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*** WARNING: This page contains graphic images of sexual abuse seemingly being committed by US Troops against Iraqi
civilians and POWs. While images have been edited to remove sexually explicit details, many of the images remain highly
offensive. Please view ...
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.
Within recent weeks, several critical vulnerabilities have been disclosed and in some cases, worms and other automated
tools have been launched exploiting these vulnerabilities. Exploit code has been made publicly available for all of
these vulnerabilities.
A few days before Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as the 38th Governor of California last year he stood on the steps
of the capital building in Sacramento waving a broom over his head, an obvious symbolic gesture in which Schwarzenegger
promised to clean ...
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 ...
What Sort of Nation Do we Want? An address by Don Brash, Leader of the National Party, to Central North Island Regional
Conference, Thames This is the first Regional Conference that I have had the privilege of addressing in my capacity as
Leader of ...
National Party Leader Dr Don Brash is quite right to be adding his voice to those warning Maori and pakeha of the
poison pill in Labour's newly-invented `ancestral connection' law, ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Stephen
Franks said today.
Cartoons by John Chuckman concerning the US campaign to win the "hearts and minds" of the Iraqi people. The torture
cartoons refer to the recent release of a set of photos showing POWs being tortured and sexually abused by US soldiers
...
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 ...
On day last year, while sitting through one of my depositions with the Department of Justice (DOJ), I was impressed by
the extraordinary number of documents managed by the litigation support contractor.
So, having killed who knows-how-many-hundred Iraqis, created tens of thousands of refugees and flattened whole
neighbourhoods, the US military command is now to hand over Fallujah to a group of officers from the Iraqi Army it
disbanded only last year...
ACT, as the party of fresh ideas, needs a fresh face. Don Brash has raised issues that ACT has solutions for. The only
question is which of ACT's MPs should be the new leader
An address by Lockwood Smith National Party spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Trade To Central North Island Party
Conference, Thames May 2, 2004
The Green Party is calling on the Labour Government to repeal the Electoral Integrity Act and is offering its nine
votes to do it under urgency before May 17th, thereby saving the country the cost of an expensive and unnecessary
by-election.
Let me ease gently into this. John Kerry sucks. Absolutely sucks. Here is a man who volunteered to fight in Vietnam and
was a decorated combat veteran and ends up spending days having to explain the difference between a ribbon and a medal.
Meanwhile, the ...
Translated from Le Monde (Paris). A French elected official from the Green Party warns that there will be an oil crisis
unlike any that preceded it by the end of the decade. He says our only hope is something hard to imagine: a worldwide
agreement ...
Somebody doesn't like hearing the truth. Okay, for a second, lets scratch that and choose a slightly less politically
charged term. Someone doesn't like to be disputed with alternative views, counterclaims, research and fact. Someone
wants you, the ...
On the eve of the one-year anniversary of George Bush declaring Mission Accomplished in Iraq, Democratic Presidential
candidate John Kerry traveled to Westminster College – site of Winston Churchill’s historic Iron Curtain speech – to
talk about America’s ...
Remember Mullah Omar, leader of the Taliban, the Islamist movement that mis-governed the failed state of Afghanistan
from 1996 to 2001? He and the Taliban played host to Osama bin Laden, providing him and his al Qaeda organization a safe
haven from ...
Today’s comments on the Wellington region’s inadequate transport infrastructure by two Labour Cabinet Ministers is
further evidence that the Labour Party is interested solely in the votes of Aucklanders and couldn’t care less about the
people of the ...
A pakeha woman and a Maori woman reached up to fix a placard to a pole on Lambton Quay. The sign read, ''No treaty
breaches on our beaches''.
Associate Maori Affairs Minister Tariana Turia's decision to force a by-election may excite people who enjoy political
trouble for Labour, but it is hard to see a good outcome for New Zealand, ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman
Stephen Franks ...
Muslim guerrillas have told the "people of the world" not to visit southern Thailand, where Thai troops killed more than
100 Islamic militants and bloodied a mosque in Pattani, but the stark warning also included Phuket island, a wealthy,
tourist playground ...
The Prime Minister of New Zealand, during a debate about the cancellation of the F16 contract in March 2000, said, "we
are very lucky to live in an exceptionally benign strategic environment".
The following feedback has been received from Scoop readers in response to our decision to publish graphic pictures from
Al Jazeera showing the true horror of war.
New Zealand’s first “Big Brother Awards” were announced at an awards ceremony at Auckland Art Gallery this evening. The
awards, for outstanding contributions to the abuse of privacy in New Zealand, are modelled on Big Brother Awards held
annually ...
One year ago George Bush, Jr. stood on the deck of a US aircraft carrier with a huge banner behind him so that his photo
could be taken with it. It said, in massive letters "Mission Accomplished" and was meant to celebrate the American
"victory" ...
New Zealand First education spokesperson Brian Donnelly is calling for the Government to urgently change the student
loan scheme because it is sentencing young people to a lifetime of debt.
As American troops moved from Baghdad to bases near the Najaf home to the Shrine of Ali, one of the most sacred
pilgrimage sites for Shiite Muslims, Iraq's US - selected Governing Council approved a new flag for the country.
To be successful in Iraq, and in any war for that matter, our use of force must be tied to a political objective more
complete than the ouster of a regime. To date, that has not happened in Iraq. It is time it did.