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Today, Congressman John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman Maurice Hinchey and
other Members will send the attached letter to Mr. Ahmed Chalabi asking for a meeting to discuss his role in
manipulating the intelligence ...
Nandor Tanczos will be taking a seat as a Member of Parliament for the Green Party of Aotearoa / New Zealand.
Teenage fashion icons Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen are among a star-studded line-up of personalities to be honoured
in the 2005 Accessories Council Excellence Awards (ACE Awards).
Green Party co-leader Rod Donald died suddenly on Sunday November 6 2005. Scoop here presents video snippets from his
funeral, held at Christchurch's Cathedral on Thursday, November 10 2005.
Visiting Ethiopia and Eritrea amid concerns that deteriorating relations could lead to fresh fighting between the two
countries, which fought a bitter border war from 1998 to 2000, a United Nations Security Council envoy today received a
briefing from ...
Allegations keep cropping up in the press that CIA professionals are undermining the administration. In at least one
sense, I suppose, this is true. For when an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence,
speaking truth can be regarded ...
Television New Zealand may be regretting its decision not to broadcast Rod Donald's funeral live on free-to-air
television after its interactive services division struggled to cope with massive demand from the public to view the
funeral via an online stream. ...
Today, high among the upper levels of Bowen House New Zealand's new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Winston Peters, set
about warming up relations with the latest American Ambassador to New Zealand, William McCormick.
A small seabird known only from specimens collected over 150 years ago flew inside a fisherman’s boat anchored off
Little Barrier Island on Friday night. The bird is thought to be the New Zealand storm petrel (Oceanites maorianus),
which was re-discovered ...
One Law For All: A French Success Story - Bush Clarifies Position on Torture - Watching Opening of New Zealand
Parliament Turns Queen into Republican
Have you heard about the National Animal Identification System (NAIS)? The radio ads feature a “farmer” telling us how
hard it is to make a living farming today - harder than it was for Momma and Daddy. Worse yet, now we’ve got the risks
of all ...
Scoop Co-Editor Selwyn Manning attended this morning's funeral for Green Party Co-Leader Rod Donald at Christchurch
Cathedral. After the service he talked by phone to Scoop's Alastair Thompson and gave his impressions of the funeral and
the man. Later he spoke ...
ImpeachPAC, a new political action committee created to support congressional candidates who favor impeaching Bush and
Cheney, raised over $20,000 in its first weekend. ImpeachPAC was launched late Friday at www.impeachpac.org , and by
early Sunday evening had ...
National’s Welfare spokeswoman, Judith Collins, says while it is encouraging that unemployment figures have fallen, a
far more worrying trend is the continuing rise in Sickness and Invalids’Benefit numbers.
In the effort to improve the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), a rights expert
today urged Pyongyang to invite him and other United Nations-mandated personnel to visit the country.
Outstanding business and financial journalism has been recognised by Westpac New Zealand in its 42nd annual Business & Financial Journalism Awards.
Bolivian social scientist and coca historian José Mirtenbaum provides a fascinating retrospective in The Narco News
bulletin today on the history of coca criminalization and the struggle to decriminalize it during the last two decades.
Powerful new evidence emerged yesterday that the United States dropped massive quantities of white phosphorus on the
Iraqi city of Fallujah during the attack in November of 2004. The attack killed insurgents and civilians with appalling
burns that are the ...
News Items and Tributes: Green Party co-leader Rod Donald died Saturday night at around midnight at his home in St
Martins, Christchurch. A public funeral will be held at the Christchurch Cathedral, Thursday, 10:30am, followed by a
private burial.
What I find truly remarkable in Rosa Parks’ now legendary defiance is the simple forthrightness of her actions. Her
death, at the age of 92, should be more than a sober reminder of the legacy of a legendary Civil Rights pioneer, but
rather a reminder ...
The neoconservative pundits are hard at work, attempting to convince their readers that ‘Plamegate’ is an isolated
incident, hardly worth the cost of the newsprint. The ever-spry George Will leap-frogged effortlessly from Harriet Miers
over indicted ...
In association with r2.co.nz Scoop will be streaming this morning's funeral service at Christchurch Cathedral for Green
Party Co-Leader Rod Donald live.
Liberia’s third round of National Immunization Days will be kicked off tomorrow, aiming to provide 1.2 million children
under five years of age with the oral polio vaccine and de-worming medicine, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
reported ...
There's about 119,000 cases of food-borne illness in New Zealand each year and one of the easiest ways to avoid being a
statistic is to go wash your hands.
The new US ambassador, William McCormick, was confronted this morning by anti-war protesters at Government House today
where he was presenting his credentials to the Governer General. Fifteen anti-war protesters gathered at the entrance
gate displaying ...
New York University professor and author Mark Crispin Miller says in an interview on Democracy Now!: “[Kerry] told me he
now thinks the election was stolen. He says he doesn't believe he is the person that can be out in front because of the
sour ...
In May of this year the NZ Music Month Committee teamed up with Hallensteins to make the official NZ Music Month 2005
T-shirt available for sale for the first ever time. This was a highly successful campaign which saw thousands of New
Zealanders showing ...
“The Americans will always do the right thing” Winston Churchill once remarked, “after they’ve exhausted all the
alternatives.” The American public may be running out of alternatives. If so, the Bush Administration and the
Republicans have reason to be ...
# Congressional investigation/leak on secret prisons # Ethics briefings # Karl Rove/CIA leak investigation # Torture/CIA
exemption? # Presidential pardon for Libby? # Illegal immigration # Australia/arrests of terror suspects # France/riots
# Presidential ...
Publisher, Matt Taylor, reports that the response to the launch of the board game Breakscore® and it's web site
www.breakscore.com has been extremely positive with recent orders from Tahiti, Finland, the UK and the USA. Taylor
attributes the increase ...
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