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1:
UQ
Wire: June 10th Press Conference
Transcript
First Panel (Members of 9/11 Families) Catherine Austin Fitts Moderator - Introduction Kyle F. Hence - Survey of Questions Julie Sweeney Lorna Brett FAA / Airline Accountability Mary Schiavo, Esq. FAA/Airline Accountability Open Q & A from the Press
2:
UQ
Wire: It’s Patriotic to Ask Why
On June 10th, a band of concerned citizens came together at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to raise questions about September 11th. They called the meeting the 9/11and Public Safety Conference. Among them were members of families who had ...
3:
Poll
Watch: Herald DigiPoll Greens Closing On
10%
Labour Down 0.9 to 51.2% (previous polls: Up 2.2 to 52.1% - Down 0.5 49.9%) National Down 0.9 to 24.6% (previous polls: Down 5.5 to 25.7% - Down 2 to 31.2%) Green Up 1.3 to 9.6% (previous polls: Up 0.6 to 8.3% - Up 2.4 to 7.7%) ACT Up 1.3 to 5.7% ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Call
for Five Year Moratorium on GMO
Release
Five eminent New Zealanders called for a five-year moratorium on the release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) at today's launch of the Sustainability Council of New Zealand.
5:
Scoop
Images: Jim Anderton On Don’s Bad Hair
Day
Lights…. cameras….crane… are we ready…..Steady now...don’t mind the wind Jim...Nearer my god to thee...
6:
Greens
Coalition With National Huge
Concern
Jim Anderton said he was concerned but not surprised the Greens were talking about Coalition with National.
For several weeks now the smart money has been betting that the whirlwind of admissions and apparently damaging leaks about 9/11 has not been an uncontrolled disaster for the Bush Administration but instead has been a managed attempt at a "controlled burn," ...
These images go with Richard's Speech titled, "ACT Leads e-Politics Campaign"
9:
Expulsion
from the Labour Party
Today the Labour Party has announced their decision to suspend my membership from the Labour Party. They claim to have done this purely because I am standing against Paul Swain (the Labour candidate) in the seat of Rimutaka. However there is more ...
10:
Hodgson
Response To Sustainability Council On
GM
Labour strongly agrees with the sentiments of the newly formed sustainability council of New Zealand but strongly disagrees with their preferred solution, says Research, Science and Technology Minister, Pete Hodgson.
11:
Scoop
Link: Blairs Butt Of George Michael's
Satire
George Michael knows Shoot The Dog represents the biggest risk of his controversial career. Even bigger than his arrest for getting too friendly with a Los Angeles policeman in that now infamous public loo incident.
12:
The
911 Evidence that May Hang George W. Bush
The Case Against G.W. Bush: a Preliminary "Hearing" in the Court of Common Sense
13:
Sharemarkets
Tank As RBNZ Raises Rates
Again
The Reserve Bank has raised the Official Cash interest rate by 25 basis points (or 20%) this morning, putting around $30-$50 onto the average monthly mortgage bill.
14:
Tube
Talk: TV’s New Legal Beagles
Like its top-rating programme, Big Brother , TVNZ sees all and knows all. Last week, I was cyber-spanked by TVNZ for incorrectly stating that new lawyer drama The Guardian is on TV3. (It’s on TV2 on Thursdays at 8.30pm, possums.) By way of contrition, I’ll ...
15:
Extension
of moratorium a contradiction
“The Life Sciences Network welcomes the establishment of the new Sustainability Council led by Sir Peter Elworthy,” the Chairman of the Life Sciences Network, Dr William Rolleston, said today.
16:
Howard's
End: ACC Case Management Audit
The Office of the Auditor-General has today confirmed to Scoop that it will conduct a study into the effectiveness and efficiency of ACC's case management processes and procedures. Agony and ACC create a private hell. Maree Howard writes.
The controversial youth political website www.nocrap.org.nz has been relaunched.
18:
Sustainability
Council Stand On GE Welcomed
Support for Prominent New Zealander's Stand on GE and National Party's 'Rethink' on moratorium. Government urged to release new Liability report.
19:
Scoop
Satire: Advert. Executive Gene
Discovered
Edinburgh: After decades of painstaking and often bitterly contentious experimentation, scientists at The Royal College of Executive Genetic Research believe that they have identified the genetic make up of advertising executives (AdExecs) - long regarded ...
20:
Sustainability
Council Talks Sense
The voices of Sir Peter Elworthy and the Sustainability Council have added weight to the movement to keep New Zealand GE-Free, Green Party Agriculture spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street said today.
21:
Libz
- Reluctant Politicians
Below is the Libertarianz party list for their third election since registration in 1996 - as delivered this morning to the Chief Electoral Office in Wellington.
22:
We’ve
Had Enough And We’re Not Taking Any
More
The bleakness of our weather at this time of the year is testimony that this is no time to hold an election.
23:
National
Will Still Lift GM
Moratorium
"National's position on lifting genetic modification moratorium remains unchanged and follows the sound and comprehensive recommendations of last year's Royal Commission," says National Party Leader Bill English.
24:
Self-Described
Eminent NZers Raise Suspicions
The credibility of Sir Peter Elworthy's grandly named "Sustainability Council" has to be challenged, ACT Environment Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said.
3 July 2002 “At a meeting at Greenwood Park Retirement Village last Monday National’s Tony Ryall accused a senior Radio New Zealand journalist of a serious breach of journalistic ethics,” New Zealand First deputy leader Peter Brown said.
26:
Donald
Outlines Super Policy
Green Party Co-leader Rod Donald today outlined the party's superannuation policy in a speech to a Grey Power meeting in Waikanae, north of Wellington.
27:
A
Green Paper on New Zealand Defence Strategy
Successive New Zealand governments have discouraged both public debate and public consultation about defence strategy. The result is an absence of any defence strategy, lower defence spending and an increasing specialization in high-risk ground forces.
28:
National
disinters another retro policy
“Is National planning to fight this entire election campaign on the retrogressive and discredited policies of the 1990s,” Finance Minister Michael Cullen asked today.
29:
All
NZers Are Paying For Labour's
Inaction
"Households and businesses are now paying for Labour's inability to deal with the real issues that will raise New Zealand's long-term, sustainable growth rate," says National Finance spokesman David Carter.
30:
UQ
Wire: Michel Chossudovsky - Political
Deception
Was it an ‘intelligence failure’ to give red carpet treatment to the ‘money man’ behind the 9-11 terrorists, or was it simply ‘routine’
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Peter Dunne: MPs Unusually Quiet On Pay Rise
Ian Powell: Cuba And New Zealand: A Relationship Worthy Of Strengthening
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Peter Dunne: Luxon Gets Out His Butcher's Knife - Briefly