Extracts from http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10577643 : Start extract Air France voiced its concerns to Airbus months ago about the reliability in icy conditions of the model of speed sensors, or "Pitot tubes", fitted to the A330-200...
This is a perfect example of how an advance guy gets fired. An elementary student could recognize why this picture should never have been allowed to be taken. They say a picture is worth a thousand...
"Bush's approval ratings seem to have flattened out around 28%1. The Democratic Congress is trying to work out some sort of compromise so that Bush will actually pass a funding bill for his war; and all the while...
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Marcelle Hamilton, a police officer in the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service charged a 19 year old woman for murder following the death of her 4 year old daughter from neglect and abuse.Since the charges the laid, PC Hamilton shirked his duties of attending court and was...
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"The Night of the Generals
The six retired generals who stepped forward last spring to publicly attack Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's handling of the Iraq war had to overcome a culture of reticence based on civilian control of the military. But while each man acted...
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"'AS SOON AS certain topics are raised," George Orwell once wrote, "the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of...
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It is ironic that a couple of days before Human Rights Day here in South Africa, we had to witness the pathetic response from the ANC-led coalition government to the human-rights abuses by police in...
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Legitimacy demands that any intervention in the internal affairs of a
country, especially detaining and trying individuals accused of crimes,
be based on an international consensus anchored in credible
institutions, primarily the UN Security Council."Extend judicial...
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"The recent revelations about the virulent spread of death squads ravaging Iraq have only confirmed for many people the lethal incompetence of the Bush Regime, whose brutal bungling appears to have unleashed the demon of sectarian strife in the conquered land. The general...
Voting in Memphis--which I had never visited before--relates a disturbing account of a dead voter in Shelby County still voting and a living voter whose vote was, possibly, not counted. As the acrimony between parties becomes greater each election cycle, this is simple...
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I submit that a school where children are in charge is a failing school, by any reasonable measure. Conversely, those schools where the adults are in charge succeed, by any reasonable measure.
There is a simple test. Is prohibited behavior permitted? A school where...
How the Interior Department managed to lose about $2 billion of the public's money.Complaints are beginning to pile up against the U.S. Interior
Department. And they're coming not just from outside critics but also
from people in the agency. The problems surfacing are...
" Posted three weeks ago, the video describes what De Kort says are blind spots in the ship's security cameras, equipment that malfunctions in cold weather and other problems. "It may be very hard for you to believe that our government and the largest defense contractor...
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Canada’s intelligence services have long been ridiculed as being toothless and a far cry from their U.S. or British counterparts. But CSIS, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, has come through for us and prevented Canada’s own 9/11. By all accounts, the terrorist...
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A large majority of Iraqis think the US plans to maintain bases in Iraq permanently, even if the newly elected government asks the US to leave. A large majority favors setting a timeline for the withdrawal of US...
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