Topic: POLITIK - on June 2, 2004 at 1:41:00 AM CEST
MP suspended over Pink Ladies in Parliament
A federal Labor MP has been suspended from Parliament for 24 hours after refusing to apologise for taking apples into Question Time.
Tasmanian MP Harry Quick brought the apples into Parliament to mark National Apple and Pear Day and to raise concerns about the disease risks from imported apples.
Under the rules of Parliament, food cannot be taken into the chamber.
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Topic: POLITIK - on June 1, 2004 at 11:08:00 PM CEST
Megawati tells voters to elect the prettiest candidate for president
Indonesian President Megawati is the only woman in the five candidate race and she suggested to the many voters that are confused to choose the best looking one.
She is running against two former generals, an ex-security minister, a former military chief, and her vice president.
Megawati lost support for her democratic party and shows her at 11.2 percent now from an opinion poll.
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Topic: POLITIK - on May 31, 2004 at 1:36:00 PM CEST
Richard Cheney durch E-Mail belastet
Im Zusammenhang mit der Vergabe eines größeren Auftrages im Irak an den amerikanischen Ölkonzern Halliburton setzt jetzt eine E-Mail, die das Magazin 'Time' veröffentlicht, den US-Vizepräsidenten Richard Cheney unter Druck.
Bevor Cheney Vizepräsident wurde, war er Chef von Halliburton. Die E-Mail stammt vom 5.3.2003, dort steht unter anderem, dass bei der Auftragsvergabe nicht mit Schwierigkeiten zu rechnen ist,'da die Aktion mit dem Büro des Vizepräsidenten abgestimmt ist'.
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Topic: POLITIK - on May 30, 2004 at 6:37:00 PM CEST
US-Präsident Bush genießt es, Husseins Pistole als Trophäe zu präsentieren
Laut einem Pressebericht des US-Magazins 'Time' wird Saddam Husseins Pistole vom US-Präsidenten G. W. Bush als Trophäe angesehen und im Weißen Haus in einem kleinen Büro neben dem Oval Office aufbewahrt.
Bush genieße es, ausgewählten Gästen die Pistole seines Erzfeindes zu zeigen, hieß es weiter.
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Topic: POLITIK - on May 30, 2004 at 4:52:00 PM CEST
A Saddam Souvenir
President Bush keeps the former dictator's pistol at arm's reach
When Saddam Hussein was rousted from his spider hole in Dawr, a town near Tikrit, by U.S. soldiers last December, Iraq's fallen dictator was clutching a pistol. He is now in detention at an undisclosed location, being questioned by American authorities and awaiting charges for war atrocities and crimes against humanity. But what ever happened to the pistol?
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Topic: POLITIK - on May 30, 2004 at 4:29:00 PM CEST
Killing them slowly
Government and industry must act to stop the gradual poisoning of our children
Think back four years to the health crisis that shocked the Government. Thinness was the problem. A Minister, alarmed that pictures of superwaifs were persuading young women to starve themselves, convened a body image summit. Magazine editors duly promised fewer toast-rack physiques and more plump models, such as Sophie Dahl.
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Topic: POLITIK - on May 27, 2004 at 4:19:00 PM CEST
'Fathers 4 Justice' Activists Fined Over Condom Bomb Incident
Guy Harrison, 36, said outside the court after receiving a fine for throwing purple flour filled condoms at Prime Minister Blair: "It is an amazing country when you can throw a condom at a prime minister easier than a father can see his children."
Harrison was one of two members of the "Fathers4Justice" group being tried for the incident which happened on May 19 at the House of Commons, (sn reported). Ronald Davis, 48, pleaded not guilty and was remanded on conditional bail until June 9th.
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Topic: POLITIK - on May 27, 2004 at 1:07:00 PM CEST
Kanzler-Ohrfeiger: "Lieber jetzt eine Ohrfeige als später eine Bombe!"
Jens A., ehem. SPD-Mitglied und berühmt geworden als sog. Kanzler-Ohrfeiger, macht mit seinen neuen Äußerungen über diesen Vorfall weitere Schlagzeilen. Er sagte: 'Lieber jetzt eine Ohrfeige, als später eine Bombe!'. Dem Stern sagte er weiter, dass mit ihm alles in Ordnung sei und er auch nicht zum Psychiater müsse.
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Topic: POLITIK - on May 26, 2004 at 9:12:00 PM CEST
Kissinger Tape Reveals Beleagured Secretary
Five days into the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, with the superpowers on the brink of confrontation, President Nixon was too drunk to discuss the crisis with the British prime minister, according to newly released transcripts of tape recordings.
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Topic: POLITIK - on May 25, 2004 at 11:13:00 PM CEST
Congressional Accountability for Judicial Activism Act of 2004
HR 3920 IH
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Congressional Accountability for Judicial Activism Act of 2004'.
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL REVERSAL OF SUPREME COURT JUDGMENTS.
The Congress may, if two thirds of each House agree, reverse a judgment of the United States Supreme Court--
(1) if that judgment is handed down after the date of the enactment of this Act; and
(2) to the extent that judgment concerns the constitutionality of an Act of Congress. <P></P>
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Topic: POLITIK - on May 25, 2004 at 7:41:00 PM CEST
45 Gemeinden können keinen Bürgermeister wählen
Wie der Landeswahlleiter Hüttebräuker jetzt mitteilt, fallen 45 Bürgermeisterwahlen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern am 13. Juni aus. Es haben sich keine Personen gefunden, die als Kandidaten aufgestellt werden konnten.
Seit 1999 sind die Kandidaten für ein solches Amt um zwölf Prozent zurückgegangen. Die Chancen in den Gemeinden gewählt zu werden, sind sehr gut. Auf ein Mandat kommen durchschnittlich nur zwei Bewerber.
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Topic: POLITIK - on May 24, 2004 at 3:58:00 PM CEST
Russian Communist Party in crisis
The stagnation of Russian Communist Party can be compared with the crisis of McDonalds restaurants in Russia. There are no lines of customers near McDonalds as it used to be in the beginning of its work in Russia in the end of the 1980s, and Russian Communist Party has already no support of many millions.
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