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MYJOBSPACE.CO.NZ
Myjobspace.co.nz is thrilled to announce their partnership with Women for Women Charitable Trust for Fanuary 08. Women
for Women Charitable Trust was recently set up to help educate women in all aspects of women’s health with a special
focus on women’s ...
Syed Akbar Kamal
There is a political storm brewing in the corridors of Auckland City Council over ‘affordable housing’ which Mayor John
Banks had publicly issued calls for its scrapping during his election campaign. His contention is that ‘affordable
housing’ ...
Google
AUCKLAND, New Zealand – 12 December 2007 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today launched the Google Maps™ New Zealand
service at maps.google.co.nz , enabling users in New Zealand to find the local information they want more easily. In
addition to map and ...
Anti-Bases Campaign
I have a confession to make (so pay attention, spies, and have those black ninjas on full alert). I’ve spent a week in
the Ureweras with gun toting Maori. From memory they also sported bullet belts, camouflage gear and cowboy hats. It was
in 1981 (if ...
Franklin P Lamb
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Whose Mission is it fulfilling? Franklin Lamb UN Headquarters
Naquora, Lebanon
Department Of Corrections
The Department of Corrections today released the Prison Christmas Menu for 2007. Corrections Inmate Employment Internal
Services Manager Ruth Turner says that Prison kitchens are one important facet of the work CIE does to train prisoners.
“Prisoners ...
Air New Zealand
Ever wanted to have your very own plane for the day? Well thanks to Air New Zealand’s grabaplane promotion, which
launches today, one lucky Kiwi will have that wish come true!
Television New Zealand
TVNZ and South Pacific Pictures are giving Shortland Street fans a present this Christmas – the biggest week in
Shortland Street history free of charge on TVNZ ondemand.
US Information Service
Cyclone Sidr's deadly landfall wreaked havoc in southern Bangladesh November 15, killing thousands, displacing hundreds
of thousands, and adding pain and desperation to a nation whose population of 133 million already struggles with poverty
and disease.
New Zealand Government
The Crown and Port Nicholson Block Claims Team have signed an Agreement in Principle to settle all outstanding
historical Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi claims of Taranaki Whānui (Wellington), Minister in Charge of Treaty
of Waitangi Negotiations ...
Office of the Clerk
1. RUSSELL FAIRBROTHER (Labour) to the Minister for Social Development and Employment: What reports has she received
regarding the number of New Zealanders receiving an unemployment benefit?
John Chuckman
The Annapolis Conference was, like so many political and diplomatic events of our time, highly choreographed, finely
stage-managed, and heavily marketed. Yet, as soon as it was over, it was apparent little had happened, much as when a
child opens a ...
Spike Mountjoy
Security is still the most pressing problem for Timor-Leste according to nun and refugee camp organiser Sister
Guilhermina Marcal currently visiting New Zealand.
Black Agenda Report
Two of the best marketers in the U.S. teamed up for a three-state weekend extravaganza of vapid, substance-devoid
entertainment posing as presidential politics. Oprah Winfrey – a certified genius of self-salesmanship – and the faux
progressive, fraudulent ...
New Zealand Government
The Bill to classify BZP as a Class C1 drug will not now be passed until early in the new year, Associate Minister of
Health Jim Anderton said today.
Green Party
The Green Party absolutely refutes Jim Anderton's claims that they have blocked the passage of his BZP Bill. Mr Anderton
has issued two press releases today, repeating the line that the Greens have "declined to allow the Bill to proceed
under urgency ...
New Zealand National Party
National Party Housing spokesman Phil Heatley says the Government’s plan to standardise low cost housing designs to get
around costly Labour-imposed red tape is more cosmetic than practical.
Bernard Weiner
The Cheneyists wanted to bomb Iran based on the same fear-scam Americans fell for when CheneyBush were pushing the
invasion of Iraq: nuclear weapons. Here's how their scheme fell apart -- or did it?
Maya Schenwar
In the next two weeks, Democratic leadership in Congress will likely push for a huge, multi-department "omnibus"
spending bill which may include funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. None of the omnibus proposals raised so
far have included ...
New Zealand Government
Designing a national policy framework to reduce emissions across sectors and gases: New Zealand’s climate change
solution Climate Change and Energy Minister David Parker’s speech notes for the OECD side event, 12 December 2007,
Kelpie Wilson
Last Thursday, the US House of Representatives passed, by a 235-181 vote, the Energy Independence and Security Act.
This new energy bill includes measures that would increase car fuel mileage, restore taxes on Big Oil to pay for
investments in solar, ...
SLI Systems
New Survey Shows U.S. Shoppers Abandon E-commerce Sites within Minutes of Not Finding the Products They Desire, Often
for Good
INSS Insight
At the beginning of December 2007, the National Intelligence Council, the supreme body of the American intelligence
community, released a reappraisal of Iran’s nuclear intentions and capabilities. The document, a non-classified summary
of a detailed ...
New Zealand Police
Police have released CCTV footage of the 28-year-old Korean man who went missing after his car left the road north of
Kaiwaka early on Sunday morning (December 9).
Ross Francis
Researcher Ross Francis discloses new and important information from his research into the Peter Ellis case. Last week
www.peterellis.org.nz spokesman Richard Christie revealed details of some of this new evidence, which appears in this
month’s edition ...
Black Agenda Report
Barack Obama and his corporate handlers are masters of smoke and mirrors. Obama claims to have bumped his Afro-centric
pastor from his official presidential announcement to "protect" the minister, rather than to shield his own candidacy.
Obama implies ...
Association of University Staff
University investigation a sop, says QPEC The Quality Public Education Coalition says that a decision by the University
of Auckland Council to set up an investigation into the impact of its decision to restrict entry to undergraduate degree
courses ...
Problem Gambling Foundation
New research commissioned by the Health Sponsorship Council provides hard evidence of the harm being done by gambling
says the Problem Gambling Foundation.
New Zealand Government
Minister of Health David Cunliffe today announced his decision to appoint a new Chair and Crown Monitor to Capital and
Coast District Health Board.
New Zealand Government
Building the global carbon market - the International Carbon Action Partnership Climate Change Minister David Parker’s
speech notes for the ICAP side event, at the EC Pavilion, 12 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia
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