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4:20 Day is a celebration of the positive uses of cannabis, with spontaneous smoke-ins, smoke-ups and smoke-outs happening on street corners and parks all around the world.
2:
Employers
Who Snooze Are Losing Admin
Staff
April 20, 2005 – Competition is fierce among employers as they vie for potential office support staff, according to the Office Support Remuneration Guide released by Hudson today.
3:
Scoop
Feedback: The Peak Oil Mirage
I know many people get their kicks out of forecasting doom but a little balance is needed. The following piece from OpinionJournal.com spells out the real geopolitics and geo-economics of oil and what we should do about it.
4:
Tonga
Media Council Wants Ban On Mike Field
Lifted
SUVA (Wansolwara Online/Pacific Media Watch): The Tongan Media Council has asked the government to allow banned New Zealand journalist Michael Field into the country for the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) conference in October.
Subaru will have a limited number of the subtly, yet aggressively style Legacy Blitzen models available in June.
6:
Resolution
against Cuba approved under US
pressure
Resolution against Cuba approved under brutal US pressure Cuba calls on the EU to cosponsor a resolution to protect US prisoners in Guantánamo
7:
How
Transpower Ended Up In The
Caymans
CONFIDENTIAL ATTENTION: Chairman, Chief Executive Officer or Minister of State Owned Enterprises. Warmest greeting! I hope my message finds you to be in good health. My name is YOUR NAME HERE. I have a genuine business proposal that may be of interest ...
8:
Phil
Goff - Multilateralism in NZ foreign
policy
Delivered at 5.30pm to The United Nations Association of New Zealand, and the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, Rutherford House, Victoria University, Wellington
9:
Public
Address 20/04/05 - Fisking, Feminism,
Etc.
A quick word on the Marae Digipoll survey of Maori voter intentions: it didn't surprise me. The Maori Party will be in the next Parliament in numbers, and it deserves to be, because it has harnessed community support in a way that political parties rarely ...
10:
Rise
in prostitution must force re-think of law
“A recent survey showing a rise in prostitution must force our law-makers to reconsider the flawed Prostitution Reform Act 2003,” says Maxim Institute Managing Director, Greg Fleming.
11:
State
Dept. Daily Press Briefing for April 18
DEPARTMENT Publication of Patterns of Global Terrorism Report / Statistical Data Flow of Information to the Secretary of State / Role of Senior Managers U.S. Outreach to Muslim Countries Confirmation Process for Karen Hughes as Under Secretary of State ...
12:
Negotiated
Greenhouse Agreements
streamlined
The government has streamlined the process through which companies can gain exemptions from the carbon tax.
13:
Which
Websites Attract NZ Maori?
Just over 72% of all Maori have access to the internet (as of Q4, 2004). The number of Maori with access has increased by 11% from the previous year, and lags only slightly behind the national average (Nielsen//NetRatings Netwatch).
14:
The
Great (Scoop) V8 Debate With Mark Blumsky
Wellington's civic establishment was close to boiling point late Monday. Tensions have been running high between pro and anti V8 race factions for weeks, and the entire superheated melting pot was ready to rumble come Tuesday night at the Paramount Theatre.
15:
William
Rivers Pitt: The Theocrats
Ten years ago today, an anti-government extremist named Timothy McVeigh parked a Ryder truck filled with fertilizer and fuel oil in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
16:
Tickets
On Sale - Premiere Of Star Wars Episode
3
NEW ZEALAND CINEMA INDUSTRY HEATS UP WITH PREMIERE OF STAR WARS EPISODE 3: Revenge of the Sith
17:
More
Action Needed To Help Young
Migrants
A leading Auckland consultant has welcomed changes to immigration rules for overseas students but says more must be done to plug policy gaps affecting young migrants.
18:
Suspension
rate a disgrace
A minor decrease in school suspensions in the last year is nothing to crow about, the Green Party says.
19:
Toughening
up on possessors of child sex
abuse
Today’s sentence of a hefty fine imposed on a beneficiary who possessed child sex abuse images, was lauded as a step in the right direction by those working to combat the trade.
20:
Guantánamo,
A Moral And Legal Black Hole
CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR EACH PART OF THE BOOK 3 CAPITULO 1.- A VERITABLE “MORAL AND LEGAL BLACK HOLE” IN THE TERRITORY ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED BY THE US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTÁNAMO 6 ANEXOS 13 I.- DRAFT RESOLUTION, E/CN.4/2004/L.88/Rev.2, introduced ...
21:
Law
Commission on paternity testing
unacceptable
"Last Thursday, the TV3 documentary Inside NZ: DNA and You, showed Kiwi's that paternity fraud does happen in New Zealand. Paternity fraud is a deliberate act of dishonesty, with the clear purpose of depriving a child of her right to know her ...
22:
Marjorie
Cohn: Bully Bolton Threatens National
Sec
John Bolton is the wrong man for the job of US ambassador to the United Nations. His status as an avowed UN-hater, standing alone, disqualifies him. But there are other, stronger reasons to reject his appointment to that important post.
23:
New
Zealand's Student Shame
A recently released international study has confirmed that New Zealand is one of the most expensive places in the world to study tertiary education.
24:
Cullen
Hoist With His Own Petard
Rt Hon Winston Peters says that months of Michael Cullen misinterpreting New Zealand’s true international ranking in income per capita has now been exposed as the fabric of deceit it always was. Mr Peters was responding to the release of the World Bank’s ...
25:
Halo
2 Multiplayer Map Pack Due for July
Release
The Countdown Has Begun! Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack Due for July Release Four new maps set for April launch via Xbox Live Auckland, 29 March, 2005 - Microsoft Game Studios has announced a July release date for the highly anticipated Halo 2® Multiplayer ...
26:
Dr
Cullen on Pope Benedict XVI
Acting Prime Minister Michael Cullen has welcomed former German cardinal Josef Ratzinger’s election as Pope Benedict XVI.
27:
New
global alliance for agriculture
launched
Meat & Wool New Zealand has added its support to the new Global Alliance for Liberalized Trade in Food and Agriculture, says General Manager Trade and Market Development Anne Berryman.
28:
Round
the world - and again - for ocean
science
NIWA’s smaller research vessel, Kaharoa, leaves Wellington tomorrow (Thursday 21 April) on a 2-month voyage to deploy high-tech ‘Argo’ floats all the way to Hawaii and back.
29:
John
Conyers - First Baker-Carter
Hearing
First Baker-Carter Hearing Right-wing pundit John Fund offers racially-charged testimony Congressman John Conyers http://www.conyersblog.us/archives/00000063.htm
30:
David
Swanson: Half-Baked Baker Carter
Commission
So, Jimmy Carter and James Baker are sitting at a table, and Carter starts talking about the disastrous election of 2000 in Florida.... It sounds like the start of a joke.
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Gordon Campbell: On The Coalition’s Awful, Not Good, Very Bad Poll Results
Ian Powell: Policy Vacuum Enables For-profit Corporate General Practice Ownership By Stealth
Gordon Campbell: On Iran Killing Its Rappers, And Searching For The Invisible Dr. Reti
Peter Dunne: MPs Unusually Quiet On Pay Rise
Ian Powell: Cuba And New Zealand: A Relationship Worthy Of Strengthening
Gordon Campbell: On bird flu, AUKUS entry fees and Cindy Lee