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· HIGH COURT RULING ON GMOs SHOWS THAT COUNCILS OF AUCKLAND/NORTHLAND PENINSULA HA
(Jun 16, 2009)
· High Court ruling gives nod to ARC’s cautious take on GMOs
(Jun 16, 2009)
· HIGH COURT GE DECISION A VICTORY FOR NEW ZEALANDERS
(Jun 07, 2009)
· GM animal applications invalid – High Court appeal upheld
(Jun 07, 2009)
· Federated Farmers of NZ praise GM free grass
(Jun 05, 2009)
· LOCAL AUTHORITIES CONSULT RATEPAYERS ON GMO LAND USE
(Apr 09, 2009)
· GMO Views To Be Aired
(Apr 07, 2009)
· Stop acting like Muppets and cancel all GE trials
(Mar 12, 2009)
· FAR NORTH DISTRICT COUNCIL JOINS OTHER LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN REGIONAL SURVEY REGA
(Oct 09, 2008)
· FAR NORTH DISTRICT COUNCIL JOINS OTHER LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN REGIONAL SURVEY REG
(Oct 09, 2008)
· Far North Joins Regional Survey on GMOs
(Oct 07, 2008)
· Mayor backs ban on GMOs
(Sep 14, 2008)
· Report exposes Government inaction over GE
(Apr 17, 2008)
· Restore Moratorium: GE FailuresThreaten National Interest
(Apr 17, 2008)
· Proposed release of GE vaccine will be protested - Greens
(Mar 13, 2008)
· Demise of GE Sapling Trees.
(Jan 18, 2008)
· Credibility of Food Safety Regulation takes a Significant Hit
(Dec 29, 2007)
· Pamela Peters
(Oct 10, 2007)
· Simon Bliss
(Oct 10, 2007)
· Jimmy Daisley
(Oct 10, 2007)
· Warren Slater
(Oct 07, 2007)
· Vince Cocurullo
(Oct 07, 2007)
· Don Hedges
(Oct 07, 2007)
· Simon Vallings
(Oct 07, 2007)
· Stan Semenoff
(Oct 07, 2007)
· GE onus belongs with polluters, central Government
(Jul 31, 2007)
· LOCAL AUTHORITIES EXPOSE FLAWS IN THE HSNO ACT WHICH MEANS THAT RESPONSIBILITY F
(Jul 25, 2007)
· Responsiblity for GE clean ups would land on local government and local land own
(Jul 24, 2007)
· Former Crop & Food Scientist says GE Brassica field test approval lacked scrutin
(Jun 02, 2007)
· GE Brassica Approval Lacks Common Sense - But Nice Job For Some
(Jun 01, 2007)
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The People versus the Powerful is the oldest story in human history. At no point in history have the Powerful wielded so much control. At no point in history has the active and informed involvement of the People, all of them, been more absolutely required.
William Rivers Pitt: 02/25/03
The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington-based think tank created in 1997. Above all else, PNAC desires and demands one thing: The establishment of a global American empire to bend the will of all nations. They chafe at the idea that the United States, the last remaining superpower, does not do more by way of economic and military force to bring the rest of the world under the umbrella of a new socio-economic Pax Americana.
The fundamental essence of PNAC's ideology can be found in a White Paper produced in September of 2000 entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses:
Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century." In it, PNAC outlines what is required of America to create the global empire they envision.
According to PNAC, America must:
* Reposition permanently based forces to Southern Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East;
* Modernize U.S. forces, including enhancing fighter aircraft, submarine and surface fleet capabilities;
* Develop and deploy a global missile defense system, and develop a strategic dominance of space;
* Control the "International Commons" of cyberspace;
* Increase defense spending to a minimum of 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, up from the 3 percent currently spent.
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The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, signed by 57 nations but not by the United States, entered into force Sept. 11.
The U.N. treaty gives countries greater latitude to reject genetically modified foods. The United Nations ratified the protocol in 2000, and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is urging the implement it.
Under the treaty, genetically modified food exporters must provide more information about GMO products such as soybeans or corn.
Importing countries may also reject GMO imports or donations if they believe the genetically altered foods pose a risk to traditionally grown foods, undermine local cultures or harm biodiversity.
Note: [New Zealand has also NOT signed the protocol - Editor]
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Statement from Dr. Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher about the U.S. WTO challenge to the EU and the Biosafety Protocol.
Director General of the Environmental Protection Authority, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Date: 4th September 2003
The United States' challenge to the European Union in the WTO courts over Genetically Modified Organisms primarily presents a threat to African and developing countries' food sovereignty and the Biosafety Protocol.
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February 17, 1999
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - The Associated Press via NewsEdge Corporation :
U.N.-sponsored talks on regulating trade in genetically modified organisms _ from pest-resistant food crops to pharmaceuticals _ were in knots Tuesday over developing countries' insistence they be allowed to restrict imports and be compensated for any environmental damage.
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Posted on 19-9-2003 by Alan Marston
From: http://www.pl.net/6business/tinble.htm
Successive governments in New Zealand have toed the line on international trade and as everyone with a smidgen of detached observation foresaw, that line was strung out in Cancun and has hung New Zealanders out to dry. Free trade was, is and always will be a cover for commercial colonisation which if unsuccessful is quickly followed by armed attack.
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by Thom Hartmann
Published September 10, 2003 by CommonDreams.org
"Advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool."
-- (p72) "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century." (September 2000) - by The Project for a New American Century.
Imagine a bomb that only kills Caucasians with red hair. Or short people. Or Arabs. Or Chinese.
Now imagine that this new bomb could be set off anywhere in the world, and that within a matter of days, weeks, or months it would kill every person on the planet who fits the bomb's profile, although the rest of us would be left standing.
And the bomb could go off silently, without anybody realizing it had been released - or even where it was released - until its victims started dying in mass numbers.
Who would imagine such a thing?
Paul Wolfowitz, for one. William Kristol for another. And, history shows, when the men who define U.S. military policy from the shadows set their sights on something, it's worthy of our attention.
Note: In order to accomplish Genetic Engineering, a virus specifically designed to inject new DNA has to be engineered first.. a common virus used for this is based on SV40, or Simian Virus 40. SV40 is a dangerous virus and has been found as a contaminant in the Polio Vaccine made from infected Rhesus monkeys, and is strongly suspected to cause cancer in humans. Scientists studying the SV40 - cancer link have found the virus at the centre of a large number of different types of cancer growths.
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Friday, 1 August 2003, 4:46 pm
Press Release: Arena
"The Trade Liberalisation Network director Suse Reynolds accuses us of speaking on behalf of developing countries without any mandate", says Dr Jane Kelsey, editor of a new critique of the World Trade Organisation "Free Trade at Any Price? The WTO Doha Round" published by the Action, Research and Education Network of Aotearoa (ARENA) yesterday.
"Even a cursory glance shows that Free Trade at Any Price? is designed as a vehicle for those countries to speak for themselves. Pithy quotes that appear on every page include:
On the impacts for the poor: "We cannot have a free market in which the rich are free to squeeze the economic life out of the poor" (Percy Makombe, Southern and East African Trade Information Network (SEATINI) 2003)
On the role of Mike Moore: "Although the [WTO] secretariat is supposed to be neutral, the previous Director General Mike Moore himself played a role in threatening 'stubborn' delegates in Doha. In one such instance, Moore asked the official if he wanted to be consulted or terminated". (Aileen Kwa, Power Politics at the WTO, Focus on the Global South, 2002)
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GE FREE RALLY 16 NOVEMBER 2002
Address by Dr. Jane Kelsey, Professor of Law at Auckland University and member of Action, Research and Education Network of Aotearoa (ARENA)
http://www.indymedia.org.nz/front.php3?article_id=1885&group=webcast
Question: What does so-called 'free trade' have to do with GE?
Answer: Absolutely everything!
No to GE means No the World Trade Organisation!
That was a key message of the protests against the WTO in Sydney this week, although the media seemed determined to keep the actual issues off the front page.
Why is the WTO important? Because its global rules can lead to heavy punishments on governments who dare to introduce GE-free laws, to impose bans on GE imports, to require labelling of GM foods, refuse patenting of life forms, to guarantee indigenous control over taonga.
This is not about 'trade' in the old fashioned sense. The WTO imposes rules on patents, investment, agriculture, services, environmental regulation, and more.
That's why agribusinesses, drug companies, biotech companies and other transnationals are so keen to get even tighter agreements at the WTO, and similar 'free trade' agreements between countries, like the one with the US that our government seems prepared to go to war to secure.
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