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Something very strange happened in Volusia County on election night November 2000, the night that first Gore won
Florida, then Bush, and then as everybody can so well remember there was a tie.
Anti-American attitudes in the world can be changed if the United States can demonstrate that its policies in Iraq are
successful and progress can be made in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today he was deeply disappointed that Don Brash’s first financial statement as
Leader of the National Party contains what can only be described as an “outright lie.”
Analysts are available to scrutinize some of President Bush's claims, including those from Tuesday's news conference,
focusing on Iraq and the recent attacks there:
I had the unique opportunity to interview five US military servicemen who just got back from Iraq, or in the case of two
men, corresponded with their wives so that I could ask questions of these soldiers by mail.
1. During morning talks you're expected to denounce your counter-revolutionary parents. 2. For letter-writing practice,
everyone in the class adopts a Cuban political prisoner.
TULKAREM — An Israeli undercover commando shot dead Thursday night a Palestinain civilian in the West Bank city of
Tulkarem.
Publication of this story marks a watershed in American political history. It is offered freely for publication in full
or part on any and all internet forums, blogs and noticeboards. All other media are also encouraged to utilise material.
Readers ...
AUCKLAND, 10 September, 2003 – Sony's has launched a new DVD Handycam® camcorder that advances the simplicity of making
and sharing videos. The new camcorder produces DVD recordings that play back in most current home and PC DVD players, as
well as ...
Cartoon by John Chuckman…
The Leader of the Democrats, Stephnie de Ruyter, has expressed delight at the election of her new counterpart in the
National Party.
A Car Bomb Explosion Kills 6 Iraqis in Fallujah as Others Mourn Baghdad Bombings Victims
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. After the 26,000-mile journey last week, I hope the members of the traveling press had a
restful weekend. I have a brief statement; then I'll be glad to take questions.
National's new leader is trying to bribe his old mates back into the party by offering tax cuts and the chance to loot
some more state-owned assets, Green Party Co-leader Rod Donald said today.
The wounding of New Zealand soldier Hayden Gardner highlights the fact that New Zealand soldiers are in Iraq as part of
the US-led military occupation. "The Labour government has put these soldiers lives at risk so it can win points with
George ...
After months of delays and postponing, the Israeli military Attorney General, General Menachem Finkelstein, has finally
agreed to open an investigation in the critical wounding of a British peace activist by the Israeli forces in the city
of Rafah last ...
Chairman Lugar, Senator Biden, Members of the Committee, as always, I welcome the opportunity to appear before this
body to discuss the foreign policy priorities and challenges of the day. I particularly appreciate this opportunity to
discuss Iran, ...
Associate Health Minister, Jim Anderton, today released the coalition government's formal response to the recent Health
Select Committee's Inquiry into the Public Health Strategies Related to Cannabis use and the Most Appropriate Legal
Status.
In these series of selected excerpts from Chaim Kupferberg's landmark article, Kupferberg reveals the marketing plan to
introduce Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to the public as the 9/11 mastermind in June 2002 - and the subsequent coincidences,
contradictions, and ...
''A fools game'' is how the former chief of the U.S. strategic Air Command, General George Lee Butler, describes nuclear
weapons and policy. The General says there is no security in these weapons and the only rational option is for their
complete elimination.
With women making up only 4 per cent of civilian police in United Nations peacekeeping missions, a senior UN official
appealed to Member States today to assign more women police and military personnel to international forces.
Santa Monica, CA -- Internal Enron e-mails confirm that Arnold Schwarzenegger was among a small group of executives who
met with Lay at the posh Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel in May of 2001, in the midst of California's energy crisis.
Most of the time when running a news website you just never know who is reading, or whether your efforts are making a
difference. Sure, you can identify the locations of your readers, and sometimes even their organisations. But you don't
know whether ...
“Closure of Carich Training Centre Raises Questions” “The announcement today that Carich Training Centre is closing its
doors, despite the sector being heavily regulated, is disappointing,” said Sandra McKersey, President of the New Zealand
Association ...
If certification isn't being done properly, the whole house of cards falls. Below are actual copies of internal Diebold
memos which show that uncertified software is being used in elections, and that Diebold programmers intentionally
end-run the ...
After a rocket attack on the Rashid hotel in Baghdad landed only one floor away from a clearly shaken Deputy Secretary
of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Paul Bremer, the American viceroy for Iraq, stated the obvious—that the U.S. occupation
forces had had a bad ...
National MPs must be wondering what on earth they’ve unleased tonight after new leader Don Brash announced radical
privatisation plans in his first day in the job, says Broadcasting Minister Steve Maharey.
Two images from NASA's Modis satellite of California's out of control wildfires. Click images for bigger versions.
Did our small nation luck out? How close did the Solomons come to society collapse as happened and continues to take
place in sub-Sahara Africa as we speak? Take the Rwanda case for instance.
After announcing that they were rejecting Diebold Elections Systems' cease and desist orders and initiating a campaign
of legal electronic civil disobedience, Why War? and the Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons (SCDC) held a
public meeting ...