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Firas Al-Atraqchi: Zarqawi Be Damned - Nicholas Berg screamed. He screamed when he saw the sword brandished in the
hands of one of his captors. He screamed when he was pushed down on the ground and his held pulled back, ready for the
slaughter. ...
Nicholas Berg screamed. He screamed when he saw the sword brandished in the hands of one of his captors. He screamed
when he was pushed down on the ground and his held pulled back, ready for the slaughter.
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.
Amnesty International condemns in the strongest terms the abduction and beheading of an American civilian by an armed
group, Muntada al-Ansar, in Iraq - a video of which was released yesterday. The organization is appalled by the public
display ...
The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a
decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation, which had
been focussed on ...
*** 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 ...
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 ...
Among the hoard of pictures from Iraq viewed by members of America's Senate in a top-secret, eavesdrop-proof room - a
rather grandiose version of one of those smelly little, stained booths for which patrons of Times Square shops used to
pay to watch ...
Should Rumsfeld be fired over the prisoner abuse scandal? Frankly, at this point, we're talking barn doors and escaped
cows.
A Delegation from the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) visited Haiti from April 12-19, and documented serious continuing
violations of human rights, including killings, disappearances, burning of homes and intimidation, often directed at
supporters of ...
1 Auckland Central Remand Prison—Review 2 Tertiary Education Organisations—Standards 3 Kiwibank—Success 4 Television New
Zealand—Charter Funding 5 Civil Union Bill—Introduction 6 Nuclear-free Legislation—Amendments 7 Parole—Breaches
THE PRESIDENT: I want to express my condolences to the family and friends of Nicholas Berg. Nicholas Berg was an
innocent civilian who was in Iraq to help build a free Iraq. There is no justification for the brutal execution of
Nicholas Berg -- no justification ...
Members of the Aviation Heritage Centre Trust flew up to Wellington airport from Marlborough in a Lockheed 12 aircraft
today to meet Mr Anderton and Peter Jackson, who is a strong supporter of the Centre and has aircraft based there
already.
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 opening of TrustPower's expanded Tararua windfarm today marks the beginning of an era of rapid growth for wind power
in New Zealand, says Energy Minister Pete Hodgson.
Just when I thought I couldn’t feel more disgust in this race-to-the-bottom ''war against terrorism,'' both sides attain
new depths of human depravity.
The Bush- and Rumsfeld-haters have never been so happy. Like pigs rolling in, as the expression has it, effluent.
They're downright rejoicing - glorying! - in the shame the United States has suffered at the hands of the Abu Ghraib
yahoos.
1. MARC ALEXANDER to the Minister of Corrections: Has he decided to conduct a review of the Auckland Central Remand
Prison; if so, why?
CUBA PROTESTS AND ACCUSES By Ángel Rodríguez Álvarez http://www.ain.cubaweb.cu/english/may13edprotest.htm
A number of AMAZING breakthroughs are taking place right now within the 9/11 Truth movement. There are so many, in fact,
that we decided to compile them together into this single ACTION newsletter, rather than send them out one at a time.
Seymour Hersh's latest instalment in the New Yorker is earth-shattering:
It appears that the Corporate Media giants have decided to cripple the efforts of the most effective critics of Bush
Republicanism going into the 2004 Presidential elections.
So what's the lead in Iraq today? Head of Governing Council assassinated? One not-very-mass WMD turns up? Pentagon
denial of New Yorker claim that accountability for prison abuse goes all the way up followed by another investigation
that says the same thing? ...
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A campaign against sexist advertising led by students has ended in a complaint being upheld by the Advertising Standards
Authority about a sexist promotion at Dunedin pub the Bowler.
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.
There are times that the world is a horrific place. And we've witnessed two events that can turn the biggest optimist
about the human condition into a pessimist.
In a similar way to the economic upside that is now being attached to divorce – that it doubles the market – researchers
are now redefining the economic and social consequences of abortion. Abortion used to be a purely moral issue with the
debate surrounding ...
Don Brash’s foray into defence and nuclear issues last week was not a success and it is not surprising that he has
quickly returned to beating his race-relations drum. After all, this is safer ground for the National leader to tread.
Yet Dr. Brash cannot ...
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