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about Swedish Foreign Minister not welcome in Darfur
some remarks :

 * you'ld finnd some english sources, (even government press release or transcripts of speech) but in english, our english native friends do not accept non english sources (strange for my french pov, sources are sources you do not control taste or the color).
 * add categories (countries, ...)

 * question : is Swedish Foreign Minister want to go to darfur ? The reasons for her journey ???

Jacques Divol

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Thousands strike in UK over pensions

March 28, 2006

As many as 1.5 million government workers, members of 11 unions, went on strike on Tuesday in protest of a government decision to reduce their retirement benefits, a change which would take effect in October.

The strike closed thousands of schools, libraries and leisure centres, disrupted commuters, and reduced some facilities to emergency only staffing.

UNISON claimed that more than a million workers had joined the strike, with General Secretary Dave Prentis saying "this overwhelming show of strength from Lands End to John O'Groats has obviously taken the Local Government Association and some local councils by surprise".

The benefits change, would effect the "85 year rule," of the Local Government Pension scheme, which allows government employees to retire at 60 as long as the sum of their age and their years of employment sum to 85 or greater. According to union representatives, the new retirement plan is targeted at lower paid employees, leaving higher paid employees to enjoy the same benefits as before.

Ahead of the strike, the Local Government Association claimed that the changes proposed by unions "would add at least 2% a year to every council taxpayer's bill".

The participating unions point out this is likely to be the largest strike in Britain since 1926.

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Darfur declares Swedish Foreign Minister unwelcome

March 29, 2006

According to the governor of Darfur, Swedish Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs Carin Jämtin is not welcome in the region due to Sweden's involvement in the Mohammed Cartoons controversy. Her planned visit has now been cancelled for security reasons. Jämtin's press secretary, John Zanchi, believes that the true motivation is that Darfur's governor wants as little foreign involvement as possible in the local conflict. Sweden has been actively working to send UN peacekeepers to the region.

Jämtin had earlier stated a desire to visit Darfur after receiving worrying reports of the humanitarian situation there. Her visit had been cleared by the government in Khartoum. The Foreign Minister will continue her trip to other parts of Sudan, including a visit to the Vice President.


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User talk:Temporaria~enwikinews

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User talk:TCreator

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User:Isles/Preemptive strike policy goes nuclear

March 28, 2006

The joint chiefs of staff of the US military have been working on two doctrines to clarify their current position on the use of nuclear weapons. The first is called The Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations [(http://www.nukestrat.com/us/jcs/jp3-12_05.htm)] which states in the executive summary, that we will integrate our nuclear weapons into our conventional forces and utilize them in host nations when it furthers our political goals, we will attack non-state actors, states or combinations of states, based on our best intelligence of a threat. The working drafts of this document have been regularly published on the Pentagons website until recently when it was taken down along with several other policy papers after some publicity and concerns expressed by sixteen senators.

The second major policy paper that the Joint Chiefs have been working and doing major operational test for is called JCS Strategic Deterrence Joint Operating Concept (JOC), prepared by STRATCOM. A draft of this offensive strike plan published in February 2004, describes the role of nuclear weapons as follows: “Nuclear weapons provide the President with the ultimate means to terminate conflict promptly on terms favorable to the United States. They cast a lengthy shadow over a rational adversary’s decision calculus when considering coercion, aggression, WMD employment, and escalatory courses of action. Nuclear weapons threaten destruction of an adversary’s most highly valued assets, including adversary WMD/E capabilities, critical industries, key resources, and means of political organization and control (including the adversary leadership itself). This includes destruction of targets otherwise invulnerable to conventional attack, e.g., hard and deeply buried facilities, “location uncertainty” targets, etc. Nuclear weapons reduce an adversary’s confidence in their ability to control wartime escalation.

These programs have undergone extensive testing and implementation over the last few years with very little notice from the public or media coverage. Isles 18:01, 29 March 2006 (UTC)


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User talk:Newsjockey

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User talk:Charm

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User talk:Isles

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Wikinews desperately needs more gutsy reporters; please give the project as much time as you can spare. Neutralizer 14:10, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

User:Isles/Preemptive strike policy goes nuclear
Hi!

I've moved this article to your user space because it appears to be an editorial. Wikinews does not accept editorials in the main namespace according to our policy, but you are welcome to develop them in the user space. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 18:10, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

You said:
"I am not sure how a direct discussion of U.S. military policy is an editorial opioun piece, but I am not a reporter. I feel these issues should be dicussed somehow, somewhere. We are talking about nuclear weapons after all. I can find almost no one to talk about these policies in the media so I tried wikinews, Alas, I was a failure. My morning was wasted."
 * There's many place where to speak about U.S. military policy, you could create a weblog, go to Indymedia, go to GreenPeace… As Amgine said we do not accept editorial and self point of view (and it's a difficult way to follow as ALL journalists are writing Editorial, but as it's un-neutral…
 * If you can follow "our" rules you are very welcome to contribute on WIkinews ! Jacques Divol 07:39, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

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hi Isles, and welcome to wikinews. i've moved ur message from my user page my talk page, which is the right place for it. the recommended way to get to know wikinews is to take a quick look at the links in the (first) welcome message above, which tell u how wikinews works.

i took a quick look at the nuclear doctrine stuff and i see that u once tried to publish it but it was removed as a editorial.

wikinews articles must report a news event, so to write about changes to the nuclear doctrine in wikinews, u'll have to wait until such an event occurs (eg., pentagon releases the doctrine, or a newspaper reveals something in it). note that our sister project wikipedia does not have this restriction and information about the changes to the doctrine can be added there at any time. wikinews will also rely on wikipedia for background material for our stories, so something u publish there has a chance of appearing here in the future!

one final bit of advice. neither wikipedia nor wikinews is a place for advocacy, "a soapbox". so while u can report on events here and write encyclopedia articles on wikipedia, u can't "make a case", no matter how important or "right" u think it is.

so welcome once again, i look foward to seeing more contributions from u. Doldrums 17:10, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[moved from user page]

PBS show asserts greenhouse gases, atmospheric pollutants dimming future
This story needs a bit more work to be a news story. Please don't give up on it now; help us make edits! Karen 21:38, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

If you think it's "well sourced and verifiable" enough to publish, just add   somewhere in the story. The editorial cleaning flag was removed and other contributors have made edits, so there may not be any more objections. Karen 22:12, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh, never mind - seems someone published it. Congratulations! Karen 22:23, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

I was very pleased to see you reworking your story and other users making edits. It's a shame when someone writes a story and then never checks back to see the comments recommending changes or more work on it. I was happy to see yours as a featured story. It was one of few stories published that day, which just happened to be Earth Day in North America.

Karen 20:20, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

P.S. I use http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ for spell-checking. Sorry to heckle you about spelling. I suppose it's become my job around here.

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Wikinews talk:Requests for arbitration/Users Cartman02au et al v Mrmiscellanious/Proposed decision

In response to those proposed facts against me in the page, I will post the diff of my alleged attack on top, and the statement it was in response to directly below it:
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Those all should provide the most basic understanding for my edits. I will be posting more information on the Workshop and Evidence pages tonight - but I do not like being forced to do so. --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 16:22, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you for participating in this process and for the above information. Of course, the proper place for rebuttals is on the evidence page under your own heading -- as always, this information will be considered as well. --Chiacomo (talk) 16:41, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

 * i quote Wikipedia:No personal attacks below in all its glory. Doldrums 04:39, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

'''There is no excuse for personal attacks on other contributors. Do not make them.'''

Failure to raise Findings, Remedies on /Workshop
I find it disturbing that ArbCom is raising findings of facts and remedies directly on the decisions page, and without them ever being raised on the /Workshop. If the ArbCom is a court which dictates its decisions without input from the community or the participants, this is an appropriate method. It does not seem to me this was the aim of the ArbCom. I would strongly encourage the ArbCom members to raise these findings and remedies first on the /Workshop. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 08:11, 10 April 2006 (UTC)


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User talk:200.72.74.54

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Additionally, thanks for experimenting with Wikinews. Your test worked, and has now been reverted or removed. Please use Sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing in articles will be reverted quickly. Jacques Divol 16:33, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

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Wikinews:2006/April

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Rivers flood in central Europe

March 28, 2006

Many rivers in the Czech Republic, Austria, and Slovakia are flooding, while record amounts of snow rapidly melt in the mountains. Extreme levels of flood danger were announced in at least 70 places. Currently the worst situations are near, such as in the town Veselí on the river Lužnice or in Třebíč. Yesterday a 5 year old boy from Boňov died.

The Czech capital, Prague, is preparing for the flood and flood defences are being set up along Vltava shores. Many locals are watching the rising river, remembering the. Currently a quarter of the record flow of 2002 is flowing in Vltava. Further development depends on weather - if the melting does not combine with heavy rains, the floods are not expected to cause catastrophic damage.

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Original reporting consist of walk along shores of Vltava in Prague and taking some photographs. Second part was talking with natives from South Bohemia abouit the situation and water level there. --Wikimol 17:32, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

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President Bush to limit congressional oversight in PATRIOT amendment act

April 2, 2006

President Bush signed the "USA PATRIOT Act Additional Reauthorizing Amendments Act of 2006" into law. In the signing statement, Bush averred that he could withhold information about the administration's controversial use of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act powers and National Security Letters if he deemed that they impaired foreign relations, national security, the deliberative processes of the Executive, or the performance of the Executive's constitutional duties. Lawmakers and Legal experts have questioned the president's authority to contravene the Congress's intent in such a way.

The Patriot Act reauthorisation bill specifically mandates the Inspector General of the Department of Justice to audit the administration's use of investigative authority granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and National Security Letters and requires these audits to be submitted for congressional review.

In the signing statement, President Bush wrote "The executive branch shall construe the provisions of H.R. 3199 that call for furnishing information to entities outside the executive branch, such as sections 106A and 119, in a manner consistent with the President's constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch and to withhold information the disclosure of which could impair foreign relations, national security, the deliberative processes of the Executive, or the performance of the Executive's constitutional duties."

This follows on the heels of the signing of the congressional ban on torture issued in January of this year, when the President declared that he would view the interrogation limits in the context of his broader powers to protect national security. A senior white house official told a Boston Globe reporter that "Of course the president has the obligation to follow this law, [but] he also has the obligation to defend and protect the country as the commander in chief, and he will have to square those two responsibilities in each case." The official added "We are not expecting that those two responsibilities will come into conflict, but it's possible that they will."

Lawmakers tried to get a handle on President Bush's use of signing statements in 2003, by passing a Justice Department spending bill that required the department to inform Congress whenever the administration decided to ignore a legislative provision on constitutional grounds.

Bush signed the bill, but issued a statement asserting his right to ignore the notification requirement.

Responses
Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R-S.C.) voiced concern over the way national security is being used as a catch all phrase in this and a number of other signing statements, saying "If you take this to its logical conclusion, because during war the commander in chief has an obligation to protect us, any statute on the books could be summarily waived,"

David Golove, a New York University law professor who specializes in executive power issues, said "On the one hand, they deny that Congress even has the authority to pass laws on these subjects like torture and eavesdropping, and in addition to that, they say that Congress is not even entitled to get information about anything to do with the war on terrorism."

Sen Arlen Specter, (R-Pa) chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee argued "He (Bush) can say whatever he likes, I don't know if that has a whole lot of impact on the statute. Statutes are traditionally a matter of congressional intent,"

Sen Patrick J. Leahy, (D-Ver) said in a prepared statement: "The president's signing statements are not the law, and Congress should not allow them to be the last word, The president's constitutional duty is to faithfully execute the laws as written by the Congress, not cherry-pick the laws he decides he wants to follow. It is our duty to ensure, by means of congressional oversight, that he does so.

Signing Statements
The signing statement is a written proclamation, issued by the president of the United Sates that accompany the signing of a law passed by the legislative branch and generally sets forth how the executive branch intends to interpret and enforce the new law.

The use of signing statements started with the US's fifth President James Monroe (1817-1825) and from that time was used sparingly. In fact from Monroe to Jimmy Carter (39 th President 1977-1981) there were a total of a 109 signing statements issued, 75 of which were to protect presidential prerogatives and 34 were to instruct the executive branch agencies on the interpretation of sections of the law. Whereas from the Reagan administration through the Clinton administration there were a total of 396 signing statements made with 322 to protect presidential prerogative and 74 to instruct on presidential interpretation of the law. Following along this sharp increase the Bush administration issued 435 statements almost entirely objecting to encroachments upon presidential prerogatives. The key argument involved here is in the interpretation of the constitution. The Bush administration is acting from on an idea called the Unitary Executive theory - you may have noticed it is mentioned twice in his signing statement - this theory holds that all three branches of the federal government have the power and duty to interpret the Constitution and that the meaning of the Constitution is determined through the dynamic interaction of all three branches.

This idea gained strength during the Reagan administration as a response to the presidency having been severely weakened by Vietnam and, Watergate and is mainly championed by the "Federalist Society," a group of conservative lawyers who nearly all worked in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan white houses. It largely claims its authority from two sources within the Constitution—the "Oath" and "Take Care" clauses of Article II. The "Oath" requirement acts as a sort of shield, protecting the president from enforcing things he independently determines are unconstitutional, and the "Oath" clause directs the president to "faithfully execute the Office of the President and [to] preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Acting on this theory, then deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel Samuel Alito wrote a draft memo on Feb. 5, 1986 outlining a strategy for strengthening presidential authority. It laid out a case for having the president routinely issue statements about the meaning of statutes when he signs them into law. He explained his thoughts this way:

"Since the president's approval is just as important as that of the House or Senate, it seems to follow that the president's understanding of the bill should be just as important as that of Congress," He later added that "by forcing some rethinking by courts, scholars, and litigants, it may help to curb some of the prevalent abuses of legislative history."

Phillip Cooper, a professor of public administration at Portland State University states his objection to this; "It's nothing short of breath-taking. In every case, the White House has interpreted presidential authority as broadly as possible, interpreted legislative authority as narrowly as possible, and preempted the judiciary.

The office of legal consul under President Clinton declared: "If the President may properly decline to enforce a law, at least when it unconstitutionally encroaches on his powers, then it arguably follows that he may properly announce to Congress and to the public that he will not enforce a provision of an enactment he is signing. If so, then a signing statement that challenges what the President determines to be an unconstitutional encroachment on his power, or that announces the President's unwillingness to enforce (or willingness to litigate) such a provision, can be a valid and reasonable exercise of Presidential authority."


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Please use the template to source the information provided in this article. --Brian McNeil / talk 18:01, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

I added a source and fleshed out the information in the article based on that source. That's a big strike! SethDelisle 21:18, 29 March 2006 (UTC)


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Talk:United Kingdom hit by snow storms

Why is this aging article protected? Its title would better be: Snow storms hit United Kingdom. —67-21-48-122 20:06, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

 * It's over two weeks old - old articles are protected to perserve a journalistic history. Lyellin 20:07, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Item two on the "mission list"
Providing a historical (or in the case of wackynews, hysterical) record of the news is one of the project objectives. Yes, the title on this article isn't good, but even prior to archiving it probably shouldn't be changed after it's about a day old. This is probably one of the weirdest things to users from other wikis, but most of our content should be protected. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:21, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

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Turn up and don't vote, urge anti-Thaksin activists

March 28, 2006 In the last days before the Thai snap-election this Sunday, some activists seeking the removal of the now-caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra are urging voters to use the "No-vote" box on ballot papers.

A women's rights group issued their second statement on the subject, urging voters to turn up at polling stations and register their abstention. The statement from Women and the Constitution Network said, "We want the Thai people to go to the polls and exercise their voting right by choosing to abstain." An earlier statement had called for the beleaguered PM to resign. According to Thailand's The Nation other groups, including student organisations are urging voters to use the "no-vote" option.

Calling into question whether the election will result in a full parliament, the Bangkok Post claims to have information from a Thai Rak Thai party insider that around 100 of the 168 seats where they stand uncontested may not meet the minimum requirement that 20% of the eligble voters vote for the candidate. With less than the required 500 members in the lower house, ratification of a new Prime Minister will not be possible.


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UN Security Council calls on Iran to suspend uranium enrichment

March 29, 2006

The U.N. has unanimously approved a non-binding statement earlier today reaffirming its commitment to the, including the right of NTP states to "develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination", and also calling for Iran to temporarily suspend this right — including all activities related to uranium enrichment and reprocessing, including research and development activities — in order to " in the exclusively peaceful purpose of its nuclear programme and to resolve outstanding questions".

The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council agreed on the statement earlier today. This is the first action by the Security Council over the alleged fears of some countries that Iran wants to join the of nations possessing nuclear weapons.

The Security Council requested that in addition to the 's ongoing inspections in Iran, that it monitor Iran's compliance with "the steps required by the IAEA Board". Russia and China, two members of the Security Council, have stated opposition to using force or imposing sanctions on Iran.

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Cyclone Glenda closes in on Western Australia

March 30, 2006

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has reported the occurrence of 100 Kilometres per hour (62 miles per hour) winds along the Pilbara Coast as Tropical Cyclone Glenda closes in.

At 8 p.m. WST Wednesday (1200 UTC), the Bureau of Meteorology reported that Glenda had weakened and reclassified it as a category 4 storm. The Bureau of Meteorology expects Glenda will cross the coast between Exmouth and Karratha tonight.

The Bureau of Meteorology predicts gale force winds gusting up to 130 kilometres per hour (80 miles per hour) to develop in the affected region during the day. They predict that later, as the cyclone nears the coast that winds up to 250 kilometres an hour (155 miles per hour) will occur near the cyclone centre.

The bureau also warns of the possibility of a dangerous storm surge between Karatha and Onslow as the cyclone crosses the coast.They warn that tides are likely to rise above the normal high tide make causing flooding and damaging waves.

The Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia has placed residents in Karratha, Roebourne, Point Samson, Wickham, Dampier and Mardie on red alert. Residents are advised to:
 * Go to a welfare centre immediately if they are not already in a safe location
 * Park vehicles in a sheltered area
 * Stay in the strongest part of the building they are in, away from windows
 * Ensure pets and animals are safely sheltered
 * Disconnect electrical appliances and turn off gas valves
 * Ensure that neighbours have received the warning
 * Stay indoors until given an "All Clear with Caution" alert from emergency services

FESA has issued a blue alert for people between De Grey and Whim Creek including Port Hedland, South Hedland, Pannawonica, Onslow and Exmouth. A blue alert means that residents should begin taking precautions and making preparations for a possible red alert condition.


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Nigeria arrests Charles Taylor for war crimes trial

March 30, 2006 Yesterday in Nigeria, former Liberian president Charles Taylor was arrested after being caught trying to flee the country. Nigeria had announced that it would allow Taylor's transfer to Liberia at the request of the new Liberian president. The government of Nigeria reported Taylor to be missing on Monday; they had made known earlier that day that they would not take responsibility for Taylor's arrest or transfer. After his flight however, he was arrested on the border of Cameroon by Nigerian authorities who transferred him to where he was met by UN authorities who took him into custody. He is to be tried by the -backed for Sierra Leone in Freetown.

Richard Dicker, director of the International Justice Program for, expressed enthusiasm over Taylor's capture: "This is an extraordinary moment for the people of West Africa. Taylor’s trial should bring long awaited justice to the victims of Sierra Leone’s brutal war and promote the rule of law in a region devastated by violence."

Chief prosecutor of the War Crimes Court, Desmond De Silva, commented: "Today is a momentous occasion, an important day for international justice, the international community, and above all the people of Sierra Leone." Taylor was exiled to Nigeria in August of 2003 after leading Liberia into a civil war.

Taylor will stand trial for allegedly having the "greatest responsibility" for, crimes against humanity and other violations of international law perpetrated under his leadership; the specific charges include responsibility for murder, hostage taking, extermination, rape, murder, sexual slavery, and use of child soldiers.


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where does the word "demand" come from? SethDelisle 00:52, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

getting to the source
The statement itself is the balance between long political battles between people representing the EU-3, USA, Russia and China - the press release on the UN site is not the statement itself, and is less likely to be a consensus document among all the Security Council member states' representatives. They put their efforts into agreeing on the words of the statement, not into agreeing on the words of a press release.

The press release omits, for example, the first paragraph of the statement - which is about the right of all state parties - including Iran - to do research and development into nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Omitting this completely changes the balance of the whole statement, which is that because the UNSC supports this right, it only requests a temporary suspension of research and development into nuclear energy in order to build confidence that it really is only for peaceful purposes.

Another big error in the previous version was saying that the UNSC asked the IAEA to check that Iran complies with the UNSC's request - which is false. The UNSC only asked the IAEA to check that Iran complies with the IAEA Board's own requests.

Boud 23:13, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

 * excellent points. Neutralizer 05:26, 31 March 2006 (UTC)


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Australian Federal Police raid home over unauthorised access to pay TV services

March 30, 2006

Australian Federal Police officers reportedly raided the home in Argenton, West of Newcastle, New South Wales of a man suspected of distibuting software to enable unauthorised access to pay TV services Foxtel and Austar.

A spokesperson for the Australian Federal Police said that officers seized computer equipment, including an "external hardware drive". The spokesperson said police were assisted by Foxtel's fraud invesigators and computer forensic experts from Ferrier Hodgson.

Debra Richards, Executive Director of the Australian Subscription Television Association, the organisation which represents the interests of Australian pay TV service providers, said, "Industry members are working cooperatively through ASTRA to address a problem that results in lost revenue and resources that would otherwise be used to grow the Australian television and production industries."

"The real victims here are the consumers who are being hoodwinked into being involved in a criminal activity, often paying more than they would otherwise for a legitimate service," she said.


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Seems maybe there's a 256-character limit on the history page. I said the rename was due to an unnecessarily long title and tried to give the pointer for headlines -- —67-21-48-122 06:34, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * The new title is 10 times better. I was trying to not use Piracy as last time I did Richard Stallman contact me about use of the word. Given that the bloke is a complete legend I took on board what he had to say :) - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 07:29, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Not sure about whether or not to include this
Satellite enthusiasts believe that the software being distributed by the man in the article was what they call "card sharing software". I did not think this is worth of inclusion as it is speculation.

Basically, this card sharing software was developed by a guy named "Sid" who distributed it via torrent sites. It allowed a person with one legitimate card to share it amongst a virtually unlimited number of set top boxes.

Australian pay TV providers have been fighting unauthorised access for a while, in 2004, they began rolling out a new encryption system after the old one had been compromised for a number of years - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 01:34, 30 March 2006 (UTC)


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I removed the bag of cash prose, because it seems to have an effect of making the affair more sordid than it already is. I also removed comments about a woman and child. It seems like we would need to know how they relate to Taylor before talking about them. SethDelisle 01:57, 30 March 2006 (UTC)


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Judge sentences Ali to 30 years for Bush assassination plot

March 31, 2006

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen, was sentenced by a U.S. district court judge to 30 years in prison on Tuesday for plotting to assassinate United States President George W. Bush. Ali, a self-proclaimed member of Al Qaeda, was arrested by Saudi officials in 2003 at the Islamic University of Medina.

Prosecutors had originally asked for a life sentence, but the judge said that the 30-year sentence was adequate, comparing the case to the "American Taliban" John Lindh. In addition, the judge pointed out that Ali's actions "did not result in one single actual victim. That fact must be taken into account."

Ali had given a statement to Saudi officials after his capture stating that he had joined Al Qaeda and talked with its senior members about plots to assassinate the President and to establish a terrorist cell in the United States. He asserted that his confession had been obtained through torture.


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New Zealand declares 2007 switch of energy efficiency strategy

March 29, 2006

The New Zealand Government's energy efficiency strategy has been considered ineffective and will hence be replaced in 2007. Energy Minister Trevor Mallard and the Government's spokeswoman on energy efficiency Jeanette Fitzsimons announced that the four-year-old National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy would be revamped. Originally, this strategy was meant to achieve a 20 per cent improvement of the energy efficiency rate and increase renewable energy supply by 30 petajoules until 2012.


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Son charged with eye-gouging attack on mother dies

March 30, 2006

A mentally ill New Zealand man who had been accused this week of biting off his elderly mother's finger and gouging her eyes has been found dead. The 41-year-old man died in a mental health unit in Hamilton overnight apparently from natural causes, police said.

He was accused of having attacked his 73-year old mother by biting off a finger and gouging her eyes. It is certain that she will become blind in at least one eye. The man, 41, was due to appear in Rotorua District Court earlier this week but was not considered to be mentally stable. He has been diagnosed schizophrenic before.


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Audio Wikinews transcript, 2006-03-30 0730 UTC
I'm Phillip Hong. The time is 0730 UTC on Wednesday the 30th of March 2006, and this is Audio Wikinews: News Briefs.

Headlines
UK public sector workers strike over pension rights

''Government workers in the UK withdrew their labour on March 29 as part of a dispute over pension entitlements. The members of 11 different trades unions were involved in the 24-hour strike.''

Nigeria arrests Charles Taylor for war crimes trial

''Yesterday in Nigeria, former Liberian president Charles Taylor was arrested after being caught trying to flee the country. Nigeria had announced that it would allow Taylor's transfer to Liberia at the request of the new Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. He is to be tried by the UN-backed War Crimes Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown.''

Cyclone Glenda closes in on Western Australia

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has reported the occurrence of 100-kilometre-per hour (62 mile-per-hour) winds along the Pilbara Coast as Tropical Cyclone Glenda closes in. ''At 8 p.m. Western Australian Time Wednesday night, the Bureau of Meteorology reported that Glenda had weakened, and they reclassified it as a category 4 storm. The Bureau of Meteorology expects Glenda will cross the coast between Exmouth and Karratha tonight.''

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EU warns Microsoft: forthcoming Vista risks antitrust breach

March 30, 2006 The European Commission has warned Microsoft that features the company intends to include in its next version of known as  may breach the European Union's  laws.

The EU's commissioner in charge of competition,, wrote to , CEO of Microsoft, last week informally warning him that Microsoft's plans to include security features, search tools, copyright protection services and an application to create documents similar to 's files into Vista would violate European antitrust laws, according to her spokesman Jonathan Todd.

Mr. Todd said that the commission was worried that features Microsoft plans to include in Vista may prevent customers from choosing their own software combinations. He emphasised that the letter was not a signal of a formal antitrust inquiry into Windows Vista.

The commission wrote the letter following a letter from Microsoft asking them to indicate if there were any possible competition issues with the new system. Mr. Todd said: "We assume that Microsoft has its own interests at heart. It wants to launch another product without having to worry about the Commission instituting various actions under antitrust law."

Microsoft's top lawyer in Europe, Horacio Guttierez, said Wednesday that adding such functions into the operating system was essential if Microsoft was to meet customer demand. "I know consumers want more secure computer systems," he said. Windows Vista includes software called Windows Defender, which seeks out and removes and adware. Guttierez claims that forcing Microsoft to sell Windows without Defender "is a bit like forcing BMW to sell cars without airbags".

"We have a responsibility to make our products better and more secure for our customers," he said.


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Australian MPs exchange fighting words over healthcare rebate

March 30, 2006

were exchanged in the Australian House of Representatives over the matter of the division of safety net payments per electorate. The Minister for Health and Ageing Tony Abbott had introduced a policy that the Government would pay Medicare users up to a fixed amount — the safety net — to help in addressing "gaps" in certain payments which Medicare would not cover, such as certain hospital payments. The Opposition was opposed to the idea on efficacy counts.

Abbott was asked a in  today about the benefits of the safety net. He alleged that criticism by the Opposition Health spokeswoman Julia Gillard that the safety net favoured Liberal/ coalition electorates was misleading as it was a Labor electorate,  that received the "highest safety net benefits per electorate".

This led Gillard to make a personal explanation after Question Time, stating that "the top four electorates receiving money under the Medicare safety net are, , and " — all coalition electorates. The Leader of the Opposition,, put a question to the ,   asking of the Speaker his "assurance that no person is being deliberately misled by the actions of any other person".

Abbott had then interjected towards Beazley, saying "You big bellowing cow"; the Speaker asked Abbott to withdraw, but Abbott mentioned that "the Leader of the Opposition regularly interjects 'pompous ass' and 'goose', but I am happy to withdraw". Beazley then responded through the Speaker saying of Abbott, "I think that he is a sleazy, dummy-spitting, little git."

Abbott then made a personal explanation of his own, saying "The safety net benefit per person in the electorate of the member for Grayndler was $591, the highest in New South Wales...the safety net benefit in the electorate of Sydney was $589, the second highest...the benefit in the electorate of Lowe was $458, the third highest".

The matter was not further raised at the time, but after the Matter of Public Importance debate, Gillard moved a motion to suspend standing orders which would prevent Abbott from explaining his earlier claim "when this claim is totally untrue", to correct the "grossly inaccurate and misleading statement", to "apologise to all Members in this place" and to "apologize to the Member for Grayndler and his constituents". Gillard also listed the amounts of payments "released by the Minister himself", that Wentworth received $7.8 million, North Sydney received $7.5 million, Bradfield received $6.9 million, Warringah received $6.3 million; whereas Grayndler received only $3.6 million. She attempted to debate the motion but a gag motion to silence Gillard was moved and won because of Government numbers. Anthony Albanese, the member for Grayndler attempted to second the motion but the gag was moved on him as well. The final vote on the motion was lost 55 to 79.


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Dysprosia 11:25, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

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Moved back. The new title sounds much weaker and much less engaging. I don't understand the point about "being a sentence", the current title is still a sentence, but uses ordinary headline conventions. Dysprosia 02:48, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Here is the summary of the most recent edit from the article history page: "(Australian House members exchange epithets over healthcare rebate moved to Fighting words exchanged in Australian Parliament over healthcare rebate: this sounds more engaging, and still makes sense too)".

Wikinews:Style guide -- Headlines 1 Make them unique and specific. 2 Make them short. 3 Use verbs. 4 Use downstyle capitalisation. 5 Write in a neutral point of view. 6 Tell the most important and unique thing. 7 Use present tense. 8 Use active voice. 9 Try to attribute any action to someone. 10 Avoid jargon and meaningless acronyms. 11 Use comma, not 'and' or '&'.

 * Please click on the reference [1] in the box above. Here is the full text of point 3 above, "Use verbs.":

Use verbs — A headline is at its essence a sentence without ending punctuation, and sentences have verbs.
 * That is the point about the headline's being a sentence -- the Wikinews guidelines require it. And in fact "Fighting words exchanged in Australian Parliament over healthcare rebate" is not a sentence. "exchanged" is not the verb -- it's not intransitive, as meaning "went back and forth." And if it were a verb, it would be in past tense -- in violation of point 7 of the guidelines, "Use present tense."
 * In "Fighting words exchanged in Australian Parliament over healthcare rebate," the actual sentence "Fighting words were exchanged in [the] Australian Parliament over [the] healthcare rebate." is represented. This is in past tense, in violation of point 7. (Or, if " are exchanged," a violation of point 8 -- use active voice.)
 * So, I suggest, to keep as much as possible of your wording, Australian Parliament members exchange "fighting words" over healthcare rebate.
 * —67-21-48-122 06:40, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the clarification. Dysprosia 06:47, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Cat please
Doneeditprotected Please add --InfantGorilla (talk) 08:45, 24 June 2010 (UTC)


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Rewrite
I think this article too closesly mirrors the primary source and could use a rewrite. --Meanmeancoffeebean 11:49, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * feel free to give it a rewrite if you like. It was kind of hard given the sources were nearly all narrative - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 22:13, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

wikify
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 * Done. --Pi zero (talk) 04:27, 16 August 2019 (UTC)


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Captors release American journalist Jill Carroll

March 30, 2006

Jill Carroll, an American journalist, has been released by her captors after having been held for 82 days.

Caroll was abducted on January 7, 2006 in Baghdad by gunmen and was dropped off by unknown individuals at the Iraqi Islamic Party's branch office in the western part of the Amariyah district in Baghdad. Her translator was killed during the abduction, but her driver escaped.

Carroll is a freelance journalist who writes for the Christian Science Monitor.

"She was released this morning; she's talked to her father and she's fine. This is a wonderful day," said David Cook, chief of The Christian Science Monitor's Washington bureau.

"She is OK. She is safe. She is more or less scared. I told her calm down and we would take care of her," said Tariq al-Hashimi, the party's secretary general.

"I'm really grateful she was released and thank those who worked hard for her release, and we're glad she's alive," said United States President George W. Bush.

Earlier, her captives threatened to kill Carroll if all Iraqi women prisoners were not released from prisons in Iraq.

"I am just happy to be free. I just want to be with my family quickly," said Carroll. "I was treated well. It's important people know that. I was not harmed, they never said they would hit me."

Carroll had written that she had gone to Jordan to "learn as much about the region as possible before the fighting began." She arrived in the Middle East in 2002 to cover the Iraq war.

"There was bound to be plenty of parachute journalism once the war started, and I didn't want to be a part of that," added Carroll.

One week ago, three peace activists were released during a British-led operation in Iraq. Jim Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden, both Canadians and Norman Kember a British man were released on March 23, 2006. A fourth member of the group, Tom Fox from the U.S., was shot dead and found earlier in March in Baghdad. They were members of a group called Christian Peacemaker Teams.


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Once DragonFire1024 is done editing the page, the name Jill Carroll is spelled incorrectly in the title (needs one more "l"). --Meanmeancoffeebean 12:12, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

And done. --Meanmeancoffeebean 12:19, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

hmm, how do I fix this double redirect?! --Meanmeancoffeebean 15:07, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

All of those edits with moving the talk page back and forth and finally the main page were because I just moved the talk page on accident and then fixed my mistake. --Meanmeancoffeebean 15:32, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Typo
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'in in' => 'in' Van der Hoorn (talk) 21:26, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Done — Gopher65talk 02:25, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


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First Brazilian astronaut accompanies ISS replacements

March 30, 2006

A Russian-US crew bound for the International Space Station launched at 8:30 a.m. ALMT Thursday (0230 UTC) from the cosmodome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan in a Russian Soyuz TMA rocket. Included with the crew was Marcos César Pontes, 43, Brazil's first astronaut.

Pontes, who flies for the Brazilian Air Force, was joined on the trip by Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov and U.S. astronaut Jeffrey Williams. The Russian and U.S. astronauts will be spending the next six months onboard the ISS. In ten days Pontes will return along with outgoing astronauts American Bill McArthur and Russian Valery Tokarev.


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Talk:President Bush to limit congressional oversight in PATRIOT amendment act

I'm thinking that if we can find the study that Savage is referencing when he says "I think one study showed that through the end of 2004, there were more than 500 provisions of new laws that he had said that he would not consider himself bound to obey..." then we should cite that study. Right now it has the whole "he said she said" and "I think" problem to it. I am searching but haven't found it yet. --Meanmeancoffeebean 14:07, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

What?
I don't see the main focus of this article, and find it very confusing. I've pulled it back from publish state and added the cleanup tag, because I don't see a clear topic nor the relationing of items on the article page. Also, title may be misleading due to the omission of the "Patriot Act" bill in the title, as it suggests that Bush doesn't follow any rules. --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 18:58, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

 * heh, yes, the Patriot Act needs to be mentioned. :)  Nyarlathotep 19:18, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Title
How about
 * Bush signing statement rejects congressional oversight of Patriot Act powers

A tiny bit long, but gets it all in. Maybe there is a better word than "powers"? Nyarlathotep 19:18, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

 * How about Bush declares immunity from Patriot Act oversight?? We already have an article on this topic, and no one is interested in fixing it. Most of the same issues (old news, POV presentation, single source) applying to that article also apply to this one. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 19:29, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * fine title, I liked "signing statment" only due to my prior ignorance of their existnace. Not sure if two articles on a subject ar acceptable, but I don't object to doubles, as long as tehy fix things. Axtually, I quite like the idea of posting a doulble and taging the older as "Wikinews has improved its coverage of this event this the following article ...", as it avoids revisionism & improves the article, but I'd prefer if such doubles had objecting parties (MrM & you here) to actually concuring that the new article is better than the old one.  Of course, you need to make sure this isn't the old one pushed back to develop somehow. Whatever, I'm not on enough to have an influence anyway. Nyarlathotep 23:49, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

hello
I am the author of this article. I hope you can be tolarate of my faults. I am not a reporter, obviously. And am new to wikinews. However I am interested in this story - and many others - being out in the world. I personally had never heard of signing statements and was interested and on the face of it, it seems like a way that a president could rewrite legislation to suit their own ends. I have found the acdemic study by proffesor Kelly here I have not had a chance to read it. There is another article on signing statements that refer to another paper by Prof. kelly to here I am interested in continueing with this story but do not want just use a bunch of time with someting that will get no where. So if one of you would like to work on it i am sure you could come up with something of value. I will probally read over this material just for my own interest. Isles 03:11, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Title fixed and publish
The editors who discussed the title seemed to have been ok with Patriot Act inclusion and I can see no other problems? If so, please replace tag and outline specific actionable objections to be corrected. Neutralizer 03:30, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Uh, read up, please. There are other issues raised with this article.   --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 03:32, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, please explain,MrM ;I can not figure out what your issues are. Neutralizer 06:26, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

major rewrite
this story has undergone a major rewrite including title change with more points of views given and sorced and some back ground for signing statements. can we puplish? Isles 19:03, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I can't offer any content comment, but I got sort-of turned off going through the first three paragraphs. It needs to have a summary of the whole piece in the first paragraph.  At the moment it tells me Bush did something, but not why it is potentially significant.  If there's any controversy over how significant it is, it needs to say who claims it is significant, then following paragraphs can go into the background and context of the action.  --Brian McNeil / talk 19:47, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

publish?
There seems to be no actionable objections; just esoteric vague objections. Does anyone want to stop the publishing of this article? If so, please state your actionable objections. Neutralizer 02:44, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Why? This is, IMO not news. The title doesn't make me want to read this either. I think it still needs to be rewritten into a news form. This looks and sounds like an editorial. Where is the news in this article?? Jason Safoutin 02:50, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
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Optus B1 outage leaves all New Zealand Sky TV digital subscribers without service

March 30, 2006 An outage of Optus B1, believed to have occurred due to a problem during realignment of the satellite has resulted in a loss of service to all subscribers of Sky TV New Zealand's Digital pay TV service, an estimated 550,000 people. Sky TV's terrestrial UHF service is unaffected.

Users of the digital service see a rain fade error message which is the standard error message that occurs when signal is lost on Sky's Digital set-top boxes. Sky has temporarily removed the scrambling of their terrestrial UHF Sky Sport channel, allowing anyone able to receive the signal to view the channel (regardless of whether they are subscribers to any of Sky's services). There are 3 other pay TV UHF channels operated by Sky but none of the others have been unscrambled. Original media reports suggest the unscrambling of Sky Sport 1 was done as the NZ cricket award ceremony was being held that evening, however the channel remains unscrambled after the end of the awards ceremony. Sky Sport 1 is probably one of the most popular Sky channels and provides coverage of rugby including Super 14 matches which will be played during the weekend beginning in the evening of 31 March 2006.

The outage began at around 30 March 2006 1850 NZST and is ongoing as at 31 March 2006 0755 NZST. However service has been partially restored as of 0820 NZST. It appears the satellite is still under realignment as not all channels work and with some the signal quality is poor. Certain channels that were available as of 0820 NZST were no longer available as of 0835 NZST.

Sky's website briefly went down and when it returned has been modified to include a special front page mentioning the outage. Their phone service was frequently overloaded (engaged) and plays a message mentioning the outage in a continuous loop with normal voice prompts removed.

According to Sky's media release, the Optus B1 is still contacting Optus's ground stations and Optus is currently attempting to realign the satellite. Early media reports had indicated the satellite could be uncontactable and a report on TV3's nightly news programme quoted experts suggesting that it is possible the satellite potentially could not be properly realigned. Earlier reports had also quoted a Sky spokesperson suggesting the problem could be fixed by midnight.

The outage has also affected other services using the Optus B1 satellite believed to include some air traffic control functions, some interbank transmissions and also the New Zealand Fire Service in-fill paging service. Other broadcasters using the satellite include TVNZ who offer both their TV channels free to air via the satellite and the Australian ABC and SBS. JuiceTV, a free-to-air terrestrial UHF music channel provided by Sky is also not broadcasting instead displaying the rain-fade error message. NASA TV which is community broadcast in Auckland is also affected as it originates from a free to air broadcast from the satellite.

It has also been reported that the Radio Network analog radio channels have been affected throughout the country and that users of Sky's MySky PVR box are unable to use the box even to watch prerecorded shows as the box needs a connection to the satellite to operate.

The TV3 nightly news programme report also mentioned that several pubs had had reduced patronage due to the loss of the sport broadcasting or racing. The New Zealand Herald reported loss of patronage in at least one pub. However the TAB channel which provides coverage of racing events also broadcasts free to air on UHF in cooperation with Sky TV and appeared unaffected at 2245 NZT.

The New Zealand Herald have quoted Sky TV as saying they will consider refunds when the problem is fixed. Legally, most ordinary consumers would potentially be entitled to refunds of some sort under the Consumer Guarantees Act including for any foreseeable losses, although this would not apply to most businesses. At 0700 NZST, the Sky TV website was updated to include the statement "A credit will be applied to all customers whilst the satellite is off air." A link was also included providing instructions for tuning in to Sky Sport via UHF.

The Optus B1 satellite is 14 years old and is considered in urgent need of replacement as it lost its primary SCP on 21 May 2005 and is now running on the one and only backup SCP. It has an intended lifespan of between 10 to 15 years. However the launch of the replacement satellite of the Optus D class was delayed in August 2005 but are now intended to be launched in June 2006.

Sky TV is the predominant pay TV broadcaster in New Zealand and the only one who use satellite. The only other pay TV broadcaster of any significance is TelstraClear who operate a cable network in Wellington and Christchurch reaching an estimated 160,000 households with a reported 62,000 subscribers to their network (this figure likely includes customers who do not subcribe to their TV service). They also provide access to several of Sky's channels. World TV offers several Asian channels using the Sky Network. Mirchee TV offer several channels targeting the south Asian market via a terrestrial setup using satellite receiving equipement.

At present, an auction on TradeMe is attempting to sell the satellite.


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Publish
This is my first story, any feedback is welcome. Nil Einne 15:13, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Great catch and article for a first story! Write some more! Lyellin 20:30, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

TelstraClear cable
Could someone find a more reliable figure for the number of TelstraClear cable TV customers? Also could someone either find a reference or someone with TC cable confirm whether or not all of Sky's channels are working and whether there was any outages? Nil Einne 15:13, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Speculating on what happens if they can't fix it
What does everyone think on the section on what happens if it can't be restored? Is this too speculatory? It was briefly mentioned by the NBR but no where else that I've seen even with those who've suggested it's dead. Nil Einne 19:30, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

nice
nice article, I had just come to write one, but I'm glad to see I was bet to it :) I've published it Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 19:47, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Back
It's back! If anyone has a more accurate figure of when it came back you're welcome to update it. Also, I've removed the bit speculating about what happens if they can't fix it. I can't remember anything else that should be removed but you're all welcome to update it and improve as necessary. I won't be doing much with the article during the rest of the day. Nil Einne 20:27, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

TradeMe auction
As I am not a Wikinews user, I can't add in this link. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Electronics-photography/TVs-projectors/Other/auction-52360702.htm Can one of you add it in for me? (Orville Eastland, wikipedia user.)
 * What is it? --Chiacomo (talk) 01:37, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Nevermind -- looks like the link changed. This auction is surely a hoax. I'm not so keen on adding it. --Chiacomo (talk) 01:38, 1 April 2006 (UTC)


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Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) and officer tangle on the Hill

March 30, 2006

U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) allegedly punched a Capitol Hill police officer in the chest after he grabbed her arm. The officer was pursuing her after she failed to pass through the metal detector, which House Members are not required to do.

McKinney has complained about government security in the past. She protested about being stopped in 1993 and 1995. In 1996 and 1998, she complained that White House security didn't treat her the same as her white colleagues. At one time, a security officer mistook her 23-year-old white aide for the congresswoman. She is quoted on the Hill as having said, at one, "I am absolutely sick and tired of having to have my appearance at the White House validated by white people."

McKinney has been one of the most vocal critics of the 9/11 reviews and she hosted a July 22nd, 2005 Congressional Briefing: "The 9/11 Commission Report One Year Later: A Citizens' Response - Did They Get It Right?"

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