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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:
'It's
For The Tongan People,' Says Award
Winner
* Pacific Media Watch Online - check the website for archive and links: http://www.pmw.c2o.org/ * Post a comment on this story at PMW's Right of Reply: http://www.voy.com/166636/
3:
Cullen
Puts Hide On Notice About Outside
Payments
Acting PM Michael Cullen today put ACT leader Rodney Hide on notice similar scrutiny being applied to suspended Cabinet Minister John Tamihere's payments from the Waipareira Trust might also be applied to payments the ACT Leader has allegedly received himself.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
State
Dept. Daily Press Briefing for October 18
BELARUS - Referendum and Parliamentary Elections / Results / OSCE Report / - Government Electoral Misconduct / Reports of Journalist Arrested - Election Observers - Consequences for U.S. Policy
5:
Questions
for Oral Answer - Tuesday, 19
October
1. Dr DON BRASH to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in Hon John Tamihere; if so, why?
6:
Diebold
Memos Disclose Florida 2000 E-Voting
Fraud
Something very strange happened in Volusia County on election night November 2000, the night that first Gore won Florida, then Bush, and then as everybody can so well remember there was a tie.
7:
Public
Address 19/10/04 - Trust?
Assuming it was accurate, last night's 3 News report on the Waiparera Trust seems to indicate that somebody stole money from the trust in 1999. There can be no other gloss put on the revelations of invoices from bogus companies and matching cheques ...
8:
Helen
Clark's double standard for
Ministers
"The public of New Zealand has every right to expect Helen Clark to apply the same rules to John Tamihere as she did to Lianne Dalziel," says National Party Leader Don Brash.
9:
Maori
Party Statement on Waipareira
Trust
“We are disappointed that the President of the Labour Party, Mike Williams, and the Electorate Chairperson for the Honourable John Tamihere, Mike Tollich, have reverted to personal attacks upon individuals involved in the Maori Party over the media in ...
10:
The
Letter: Tamihere - Time's
Up?
Tamihere - Time's Up? Labour has gone from expressing confidence that Tamihere will be cleared to saying he will win a by-election. Tamihere himself claims that 24 hours before the golden handshake story broke, he discovered that he did not support Labour's ...
11:
Photo
Essay: Powerful Mood Gains
Strength
Photo Essay: Maori, Pakeha, politicians, and gang members all joined a Hikoi on Saturday marching down Queen Street Auckland intent on pressuring the Government into withdrawing proposed legislation on the Foreshore and Seabed of New Zealand. More than 6000 people ...
12:
Africa
Needs Europe's Help With
Peacekeeping
Efforts by industrialized countries to train troops from Africa in peacekeeping are welcome but cannot substitute for those nations deploying their own forces to the continent, the senior United Nations peacekeeping official said today.
13:
Inside
A U.S. Election Vote Counting
Program
Publication of this story marks a watershed in American political history. It is offered freely for publication in full or part on any and all internet forums, blogs and noticeboards. All other media are also encouraged to utilise material. Readers ...
14:
Powell
To The U.S. Global Leadership
Campaign
SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you all very much for your warm welcome, and, Jim and Peter, I thank you for this award, and through you I thank all the members of the Campaign for presenting me with this award.
15:
Air
New Zealand Fashion Week 2004
Begins
Get ready for another dose of fabulous fashion. The big names of New Zealand fashion are back and with them a raft of new design talent for the fourth annual Air New Zealand Fashion Week (18-21 October 2004).
16:
Chris
Carter’s Absurd Claim
The Hon. Chris Carter, the self-proclaimed practising homosexual Cabinet Minister promoting the Civil Union Bill, delivered the keynote speech on Saturday 16th October 2004 to the annual conference of the NZ Rationalists and Humanists Association which ...
17:
New
Zealand a world-class film making
destination
Business and cultural relations between India and New Zealand will continue to grow strongly, said the Prime Minister Helen Clark during a visit to Mumbai.
18:
Powell
IV by Clarence Page of The Chicago
Tribune
MR. PAGE: I was talking with friends and doing a research and all. I was trying to get, you know, the top 10 questions everybody would love to ask Colin Powell.
19:
Business
And Government Leaders To Discuss Doha
With the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of negotiations for a new global trade pact picking up steam, Asian and Middle Eastern business leaders and governments meet in Manila this month to see how they can work together to ensure the talks produce ...
20:
American
Coup: Mid-Term Election Polls vs
Actuals
Scoop’s analysis found shows that - according to the polls - the Republican Party experienced a pronounced last minute swing in its favour of between 4 and 16 points. Remarkably this last minute swing appears to have been concentrated in its effects ...
21:
A
cheap muzzle is still a muzzle, Dr
Cullen
Green MP Sue Bradford said today that the Government’s proposed rewrite of the Charities Bill has ignored the real concerns of the community and voluntary sector that the bill poses a significant threat to the sector’s autonomy and freedom from government ...
22:
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.
23:
Flashback:
When Perk Buster Rodney Hide Was
Busted
Rodney Hide the onetime super perk buster – but now rather more subdued Leader of the Act Party - has once again been in attack mode this week regarding a number of allegations swirling around Labour Cabinet Minister John Tamihere.
24:
Oil
Shortages And Oil Prices – What Should We
Do?
Governments around the world are becoming increasingly focused on the rapid rise in oil prices. They wonder if these recent prices rises are simply short term responses to short term problems, or whether they signal the end of the era of cheap oil – ...
25:
M.
Shahid Alam: America, Imagine
This!
Over the past three years, I have followed the mainstream public discourse on the abhorrent attacks of 9-11 with the eerie feeling that I was watching a new version of Hamlet where the King of Denmark – the father of Prince Hamlet – dies a natural ...
26:
ACTs
The Letter - Monday 18 October
2004
Labour has gone from expressing confidence that Tamihere will be cleared to saying he will win a by-election. Tamihere himself claims that 24 hours before the golden handshake story broke, he discovered that he did not support Labour's foreshore bill.
27:
Questions
linger after hijack of Corngate inquiry
"The select committee inquiry into Corngate failed to uncover the truth about what occurred because of the Government's abuse of its numbers on the committee," says National Party Environment spokesman Nick Smith.
28:
Hubbard
Foods Apologises To Foodstuffs
Hubbard Foods has apologised to the Foodstuffs Group and its members for having trade terms that were different over a defined period from those provided to a major competitor which it also supplies.
29:
Norwegians
Challenge Bush In Washington Post
Ad
When the Norwegian government doesn't tell George W. Bush the Norwegian opinion on the Iraqi war, we have to tell him ourselves.
30:
Public
Address 18/10/04 - Debates And
Dopes
I've been fascinated by the controversy over John Kerry's mention of Dick Cheney's l*sbian daughter, Mary, during the third presidential debate. In answering a question about whether homosexuality was a choice or not, after Bush had claimed that he didn't ...
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