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Today, Thursday April 20, millions of people around the world will celebrate 420, a term synonymous with smoking
marijuana, with spontaneous acts of civil disobedience against prohibition.
America is a nation of losers. It's the best thing about us. We're the dregs, what the rest of the world barfed up and
threw on our shores.
Coming up to the stadium, the usual tell-tale signs were there: over flowing rubbish bins, huge queues at the railway
station fast food stands and a busker playing Stones tunes.
One day, when he was in the third grade, Donald Rumsfeld brought a bomb to school. He put it on the teacher’s desk. “Is
it real?” she asked. “Maybe,” he replied.
The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) was passed on the heels of the Florida 2000 presidential election and its
“hanging chad” problem. These ambiguous ballot chads riveted and frustrated the nation for a couple of months in late
2000. However, ...
On Monday, April 17, my sources in Baghdad reported fierce fighting in the al-Adhamiya neighborhood of the capital
city, as well as fighting in the al-Dora neighborhood. One source, who lives in the predominantly Sunni area of
Adhamiya, had been telling ...
5. Journalists, medical volunteers and bystanders targeted, Palestinian bystander shot in the neck by Israeli sniper
Auckland, 19 April 2006 - Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba) today continued its roll out of next generation HD DVD products
by launching the world’s first notebook PC with an HD DVD-ROM drive, the Qosmio G30.
"Go home," a Crawford neighbor of Camp Casey, her face deformed with rage, yelled at me as about 50 of us walked the
four miles from Camp Casey I to Camp Casey II on Good Friday. We were re-enacting the Stations of the Cross. I was
hauling a 12-pound ...
Two RNZAF aircraft will depart Whenuapai midmorning today, bound for Honiara. An RNZAF Boeing 757 will carry 30 New
Zealand Police and travel via Christchurch, where it will uplift 25 infantry soldiers from Burnham Military Camp.
Tomorrow night’s opening of the US NZ Partnership Forum in Washington DC will be an unprecedented gathering of business,
government and academic leaders from both counties, says NZ US Council Executive Director Stephen Jacobi. (Subs the
opening ...
The Children's Commissioner is demanding smacking by good parents to be banned, but is guilty herself of the worst kind
of bullying and intimidation.
NEW YORK U.S.-China summit meetings traditionally include discussion of Beijing's human rights practices. When President
Hu Jintao of China visits the White House on Thursday, the Bush administration's own problematic record will make the
conversation ...
New Zealand’s newest cartoon character – RASTA RANGI – makes his debut on Maori Television on Monday April 24 at 8.00
PM.
The decision by the European Union to suspend aid to the democratically elected Palestinian Authority is an act of gross
inhumanity and political provocation. The undersigned organizations believe this action will worsen the current
humanitarian, security ...
A new report released by the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation, revealing that Maori and Pasifika children with asthma
appear to be further disadvantaged when it comes to acceptable asthma care, should be seen as a national disgrace, says
Tariana Turia, ...
At a time of severe budgetary constraints in Washington, almost three quarters of a billion dollars is being poured into
Colombia by the Bush administration
The surge in audio and video content available online has caught many radio and television stations off guard, reports
US media journal New Communications Review. ( http://www.newcommreview.com ) Suddenly, people are downloading podcasts
or video podcasts of the shows they like, ...
"...sometimes we buy an egg, but not very often because we are very poor..." he had walked with his two small children
for over two hours in order to see the visiting paediatrician. The children wee underweight, their clothes threadbare.
Conditions are ripe for genocide in Gaza and parts of Palestine. All funds have been cut off by Israel (tax money owed
to Palestine), and by America and the European Union which would normally be routed to the Palestinian Authority (PA).
The United Nations refugee agency, which last week flew some of its staff out of Chad during clashes between Government
and rebel forces, has no immediate plans for any further evacuation as continues its efforts to help some 200,000
Sudanese who ...
On a day when allegedly the world's greatest rock'n'roll band was in town it seemed darn near impossible to work up much
enthusiasm for intricate world affairs type debates.
The police has finally revealed that Wan Biao was the victim of a (obviously blotched) kidnap plot. I'm not quite sure
why they were keeping this back, since a post on Skykiwi.com on the 16th (Sunday) cites Consul Li of the Chinese
Consulate-General ...
Several of Wellington’s leading earthquake engineers and scientists presented today at the 100th Anniversary Earthquake
Conference, in San Francisco.
Alpha Aviation – New Zealand’s newest aircraft manufacturer – has unveiled its first aircraft, fresh off the production
line. The Alpha 160A two-seat aerobatic training aircraft took to the skies above Hamilton was put through its paces by
veteran Australian ...
“The due diligence process adopted by the Otago and Southland District Health Boards over their proposal to privatise
their hospital laboratories is very suspect,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried
Medical Specialists, ...
On 17 April 1996, military police began clearing landless protesters from the PA-150 highway at Eldorado dos Carajás in
the state of Pará. An hour later 19 people lay dead, many shot at close range; some hacked to death by the protesters’
own farm ...
Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector, Luamanuvao Winnie Laban, today announced the nine new fellowships being
awarded by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
Now that we've spent millions of tax dollars on the CIA leak investigation, here’s a new bit of information that adds a
whole new twist to the saga.
A scandalous and brutal Bill has been proposed by the Howard government to block all access to Australia of all asylum
seekers arriving by boat, both for processing their claims and for settlement if these claims prove true. We need a
dozen Liberal ...
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