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When the Bush Administration keeps hauling out its "we-didn't-know-nothin'" spin -- about Katrina, 9/11, Iraq, torture
-- in effect they're using incompetence as their defense. How can you try to censure or impeach us, they're saying, when
we ...
1. Prime Minister—Political Integrity of Parliament and Electoral Process 2. Student Loans—Interest-free Policy 3.
Ministerial Services—Green Party 4. Air New Zealand / Qantas—Code-share Criteria 5. Crime, Violent—Incidence 6. Marine
Farming—Aquaculture ...
The special counsel appointed in late December 2003 to investigate the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson
found out the identity of the Bush administration official who disclosed her undercover status to syndicated columnist
Robert Novak ...
We always knew that one good news event exposing the official deception of 9/11 could be the catalyst to unravel the Big
Lie. We didn't know there would be several news events in one week! Now we see what it looks like when the truth breaks
loose.
Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Sponsored by Freedom House Washington, DC March
29, 2006
E. Anthony Wayne, Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs Testimony Before the Senate Committee on
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Washington, DC April 4, 2006
WASHINGTON – Today, Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and John Tanner,
Chief of the Voting Section at the Department of Justice, urging them to immediately reconsider approval of a voting
plan that will ...
The [UK] Government is to hold secret talks with defence chiefs tomorrow to discuss possible military strikes against
Iran. A high-level meeting will take place in the Ministry of Defence at which senior defence chiefs and government
officials will ...
Here is your must-read for the month. Here is your oh-my-God- I'm-sending-this-piece- to-every-smart-person-I-know hunk
of outstanding, distressing, disquieting media bliss.
Kurt Volker, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Remarks at the CSIS/Real Instituto
Elcano Conference on U.S.-Spain Bilateral Relations Washington, DC April 3, 2006
Immigration Minister David Cunliffe has unveiled the most comprehensive review of immigration laws since the present
Immigration Act was passed in 1987.
1. GEORGINA BEYER to the Minister for Social Development and Employment: What reports has he received on the uptake of
Childcare Assistance under Working for Families?
In an exclusive interview with GREG PALAST, Hugo Chavez declares a new oil order. Venezuela officially demands OPEC
recognize his nation's reserves as largest.
From the front line of the battle against the deadly legacy of landmines in Iraq and Sudan to command offices throughout
the world, the United Nations today marked the first International Day dedicated to curbing the scourge with calls for a
universal ...
US soldiers killing innocent civilians in Iraq is not news. Just as it was not news that US soldiers slaughtered
countless innocent civilians in Vietnam. However, when some rare reportage of this non news from Iraq does seep through
the cracks of the ...
The two new dryers at Fonterra's Te Awamutu site have produced their first powder.
Britain’s apparent complicity in Israel’s military assault on Jericho prison should finally demolish an enduring myth
about Britain’s foreign policy. Iraq’s supposed possession of weapons of mass destruction was not the only line peddled
by the government ...
18: Howard Broad
On Thurs 1 October 1992, Detective Inspector Howard Broad of Christchurch announced to a packed press conference that
four women child care workers had been arrested in the Christchurch Civic Creche case [Press, 2 Oct 92]. He named the
women and described ...
As I go to print with this Army Specialist Christopher Gorman is being charged with Dereliction of Duty, and facing an
immediate Article 15 and UCMJ proceedings. Chris has said that if they proceed with the charges he will ask for an
immediate court ...
1. GEORGINA BEYER (Labour) to the Minister for Social Development and Employment: What reports has he received on the
uptake of childcare assistance under Working for Families?
E. Anthony Wayne, Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs Remarks to the American Turkish Council
Conference Washington, DC March 28, 2006
Diplomat Jennifer Macmillan will be New Zealand’s next Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna, Foreign
Minister Winston Peters said today.
Deputy Prime Minister Michael Cullen has described the final report of the UN Special Rapporteur for indigenous issues
as disappointing, unbalanced and narrow.
Congressman Kingston, How dare you psychoanalyze me and call me a "nutcase!" How dare you call me a beatnik and lie
about me in your blog!
Some more on broadband provisioning and contention rates - because I know y'all like that stuff. A couple of reader
reports on DSL entrench the impression that broadband users on regional exchanges currently get a much better deal than
those in high-uptake ...
CUPERTINO, California--March 29, 2006--Apple® have announced a software update for the iPod® nano and fifth generation
iPod, allowing customers to easily set their own personal maximum volume limit. The software update also gives parents
the ability ...
North Shore City Mayor and former police investigator, George Wood, is praising the appointments of Howard Broad as
Commissioner of Police and Rob Pope as Deputy Commissioner (operations).
I said I'd never do it -- say what I think about that terrible morning of September 11, 2001. I've seen what happens to
those who question the elaborate, tangled explanations the Bush administration offers about what happened, how it
happened, who did it, ...
New Zealand has one of the world's best health systems according to a report issued by the New York-based Commonwealth
Fund today.
Page four of Sunday's Washington Post carried a story titled "The President as Average Joe," which described how George
W. Bush is trying once again to cast himself as a regular fella so as to boost his anemic poll numbers. "As he takes to
the road ...
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