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Northcote Shopping Centre
A special “live site” for the Beijing Olympics gets underway on Friday night at the Northcote Shopping Centre with an
opening night of entertainment from 6pm.
Undernews
As I've often told Ginsberg, you can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault.
You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision
and they ...
STATE OF IT by Selwyn Manning
Selwyn Manning writes: Much energy has been directed to identify who secretly recorded National Party MPs. That's their
prerogative. However, the ridicule directed at Scoop Media and two of its reporters by historian Dr Michael Bassett, is
in need of reply.
New Zealand National Party
National’s ACC spokeswoman Pansy Wong is incredulous that ACC has shelled out $750,000 for staff to indulge in day spas,
manicures, and botox to enhance and improve their personal wellbeing.
Progressive Party
NOW DID I REALLY SAY THAT ABOUT KIWIBANK? I am afraid that you did Bill. I know that as a close student of the Hollow
Men , in fact you feature in it, you realise that such policies are supposed to be undeclared otherwise people won’t
vote for you ...
Michael Collins
In his new book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder , Vincent Bugliosi makes a devastating, well documented
case that President George W. Bush is guilty of murder as a result of the lies he told to justify the invasion of Iraq.
LawFuel
An intense 12-month investigation by law enforcement agencies has smashed an international drug syndicate with 16
arrested across Australia following the world’s single largest seizure of 4.4 tonnes of ecstasy.
Go West Now
The Western Australian Government's "Go West Now" team is back in New Zealand to attract skilled workers to fill WA's
massive job vacancies.
The White House
"America looks to Thailand as a leader in the region and a partner around the world. I was proud to designate Thailand a
major non-NATO ally of the United States. I salute the Thai people on the restoration of democracy." - George Bush.
Prof. Kanbawza Win
The original purpose of the Olympic Games, both ancient and modern, is to foster the ideal of, “A sound mind in a sound
body,” and to promote friendship among the nations. The Official Olympic Anthem runs “Immortal spirit of Antiquity,
Father ...
E Sime Group
The Honourable Trevor Mallard will be launching the first Proven Energy Wind Turbine by throwing the switch on a 6kw
unit installed at the premises of E Sime Group Ltd in Seaview, Lower Hutt on Friday afternoon, 8 August 2008.
New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says he is saddened at the passing of former All Black and New Zealand Maori
player Ken Going. "Ken was well known, and highly respected, by all those who follow rugby; not just in Northland, but
throughout New ...
Black Agenda Report
A new cold war looms over Africa, fueled by "dwindling primary natural resources, oil and gas" elsewhere on the planet.
The continent has never recovered from centuries of European and American exploitation of her land and people, while
"the human, social ...
New Zealand Food Safety Authority
The New Zealand Food Safety Authority is proposing a framework that would allow a wider variety of raw milk products to
be sold and produced in New Zealand.
Syed Akbar Kamal
In an increasingly multi-cultural and diverse ethnic landscape of Aotearoa Gov-Gen Anand Satyanand underscored the need
to channel efforts in realizing religious understanding while launching the 5th annual Islam Awareness Week organized by
Federation of Islamic ...
Office of the Clerk
1. SU’A WILLIAM SIO (Labour) to the Minister of Finance: What reports has he received on alternative ways of promoting
domestic savings?
New Zealand Government
National is ignoring the scientific evidence for the 9-week Herceptin treatment and is cynically making an empty
promise to New Zealand women and playing on the fears of women suffering from breast cancer.
Scoop Full Coverage
Full Coverage of the National Party conference and secret recordings of Bill English, Lockwood Smith, and Nick Smith,
including audio, statements, fallout and analysis. Ethical? Justified? In the public interest? You be the judge.
US State Department
"I think there is a lot of ferment in Iran right now. You read in the newspapers, even in - even in their newspapers, as
controlled as they are, a lot of questioning of the policies of Pres. Ahmadinejad. After all, inflation is running wild
in Iran."
Richard S. Ehrlich
A billboard, advertising English language lessons, hopes to attract customers who want to understand Americans.
Matt Renner
Washington, DC - Republicans and Democrats have been in an uproar over a new report that examines the amount of money
the government of Iraq has been taking in and where they have been spending it. However, according to a leading Iraq
economy scholar, ...
Peace Movement Aotearoa
Saturday, 9 August, is the International Day of the World's Indigenous People (IDWIP). IDWIP is observed every year on
9 August by the international community, in recognition of the first meeting of the United Nations Working Group on
Indigenous Populations ...
The Family Party
Yesterday a report was released on child poverty commissioned by the Children's Commissioner and Barnardos called, “A
Fair Go For Children - Actions to Address Child Poverty in New Zealand.”
Myspace.com
Nielsen and internal figures show us almost 400,000 New Zealanders spent 156,000 hours viewing 14 million pages on
MySpace.com in the month of June 2008.
Mental Health Foundation
Mentally unhealthy workplaces are costing New Zealand businesses far more than the $250 spent by ACC for staff on its
employee wellbeing programme, says the Mental Health Foundation.
J. Sri Raman
On August 8, a small team of six athletes from Burma is scheduled to participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic
Games in Beijing. Very few back home, however, may be wondering on this occasion about the team's fortunes in the field,
track, ...
New Zealand National Party
Revelations this week that NZAid has provided $121,500 of taxpayers’ tsunami relief cash for the Tamil Rehabilitation
Organisation (TRO) raise serious questions about both the aid and security policies of the Clark Government. The TRO has
for some ...
Gull Petroleum
Gull New Zealand announced today the launch of Gull Regular Plus, a new 91 octane biofuel with 10 per cent ethanol
content. Gull Regular Plus, the next generation in petrol, extends Gull’s biofuel range beyond the very successful Gull
Force 10, ...
New Zealand National Party
"Labour must seriously be questioning its own priorities when it can't fund Herceptin, but can afford to give ACC staff
publicly funded manicures and botox treatments," says National Party State Services spokesman Gerry Brownlee.
New Zealand Labour Party
Labour MP Darien Fenton says she is seriously concerned about the security of constituent information at John Key’s
Helensville electorate office after Mr Key’s claims that papers were “stolen” from his rubbish.