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As expected the Reserve Bank didn’t increase the Official Cash Rate on the 27th of April. It remains at 7.25%. They say
they can’t see any more rises - but don’t expect any drop this year.
In the two weeks since an American DC9 airliner was busted by Mexican troops at a small airport in the Yucatan, carrying
5.5 tons of cocaine packed neatly into 128 identical black suitcases (somewhat hilariously marked 'private') the search
for ...
In his column yesterday, Josh Marshall just hints at this, but a lot more is going to come out about the relationship of
private intelligence and defense contractors and how the GOP has used them to carry out covert domestic political spying
and all ...
It is not totally surprising that New York antiquities dealer Ed Merrin appears to be caught in the dragnet of Italian
prosecutors who are conducting a criminal trial in Rome, having already charged dealer Bob Hecht and former Getty Museum
curator ...
• The furor over Bolivia's dramatic nationalization of the country’s natural gas begins subside, but difficulties remain
• At an emergency summit, Pink Tide leaders demonstrate their determination to contain the anger and disappointment:
Morales ...
Once again a brave, and perhaps foolhardy group of celebrities and politicians donned their glad rags and sparkled and
shone across the small screen in the second series of TV One's 'Dancing with the Stars' .
This week saw the birth of an entirely new lobby group aimed at easing the public's fears about a climate change
apocalypse. The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition is a group of scientists who have nobly taken it upon themselves
to make certain ...
Here's an article about yesterday's jury award of $2.25 million to Earl Washington , whom the state of Virginia came
within days of killing for a crime he had been clumsily and obviously framed for. Washington is mentally retarded, poor,
and black. ...
Yesterday's surprise announcement by Porter Goss comes on the heels of press stories that members of Congress received
sexual favors from prostitutes allegedly procured by Brent Wilkes, an entrepreneur implicated in the bribery of
Congressman Randy "Duke" ...
OK, I'm freaking out. It's a quiet freak-out, even a mellow one by comparison to ones I've witnessed first-hand and
endured personally, but it is happening. I seize up like a poorly-oiled engine several times a day, and my teeth grate
together so ...
United Future's deputy leader, Judy Turner MP, is describing a walkout by two National MP's from a powhiri as
disrespectful grandstanding.
"The only thing that would surprise the public about the Department of Corrections now is if they got something right,"
says National law and order spokesman Simon Power, responding to the latest debacle to hit the troubled department.
Another journalist provided me with a copy of this short, startling clip of Theresa Gattung explaining the incumbent
telco business model: using "confusion" as a "marketing tool" to maintain prices and margins...
State Services Commission Inquiry Into Disclosure of Classified Information About the Government's Telecommunications
Stocktake Review to Telecom
National Party MP Judith Collins has refuted claims by Prime Minister Helen Clark’s that she was rude during a haka at
the Manurewa CYF facility. “The haka was conducted as social services select committee chair Georgina Beyer and I led
the committee ...
Two National Party MPs who walked out of a powhiri at the Youth Justice facility in Weymouth on Friday should apologise
for the embarrassment they caused, the Green Party says.
Kathmandu, Nepal: In the 15-month Royal reign of terror beginning February 1, 2005, Nepalese King Gyanendra Bir Bikram
Shah suspended all civil and democratic rights in the Hindu Kingdom and ruled from the Throne.
National Party MP Judith Collins is standing by the decision by three National MPs to walk out on a select committee
visit to a CYF facility after insults were thrown following a powhiri.
Noam Chomsky recently penned Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy, a book in which he provided
a powerfully-constructed and heavily documented argument that the United States is a failed state, like many of the
nations it has ...
The Hot Science video-website (www.hotscience.co.nz) was launched today, providing New Zealanders with access to
high-quality popular science television programming from all over the world at no cost and on a delivery schedule that
suits them.
I have just read the piece that you have posted on your website expressing strong and critical views about the
performance of Terence Arnold during his tenure as Solicitor General and also his fitness to be appointed as a Judge of
the Court of Appeal.
Labour goes further down the regulatory road. The most serious budget leak in our history. More allegations against
David Parker. Rodney dances with the stars.
With the exception of Jews and African-Americans, no demographic group in the United States voted more heavily against
Bush and for Gore and Kerry than did atheists, who make up 10 percent of the electorate. Atheists tend to be
disproportionately ...
Changes in weather patterns and extreme weather events due to climate change will have the greatest impact on the
world's poorest people, the head of the of the leading scientific panel on the issue told the United Nations Commission
on Sustainable Development ...
Internal Affairs Minister Rick Barker has announced appointments to the Film and Literature Board of Review. The Film
and Literature Board of Review is a statutory appeal body. It examines publications already classified by the Office of
Film and ...
Speech to the National Party Canterbury-Westland Regional Conference
Auckland, 6 May 2006: An international-based judging team, including David Beckham’s hairdresser, has selected Iain
Smith of ME, Auckland, for the most acclaimed hair award in New Zealand.
A recent USA Today sponsored review of the FDA database from 2000 to 2004 found at least 45 deaths in children under 18
with atypical antipsychotics listed as the "primary suspect," and 1,328 reports of other serious side effects, some
life-threatening.
In the year to March 2006 the total number of beneficiaries in New Zealand fell by a further 8,374 or 2.9 percent,
Social Development and Employment Minister David Benson-Pope confirmed today
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