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The US may never be able to prove the claim of WMD in Iraq, but it is definitely attempting to prove that Iraq was a
danger by inventorying each and every weapon found. On March 1, the Department of Defense released the article "Iraqi
Police Foil ...
I dislike the term 'mystical experience.' What happens in the brain during states of meditation is neither mystical, nor
an experience. To my mind it's an event, a phenomenon that is new each time.
WASHINGTON, March 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following statement was jointly released today by the Center for Public
Policy Analysis, the Lao Veterans of America Inc., the Laos and Hmong Emergency Crisis Task Force and the United
Lao-Hmong Congress ...
MAdGE (Mothers Against Genetic Engineering in Food and the Environment) today launched a highly controversial billboard
campaign in Auckland and Wellington to provoke public debate about the social and cultural ethics of genetic engineering
in New Zealand.
When news of Pakistan’s clandestine program involving its top nuclear scientist selling rogue nations, such as Iran and
North Korea, blueprints for building an atomic bomb was uncovered last month, the world’s leaders waited, with baited
breath, to see ...
In anticipation of the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the central instalment in
writer/director/producer Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on the J.R.R. Tolkien masterpiece, Te Papa proudly announces
a world exclusive and a bold ...
Had ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’ not gone sour, had the oil begun to flow to expectations for the ‘oil majors’ and
Afghanistan not in disarray and near anarchy, it is doubtful if the kind of uncomfortable and noisy debate that is
reflected in the media, would ...
Raelian Women Will Commemorate Women's Day By Marching With Their Breasts Exposed To Protest Against The Repressive Myth
Of God
China issued the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2003 Monday, March 1, in response to the Country Reports on
Human Rights Practices for 2003 issued by the US on Feb. 25. The Human Rights Record is the fifth Chinese report in
response to ...
Two cartoons from John Chuckman reflecting on Bush's actions on September 11th 2001 and subsequently.
International comedian and star of his popular self-titled World Tour TV series, Billy Connolly, experienced New
Zealand’s highest adventure jump - Sky Jump - off Sky Tower.
The Treaty issues that I raised earlier in the year had for too long been a subject we were not allowed to express a
view about. I have challenged that, and as a community we have started a long overdue review of where we have got to,
and where we are headed. ...
Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that Don Brash’s attempts to wriggle off the hook of the debate he wanted on
Treaty-related issues are laughable.
(New York, March 8, 2004) – U.S. forces operating in Afghanistan have arbitrarily detained civilians, used excessive
force during arrests of non-combatants, and mistreated detainees, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released
today.
The Waitangi Tribunal report on the foreshore and seabed raises important questions about the human rights of Maori and
of all New Zealanders, says the Human Rights Commission.
"Where's the backbone of France?" No, that's not the name of the new Toby Keith CD. It's not some ill-timed remark from
President Bush or even the title of a new book from Ann Coulter. That is but one of the provocative questions asked by
Sen. ...
Chief Censor Bill Hastings and his censors from the Office of Film and Literature Classification Office have granted so
many general R18 classifications to films containing gratuitous sexual violence combined with explicit sex, that one
wonders what’s next ...
We emerge from Wellington Airport into a southerly scooting up from Lyall Bay. The sky is blue and clear above, but the
sharp, chill wind is a shock after Auckland's muckier atmosphere. Wellingtonians have been worn down by their weather
this summer, ...
McDonald's Corporation today confirmed that it has a policy banning its employees from speaking Arabic in its
restaurants in Israel, despite the fact that Palestinian citizens of Israel form 20% of its workforce.
The latest findings in the Philippines stand to confirm long-held fears that GE crops could result in dire health
problems. Early research shows GE corn pollen is associated with serious illness in local villagers who are showing high
antibody reactions to ...
United Future leader Peter Dunne today denounced remarks by Associate Maori Affairs Minister John Tamihere that the
election of a National Government could lead to civil war.
Let us for a few moments put aside our lavish lifestyles of fortuitous endowment and providence that have made us blind
to the realities of billions of our fellow humans.
The Government has been forced into a humiliating backdown over crime statistics released this week, says National's Law
and Order spokesperson Tony Ryall.
The most successful department in the Bush administration is, without question, the Façade Corps. This little-known
operation is headquartered in the White House basement, but its personnel are scattered throughout the bureaucracies.
Q Has the President agreed to take as much time as is necessary to answer the questions of the 9/11 Commission?
I find it a little difficult to consider the proposed $4 billion Eastern Transport Corridor for Auckland without
wondering what's in it for me, as an Auckland City ratepayer. The project seems likely to deliver vastly increased
traffic volumes to ...
Youth culture and text message technology are combining to send the English language and youth relationships in new and
unexpected directions, says a Victoria University researcher.
National Party Leader Don Brash says the next National Government would have to reconsider the terms of any inquiry
launched by Labour into the state of New Zealand's race relations.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Envoy has http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sgsm9183.doc.htm
concluded a visit this week to Myanmar, where he continued efforts to facilitate national reconciliation and
democratization based on the participation of all parties ...