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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.
SCOOP EDITOR'S NOTE: Bev Harris is presently on the road. The following is taken from a forum post from the Democratic
Underground website updating the online community on yesterday's startling developments in the fight for an accountable
vote counting ...
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 ...
Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon thought they could bomb Vietnam into accepting democracy. George W. Bush thinks he can
do it with Iraq.
Bush, Cheney and Rice knew 9/11 was imminent; they had intelligence warnings describing al Qaeda’s plan to use our
commercial jets to attack the World Trade Center and Washington, D.C. The highest levels of the Bush administration
repeatedly and intentionally lied ...
Two cartoons by John Chuckman...
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 ...
The Environment and Disarmament and Arms Control Minister leaves on Sunday for two meetings at the United Nations after
completing a round of ANZAC Day engagements.
Every once in a while an opportunity to shift the political landscape in radical and transformative ways comes along.
The past month's events have conjured shadows. Names like the SIS, EAB raise suspicion, intrigue. Outward, beyond our
borders, lurk more spooky counterparts: CIA, MI6, Mossad. Even TV's on to it. We're spy fanatics. Do you believe in
Spooks downunder?
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.
Am I an oxymoron? Dame Kiri said that all Maori are lazy at home on the dole. That means I'm not really Maori, right?
Can a sickly brown liberal ever live up to the standards of the Hongi Snobs?
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reassured leaders of Iraq's Governing Council Friday that the current military
operations are aimed at the Iraqi population of freedom-hating men, women and children that make up Iraq's population of
25 million, ...
The convicted former leader of the 1990s paramilitary group FRAPH, Louis Jodel Chamblain, gave himself up to the police
in Port-au-Prince yesterday, 22 April. Another convicted FRAPH leader, Jean Pierre Baptiste, known as "Jean Tatoune", is
reported ...
Anyone who believes that April has been the cruelest month of this Iraq war - 111 Americans killed with the total dead
now at 718, hundreds upon hundreds of Iraqi civilians killed - should gird themselves for the reality that the worst,
the very ...
The past month's events have conjured shadows. Names like the SIS, EAB raise suspicion, intrigue. Outward, beyond our
borders, lurk more spooky counterparts: CIA, MI6, Mossad. Even TV's on to it. We're spy fanatics. Do you believe in
Spooks downunder?
Cartoon by kiddmillennium.com…
President Bush confirmed recent rumors by announcing on Monday that John D. Negroponte was being nominated to become
this country’s ambassador to Iraq, a post that he would assume on June 30, when sovereignty ostensibly will be
transferred to Iraqi authorities.
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 ...
With parliament in recess the country was politically very quiet last week. But in NZ there are now two nations. In the
Maori country there is political ferment.
"It's little wonder the Labour Government has stayed silent about the latest report from Treasury, which confirms its
anti-business agenda is damaging our economy," says National Party Deputy Finance spokesman John Key.
From Left to Right: BACK_- Australian Capt Mike Hummings (Rwanda, East Timor), NZ Major Bill Yates RNZAC(Bosnia, East
Timor), Austrailian Federal Police Detective William Hadden (Vietnam), NZ Sgt Tony Thomson (Somalia), Aus Sgt Paul
Fuller (Falklands, ...
The UN's main human rights body has demonstrated an incapacity and unwillingness to address serious human rights
violations, said Amnesty International today as the 60th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights drew to a close.
Despite some positive ...
Former Meretz Leader Shulamit Aloni has established a reputation for her critique of modern Israeli society. She has
also been described as the Grand old Lady of the Israeli peace movement.
Political debate in the mainstream in the US and UK increasingly resembles the dystopian vision encapsulated in the film
the Matrix. Here the reality of human bondage to the system is disguised by a sophisticated virtual reality – the matrix
– from which ...
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 ...
US activist Huwaida Arraf and French activist Angela Coppin face trial today for refusing to abandon the struggle of
Biddu
“Before local bodies introduce parking meters which cancel outstanding time when a motorist leaves the car park, they
should examine their ethics,” said New Zealand First transport spokesperson, Peter Brown.
Retired Maori Land Court judge Heta Hingston's extremely political speech at the Ohinemutu Dawn Parade was entirely
inappropriate and signals the hijacking of yet another national day of remembrance, ACT New Zealand MP Deborah
Coddington said today.
Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader Abdelaziz Al-Rantissi on April 17 is a continuation of a costly mistake.
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