Year: 2023

Below are one-paragraph excerpts of important news articles you may have missed. Each excerpt is taken verbatim from the major media website listed at the link provided.

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Published on Monday, April 24, 2006 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Washington) Gary Ruskin says, yes, of course. He is the executive director of Commercial Alert, the Portland-based non-profit organization devoted to protecting kids from exploitation through marketing and advertising. “I think of the question in two parts,” says Ruskin, a […]

Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. – Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests:

Bush Impeachment – The Illinois State Legislature is Preparing to Drop a Bombshell utilizing a little known rule of the US House to bring Impeachment charges by Steven Leser April 22, 2006 Source: opednews.com The Illinois General Assembly is about to rock the nation. Members of state legislatures are normally […]

Hello Everyone, For your information I rec’d this from a friend today. If you are not happy with this situation please pass it on to who ever you can because if we do not start doing something about it in New Zealand now it will be with us very quickly:- […]

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. […]

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 […]