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| Overpaid and over there - corrupt Kenyan MP's seek bonuses |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 12:02 am |
| Tags: Africa, Bonuses, Corrupt Mp 039 S, Huttriver10 Blog, Kenya |
| Kenya, hardly a glaring example of a First world country, is to pay its already well paid MP's $115,000 each when their term ends in December - or should I really say they decided to pay themselves that sum. |
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| US accuses Saudis of lying about Iraqis... |
| Published: August 4, 2007, 9:48 pm |
| Tags: Blogospheric Friends, Britain, Huttriver10 Blog, Iraq, Lying, Saudis |
| The extent to which US and Saudi relations had deteriorated to was exposed for the first time recently when Washington accused Riyadh of working to undermine the Iraqi government. The Bush administration warned the Saudis, until recently one of its closest allies, to stop undermining the Iraq prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki. |
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| Return of the Dark Empire - Putin's Russia... |
| Published: August 5, 2007, 3:42 am |
| Tags: Huttriver10 Blog, Putin, The Dark Empire Returns, Writing |
| Russia takes another step away from reason: Russia takes another step away from reason - is the old Soviet Empire returning? Russia's official human rights investigator says it will investigate allegations of psychiatric abuse against an opposition activist. Larissa Arap says she is being forcibly held in a psychiatric clinic because she |
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| US cannot account for missing 190,000 weapons in Iraq... |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 3:07 am |
| Tags: 000 Weapons Missing, 190, Blogospheric Friends, Huttriver10 Blog, Iraq, Military |
| US cannot account for 190,000 weapons 'missing in Iraq' The US military cannot account for 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to the Iraqi security forces, an official US report says. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says the Pentagon cannot track about 30% of the weapons distributed in Iraq over the past three years. The |
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| Is Lord Lucan alive in New Zealand... |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 3:50 am |
| Tags: Alive In Nz, Blogspheric Friends, Huttriver10 Blog, Lrd Lucan |
| IS LORD LUCAN ALIVE AND WELL IN NEW ZEALAND - THE HUNT IS ON IN A SMALL NORTH ISLAND TOWN. A former Scotland Yard detective is allegedly leading a new attempt to solve one of Britain's most enduring mysteries - the hunt is on for Lucan in a small North island town of Marton - population 6,000. |
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| Has Communati.com followed WU and BF downtown... |
| Published: September 16, 2007, 4:44 am |
| Tags: Adsense, Communati Com Huttriver10 Blog, Downtown, Money, Wealth, Writing |
| Has Communati.com followed the other sites like WU and BF downtown... I haven't been able to log into Communati.com for two days. Maintenance perhaps? Or has it dropped its innards like the others? |
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| The invasion ofthe killer ants... |
| Published: September 18, 2007, 10:53 pm |
| Tags: Adsense, Argentine Ants, Huttriver10 Blog, Killer Ants, Movie, New Zealand, Writing |
| The invasion of the killer ants - the movie! The invasion of the killer ants? Islanders fear ant attack - could be a scenario for a movie script in the making: Pot plants seen as threat to Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf off the Auckland coast in New Zealad amid risk of further infestations of Argentine ant. |
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| The success story - New Zealand conservation of Tuataras... |
| Published: September 20, 2007, 7:17 pm |
| Tags: Animal Life, Conservation, Huttriver10 Blog, Tuataras |
| The success story of New Zealand conservation - Tuataras saved from extiction... Experiencing New Zealand the way it used to be - 200 million years ago before humankind evolved. A species of tuatara the survivors of the reptilian order of Sphenodontia were in danger of extinction until the Victoria University of Wellington led surveys in the early |
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| The success story - New Zealand conservation of Tuataras... |
| Published: September 20, 2007, 7:17 pm |
| Tags: Animal Life, Conservation, Huttriver10 Blog, Tuataras |
| The success story of New Zealand conservation - Tuataras saved from extiction... Experiencing New Zealand the way it used to be - 200 million years ago before humankind evolved. A species of tuatara the survivors of the reptilian order of Sphenodontia were in danger of extinction until the Victoria University of Wellington led surveys in the early |
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| A grisly find by NZ police - in the boot of an Auckland car... |
| Published: September 21, 2007, 10:03 pm |
| Tags: Adsense, Auckland Car, Body, Crime, Grisly Find, Huttriver10 Blog |
| A grisly find has just been made by NZ police in the boot of a car in Auckland. The body of little "Pumpkin's" mother has been found stashed in the boot of a car outside the family home. The world saw the little unknown three year old Chinese girl at a Melbourne train station in Australia, after she had been abandoned by her father, an Auckland |
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| Wait until I call you number, love... |
| Published: September 25, 2007, 12:53 am |
| Tags: Adsense, Call, Huttriver10 Blog, Learn Lesson, Number, Patience |
| Wait until I call your number,love! I liked this one folks! One Friday night in a crowded downtown hotel a very large man sat down beside me and started banging the bar with his fist. A very busy and flustered barmaid with three pints of beer in each hand said she would be right back to serve him. |
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| There's a snake in the boot... |
| Published: October 11, 2007, 1:58 am |
| Tags: Huttriver10 Blog, Red Belly Black Snake, Reptite, Snake Bite, Snake Expert |
| There's a snake in the boot... Thanks for the memory.Yeah right! A snake expert is reportedly recovering in Royal Alfred Hospital(RPA), Sydney, Australia, after the red-belly black snake she tried to save bit her! |
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| Armed police raid addresses around New Zealand - terrorism suspected... |
| Published: October 16, 2007, 2:28 am |
| Tags: Huttriver10 Blog, New Zealand, Police Action, Terrorism, Weapons Seized |
| Little New Zealand down in the South Pacific, 2000 miles and three hours east of Walzing Matilda country, Australia, is hardly considered potential terrorist country. But post 9/11 anything is possible I guess. |
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| A story for today, unjustified and grotesque in its implication... |
| Published: October 18, 2007, 7:23 pm |
| Tags: Blogospheric Friends, Grotesque, Huttriver10 Blog, Implication, Unjustified, Wealth |
| A story for today, rather unjustified and grotesque in its implication... According to the London 'Guardian' newspaper, the richest 1% of people in the world own 40% of the world's wealth. And those in financial services and internet sectors predominate among the super-rich, they claimed. |
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| Labour Day - a meaningless holiday in NZ... |
| Published: October 21, 2007, 7:58 pm |
| Tags: Blogospheric Friends, Huttriver10 Blog, Labour Day, Meaningless Holiday |
| Today is LABOUR DAY in New Zealand, celebrated on the fourth Monday of October every year. Once it celebrated the real value of workers to New Zealand society and the economy, now its a holiday with a very shallow meaning. To most workers its just another holiday off work. Most know their work is not really valued by their employers. In this the |
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