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Kevin Phillips, former Republican strategist and bestselling author of American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy ,
provides a critical and extensively researched analysis of the current political condition as shaped by the “Republican
Majority” and the ...
The latest information I have had from the followers of Bush is that he has demanded and received permission to use
nuclear “bunker busters” in Iran in a preemptive strike. As a nuclear veteran (Operation Redwing, Bikini, 1956) I can
affirm that this is ...
In an effort to understand whether New Zealand was on the way to becoming a Robert Mugabesque dictatorship - as
National's environment spokesperson Nick Smith hinted in the House - A Week of It contacted Mick Kelly of the Whangamata
Marina Society ...
Hungry for love after a trouncing on these pages by antiquities whistleblower Oscar Muscarella, New York Times chief art
critic Michael Kimmelman and Metropolitan Museum of Art director Philippe de Montebello took their "Who Owns Art" show
last week to ...
Salon has presented an archive of 279 photographs and 19 videos gathered in the US Army's internal investigation of the
torture and abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison. Salon notes that " To date no officers have been brought to
justice ...
Auckland Harbour Bridge will fly the flag of Ireland on Friday 17 March in recognition of the Irish National Day. The
flag will fly from 6:30am until 6:30pm.
1. Refugee and Asylum Seekers—General Requirements 2. Te Wânanga o Aotearoa—Audit Reports 3. Early Childhood
Education—Quality 4. Small Business Advisory Group—Probationary Employment 5. Special Benefit—Abolition
APN New Zealand National Publishing is pleased to announce the appointment of Vince Fong to the role of Director for the
Customer Contact Centre.
The National Rescue and Coordination Centre (NRCC) evacuation flight has reached Raoul Island and will endeavour to
search by air for the missing person if conditions allow.
One can be forgiven for arguing that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who demonstrably is losing the war in Iraq, is
now trying to achieve an easy win in Latin America, where he is presiding over the rehabilitation of what he sees as the
Latin American ...
Lesotho and Swaziland are “gasping for survival” amidst the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the United Nations special envoy for the
disease in Africa said today, repeating his call for setting up an international women’s agency to deal with the
discrimination ...
Judith Tizard is delighted that U2 promoters will fully refund fans who cannot attend the rescheduled concerts.
At this Festival, Parsifal has been promoted as the monolithic high art event. It stood head and shoulders above other
offerings – circuses, various avant garde theatre productions, DJs and representations of the dangers of lodging our
identities on ...
After receiving the Environmental Award at the 2006 AA Motoring Excellence Awards in New Zealand for efforts in
bio-fuel advances, Hyundai has also taken honours in the USA for being among the most environmentally friendly
automobiles available.
Henderson Police are investigating a brutal car jacking in New Lynn, in which a young male driver was hospitalised, with
severe facial injuries.
In barely a week, Kea New Zealand’s global census Every One Counts (www.everyonecounts.co.nz) has tracked down more than
18,000 kiwis living in 148 countries across the world.
The revelation that the Labour Party had overspent the campaign budget allowed under the Electoral Act was always going
to test the authorities charged with enforcement of the law.
America has lost the war in Iraq. The chance for victory vanished long ago with the hearts, minds, arms, legs and lives
of the Iraqi people. The insurgence hasn’t won; rather the American government never obtained the formula to win.
America, led by ...
There is a wealth of parallels and reflection to be fond bouncing in and around DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation - Paul
Miller's remix of DW Griffiths' 1915 Birth of a Nation - the most famous piece of Klu Klux Klan propaganda ever. Miller
pointed ...
UK Independent Newspaper foreign correspondent Robert Fisk is in New Zealand this week for the Wellington International
Arts Festival's Writer's & Readers Week . This morning Scoop Co-editor Alastair Thompson caught up with Mr Fisk en route to Wellington ...
A number of writings have recently appeared with the thesis that the announced plans of the Teheran government to
institute a Teheran Oil Bourse, perhaps as early as this month, is the real hidden reason behind the evident march to
war on Iran from ...
ACT Leader Rodney Hide has expressed disappointment, but no surprise, that New Zealanders will not get an explanation
from Labour over their taxpayer-funded pledge card.
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Police will not be making any further prosecutions in relation to complaints received from the Electoral Commission and
the Chief Electoral Officer arising from the 2005 general election.
On January 3, 2006, Global Exchange, the international advocacy group for human rights, released a report naming the top
fourteen "Worst Corporate Evildoers" in the world for the year 2005. Pfizer, one of the most profitable drug companies
on earth, with ...
Faik Bakir, the director of the Baghdad morgue, has fled Iraq in fear of his life after reporting that more than 7000
people have been killed by Iraqi interior ministry death squads in recent months, John Pace, the outgoing head of the UN
human rights ...
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It's a pity the TVNZ reporter who recorded the biffo on Dixon Street between TVNZ and TV3 journos didn't send the
footage in to work so that it went in here and came out there...
The Department of Conservation has ordered the evacuation of staff from Raoul Island in the remote Kermadec Island group
due to a volcanic eruption that occurred this morning.
National Party MP Murray McCully says the decision not to charge the Labour Party with its deliberate and blatant
breaches of the Electoral Act is a “gutless cop-out”.
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