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Today while being interviewed on TVNZ's Agenda program, Education Minister Trevor Mallard accused the National Party of
hiding their election donations "through [using] trust funds."
When I heard it was coming yesterday, my impression was that Trevor Mallard had some documentary evidence to back up his
claims that that Don Brash and the National Party were in the pocket of American interests; and were, in fact, tailoring
policy in ...
To the unknown graphic artist: congratulations. You are the King of the Zeitgeist. Your clever visual play on the
identity of one of those supposedly implicated in the celebrity drug bust coursed through media organisations, private
companies and ...
So, who or what or why is Tammy Bruce? In case you did not notice, Ms Bruce visited our shores and made some media
appearances. Then she went home. According to some, this was an event of great importance. No less a media eminence than
Herald columnist ...
Dr Brash was outraged this week by the suggestions from Trevor Mallard that National Party policy was filtered through
Washington. Dr Brash told Mark Sainsbury that if Trevor Mallard “has any proof about our policies being driven by the
United States ...
JULY 20, 2005: One late night in Texas, 51-year-old Kathleen Wynne did something she never thought she would consider:
She jumped into a dumpster. An ordinary citizen who had become concerned about the integrity of Diebold voting machines,
Wynne was ...
It was one of those things that you can't quite believe is real. I was flipping through a magazine and saw an ad for a
stove that burns corn kernels. For heat. Corn is food, not fuel, I thought, but the ad assured me that "Corn is
replenished annually. ...
While Nandor Tanczos is busy apologising to the cannabis community in the latest issue of Norml News for trying to
bring in instant fines for possession, one can only assume he hasn't found the time to look at the evidence that I
continue to put ...
It is ironic that at a time when political parties are hustling to win power, that the storm clouds of an economic
slowdown are brewing. That means that those political parties such as Labour, the Greens and NZ First that are
advocating higher taxes ...
Who leaked the name of John G. Roberts before Bush's official prime time revelation Tuesday night? My guess: Karl Rove.
He had the most to gain from an early announcement. Rove knows the mainstream media has a very short attention span.
What better way ...
September 11 Victim Families who Fought to Create the 9/11 Commission Declare it a Failure on the First Anniversary of
the 9/11 Report. - 9/11 families join researchers to ask independent media and the foreign press for help -
A report prepared for Hutt City Council by geological engineering consultants Ian R Brown Associates has found that few
landslips in Hutt City have occurred on sites that would have been controlled by Council’s building consent processes.
R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs Testimony As Prepared Before the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee Washington, DC July 21, 2005
Attached is a clip of a TV3 news bulletin item which led the Tuesday night 6pm TV3 News bulletin. Subsequently Don Brash
is reported to have been urged by his advisors to take a clearer position on the matter. The issue of Don Brash's views
on Iraq ...
I have always maintained that the whole of human experience is reflected in literature. There is much to be learned from
careful study of the great classics. To prove this point, I was inspired by this week's Poetry Day to sort through my
own small knowledge ...
British investigators have uncovered that the "London bombers" had connections to a mysterious Pakistani engineer named
Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, also known as Abu Talha, who was allegedly behind last year's planned terror attack on Wall
Street, ...
It is clear from this advisory that the 2002 Voluntary Voting Systems Standards are the only standards recognized by the
EAC. Nowhere are the 1990 standards even mentioned. Yet almost all presently NASED qualified voting systems, including
most of those ...
Notwithstanding his equivocation and evasion, Dr Brash has in his own words highlighted for New Zealanders the clear
choice that they are offered at the next election, says Foreign Minister Phil Goff.
A United Nations report on the humanitarian aspects the evictions of some 200,000 people in Zimbabwe from their homes
and markets is being sent to the Government of the southern African country today, just two days after Secretary-General
Kofi Annan ...
Students are warning that the National Party's new rebates for interest repayments on loans will not keep graduates in
New Zealand or effectively target the $7 billion dollar student debt monster.
What do monkeys, 48May, frogs, crocodiles, cellphones, Bart, Archie, the feelers and cartoons have in common?
Prime Minister Helen Clark today expressed sadness at the news of more bomb attacks on London's transport system.
A specter is again haunting U.S. colleges and universities. At the beginning of the Cold War in the early 1950s, Joseph
McCarthy, the infamous Republican Senator from Wisconsin, stalked the political landscape hurling reckless charges that
hordes of ...
Social Development and Employment Minister Steve Maharey welcomed the findings of the latest Social Report as evidence
of solid progress on social issues, but warned further investments were needed in core areas such as health, education
and family ...
Labour, worried by the consolidation of National's poll lead, fired a broadside at Brash's credibility, but got one back
over "waste" in education .... The Nats go after the student vote with the next step of their tax relief package. But
can there ...
New Zealand First leader Rt Hon Winston Peters says the New Zealand Students Association co-president Andrew Kirton has
far more political sense than his Father, Weston Kirton the National Party candidate for Taupo.
On July 22, 2005, Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) and Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) will host a full-day briefing for Members
of Congress and their staff in the Caucus Room, Cannon House Office Building, Room 345, Independence Ave. & First Street SE, from ...
Below is a ranking of New Zealand websites drawn from the Entertainment category within Nielsen//NetRatings’ Market
Intelligence, and ranked by unique browsers.
And so the bush telegraph sprang into action. Yesterday's white collar drug bust was a matter - quite fairly at this
point - for name suppression all round. But if the gossip is correct, this case is going to sorely test the efficacy of
name suppression ...
In the severest ever human trafficking sentence in Kosovo, three Albanian citizens have been jailed for up to 12 years
for luring young women to the United Nations-administered province with false promises of legitimate work, only to try
to force them into prostitution.
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