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On December 18, I attended Gary Webb’s memorial service in Sacramento, along with about 250 other people. In 1996, Webb
wrote a series of articles (“Dark Alliance”) for the San Jose Mercury News reporting that, in the 1980s, “a San
Francisco Bay ...
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.
A breakthrough botrytis fungicide which leaves no residue, has no withholding period and is Bio Gro approved – it sound
too good to be true. But it’s not.
Get Ready for the Largest Demolition Derby on the Planet Scientists say Slow-Motion Collision Near Antarctic Research
Station Imminent
On November 3, just hours after Democratic vice-presidential hopeful John Edwards made a national announcement that he
and John Kerry were not going to concede until all the votes were counted, Kerry grabbed the spotlight and conceded --
before all ...
PHUKET, Thailand -- Internet Websites, blogs, chat groups and databases are flooded with tsunami scams, gruesome morgue
photos, official warnings, donation requests, Islamic propaganda against Thailand, and ridiculous jokes, causing
confusion and ...
Coca Cola was invented in the United States in 1886 as a medicine, rather than a drink, to stimulate the brain and the
nervous system, from a mixture of coca leaves and kola nuts, sweetened with sugar, hence the name Coca Cola. It was not
until 1893 ...
7 January, Yangon, Myanmar -- The Tsunami Assistance Coordination Group met yesterday to consolidate the findings of the
different assessment and verification missions undertaken throughout the affected areas of Myanmar. The
CoordinationGroup* was set ...
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.
I spent some time today with Cameron Kerry, the younger brother of Senator John Kerry. A May 04 2004 Boston Herald
article on Cam Kerry described him this way: "He doesn't draw screaming headlines or grab face time on the political
talk show circuit, but ...
For all of their piousness, the Right just doesn't get it. Their new tactic for making the prisoner torture scandal go
away is to say that it wasn't really torture.
PHUKET, Thailand -- Forensic teams buried the cadavers of foreign tourists and Thais in shallow graves "to slow the
decomposition" while conducting DNA tests, because refrigeration was not available for thousands of bodies recovered
from the ...
"Media are vital to all democracies. This is why all non-democratic regimes, and we've had a few of those in Nepal's
history, target the free press. People and movements that are truly democratic will defend the free press to the last,
although ...
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 Trust behind the www.nzflag.com campaign to change New Zealand's flag has gained the support of champion multi and
adventure sporter Steve Gurney.
The Human Genome Project and the unreliability of GE
2004: Very Stormy At Times Devastating Floods And Extremely High Rainfall In Several North Island Regions; High Winds
And Late Winter Blizzards; Very Wet In Some Areas And Cool
KHAO LAK BEACH, Thailand -- Scavengers, survivors, nuns and corporate logos have appeared along this mangled,
death-pocked coast where vehicles jut from wet sand and bonfires consume five-star trash.
Apparently, the IRS has decided that Amway distributors are having too much fun listening to tapes, reading books, and
attending the same training seminars year after year after year. In July, 2004, the United States Tax Court issued a
ruling ...
Scoop.co.nz is delighted to be able today to publish a full set of 4pm exit poll data for the first time on the Internet
since the US election. The data emerged this evening NZT in a post on the Democratic Underground website under the forum
name ...
A global agreement, initialled in the office of Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, is bringing $41 million from abroad to
Haiti for its elections later this year, according to the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
Green MP Nandor Tanczos is celebrating the release from prison today of Neville Yates, the wheelchair-bound
Christchurch man imprisoned in November for growing marijuana to ease chronic pain.
New Zealand First has called on the Corrections Minister to explain how inmates at a Hawkes Bay prison held a party and
got drunk on home brew.
The holiday season is the usual time to relax and ponder the prospects for the new year. Our views and prognostications
have been developed with the same intellectual rigour as everyone else's – with a beer in one hand, fashion-challenged,
trying to ...
With the second stage of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) set to be held in November in
North Africa, a three-day African preparatory meeting next month in Ghana is to negotiate an action plan on achieving
continent-wide ...
Auckland, 11 January 2005 - World Vision New Zealand has partnered with leading mobile applications developer, The
Hyperfactory, to conduct a text messaging campaign as part of its massive tsunami appeal.
Sorry to see an unhappy reader out there. Less anyone else think that there was intentional bias in the essay, let me
clarify the storyline. I wrote the piece over the weekend, during which time the mentioned charity events occured in
Saudi and UAE. My understanding ...
I live in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and I can assure you that there have been huge efforts in the Gulf States to
raise money and goods to send to the tsunami areas. In Saudi Arabia $85 million was raised in a charity show, $5 million
in a similar ...
Increasing numbers of beaches closed to shellfish collection are causing the loss of a great New Zealand family
tradition, says National Party Fisheries spokesman, Phil Heatley.
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