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Toni Solo
Critical comment on the Nicaraguan election campaign has tended to neglect the nitty gritty of life for the country's
impoverished majority. The closer the November 5th election looms the nastier the campaign becomes.
The Letter Limited
The Haps; A party of professional politicians; The corruption of the list; Don has gone; How would we have handled it?;
Don wanted to resign; Leadership qualities?; It is Key; That Auditor General's ruling; Bulk Fund; Hard Landing; Wisdom
of Crowds; ...
Robert Parry
Consortium News Editor's Note: Part 2 of our series about the "Original October Surprise" of 1980 focuses on the role of
banker David Rockefeller and his collaboration with Republicans during the Iranian hostage crisis, which doomed Jimmy
Carter's presidency ...
Robert Parry
Part 3 of our series about the "Original October Surprise" of 1980 addresses the troubling question of whether
disgruntled CIA officers collaborated with their former boss, George H.W. Bush, to sabotage President Jimmy Carter's
Iran-hostage negotiations ...
New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
The Green Party's call for the New Zealand Super Fund to end its investments in uranium mining demonstrates, more than
anything, their ignorance of nuclear technology, according to Bryan Leyland, chairman of the economic panel of the New
Zealand Climate Science ...
Julie Webb-Pullman
If memorial events for murdered Mexican human rights lawyer Digna Ochoa last weekend marked a melding of Mexico’s past
and present, the future was forged this week, as Oaxaca unravelled in events of unrivalled insanity.
Guest Opinion
Leaving right after toppling Saddam Hussein would have preserved the United States' role as liberator and left the
destiny of the Iraqis in their own hands. Saddam Hussein could not retake power because his heavy armament was
destroyed, his army was dismantled ...
Anne Else
On 22 October nineteen years ago, my younger son Patrick died. He was eighteen, and he thought he was indestructible.
But he made one mistake, and he fell to his death.
Scoop Audio
This afternoon the Prime Minister sustained a barrage of questions on sustainability and other ecologically associated
issues.
Thistle Hall
There will be a photographic exhibition at Thistle Hall from 9-14th November. It opens from 10:00am - 4:00pm daily. The
exhibition is called "Eyes to Cambodia" by Sotheany Ream. Sotheany is an emerging documentary photographer. Her work
explores ...
Mark Bradley
Pssst. Don’t tell Karl Rove, but I’ve just come up with a fool-proof plan guaranteeing a national Democratic Party sweep
in 2008. And the best thing about it is, it works no matter whom the Dems throw up as their presidential candidate:
Barack Edwards, ...
New Zealand Government
Prime Minister Helen Clark welcomed today’s announcement that the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will participate in
the official dedication ceremony for the New Zealand Memorial in London on Armistice Day, 11 November.
narconews.com
Today, pro-government forces attacked barricades manned by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO). Brad
Will, a documentary filmmaker and reporter for Indymedia in New York, Bolivia and Brazil, was shot and killed while
reporting on ...
Jason Leopold
On the campaign trail, Bush administration officials often boast that Republicans are more savvy than their Democratic
colleagues when it comes to issues like taxes and the economy in general. But behind the scenes, dozens of cabinet
members and ...
New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
The New Zealand Super Fund has been challenged to ask Al Gore, when he visits the country next month, for the
whereabouts of the Pacific Islanders that Gore says in his film have been evacuated to New Zealand because their islands
are drowning.
Middle East News Service
This story has already created some interest in the Israeli media but just how serious it has been taken is yet to be
seen with today being the start of the working week and with today’s edition of some of the dailies available in a few
hours.
New Zealand Government
You have invited me to talk about New Zealand’s strategy for climbing the O.E.C.D. economic ladder. Lifting New
Zealand’s relative economic and social performance over time will succeed on the foundation of thousands of successful
individual business ...
Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is utterly flabbergasted that the Labour Party got advice at the weekend from one of Australia's pariahs of
climate policy: the Queensland premier and coal man Peter Beattie. Queensland is the biggest coal exporting state in the
world's ...
Chamber Music New Zealand
Esteemed soloists Julian Rachlin (Violin and Viola) and Richard Hyung-ki Joo (Piano) play two concerts only for Chamber
Music New Zealand in Auckland and Wellington on the 21 and 22 November 2006.
UK Government
The most comprehensive review ever carried out on the economics of climate change was published today. The Review, which
reports to the Prime Minister and Chancellor, was commissioned by the Chancellor in July last year.
New Zealand Government
National won't truly commit to policies to combat climate change as long as Don Brash is their leader, Climate Change
Minister David Parker said today. "On Morning Report this morning, we heard Don Brash still equivocating about whether
climate change ...
Meridian Energy
New Zealand could have an energy supply that is the envy of the world if it makes good decisions about which of its many
options it chooses, says state-owned power company Meridian Energy.
New Zealand Government
Speech notes to Research Provider Workshop, Sky City Convention Centre, Auckland. I’m delighted to be here today with
people who play a crucial role in bringing the creative and imaginative ideas of our scientists and researchers to the
commercial ...
New Zealand National Party
National Party Environment spokesman Nick Smith says Labour has “utterly failed” to deliver a coherent climate change
policy and the public will be “justifiably dubious” about Helen Clark’s ability to deliver.
University of Auckland
Thanks to the wonders of the World Wide Web Adam Obradovic, a first-year student at the Elam School of Fine Arts, is one
of only seven photographers recognised in an international photography competition. The Microsoft Future Pro
Photographer Contest ...
New Zealand Government
Claims that New Zealand kiwifruit exports place a heavy burden on the climate has been rubbished by Agriculture Minister
Jim Anderton today. He was responding to a statement in the Guardian and New Zealand Herald newspapers that “one kilo of
kiwifruit ...
New Zealand Government
Calls by former United Kingdom cabinet minister Stephen Byers for a tax based on miles travelled by agricultural
products to their market are utterly inconsistent with claims that this is the way to reduce global emissions, says
Trade Minister ...
Green Party
The Green Party has applauded the release in the United Kingdom of a major report on the economic costs of climate
change by the former World Bank economist Sir Nicholas Stern, and has welcomed it as a call to action for political
parties here in New ...
New Zealand Government
This is an important event. It is the first time leaders from our research organisations and businesses have met in the
same room to focus on such a crucial issue - the role of R in creating more globally competitive firms and transforming our country's ...
Public Health Association
Increases in illness and death from malaria, dengue fever, injuries, and heat stress are some of the implications of
climate change, warns the Public Health Association (PHA).