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BANGKOK, Thailand -- The U.S. Embassy has advised Americans in Thailand to conduct anti-terrorist "emergency drills" at
home and at work after police arrested three Muslims allegedly plotting to bomb embassies and tourist sites, and
captured ...
Amnesty International expressed its concerns at the news that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is being held in Insein Prison under
the 1975 State Protection Law, Section 10(a).
Sunday morning talk shows like ABC's This Week or Fox News Sunday often make news for days afterward. Since prominent
government officials dominate the guest lists of the programs, it is not unusual for the Monday editions of major
newspapers to ...
Jonathan Marshall (18) the host of TV2's Queer Nation who was dismissed from independent production company Livingstone
Productions has today filed papers with the Employment Relations Authority over his sacking from the award winning
television program.
A German TV documentary: "Aktenzeichen 11.9. ungelöst" (File 9/11 unsolved) will be broadcast on Friday, June 20th,
2003, 23.00 h MEST Middle European Summertime in the WDR (Westdeutsche Rundfunk, see website below).
This week, in the course of my research, I came across a chapter written for a British publication by the Dean of the
School of Education at Otago University, Professor Keith Ballard. Apart from being badly written, the content is highly
questionable, ...
No, the US is not going to send its bombers to scatter cluster bombs all over Iran with a full brass band accompaniment,
but rather the Neuesarbeitspartei is beginning to run out of options with which to raise the necessary wherewithal to
fund the spiralling ...
A power confrontation between the EU and USA looms. Is the stoush just Washington demanding compliance from a former
subservient diplo-partner? Or is this the emergence of a new world superpower, the inauguration of a 21st Century Cold
War Clash?
In the immediate aftermath of the destruction of the World Trade Center, the finger of guilt was directed toward the
only plausible author for such a sophisticated and ruthless act of terror - Osama bin Laden.
The most talented director could not have done better. It was a perfect show. Television viewers all over the world saw
heroic Israeli soldiers on their screens battling the fanatical settlers. Close-ups: faces twisted with passion, a
soldier lying on ...
Whenever George Will - a conservative commentator on ABC's 'This Week' - says something self-deprecating about the US I
catch a whiff of Eau de Rat. Like any scriptwriter - and what are these talking heads doing but writing the script for
the way people ...
Cartoon by http://www.kiddmillennium.com….
ANNOUCEMENTS 1 Participation at the World Economic Forum in Jordan 1-2 World Refugee Day
I’m going to miss David Brinkley. No, I wasn’t a fan. Although I give him high marks for his courtesy, decency and wry
wit, I didn’t care for his brand of “journalism” — at least the kind he practiced at ABC. I’ll miss him because I made a
small fortune ...
Ambassador Roger F. Noriega, U.S. Permanent Representative to the OAS Remarks to the OAS General Assembly Santiago,
Chile June 10, 2003
AUCKLAND (Taimi 'o Tonga/Pacific Media Watch): Auckland-based Tongan newspaper publisher Kalafi Moala has launched a
strong attack on the alleged "smear" tactics of the kingdom's conservative Tonga Media Association, accusing it of
turning a blind eye to corruption.
"In summing up the Goodman Fielder School of the Year Awards, Chris France of the New Zealand School Trustees
Association gushed forth with the usual touchy feely commentary about New Zealand schools 'achieving academic
excellence.' I take ...
1. He watches the BBC news with Anita McNaught on the off chance that "her marriage is a sham and she might yet become
available".
NUKU'ALOFA (RNZI/Pacific Media Watch): The Tonga Media Association has gone on the offensive over what it calls
inaccurate, irresponsible and culturally insensitive criticism of the government by overseas media.
Prime Minister Helen Clark has told the nation that Maori Treaty claim privileges will not be allowed if they are
against the national interest - I believe that the national interest in this matter is clear and the solution is
straightforward, ACT ...
"An ill considered, precious, and surprising foray into a debate about extending basic protections and rights to sex
workers", is how Young Labour President Michael Wood describes the push by a number of religious leaders to have MP's
vote ...
LABOUR’S MAORI CAUCUS SPLIT The daily humiliation for Labour as Parekura Horomia demonstrates his total unfitness for
the office, exposes a deep split in Labour’s Maori caucus. As the ninth floor claims Parekura’s job is safe, his Maori
ministerial ...
United Future MP Larry Baldock today said that Labour's Tim Barnett is contradicting himself more and more as he
promotes his Prostitution Reform Bill.
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks on Friday night accused Police Minister George Hawkins for waiting for
a suitably newsworthy firearms crime to launch a new attempt to force firearms registration on the police and
law-abiding gun owners.
A Scoop reader has asked if anyone has a screen-shot of TV3 news where a photograph of U.S. President George Bush was
thought to be captioned: “Professional Fascist”. All responses to editor@scoop.co.nz
Representatives of the Quartet United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, Greek
Foreign Minister George Papandreou, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, High Representative for European Common
Foreign and Security ...
The Government continues to show its disdain for those who earn the nation's wealth, when twice in the past week
Ministers have called New Zealand farmers 'whingers', says Federated Farmers Vice President Charlie Pedersen.
It is clear, after spending a week in Washington, that the Iraqi war represents the high tide of the view that the US
should actively protect its interest by using its vastly superior firepower, accuracy and speed of its defence forces.
The upside ...
"What's happening with George Galloway, then?" people ask me, and I find that many of them think that The Daily
Telegraph has long since received a libel writ from the Labour MP. This is not surprising, for in the two months since
we published official ...
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