The New Zealand government’s makeover of the 1987 immigration act is still in the pipeline.
The select committee considering the immigration bill was due to report back on Monday, but recently they’ve pushed their deadline out until July 21.
It’s a huge topic to be looking at, so it’s not surprising they want a bit more time. But I’d like to see new legislation go through before the election – I wouldn’t like to run the risk of New Zealand First having any more say in the matter than they already do.
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Hong Kong
Mao and Friends
Hong Kong Photo Gallery: Follow the link below to see more photosReminiscent of communist ideology

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If factories can pick up and move overseas when they want, then why can’t workers? That’s what the US Socialist Worker Party’s candidate for the Presidency, Roger Calero, reckons.

I interviewed Calero a few weeks ago and, on the whole, our perspectives on world affairs were so far apart that I sometimes wondered if we were both talking about the same global system.

But I agreed with what he had to say about immigration.
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Buddhism in Hong Kong
Temple in central Hong Kong
Hong Kong Photo Gallery: Follow the link below to see more photosA man prepares an incense offering inside a temple in central Hong Kong

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The last government elections in Spain has brought the deepest crisis in the second most important political party in this country, the Popular Party (PP), led by Mariano Rajoy.

Since March 11, one day after the general elections, the conservative party, which unites former fascists to libertarian ideologists, has fallen into a semantic internal war.

In one side, is the right wing of the party led by Esperanza Aguirre, president of the prosperous Madrid Community, in the other, Mariano Rajoy, who after the two consecutive defeats has decided to moderate the ideology of his party.
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Justice at the hands of security services is a bizarre paradox. They say, we know you are bad, really bad, and we can prove it. But you are so bad, that we can’t tell you what we know about you, nor show you the evidence against you. But trust us, it’s bad. Just like you.

If you find yourself guilty according to the security services, the onus is on you to prove yourself innocent – against unknown accusations.

In Canada, Mohammed Harkat has been under house arrest for the past two years, unable to even go to the supermarket without advising the police 48 hours in advance. He spent four years in prison. No charge, no trial, just the word of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
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