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1:
Why
Not Just Genetically Engineer Women For
Milk?
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.
2:
Images:
Lord Of The Rings Exhibition At Te
Papa
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 ...
3:
Free
trade deal a tragedy for New
Zealand
National Party Leader Don Brash says the free trade deal announced today between Australia and the United States is a tragedy for New Zealand.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Skull
& Bones & John Kerry & President Bush
A little-known fact unites Democratic frontrunner John Kerry and President Bush: they are both members of Yale's secret society Skull and Bones. We speak with the author of "Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths ...
The Green Party is calling on the Labour government to abandon any hope of negotiating a so-called free trade deal with the United States, as details begin to emerge about the Australia-US free trade agreement signed today.
6:
Public
Address 09/02/04 - Rushes
Clearly, things got emotional at Waitangi this year, but we'd do well to remember that we have seen far more dramatic events in Waitangi Day's brief history as a national celebration. In 1984, the last commemoration before Treaty claims were seriously ...
7:
XTRA
Jetstream Plans Include Flat-Rate
Broadband
Telecom will launch a new range of residential Xtra JetStream plans next month, including a flat-rate broadband plan.
8:
Smith: Brash's colonialism betrays his
ignorance
Don Brash's comments on the Treaty of Waitangi and on Maori portray the blindness of a colonialist mentality and simply demonstrate his ignorance of the fundamentals of the Treaty of Waitangi, United Future's Maori issues spokesman, Murray Smith, ...
9:
Letters:
House Disorder – Brash – Brash &
Brash
As i trooped on down to the House on the last sitting day of 2003 to watch you all in action, i realised how privileged we, as members of the public are to be able to observe the legislative process within the House of Representatives, and how privileged ...
10:
Sugar
Helps Australia's Medicine Go Down
"The only people celebrating the US Australia free trade agreement are Australia's ideological zealots who were prepared to sell out their country and the US companies that plan to plunder them', said Dr Jane Kelsey on behalf of ARENA (the Action, Research ...
11:
Highlighting
Government double-speak
The National Party is so disturbed about Government deception on the seabed and foreshore issue that it is undertaking a nationwide newspaper advertising campaign on Tuesday, the opening day of Parliament, to highlight this.
12:
Waitangi
Day From Aotearoa
Indymedia
“Waitangi Day is not just a holiday, it is a day of honesty and clarity about where we stand in Aotearoa, New Zealand.” – Teanau
13:
$520
Million For Rebuilding Effort In
Liberia
Donors meeting at the United Nations in New York today pledged $520 million to help Liberia to meet a host of reconstruction and humanitarian needs, including disarming fighters, creating jobs, retooling the country's infrastructure and stopping the ...
14:
Environmental
Collapse - Sooner Not Later
There is an interesting article in the February 9, 2004 edition of Fortune Magazine - CLIMATE COLLAPSE - The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare - by David Stipp. The Pentagon is apparently taking "climate change" seriously even if the White House is not. The ...
15:
US-Australia
free trade deal an opportunity for
NZ
Australia’s success to secure a free trade agreement with the United States creates a platform for New Zealand to strengthen its case for negotiating a similar arrangement without too much delay.
16:
Public
Servant or Political
Profligate?
Politicians the world over seem to share, among other things, an amazing ability to live ''high on the hog'' and bury their snouts ''deep in the public trough'' without, apparently, the least concern or consideration for those footing the bill.
17:
Australia/US
FTA - Confirms TLN's Worst
Fears
Reacting to the conclusion of a "free trade" agreement between the United States and Australia, Trade Liberalisation Network Executive Director, Suse Reynolds, said it confirmed the Network's worst fears for agriculture.
18:
Australia-United
States FTA - Overview
This agreement represents a landmark in improving Australia's trade relationship with the world's most dynamic and richest economy, a third of the world's GDP, and the world's largest merchandise and services exporter and importer.
19:
Peters
Confirms Meurant's Resignation
Received
Rt Hon Winston Peters today confirmed that he had received the resignation of Ross Meurant.
20:
Free
Trade Agreement with the United
States
Trade Minister Mark Vaile today concluded an agreed text for the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement with his US counterpart, Trade Representative Bob Zoellick.
21:
ACT's
The Letter - Monday 9 February
2004
On Tuesday parliament reopens with Labour under pressure. The TV pictures from Waitangi showed the state of the country’s race relations. Pressure is on Helen Clark to produce a Prime Ministerial statement that has an answer to the growing gap between Maori ...
22:
McDonald's
campaign "Cruelly deceptive"
Fast food giant McDonald's has been accused of making deceptive and misleading claims in their recent advertisement, promoting their "Farm Fresh" eggs.
23:
Stateside:
Poem for the National
Party
Reaction to NZ Herald report of Don Brash's comments
24:
The
secret (not glamorous) life of garment
workers
Big brand companies and retailers in the fashion industry are driving down employment conditions for millions of women workers around the world, according to a new study by international agency Oxfam.
25:
Getting
Broadband To More New
Zealanders
New JetStream packages announced today will put broadband within the reach of a whole lot more New Zealanders, Telecom Chief Executive Theresa Gattung said today.
26:
Sometimes
It Is A Soldiers Duty To Tell The
Truth
The following interview was conducted with a US Army high level commander who has been back from Iraq less than two weeks. I was shocked that someone of his rank would be so open and willing to speak out, but he told me he has lost over 100 soldiers ...
27:
Dame
Silvia Cartwright – Waitangi Day 2004
Address
Nga manuhiri tuarangi, nga rangatira ma, nga iwi o te motu, nga mihi mahana ki a koutou katoa.
28:
Upton-on-line
Diaspora Edition – Feb. 9th 2004
Alain Juppé stars as a martyr in his very own political drama, more on the veil, and three books reviewed from the burgeoning academic industry in analysing health reforms.
29:
Afghanistan's
Drug Economy Is Fuelling
Terrorism
Surging opium production in Afghanistan is contributing to instability and even terror campaigns in the war-ravaged country, the United Nations' most senior anti-drugs official said today on the eve of an international conference on the issue.
United Future leader Peter Dunne commented today "If the detail of the FTA between Canberra and Washington is as reported, then it demonstrates that the USA is still unwilling to make an honest commitment to the principles of free trade.
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