TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
Scoop Is In The House
LEAD STORY: Scoop Scoop: 911 Investigator Reveals FBI Was Told To Slow Down Its Investigation
Auckland Performances For Ahmed Zaoui: Saturday
MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
Palestinian National Authority In Crisis: Arafat Urges Restraint From Supporters
INTERNATIONAL NEWS HEADLINES
SCOOP COLUMNS:
Terror Alerts For Political Gain – Theory & Fact
The Inside Oil From Molesworth & Featherston
Hard News Is There!
Pacific Ecologist: West Papua – An Issue For The Pacific Forum
Bernard Weiner: Explaining America's Backward Progression
Chris Sanders: The Death Of The Democratic Party
William Pitt Gets His City Back
OTHER NEWS (Just Politics)
ACT Wants More Engine Noise Less Wet Blanket
McCully Asks Clark To Butt Out Of Rugby Again
Dunne Defends Middle NZ's Values
GE Free Northland Gets ACT Cold Shoulder
Child Poverty Still A Problem – Bradford
Training In Disability Awareness For Taxi Drivers
Cullen Talks To The Sallies
PM Off To Pacific Islands Forum Thursday
Kedgley Sees Door Opening For Complementary Health
Wood Pellet Co. Gets Emission Units
Building Bill Made Healthier By Greens
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Don McGlashan Plays For Ahmed Zaoui - Saturday
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TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS------------
Scoop Is In The House
– For today's Q see... Questions & Answers for Oral Answer 3 August 2004 [1]
LEAD STORY:
Scoop Scoop: 911 Investigator Reveals FBI Was Told To Slow Down Its Investigation
- "After the terrorist attacks of September 11 we, the translators at the FBI’s largest and most important translation
unit, were told to slow down, even stop, translation of critical information related to terrorist activities so that the
FBI could present the United States Congress with a record of ‘extensive backlog of untranslated documents’, and justify
its request for budget and staff increases." See... UQ Wire: Sibel Edmonds Letter To Thomas Kean [1] (Note: This report is rating through the roof today)
Auckland Performances For Ahmed Zaoui: Saturday
- One year ago, Ahmed Zaoui was granted refugee status, yet he remains in prison. No charges have been laid against
him, and he is held purely on the basis of secret information which neither he nor his lawyers have seen. This is New
Zealand’s Guantanamo Bay. See... Don McGlashan Plays For Ahmed Zaoui - Saturday [1]
MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
BNZ Turns Up Winter Heat In Home Loans Market [1] Home loan rates start rising [2] Americans Living in NZ Urged to Register and Vote [3] WTO Dangerous fudge not multilateralism victory [4] Comvita Opens Branch Office In Taiwan [5]
Palestinian National Authority In Crisis: Arafat Urges Restraint From Supporters
- Arafat Urges Restraint, PNA Cabinet to Take Measures. An explosion in a prison in Gaza City Sunday, which reportedly
killed one person and injured nine inmates, three of them seriously, was the latest sign of the deterioration of
Palestinian security. See... Palestine Crisis Arafat Urges Restraint From Fatah [1]
INTERNATIONAL NEWS HEADLINES
UN Urges Sudan To Reject Ethnic Divisions [1] Thailand Pledges Help For Drug Users To Avoid AIDS [2] Georgia: UN To Assist Flood-Ravaged Svaneti Region [3] Lebanon: New Action to Ratify International Criminal Court [4] Algeria: Mass Graves Must Be Investigated [5]
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Sunday Night's Zaoui Concert - Photo Essay
SCOOP COLUMNS:
Terror Alerts For Political Gain – Theory & Fact
- I'm probably one of thousands-maybe tens of thousands-who believe President George W. Bush will do anything to retain
control of the White House. It's not safe to have a healthy dose of skepticism like this these days. But this has to be
said. I don't believe the country is going to be attacked by al-Qaeda anytime soon. See Jason Leopold... Terrorist Warnings Another Way To Steal Election [1] - BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: - America's two leading newspapers have just published reports quoting senior officials saying that the information the
alerts were based on is old and out of date. See... WashPost & NYT Report Latest Terror Alert Is Bogus [2]
The Inside Oil From Molesworth & Featherston
- The shape of the next government looks to be changing in the exclusive Molesworth & Featherston rolling poll of polls. We’ve got the low-down on this week’s Cabinet, a preview of the PM’s visit to the
Pacific, a round-up of the economy, new media gossip and a little more… See... Molesworth & Featherston - 3 August 2004 [1]
Hard News Is There!
- It takes about 55 minutes to travel by train from Wellington station to Paraparaumu, and I passed the time on
Saturday by dipping again into Michael King's Tread Softly For You Tread On My Life... See... Public Address 03/08/04 - Pink Frost [1]
Pacific Ecologist: West Papua – An Issue For The Pacific Forum
- Multinational companies finance Indonesian forces in the region. West Papuans face increasing threats with
Indonesia’s recent partition of the country. Will Pacific Islands Forum governments and people power internationally
support the list of recommendations at the end of the article to prevent genocide and build support for sustainable
options for human development? See... Forgotten Pacific Nation Threatened With Genocide [1]
Bernard Weiner: Explaining America's Backward Progression
- You write that you're ''confused'' about how we American progressives can possibly nominate what you call a
''militarist candidate'', when the bulk of the Democratic Party -- and the population at large -- is opposed to the war
in Iraq. See... Letter to Europe: America's Weird Election Dance [1]
Chris Sanders: The Death Of The Democratic Party
- The Democratic Party’s national convention was held last week. It was, frankly, less a political convention than a
wake for the corpse of the Democratic Party, presided over by the undertaker himself, the Democratic Leadership Council.
See... Chris Sanders: The Undertakers' Ball [1]
William Pitt Gets His City Back
- The banners have come down, the fences have been dismantled, and the city of Boston is returning to normal. All the
shiny ones - Blitzer and Brokaw, Dobbs and Rather and the rest - have packed their matched luggage and fought the
traffic to Logan ... See... William Rivers Pitt: Shoulder to Shoulder [1]
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Leap Of Faith At Cardrona!
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OTHER NEWS (JUST POLITICS)------------
ACT Wants More Engine Noise Less Wet Blanket
- ACT New Zealand Transport and Auckland Issues Spokesman Deborah Coddington today urged Transit New Zealand to quit
opposing the Auckland V8 Supercar street-race and work more closely with event organisers to ensure its success. See... Stop Being Such A Wet Blanket, Transit [1]
McCully Asks Clark To Butt Out Of Rugby Again
- “Helen Clark should stick to cuddling up with a book instead of interfering in yet another aspect of New Zealanders’
lives about which she knows nothing,” says National Sport, Fitness and Leisure spokesman, Murray McCully. See... Jock Hobbs for Finance Minister [1]
Dunne Defends Middle NZ's Values
- The Government would rather pull teeth than promote the values of middle New Zealand in our schools, United Future
leader Peter Dunne said today. See... Dunne: Govt is anti middle NZ values [1]
GE Free Northland Gets ACT Cold Shoulder
- ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Northland-based MP Dr Muriel Newman today expressed her concern at moves by the
Northland Regional Council and local mayors to declare the Northland region a GE free area. See... Councils On The GE-Free Bandwagon [1] and Farmers Will Ignore Councils' GE-Free Rulings [2]
Child Poverty Still A Problem – Bradford
- Green MP Sue Bradford said today that a recent report highlighting the health needs of beneficiaries' children once
again confirms the Labour Government's unwillingness to address the problem that benefits that simply too low to live
on. See... Poverty trap deepens under Labour [1]
Training In Disability Awareness For Taxi Drivers
- A new training module designed to help taxi drivers understand the unique and varied needs of passengers with
disabilities, was launched at Parliament today. See... New training module for Kiwi cabbies [1]
Cullen Talks To The Sallies
- "You have asked me to explain something about my personal vision for New Zealand, and to put more of a human face on
the role of finance minister and Deputy Prime Minister." See... Hon Michael Cullen: Speech to The Salvation Army [1]
PM Off To Pacific Islands Forum Thursday
- Prime Minister Helen Clark leaves on Thursday for the 2004 Pacific Islands Forum to be held in Apia, Samoa. She will
also visit Tokelau - the first Prime Ministerial visit since David Lange's Tokelau trip in 1985, and only the third by a
New Zealand PM. See... PM to attend Pacific Island Forum [1] (Note: Scoop will be travelling with the PM to Samoa.)
Kedgley Sees Door Opening For Complementary Health
- Green MP Sue Kedgley is calling for complementary healthcare practitioners to be integrated into the health system,
in line with the recommendations of a major report into complementary and alternative medicine in New Zealand. See... Greens want support for complementary healthcare [1]
Wood Pellet Co. Gets Emission Units
- Hastings wood pellet manufacturing company, Fire-Logs (NZ) Limited has been awarded up to 19,818 emission units,
under the government's Projects to Reduce Emissions programme. See... Wood pellet initiative rewarded emission units [1]
Building Bill Made Healthier By Greens
- The health effects of building materials will have to be taken into account by the newly-formed buildings department,
as a result of Green Party amendments to the Building Bill, which has its third reading in Parliament today [Tuesday].
See... Greens help build healthy houses [1]
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