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Via SwissMiss: CrashTheInauguration.com, an online Inauguration guide created by AirBedAndBreakfast.com, is connecting last minute travelers with accommodations in Washington DC. Individuals or groups can easily rent an airbed, couch, private bedroom, or entire place for as little as $45/night. Already visitors from throughout the United States,…
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Idiot/Savant seems to think so. DPF doesn't. Robert Fisk does: What happened was not just shameful. It was a disgrace. Would war crime be too strong a description? For that is what we would call this atrocity if it had been committed by Hamas. So a war…
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Nikki Kaye might be right to fear Google's watchful eye but police in Massachusetts have used streetview to solve the alleged kidnapping of a 9-year-old girl by her grandmother. A Massachusetts-based officer used the phone company's GPS records to narrow his search then used Google's streetview to take…
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There is only so much oil in the world. It was all formed when, over the course of a few hundred million years, creatures living in shallow seas died and their remains accumulated and were subjected to a very particular combination of heat and pressure for hundreds…
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Yesterday, Labour leader Phil Goff challenged National to present its plan for getting the economy through the global downturn. Halfway through National/ACT's much-hyped first 100 days and, Goff pointed out, while Obama and the UK are pushing ahead with a 'Green New Deal' we've seen…
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The following quoted text is a e-mail response by Mike Treen from Global Peace and Justice Auckland to someone who was complaining about the campaign to boycott an Israeli tennis player. Hopefully Mike won't get too upset with me for giving this a wider airing.…
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The more I learn about energy, and peak oil in particular, the more concerned I get. So, in the spirit of the season, I thought I would share some of it with you. I'll get to some concrete things we need to start doing now to…
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Which MP only got his job by 39 votes? Which former State house kid and brand-new Tory MP already has ambitions to be the next John Key? Which National MP from a working-class background is going around telling people he opposes the 90 Day Fire…
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The Economist has an fascinating article "Rioters of the world unite". It is partially about the demonstrations, protests, and outright riots in Athens and other parts of Greece at the end of last year. It is also partially concerned with a rising trend in new…
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Pablo, Anita, and Jafapete have (finally) started their new KiwiPolitico blog site. I don't know Pablo* (at least under that psuedonym), but the post on Key and McCully at APEC was amusing. Anita has already annoyed David over at Kiwiblog. She tends to do with…
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Israel's latest attack on Gaza, purportedly to stop Hamas rocket attacks on Israel, is an unjustified, immoral, and, above all, stupid action. I am not defending Hamas' rocket attacks at all - while many are targeted at Israeli military forces most are simply indiscriminate. I'm…
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I've been thinking about the concurrent crises we face - peak oil, climate change, and tightening food supply - how the limits to growth are starting to hit us and how, each reinforcing the other, they constitute the major challenges to our collective welfare in…