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Finance Minister Michael Cullen today welcomed the endorsement of the government's economic work programme in the latest
IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook. The Yearbook lists five challenges to assist New Zealand in improving its
competitiveness.
The National Library will be funded to evaluate options to redevelop the National Library as part of the 2006 Budget the
National Library Minister Judith Tizard announced today.
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.
Marlborough Company Produces World’s First Sample Of Bio-Diesel From Algae Extracted From Region’s Sewerage Ponds
A sou'east rainstorm over Christchurch this morning has pushed up river levels and caused widespread surface street
flooding.
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm
representing Karl Rove. During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House
Chief of Staff Karl Rove ...
Ethiopia is holding opposition figures under laws that may violate its constitution, Somalia urgently needs
international attention, and despite assertions by Sudan’s Government, displaced women in that country’s Darfur region
are still being raped ...
Today’s EU-Latin America Summit will highlight one reality: when it comes to a number of Latin American issues, there is
scant unity to be found among members of Europe’s all powerful political and economic bloc. Several forces are currently
pulling the ...
In the first poll of its kind, OpEdNews.com , in the second OpEdNews/Zogby People's poll has learned that except for
viewers of right wing news show, Fox News, poll respondents believe that the 2004 presidential election was stolen.
Of Myth and Reality in Terrorist Threat Assessment By Paul G. Buchanan 12-5-06
American President George Bush may have made up his mind, personally, to thrust war upon Iran, but it doesn’t seem easy
to attack for him. United Nations Security Council’s Resolution regarding sanctions against Iran or domestic politics in
America ...
Within the last week, Karl Rove told President Bush and Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, as well as a few other high level
administration officials, that he will be indicted in the CIA leak case and will immediately resign his White House job
when the special ...
SECRETARY RICE: Well, thank you very much. I cannot thank you enough for this tremendous honor. I want to thank all
involved with it and all of you for coming. That was quite an extraordinary little film. I have to get that and show it
to my family. They'll ...
News that a Japanese company is seeking to force whale meat onto Japanese menus by selling it directly to schools and
hospitals is being greeted with disgust by Green Party Conservation Spokesperson Metiria Turei. "The fact that whale
meat ...
MPs seek newsletter pickup; Terence and Louise; NBR backs Labour – shock, horror; Not Warne Out; UKTV: sex and violence
have changed; What’s wrong with fresh fruit?; Gisborne: a city revived; You want what in the workplace!; Cocktail
Science; In the ...
Khatchig Mouradian: In an article entitled "Domestic Constituencies," you say: "It is always enlightening to seek out
what is omitted in propaganda campaigns."(1) Can you expand on what is omitted in the US propaganda campaign on Lebanon
and Syria ...
Speech to the National Party Lower North Island Regional Conference Palmerston North.
Washington DC Attorney, Jason Zuckerman, says a positive result of the recent corporate scandals is the recognition of
the value of whistleblowers in exposing fraud, corruption, and other wrongdoing within a company.
The 9 May 2006 election of 10 of the world's worst violators of free _expression - Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh,
China, Cuba, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia - to be members of the UN's new Human Rights Council
was called ...
After Winston Peter's tabling of leaked emails in Parliament, that question on everyone's lips is - what was Don Brash
thinking at that press conference?
A new poll conducted in Pennsylvania by Zogby International and commissioned by OpEdNews.com asked some of the questions
the corporate media has failed to ask. The answers are surprising. One revelation is this: the single greatest predictor
of an American's ...
SAM SMITH - What drives American foreign policy as much as - if not more than - ideology is male insecurity mitigated
occasionally by women secretaries of state trying to prove that they can act just as insecurely as males. It is a
foreign policy led by ...
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The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans,
using data provided by AT, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
Satire: Pear Shaped Email Press Conference - Some Theories - QUESTIONS OF THE DAY: - Foreign Affairs: Murray Ditches
Rugby – Pens Love Letter To Bush Administration - - Transport: Gas Mask Clad Electric Bus Supporters Brave Stormy
Weather - - Mother's ...
In the early phases of last year’s election campaign, the Labour Party was desperate. Confident that they would have an
easy ride to victory, the polls were showing anything but that. So the decision was made to play the anti-American card.
Bovver boy Trevor ...
Diabetes NZ has had a strong history of effective support for people with diabetes. I understand that during Diabetes
Awareness Week last year [2005] your website received so many hits it was ranked fifth in the “hitwise” website awards.
Having been around ...
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, ...
The former Fiji prime minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, has appeared in the Suva magistrate’s court charged with inciting the
November 2000 mutiny.
(In which Chapter Bonus Joules explores how our current image of the nature of energy came to rule human consciousness
and who made the rules.) Bonus Joules asks the Minister of Energy the Big Scientific Question
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