US Navy Seal who is suing Donald Rumsfeld for unlawful detention in Iraq, after he went there to make a documentary on Cyrus the Great. I thought the following was … Continue reading →

Ok, this is again mainly a note for myself about my computer. The Show Desktop icon disappeared from my Quick Launch toolbar a few days ago – a problem that I’ve had before, but I couldn’t remember what I did … Continue reading →

A couple of interesting news items crossed my path this week that argue for the economic benefit of free markets…

This is mainly a note for myself in case I need to remember this if I upgrade Firefox at some point in the future… I discovered this morning that I couldn’t play video on cnn.com from Firefox. It’s always been … Continue reading →

Just a little humour from Scuttlebutt – I used to be schizophrenic, but we’re ok now.