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NORTH KOREA North Korean Conditions for Return to Six-Party Talks Treasury Department Actions Regarding North Korea
The wires have been humming since before the New Year with reports that the Bush administration is planning an attack on
Iran. "The Bush administration is preparing its NATO allies for a possible military strike against suspected nuclear
sites in ...
In the battle for the hearts and minds of the New Zealand voter in 2005 National spent more than two million dollars in
order to get their message across. According to figures that have just become available at the Electoral Commission
National spent ...
A clandestine National Security Agency spy program code-named Echelon was likely responsible for tapping into the
emails, telephone calls and facsimiles of thousands of average American citizens over the past four years in its effort
to identify people ...
The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) has reported that the military situation in the Temporary
Security Zone (TSZ) separating the two countries continues to be “tense and potentially volatile,” about a month after
Eritrea demanded ...
National Party Deputy Leader Gerry Brownlee says the Foreign Minister has some more explaining to do over his latest
tax-funded bauble, estimated to be worth between $50,000 and $65,000.
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News Release At 0030 Hours GMT - 09 Jan 2006 (1930 EST Hours - 08 Jan 2006)
9: Mercy Shot
It is an unpleasant oddity, this moment when Greenpeace activists and the whalers want the same thing...the end of a
whale's life. We put our boats in the way, we put our safety on the line, we endure freezing cold spray and brutal
conditions to ...
With Ariel Sharon out of the picture, Benjamin Netanyahu has a better chance to become prime minister of Israel. He's
media savvy. He knows how to spin on American television. And he's very dangerous.
It appears as though the Cheney administration will soon “redeploy” thousands of US troops out of Iraq. While several
permanent US military bases are under construction there as I type this, the Capital Hill Cabal, desperate to paint the
Iraq disaster ...
The decision by the Bush Administration to go after the New York Times for exposing a portion of their spying- the
unauthorized NSA spying on calls to Afghanistan- sets up the central struggle for America’s soul.
Australian deliveries of the astonishing Ferrari Superamerica may now be underway, but with just six destined to find a
home in Australia the Melbourne International Motor Show (9-19 February 2006) will probably be most people's one and
only opportunity ...
Bush's scandals are coming so rapidly and getting so huge that it's hard to lay off talking about them at length, but in
this new year, let's step back a bit for some longer-range perspectives.
Australia's Muslim community has joined forces with former 'human shield' and aid worker in Iraq, Donna Mulhearn, to
make a direct appeal on Al Jazeera television to the kidnappers of four members of the Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT)
still held ...
I was given the sage gift of a copy of Being P?keh? Now for the festive season and took the time out to read it cover to
cover. I thought this a wise idea as I've footnoted it several times...
PETER BARRETT [1] puts projected global warming in perspective, comparing it with climate fluctuations in the
geological past. Greenhouse gas emission rates from human activity have increased in the last few decades, and CO2
levels will soon be higher ...
Israel's Prime Minister was a ruthless military commander responsible for one of the most shocking war crimes of the
20th century, argues Robert Fisk. President George Bush acclaims Ariel Sharon as 'a man of peace', yet the blood that
was shed at Sabra ...
The minority of Americans who support the war largely do so out of a sense of responsibility to Iraqis. They favor
reconstruction and restoration as well as ongoing occupation. And most of the majority who favor ending the war support
the financing of reconstruction, ...
2005: Much Warmer, With More Anticyclones And Less Wind Than Normal Very Low Rainfall In The South Island Catastrophic
Floods And Extremely High Rainfall In Bay Of Plenty;Destructive Tornadoes; An Unseasonably Late Snowstorm
"We are honored by the broad support for impeachment from this distinguished group of true American patriots," said Bob
Fertik, President of ImpeachPAC. "Impeachment is not a 'fringe' position, as the Bush Administration would like
Americans to believe. ...
A spokesman for the NZ Minister of Defence said today that the New Zealand Government is not yet actively considering
sending a Royal New Zealand Navy frigate south to watch an increasing level of tension between activists and whalers in
the southern ...
National's Law & Order spokesman, Simon Power, says he hopes New Zealand's speed cameras were used to encourage people to slow down over
the holiday period rather than as merely a tool to fill Labour's ticket quotas.
Southern Ocean Saturday, 07 January, 2006 : Greenpeace activists last night witnessed the slow and bloody death of yet
another minke whale, fully documented by photos and video footage.
THE NEW ZEALAND ORDER OF MERIT The Queen has been pleased, on the occasion of the celebration of the New Year, to make
the following appointments to The New Zealand Order of Merit: P.C.N.Z.M. To be a Principal Companion of the said Order:
Professor ...
New Zealand First is perplexed that neither Waitangi nor Waitangi Day are to feature significantly in the Treaty 2 U
roadshow.
The Ministry of Health must take action to alert pregnant women about the potential risks of GE foods to the wellbeing
of their unborn children, in light of yet another study into GE food.
Our history books tell us that George Washington was the father of the abomination America has become. Many around the
world, including some Americans, have written off the possibility that the United States is capable of acting with
morality and ...
Venezuela has said it will expand a programme to provide cheap home heating fuel to poor Americans, helping low-income
families in Vermont and Rhode Island, as well as four Indian tribes in Maine.
Millions of Iranian Women greeted, today, the seventieth anniversary of the "Women's Emancipation Law". This measure,
seeking to establish the gender equality, was adopted in 1935 and remained in full force, till its abolishment by the
Islamist ...
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