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22 August 2007
The New Zealand Herald

Danielle Carroll, a Rotorua 19-year-old who says she was told she could not get the unemployment benefit until she turned 20, is seeking $5000 from Work and Income and Rotorua case manager Jimi McLean for breach of her legal rights.

Advocate Paul Blair, who filed proceedings in the High Court at Rotorua yesterday, said he was interviewing four other young people who said they had also been refused the dole.

Work and Income head Patricia Reade said the legal action was “premature” because Ms Carroll had not “taken advantage of our normal complaints process”.  Read more »

By Andrew Gray
Reuters
21 August 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday it would close a controversial database tracking suspicious activity around U.S. military bases that critics complained had been used to spy on peaceful antiwar activists.

Officials decided the TALON program would end on September 17 not in response to public criticism but because the amount and quality of information being gathered had declined, the Pentagon said.  Read more »

Sovereignty rhetoric contradicted by turnover of controls on military and immigration

20 August 2007
The Harper Index

The agreement’s title is classic framing: “Security and Prosperity Partnership” (SPP) conjures up comfortable images. Michael Byers says the agreement under discussion this week by Canadian, US and Mexican leaders Harper, Bush and Calderon should more properly be framed as a secret agreement to hand sweeping military, immigration and border control of all three countries over to the US. On Sunday, Byers, the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia told a standing-room-only forum in Ottawa about the politics and persuasion connected with the agreement under discussion behind the barricades this week at Montebello, Quebec.  Read more »

The real story behind Brad Davis, NBC, Popular Mechanics and the History Channel - media whore stooges who engaged in deliberate deception, manipulation and chicanery to please their corporate bosses

Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, August 21, 2007

MP3: Alex Jones Responds to the History Channel Hit Piece

The History Channel 9/11 special that aired last night was by far the worst hit piece we have ever witnessed, a completely savage, dishonest and deceptive abomination, replete with dirty tricks, malicious lies and a level of journalistic fraud that goes way beyond simple bias.

Bradley Davis, the producer of the show, is a paid liar and a hit piece specialist who deceives people by gaining their confidence and then attacking them behind their back.  Read more »

20 August 2007
YouTube

Outside the Chateau Montebello grounds, police in riot gear jostled with about 50 hardcore protesters, using pepper spray and at least one canister of tear gas to push them back. Some protesters responded by tossing objects at police.

Four arrests were made, and several police officers suffered minor injuries.

Protesters from the Canadian Labour Congress who wanted a “family friendly” demonstration stayed back from the police.  Read more »

21 August 2007
TVNZ ONE NEWS

The body of James Junior Takamore, which was removed from a Christchurch marae against the wishes of his partner of 25 years, has been buried in the North Island.

The burial of the 55-year-old took place on a Bay of Plenty marae, in spite of a judge’s order against it.

Kutarere marae near Opotiki was packed for the burial, which was supposed to have taken place in the South Island on Monday.

Takamore’s body was taken from Christchurch on Sunday by his mother, brother and sister.

His partner, Denise Clarke, obtained a judge’s order to prevent the burial.

But her lawyer informed her it had failed.  Read more »