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1:
Cheney
Connected Co. Faces CA Criminal
Charges
Three years ago, while California’s energy crisis was spiraling out of control, Vice President Dick Cheney secretly met with half-dozen corporate executives of the country’s largest energy companies to hammer out a national energy policy for President George ...
2:
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.
3:
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 ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Haiti
Under U.S.Tutelage and
Control
It’s a win for Secretary of State Powell’s confused, contradictory and hypocritical policy, but does it advance authentic U.S. national interests?
5:
Assassination
of Sheik Yasin Opened Pandora's
box
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) extra-judicially executed the founder and spiritual leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas Sheikh Ahmad Yasin while leaving a mosque after he performed his predawn prayers in Gaza City early Monday.
6:
The
Real Deal: 9-11 Profiteering
A Framework for Building the ''Cui Bono?'' UnAnswered Questions - Much has transpired since September 11, 2001. Something does not add up. Someone has something to hide.
7:
USA
Reacts to Israeli Killing of Hamas
Founder
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan told reporters March 22 that the U.S. government did not receive prior warning from Israel about the recent Israeli attack that killed Hamas founder/leader Sheikh Ahmed Yasin.
8:
Public
Address 23/03/04 - Out For A
Duck
One of the joys of being a self-employed knowledge worker is that when you want to go and do something, you go and do it. So When the ninth South African wicket fell at Eden Park yesterday, Fiona and I decided we'd get down there and witness a historic ...
9:
Questions
for Oral Answer - Tuesday, 23 March
2004
1. LYNNE PILLAY to the Minister of Education: What steps is he taking to ensure that all children develop basic literacy skills?
10:
New
Zealander First To Explain UFOs
For centuries unexplained lights have appeared in the night sky with no suitable theory though many have been advanced. A New Zealander is claiming he was the first to successfully explain the mystery lights commonly called "UFOs" with ...
11:
Peters
Challenges Brash To Tv Debate
Rt Hon Winston Peters has offered to appear on TVNZ’s Holmes show with National leader Don Brash tonight to debate the major political issues facing New Zealand.
12:
A
Chance To Meet Mary-Kate And Ashley In
LA
The ZM radio network in association with the mary-kateandashley brand is searching for New Zealand's biggest Mary-Kate and Ashley fan! The winner and two companions will get to meet the most famous teenagers on the planet in their home city, Los ...
13:
Sudan:
World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis
Unfolding
Describing the situation in western Sudan's Darfur region as "one of the worst in the world," the United Nations' most senior humanitarian official in Sudan has called for greater attention to the plight of civilians in the area.
14:
Tamils
suspect India's hand in Karuna's revolt
Tamils suspect the hand of India in the revolt of the LTTE's eastern commander, Col.Karuna.
15:
Palestine
PM: Killing Crazy Dangerous Cowardly
Act
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) extra-judicially assassinated the spiritual leader of Hamas Sheikh Ahmad Yasin while leaving a mosque after he performed his predawn prayers in Gaza early Monday. The martyr founded the Islamic Resistance Movement ...
Cartoon by John Chuckman on the assassination of Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Yassin
17:
Sharon
Speaks On His Assassination of Sheikh
Yasin
This morning, the State of Israel struck at the head of the Palestinian terrorist murderers. The essence of this man's ideology was one the murder and killing any Jews, and the destruction of the State of Israel. I presume you are all aware of ...
18:
Greenpeace
occupies timber ship in Belgium
Greenpeace occupies timber ship in Belgium in bid to save orang-utans and tigers from extinction
19:
Toni
Solo: Independent Mis-reporting In
Venezuela
Many people read the London based Independent newspaper because among its reporters is the outstanding Robert Fisk. The anti-war stance of the newspaper on Iraq and its stance on genetically manipulated foods and other environmental issues may give ...
20:
No
Right Turn: The Importance Of "Treaty
Clauses"
Don Brash has talked about removing "Treaty clauses" from legislation, condemning them as both vague and an example of "Maori privilege". What are they and why are they necessary?
21:
David
Miller: Israel’s ‘Decapitation’
Strike
Last year, this column wrote that Israel’s deployment of F-16 fighters to attack leading Palestinian militants marked a significant development in the conflict between the two sides.
22:
Emirates
Non-Stop Daily Between Dubai And
Vienna
Emirates, the Dubai-based international airline, is again expanding its European network with plans to link Dubai and Vienna. The world's fastest-growing intercontinental airline will start with four non-stop flights a week to the Austrian capital from ...
23:
Taxpayers
funding second Maori TV channel
"Taxpayers will be alarmed to learn that they are funding a second Maori TV channel before the first has even got off the ground," says National Party Social Services spokeswoman Katherine Rich.
24:
Did
the US unload WMD's in Iraq last
week?
The article below in the Tehran Times (13 March) leaves me wondering whether any of the Australian media organisations has 1) spotted it, 2) reported this and/or 3) conducted further investigations into this matter. Tehran Times claims that shipments ...
25:
UQ
Wire: 9-11 Cover-up Ads in Washington, DC
WASHINGTON -- March 22, 2004 -- ( TomFlocco.com ) -- A pair of citizen activists, Kyle F. Hence of Rhode Island and John Judge of Washington, DC, have placed themselves among those at the forefront of a grassroots, citizen-inspired quest for the truth ...
26:
Yasin's
Assassination Worse than a crime
Uri Avnery on the assassination of Sheikh Yassin [] Translation of Gush Shalom press release - sent out early morning [] Our call to join today's Peace Now protest
27:
Palestinians
Shocked, Gloomy and Boiling
GAZA, Palestine - - A horrible state of mourning engulfed the Palestinians following the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yaseen, the founder and spiritual leader of "Hamas" today dawn in an Israeli air strike shortly after leaving "the Islamic society" ...
28:
Guess
Who’s Coming To Dinner, Annette ?
“I am heading to Wellington to get Annette King to show some accountability in regards to listening to the people’s desire to retain Queen Mary Hospital” says Tom Dowie, on day 10 of his hunger strike at the Canterbury District Health Board’s decision ...
29:
Questions
& Answers for Oral Answer 23 March
2004
1. Literacy—Children 2. Spring Hill Prison, Waikato—Iwi Consultation 3. Local Authorities—Alternative Funding 4. Foreshore and Seabed—Customary Title 5. Obesity—Students, Hawke's Bay 6. Nutrition—Reports 7. Security—Residency and Citizenship 8. Retail Industry—Skilled ...
30:
MOTORNET:
Saab Drop-Top An Eye Opener
I have to confess to a certain scepticism when it comes to convertibles, and by extension, to the types of people who drive them. Call me old fashioned, but they rarely strike me as serious and in some regards, could even be dismissed as being frivolous. The ...
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Ian Powell: Cuba And New Zealand: A Relationship Worthy Of Strengthening
Gordon Campbell: On bird flu, AUKUS entry fees and Cindy Lee
Binoy Kampmark: Israel’s Anti-UNRWA Campaign Falls Flat
Peter Dunne: Luxon Gets Out His Butcher's Knife - Briefly
Binoy Kampmark: Warring Against Encryption, Australia Is Coming For Your Communications
Gordon Campbell: On Fast Track Powers, Media Woes And The Tiktok Ban