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| Public Address 21/07/08 - Who Was That Masked Man? |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| I'd forgotten we didn't have a working landline -- it just seemed pleasantly quiet -- until Saturday afternoon, when my elderly neighbour, George, got himself across the road. He was a bit upset, because his medical alarm relies on the phone system, ... |
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| Undernews For July 20, 2008 |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| Several months ago, Suzan Mazur wrote of an important upcoming conference of scientists who did not reject the theory Darwin's beliefs about evolution but who thought things that had been learned in the succeeding century and a half might expand or alter ... |
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| Top Scoop Stories - 21 July 2008 News Summary |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| Security & Defence Issues: NZ & Afghanistan / P Cases / Winston Peters Speech, NZ First Convention / KiwiSaver / Rest Home Disasters / T Rex & Taranaki! / 25% Of NZ Export Earnings From Fonterra / Misuse Of ICRC Emblem / Clerical Sexual Abuse / Fiji. |
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| SRB: A Century Tailor-Made for Remembrance |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| The Dom: A Century of News, edited by Karl du Fresne. Wellington: The Dominion Post, 2007. Reviewed by ALAN SAMSON for the Scoop Review of Books Let's be blunt. Despite management spin and the timeline claims of this centenary publication, Wellington-based ... |
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| Wallace & Manning Analyse The Condi Rice Visit |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| KiwiFM Audio: Wallace Chapman talks to Scoop's Selwyn Manning who analyses what will be on the negotiating table between New Zealand and the USA when the later's secretary of state Condoleezza Rice visits Auckland this week. |
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| Audio & Images: PM's Press Conf. 31 March 2008 |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| Scoop Audio + Photos : Prime Minister's Post Cabinet Press Conference - Monday, 31 March 2008 Alastair Thompson |
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| South Asia Awaits Another Secret War |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| The Kabul blast of July 7, which targeted India's embassy and took a heavy toll of human lives, may trigger yet another secret South Asian war. |
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| Democratic Trends Favoring Women's Rights Movement |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| When a country shifts from authoritarian rule to democracy it provides a window of opportunity for women to secure wider rights and economic gains, a prominent Brazilian sociologist says. |
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| Uri Avnery: Different Planets |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| It was an eerie experience: in a fraction of a second I could switch between two worlds, but all the channels reported on exactly the same occasion. In one section of the breaking news, the events happened at a distance of a few dozen meters from ... |
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| 'BiPartisan' Pelosi Opposes Impeachment |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| Saturday morning, July 19. Sitting here at the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, Texas with several thousand other online activists. Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Party Speaker of the House, the third most powerful politician in the United States, is ... |
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| Al Gore inches toward Solartopia |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| Bit by bit, Al Gore seems to be inching toward a Solartopian view of a future that must be completely sustainable in green energy. This week he advocated getting to an electric power system that is "carbon free" within ten years. |
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| How They'll Try to Bury Impeachment and Fail |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| In response to public demand for impeachment hearings and pressure from Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Congressman Robert Wexler, and others, as well as electoral challenges by pro-impeachment candidates, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally caved and proposed ... |
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| Daily Voting News For July 18, 2008 |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| Today is one of those days where there are many big stories. The list of Secretary of States who have joined together to demand that Veterans Administration facilities be opened to allow non-partisan voter registration drives has risen to 19. Meanwhile, ... |
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| Reasons to Oppose Drilling in ANWR |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| Last November, the oil company British Petroleum (BP) plead guilty to a misdemeanor and paid a $20 million fine for violating the Clean Water Act related to a massive oil spill that occurred at BP’s Prudhoe Bay operations in Alaska’s North Slope ... |
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| Bush Blocks DOJ From Releasing CIA Leak Documents |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| In the latest twist in the “Plame-gate” scandal, President George W. Bush has asserted executive privilege to block release of Vice President Dick Cheney’s interview with a special prosecutor about possible criminal violations in the leaking of a ... |
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