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Emily Kernot
Lunchtime shopping was not the usual business of the day as thousands packed out Queen Street to watch the topical Boobs
on Bikes parade.
Paul G. Buchanan - A Word From Afar
Paul G. Buchanan writes that the Russian counter-offensive in Georgia has revealed three fundamental facts that the US
and its allies are powerless to reverse, and which they may have unwittingly facilitated. The first is that Russia is
back...
SAP NZ
SAP New Zealand today announced the local availability of CRM functionality in the SAP® Business All-in-One solution
addressing the needs of midsize companies to better manage every aspect of their customer relationships. Based on the
latest innovations ...
Catherine Austin Fitts
Any government official asked to come up with a workout plan for troubled financial institutions, large portfolios of
financial assets and liabilities, and/or places that are financially challenged first must consider all the
constituencies involved. ...
Green Party
The Green Party is facing a busy weekend at the computer as views from the public on their ETS decision flood in.
New Zealand National Party
The number of people leaving to live in Australia in the past 12 months would have almost enough numbers to start an
entire city of their own, says National’s Immigration spokesman, Lockwood Smith.
John Andrews - Pacific Insights
John Andrews reports from Niue that Fiji faces suspension from the Pacific Islands Forum unless its military leader
Frank Bainimarama complies with Forum leaders' dictates. A meeting will Occur in PNG in three month's time to consider
Fiji's compliance.
New Zealand Government
The clean up of the Waikato River to follow today’s Deed of Settlement with Waikato-Tainui will be one of the most
important environmental undertakings in New Zealand’s history, Treaty Negotiations Minister Michael Cullen said today.
Undernews
Bob Herbert, NY Times - Around the same time that the McCain campaign was pocketing its oil industry windfall, the
historian Douglas Brinkley was poring over letters in which Roosevelt, running for his first full term as president in
1904, was indignantly ...
Harvey Bell
There is almost unanimous agreement that there needs to be a mechanism to reduce GHG emissions however the cost of any
framework implemented to achieve this must be equitable.
Terry Evans
The leader of the All Burma Monks' Alliance (ABMA), Ashin Gambira, has been disrobed and charged with multiple criminal
offences by Burma's military junta.
Trade Me Limited
Trade Me has welcomed the decision of the Advertising Standards Complaints Board (ASCB) Panel to uphold its complaint
against website www.myjobspace.co.nz for claims that it had over 110,000 visitors per month.
www.sorted.org.nz
Kiwis are increasingly turning to sorted.org.nz New Zealand’s free independent money guide, run by the Retirement
Commission. It’s full of calculators and information to help manage personal finances throughout life.
Family First
Family First NZ is welcoming the success of the petition demanding a Referendum on the flawed anti-smacking law.
John Andrews - Pacific Insights
Exclusive: Pacific Island leaders agonized for hours over the use of the word 'suspension' while debating their response
to Fiji's boycott of their forum summit in Niue - John Andrews reports from Niue...
John Andrews - Pacific Insights
Relatives of an elderly man who died on Niue Island are upset his body had to be held in a chiller used for storing
fish. They believe the body of their patriarch, 91-year-old Tuhipa Niutama, does not deserve the indignity of having to
lie in a ...
NZ Council for Infrastructure Development
The New Zealand Council for Infrastructure Development has identified six priorities to lift infrastructure delivery in
New Zealand following its Building Nations Symposium in Auckland last week:
Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation’s chief technology officer took a fascinating look at how technology will bring man and machine much
closer together by 2050.
University of Otago
One of the world's longest and largest trials of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has found that post-menopausal women
on HRT gain significant improvements in quality of life.
The Maori Party
A couple weeks ago I attended a resource consent hearing in Whangarei for whanau wanting to build a marae out at
Taiharuru. Chantez Connor led their case, and although she began rather tentatively, she presented a good case for the
whanau to be able ...
The Maori Party
Tariana Turia says the Maori Party is absolutely thrilled at reports that a Labour Minister is going to introduce a
Bill to Parliament to entrench the Treaty of Waitangi in the constitution of New Zealand.
Bill Berkowitz
In 1962, two years after losing the presidency to John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon ran and lost the governor's race in
California. At a post-election press conference, Nixon famously told reporters that they wouldn't "have Richard Nixon to
kick around ...
VUWSA
300 students’ are protesting against Unicomm Hostel owners ING Group tomorrow, after having a year from Hell.
New Zealand National Party
There is something very very untidy at large amongst the senior ranks of our defence forces. This week a Court of
Enquiry has released its report into the UN Housing Allowance rort fiasco.
The Family Party
Family Party leader Richard Lewis says he is elated that the smacking petition has achieved the required number of
signatures to force a referendum.
New Zealand Government
Justice Minister Annette King has confirmed that planning has begun to hold a postal referendum related to Section 59 of
the Crimes Amendment Act.
Michael Hammerschlag
Kiev: Mikheil Saakashvili’s reckless invasion of South Ossetia was an act of a politically embattled leader seeking to
rally his nation in a military adventure to regain a long separated ethnic enclave. Instead the predictable, even
inevitable, ...
Wellington Zoo
One of Wellington Zoo’s zebras was found dead in her enclosure this morning, Team Leader Ben Pocock announced today.
Scoop Audio
RDU Audio: Spank Dawg grilled National leader John Key about the Fiji situation and what action National would take if
elected. We found out what John thinks about Boobs on Bikes and boobs in general as well as why National is being so
soft on Winston ...
Waikato District Health Board
Waikato District Health Board's $30 million surplus for the financial year ended June 30 is a timing issue and not a
case of the board withholding services to produce surpluses.