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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.
BASRA - Fifty days after the first reports that the U.S. forces were unloading weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in
southern Iraq, new reports about the movement of these weapons have been disclosed.
MR. KANEHIRA: Thank you so much, Secretary. We just received the good news from Baghdad that three Japanese civilian
hostages have been released in Baghdad.
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 ...
April 20 is the highlight of the pot head's calendar, with the term "420" being synonymous with smoking marijuana.
Less than a month after several countries in the United Nations Security Council condemned the killing of Hamas leader
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the 15-member body met today to discuss the assassination by Israel of his replacement, Abdelaziz
Rantissi, ...
Ronald McDonald entered the Queen Street branch of McDonalds today and handed in his resignation. The dramatic action
was taken by the infamous fast food clown in protest at McDonalds use of chicken fed on genetically engineered (GE) soy
meal. ...
Ronald McDonald entered the Queen Street branch of McDonalds today and handed in his resignation. The dramatic action
was taken by the infamous fast food clown in protest at McDonalds use of chicken fed on genetically engineered (GE) soy
meal.
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 ...
Here in the United States, a strange phenomenon is taking place. On one hand, the blatant falsehoods and philosophical
idiocy of the Bush Administration are beginning to unravel. On the other hand, support amongst the American people for
the Bushites ...
It takes a bit of getting used to driving a Smart car. People smile at you, sometimes even laugh and it's quite common
for small children to point while pulling on their parent’s jumpers to get their attention.
In the interest of simplicity the ‘best’ potential diplomatic stoush since New Zealand said ‘No nukes thanks Ronald’ and
collared some French ‘tourists’ is covered in this report.
In my 56 years on this beautiful planet; our home and mother, I have never seen the ravages of male recklessness,
violence, oppression, and war so predominant and frightening as now. Gentlemen, and I use the term loosely, you have
gone too far! You are destroying ...
Should we just burn all our history books then? The new Treaty of Waitangi website, launched yesterday, is wordy,
serious and determinedly equivocal. The political response to it was predictable and a bit embarrassing..
There was an interesting series of articles in yesterday's Sunday Star-Times about the results of the Growth and
Innovation Advisory Board 's survey of our attitudes to economic growth. The results are pretty startling, as should be
obvious from the ...
Iranian writer and Vietnamese Internet dissident to receive 2004 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Awards
The seabed and foreshore issue has been commanding a great deal of my time and attention recently, so it is something
of a relief to meet with a business audience and to discuss what is happening with my day job: that is, building a
stronger economy and ...
Mordechai Vanunu is one of the world’s most important political prisoners. Imprisoned for revealing the existence of
more than 200 Israeli thermonuclear weapons, an act of public interest whistle blowing, he was kidnapped (a terrorist
act) by MOSSAD, ...
Making sense of debates about corporate citizenship or the social responsibilities of business can be like trying to
nail jelly.
(Madrid) The human rights crisis in the oil-rich border region of Arauca is worsening as the warring parties intensify
their efforts to control by force the department's natural resources, Amnesty International warned today.
When I got the coded call from Shallow Throat, I was worried. The last few times we'd talked*, the highly-placed GOP
mole in the Bush Administration was extremely frightened, fearing imminent discovery, so I thought something bad might
have gone ...
Cartoon by kiddmillennium.com…
Critic Charges Bush Administration's "Language of Lying" Transformed into "an Orwellian Artform" - Interview with
Robert Scheer, syndicated columnist and author, conducted by Scott Harris
Recently a man and his wife moved from another city to Boston and contacted me through Axis of Logic. We invited them to
have dinner with us in our home.
“The Israeli nuclear reactor of Dimona is vulnerable to meltdown, like the Russian reactor of Chernobyl two decades ago,
which caused a humanitarian and ecological catastrophe. If Dimona melts down, it would affect an area 500 aerial
kilometers ...
RAMALLAH - - The Israeli occupying forces (IOF) violently confronted with the demonstrations that erupted after the
extrajudicial execution of Hamas leader Dr. Abdel Aziz Al Rantisi, shooting three children and wounding them, two of
them critically.
More streets are to be restricted to non-residential traffic on weekends and public holidays in order to tackle the
scourge of illegal street racing in Manukau. This will include a large stretch of Te Irirangi Drive between Dawson Road
in Otara and ...
On 7 April, one day before Parliament was to rise for the three-week April recess, the Government finally managed to
cobble together enough votes to enable them to release a package of papers on the proposed foreshore and seabed
legislation.
State Services Minister Trevor Mallard today officially launched - www.treatyofwaitangi.govt.nz - a website which will
play a key role in the government's Treaty of Waitangi Information Programme.
The United Nations has lifted the immunity of four police officers from Jordan detained for questioning in connection
with Saturday’s deadly shootings of three of their international colleagues in Kosovo, a UN spokesman said today.
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