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Hamish Bohannan's Hopes For Westport - The Westport Story, 4
Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 4:13 pm | The Westport Story told by Scoop
On the final day of Scoop Amplifier's three day field trip to Westport Scoop's Alastair Thompson and Stephen Olsen spent the day in the company of Bathurst Resources' CEO Hamish Bohannan, Corporate Affairs Manager Sam Aarons and Westport based Chief Geologist ... More >>
Public Address - ONE NIGHT ONLY! Really F*lthy C-Words
Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 3:14 pm | Public Address
It’s almost like a dirty joke. A librarian, a cartoonist and a blogger walked into a art gallery and started talking about really fithy c-words… If you’re in Auckland tonight (Tuesday, August 13), and at a loose end from 6.00-8.00 pm you can catch ... More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Magnanimous Mugabe
Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 2:46 pm | Martin Doyle
How depressed must be the people of Zimbabwe to hear Robert Mugabe's venomous speech... More >>
New Child Protection Measures Announced
Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 2:07 pm | Hamish Cardwell
At a press conference in Wellington today Minister for Social Development Paula Bennett laid out Child Harm Prevention Orders. The plans include barring suspected and convicted child abusers from having access to children to children. More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: China wants the Truth
Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 1:04 pm | Martin Doyle
A Prime Minister pathologically addicted to 'spin' needs to be very careful when waltzing into the presence of people wanting nothing less that the truth. More >>
Genocide of Ethnic Papuans: For whom & what was UN created?
Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 10:32 am | Selpius Bobii - Front Pepera Papua Barat
West Papua is continuously burning. It has become the arena for the playing out of a conflict between a number of parties. The consequence of the fundamental political rights of the nation of West Papua having been pawned unilaterally by the Netherlands, ... More >>
Muslim Malaysia Jails Woman for Washing Dogs during Ramadan
Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 10:19 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
Authorities in Muslim-majority Malaysia have jailed a dog trainer for uploading a video of herself washing and feeding dogs while an Islamic call to prayer plays as the soundtrack, but she denies insulting the religion which could result in five ... More >>
What happened to the Palestinian refugees at Masnaa?
Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 10:09 am | Franklin Lamb
On 8/5/13 this observer decided, quite on the spur of the moment, to take a three day break from Damascus the next morning and make a quick trip to Beirut to do some errands because offices would be closed starting at dawn for Eid al Fitr celebrations ... More >>
PM Press Conference – Fonterra | Meridian Energy - 12 August 2013
Monday, 12 August 2013, 6:31 pm | Alastair Reith
A bill providing greater powers to Governmental Inquiries will allow the government to get to the bottom of the Fonterra milk scandal, says Prime Minister John Key. More >>
The WikiLeaks Party, the Australian Election and Beyond
Monday, 12 August 2013, 3:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Surprised at the disgust of politics in Australia and elsewhere? This would itself be a surprise. Disliking Australian politics has not only been a pass time for decades in the country; it has become something of a nervous tic. More >>
Citizens for Legitimate Government: 11 August 2013
Monday, 12 August 2013, 3:30 pm | Citizens for Legitimate Government
The National Security Agency has a secret backdoor into its vast databases under a legal authority enabling it to search for US citizens' email and phone calls without a warrant, according to a top-secret document passed to the Guardian by Edward Snowden. More >>
Syria’s Palestinian camps controlled by Salafi-Jihadists
Monday, 12 August 2013, 11:35 am | Franklin Lamb
Jihadists are entering Syria at an accelerating pace, according to Syrian, UNWRA, and Palestinian officials as well as residents in the refugee camps here. For the now-estimated 7000 imported foreign fighters, Palestinian camps are seen as optimal ... More >>
Her Name Is Jody Williams
Monday, 12 August 2013, 11:24 am | David Swanson
Jody Williams' new book is called My Name Is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize, and it's a remarkable story by a remarkable person. It's also a very well-told autobiography, including in the early childhood chapters ... More >>
U.S., Russia, China, All Torture Prisoners
Monday, 12 August 2013, 10:53 am | Sherwood Ross
The three most powerful nations all operate prison systems that are places of sadism, sickness, and madness unfit for human habitation, much less human reformation. More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Tomba della Gioconda
Monday, 12 August 2013, 10:02 am | Martin Doyle
It seems even a crypt is no longer safe from prying eyes.... More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Fish off at Fukushima
Monday, 12 August 2013, 10:00 am | Martin Doyle
Radioactive water gushing into the Pacific... Nothing to worry about? More >>
Werewolf Edition #41 : The John Key "Nanny State" Issue
Monday, 12 August 2013, 10:00 am | Werewolf
Hi and welcome to the 41st edition of Werewolf, in which we’re kicking back against the real Nanny State . Here at the ‘Wolf we’re dead against the kind of Big Government that passes laws that (a) condone mass surveillance (b) penalise legitimate protest ... More >>
The Fukushima Nightmare Gets Worse
Saturday, 10 August 2013, 1:43 pm | Harvey Wasserman
>> By Harvey Wasserman, August 8, 2013 >> >> Just when it seemed things might be under control at Fukushima, we find they are worse than ever. >> >> Immeasurably worse. >> >> Massive quantities of radioactive liquids are now flowing through the ... More >>
Vows of ‘Occupation Until Martyrdom’
Saturday, 10 August 2013, 12:54 pm | Franklin Lamb
Jihadists are entering Syria at an accelerating pace, according to Syrian, UNWRA, and Palestinian officials as well as residents in the refugee camps here. For the now-estimated 7000 imported foreign fighters, Palestinian camps are seen as optimal ... More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Never smelt better
Friday, 9 August 2013, 1:40 pm | Martin Doyle
$30 mil is a gilt-edged sticking plaster over a festering smelter. Still, good work if you can get it. More >>
Undernews: August 8, 2013
Friday, 9 August 2013, 11:54 am | Undernews
I don’t know for sure that you’re out there at all, but from what I read and hear there’s a pretty good chance, so I thought I would pass this along. You may be tapping my phone, scanning my e-mails and collating my other electronic ephemera, ... More >>
No More Spills? Technology Could Transform Pipeline Sector
Friday, 9 August 2013, 11:48 am | Oilprice.com
The 2010 Kalamazoo spill and the 2013 Exxon leak in Arkansas are the most glaring incidents, but these are just the big leaks that are found right away and reported. Most leaks are found eventually—but there is money to be saved and damage to be ... More >>
Royal Dutch Shell: They Really Have a Friend in Pennsylvania
Friday, 9 August 2013, 11:43 am | Walter Brasch
Royal Dutch Shell, which owns or leases about 900,000 acres in the Marcellus Shale, had a great idea. It wanted to frack the Ukraine. But, there was opposition. So, Royal Dutch Shell decided to create a junket for some of the Ukrainians opposed to ... More >>
A Parliament of Leakers: WikiLeaks and the New Vision
Friday, 9 August 2013, 11:34 am | Binoy Kampmark
It sounds like a plumbing deficiency with a moral purpose: one leaks at times because one just has to. The condition is biological, innate. The suggestion in the case of politics is that a party that specialises about this will be formidable, and, ... More >>
Time for U.S.-Iran Talks
Friday, 9 August 2013, 11:30 am | Alon Ben-Meir
A wide range of credible sources suggest that the election of Iran’s new president Hassan Rouhani presents a timely, if not momentous, opportunity to initiate direct talks between the US and Iran in an effort to peacefully resolve the conflict over ... More >>
Egypt: Bringing Al-Sisi down from the tree
Friday, 9 August 2013, 11:28 am | Samir Al Hijawi
A fool may throw a stone into a well but 100 sane people cannot remove it, says the proverb. To paraphrase its sentiments, a few crazy people can put Al-Sisi at the top of the tree but who can bring him down? This is a complex and serious question, ... More >>
Storyology In Sydney - A Second Instalment
Friday, 9 August 2013, 10:57 am | Stephen Olsen
The disruptions that are reshaping journalism have been impossible to miss at the Walkley Foundation's Storyology event in Sydney, a summit of media and creativity intended to contrast the positioning of traditional media in the digital arena with ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the smelter deal, Fonterra and Iran
Friday, 9 August 2013, 10:40 am | Gordon Campbell
Well, it does seem that about $30 million is the kind of pocket money that the government has readily at hand to throw at foreign corporates - at Warners over The Hobbit, and now at Rio Tinto over the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. More >>
GCSB Debate interrupted
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 5:56 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Debate on the Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Amendment Bill was interrupted when the House rose at six pm for a week long adjournment. More >>
GCSB Bill Remains The Govt’s Priority
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 2:17 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
After next week’s adjournment the Government will give priority to the Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Amendment Bill , Leader of the House Gerry Brownlee told MPs today. More >>
Solari Update: Open Source Ecology with Marcin Jakubowski
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 1:43 pm | Catherine Austin Fitts
This Thursday we will post my interview with Marcin Jakubowski. Marcin is a physicist and technologist who became a farmer. After learning the economics of small farming in rural Missouri, Marcin started Open Source Ecology (OSE) to apply open source ... More >>
Talk Nation Radio: Rooj Alwazir: U.S. Drones Terrorize Yemen
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 12:45 pm | David Swanson
Rooj Alwazir is a Yemeni American peace activist and an organizer and cofounder of the Support Yemen Media Collective. She describes the horror and the disaster that is the U.S. drone war on Yemen. More >>
Storyology in Sydney – installment one
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 12:07 pm | Stephen Olsen
Al Anstey, managing director of Al-Jazeera English, commenced day one of the Walkley Foundation’s Storyology summit with a resounding affirmation that “there is a future for journalism, but only if we act now!” More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: A dirty pipe
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 10:48 am | Martin Doyle
The loss of privacy occasioned by the new spy laws will damage our society far more than any botulism scare. More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Berlusconi Makes a Clean Breast
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 10:45 am | Martin Doyle
Silvio Berlusconi is the ultimate Teflon Don. The Justice system was designed for people like him. More >>
Return To The GCSB bill
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 10:39 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The Government will return to legislation covering intelligence security agencies when Parliament sits this afternoon. More >>
Connie Lawn Report: Obama postpones summit with Putin
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 9:32 am | Connie Lawn
President Obama postpones a summit with President Putin. There is also pressure to boycott the Olympics. Connie Lawn sends an audio report: More >>
Unusual Private Bill Sent To Select Committee
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 10:13 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
An unusual private bill covering issues around parenthood and marital status was sent to select committee today. More >>
Fonterra Contamination - Wednesday MPI Press Conference
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 5:11 pm | Hamish Cardwell
The Ministry of Primary Industries are confident they have identified the location of contaminated Fonterra dairy products. More >>
Tuhoe Bill Introduced
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 2:06 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
A bill to legislate for the settlement of the Tuhoe treaty settlement was introduced when Parliament resumed this afternoon. More >>
Morning Session Ends
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 1:00 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The Government’s Extended Hours sitting on Wednesday morning has ended after progress was made on three bills. More >>
Harry Truman and Memory of Mass Murder
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 11:58 am | David Swanson
Harry Truman spoke in the U.S. Senate on June 23, 1941: "If we see that Germany is winning," he said, "we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible." More >>
The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 11:06 am | Prof. Francis A. Boyle
The human race stands on the verge of nuclear self-extinction as a species, and with it will die most, if not all, forms of intelligent life on the planet earth. Any attempt to dispel the ideology of nuclearism and its attendant myth propounding the ... More >>
Child malnutrition should be tackled by coordinated efforts
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 10:50 am | Amir Murtaza
According to the State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012 (SOFI), jointly published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP), nearly 870 million people, ... More >>
The Arab Turmoil: Where Do We Stand?
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 10:43 am | Ramzy Baroud
Seasons come and go, yet Arab countries are in ongoing turmoil. They called it an ‘Arab Spring’, but even if that ‘spring’ had ever existed in the shape and form that the media portrayed it to be, it never really lasted. It has now morphed ... More >>
Public Address 6 August - A handful of battling billionaires
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 10:18 am | Public Address
Any discussion about the modern plight of newspapers will, before long, reach the proposition that many great papers would be better off without their greedy, stupid proprietors. More >>
Parliament To Sit On Wednesday morning
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 12:40 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The Governments intends to complete the third reading of the Appropriation (2013/14 Estimates) Bill along with the passage of the second imprest supply bill for 2013/2014 when Parliament resumes at 9am. More >>
GCSB Debate Interrupted Now Unlikely To Pass This Session
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 10:08 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Debate on the committee stage of the the Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Amendment Billl was interrupted when the House rose just before 10pm, making it unlikely the bill will pass in the current session. More >>
Labour’s Links With Maori Tested Says New MP
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 5:55 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Labour’s traditional relationship with Maori has been tested by the foreshore and seabed debate and Tuhoe raids, Labour’s newest MP said today. More >>
Undernews: August 5, 2013
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 4:33 pm | Undernews
A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations ... More >>
Laws to Penalize Drug Lords Being Turned on the Innocent
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 3:26 pm | Sherwood Ross
State “civil-forfeiture”(CF) laws aimed at drug kingpins are being twisted to confiscate the property of people “never charged with a crime,” The New Yorker magazine (August 12) asserts. More >>
The Secret Court: Is it Constitutional?
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 3:23 pm | War Is A Crime
Americans are just beginning to discover that a secret court has been quietly erasing their constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. They are also learning that this court is made up primarily of conservative activists ... More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Botulism
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 3:02 pm | Martin Doyle
The word "Botulism" is everywhere in the media right now, but in our world of spin and 'once-over-lightly', no one explains what it means. More >>
Fixing Fonterra Scare Priority PM Tells MPs
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 2:29 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The Government is doing all it can to limit the damage from the Fonterra botulism scare, Prime Minister John Key said today. More >>
David Shearer: GCSB Bill and Fonterra Milk Scandal
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 12:03 pm | Hamish Cardwell
At his weekly pre-caucus press conference Labour Leader David Shearer spoke about the GCSB Bill which is be discussed clause-by-clause in parliament today, as well as Fonterra botulism contamination scare. More >>
What Replaces the "Free Market" in a Sharing Economy?
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 11:39 am | John Spritzler
The sharing economy as described in Thinking about Revolution is based on sharing, according to need, among those who contribute to the economy reasonably according to ability. More >>
Finding Justifications: The NSA and Global Terror Alerts
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 11:06 am | Binoy Kampmark
Let us not get too worked up. Let us not even feel too conspiratorial. But is it coincidence that, after a series of exposures of such programs as PRISM, that a “global terror alert” has been announced? More >>
A snap election in Aotearoa. It’s time
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 10:46 am | Christopher von Roy
It has happened before in this country. For far lesser crimes. Once in 1951, again in 1984 and most recently in 2002. According to the NZ constitution, it is the prime minister who mandates/calls for the snap election. Which is bizarre, especially when, ... More >>
Spies In Committee And A Maiden Speech
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 10:38 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The Government intends progressing legislation relating to the intelligence security services when Parliament resumes today, though it is expected to face a filibuster from those who oppose it. More >>
Prime Minister on Fonterra | David Henry Inquiry | GCSB
Monday, 5 August 2013, 6:42 pm | Hamish Cardwell
At his weekly post cabinet press conference Prime Minister John Key answered questions about the Fonterra botulism contamination scare as well as the release of Peter Dunne and Fairfax journalist Andrea Vance's emails during the Henry inquiry into the leak ... More >>
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