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I am a freelance researcher and writer living in New Zealand - I am passionate about issues of social justice feel free to comment or email me
"It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear." - Henry David Thoreau
Mothers, they are blamed for everything, totally undervalued and if it wasnt for her insistence in equal rights would be marginalized to the confines of the home and nursery.
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11 women died after exposure to Mercks Gardasil HPV vaccination would you give it to your daughter?
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Secret talks with the US in 2006 - now revealed and published in 2008 by mainstream media - what is it that we are NOT being told given that we know after revisiting New Zealands role in the spy network that.....
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Only in America could something like this be seen as 'normal' and acceptable by employees. Will kiwi's be as gullible?
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4.8 Million people are dead in this war of terror against the people of two countries. NZ has no place in that war unless there is a hidden deal done behind closed doors that requires our participation - we are not peacekeeping we are part of coalition forces occupying another country for what we now know are blatant LIES
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Medsafe recommends New Zealanders keep taking Merck's best-selling Singular allergy and asthma drug (Saturday's Herald) even though the FDA announced it was reviewing a growing number of reports involving suicidal behavior and suicide in patients who have taken the drug.
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The Opal file is a mystery.
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New Zealand proposes FTA with India http://www.financialexpress.com/news/New-Zealand-proposes-FTA-with-India/287814/0 ASHOK B SHARMA Posted online: Monday , March 24, 2008 at 1947 hrs IST New Delhi, March 24: New Zealand has proposed to have a free trade agreement (FTA) with India.
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Tax on petrol is one of the ways of forcing you out of your car For most of us our awareness of oil begins and ends at the petrol pump.
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The Therapeutics Goods and Medicines Act is a Bill that has twice been defeated in Parliament.
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The tenth annual Roger Awards have been held and the winner declared in a gathering held in Christchurch on Sunday.
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whether your a kiwi or expat American - everyone is wondering who will win the upcoming US elections. Now with the magic of electronic voting the wait is over ?
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People are the common denominator of progress†said the famous Canadian economist John Kenneth Galbraith.
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Given New Zealand’s recent score card on the environment it is timely to recognize just how important it is for us to understand the ramifications of climate change as it plays out in the Northern hemisphere and how it will affect our trade, our energy supplies, our lifestyle and our planet as a whole.
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“In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, it's easy to lose sight of what we all have in common.
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Attention all teachers, police, policy makers and Politicians - The shocking crimes perpetrated by youth over the last month have shocked New Zealand but the electioneering speeches by Clark and Keys only reflects our anger and further alienates youth.
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The Waihopai spy station in Blenheim is a story of politics, deception and betrayal.
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According to HR 1955 - passed October 2007 by 404 votes to 6...
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Britain has now adopted the US requirement of fingerprinting visitors applying for visas.
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My holiday reading has been taken up with what I can only term, mass verification that the war on terror is actually a war on the freedoms and liberties of all of us.
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Supporting ethical gift buying this Christmas? Looking for gifts for those that need nothing new, or those that have it all already?
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As we are rushing hither and yon shopping for the ones we love this Christmas, take a moment to pause and consider the STUFF you are buying.
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After decades of ignoring and ridiculing climate change, both business and government are running to catch up.
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In a report conducted by Greenpeace International and Habbo, the worlds largest virtual world for teens revealed that today’s youth are concerned more with the state of the planet than with violence, war or even drugs.
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The inventor of a self powering battery that would have revolutionised the car industry has been found dead in his car in Charlotte Douglass International Airport in North Carolina.
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In October this year people had a chance to voice their feelings regarding the quality of New Zealand’s customer service sector.
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Not content in devastating third world countries Shell has now moved to Ireland - a first world country where it has incorporated the local police as its private army to protect it from the wrath of the locals, as it grabs land, pollutes the towns lake and stomps all over ancient Celtic sites such as the Hill of Tara
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"Environmentalists love taking aim at ExxonMobil Corp., which many see as the biggest corporate culprit in human-fueled climate change.
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Humanity is waking up to the damage climate change will bring into our futures, some are even waking up to the ramifications of Peak oil - but how many of us are waking up to our massive disconnection between the teeming animal life who we share our planet with and the food that we eat - there is a massive disconnection between reality and the illusions that we live daily
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The Climate change conference which begins today in Bali is set to release an estimated 47,000 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide into the environment over the 12 day event.
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NORTHLAND — New Zealand may face a Kyoto payment in the vicinity of $704 million by 2012 for spewing out 45.5milion tonnes more carbon that allowed under the Kyoto agreement.
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"The Disclosure Project reports that government insiders have revealed the existence of a shadowy, highly classified, $100 billion/year program related to UFOs, including energy and propulsion systems that could solve the energy crisis."
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Amnesty International say that Violence against women is a global shame – and UN statistics reveal a horror story of violent abuse and rapes of women around the globe. Every year women’s’ refuge and rape crisis struggle for funding, and every year sees more women seeking their services, another generation of women replacing the previous. Ads on television now promote an anti violence message – its not alright – but year after year – generation after generation that violence – no matter how much money we throw at it, seems to continue. Why?
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The Air Car Are we serious about cutting our green house emissions? In our car addicted culture few kiwis are going to give up their driving no matter how high the price of petrol.
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A day to examine your buying habits and look at beginning a lifestyle committed to consuming less and producing less waste Tomorrow is international Buy Nothing Day – an annual event started by Vancouver artist Ted Dave and picked up by Adbusters magazine in 1992.
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Could the New Zealand police have been under the directions to charge as many people as possible to test the New Zealand 'terrorism' laws' - in an unrelated report from Australia a Senior counter-terrorisms officer giving testimony in a pre trial hearing in October has admitted that police had been directed to charge as many suspects as possible .
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Calling all kiwi inventors
$5 million award for a working clean energy technology up for grabs In a world with little knowledge of alternative energy systems lives a little known but vastly filled cavern deep within the belly of the earth – it is the patent office of the US – here anything ever patented resides.646 views
The US news is censoring it, but US Representative Dennis Kucinich has moved on the House floor to initiate impeachment proceedings against Vice President Richard Cheney.
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The police can take NO comfort in any poll that suggests their actions have apporoval.
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Naomi Wolf lays it out: threats of terrorism = fascism http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/177.html
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Terrorism in New Zealand The after shocks of the police raids on individuals and groups around the country will have a global affect this weekend as people are asked to stand in solidarity together outside NZ embassies and other places in a day of global action.
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