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Over four years ago, more than four months prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks, in April 2001, a long-term FBI
informant/asset who had been providing the bureau with information since 1990, provided two FBI agents and a translator
with specific ...
“It is about time the Government woke up to the approaching energy crisis” stated Tariana Turia today.
1. Government Spending—Proportion of GDP 2. Kyoto Protocol—Prime Minister's Statement 3. Oil Prices—Analysis of Impact
4. EDS (New Zealand) Ltd—Government Grant 5. Employment Relations Act—Union Member Payments 6. State Housing—Recent
Developments
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed that a New Zealand citizen was killed by a shark while swimming
off a beach on Malekula Island in northern Vanuatu yesterday afternoon.
MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday, 22 June 2005 Prince William hopes to raise profile of water polo to teenagers Prince William
has chosen to attend a water polo event in west Auckland during his up-coming visit to New Zealand to promote the sport
to other ...
When truthout boss Marc Ash asked me earlier this year to look into the Pentagon's killing of journalists, I didn't know
what to expect. Many reporters at the time believed that American soldiers were purposely targeting them. But, as I soon
found, ...
1. DAIL JONES to the Minister of Immigration: Does current policy encourage expat New Zealanders to return to New
Zealand permanently?
I’m given to understand that all the jokes about marsh gas, Parliament and global warming were used up last century.
Certainly, experts have suggested that the rate at which we are discovering new Kyoto-related comedy had been exceeded
by the rate ...
“Motorists, commuters and businesses will benefit from a one-off increase in the government’s tax take as the financial
industry responds to new tax law,” Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today.
1. Expatriate New Zealanders—Return to New Zealand 2. Child Poverty—Government Action 3. Land—Public Access 4. Aotea
(Great Barrier) Marine Reserve—Application Process 5. Land—Public Access 6. Water Quality—Lowland Rivers and Streams 7.
Health—Future ...
If John Key wants to demonstrate that economist Peter Harris is wrong when he says National's tax and spending promises
don't add up, he would seem better advised to do so by releasing the numbers than by impugning Harris's credibility...
British and French ambassadors recently said: "There isn't any kind of security problem along the travel in Nepal.
Tourists have nothing to fear. We recommend the Nepalese and the foreigners to experience the spectacular beauty on
their own." ...
Americans, along with the rest of the world, are starting to wake up to the uncomfortable fact that President George
Bush not only lied to them about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (the ostensible excuse for the March 2003
invasion and occupation of that ...
Mexico: The False Narco-Smear Against the Zapatistas June 22, 2005 Gary Webb - Presente Please Distribute Widely
Farmers up and down the country have been protesting against the Government's proposal to have a five-metre walking
accessway along significant waterways. Today Federated Farmers launched its Visitor Access Protocol and handed over a
petition protesting ...
New Zealand wineries and grapegrowers are furious that the government has announced yet another tax increase on wine,
the 2nd in just one month.
Following over three weeks of social upheaval, now known as the Second Gas War, Bolivians have thrown out their second
president in less than two years.
Co-ordinating Minister, Race Relations Trevor Mallard today released the second group of reports and results from the
government’s review of targeted policies and programmes.
19: Don Brash Writes
At the time of the 2002 election, National campaigned against the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. We argued that it
made no sense for a country which contributes just one-quarter of one percent to the global emissions of greenhouse
gases to impose ...
The Smokefree Coalition is welcoming a Liquor Licensing Authority ruling that Kelly Browne’s Bar must shut for three
weeks. The Cambridge bar had repeatedly thumbed its nose at the new smokefree bars law. The Coalition represents 27
health groups, ...
Gay man and human rights campaigner Jeremy Lambert is seeking inclusion on the National Front’s ‘hit list’ of known
“communists, anti-facists, anarchists, homosexuals, multiculturalists”.
An Otago PhD student researching environmental contamination from leaky landfills has taken top honours at the 2005
MacDiarmid Young Scientists of the Year Awards, held in Auckland tonight.
Havana, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) Flip, Flop, Flip - Rumsfeld, George W, and Cheney just can't get this Gitmo thing right.
A couple of weeks ago, it was the best thing for getting the low-down on terrorism since sliced head, I mean bread.
A Salon/Rolling Stone joint investigation. When a study revealed that mercury in childhood vaccines may have caused
autism in thousands of kids, the government rushed to conceal the data - and to prevent parents from suing drug
companies for their ...
Dana Milbank's snotty attack on critics of White House behavior as revealed in the Downing Street memos illuminates a
carefully concealed truth about the media: its definition of objectivity stops at the edge of anything left of center.
Standard ...
Auckland’s St Matthew-in-the-City Anglican Church is home for a community of gay and lesbian Christians. This year marks
the 25th anniversary of the establishment of that group, the Auckland Community Church (ACC).
National Party Finance spokesman John Key is pleased that Michael Cullen has executed a U-turn on road funding, but
suspects it has more to do with Labour's poor polling.
The Government is dumping issues that requires leadership into the too hard basket until after the election, United
Future leader Peter Dunne said today in detailing half a dozen recent matters that the Government has opted not to deal
with or has ...
The first piece below, published on the Herald's Dialogue page this week, answers the devoted fans of Che Guevara who
were upset that I was so nasty to him. The second is the text of the piece I will send out to anyone who takes up the
invitation to ...
Bishop Tamaki’s ‘Nation under Siege’ tour attracted over 450 locals at Rotorua Boys High School last night.
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