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Here’s the problem with all the euphemisms mainstream commentators use in their strenuous efforts not to brand President
George W. Bush a liar: He’s not entitled to a single one.
(New York, June 30, 2003) - A deadline set out in the "American Servicemembers Protection Act" (ASPA) that threatens
U.S. military assistance to countries supporting the International Criminal Court (ICC) will pass tomorrow, the NGO
Coalition ...
United Future leader Peter Dunne today said that is was a matter of some regret that the Governor-General, Dame Silvia
Cartwright, is to travel to Tonga tomorrow for the 85th birthday celebrations of King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV.
Meridian Energy’s proposed Project Aqua hydro-electric scheme completes nearly 40 years of investigations into the hydro
potential of the lower Waitaki, and represents a remarkable design achievement. See... The Project Aqua Design
Difference for background.
The Government's new 'skilled migrant' policy will tackle skill shortages and should be a major improvement according
to Business New Zealand. Is this policy nothing more than a subsidy to New Zealand business too lousy to spend a dollar
training ...
Auckland, Wednesday 2 July 2003: Greenpeace today launched a groundbreaking new report Winds of Change11 The Greenpeace
report, Winds of Change: Exploring New Zealand’s phenomenal wind resource and options to drive renewable energy
development is available ...
In my 50 years as a member of Congress, I have had the privilege to witness the defining rhetorical moments of a number
of American presidents. I have listened spellbound to the soaring oratory of John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. I have
listened grimly ...
Two years ago the Central Intelligence Agency released reams of intelligence documents on the former Soviet Union that
had been classified for nearly 30 years. The findings were damning: the CIA for more than 10 years greatly exaggerated
the nuclear threat ...
Questions to Ministers: 1. Transport Strategy—Land Transport Funding 2. Mâori Affairs, Associate Minister—Confidence 3.
Transport Strategy—Land Transport Funding 4. Solomon Islands—Police 5. Solomon Islands—Pacific Forum 6. Te Mângai
Pâho—Reviews 7. Primary ...
'Gag' order contradicts U.S. value Iraqis like Judge Gilbert S. Merritt By GILBERT S. MERRITT For The Tennessean
Winston Peters' opposition to the new rules for skilled migrants reeks of hypocrisy, United Future leader Peter Dunne
said today.
Both National and Act are crying foul after the deal struck for embattled TMP boss Trevor Moeke to stay at the scandal
plagued Maori broadcasting funding agency.
The buildup to the invasion of Iraq revealed most of our national-security bureaucrats and journalists to be mice, no
match for the men who marshaled all manner of questionable, false or even forged evidence to make their case. The men
led — make that “misled” ...
NZ’s dirty diesel fuel continues to preclude availability of the world’s cleanest diesel engines
President George W. Bush and his foreign-policy team have systematically and knowingly deceived the American people in
order to gain support for an unprovoked attack on Iraq.
Biotech lobby wants "don't look - don't find" strategy backed by ERMA so public and scientists are left in the dark.
Responding to the challenge to present evidence that New Zealand's longest-running trial of GE sheep and other
transgenic ...
Senator Thurmond Declared Dead 27 Years After The Fact - Cartoon By John Chuckman
The NZ Immigration Programme 2003/04 remains unchanged from the 2002/03 Programme, with 45,000 places (with scope for a
further 5000 places) allocated as follows:
The National Days of Action Against US Economic and Military Dominance now run from 3, 4 and 5 July 2003. The web page
at http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/4July03.htm has been updated with details of events in Auckland (4 July), Lower Hutt
(4 July), ...
Changes to skilled immigration policy were announced by the government today, following a comprehensive review of the
General Skills component of the Skilled/Business stream of the New Zealand Immigration Programme.
Cartoon by Kidd Millennium...
Green MP Nandor Tanczos has urged the Primary Production Select Committee to progress his Misuse of Drugs (Industrial
Hemp) Amendment Bill to stop New Zealand's promising hemp industry being threatened by a customs opinion that claimed
"all hemp is ...
An immigration bill before the House will open the Immigration Service to claims of corruption and discrimination, Green
MP Metiria Turei said today.
A meeting held in Hamilton yesterday shows that the Government is out of step with farmer’s views as opposition against
the proposed ‘flatulence tax’ increases, said New Zealand First agriculture spokesperson Doug Woolerton.
A review of the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) has found the Authority does have the core competencies
and capability to carry out its role, Environment Minister Marian Hobbs said today. ERMA is the independent
decision-making body that ...
Labour Minister Margaret Wilson today announced the make-up of the new National Occupational Health and Safety Advisory
Committee who will provide expert independent advice on major occupational safety and health issues direct to
government.
W32.Bugbear.B@mm is a variant of W32.Bugbear@mm (originally discovered and named in the Sydney Symantec Security
Response Centre in October 2002) and appears to be spreading quickly.
· A Bogotá court has ruled to end the harmful U.S. sponsored aerial fumigation occurring in Colombia until a study of
the herbicide has been conducted.
ACT New Zealand Associate Commerce Spokesman Stephen Franks today accused the Government of trading property rights for
votes, by planning to change copyright law to allow more copying without compensation.
Last week's triple digit temperatures gave way to a balmy Sunday for the Pride Parade in San Francisco. It's one of the
largest transgender, gay, bisexual, lesbian parades in the country, but to watch the TV news you'd think there was only
one theme this ...