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1: Guild:
Bush Should Be Tried For Role In
Torture
New York, June 18, 2004--The National Lawyers Guild calls for the prosecution of President George W. Bush with a "command responsibility" theory of liability under the War Crimes Act. Bush can be prosecuted under the War Crimes Act or the ...
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:
SpaceShipOne
First Private Manned Space
Mission
The world witnessed the dawn of a new space age today, as investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen and Scaled Composites launched the first private manned vehicle beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. The successful launch demonstrated that the final frontier ...
5:
Crumbling
mantra - creeping annexation
[] Avnery about the crumbling of the "No Partner" mantra [] Creeping annexation contradicts goal of peace (Ha'aretz editorial June 18)
6:
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 ...
7:
Questions
for Oral Answer - Tuesday, 22 June
2004
1. TIM BARNETT to the Minister of Defence: What decisions has the Government taken to replace the Army's light operational vehicle fleet?
8:
Robson
stands by un-Parliamentary words
Matt Robson stands by the words that saw him ejected from the Parliamentary debating chamber this afternoon.
9:
Stateside
with Rosalea: Yosemite
Photos
IMAGES TO GO WITH THE LATEST STATESIDE WITH ROSALEA….. We interrupt the previously scheduled travelog to bring you the Nightmare that is Yosemite National Park on a summer's day.
10:
Dr
Congo Has 20,000 Troops In Volatile
East
With mutineer-led insurgent fighters still present in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the transitional government has built up its own force of 20,000 troops in the area, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General ...
11:
Massive
arrests in Colombia
Several new laws and programs enacted by Colombian president Alvaro Uribe are designed to criminalize the progressive movement. Thousands of religious and human-rights activists, afrodescendants, indigenous, and student and union leaders have been detained ...
12:
Haiti:
Last chance to end cycle of
violence
The deployment of a new United Nations mission to Haiti this month represents a major opportunity, and perhaps a last chance, to break the cycle of violence and impunity that has plagued the Caribbean republic for so many years, Amnesty International ...
13:
Full
Coverage: Nicolas Berg Beheading
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Zarqawi Be Damned - Nicholas Berg screamed. He screamed when he saw the sword brandished in the hands of one of his captors. He screamed when he was pushed down on the ground and his held pulled back, ready for the slaughter. ...
14:
UN:
Beheading Of US Hostage In Saudi Arabia
Tragic
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said the execution in Saudi Arabia of a hostage from the United States was tragic, and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
15:
Public
Address 22/06/04 - TV
Identity
Alex Kingston might have been complaining recently that she's being shoved off ER for being too old, but she didn't sound that peeved about it way back in February when I interviewed her...
16:
Bill
opponents should stop being civil, come
clean
Green MP Metiria Turei says critics of the Civil Union Bill should "stop the spin" and come clean on why they are opposing it.
17:
UN
Warns Caterpillar for Bulldozer Sales to
Israel
UN warns Caterpillar that sale of bulldozers to Israel may implicate company in human rights violations
18:
Images:
Governor General Visits
Germany
New Zealand's Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright lays a wreath at the "Neue Wache" Memorial to the Victims of War and Tyranny in Berlin. Dame Silvia is on an official State Visit to Germany where she is meeting President Johannes Rau and Chancellor ...
19:
Stateside:
Nightmare In Yosemite National
Park
We interrupt the previously scheduled travelog to bring you the Nightmare that is Yosemite National Park on a summer's day.
20:
Imitation
Without Admission - Winston
Peters
Over the past few weeks some fascinating options have been thrown into the political mix in the lead up to the 2005 elections. Some are far fetched and others downright foolish, but they are what keeps politics interesting.
21:
Chuckman
Cartoon: Election Coin Flip
Cartoon by John Chuckman
22:
Innocent
Man In An Ohio Election-Terror
Scam
While the major media screams about the latest beheading in the Middle East, John Ashcroft's destruction of a man in the middle west -- likely for political purposes -- has gone unnoticed.
23:
Millions
of unwanted tyres to be Tyre
Tracked
A national tyre collection system to manage millions of old and no longer roadworthy tyres, Tyre Track, will be launched today in Wellington by the Ministry for the Environment and Motor Trade Association (MTA).
24:
Look
who has egg on their face
now?
Green MP Sue Kedgley today hailed the Advertising Standards Authority's (ASA) ruling that The Warehouse's marketing of the What A Pig Easter egg was socially irresponsible, saying it was a victory for children's health and a defeat for petty political point-scorers ...
25:
Iran
seizes three British navy vessels: media
Iran seizes three British navy vessels: media Tehran, June 21, Kyodo/OANA/IRNA -- Iran detained three British navy vessels Monday and arrested eight armed crew members, state-run television reported.
26:
The
True Cost Of Reagan And Extreme
Capitalism
Next year will mark the 25th anniversary of that remarkable moment when this country began to turn its back on values that had sustained it throughout its first two centuries – values that included balancing power and wealth with concern for, cooperation with, ...
27:
PM's
Presser: Civil Unions, SAS, SIS &
Coalitions
In This Edition: Civil Union Bill - NZ SAS soldiers injured in Afghanistan - New Zealand intelligence services and the Cold War - Polls and preferred coalition partners.
28:
Labour’s
“Diversity” Is Taxpayers’
Burden
Rt Hon Winston Peters has described the Government’s open door immigration policy and the wave of newcomers as an intolerable burden on ordinary New Zealand taxpayers.
29:
Chris
Sanders: Cover-Up Kerry Rides
Again
Last week Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan opined that inflation was not a threat to US growth, sparking a large rally in bonds. Market rates have been climbing since June 2003, a fact that is beginning to leave this bear market in bonds looking a ...
30:
Security
Council 10-Day Mission To West
Africa
Representatives of nearly all members of the United Nations Security Council have started a 10-day fact-finding mission, led by British Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry, to seven West African countries, the UN spokesman said today.
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