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The one company that helped Saddam exploit the oil-for-food program in the mid-1990s that wasn't identified in Duelfer's
report was Halliburton, and the person at the helm of Halliburton at the time of the scheme was Vice President Dick
Cheney.
Furious George Goes To The Debate - Cartoon Strip By H.O.O. Rey
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.
1. Working for Families Package—Child Poverty 2. Inquiries—Resources 3. Te Arawa—Rotorua Lake Beds Question No. 2 to
Minister 4. International Monetary Fund—Washington Meeting 5. Te Arawa—Rotorua Lake Beds 6. Working Holiday
Schemes—Scope 7. Te Arawa—Rotorua ...
Violence in Haiti: Colin Powell and Gerard Latortue Blame Aristide, When the Blame Lies With Them
The Bush Administration urged the members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to approve an October 31
deadline on Iran for compliance or face sanctions at the UN Security Council. Bush lost that vote. Had the motion
passed, that would ...
The news that during the occupation that followed the war to stop weapons technology falling into the wrong hands,
equipment and materials that could be used to make nuclear weapons have been steadily vanishing would seem to be taking
irony just a ...
Today, Monday 11 October, peace activists from all over Britain brought a huge model Trident submarine to the seat of
British governance to challenge Labour to abandon its WMD and to comply fully with its international treaty obligations.
1. Dr MURIEL NEWMAN to the Minister of Housing: Did he receive a letter dated 22 August 2003 from Housing New Zealand
Acting Chief Executive Jordan Alexander providing a "Maori Responsiveness Update" that advised him that Housing New
Zealand had developed ...
The NZ Govt announced today that The Crown will seek to overthrow a Court of Appeal decision that insisted Ahmed Zaoui’s
human rights must be taken into account when reviewing the security risk certificate issued against him by the SIS.
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 ...
New Zealand First transport spokesperson Peter Brown is calling for the Government to put a stop to increasing petrol
taxes following further petrol price rises.
The revelations keep coming, proving the Bush Administration's reasons for invading and occupying Iraq were deviations
from the truth.
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.
Defence Minister Mark Burton says tonight that Ron Mark’s sad attempt to garner publicity off the grief of a New
Zealand family is sad and pathetic.
Marine farming anarchy will not be allowed to jeopardise New Zealand's valuable coastal environment or the marine
farming industry, says Fisheries Minister David Benson-Pope.
Coming to the Small Screen TV3 launched its new programmes last week, with a presentation long on style (an extended rap
by Beastie Boys clones) and short on substance (we were told very little about the programmes). So MediaCom to the
rescue, with a rundown ...
A Taranaki farmer's decision to run an advertisement, warning trespassers on his property that he'll take the law into
his own hands, is a sign of things to come if the Government's land access proposals become law, ACT New Zealand Rural
Affairs ...
Two separate official investigations are under way into the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old girl in Gaza by the Israeli
army after soldiers testified that their company commander "emptied his magazine" at her after she had been shot and was
presumed ...
1. Housing New Zealand—Treaty of Waitangi 2. Career Planning—Economic and Social Policy 3. Accident Compensation
Corporation—Bold Perspectives, Shared Objectives Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation Conference 4. Local
Government—Voting System ...
In an eerie juxtaposition during the second presidential debate, both George W. Bush and Supreme Court Associate Justice
Antonin Scalia - each in their own sort of code - were saying at the same time that if Bush is elected in 2004, women
who get abortions ...
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk, originally crowned in 1941 when Nazi-backed Vichy France
controlled Indochina, said he will leave the throne and allow his son, former dancer Prince Norodom Sihamoni, to replace
him.
STORY OF THE WEEK: Week Ending 15th October 2004 The 2004 Presidential Debates
The fiasco affecting STV counting in Wellington and other cities is either the biggest voting scandal since Chicago
Mayor Daley found the ballot boxes that elected Kennedy, or a stuff up caused by the choice of the most complex system
for counting STV votes.
DOC Targets Wilding Pines Paul Hondelink of Wanaka Area Office felling wilding pines on the western shore of Lake
Wanaka. Click for big version
Simon Pound appears to have caught a wiff of blood in the air: ''In other news, how funny is the intellectual ping-pong
between Cohen, Nippert, and the ice skating rink? Barbs flying like a battle on the Nation's letters page, except none
of the ...
Sometime during the 2000 campaign, I heard an ordinary citizen say, ''I trust George Bush – he has good instincts.''
It’s a comment heard frequently in this campaign as well.
The Child Poverty Action Group is today calling on the government to take immediate steps to eliminate child poverty
while simultaneously, the Durex Global Sex Survey has revealed more than half of New Zealand women are practising unsafe
sex, despite ...
Cartoon by John Chuckman
While the Ministry of Education has baled out 5% of schools, parents and communities are left to bale out the other 95%,
says National’s Education spokesman, Bill English.
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