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Embassy of the Republic of Cuba
The United States further isolated itself from world opinion today, following a record massive vote by the United
Nations General Assembly calling for the lifting of the 46-year-old American economic and trade blockade against the
Republic of Cuba.
Mark Adams
Well, let’s see. With trillions of dollars up for grabs, someone might want seize power, but they’d get caught, right?
With the 'news' media and the Dept. of 'Justice' concentrating on voter fraud, there’s really just no way that anyone
could get ...
New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader John Key has today released his Action Plan for Violent Crime and declared that it is ready to go
from the first day of a new National-led Government.
Gordon Campbell
Judging by the polls, the Republicans’ best chance of victory looks like it will require them to screw around with the
machinery of voting. They’re very good at it. Given the near certainty of record turnouts in next week’s election, will
there ...
Michael Collins
(Wash. DC) Susan Lindauer has been busy making calls and sending faxes to Members of Congress outlining her role as a
U.S. intelligence asset since the mid 1990's and her views of pre-invasion intelligence on Iraq. She's taken her case to
Capitol ...
New Zealand National Party
The world's stock markets have been in free-fall. Some of the world's biggest banks have disappeared and others have
sought refuge in mergers, rescue plans and even nationalisation. A wave of mass redundancies has started to ripple
across the globe. ...
Anne Else
In February 2003 I heard John Key say "After 18 years in the international currency, bond and derivative markets, I hung
up my banking boots for New Zealand politics."
Karori Wildlife Sanctuary
Conservation staff at Wellington’s world-first Karori Sanctuary have found what is almost certainly the first confirmed
tuatara nest on mainland New Zealand in over 200 years. The discovery came during routine maintenance work near the
Sanctuary’s ...
Wellington City Council
NEWS RELEASE 31 October 2008 Road closures across city for Targa Rally tomorrow The spectacular Targa New Zealand Road
Rally is coming to town tomorrow (Saturday 1 November) and high-powered cars, hundreds of participants and support crew
are ...
Green Party
Everyone who loses their job deserves support, Green Party Social Development Spokesperson Sue Bradford says.
Fortinet
Our client Fortinet (www.fortinet.com), the worldwide #1 vendor of unified threat management appliances, has discovered
a major new threat to Facebook users.
www.October15thSolidarity.info
The Crown has issued an indictment today against 18 people arrested in the police raids of October 15th 2007 in Ruatoki,
Auckland, Hamilton, Whakatane, Palmerston North, Wellington and elsewhere.
uscountvotes.org
A compilation of numerous recent news articles reporting on key election issues.
Save The Children
Six months after Cyclone Nargis swept across Myanmar, a looming water crisis and the impact of lost livelihoods threaten
the well-being of children and families made vulnerable by the storm.
Jamie Melbourne-Hayward
Jamie Melbourne-Hayward writes that An education forum in Auckland this Tuesday allowed a Labour stand-in education
spokesperson to perform a faux pas at election time: speaking ones mind. Here's the irony and the agony, uncut...
Christian World Service
New Zealand aid agency Christian World Service is accepting donations for survivors of the Pakistan earthquake forced to
spend freezing nights in the open and fearing aftershocks.
Progressive Party
National MPs are jumping ship on their own party's policies because it is a bad idea to increase business tax right
now, and especially to increase them on the most innovative companies in the country, Progressive leader Jim Anderton
says.
Jamie Melbourne-Hayward
Jamie Melbourne-Hayward checked out Logitech's new gadget launch and found technology normally reserved for stage
musicians is now being released to Joe-Blow. Logitech's new earphones promise not to leave your ears ringing.
Newmarket Business Association
Westlake Girl’ High School student Paris Kirby, aged 17, was announced the winner of the inaugural Newmarket Young
Designer Award during a full blown fashion show at the Raye Freedman Centre at Epsom Girl’s Grammar attended by 250
people.
Lyndon Hood
At the Sarcasm Party, we understand that you've been hard done by after nine long years of economic prosperity and are
looking for a fresh breath of common sense change or whatever. So voting for us would be an awesome idea, because we'd
fix everything ...
Greenpeace New Zealand
Another inappropriate dairy conversion has occurred in New Zealand - this time on John Key's front lawn. A dwindling
pine forest, some dairy cows, several stumps and a truckload of Ready Lawn now adorn the land at Mr Key's Helensville
electorate office. ...
Richard S. Ehrlich
ALCATRAZ ISLAND, California -- To escape from this prison built on jagged rocks in the San Francisco Bay, an inmate
needed to swim through poisonous jellyfish, numbness, exhaustion, tides, and angry guards trying to kill him.
Democrats for Social Credit
Maxim Institute, that high-minded "think tank"that claims to stand for democracy and justice, showed Wednesday night in
Tauranga that they are not above using their power to try and manipulate the outcome of the general election.
Returned Services Association
Today marks the end of an era when Mr Pat Herbert retires as Chief Executive of the Royal New Zealand Returned and
Services’ Association after 17 years of loyal and dedicated service – the second longest tenure in the 92-year-old
history of the ...
Workers Party of New Zealand
The Workers Party has condemned the decision today by the Crown Prosecutor to lay fresh charges of 'participating in an
organised criminal group' against 5 of the social justice activists arrested in last year's so-called 'anti-terror'
raids.
Global Peace And Justice Auckland
The police decision to lay charges of participating in a criminal gang against five of the Urewera arrestees is
ludicrous. Having failed to brand these activists as terrorists the police now want to try to brand them as criminals.
LawFuel
A federal jury in Miami today convicted Roy M. Belfast Jr. of crimes related to the torture of people in Liberia between
April 1999 and July 2003, the Department of Justice and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced.
Villa Education Trust
Despite the economic crises the issue that anyone with children should be most concerned about in the current election
is Education. As background to my comments I have taught for 18 years, including six as a Principal, have an Economics
degree and Masters ...
Scoop Audio
Radio Adelaide: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey discuss whether Labour's 'neutron bomb' is a fizzer. Also, does the fact that Winston Peters wrote to the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding Owen Glenn being appointed a consul to Monaco matter?
Green Party
The Green Party's Preventative Health Strategy was launched at Wellington Hospital today with Health Spokesperson Sue
Kedgley calling for a dramatic change in how New Zealand approaches health.