Rape Awareness Week Not Above the Law – We Support Louise Nicholas March To mark Rape Awareness Week (1-7 May) I have organised a We Support Louise Nicholas March, Sunday 30 April, 2.00 pm from Queen Elizabeth Square (outside Britomart). The march will proceed up Queen Street to Aotea Square. […]
Day: April 1, 2023
Richard Neville’s satirical website Johnhowardpm received 10,500 hits on day one but Yahoo immediately cancelled his domain name on bureaucracy’s orders under the Online Services Act (1999) – a clear message that anti-government sentiment is unacceptable and in future will not be tolerated.
MEDIA ALERT UPDATE: MEDIA ALERT: ‘YOU COULD KILL WHOEVER YOU WANTED’ War Crimes And The Struggle For Truth https://www.medialens.org/alerts/index.php An ancient Roman aphorism made a crucial point: “The senators are good men, but the senate is a beast.” In the same way, no matter how deeply media corporations may be […]
Progressives are beginning to flex some media muscle, finding ways to counterbalance the right wing’s powerful spin machine. But there’s still much to be done. By Don Hazen, AlterNet. Posted April 18, 2006. https://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/35074/ When the Washington Post recently announced the hiring of right-wing Republican operative Ben Domenech to blog […]
The softdrink giant’s abysmal human rights record is finally catching up with it. By Michael Blanding, The Nation. April 14, 2006. The ballroom at the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware, is the picture of opulence. Paintings of Greek gods and goddesses peer down from the walls, lit by two […]
Who did the President say he would fire involved with the Valerie Plame leaks? Answer: Everyone Who has the investigation proven to implicate in the leak? Answer: Looks like just about everyone including the President When did the President declassify the information to avoid prosecution? Answer: Ten days after the […]
https://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news Threat of world war builds, Israel warns 19 Apr 2006 Israel has warned the United Nations that a new “axis of terror” – Iran, Syria and the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority – is sowing the seeds of a new world war. [The actual “axis of terror:” Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld.] Carl […]