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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
After the US stengthens its sanctions against Burma, SWIFT, a cooperative of banks with two US banks on its board,
admits four Burmese banks, significantly facilitating Burma's ability to trade internationally.
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 ...
The proceedings between National MP Murray McCully and Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres over the Commissioner's
speech on the United Nations Day for Cultural Heritage in 2002 have been concluded.
Actress Angelina Jolie, a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), has urged
individuals and corporations around the world to donate money to help Sudanese refugees in Chad.
Auckland City Council is mounting a sustained attack on the taxi industry, and thousands of taxi users and professional
drivers will suffer, the Taxi Federation said today.
ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today called on the Government to set up a wide-ranging Commission of
Inquiry into the police, in light of the emergence of new concerns regarding the operation of the police force.
MEN’S CONVOY 2004 departs Auckland 28 March 2004, and arrives Wellington 31 March2004 and will carry a petition calling
on the Government to radically reform the current Child Support Regime. The Convoy will collect shirts from parents
throughout the ...
National and ACT's ideological opposition to giving rational consideration to foreign currency intervention is a good
reminder of why it is so good that Don Brash is no longer in control of monetary policy, Progressive MP Matt Robson
says.
United Future leader and Ohariu-Belmont MP, Peter Dunne, today slammed the board and officials of Transit New Zealand
for their gutlessness in refusing to front up for a debate on progress, or the lack of it, on the Transmission Gully
project.
ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today slammed Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard for wanting the power to
intervene in the foreign exchange market when he considered the dollar "exceptionally and unjustifiably high" or
"exceptionally ...
"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. ...
After a sustained dose of Michael King , upton-on-line renews his call for a reappraisal of the way history is taught in
New Zealand; and a note on whether France's system of Appellations Controllées is a blow for quality, tradition and
ecological sanctity ...
Over 10 million people worldwide have seen this superb show and now it’s New Zealand’s chance to sample the fabulous
Mamma Mia – the hit musical based on hit after hit of the 1970s super-group, ABBA.
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 ...
Currency intervention, which is on the launch pad awaiting its final sign-off from Cabinet, will prove to be about as
effective as a pop gun in a bank robbery, says National Party Associate Finance Spokesman John Key.
It has gone curiously unremarked in the media that the Business Roundtable has warmly praised the submission from the
Treaty Tribes Coalition on the foreshore and seabed issue. To its credit, the BRT is being consistent...
The ZM radio network in association with the mary-kateandashley brand is searching for New Zealand's biggest Mary-Kate
and Ashley fan! The winner and two companions will get to meet the most famous teenagers on the planet in their home
city, Los ...
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.
Deploring the killing of a Spanish television reporter covering a demonstration in Haiti, the head of the United Nations
cultural organization has called on the authorities to punish those responsible for the shooting death.
Raelian Women Will Commemorate Women's Day By Marching With Their Breasts Exposed To Protest Against The Repressive Myth
Of God
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 ...
At approximately 7:20 am EST Monday, Democracy Now! managed to reach exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by
cell phone in the Central African Republic. His comments represent the most extensive English-language interview
Aristide has given ...