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Sludge Report: Will It Be War On Wednesday? - Jason Leopold: If At First You Don’t Convince, Lie, Lie Again - The Real Deal: The Path To Salvation Is Through Conversation - UQ Wire: Commissioned To Cover-up 911 - Supercomputer Weather : Cold And White In New York - John Kaminsky: An American Roasting - UQ Wire: Commissioned To Cover-up 911 - John Kaminisky: The Path To Peace And Prosperity – Some Thoughts - One U-Turn Does Not An Ethical Organisation Make - The Bush Families Nazi Past -
OTHER NEWS (Just Politics)
Awatere-Huata’s Future Dire - UN Call to Arms Should Be Ignored: Greens - NZ/EU Agreement Takes Effect Feb 1 - PM Congratulates Whale Rider for Sundance Win - Is More Parental Choice in Suspensions Better? - CF Association Defends Itself Against GE Claims - World Wildlife Fund Applauds Maui Dolphin Protection - Support for Person Convicted of Manslaughter Questioned - MMP Proven to be Stable Self Defence Victim Ought to be Applauded: ACT Our Immigrant Nation According to ACT - Victims Rights Must Be Honoured
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Sludge Report: Will It Be War On Wednesday?
- You have mail.... "Subject: Soon | Message: Prepare for the smoking gun needed to support the Iraqi invasion
blunder." See... Sludge Report #146: A Tip-Off From Langley [1]
Jason Leopold: If At First You Don’t Convince, Lie, Lie Again
- President Bush said the Iraq conflict is like watching a “rerun of a bad movie.” But clearly, the only bad movie
Americans are being forced to watch all over again are the Nixon-like qualities - the paranoia, the secrecy and lies -
that Bush recycled from Tricky Dick, now standard operating procedure for the Bush administration. See... Jason Leopold: Bush Turns To Propaganda [1]
The Real Deal: The Path To Salvation Is Through Conversation
- When I was a kid, the way our neighborhood would figure things out is by sitting on the stoops in front of our homes
and having a conversation. See... Real Deal: A Conversation About The Popsicle Index [1]
UQ Wire: Commissioned To Cover-up 911
- A cruel sham is being perpetrated on the American public and especially on the families of the victims of the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. See... UQ Wire: 911 Commission - Forgedda Boudit [1]
Supercomputer Weather : Cold And White In New York
- A forecast sequence from the NOAA supercomputer indicating temperatures over the Eastern Half of the United States
for the coming 48 hours. See... Weather: A Big Chill Blows Through Washington D.C. [1]
John Kaminsky: An American Roasting
- America is frightening the world. The vaunted beacon of freedom has turned into a Ku Klux Klan bonfire. See... John Kaminski: The Real Terrorist Is George Bush [1]
UQ Wire: Commissioned To Cover-up 911
- A cruel sham is being perpetrated on the American public and especially on the families of the victims of the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. See... UQ Wire: 911 Commission - Forgedda Boudit [1]
John Kaminisky: The Path To Peace And Prosperity – Some Thoughts
- I live in Florida but the e-mails I got this week came from Michigan, Arizona, Denmark, the UAE, Texas, British
Columbia, Hungary, South Africa, Hawaii, the Bronx, Australia, Delmarva, England, Sweden, Vermont, Arkansas, and
Venezuela, to name just a few places. ... See... John Kaminski: Random Ideas For A New Society [1]
One U-Turn Does Not An Ethical Organisation Make
- ACC Minister Ruth Dyson has confirmed that she has asked ACC to review its decision to dump Christchurch boy Ryan
Becker from the ACC scheme next week. But there are others and it's the ACC dumping culture which the Government has
signed-up to that has to change. Maree Howard writes. See... Howard's End: Dumping Culture Must Be Changed [1] and ACC Cuts Loose Dog-Bashed-Boy [2]
The Bush Families Nazi Past
- In October of 1942, under the Trading With the Enemy Act, the U.S. government halted operations at New York's Union
Banking Corporation. A bank official was charged with "Running Nazi front groups in the United States." His name:
Prescott Bush. See... Marc Ash: Standing On The Dead [1] and a very clever Flash movie at… Bush is not a Nazi, so stop saying that
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OTHER NEWS (JUST POLITICS)------------
Awatere-Huata’s Future Dire
- The Board of Trustees of ACT New Zealand met today. Included in the meeting was a discussion on the serious
allegations made against ACT MP Donna Awatere Huata by The Dominion Post and other related matters. See... ACT New Zealand Board Meeting - Awatere-Huata [1] ALSO: All Eyes on ACT’s Pecking Order - In response to intense media interest, ACT New Zealand is circulating the following media statement on behalf of
Kenneth Wang, tenth on the Party List. See... Media Release - Kenneth Wang [2] - Greens - Don't do it, Richard! [3]
UN Call to Arms Should Be Ignored: Greens
- The Green Party is calling on the Prime Minister to ignore any United Nations Security Council endorsement of
America's "war for oil" against Iraq that is not backed up by real evidence of a clear and present threat to other
countries. " See... Greens tell PM: 'don't be bullied by Bush' [1] ALSO: PM Must State Where NZ Stands on Iraq - The Prime Minister needs to say where the New Zealand government stands in relation to Iraq, says National Foreign
Affairs Spokesperson Dr Wayne Mapp. See... Clark acting in concert with US and Australia [2]
NZ/EU Agreement Takes Effect Feb 1
- The Agreement, which simplifies the sanitary measures for the trade of animal products between New Zealand and the
EU, will take effect from February 1. See... New Zealand/EU Veterinary Agreement.
PM Congratulates Whale Rider for Sundance Win
- Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Helen Clark today congratulated the makers of Whale Rider on
their success at the Sundance Film Festival, saying that the film was an outstanding movie… See... Whale Rider fully deserves all its success [1]
Is More Parental Choice in Suspensions Better?
- Instead of giving cash bonuses to schools that reduce student suspensions, the Government should simply give choice
to parents, ACT New Zealand Associate Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. See... Freedom Of Choice Better Than Cash [1]
CF Association Defends Itself Against GE Claims
- The Cystic Fibrosis foundation has lost a great advocate in Dame Susan Devoy. Cystic fibrosis and the pain it causes
mothers with children who suffer from the disease is terrible but has nothing to do with the GE debate. See... CF loses A Great Advocate in Dame Susan Devoy [1]
World Wildlife Fund Applauds Maui Dolphin Protection
- WWF congratulates the Minister of Fisheries on new protection measures for Maui’s dolphin but further calls for
protection of the critically endangered dolphin from trawl fishing in the North Island’s upper west coast. See... No Protection From Trawling For Maui’s Dolphin [1]
Support for Person Convicted of Manslaughter Questioned
- Why is everyone in authority continuing to ignore the plight of a Kawerau family who are living beside a woman
convicted of manslaughter of one of their family members? See... Would someone please pick up the phone? [1]
MMP Proven to be Stable
- Proving that the MMP electoral system can provide stable government has been highlighted by United Future New Zealand
leader, Peter Dunne, as a major achievement by the party in the six months since the voters put eight United MP's into
Parliament. See... United Future Six Months On – Peter Dunne [1]
Self Defence Victim Ought to be Applauded: ACT
- It is outrageous that police are even considering charging the Rotorua teenager who stabbed her ex-boyfriend as he
kidnapped and assaulted her, ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. See... Praise, Not Prosecute, Knife Defender - [1]
Our Immigrant Nation According to ACT
- Speech by Dr Muriel Newman, ACT New Zealand Member of Parliament, to the AGM of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
See... Our Immigrant Nation [1]
Victims Rights Must Be Honoured
- National is calling for an inquiry into the failure of the Corrections Department and Parole Board in releasing a
woman convicted of manslaughter without the victim's family being informed. See... Government ignores victims again [1]