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Undernews
NOAH SHACHTMAN WIRED The Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it "access" to -- and "full control" of --
any kind of computer there is. And once the info warriors are in, the Air Force wants them to keep tabs on their
"adversaries' information ...
Alt TV
Oliver Driver talks to Phil Goff tonight at 8.30pm. Segment of Video Interview: The interview New Zealand media won't
leave alone. Watch the entire thirty minute interview tonight on Alt TV . Does Phil Goff want to be Prime Minister?
Homelessness
Charlie Bleakley has directed a documentary on homelessness in New Zealand, Putting Homelessness in Focus that he and
producer Kate Amore hope will challenge stereotypes and bring the reality of homelessness to policymakers and the
public. The film will ...
Lyndon Hood
Two robbers had independently accosted a traveller on a public highway. "If you allow me to rob you," said the first, "I
will spend most of it on you, one way or another." "If you permit me to rob you," said the second, "I will also give it
back, but I ...
Electoral Commission
At its meeting of 19 May 2008, the commission made the following decisions: Further information is being sought before
any decision is made about referral to the police of parties that were late with their donation returns.
New Zealand National Party
The National Party’s Shadow Leader of the House, Gerry Brownlee, says the announcement from Phil Goff about the
Government’s re-election chances and his leadership aspirations “is a sign warfare is breaking out within Labour.”
Scoop Video
Video + Audio: The Prime Minister was accompanied by Immigration Minister Clayton Cosgrove and were able to deflect
initial media attention away from bad polls for her Government and onto Immigration Service disasters.
Paul Smith
When an ideology once touted as New sounds quaint, you know for sure it's dead in the water. And so it was earlier this
month with attempts to revive the corpse of privatisation.
UK Government
Gordon Brown has praised the internet industry as a model for the global economy. "The global economy will not work for
people unless it is open, flexible, about free-trade, non-protectionist, inclusive, empowering and about building a
society.
Office of the Clerk
1. MARTIN GALLAGHER to the Minister of Trade: What recent progress has been made towards improving New Zealand's trade
relationship with Japan?
Gordon Campbell
On May 25, a Turkish owned ship called the Cake is due at Lyttleton harbour, and similar port records show the same ship
is due in Napier between 3-5 June.
Andreas von Warburg
Book Review - Andreas von Warburg writes from New York: Some have acknowledged it as a masterpiece, a tinkerer’s
manifesto. Others have called it the perfect plan of a serious dreamer. Jeffrey Sachs - Penguin Press - “Common wealth,
economics ...
Undernews
The notion that we ought to now go to Baghdad and somehow take control of the country strikes me as an extremely serious
one, in terms of what we'd have to do when we got there. You'd probably have to put some new government in place. It's
not clear ...
Jason Leopold
Sen. John McCain says he opposes the $307 billion farm bill because it would dole out wasteful subsidies, but his chief
economic adviser Phil Gramm also wants to stop its proposed regulation of energy futures trading, a market that was
famously abused ...
Bunnings Warehouse
New Zealanders can help raise much needed funds for those affected by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (Burma) by buying a
sausage at Bunnings and Save the Children’s Myanmar Response Day – Friday 23 May.
Katie Small
Katie Small reports: Immigration is used in the same way to depress wages in the United States as it is in New Zealand,
says the Socialist Workers Party’s (SWP) candidate for US president, Roger Calero.
New Zealand Government
The revised food and nutrition guidelines for infants and toddlers are aimed at giving New Zealand babies the best
possible start in life, Associate Health Minister Steve Chadwick said today.
Anti Bases Campaign
Recent events have propelled the Waihopai spybase into the spotlight. It is a US spybase in all but name and NZ’s most
important contribution to all US wars. Cora Fabros, from the Philippines, is a veteran activist with the anti-bases,
anti-nuclear ...
UK Government
Millions of Google Earth users around the world will be able to see how climate change could affect the planet and its
people over the next century, along with viewing the loss of Antarctic ice shelves over the last 50 years, thanks to a
new project.
Watercare Services
For the fifth year in a row Auckland company WaterCare Services has been honoured at the annual trans Tasman sustainable
reporting awards announced in Sydney today.
Jamie Melbourne-Hayward
Film Review: AUT University journalism student, Jamie Melbourne-Hayward writes that War & Waves, a story of Sri Lankan hardship, will evoke the consciences of Aucklanders when it screens on the final night of
the Human Rights Film Festival this Friday ...
New Zealand National Party
A recent review of sexually transmitted diseases in 2007* should jolt Labour out of its complacency and into action,
says National's Associate Health spokeswoman, Jackie Blue, and the party's Youth Affairs spokeswoman, Nicky Wagner.
Martha Rosenberg
"We Don't Like The FDA," chant ten thousand demonstrators in candlelight vigils, some dressed as cows.
narconews.com
Narco News’ investigation into alleged DEA corruption in Colombia has led journalist Bill Conroy to the discovery of
several documents, the most well known to date being the “Kent Memo.” Now Conroy has uncovered even more info, utilizing
the Freedom ...
Alternative Rugby Commentary
The Alternative Rugby Commentary is back, on the ball and full of all the clichés, calls and controversy you won't hear
in your average rugby commentary.
UK Government
The recent earthquake in Sichuan occurred under some of the steepest and most rugged mountains in the world, the Longmen
Shan: the Dragon's Gate Mountains. This dramatic range, steeper than the Himalayas, is the upturned rim of the eastern
edge of Tibet.
Cluster Munitions Coalition
On the opening of the negotiations of the cluster munition treaty, the Aotearoa New Zealand Cluster Munition Coalition
today challenged New Zealand and more than 120 other governments in attendance to create a strong and effective
prohibition on the ...
New Zealand Police
The death this morning of a 61 year-old Onehunga man who was assaulted at a bus stop in the Royal Oak suburb of Auckland
has sparked a homicide investigation.
New Zealand Police
Police have confirmed emergency services are responding to an incident at ACC headquarters in Molesworth Street,
Wellington, this afternoon.
Undernews
GUARDIAN, UK, 2004 Rumors of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades.
Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act
are still ...