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Imagine you wake up from a coma and you learn that 11 months ago, an "Attack on America" destroyed some significant
buildings, killed 3,000 people and forced a war against terrorism. You switch on the news and see pictures of
Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, ...
On the evening of August 20, 1998, the Clinton administration conducted simultaneous missile strikes against two
suspected terrorist facilities supposedly connected with the heralded, Saudi terrorist "mastermind" Osama bin Laden.
The recent sentencing of 17-year-old Daniel Luff for the murder of one police officer with a stolen gun and attempted
murder of another while on bail on firearms charges is concerning enough without learning his self-indulgent mother was
a drug addict, ...
1. PITA PARAONE to the Minister of Health: Since she became Minister of Health, how many individuals have been
financially assisted to obtain treatment or operations overseas and what has been the total cost?
1. GEORGINA BEYER (NZ Labour--Wairarapa) to the Minister of Social Services and Employment: What reports, if any, has
he received on the placement of welfare recipients into paid employment?
ANZ Bank was fined $7,500 plus $1,130 costs in the Wellington District Court yesterday for breaching the Fair Trading
Act in relation to a promotion offering nearly 10,000 of its existing customers an ANZ MasterCard with a pre-approved
$5000 limit. In addition, ...
Chief Censor Bill Hastings has been responsible for approving for public screening and home video use, more degrading
and sick films, DVDs and videos featuring sexual violence combined with explicit sex and graphic violence, than any
other NZ Chief ...
Labour Deputy Leader Michael Cullen’s comments on women on the DPB are offensive and demeaning, says National MP Judith
Collins.
A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated
attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001.
UQ WIRE EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the full text of the “secret report” referred to in an earlier UQ wire item
today, “UQ Wire: Secret Bush Iraq Regime Change Blueprint” . The original in .pdf format is located at
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf ...
Thank you for your response to my letter of August 6 concerning the domestic purposes benefit. You write,"Your claim
that 'the two-parent family ...is the natural and economically viable cornerstone of society' fails to take account of
the existence ...
Back in 1975 Indonesian dictator Suharto was given the green light to invade East Timor by US President Gerald Ford.
What followed was 23 years of US-Indonesian oppression of East Timorese. New Zealand sat silent. We ought to say sorry.
Green MP Nandor Tanczos today flatly rejected comments by National MP Phil Heatley that hemp growing was a cover for
cannabis law reform.
The Labour Government is trying to have it both ways on Iraq, says National Party Leader Bill English.
In This Edition: Senate Hearing On Iraq “Blitzkrieg” Now On - Richard Butler Is A U.S. Spy – A CIA Asset
Libertarianz spokesman Peter Cresswell today congratulated Jeanette Fitzsimons for her stunning performance in the
internationally coveted ‘Bonehead Awards'.
Women have made great advances in workplace participation, but have not yet achieved a healthy balance between their
work and their lives with their families and in their communities, Women’s Affairs Minister Ruth Dyson said today.
"United Future MP Paul Adams appears to be showing a disturbing pro-censorship side of his party in calling for Internet
Service Providers to be liable for content that their customers send or access over the Internet," announced
Libertarianz Spokeman ...
Within a few months, the events of Sept. 11th, 2001 became but an echo of the events that followed. War in Afghanistan,
anthrax, unprecedented powers of detention: the public mind moves from one shock to another, appearing to accept the
government’s ...
This week Khidhir Hamza, a former Iraqi nuclear scientist who defected to the U.S. in 1994, testified before a U.S.
Senate panel investigating Iraq's nuclear armaments. Hamza told U.S. Senators that Iraq was three years away from
creating up to three ...
The Green Party Spokesperson on Gambling, Sue Bradford has turned down an invitation to the opening of the new Hamilton
casino today.
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Foreign Affairs & Defence Spokesman Ken Shirley today accused the Prime Minister of selective amnesia over the 1975 Indonesia invasion of
East Timor.
Associate Minister of Education (Tertiary Education) Steve Maharey is supporting a call by a national students’
organisation for banks to stop taking into account the size of a persons’ student loan when considering their
application for a mortgage ...
George Hawkins has obviously seen the error of his ways in ruling out an inquiry into the Weathertightness of Buildings
in New Zealand, ACT Commerce Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today.
Welfare legislation passed this evening by Parliament evening will significantly increase the support available for
sole-parent and widows beneficiaries to raise their families and move into work when family responsibilities allow, says
Social ...
1. GEORGINA BEYER to the Minister of Social Services and Employment: What reports, if any, has he received on the
placement of welfare recipients into paid employment?
"The economic effect of growing student debt and state education-funding is preventing people building their wealth in
more ways than Andrew Campbell and his cronies at NZUSA can imagine,” said a Libertarianz spokesman today, responding to
calls from ...
Green Justice Spokesperson Nandor Tanczos today welcomed the decision by new Corrections Minister Mark Gosche to review
the controversial proposed new prison at Ngawha, saying that Mr Gosche had a difficult task to clean up the mess left by
the previous Minister.
What’s THAT in your coffee? “It is a great danger for us… our children do not have clothes to go to school. We don’t
even have food to eat. We appeal to the world for food, support and assistance.” Hajib Mohamed Amin - Coffee farmer,
Kafa province, ...
In a teleconferenced select committee hearing today on the "boy racer bill", the Mild Greens were told by acting
committee chair Georgina Beyer, that the content of their submission was considered abusive of members of the committee.