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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1. Dr DON BRASH (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by her statement in relation to the
agreement between Harmeet Sooden’s family and Television New Zealand, “There’s been a lot of public interest and then to
see the ...
Though I agree with Jeff Blankfort in his critique of Noam Chomsky as well-intentioned but basically a functioning
Zionist, there is one point Jeff makes in the Chomsky/Blankfort Polemic on which I differ.
San Francisco: The community of Mehdiganj in northern India has launched an indefinite vigil against a Coca-Cola
bottling plant today, demanding that the plant be permanently shut down.
Lucy Lawless displays the Insignia of a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit at Government House in Auckland. Her
citation reads: "For services to entertainment and the community. Lucy Lawless has had a long film, stage and television
career ...
Emirates, which is scheduled to add eight new destinations to its global network in 2006, has started services from
Dubai to the Indian city of Kolkata; and to the capital city of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa.
Unite Secures Historic Victory for 7000 Restaurant Brands Workers Urgent Press Release: Unite Union/SuperSizeMyPay.com
Saturday 25 March, 2006 An historic victory has been won by low paid workers. Unite Union today announced their members
had won a union ...
Analysis of the Long, Repulsive History of the United States Inflicting Torture on Its "Suspected Enemies" (in
Conjunction with a Review of A Question of Torture by Alfred W. McCoy)
1. New Zealand Qualifications Authority—Scholarship 2. Working for Families Package—Outcome 3. Working for Families
Package—Income Limits 4. Greenhouse Gas Emissions—Agriculture Question No. 3 to Minister 5. State Houses—Household
Incomes 6. Teenage Crime—Principal ...
Prime Minister Helen Clark has let a valuable opportunity slip through her fingers by not challenging British PM Tony
Blair on the war on Iraq during his visit here, Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke says.
Selwyn District Council has welcomed the decision by the High Court’s Justice Chisholm to dismiss an application for a
mandamus order that would have forced the Council to issue building consents within a shorter timeframe than it can
manage.
1. Hon BILL ENGLISH to the Minister of Education: Did the New Zealand Qualifications Authority implement 2005
Scholarship competently?
It may seem as though it's been moving along at a snail's pace, but the second part of the federal investigation into
the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson is nearly complete, with attorneys and government officials who have
remained close ...
Address at Reception in Honour of Rt Hon Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and 150th Anniversary of the
Auckland Chamber of Commerce
In the face of a sweeping debt and budgetary crisis currently afflicting the U.S. economy, the passage of the FY 2006
budget witnessed a brutal bloodletting of vital domestic programs from education and child welfare to Medicaid.
Stephen G. Rademaker, Acting Assistant Secretary, International Security and Nonproliferation Remarks to the Baltimore
World Affairs Council Baltimore, Maryland March 27, 2006
Lost amid the drama of the Christian Peacemaker Team hostage taking and rescue in Iraq are two sub-plots of some import.
One is psychological and the other is legal and fiscal.
Last week, George W. Bush got up before a gaggle of reporters and washed his hands of the mess in Iraq. The question of
how long an American presence will remain in that country "will be decided by future presidents and future governments
of Iraq," ...
Tony Blair delivered a speech in New Zealand. He is the first British leader to visit there for 50 years.
MEDIA RELEASE Toshiba Tablets take to the skies Air NZ uses Tablets in cockpits on long-haul 777 fights
Thursday 30th March - Leigh Sawmill Cafe (Dinner + Show) Friday 31st March - Sky City Theatre Auckland Saturday 1st
April - Ilott Theatre Wellington
In a day in which the House will be considering the long-term effects of greenhouse gases, the Labour Maori Caucus has
been caught in the Maori Party winds of change.
The New Zealand Food Safety Authority today reiterated its advice to women who are planning to have a baby, or who are
in the early stages of pregnancy, to take a folic acid supplement.
Car bomb-massacres, hijackings, and assassinations. Much like fashion, the tactics of terror tend to dictate trends of
their own – It's as if there's always one method of murder that appears in vogue.
Okay, when Scalito's scary twin (and not his scary puppet, Clarence Thomas), Samuel Alito, was up for nomination,
BuzzFlash reminded readers that Alito was the creator of the infamous Republican Presidential "signing statement."
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called a joint statement by the head of the Cambodian Supreme Court
and the Minister of Justice instructing all courts and judges to consider defamation a crime, a setback for the
decriminalising defamation ...
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Vann Nath is one of seven survivors of Cambodia's Tuol Sleng torture chambers, and escaped when Pol
Pot's "killing fields" regime suddenly collapsed in 1979.
Effective today, the following changes have been made to ANZ’s fixed rate home and residential investment loans:
“We are the ‘little company that could’” says PAEN Communications Ltd Director Rachel Wike. The PAEN team is
celebrating this week as they have just been awarded ISO 9001:2000 certification, making PAEN the first translation
agency in Australia or New Zealand ...
Diane Wilson is the author of An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the Fight for
Seadrift, Texas (Chelsea Green, 2005). It is a remarkable book, telling the story of Wilson's life as female shrimp boat
captain and an environmental ...
Today on Auckland's BFM ACT leader Rodney Hide attempted to explain to The Wire host Noelle McCarthy why Maori Party
co-leader Tariana Turia was invited to appear at ACT's conference. Only a few month's before Ms Turia's ACT conference
speaking engagement ...
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