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Representative Karen A. Yarbrough, a Democratic member of the Illinois State Assembly, introduced a resolution calling
for the impeachment of President George W. Bush.
In 2000 the General Assembly of the United Nations passed a resolution that proclaimed June 20th to be World Refugee
Day. Some time ago the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees said the following: "Every day we can observe incredible
courage and strength of ...
Thirty-five years ago today, I testified before the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, and called
for an end to the war I had returned from fighting not long before.
On 31 March 2006 ING Property Trust announced that it would introduce a Unit Purchase Plan for unitholders. The Unit
Purchase Plan enables all Eligible Unitholders to subscribe for units having an aggregate subscription amount of $5,000
per unitholder.
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.
Joining Illinois, California has become the second state in which a proposal to impeach President Bush has been
introduced in the state legislature. And this one includes Cheney as well.
As the price of oil hangs at record heights, unmoving, like a pall threatening to choke economies and festering the sore
that is inflation (October delivery contracts on the NYMEX are over US$75 a barrel), the cattle-class as well as the
impotent media ...
I first met University of Arizona political science professor David N. Gibbs about a year ago while researching a story
about the Patrice Lumumba matrix. Dr. Gibbs spent a couple of years in Africa in the Peace Corps(Niger, 1979-1980) where
his ...
(Honiara, 26 April 2006) - After flying down to Christchurch Monday night, the Scoop contingent (photographer Jason
Dorday and myself) caught the New Zealand Defense Force cargo flight to the Solomon Islands. At around 11 hours,
including a stop-off ...
COPA the Panamanian airline is now flying the Brazilian company Embraer's E-190 commercial airliners on routes
previously dominated by Boeing 737s. This detail highlights broader shifts in the economic balance of power in Latin
America away from United States ...
A thinly wrapped monster On the 20th birthday of the world’s worst nuclear accident, Keith Lyons recalls his 10th
anniversary visit inside Chernobyl’s ‘dead zone’.
The world of theatre that I've swum in for decades as a drama critic provides a useful prism through which to view
today's political events and players.
I once heard a story about a certain playwright with a bad personality who asked his assistant ‘why must people take
such an instant dislike to me??” To which the assistant replied, “it saves time.”
As a people who praise humanity; as a human race we have a despicable history. Since the beginning of time we, as a
people, have abolished those with whom we didn’t like or agree with, or those who had what we wanted: like land or rich
resources. We haven’t ...
Audio & Images: ANZAC Day Dawns In Wellington Sounds and sights from this mornings Dawn Service at the Cenotaph in Wellington.
QUESTION: Okay, we'll start with, actually, I think Iran dominates, actually, I think, and you're arriving in a quite
crucial moment in Greece. On the 28th, the date set for the Security Council expires. So my question is: Do you think
that it's time ...
Amsterdam, 26th April 2006 - Today, on the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster we must reflect on the impact of
the day that changed the world's view of nuclear power. Chernobyl was not simply an industrial accident. It was a human
tragedy on ...
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER GUL: (Via interpreter) -- very pleased to see the Secretary of State of the United States, the
friendly and allied country of United States, Dr. Rice, to Turkey. You will remember Dr. Rice visited Turkey last year
when she ...
My column in the next issue of The Listener looks at the troubles rising at Wikipedia: internal fighting, edit wars,
entries that degrade over time. Brilliant idea, shame about the humans. It turns out that the Helen Clark entry is
fairly troubled... http://publicaddress.net/default,3104.sm
The Registrar of Companies has announced today that he has accepted the advice of the Auckland Office of the Crown
Solicitor, Meredith Connell, that no prosecution action be taken against Mr Davld Parker MP, or any other director
associated with ...
CATCHLINE.. South Pacific countries are sitting on a time bomb if pirate fishing is not contained within two to three
years as key species of fish in the Pacific Ocean will be critically over fished.
ACT Leader Rodney Hide said today that the Companies Office failure to prosecute David Parker was a disgrace, and that
business laws now mean nothing in New Zealand if you're a Minister in Helen Clark's Government.
After months of organisation and belated email exchanges between a North Korean tour company, the New Zealand DPRK
friendship society and ourselves (group of three Auckland University Arts students), what begun as a faint idea sometime
last year in the Quad ...
Quicksilver Internet announces the launch of its new rewards plan that will allow users to earn free broadband.
The recent paper by two prominent academics, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, on "The Israel Lobby", has spurred
considerable discussion both in the mainstream media and on the Internet about the significance of the role played by
this lobby in instigating ...
Solomon Islands newly elected Prime Minister Snyder Rini this morning resigned just minutes before a “no confidence
motion” against his coalition government was debated in parliament. He was understood to have expected a number of
defections from his ...
An interactive computer display at Te Papa which gives the user the option of joining the Labour Party but no other
political group is unacceptable propaganda, says National's State Services spokesman, Gerry Brownlee.
As additional information on the firing of CIA official Mary McCarthy just ten days short of her retirement becomes
available, what is afoot is becoming quite clear. We are witnessing a Stalinesque show trial sans the actual trial and
inevitable execution. ...
The Green Party had some fun with a beach camp at Wellington's Cuba Mall fountain on Earth Day this last Saturday to
illustrate the impact of global climate disruption for International Earth Day. Kids played in the sand, and others in
wet suits and ...
The way the world views and uses business PCs is about to change with the introduction of Intel Corporation’s new Intel
vPro™ technology, a revolutionary shift in desktop PC security and manageability along with remarkable energy-saving
computing performance.
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