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Top 30 Items on Scoop 13/Dec/2005
1: Questions
And Answers - 13 December 2005
1. Dr DON BRASH (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in all her Ministers; if not, why not?
2:
British
Mercenaries Shooting at Baghdad Motorists
Security contractors of the so-called "Victory" Group of the British mercenary Firm Aegis Defense Services have committed the ultimate war crime: the indiscriminate killing of civilians as part of a "game", not a video game but a real game of shooting ...
3:
London
Oil Depot Fire: Big Satellite
Images
Satellite images of Southern England taken over the last two days showing smoke plumes from the burning Buncefield oil depot northwest of London. The fires began with explosions on Sunday morning and are still being fought.
4:
Officials
in Eritrea, Attempting to Diffuse
Crisis
The top United Nations officials travelling to the Horn of Africa at the urgent request of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to diffuse the crisis caused when Eritrea requested the pullout of peacekeeping personnel of certain nationalities have arrived in the ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
Black
Ink Monday – Outsourcing News Editorial
If no one is willing to pay the creators, who will create? We’re in for a mighty bleak world when newspapers stop paying editorial cartoonists.
6:
25
U.S. Christians Reach Base at
Guantánamo
25 U.S. Christians Reach U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo, Hold Anti-Torture Vigil Outside Gates
7:
Fideo
Castro Speech: 60th University
Commemoration
Speech delivered by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of his admission to University of Havana, in the Aula Magna of the University of Havana,
8:
Maori
name to Promote Smoking Outrages
Sharples
Dr Pita Sharples, Co-leader of the Maori Party, spoke out about the mis-use of the Maori name in a brand of cigarettes produced by tobacco company Philip Morris.
9:
Philip
Morris does it again, says PHA
The Public Health Association (PHA) is horrified that tobacco company Philip Morris is marketing a brand of cigarettes called ‘Maori Mix’.
10:
Veil
of Secrecy lifted on Somali
Community
In a national first, one of New Zealand’s newest and most misunderstood communities is the focus of a social photography project due to open at the Waikato Museum on December 3.
11:
Vanuatu
volcano eruption: Oxfam’s
response
International aid agency Oxfam is responding to the humanitarian needs of people affected by the volcanic eruption of Mt Ambae in Vanuatu which displaced half the population of Ambae island.
12:
Fraser
shows TVNZ giving lip service to
Charter
A memo to the TVNZ Board from then CEO Ian Fraser says the state broadcaster has become virtually indistinguishable from commercial channels and is giving no more than lip service to its Charter obligations, Green Party Broadcasting Spokesperson ...
13:
He
Aitua : Most Reverend Max Takuira
Mariu
The Maori Party today joined whanau all over Aotearoa in mourning the loss of the Most Reverend Max Takuira Mariu SM DD.
14:
Robotics
gains a new focus at Vic
Designing and building robots that can operate without human intervention will be one of the options available for postgraduate science students at Victoria University in 2006.
National’s Law & Order spokesman, Simon Power, says the public has a right to know which officer in the New Zealand Police was paid more than $800,000 in the 2004-05 financial year.
16:
Research
Briefing: Let’s Talk About Sex,
Baby
New Zealand has increasing rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), Chlamydia in particular. World-leading market researcher and specialist in human behaviour, Tracey Rankin, has interviewed young, sexually active New Zealanders to help understand ...
17:
Scoop's
Top 30 Items For Monday
1: British Mercenaries Shooting at Baghdad Motorists Security contractors of the so-called "Victory" Group of the British mercenary Firm Aegis Defense Services have committed the ultimate war crime: the indiscriminate killing of civilians as ...
18:
Good
Morning off the air as staff
strike
Staff at TVNZ’s Avalon Studio have walked off the job, taking the Good Morning programme off the air.
19:
Fat
Ass: Rear End Injections Fall
Short
Dublin - An injection into the patient’s bottom may not be such a reliable method to administer medication. That’s the result of a study from physicians of the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin. The study has found many patients have too much fatty ...
20:
Jane
Kelsey WTO: The Antidote to
Fear-Mongering
The battle for the hearts and minds of Hong Kong took a turn yesterday when the first mass mobilization against the WTO was a colourful, festive and totally peaceful affair. Local media reports expressed surprise; yet their stories were still refracted against ...
21:
Last
straw for Benson-Pope
“How many chances is Helen Clark going to give David Benson-Pope?” asks National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins. She is commenting on Mr Benson-Pope’s latest retraction, delivered to Parliament late last night after earlier denying he had ...
22:
Scoop
News: Wairarapa Shaken By Moderate
Quake
An earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter Scale struck the Wairarapa at 2:55am, centered 20 kilometres east of Pahiatua. The Geological & Nuclear Sciences data centre said the quake had a focal depth of 25 km and will have been felt throughout the ...
23:
Call
for Liberia Party Leader to Calm
Supporters
The head of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) today called on the losing presidential candidate to calm his supporters following two incidents yesterday in the capital, Monrovia, in which one Liberian police officer was seriously wounded ...
24:
RANZCP
concerned by reporting of safety
data
The New Zealand Branch of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) says it is concerned inaccurate reporting of safety data relating to the prescription of newer SSRI antidepressants in adolescents may be preventing this ...
25:
Belarus
Law Changes Could Threaten Basic
Freedoms
A United Nations human rights expert has appealed to Belarus not to adopt new provisions for its legal codes that he says could threaten basic freedoms of individuals and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and even make it difficult for him to fulfil ...
26:
Public
Address 12/12/05 - Scary
In the last couple of years, the slightly foggy concept of "race relations" has ridden high in surveys of issues of concern to New Zealanders. That might be put in context by what happened in Sydney yesterday...
27:
Jamaica:
HIV/AIDS Activist Steve Harvey
Murdered
Human Rights Watch mourns the death of Steve Harvey, a leading Jamaican HIV/AIDS activist who worked tirelessly to defend the health and human rights of people living with and at high-risk of HIV/AIDS.
28:
Gala
of The Royal Horses to Tour NZ
The internationally-acclaimed Lippizaner horses, together with a cavalcade of the best of the Baroque stallions come to New Zealand in February in one of the largest events of its kind.
29:
Harold
Pinter Nobel Lecture: Art, Truth &
Politics
In 1958 I wrote the following: 'There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.'
30:
RSA
Security Makes Four Key
Appointments
RSA Security has announced four key appointments to its Australia & New Zealand and Asia Pacific operations. This follows a global reorganisation of the company’s sales and support operations aimed at broadening the company’s customer base, expanding ...
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Martin LeFevre - Meditations: The Antithesis Of What Jesus Taught And Lived 
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Binoy Kampmark: Concentrated Markets And Iceless Fokkers
Binoy Kampmark: Catching Pegasus - Mercenary Spyware And The Liability Of The NSO Group
Ramzy Baroud: The World Owes Palestine This Much - Please Stop Censoring Palestinian Voices