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The Hawaii State Senate has passed a resolution "CALLING UPON THE GOVERNOR OF HAWAII TO TAKE STEPS TO WITHDRAW THE
HAWAII ARMY AND AIR NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS FROM IRAQ." The resolution is a thing of beauty, has been mailed to the
Governor and the President, ...
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.
Now that the mission - whatever it was - has not been accomplished in Iraq, Bush is setting up a potentially bigger
disaster in Iran. Last month, Seymour Hersh revealed that the US military is making preparations for an attack on Iran.
Recent events ...
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 ...
Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Helen Clark today announced the appointment of four new chairs of cultural and
heritage boards: - John Judge as Chair of Te Papa Tongarewa Board for a 3-year term - Diana Fenwick as Chair of the New
Zealand Symphony ...
1. Dr DON BRASH (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in all her Ministers, in
light of the leak last week of confidential Budget-related Cabinet papers that reportedly wiped $1.8 billion from the
market value of Telecom ...
Government House today confirmed that the Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright has been appointed as a trial judge
for the Cambodia War Crimes Tribunal.
Government Minister Trevor Mallard called on National leader Don Brash to tell the truth about whether or not American
strategists were involved in his election campaign in New Zealand last year - as he promoted in an email tabled in
Parliament today.
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 latest studies on GE Cotton farming have raised grave concerns about the safety of GE cotton which is widely used in
food as well as in clothing. A preliminary report released in late April has found that thousands of sheep died after
grazing on land ...
The New Zealand feature film THE FERRYMAN commenced principal photography in Auckland, on 31 March and is well on track
to wrap on Saturday 13 May. This official NZ/UK co-production is produced by key producing partners Matthew Metcalfe
(Nemesis Game) ...
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. ...
Between the Lines Q A weekly column featuring progressive viewpoints on national and international issues under-reported in mainstream
media for release May 7, 2006 http://www.btlonline.org
• 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 ...
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 ...
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...
It just wasn't a good day for Rummy. He usually speaks only to "safe" audiences of carefully selected military
personnel. But on May 4, he made the mistake of speaking to a public audience at the Southern Center of International
Studies in Atlanta. ...
With all due respect to Ms. Breitweiser, I believe we all know that there will be no information regarding 9/11 “flowing
freely” to the American people. Not now anyway nor in the near future. Everyone needs to just focus on the fact that the
“20th hijacker” ...
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" ...
In a divisive vote separating developed from developing countries, the United Nations General Assembly today passed a
resolution that could effectively slow a series of bold reform proposals put forward by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to
overhaul and ...
Hens have now been given a better chance to live out their egg-laying lives within more humane conditions, Green Party
MP Sue Kedgley said.
Well, the Theresa clip certainly caused some excitement yesterday: NZPA called, and Peter Nowak has a story on the front
of the Herald's Business section. I now also know its provenance - it's from an analyst briefing in March which is
archived on ...
Initially the press gallery were intent on devouring the potential scandal of the leaked cabinet paper regarding the
unbundling of the local loop. Halfway through the weekly verbal interaction between the Prime Minister and the gallery
another ...
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 ...
A court proceeding will be filed against the Police today at 3pm at the Auckland District Court over another pepper
spray incident in response to the lack of a general inquiry into its misuse.
With Rodney Hide's first appearance on Dancing with the Stars and Heather Roy joining the Territorials, we may see a
wave of politicians finding tangential and questionable effective ways to promote themselves. Scoop brings you a few of
the most likely possibilities:
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.
Undernews: Behind The Goss Gloss - An extract from the daily Undernews newsletter compiled by Prorev.com Editor Sam
Smith
He thought he might hear it coming. He didn't. He didn't smell it either, though he thought he might. What Rodney's
mayor, John Law, was waiting for, and was pleasantly surprised by, was the arrival in Orewa last week of a 1993 Toyota
Corona Salon powered ...
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