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Introduction Human activity in New Zealand is heavily reliant on abundant and cheap energy, much of which we get from
oil. Yet oil is a finite resource, and one that the world is rapidly using up.
Today in The Narco News Bulletin, Narco News correspondent and leading Bolivian intellectual José Mirtenbaum reports on
a new political compromise in the Bolivian congress that would postpone the referendum on "regional autonomy" that the
country's business ...
Hurricane Dennis, a category four monster hurricane packing 230kmh winds, which may yet strengthen to a maximum category
5, is about to strike the Gulf Coast of the mainland United States, most probably close to the Alabama, Florida & Mississippi ...
I think Ken Livingstone's speech was amazing, and I DO believe it's what most Londoners feel about London. That we (I
was born here, though I spent all my childhood and youth in NZ and have now lived here longer than anywhere else)
actively like being ...
Reports just in suggest U.S. Army Radio quoting unconfirmed reliable sources reported a short time ago that Scotland
Yard had intelligence warnings of the attacks a short time before they occurred.
In This Edition: - Future of Institute For Liberal Values (Slightly) Uncertain - Alleged Security Risk Enjoys Cable Car
Ride - Sorry Old Chap, No Can Do, Chatham House Rules! - McCully accuses Dominion Post of Left Wing Bias!? - Market
Forces ...
New Zealand First leader Rt Hon Winston Peters today condemned suggestions from some quarters that attacks made on
mosques in Auckland over the weekend somehow had something to do with the New Zealand First party.
I would like to use this opportunity to discuss the Parahaki/Parihaka name-change debacle and to reflect on the future
of race-relations in New Zealand.
Cutting taxes may seem attractive. But the cost of tax cuts as a result of consequent cuts to spending is often
studiously ignored by those who promote them.
QUESTION: Madame Secretary, thank you for your time as always. We've had this big announcement that the North Koreans
are going to return to the six-party talks later this month. You know what some people are going to say, you know what
some people ...
Singapore Airlines (SIA) New Zealand has made special cancellation and postponement arrangements for travellers to
London concerned about yesterday’s explosions. In view of the incidents and the effects on the city’s transport system,
SIA passengers ...
If there's a list of people who have fearlessly stood up for democracy, decency and the truth against the corrupt
buzzsaw of the Bush Administration, Ambassador Joe Wilson is certainly at the top of the list.
Tibet’s exile leader the Dalai Lama has celebrated his 70th birthday while still in exile in India by relinquishing
politics to elected representatives. In a speech to thousands of Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala the spiritual and
worldly leader of ...
National Party Leader Don Brash and General Manager Steven Joyce today launched National’s campaign bus – the ‘National
Party Vote Mobile’, which will spread the message that the only way to change the government is to give your party vote
to ...
Plucky Londoners interviewed on the BBC following the July 7 terrorist subway and bus bombings noted that the crisis had
brought out the best in people. Strangers rushed to help the injured while some individuals risked their lives making
rescue ...
Judith Todd – daughter of Sir Garfield Todd and campaigner for human rights in Zimbabwe is arriving in New Zealand later
this week to join the campaign to stop the New Zealand Cricket Tour to Zimbabwe – scheduled for August. She is being
brought to New Zealand ...
Kevin List reports that the Government emphasised this week work that had been achieved in looking after NZ’s elderly.
With this in mind the Prime Minister attended a rather truncated post cabinet press conference then left leaving Maharey & Hodgson to explain ...
The following speech was given at the International Humanist and Ethical Union Congress on July 6, 2005 in Paris,
France, at a parallel session entitled ‘Women’s rights in religious and secular societies’.
Gleneagles, UK, 8 July 2005 - The Group of Eight communiqué issued by world leaders at their summit in Gleneagles today
highlights the divisions between President Bush and the rest of the world on tackling climate change.
Today I nearly got blown to pieces on a London Tube (metro). I was one of the lucky ones - many others were not.
Parliament is in recess. Labour’s come back campaign fails. National releases policy to give tax rebates. LABOUR STILL
WINNING All polls show National ahead of Labour with National and NZ First appearing to have a majority of seats. So
it’s PM Brash? ...
So London was bombed. If you missed any of it, and I mean any of it, come to America and turn on a television. In the
America of 2005, you can sit in front of a television after an event like this and have your gag reflex tested as the
event is continuously ...
"New Zealanders across all communities are horrified by the terrorist attacks in London which are the work of evil
people.
The Greens totally condemn the vandalism of Auckland mosques last night, Human Right Spokesperson Keith Locke says.
A New Zealand charitable foundation is tapping into the "extraordinary niceness" of Kiwis to drive a community
initiative aimed at enabling people to help others.
New generation hormonal drugs are to be subsidised for some women with early breast cancer from 1 August 2005.
The four main welfare benefits: Unemployment, Sickness, Invalids and the Domestic Purposes Benefit, cost taxpayers
$14million every day. That's $2,500 per year for every taxpaying New Zealander. But under Labour that is still not
enough. Labour ...
An earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter Scale occurred 40 kilometres south of Porangahau at 11:09am this morning.
Geological & Nuclear Sciences reported that the quake had a focal depth of 12 kilometres and may have been felt in southern Hawke's
Bay.
Riding the number 30 bus to the annual Marxism conference today, the day after a bus on that route was attacked, I
caught a tiny glimpse of the terror in terrorism. When I went upstairs to sit down as usual, it was empty.
National Party Leader Don Brash describes the attacks on four mosques in Auckland overnight as an appalling act of
intolerance.
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