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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:
Alister
Barry On What Don Brash Would Do As
PM
Scoop's KEVIN LIST caught up with Alister Barry after his films had aired and questioned the 'Don Brashologist' on where he thought Don Brash would like to take New Zealand economically and socially should he become prime Minister after the 2005 general ...
3:
The
worst-behaved MP’s of 2004
United Future leader and Ohariu-Belmont MP, Peter Dunne, today released his annual list of Parliament’s worst-behaved MP’s for 2004.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Real-time
Antivirus Scanning for MSN
Hotmail
Award-winning Technology from a Global Antivirus Market Leader Helps Enhance Security for 187 Million Email Accounts
5:
Jewish
American Plans Put Israel's Wall On
Trial
Activist Kate Raphael Bender plans to put Israel's Wall on trial. Bender, a Jewish lesbian activist from the Bay Area in the United States, was arrested on December 14 at a protest against the construction of the Apartheid Wall in Bil'in village ...
6:
Daniele
Ganser: NATO's Secret Armies
At a time when experts are debating whether NATO is suited to deal with the global ''war on terror'', new research suggests that the alliance’s own secret history has links to terrorism.
7:
New
Zealand Becoming A Toothless
Society
New Zealand First spokesperson for health Barbara Stewart is criticising the Government for not acting sooner to rescue the appalling state of our school dental service.
8:
Images:
Departing LOTR Stars Meet Their
Planes
The Lord of the Ring's stars come face to face with themselves on the side of Air NZ planes as they bid New Zealand goodbye at Wellington Airport before boarding the Air New Zealand 767 emblazoned with giant images of the characters Aragorn and Arwen.
9:
UN
Nuclear Watchdog Launches Peaceful Nuke
Project
Furthering its mission to harness nuclear technology for peaceful uses, the UN watchdog entrusted with preventing the spread of nuclear weapons has launched a pilot project for collaboration with distinguished institutions around the world for research on ...
10:
Electoral
Fight Becomes 'biggest deal since
selma'
COLUMBUS -- As Republican officials stonewall subpoenas and subvert the recount process, Rev. Jesse Jackson has pronounced Ohio's vote fraud fiasco "the biggest deal since Selma" and has called for a national rally at "the scene of the crime" in Columbus ...
11:
William
Rivers Pitt: It Will All Be Over
Soon
Everyone can relax. This thing is clearly getting ready to wind down. Ask the brilliant minds up at the Pentagon. Back in April 2003, a formal Pentagon planning session stated emphatically that the U.S. occupation of Iraq would be coming to an end in ...
12:
Give
Us The Real Figures On Maori
TV
National Party MP Murray McCully says the Minister of Maori Affairs must make the real viewing figures available for the Maori Television Service.
13:
PUBLIC
ADDRESS 23/12/04 - Changes
So long, Dick. Hello, Bob. | Dec 23, 2004 11:06 GUEST: James Littlewood in the culture I think the stress of swapping houses is over-rated. I've never lost a spouse, but I've lost a sibling, and you can take it from me that moving house is much, much ...
14:
No
Right Turn: Danger For
Labour?
Writing in the Guardian, Tony Benn highlights six dangers for Labour which are progressively alienating its core supporters. He's writing about the British Labour Party of Tony Blair, but there is a similar trend at work here: in the struggle to hold the centre ...
15:
Sierra
Leone: 10 death sentences for
treason
Amnesty International is dismayed at the death sentences passed by Freetown’s High Court yesterday against 10 men convicted of treason.
16:
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 ...
17:
Campaign
to remove Destiny Church from our
schools
Destiny church Wellington, who hold their weekly church services at Wellington High school have ignored the wishes of a 603 strong petition of the 1100 student population calling for their removal.
18:
Consent
granted for White Hill wind farm
State-owned electricity generator and retailer Meridian Energy has gained resource consent for its proposed wind farm at White Hill in Southland.
19:
Millions
In Southern Africa Face Hungry
Xmas
With the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) facing a severe shortfall in funds, millions of people across southern Africa are again confronted by the grim prospect of not having enough to eat during the Christmas season and beyond unless donors ...
20:
WTO
working parties for Afghanistan and
Iraq
The General Council, on 13 December 2004, established working parties to examine, respectively, the membership applications of Afghanistan and Iraq.
21:
Public
Address 22/12/04 - That Bloke
Was that the sound of John Tamihere believing his own hype? In yesterday's Checkpoint interview, Tamihere reacted quite oddly to a fairly benign invitation from Mary Wilson to undertake that he would not in future say one thing and do another...
22:
Honduras
Validates its Banana Republic
Status
• As Christmas approaches, Washington turns a blind eye to human rights abuses as Honduras strives to maintain its hemispheric lap-dog status
23:
Valenzeula:
Amerikan Terrorists, American
Tragedy
When the thunderous clouds of fascists past and corporatists present finally dissipate over the vast lands of the United States, leaving in its wake a nation recovering from the violent downpours of mass lunacy, fear and collective schizophrenia that ...
24:
Doug
Giebel: Holier Than Thou - Who Owns
God?
During Christmas season 2004, some self-professed Christians, to celebrate the birth of the ''Prince of Peace,'' have chosen to wage a vicious, unforgiving and hate-filled war against those who do not subscribe to their politicized dogma.
25:
Ohio
Vote Count Battles Escalate - New Evidence
The epic legal battle over Ohio's presidential vote count is back in the state Supreme Court, with an election challenge claiming George W. Bush was wrongly declared the winner on Nov. 2 and seeking a court-ordered reversal of that victory.
26:
1
Million Refugees Worldwide Threatened By
Hunger
With more than a million refugees worldwide threatened with hunger and malnutrition in the New Year due to food shortages, the United Nations today launched an urgent appeal for international aid, especially for Africa where some woman have resorted ...
27:
Crown
Law Advice Vindicates Auckland
Resolutions
The opinion released from the Crown Law Office on 22 December 2004, that there is no legal requirement on the Auckland City Council to tag the LIM reports of properties that may have been used for past horticultural purposes, supports and strengthens ...
28:
Iwi
blocks access to foreshore
Nelson MP Nick Smith says hundreds of boat-owners will be angry and disappointed that Maori today blocked access to the safest launching site between Nelson and the Marlborough Sounds.
29:
Robert
Higgs: The Iraq War, A Catastrophic
Success
On the campaign trail last October, Vice President Dick Cheney created a small stir when, speaking of the Iraq war, he declared: ''I think it has been a remarkable success story to date when you look at what has been accomplished overall.''
30:
Congratulations
to Securities Commission
ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks today congratulated the Securities Commission and Michael Beard for settling the TranzRail insider trading prosecution of Mr Beard.
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