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George W. Bush is at it again. This time, reports Sy Hersh in The New Yorker , it'll be Iran. (Those of us who guessed
it would have been Syria first apparently underestimated his hubris.) And this time he wants to be able to use nukes.
Aside from HBO's Big Love series generating big laughs at the expense of tens of thousand of women and children who
languish in polygamy cults up and down the Rocky Mountains as American Justice looks the other way[ Philadelphia
Inquirer | 04/02/2006 ...
Ohio is reeling with a mixture of outrage and hilarity as Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell has revealed that he
has owned stock in the Diebold voting machine company, to which Blackwell tried to award unbid contracts worth millions
while allowing its ...
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Assistant Secretary Wayne speaking at the Commercial Association of Sao Paulo on April 6. State Department photo Thank
you very much for that warm welcome. It's a great pleasure for me to be back in Brazil. I was last here in 2001 and am
honored ...
On 26 Jan 2006 I wrote : Particularly scary is that the Patriot act gives the feds the right to basically march up to
every ISP in the country and install special 'black boxes' [doing] God only knows what and the ISP's cannot even mention
this fact publically ...
United Future leader Peter Dunne wants the Government to support Taiwan's admission to the World Health Assembly.
It's a crime. No kidding. But the media has it all wrong. As usual. 'Scooter' Libby finally outed 'Mr. Big,' the
perpetrator of the heinous disclosure of the name of secret agent Valerie Plame. It was the President of United States
himself -- in conspiracy ...
In early June 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney met with President Bush and told him that CIA officer Valerie Plame
Wilson was the wife of Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson and that she was responsible for sending him on a fact-finding
mission to ...
Normally this space is taken with my ideas of what are the "Top 5" voting news stories for the week. Today I am going to
use this space to talk about what I see as the beginning of a disaster in the making with our elections. This isn't the
election ...
And by the way, I read the articles in the newspapers this weekend. It was just wild speculation, by the way. What
you're reading is wild speculation, which is -- it's kind of a -- happens quite frequently here in the nation's capital.
New Zealand could potentially harness up to 160 megawatts of electricity by tapping in to the geothermal properties of
abandoned oil and gas wells, a scientist says.
Those who know me already, know that I hate smoking with a passion. At my kura we built a little seat outside the fence
for the smokers. When they said “What happens if it rains?”, I said “Go out one at a time and crawl under the seat”.
ReNu MoistureLoc, a Bausch & Lomb product marketed in the United States is not approved for use in New Zealand.
As of Friday 7 April, anyone with a residence in the European Union may apply to register a name under the .eu Top Level
Domain, on a first-come, first-served basis. Nationality of an EU Member State is not a prerequisite.
11 April 2006 Media Statement (Includes Q) See also... Taxation Of Investment Income - Fact Sheets 1-3
Sorong, Papua, Indonesia, Tuesday April 11, 2006: Greenpeace activists today discovered a consignment of plywood from
some of the world's most endangered forests in Indonesia where at least 76% of logging is illegal[1].
New Zealand can't wait for petrol to hit $4 a litre to make climate friendly cars price competitive New Zealand
shouldn't have to wait until petrol prices hit $4 a litre before doing something to help motorists buy cars using up to
50% less fuel ...
South Asia’s growing geo-strategic profile is being raised several notches by another global player. Japan plans to
create a special South Asia department in its Foreign Ministry, designed to coordinate diplomacy with India and monitor
China's regional ...
A chemical engineer at The University of Auckland has used environmentally-friendly vegetable oils to replace toxic
chemical solvents like kerosene in the extraction of a range of biomolecules, such as antibiotics and organic acids.
Amidst media speculation that the Labour Maori Caucus is worried over being seen as 'old hat'; and is developing
strategies to "combat impressions of sluggishness", the Maori Party has admitted they have tried to offer support to
their Maori colleagues ...
AMBASSADOR CROCKER: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for coming today to meet our new Assistant Secretary of
State for South and Central Asia. As we expand the Bureau, Ambassador Boucher of course is no stranger to any of you,
having served ...
The Security Council today called on “all parties” to ensure a smooth and successful transfer to a United Nations
operation in the violence-wracked Darfur region of Sudan, while also commending the African Union’s (AU) mission in the
region and endorsing ...
From 1 April 2007, New Zealanders investing in New Zealand-based managed funds and other collective investment vehicles
will see greater fairness in the taxation of their investment income.
The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has
increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and
former American ...
Restoring tens of thousands of lost and degraded wetlands around the world could go a long way towards reducing the
threat of bird flu pandemics by keeping disease-carrying wild birds away from infecting domestic poultry, according to a
United Nations report ...
GRYUNBERG: In February 2006, the Department of State established a new bureau of South and Central Asian affairs, and
Richard Boucher was appointed to head it. Today Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher decided to personally
acquaint us with ...
The current vice chair of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Ray Martinez submitted his resignation to President
George W. Bush this morning. Mr. Martinez' resignation will become effective June 30, 2006. He cited family
considerations as his primary ...
(New York) – Saudi authorities in the northern city of Ha’il should immediately release Rabbah al-Quwai’i, a journalist
for Riyadh’s al-Shams newspaper, Human Rights Watch said today. The group also urged Turki al-Sudairy, Saudi Arabia’s
minister for human ...
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today announced that Her Royal Highness Crown Princess
Mette-Marit of Norway will serve as its new Special Representative, advocating for action to combat the spread of the
disease and to ...
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