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Who Runs NZAID’s "Global Group"?

According to NZAID’s website, the organisation’s “Global Group”, which distributes half of NZAID’s aid budget, is headed by Don Clarke. Don Clarke has been Director…

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Who Allocates NZAID Money?

Your generous donation to Hamas, probably goes through NZAID’s “Global Group”. According to NZAID’s website. Reflecting NZAID’s mission to eliminate poverty, NZAID’s Global Group is…

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NZAID Supports Hamas

From yesterday’s NZ Herald. New Zealand has made a contribution towards an aid package to help the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority. The World Bank approved a…

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Unions Oppose Lyttelton Deal

Just caught the tail end of a Radio NZ news bulletin. Apparently Lyttelton port unions are opposing the partial sale of the port company to…

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Carter’s Socialist Principles Destroy a Dream

From David Farrar’s KiwiBlog There will be some very unhappy people today. After ten years of following the law to get consent for a Whangamata…

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Libz Tell Nanny State to Mind Her Own Business

The Libertarianz are telling Nanny State where to get off. Julian Pistorius has coverage of Libz groups around the country burning their census forms. The…

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We’re Not Commies, We’re Greenies, Truly We Are, We Swear It, We’d Never Lie To You, Honest, Please Believe Us

Green Party activist, Shawn Tan, writing in the February 2006 issue of Socialist Worker’s “Unity” magazine page 49 “Only an utter rejection of capitalism and…

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Sue Bradford, Nice Lady, Shame About the Politics Part 1

Green MP, Sue Bradford, is without doubt one of the party’s most effective parliamentarians. She is liked and respected by many in the house and…

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FARC Vows to Defend Venezuela from US

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has declared its solidarity with Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez and vowed to help defend Venezuela against any…

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Heather Roy on Labour’s Health Shame

ACT MP, Heather Roy is effectively the “opposition” when it comes to Health. Here is her latest “Heather Roy’s Diary”, which succintly sums up the…

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Life’s Victims

I watched Canterbury thrash Auckland in the Super 14 tonight, on Sky TV. During the break I saw a new “Coke Zero” ad, in which…

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S.A.P. Number 7, Philip Ferguson

My seventh Socialist Academic Profile, looks at Canterbury University tutor, Philip Ferguson. I just had to ‘do” Philip after I saw him in sole charge…

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Chavez Rep on UN Security Council?

From Green Left Weekly 1st March 2006. Venezuela’s Marxist President, Hugo Chavez is soon to meet new Chilean Socialist president, Michelle Bachelet. According to a…

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Li Ka-shing, Beijing and Canadian Energy

An interesting article from the Globe-Mail of November 2004 showing Li Ka-shing’s collaboration with the Chinese government in the purchase and exploitation of Western strategic…

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Kim Bryant on Chinese/ Lyttelton Deal

This letter from Kim Bryant was given the banner headline in this morning’s Christchurch Press. Dear Sir, Mayor Garry Moore may like to reconsider his…

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