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Political Resources on the Net

Political Resources on the Net

http://www.politicalresources.net/

This is a global political directory.

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Vast Left Wing Conspiracy – Latest Dispatches

Vast Left Wing Conspiracy – Latest Dispatches

http://vastleftwingconspiracy.net/

goablog — The Goa government has stepped up security at the ongoing International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in the light of the Mumbai terror attacks. Two extra companies of the Central Industrial Security Force have been requisitioned for IFFI, which is playing host to directors, producers and actors from 12 countries. A minute’s silence is being observed at every screening as a mark of respect for the dead. Measures reviewed   Reviewing security measures, the government on Thursday put the tourist State on high alert and roped in the Navy, the Coast Guard and the Customs to patrol its coastal areas. Security at the Dabolim international airport in south Goa was tightened. Police were directed to thoroughly check all vehicles entering the State at different check-posts. Air surveillance   Emerging from an extensive review meeting of security arrangements, attended by Home Minister Ravi Naik, Chief Secretary J.P. Singh and top security officials, Chief Minister Digambar Kamat said the government roped in the Customs to guard the Zuari and the Mandovi riverfronts. The Navy had been asked to patrol the entire stretch of Vasco-Bogmolo in south Goa. The Coast Guard and the Navy had also been asked to start air surveillance at regular intervals. The Directorate of Film Festivals too is focussing on security. According to S.M. Khan, director, DFF, “The security has been strengthened further. There are more checkpoints with more metal detectors installed. We cannot afford to take a chance.” The hotels where IFFI delegates and other participants are staying have been provided increased security cover. Film-maker S. Priyadarshan could not come from Mumbai for the screening of his film Kanchivaram. Similarly, Naseeruddin Shah could not board the flight from Mumbai for Barah Aana. Many film-makers scheduled to return home via Mumbai had to delay their departure. The Thai contingent could not return because of a problem at the Bangkok airport. Courtesy: The hindu

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The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown

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New Zealand Skeptics Online: NZ Skeptics Inc

New Zealand Skeptics Online: NZ Skeptics Inc

http://www.skeptics.org.nz/

$100,000 PSYCHIC CHALLENGE Stuart Landsborough challenges psychics to demonstrate their abilities, with a $100,000 prize. More on the challenge here.$20,000 Challenge to Sensing Murder Psychics An invitation to the New Zealand Sensing Murder psychics to validate their psychic ability in an open, honest and definitive test that will be conducted without prejudice or malice. More info here: http://www.smpi.co.nz/.

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Website of the New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists

Website of the New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists

http://www.nzarh.org.nz/

Podcasts of the Secular Heritage Conference are now available.BILL HASTINGS, NZ Chief Censor, Opening SpeechNICKY HAGER, The influence of fundamentalist religious groups on New Zealand politicsBILL COOKE, Is New Zealand a "Christian Nation"?MAX WALLACE, Clericalism in New ZealandIAIN MIDDLETON, New Zealand’s Secular EducationLLOYD GEERING, New Zealand’s contribution to a secular global worldLEWIS HOLDEN, Secularism and New Zealand republicanismModerated panel discussion

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NORML New Zealand, working for marijuana law reform –

NORML New Zealand, working for marijuana law reform –

http://www.norml.org.nz/

The National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws works to end cannabis prohibition in New Zealand, and bring about progressive drug polices. Please explore our site, using the main menu to the left or try a search. Register as a site member to post in the Forum, or add comments to news articles. Your input is valued. Please submit your feedback, news, resources and links or email info@norml.org.nz.Email your MP Check out NORML’s MP Database which has been updated for the new MPs, tracks MP’s voting records and has all their contact details so you can lobby your MP to support ending cannabis prohibition using our easy email an MP tool.

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Home | Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand

Home | Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand

http://www.greenpeace.org.nz/

The Rainbow Warrior has been impounded and the captain arrested after it was boarded by the police three times over the weekend. The ship was part of a protest against the new coal fired power station that E.ON is building next to their existing climate-changing coal plant. The Rainbow Warrior together with one of our other ships – the Beluga II – were blocking the coal port of Rotterdam to stop any coal ships from entering. After spending the day surrounded by police boats they were eventually forced to leave the coal port in the evening.

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Anti-Bases Campaign

Anti-Bases Campaign

http://www.converge.org.nz/abc

We are a Christchurch-based group with links and members all over Aotearoa/New Zealand. We concentrate on the foreign military and intelligence installations in New Zealand.  There are three – the US "Deep Freeze" military base at Harewood (Christchurch Airport); and the "NZ" intelligence gathering installations at Tangimoana (Manawatu) and Waihopai (Marlborough), which are simply outposts of American Intelligence. We have specific demands on all three – that Harewood be demilitarised; and the others closed ASAP. We demand the abolition of the NZ Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), which operates Waihopai and Tangimoana. We have built up information on the whole gamut of the ongoing US-NZ military and intelligence relationship.

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Welcome to CORSO – Aotearoa New Zealand

Welcome to CORSO – Aotearoa New Zealand

http://www.corso.org.nz/

Corso is a Pacific-based NGO active in local communities across Aotearoa New Zealand. We act in solidarity with communities in the Pacific and beyond.The Principles of CorsoCorso supports the return of Tino Rangatiratanga to Maori people as guaranteed in the Treaty of Waitangi, as the first step towards the liberation of all the people of Aotearoa. This process is inseparable from Corso’s work for a just world.The present world order does not allow the full development of people in either high or low-income countries – in fact it is a barrier to the growth of people everywhere because it is based on the unequal distribution of wealth and power. A condition of development is to transform the present world order, not merely to promote a transition from economic poverty to the equally inhuman state of over-consumption.Human development is inseparable from justice and encompasses equal access to economic opportunity, production for peoples’ needs, participation in all levels of decision-making, respect for cultural diversity and respect for the human rights of all.Corso’s task is to promote total human development by supporting people, both in New Zealand and overseas, to work together in transforming the conditions and structures of injustice and the attitudes that reinforce them.PO Box 1375, Dunedin    phone (03) 477 3395     fax (03) 474 0736    corso@earthlight.co.nz

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