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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.
Zev Barkan the suspected Israeli Mossad agent on the run from New Zealand Police has been sighted in North Korea,
according to an Asian-based NGO closely linked to New Zealand intelligence networks.
The Lord of the Ring's stars come face to face with themselves on the side of Air NZ planes as they bid New Zealand
goodbye at Wellington Airport before boarding the Air New Zealand 767 emblazoned with giant images of the characters
Aragorn and Arwen.
Huge things are going on in little old NZ. You know this is the case when you turn on CNN and there is Helen Clark (our
Helen!) drawling in nuu zeelund to all the world. A quick switch of the remote and there she is doing the same thing on
BBC world. ...
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women is preparing a statement urging the new Iraqi
authorities to ensure gender equality throughout the process of political transition and reconstruction, its chairperson
said today at United ...
Vice President Dick Cheney is a bad guy. He can toss around the F-word all he wants in response to the criticism
directed at him as a result of his close ties to Halliburton, the company he headed from 1995-2000, but he can't hide
from the truth.
Like Christopher Columbus blinking in shock at first seeing an American Indian, John Kerry has just discovered
African-American voters.
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.
At no worse time in America’s history could we have been cursed with such failure, ineptitude and incompetence at
leadership as we presently find ourselves infected with.
Scoop's Fahrenheit 9/11 preview screening went ahead virtually without a hitch on Friday night, raising a couple of
hundred dollars for Indymedia Aotearoa.
I think people seem to have got the wrong idea about the Prostitution Law Reform Act. It was not supposed to legalise
prostitution or get rid of street prostitutes. It was to decriminalise prostitution and make sex work safer within the
prostitution ...
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 ...
The July 18th referendum in Bolivia is likely to be a shortlived, temporary setback for radical opponents of the
government of President Mesa. Their call for a mass boycott failed. The government was able to promote an effective
propaganda campaign ...
As of Friday 16 July, a High Court decision from Justice Paterson means that anyone subject to a Security Risk
Certificate will be detained indefinitely, without bail and without recourse to Habeas Corpus
In June 2002 TV3 used a photo of Jonah Lomu and two other All Black players to promote its free-to-air coverage of the
All Blacks’ 2002 Rugby Campaign. The use of Lomu’s photo led to the issue of court proceedings against TV3 by Jonah Lomu
and his management ...
United Nations emergency relief programmes are channelling money, food and warm clothes to Peruvians today after
snowstorms, accompanied by strong freezing winds, have destroyed more than 3,000 houses and threatened the survival of
more than 150,000 people in ...
Publication of this story marks a watershed in American political history. It is offered freely for publication in full
or part on any and all internet forums, blogs and noticeboards. All other media are also encouraged to utilise material.
Readers ...
Cartoon by John Chuckman
Homeland Security whistleblower Mary Schneider is naming names, revealing that former FBI Director Louis Freeh, Attorney
General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller and numerous U.S. senators and congressmen knew before the September
11 attacks that ...
Left, right, or center, Americans like to believe we have a mission, that ''the shining city on a hill'' - as Ronald
Reagan quoted our Pilgrim Fathers - stands as a universal beacon to the world.
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Two thousand year old corpses able to be autopsied as if they were recently dead feature in a NHNZ documentary, The
Diva Mummy. The programme reveals three tombs, each from a similar period and geographic location.
MAXNET, a leading second tier Internet Service Provider (ISP) is delighted with the customer response to its highly
advanced virus and spam filtering product – MAIL GUARDIAN.
Something very strange happened in Volusia County on election night November 2000, the night that first Gore won
Florida, then Bush, and then as everybody can so well remember there was a tie.
We have received information regarding increased risk of terrorist attack in the Gulf States and the countries of the
Arabian peninsula.
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, once a hero in the West and increasingly the villain at
home, has quit, driven from office in what his opponents called a "velvet revolution". Shevardnadze: "I see that all
this cannot ...
High Court Judgment Means NZ's Head-Spook Becomes The Jailer - Tainui Announces $15.8 Million Profit - WSPA Concerned
Over Cruelty Aspects To Whaling - Scoop Exclusive: NGOs Say Barkan In North Korea - 95bFM's Simon Pound Considers
"Mossad Madness" Downunder ...
The Local Government Forum still does not get it, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today. United Future's plan to
take the GST off rates is about helping low and fixed income property owners hit by high property rates because of the
explosion ...
With the 9/11 commission report offering, as these things tend to, a little something for everyone, the public and
commentators will presumably be urged by the White House to move on from all the unpleasantness...
Saudi Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, an Osama bin Laden benefactor, has laundered money into tax-exempt U.S. entities for
years as a foreign financier of terrorism. But a new 9/11 lawsuit is thrusting Mahfouz’s latent past business links to
George W. ...
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