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Scoop Audio: Connie Lawn Reports On Obama's 50th Birthday

Friday, 5 August 2011, 2:35 pm
Article: Connie Lawn

Scoop Audio: Connie Lawn Reports On Obama's 50th Birthday

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President Obama has celebrated his 50th Birthday at the Whitehouse. Connie Lawn reports...

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Scoop Audio: Connie Lawn Reports On Obama's 50th Birthday

Scoop Audio: Connie Lawn Reports On Obama's 50th Birthday

Using Scoop for work?

COMMENT

Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Animal Encounters During Meditative States

Ian Powell: Gisborne Hospital Senior Doctors Strike Highlights Important Health System Issues

Keith Rankin: Who, Neither Politician Nor Monarch, Executed 100,000 Civilians In A Single Night?

Eugene Doyle: Writing In The Time Of Genocide

Gordon Campbell: On Wealth Taxes And Capital Flight

Ian Powell: Why New Zealand Should Recognise Palestine

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