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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.
PHUKET, Thailand -- Shops are selling high-quality, color photographs of bloated, blackened corpses of foreign tourists
and Thais who perished in the tsunami, and video compact disks showing waves battering and flooding Thailand's tiny
islands.
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.
Get Ready for the Largest Demolition Derby on the Planet Scientists say Slow-Motion Collision Near Antarctic Research
Station Imminent
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 ...
When analysts refer to the quagmire in Iraq as analogous to Vietnam, we assume that readers are well-acqainted with that
earlier war. The truth is that unless you're of a certain age, or are fairly conversant with American history, you're
liable to ...
The lawsuit challenging Ohio's 2004 presidential race has been withdrawn from the Ohio Supreme Court, having served as a
lightning rod to draw national attention to the widespread and possibly illegal irregularities in the vote that gave
George W. ...
Look, given our needs in Iraq and Afghanistan and given our agenda in helping freedom unfold across the globe --
starting perhaps with Syria and Iran -- we're going to need more bodies.
Prime TV is excited to announce that the rumours are true! Miriam, the star of the controversial show “THERE’S SOMETHING
ABOUT MIRIAM”, is headed for Big Brother to stir the pot.
The New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team (NZ PRT) working in Afghanistan has discovered and destroyed a fifth
cache of weapons, including rockets, mortar rounds and anti tank mines.
“I lost the will to live when I lost my friend,” the boy said. “But Kiftah will always be in my heart…I will never
forget him.” A STONE’S THROW AWAY is a documentary about life under military occupation and the Palestinian youth who
suffer from it.
The final screening of FORD TRANSIT at the third annual Chicago Palestine Film Festival showed on Friday.
ELIAS CHACOUR: PROPHET IN HIS OWN COUNTRY is a film about a Melkite priest who brings the seeds of peace to the
Israel-Palestine conflict. The third annual Chicago Palestine Film Festival hosted the screening at the Southwest Youth
Collaborative on Saturday.
The Palestinian people of Qaqiliya enter and exit the city through a gate. Israeli soldiers lock it with a key. The
gate is part of the concrete wall.
The bulldozer rolled over the metal-frame homes. Israeli soldiers grabbed the Bedouin men. Women yelled into the air.
Horses, camels and sheep ran everywhere. Within 24-hours, the land became a military zone.
On stage, they dance the movement of life. When they speak, their voices reveal the meaning behind the burning heart.
Israeli soldiers left their mark. In the Ministry of Culture’s office, they draped the windows with barbed wire. On the
floor, crates filled with bottles of urine. Feces on the rug. The inside of a Xerox machine smeared brown.
KEYS is a documentary film about several Palestinian families who crossover the green partition line; and they revisit
the remains of their homes and villages. During the third annual Chicago Palestine Film Festival, KEYS (in Arabic,
MAFATEEH,) had ...
ROUTE 181 is a cinematic journey through Palestine-Israel. Directors Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan trace a route based
on the theoretical line presented in Resolution 181 (United Nations, 1947).
The Chicago Palestine Film Festival hosted the world premiere of JIHAD! at the Gene Siskel Film Center on Saturday.
Directed by Muhammed Rum, the Topiary Productions film is an individual and global exploration of the word and its
meaning.
People climb the stairs along the rocky landscape. Once they reach the top, they walk a dirt road. Everyone is dressed
up for a special occasion. A few men carry flowers arrangements and they move quickly.
It is in times of fascism rising that armies of ignorance are once more resuscitated from the bowels of a society
bordering on the edge of mass psychosis. The America at the dawn of the twenty-first century is no exception, for an
army of fascism is ...
SALT OF THE EARTH is an exploration into the lives of Palestinian Christians. Martame and Elizabeth Sanders directed the
saltfilms.net production. It had its final showing on Sunday at the third annual Chicago Palestine Film Festival.
RACHEL’S WAR is a documentary short about peace activist, Rachel Corrie. Firas Abdelrahman directed the film (2003). The
third annual Chicago Palestine Film Festival showed it on Friday.
The film ARNA’S CHILDREN, opened the third annual Chicago Palestine Film Festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center on
Friday.
Early Friday (Jan 14) morning (3:50am EST), the last grand space mission –the 11 year $3 billion Cassini mission to
Saturn, will smash a landing probe into the most earthlike atmosphere in the Solar System, the heavy clouds of massive
moon Titan. ...
Cartoon by kiddmillennium.com…
In these times of snap, crackle and pop journalism, major news stories dissolve into each other and melt away all too
quickly.
You'll remember that every time Hillary Clinton so much as hiccupped while her husband was president, the wingnuts would
scream about power hunger and the "co-presidency." Yet the wife of a vice president can order 300,000 books burned, and
hardly anyone ...
North Island tennis fans may be forced to fly south to watch next month¹s ASB Navratilova Seles Classic exhibition
matches.
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