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A warning message that more than just America needs to be listening to, rather than reading cheap airport novels.
hat tip: Celcias

While we are on the topic of defence here’s a link to a youtube promo of the programme People vs the Bomb, starring US Presidential Candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, together with Michal Gorbachev, Christie Brinkley and Ted Turner and of course the Green Party’s high ranking Ilam candidate Kennedy Graham. (You can see […]

A little bit surreal:

As promised last night.

See also here.

Melbourne based Rayna Fahey, number 28 on the Green Party list, is looking for overseas votes:

The Libertarianz don’t have a lot of cash, something we empathise with, so they’ve been circulating their election ad around the internet for free. And in the spirit of community and cooperation, oops, sorry, profitable self interest, I thought I’d support them by showing it here too. Plus it’s got lots of photos of some great people […]

Greenpeace NZ have got their eyes on the Emissions Trading Scheme but Greenpeace USA are campaigning on paper tissues. You see Multinational company Kimberly Clark clear fells ancient forests to make its Kleenex tissues and, ironically, it has now decided to advertise those same tissues with the robot character from Disney-Pixar’s latest environmentally themed film, […]

From Treehugger:
Now that fuel is so expensive, a kid can’t cruise the streets in his car with the sound system turned up so high that the road vibrates. Instead, a group of Trinidadian teenagers in Queens are customizing their BMX bikes.
Hmm, I’m not sure this would work in Wellington without some sort of rain and […]

Of course, if you were to follow Citizen Kate’s directions at the end of her video for getting on the roll to vote you would accidentally end up registering to vote in the USA, so you are probably better going here to enrol. (If you do end up accidentally enrolled for the US elections, you […]