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The front pages of California’s major daily newspapers were buzzing last week with fresh reports of one energy company
ripping off the state in the spring of 2000 by deliberately keeping a power plant from generating electricity so the
company could ...
Rush-hour traffic was treated to a striptease in Auckland today as the second of two new Elle Mapcherson Intimates
billboards were unveiled by a pair of Kiwifire dancers.
Democrats Twice As Likely to Die In Crashes: Was Paul Wellstone Murdered? - History Suggests It - Crash Inconsistencies
Suggest It - Many, Including Some Members of Congress, Believe It
Scoop’s analysis found shows that - according to the polls - the Republican Party experienced a pronounced last minute
swing in its favour of between 4 and 16 points. Remarkably this last minute swing appears to have been concentrated in
its effects ...
Gore Vidal once tried to get me to print an alleged secret—a very big secret—about Richard Nixon’s penis. About what has
come to be called, in post-Clintonian euphemistic legalese, its "distinguishing characteristic."
Gore Vidal is America’s most controversial writer and a ferocious, often isolated, critic of the Bush administration.
Here, against a backdrop of spreading unease about America’s response to the events of 11 September 2001 and their
aftermath, we publish ...
Hi folks, Public Address is here, at: http://publicaddress.net It is home to weblogs by myself (it's still called Hard
News), Chad Taylor, Debra Daley and Damian Christie. It has been beautifully constructed by CactusLab.
I was fooled when they told me that they sought a democratic solution and what had really been intended was a secret
pact between (union boss) Carlos Ortega and (ex-General) Medina Gómez that a general strike… would try to generate
disorder, violence and ...
The American people expect us to provide our best judgment and our best insight into such monumental decisions. This is
a far, far cry from being our best. This is not our best. As a matter of fact, it is a mere shadow of our best. Yet we
are being ...
More streets are to be restricted to non-residential traffic on weekends and public holidays in order to tackle the
scourge of illegal street racing in Manukau. This will include a large stretch of Te Irirangi Drive between Dawson Road
in Otara and ...
August 27th, 2002 (Wellington): The customs officer hails me from across the now empty Wellington airport arrivals hall,
“Mr Thompson?”
Green MP Keith Locke is reminding the Prime Minister to let the New Zealand public know when our SAS contingent is
finally pulled out of Afghanistan.
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra presents two family concerts in Wellington in December, featuring music from the
world of film, 'Musical Mythologies' and musical theatre, 'With a song in my Heart', which will have the Wellington
hills alive with ...
European diplomacy has clearly often been the nucleus of destruction. Is it now the only buffer left between
peace-comparative and Manifest Destiny – the dream of Fortress USA to express its institutions around the world? The
NATO Summit will be a decider.
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today that the only possible explanation for Miss Lee's appointment to this tiny island
is that Helen Clark's former ally needs a job in the sun and they couldn't trust her to go anywhere else.
New Zealand’s next High Commissioner to Niue will be the Hon. Sandra Lee, Foreign Minister Phil Goff announced today.
Just when TV is becoming so bad, so boring and so banal that chewing your own arm off starts looking like a riveting
evening’s entertainment, along comes some fun, trashy Brit TV to take the edge off.
The High Court today heard evidence from Constable Jason Dombroski, the police officer who was with Constable Keith
Abbott during the 60 to 90 second period before Steven Wallace slumped to the ground on Waitara’s main street, felled by
a fatal volley ...
That John Allen Muhammad, nee John Allen Williams and several aliases, was known to the U.S. Government long before the
"sniper" shooting spree is fast becoming apparent. There are just too many instances where authorities should have
investigated, arrested ...
A Bill to reform prostitution, which is currently before Parliament, would decriminalise the sex industry completely.
However, some countries—such as Sweden—have moved in the opposite direction, and are now prosecuting the clients of
prostitutes rather ...
In the national debate over upgrading election infrastructure, Peter Neumann is an unlikely defender of the low-tech
approach. As principle scientist at Stanford Research Institute's Computer Science Laboratory, Neumann has spent the
last 20 years studying ...
A prosecution witness in the murder trial of Senior Constable Keith Abbott claimed that another police officer,
Constable Jason Dombroski, pocketed an object off the ground shortly after Steven Wallace was fatally shot by Abbott on
Waitara’s main ...
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, ...
National Party leader Bill English is calling for heads to roll including that of Internal Affairs Minister George
Hawkins over the leaky building crisis.
Minister of Defence Mark Burton has today announced Cabinet approval for the installation of an unclassified United
States Air Force (USAF) High Frequency (HF) radio transmitter and receiver at a New Zealand Defence Force communications
site. The most likely ...
Many have said that lowering the drinking age to 18 in 1999 was a mistake. Everyone except the hospitality industry and
some politicians appear to have concerns about the move. But raising the drinking age back to 20 won’t solve problems
associated ...
The registration of sites in New Zealand as wahi tapu could soon become endemic," ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs
spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today.
The National Party's accusing some Councils of failing to protect their ratepayers from the fall-out from the Local
Government Bill.
President Bush has been successful in bringing multilateral organizations from every region of the globe into the war
against terrorism. The Organization of American States, the European Union, the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe, ...
The following is a summary of the facts available at this time via the media, surrounding Senator Paul Wellstone's
airplane crash of 10-25-02. Judge for yourself, was this more likely an assassination or an accident?