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US State Department
Our market-based economies embrace trade and commerce as engines of prosperity. Our peoples value education and a strong
work ethic. We share an attachment to democracy and individual rights founded on an instinctive mistrust of
authoritarianism.
Joseph Barratt
Protesting this week's early morning raids and demanding that police abandon their threats of terrorist charges against
the17 activists arrested, a couple of hundred people rallied in support of the accused and ridiculed proposed new terror
laws in ...
Aziz Choudry
As an ordinary average Kiwi bloke watching the events of the past few days in Aotearoa from Canada, I have felt both a
sense of déjà vu and strong parallels between the two places. My outrage at the actions of the New Zealand Police and
their political ...
Forest And Bird
Who says small, drab, grey insectivores can’t be loved? The grey warbler (riroriro) has emerged as the surprise winner
of Forest & Bird’s Bird of the Year poll.
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Today in the globalized realm of international relations everything is interlinked. Eurasia is all but a giant jigsaw in
name. Two opposite forces are creating a synthesis. This state is a result of the dynamic and static pushes to
infiltrate the Eurasian ...
Khagendra Thapa
According to the 2001 census of Nepal, there are 103 different ethnic groups in Nepal. They speak at least 90 different
languages. Some of the ethnic groups are as small as 164 people. Nepal is a country of minorities. The largest minority
group is that ...
New Zealand Government
Investing in NZ’s housing future - speech to the New Zealand Property Investors Federation Annual Conference
New Zealand Government
The next steps in New Zealand's four-year campaign build-up to hosting Rugby World Cup 2011 were announced by Rugby
World Cup Minister Trevor Mallard, following the conclusion of the 2007 event in Paris today.
Agenda
Maori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell is now taking a more cautious stanceon the nationwide police raids which have occurred
in the past week. The Maori Party has been heavily critical of police actions, but this morning on TVOne's "Agenda" Mr
Flavell said ...
Ron Law
'Deadly disease disappears from Bay' is the headline we all want to believe that featured on the New Zealand Herald
website on October 10. * "Sadly, the article is littered with inaccurate data, continued lies, and very sloppy
reporting," says Risk ...
Sam Smith
When Democrats talk about things they don't like about John Edwards, they typically express skepticism about a wealthy
trial lawyer advocating populist positions or his $400 haircut or the size of his 10,000 square foot home and 15,000
square foot ...
Caritas
Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and people of all faiths and spiritualities will join in solidarity
with the people of Burma this Sunday October 21st.
Charles Shaw
We humans are myth-driven creatures. Our mythologies help define us and shape us and provide us with the context of our
lives, so that we may navigate through our days and make sense of a world that at times appears so overwhelming, out of
control, ...
Michael Collins
The 2004 presidential election was mired in controversy all over the country. Candidate Kerry’s legion of volunteer
lawyers was ready to fight anticipated election fraud. Serious challenges were defused when Kerry conceded the election
in the early morning ...
Selwyn Manning
Pacific Affairs (Text + Audio + Photography): Scoop's Selwyn Manning reports that within 24 hours doubt was cast over a
commitment by Fiji's military leader Frank Bainimarama to hold an election under the current constitution in 2009.
freepress.org
With record low approval ratings for the Bush/Cheney regime and the albatross of an unpopular war hanging from the GOP's
neck, do you think that a Democratic presidential candidate will win the White House, get us out of Iraq, and end our
long national ...
J. Sri Raman
India is reeling from the impact of two bomb blasts within four days - and from the revived memories of serial
explosions of the nineties. And no one has greater reason to rejoice than political forces that seek to thrive on a
selectively defined ...
New Zealand Alliance Party
Ms Murray is programme manager for a Dunedin charitable trust that provides services for people with intellectual and
physical disabilities.
Bobby Ramakant
Diabetes mellitus is emerging as a major health problem in Asian countries with world's highest number of people with
diabetes living in the region. This warning came from International Awardee (2005) of World Health Organization (WHO)
Prof (Dr) Rama Kant, ...
Arena
The orders are received. The men prepare, put their combat boots on, cover their faces and load their guns. The exits
are blocked, the people are searched and terrorized and the activists are dragged away. Palestine, Iraq. Afghanistan? –
not this time. ...
New Zealand National Party
The Government must heed a report by Osteoporosis New Zealand that reveals the disease that affects mostly women costs
the country a staggering $1 billion a year, says National’s Women’s Affairs spokeswoman, Dr Jackie Blue.
New Zealand Government
Commerce Minister Lianne Dalziel today announced the appointment of the Honourable Sir Ian Barker and Helen Cull, Q.C.
as Cease and Desist Commissioners for a term of five years.
David Swanson
If Bush and Cheney attack Iran, we will almost certainly know it's coming. For months prior to the invasion of Iraq,
even while the corporate media bombarded us with the pretense that Bush and Cheney had not yet decided on war, other
stories further back ...
Jan Baumgartner
An interlocutor moderates a conversation of wit and wisdom between one of the world’s great comedy duos, George W. Bush
and Woody Allen. (documented quotes by Bush and Allen indicated by Italics and quotation marks)
afterdowningstreet.org
My name is James Circello. I am sure some of you already know who I am now that wiretaps and spying on American citizens
has been approved. Or maybe you've heard of me when you saw my name on a comprehensive list of Anti-War activists. Or
maybe you just ...
New Zealand Government
Good evening everyone and thank you for inviting me to address your annual dinner. A very special welcome to New Zealand
to the Master of the Guild, Group Captain, Roger Gault.
Arena
The orders are received. The men prepare, put their combat boots on, cover their faces and load their guns. The exits
are blocked, the people are searched and terrorized and the activists are dragged away. Palestine, Iraq. Afghanistan? –
not this time. ...
truthout.org
During his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, Judge Michael Mukasey, President Bush's nominee for attorney general,
dodged controversial questions related to the CIA's use of torture and the federal government's domestic surveillance
program.
John Gideon
Last week the Netherlands did away with e-voting and their DREs made by a company called “NEDAP”. These same machines
were sold to Ireland under the brand name “Liberty”. “Liberty” is now being marketed in New York. Ireland paid 51.3m ...
J. Sri Raman
She came back, she was seen, she conquered - that might have served as the wrap-up line for the repeated footage on
South Asian television channels of a former prime minister's return to Pakistan on Thursday. The summary, however, would
not have stated ...
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