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2: Blood,
Oil, Guns And Bullets - Globalisation &
War
Terror, invasion, occupation and militarization are hallmarks of the US-led corporate recolonisation of Iraq. But they have long been the hallmarks of colonialism and imperialism the world over.
3:
Online
auction for children’s
charity
Meridian Energy is hosting an online auction for the children’s charity Kiwi Can. The auction is on the popular trading site Trade Me (www.trademe.co.nz) from 9am Monday 24 November finishing on Monday 1 December.
4:
Top
NZ Photographer Gets The Ultimate
Billing
Acclaimed New Zealand landscape photographer Andris Apse has achieved the ultimate exhibition space - on the side of an Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
Breast
cancer screening buses lie
idle
The six mobile breast-screening buses are lying idle when they could be saving more lives, says National's Health spokeswoman Dr Lynda Scott.
6:
Feb
2003 Santa Barbara DA PR On Michael
Jackson
The purpose of this press release is to balance the widespread public interest in the position of the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office relative to the recent BBC program on Michael Jackson with the operational needs of this office to ...
7:
Scoop
Images: Swing Low Sweet Chariot
(OFFENSIVE)
READERS NOTE - WARNING: The following image is offensive and not particularly sporting. After consulting internally and considering blanking out the offensive words we have decided to use it at is. Consider yourself warned if you choose to view.
8:
Diebold
Memos Disclose Florida 2000 E-Voting
Fraud
Something very strange happened in Volusia County on election night November 2000, the night that first Gore won Florida, then Bush, and then as everybody can so well remember there was a tie.
9:
Uncovered
- JRR Tolkiens Real Middle
Earth
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, 19th November 2003 - Discovermiddleearth.com launches this week with a unique calendar featuring photography on Tolkiens Trail in Birmingham, England, unveiling the locations that inspired JRR Tolkiens Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
10:
UQ
Wire: George W. Bush Loves Michael
Jackson
A number of explosions tore through the British consulate in Turkey today, killing scores of people. George W. Bush is in England, surrounded on all sides by enraged British citizens whose massive protests have required nearly every police officer ...
11:
Indymedia
Images: Bush Protests In
London
The following is a snapshot of Indymedia coverage of the second day of protests in London against U.S. President George Bush's state visit to the United Kingdom.
12:
Links:
California Declares Paper Ballots
Mandatory
A little over four months ago, on July 8th, Scoop Media broke a significant international news story about apparent security flaws in the United States voting apparatus - see… Sludge Report #154 – Bigger Than Watergate! & Bev Harris: Inside A U.S. ...
13:
Santa
Barbara DA Statement On Michael
Jackson
District Attorney Thomas W. Sneddon, Jr. today announced that members of his investigative staff yesterday participated and assisted Sheriff’s personnel in the execution of three search warrants—one at Neverland Ranch and two in locations in the Southern ...
14:
Images:
Admark’s Middle-Earth Challenge!
Admark’s partnership with Air New Zealand continues with the newly-themed Lord of the Rings Boeing 747-400, designed to commemorate the release of the third and final instalment of the trilogy – The Return of the King.
15:
Indymedia
UK: Stop Bu$h - National
Demonstration
Massive demonstrations are currently taking place in Trafalgar Square in London. Indymedia reporters on the scene estimate 250,000 - 300,000 people were in attendance for the toppling of a George Bush statue at 5:22 PM GMT.
16:
Mai
Music & SAE Awards
Scholarship
Maori record label Mai Music and the world's largest audio engineering educational institute - SAE - has announced the second winner of the music industry scholarship, He Taonga Waiata.
17:
Sam
Smith: Handling The Bullies
For many years now, the Republican right has engaged in a politics of cultural bullying that is the direct descendent of the southern segregationists. It is based on anathematizing a minority in order to solidify its own political base around false assumptions of ...
18:
Arrest
Warrant Issued for Michael
Jackson
Yesterday morning at around 8:30 a.m., investigators from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department and the Santa Barbara District Attorney's Office served a search warrant at the Neverland Ranch in Los Olivos. Simultaneous to the service of the ...
19:
Prestige
disaster devastating effect on
seabirds
Madrid, Spain – One year after the sinking of the Prestige oil tanker, BirdLife International’s Spanish Partner, SEO/BirdLife, has released a report confirming the devastating effect of the spill on seabirds, with up to almost a quarter of a million affected, the ...
20:
Sludge
Report #154 – Bigger Than
Watergate!
In This Edition: Bigger Than Watergate! - How To Rig An Election In The United States - Fantasy vs Reality - How We Discovered The Backdoor - Evidence Of Motive - Evidence Of Opportunity - Evidence Of Method - Evidence Of Prior Conduct - Consistent Unexplained ...
21:
Auckland
set to welcome gigantic cruise ship
The historic arrival this weekend of the $1 billion cruise ship Star Princess is going to be a fabulous spectacle no Aucklander should miss,” Auckland City Mayor Hon John Banks said today.
22:
Scoop:
Top Scoops + Just Politics
Istanbul Bombings Target British Consulate: 26 Dead - Crown To Proceed With Kupe Gas Field Sale - Blood, Oil, Guns, Bullets Partner the Neoliberlisation Agenda: Aziz Choudry Writes - Bush Schmoozes Whitehall Over Iraq Invasion - UK Indymedia On The ...
23:
Inside
A U.S. Election Vote Counting
Program
Publication of this story marks a watershed in American political history. It is offered freely for publication in full or part on any and all internet forums, blogs and noticeboards. All other media are also encouraged to utilise material. Readers ...
24:
Top
10 Repercussions Of The All Blacks
Defeat
1. In a remarkable coincidence all state-owned media misplace all footage of Jim Anderton smugly telling the country in 1999 that we've never won the world cup with a centre right government but we'll win the next one with a centre left one.
25:
LOTR
Charity Screening First Public Showing in
NZ
Fans of The Lord of the Rings will have the chance to be the first to see the final film in Peter Jackson’s motion picture trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, at the Auckland Charity Screening, Village SKYCITY Cinemas, Broadway, ...
26:
Annan
Hails Iraq Oil-for-Food
Programme
On the eve of its expiry, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today hailed as "unprecedented" the multi-billion dollar United Nations Oil-for-Food programme, which fed most Iraqis for seven years under Saddam Hussein's sanctions-bound regime, and vowed to continue ...
27:
Chuckman
Cartoon: More Flush Bush 2004
Images
For the first image in this series see… Chuckman Cartoon: Don't Forget To Flush
28:
Save
Air NZ: The Appeal Of Flogging A Dead Horse
So Air New Zealand and Qantas are to appeal. Apparently the Commerce Commission must be out of its mind not to approve a proposal whereby competition between the two airlines would cease.
29:
Public
Address 21/11/03 -
Challenges
There was a palpable air of unreality about the Bush-Blair press conference in London overnight. Even though events were raging as the two men spoke, the talk was such that it might have been scripted any time in the past few months...
30:
US
Soldiers to America: Bring Us Home
Now
I had the unique opportunity to interview five US military servicemen who just got back from Iraq, or in the case of two men, corresponded with their wives so that I could ask questions of these soldiers by mail.
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