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Labour approved a discussion paper that proposed legalising brother-sister sex for over-20-year-olds, according to
official documents released today by National’s Law and Order spokesman, Tony Ryall.
PHILIP J. BERG, Esquire, a Lafayette Hill, PA attorney, joined multi-millionaire Jimmy Walter, an American currently
living in Europe, for a seven country/eight city tour, after conducting research with a team of experts on the attacks
on the Pentagon ...
You know things have gone more than a bit around the bend when it takes a British MP with a hard Scottish brogue to
throw a little truth against the walls of the U.S. Senate chamber to see what will stick. George Galloway, accused of
profiteering in ...
That incriminating "smoking gun" memo proving the Bush and Blair Administrations pre-determined an invasion and
occupation of Iraq long before the invasion occurred has apparently come and gone, barely noted in the American press,
AWOL from editorial ...
In this edition: - Anonymous Hidesight Reader Seeks Help And Provokes A Witch-hunt - Media Matters – The Dangers
Involved In Working For The Sunday Star Times - When is 'Off The Record' Actually 'On The Record' - Journo With Special
Insight Into NZ's ...
NEW ZEALAND CINEMA INDUSTRY HEATS UP WITH PREMIERE OF STAR WARS EPISODE 3: Revenge of the Sith
The Government's Digital Strategy, released today, is a positive development, but the lack of acknowledgement of Open
Source and 'e-waste' issues is disappointing, says Green Party IT Spokesperson Nandor Tanczos.
"The Minister of Health has confirmed that none of the five deaths acknowledged as being due to meningococcal disease so
far this year could have been prevented by the MeNZB(tm) vaccination programme," say risk & policy analyst Ron Law, and writer/researcher ...
Israeli Occupation soldiers killed a married Palestinian man, Omar Mutei Assrawe (25) at the Al- Kufrayat military
checkpoint near Tulkarem as he was on his way to work. The Israelis prevented an ambulance from reaching the man
following the shooting.
It's not easy writing about something about which I know very little, but I'm going to try anyway. (Hey, you, in the
back. I heard that. It has too stopped me before.)
MSM--Since its founding in 1933, the pages of Newsweek have been held together by a perfect combination of glue and
staples. The binding method proved incredibly effective, ensuring that the pages would not be lost or shuffled in the
wrong order.
Today around 500 miners came down from El Alto. Led by Jaime Solares and the secretary general of the Bolivian
Mineworkers Federation, Miguel Zuvieta, they again confronted the police just outside downtown La Paz. Meanwhile, the
long march led by Evo Morales' ...
Andrew Masseurs and I (Mathew Powell) have been selected as one of the top 5 from over 650 entries. We are the only
Wellington based songwriting duo in the competition. We've been writing our own songs for 15 years (since our college
days) and wrote ...
Thailand wants Washington to confirm no Thai government officials received bribes in an attempt to sell American
bomb-detectors to Bangkok's international airport, after the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Securities and Exchange
Commission, ...
LEAD STORY: Scoop Analysis: Budget 2005 A Very Political Baby Indeed! - Scoop Budget 2005 Coverage Details - 2005
Meningococcal Deaths Would Not Have Been Prevented By Vaccine - Fewer Britons and Aussies Visiting New Zealand -
Department Of Labour Urges ...
" I took this shot this morning at first light. Lovely colours with the mist rolling in over the lake and the sun just
making its appearance." - Norm Mackay Lake Ohau
Prime Minister Helen Clark is today visiting flood-ravaged communities in the Bay of Plenty.
This lecture was delivered at the University of Wisconsin at Madison on April 18, 2005. - I will begin by unpacking the
key terms in the title of my talk: “9/11,” “American empire,” and “religious people,” beginning with the last one.
"It's appalling that this story got out there," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on her way back from Iraq.
What's not appalling to Condi is that the US is holding prisoners at Guantanamo under conditions termed "torture" by the
Red Cross.
World Vision has just announced the 21 senior school scholarship winners and 20 intermediate school scholarship winners
for this year's 40 Hour Famine, a selection that will eventually see three senior students selected for Sanitarium
Travelling Scholarships ...
CHARLOTTE GLENNIE THE BILL TOFT MEMORIAL AWARD FOR BROADCASTING EXCELLENCE SUE INGRAM BROADCASTING INDUSTRY AWARD FOR
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT
I’ve never been one for Zen koans. They’ve always seemed to me to be trick questions designed to produce insights that
simple, undivided observation can engender. But here’s a kind of koan: What is learning when it is based on unlearning?
An interview with, John Perkins - author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" - who says he says he helped the U.S.
cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly
repay and ...
In April 2005, there were fewer short-term overseas visitor arrivals from Australia (down 7,900 or 10 percent) and the
United Kingdom (down 2,400 or 12 percent), compared with April 2004, Statistics New Zealand said today. Overall, there
were 174,800 visitor ...
Land locked : Within the towering : Weight of the Wall : Gated by Israeli : Offensive Forces : Shutting out : Hope of
peace : Light of reason : Winds of change
After days of whisperings up and down the country about some form of tax relief, all we got were tax threshold
adjustments, in line with inflation (really an economic necessity), in 2008 - whoopee! This is an insult to hard-working
Kiwis who have spent ...
All terrain vehicles (ATVs) have become an almost indispensable tool on farms – but at a cost, as a recent report from
the Taranaki Coroner has identified.
This week's chart marks the 30th birthday of what is now the Official New Zealand Music Chart. Ranking popular songs in
order started in America with Billboard magazine, the first charts measuring the sales of sheet music.
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