TO CHANGE MY SCOOP OPTIONS OR UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/myscoop/signin.html
IF YOU HAVE LOST YOUR PASSWORD
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/myscoop/newpass.html
Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1. Finance, Minister—Confidence 2. Interest Rates—Reports 3. Treaty of Waitangi—Education Programme 4. Research, Science
and Technology—Support for Innovation 5. Land Transport—Auckland 6. Transpower New Zealand Ltd—Minister of Finance's
Statement 7. Modern Apprenticeships—Targets
Beware. This could be your tax dollars at work. The federal government may guarantee hundreds of millions of dollars in
loans to help a former energy executive who publicly admitted he had no idea that the division he once ran cooked its
books and who is ...
With corporate media still tying itself in knots to justify US foriegn policy, more evidence emerges to support the
obvious conclusion that 'its all about oil'.
Hon PETER DUNNE to the Minister of Health: Does she believe the New Zealand public has confidence in the ability of the
healthcare sector to continue to provide quality services, in light of the survey published by The New Zealand Herald
recently showing ...
What with the poorly-mocked up pre-publicity from Bhatnagar via Farrar , and jamming suggestions coming thick and/or
fast , looks like it's open season on annoying, simplistic, disingenuous billboards.
On June 5, 2005, Ken Mehlman, Chairman of the Republican Party, was asked about the Downing Street Minutes on "NBC
News' Meet the Press." To my knowledge, this was the first serious treatment of the matter on any U.S. network news
show. It still ...
Eleven days ago, Chinese diplomat Chen Yonglin walked out of the Chinese consulate in Sydney and requested political
asylum. He is currently in hiding somewhere in Australia, but in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald [Reg Req],
he said ...
It is inevitable: sooner or later the Bush Regime will fall. Perhaps next month; perhaps after the end of the Jeb Bush
Administration in 2016. The essential question is whether it will take down the rest of us with it.
Guest what... as authentic journalist Claudia Espinoza said at midday, when we ran into each other in the middle of
today's marches: "Once again, we have to write about thousands of marchers who shut down La Paz and clash with the
police as they try ...
Monday 6 June 2005, Auckland: As the UN meeting to discuss ocean issues begins in New York, Greenpeace releases this
image today to illustrate the destruction by bottom trawling. (It was obtained under the Official Information Act in New
Zealand.)
( Uncorrected transcript—subject to correction and further editing. For corrected transcripts, please visit:
http://www.clerk.parliament.govt.nz/hansard )
Rodney Hide Address to the Hutt Rotary Club; Lower Hutt Memorial RSA, 3 Cornwall Street, Lower Hutt; Wednesday, 8 June
2005; 1pm.
'Whither the New Zealand Chinese community?' people were asking. 'How oh how shall we navigate the perilous and
two-faced seas of political identity?' But the most important question was ultimately this: 'Where are all the hot
Chinese guys at?'...
QUESTION: Madame Secretary, thank you for speaking with us. First question is what do you expect to accomplish from
this General Assembly?
Amid the flurry of political activity in Kathmandu and New Delhi in recent weeks, the myth surrounding the restoration
of multiparty democracy in 1990 is being dispelled. From the outset, it was clear that the tripartite agreement among
the royal palace, ...
Maori Television – the home of Maori sport – is supporting the upcoming Maori rugby season with exciting coverage of the
NZ Maori vs Fiji and NZ Maori vs British and Irish Lions games on the channel.
BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld reportedly tried to sell F-16 warplanes, capable of
firing Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs), to Thailand two days after he lashed out at China for
upgrading its own ...
A recent Report of the Homeland Security Council entitled Planning Scenarios describes in minute detail, the Bush
administration's preparations in the case of a terrorist attack by an outside enemy called the Universal Adversary (UA).
The editorial page of the St. Petersburg Times, under the direction of Philip Gailey,.hit Amnesty International (AI) and
its secretary-general, Irene Khan, with several low blows in the May 27 editorial “American ‘gulag’?”
robson-on-politics, a newsletter from Matt Robson MP Deputy Leader of the Progressive Party www.progressiveparty.org.nz
Since the last Fundy Post was published, the phones have not stopped ringing. The Watchdog story has appeared in Russell
Brown's Hard News, the New Zealand Herald, the Dominion Post, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Age, as well
as being ...
HUME: When we come back with our panel, the memo that the left says the U.S. media won't talk about it. Well, we'll
talk about it, next.
CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA’S FUTURE “TAKE BACK AMERICA” SPEAKER: BILL MOYERS, PRESIDENT, SCHUMAN CENTER FOR MEDIA AND
DEMOCRACY FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2005
I think the lawsuit taken by the anti-abortion group Right To Life against the Abortion Supervisory Committee and the
Attorney General will be very interesting. Right To Life says the Abortion Supervisory Committee has misinterpreted the
law and allowed ...
I don't class myself as a dairy farmer, though some years ago I did stand in for a friend and milked cows for a couple
of weeks. However I do own six cows one of which I milk for the house, and we foster calves on them so I have some
experience ...
Consumer Affairs Minister Judith Tizard’s response to the explosion of loan sharking in middle and low income
communities is reminiscent of Marie Antoinette who when told of the plight of the poor who had no bread to eat in 18th
century France is ...
Kiwifruit orchardists and farmers are being asked for their help in limiting the spread of wild kiwifruit in the Bay of
Plenty.
Amid the confusing signals streaming out of events in Latin America recently, arguments around the Central American Free
Trade Agreement juxtapose two opposing motifs.
“Treasury’s admission that it has overcooked its predictions for growth, are a slap in the face for Michael Cullen and
Labour, “ says National Party Finance spokesman John Key.
Twenty years after Chernobyl, the pro-nuclear lobby has decided that it's time to glue a happy face on nuclear power
again. Simultaneous pro-nuclear public relations campaigns have plastered their briefs in the US and British media
markets in the ...
ENDS