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Michael Carmichael
Citing Russian media and AP, the Jerusalem Post is now reporting that the US will strike Iran on Good Friday between the
hours of 4.00 am and 4.00 pm in a coordinated series of air strikes and missile attacks aimed at selected strategic
targets.
Society for the Promotion of Community Standards
The decision of the Chief Censor Mr Bill Hastings, to decline an application for leave from the Society to have the R18
classification of a sexually explicit video featuring actors "pretending to be police officers" using police batons as
"sex toys" ...
Jockey
Champion first-five Dan Carter continues to wow them on the rugby field from Aussie Stadium to Twickenham. And now he’s
tackling global fashion markets – this time in his Jockeys!
Mercer
Australia, New Zealand and Japan score highest for ... Zurichscores highest for overall quality of living; Baghdad
ranks the lowest. Cities in New Zealand and Australia dominate top of the rankings, joined by Western Europe, North
America and Japan
www.UnansweredQuestions.org
Despite an avalanche of criticism from the right, talk show host Rosie O'Donnell is pressing on with her calls for
continued investigation of the events surrounding September 11.
Office of the Clerk
1. JOHN KEY (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in the Minister of Health; if so,
why?
Office of the Clerk
1. Hon TONY RYALL to the Minister of Health: When will he express confidence or not in the chairs of the Auckland
district health boards, Wayne Brown, Pat Snedden and Kay McKelvie?
Mastercard
Auckland, 4 April 2007 – Shopping with a tap of your mobile phone will soon be a reality thanks to MasterCard Worldwide.
Scoop Full Coverage
FULL COVERAGE of Dame Margaret Bazley's report into police conduct, including links to the entire report and Police
Commissioner, Howard Broad's apology to the victims of police officers: "I unreservedly and unequivocally apologise to
the women...
Bhupal Lamichhaney
Girija Prasad Koirala, the leading figure of Nepal's democratic movement, has been elected the Prime Minister of Nepal
unanimously from the interim Parliament. This is the sixth time.
New Zealand National Party
Steve Maharey's unparliamentary outburst in the House today shows he and the Labour Government are under considerable
pressure, and he should consider taking a break from his portfolios, says National Shadow Leader of the House Gerry
Brownlee.
Tortilla con Sal
Sometimes the efforts of oppressed peoples to liberate themselves from imperial subjugation are confronted by direct,
brutal violence like that used by the CIA to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954 and Salvador Allende in Chile
in 1973 or else ...
Shobha Shukla
With two weeks left for Indian film icon Amitabh Bachchan's son - Abhishesk Bachchan's wedding with Miss World 1994 and
leading film star Aishwarya Rai, Shobha Shukla reflects on how blinded we are with customs that rig deep in gender-based
disparities.
Dyslexia Foundation of New Zealand
Academy award winner and Ernst Young Entrepreneur of the Year Richard Taylor of Weta Workshop & Digital says The Dyslexia Foundation of New Zealand is offering much needed debate and rationale for families and
individuals that are experiencing the challenges ...
Vice-Chancellors Committee
Professor Walsh to chair CUAP; Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarships enable vital research; Government renews private
provider protocol; Doug Myers Scholarship for 2007; KAREN collaboration forum planned; REANNZ supports 10 projects;
Cricket and triathlon feature ...
RaboPlus
New Zealanders have a right to better protection from banks against scamming attacks and should demand better security
for online banking, said Mike Heath, General Manager of New Zealand’s online savings and investment service, RaboPlus.
Siddhi B. Ranjitkar
The seven-party alliance (SPA) and the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist) formed a coalition government on
April 01, 2007. This government was supposed to be formed in December 2006.
Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The planned Easter Week exhibition of a full-size, anatomically correct sculpture of Jesus on an invisible cross, made
from 200 pounds of chocolate, was cancelled at the Lab Gallery in midtown Manhattan. Called, with ostensible
seriousness, “My ...
apnfinda Ltd
APN Infomedia and finda have merged to create New Zealand’s leader in local search, with a highly localised and
searchable database of nearly a quarter of a million Kiwi businesses and more than 600,000 unique visitors each month.
University of Canterbury
The development of an unmanned, robotic plane for farmers to collect data on animal health, crop and soil conditions,
water uptake and water use is one example of the work to be done at a new multi-million dollar research centre being
launched tonight ...
Michael Collins
The shocked reaction to the abrupt dismissal of eight U.S. Attorneys points to the essence of our current political
problems. The broad based political reaction to the Gonzales firings contains one critical assumption: this is an
aberrant act. Something ...
William Kotke
We are all looking at the end of the world as we know it. Our attention is focused on the holes in the ozone layer,
planetary warming, Peak Oil, the spread of DU weapons, the collapse of the house of credit cards, and the prospect of
the planetary financial ...
New Zealand Defence Force
The work of Captain Matt Gauldie, the New Zealand Army artist operationally deployed to the Solomon Islands and
Afghanistan in 2006, will be exhibited in Christchurch from April 16 to May 12.
Catherine Austin Fitts
I recently wrote a letter to the CEO of a continuing care retirement community. I realized subsequently that the letter
described a situation that many retirees—as well as business and municipal leaders—are managing, and that there was
merit in ...
Harcourts
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helen.fergusson@harcourts.co.nz
Tanveer Jafri
It is said that there was a time when the British rulers had established colonies around the world and is said that the
Sun was always there in the British ruled territory. Obviously, even the smallest and weakest kingdom does not accept
the supremacy of ...
Bill Grigsby
The BushCo ship may not be sinking yet. But it’s listing. Or maybe run aground. It’s hard to tell. The only thing worth
betting on is that public utterances from this White House—intentional leaks, press conferences, interviews—are at best
...
United Nations
The number of students enrolled in school in southern Sudan has more than doubled since the end of the long-running
civil war two years ago, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF , which is backing a local campaign to
provide hundreds ...
HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It has been fashionable in the past few weeks to say that Dame Margaret Bazley's Commission of Inquiry into Police
Conduct, because it would not name names or venture on cases under investigation and had been conducted under tight
terms of reference, ...
PAUL BUDDE Communication
BuddeBlog - Fibre and digital media – the European topics - Value-added ISPs are starting to arrive - Will Hutch do the
trick - Finland slowly ditching dial-up Internet - How to spend New Zealand’s Yellow Pages money - Can we stop the
broadband train ...