TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
LEAD STORY:
NZ Agrees To Take 20 Refugees Out Of Nauru Detention
NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
Indonesia Transfers Acheh Prisoners To Java
INTERNATIONAL NEWS HEADLINES
SCOOP COLUMNS:
Hard News & More Is There
ZZZZzzzzt Scoop Has Feedback
Scoop Review: Kermadec - Where Lunch Is Seldom Free
Meditations: Communing With The Sacred Land
The End-game For The New US Space Race
Ex-Weapons Inspector To Search For The Lost City Of Atlantis
Scoop Link: German Trial Hears Evidence Of 911 Warning
Daily Katya Rivas Meditations
OTHER NEWS (Just Politics)
Farm Purchase Part Of Plan To Rid Mountains Of Sheep - ACT
School Closures Exercise Opposition
ACT Previews Dr Brash's State Of The Nation Address
$100,000 Branding Exercise For Army A Waste - National
NCEA Screwup Revealed
Parents Encouraged To Walk Kids To School
Cullen Likens Wine Industry To A Precocious Child
Fertility Treatment Funding Needs Revision – NZ First
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TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS------------
LEAD STORY:
NZ Agrees To Take 20 Refugees Out Of Nauru Detention
- New Zealand is to accept 20 humanitarian cases from Nauru referred by the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR), Immigration Minister Lianne Dalziel announced today. See... New Zealand accepts new humanitarian cases [1] MORE: - Greens - Greens urge Government to take more asylum seekers [2]
NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
Symantec - W32.Novarg.A@mm Level 4 - severe [1] Clinical trials on long-awaited 'Male Pill' [2] Border security benefits everyone – Coalition Says [3] 2003 Annual Adspend Statistics [4] Television Advertising Breaks Records [5] BNZ warns businesses of credit card Internet fraud [6] Fringe NZ Sprawls Across The Capital [7] Women Students Target Sexism in Advertising [8] Meridian applauds level of Aqua interest [9]
Indonesia Transfers Acheh Prisoners To Java
- Eighty-nine Achehnese that the Indonesian colonial government branded as members of the Free Acheh Movement (GAM)
arrived in Yogyakarta last Sunday from their jail cells in Kutaraja (Banda Acheh), in the second such transfer to
prisons in Java. See... The Transfer Of Achehnese Prisoners To Java [1]
INTERNATIONAL NEWS HEADLINES
Powell Remarks With Russian President Putin [1] The Globalization of Poverty - 2nd Edition, 2003 [2] Georgia: Put Human Rights At Heart Of Policies [3] Illegal Firings by Subcontractor in E Timor [4] In Al Nabi Saleh: 500 Forced To Stand In The Cold [5] Microsoft founder to be knighted [6]
SCOOP COLUMNS:
Hard News & More Is There
- If journalists who allowed themselves to be bought food and drink by interested parties were deemed guilty of
corruption, there wouldn't be many of us left in the trade. Although I am by no means a champion luncher, I am
occasionally fed and watered ... See... Public Address 27/01/04 - Monday Lunch [1]
ZZZZzzzzt Scoop Has Feedback
- In This edition: Cuban Internet story - Thanks So Much - Graphic Iraq War Images - Values Neutral Schooling & Integrated Schools - The World's Policeman - What's The Link - The Whey Of Life - Once Were Warriors As A Political
Weapon... See... Scoop Feedback: Cuba, War Photos, Smacking & More [1]
Scoop Review: Kermadec - Where Lunch Is Seldom Free
- I was extremely pleased to get a table for lunch at the Auckland restaurant Kermadec, a place where the food has
become legendary. See... Biff Guevara: Kermadec's - A Restaurant Review [1] MORE ON THE WINSTON FISH LUNCH AFFAIR: - Winston Peters - Peters Rejects TVNZ Allegations [2] & Legal Action To Be Taken Against TVNZ [3] - National - Nats Reject Involvement In Winston Peters Saga [4] - TVNZ - TVNZ Stands By Its Winston Peters Story [5]
Meditations: Communing With The Sacred Land
- There is a canyon near here where, if you go with a humble heart and silent mind, you can feel the presence of
ancient peoples who experienced the sacredness of the earth and universe, and thereby consecrated the land. See... Martin LeFevre: Sacred Canyon and Native Peoples [1]
The End-game For The New US Space Race
- White House Moon and Mars Exploration Initiative Masks Drive for Military Dominance of Space - Interview with Bruce
Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, conducted by Melinda Tuhus. See... Moon and Mars for U.S. Privatization? [1]
Ex-Weapons Inspector To Search For The Lost City Of Atlantis
- Claiming that he is ready to search for things that he might have a better chance of actually finding, David Kay
announced his resignation from the Iraq Survey Group, the 1,400-member team searching for weapons of mass destruction in
Iraq.... See... Kay Quits ISG To Focus On More Serious Endeavours [1]
Scoop Link: German Trial Hears Evidence Of 911 Warning
- The United States was warned of impending September 11 terrorist attacks by an Iranian spy, but ignored him, German
secret service agents testified yesterday in the trial of an alleged al-Qaida terrorist. See... UQ Wire: Trial Hears Of Iranian Agents 911 Warning [1]
Daily Katya Rivas Meditations
- My children, I am the humble Nazarene who comes like an orphan looking for love, a beggar looking for charity, a sick
person looking for consolation and a stranger looking for shelter and a place to rest. See... Katya Rivas: Follow the Trail of My Precious Blood [1]
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OTHER NEWS (JUST POLITICS)------------
Farm Purchase Part Of Plan To Rid Mountains Of Sheep - ACT
- Today's transfer of Birchwood Station, to the Conservation estate, is just another example of Labour's misguided
strategy to cleanse the South Island high country of farming activity, ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry
Eckhoff said today. See... Labour's High Country Cleansing Continues [1] MORE: - National - DOC Buying Birchwood-Idealism Out Of Control [2] - NZ First - DOC's Land Buying Spree Continues [3] - Fed Farmers - Federated Farmers Supports Open Market Purchase [4]
School Closures Exercise Opposition
- National Party Education spokesman Bill English is appalled that the Government is poised to deny parents the
opportunity to hear about the future of their school first hand. See... Parents denied chance to hear school plan [1] MORE: - Greens - Rod Donald to visit threatened Sth Cant. schools [2]
ACT Previews Dr Brash's State Of The Nation Address
- ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Stephen Franks today said he hoped that National Leader Don Brash's speech
would show that National had come to its senses on the racism soaking every cell of Government. See... ACT Will Hold National To New Clarity On Treaty [1]
$100,000 Branding Exercise For Army A Waste - National
- The Government is wasting over $100,000 on a new brand for the Army while it is plagued by embarrassing equipment
breakdowns, says National's Defence spokesman Simon Power. See... Final Bill For New Army Brand Tops $100,000 [1]
NCEA Screwup Revealed
- ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington today exposed the flaws in the New Zealand Qualifications
Authority's delivery of NCEA results by revealing that one student inadvertently received the exam papers of two other
students. See... ACT Reveals NCEA Lucky Dip [1]
Parents Encouraged To Walk Kids To School
- Parents are being encouraged to contribute to a clean, green, sustainable New Zealand by joining or starting walking
school buses as children head back to school this week. See... Time To Protect Kids And The Climate [1]
Cullen Likens Wine Industry To A Precocious Child
- In the last decade the New Zealand wine industry has progressed from being a precocious child, through a highly
promising adolescence, and into a sturdy young adulthood. See... Address to 2nd Bi-annual Wine Exporters Forum [1]
Fertility Treatment Funding Needs Revision – NZ First
- The Government’s funding policy for fertility treatment should be revised as a matter of urgency says New Zealand
First’s health spokesperson, Barbara Stewart. See... Fertility Policy Increases Risks [1]
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