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Undernews
From the conclusion of this war we shall be going downhill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the
people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded... The shackles, therefore, . . .
will be made heavier ...
Office of the Clerk
1. Hon PHIL GOFF to the Prime Minister: Does he have confidence in all his Ministers, if so, why? 2. PESETA SAM
LOTU-IIGA to the Minister of Finance: Has the Minister seen any reports of government spending commitments which have no
funding set aside ...
Lynley Hood
Dear Minister Congratulations on your appointment to the role of Minister of Justice. We are confident that you will
undertake this challenging role with the competence and acumen you demonstrated while in Opposition.
Visa
Local Visa debit, credit and prepaid cardholders can snap up advanced tickets to the New Zealand leg of COLDPLAY’s Viva
La Vida tour, to be held at Vector Arena in Auckland next year in March.
Franklin P Lamb
Truth be told, this observer, along with one suspects plenty of others, was miffed at Hezbollah this past Wednesday
morning. As I looked up at sunrise at Sammin Mountain above Beirut on the Western chain of Lebanon’s dramatic range to
see if the rumor ...
Alastair Thompson
Q on a range of subjects followed including the Police spying operations on activists, aspects of the urgency
legislation, climate change policy, the ETS, bio-fuels legislation and the removal of the ban on thermal electricity
generation plants.
US State Department
THE Government of Nigeria is currently under intense pressure to ban gas flaring in the Niger Delta.
US State Department
Geography Area: 444 sq. km; about 2.5 times the size of Washington DC. Major islands: Mahe and Praslin. Cities: Capital
--Victoria. Terrain: About half of the islands are granitic in origin, with narrow coastal strips and central ranges of
hills rising ...
Sherwood Ross
Obama Should Drop Plans To Escalate Afghan War; Send In Peace Corps Instead By Sherwood Ross
Chugg Entertainment
Chugg Entertainment today confirmed that Coldplay will visit New Zealand following their eleven arena shows in Australia
next March. The show will be part of their “Viva La Vida” world tour, in support of their new album of the same name.
US State Department
Geography Area: 592,800 sq. km. (228,880 sq. mi.). Cities: Capital --Antananarivo (pop. about 1,300,000). Other cities
--Antsirabe (about 500,000), Mahajanga (about 400,000), Toamasina (about 450,000). Terrain: Mountainous central plateau,
coastal ...
New Zealand Government
Trade Minister Tim Groser says the Government has decided to ask New Zealand Ambassador to the WTO, and Chair of the WTO
Agriculture Negotiations, Crawford Falconer, to remain in Geneva in an effort to help revitalise the WTO’s Doha
Development Round ...
David Swanson
This is the question now raised in Iraq: If they throw shoes at your face are you a combat troop or a noncombat troop?
The answer may be important in helping to guide President Elect Obama's strategy of reducing but continuing the
genocidal occupation ...
Scoop Audio
KiwiFM: Wallace & Manning discuss Nicky Hager & Anthony Hubbard's revelations that the Police used informants to infiltrate protest groups - arguing that the
security/liberty test is now so one-sided that a public/political debate must occur.
New Zealand Government
Hon Paula Bennett Minister for Social Development and Employment Minister for Disability Issues Minister for Youth
Affairs 15 December 2008 3 PM Media Statement
Council on Hemispheric Affairs
President-elect Barack Obama’s designated appointment for Secretary of Commerce, Bill Richardson, was welcomed with
gusto on Thursday, December 4, after a visit by him to Mexico.
Sustainable Electricity Association NZ
The government will face more big power price hikes like Genesis’s 9 per cent rise unless it acts quickly to encourage
more renewable generation, warned Sustainable Electricity Association chairman Brendan Winitana today.
New Zealand Government
Environment Minister Nick Smith today announced the appointment of the RMA Technical Advisory Group to support the
Government’s programme of reform of the Resource Management Act.
New Zealand Government
Energy and Resources Minister, Gerry Brownlee, has told Parliament today the ban on traditional light bulbs is being
lifted.
United Nations
The death toll from Zimbabwe’s worst-ever cholera outbreak is approaching 1,000, the United Nations reported today, as
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that the country’s leadership is not doing enough to address the dire situation in
the Southern ...
ESR
Crown Research Institute ESR and New Zealand Customs Service are increasing co-operation to enhance strategic and
operational capabilities to control who and what crosses our borders.
United Nations
New York, Dec 15 2008 5:10PM A senior United Nations official today welcomed recent breakthroughs made in Nepal and the
Philippines to release child soldiers.
United Nations
The United Nations Security Council was briefed today by the heads of its subsidiary bodies entrusted with monitoring
sanctions on Sudan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Somalia, Al-Qaida and the Taliban, Côte d’Ivoire,
Iran, Democratic ...
University of Waikato
Eighteen scientists led by the Waikato University will spend four weeks in Antarctica this summer as part of a project
to compile a detailed picture of the Ross Dependency.
United Nations
A senior United Nations official today told a meeting of African ministers that harnessing the continent’s largely
untapped water resources is critical in feeding and providing for its people.
United Nations
A review of the progress made to date to provide humanitarian assistance to the victims of Cyclone Nargis has found that
while relief efforts are ongoing, they need to be stepped up, especially to ensure food security, a United
Nations-backed group said ...
United Nations
The United Nations and its diplomatic partners in the search for Middle East peace – the European Union (EU), Russia and
the United States – called today for an intensification of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, urging both sides to take
the ...
New Zealand Government
With one in ten New Zealanders projected to be Pacific by 2026, it is essential for New Zealand’s future that Pacific
people are well-educated, skilled and playing their part economically, culturally and socially.
The Public Record
Sixteen years ago, President-elect Bill Clinton headed for Washington with a national security team that was unprepared
for a new age of foreign policy marked by the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet
Union. Clinton ...
Steve Weissman
Whether ordained by God, the crusade against communism or the Global War on Terror, many Americans believe we have a
mandate to police the world, hold dominion over its supply of oil and natural gas and lead the way in whatever way we
happen to be ...