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The Letter Limited
The Haps; A party of professional politicians; The corruption of the list; Don has gone; How would we have handled it?;
Don wanted to resign; Leadership qualities?; It is Key; That Auditor General's ruling; Bulk Fund; Hard Landing; Wisdom
of Crowds; ...
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In a pre-planned, live sketch last night at The 2004 JUNO Awards, Canada's music awards, host Alanis Morissette made
light of the recent Super Bowl controversy in the United States when she ''exposed'' herself on Canadian television.
Capital Concerts
Wellington based concert promoter Capital C: Concerts have scored the seemingly impossible--a rare one-off New Zealand
concert by legendary rock superstar Sir Elton John for Wellington’s Westpac Stadium on Wednesday December 6.
Scoop Poll Watch
Projected number of seats in the House on the basis of the latest poll results
Bev Harris
An embezzler who specialized in sophisticated alteration of records of computerized systems was programming our voting
system, and also had access to the printing of the ballots, and ties to the private company that sorts King County
absentee ballots.
Toni Solo
Critical comment on the Nicaraguan election campaign has tended to neglect the nitty gritty of life for the country's
impoverished majority. The closer the November 5th election looms the nastier the campaign becomes.
Carolyn Baker
American inventor and entrepreneur, Henry Ford, is famous not only for his astounding success in making the automobile
available to nearly every American family in the 1920s, but also for his famous quote: “History is bunk.” Many
historians, offended ...
STATE OF IT by Selwyn Manning
Last week, while covering the Forum in Nadi, Fiji, Scoop sought the views of Fijians as to why their military was
threatening to over-throw the Fijian government. Should the demands of Fiji's military commander be taken seriously? All
said most definitely.
Waitakere City
Fireworks containing one and half tonnes of gunpowder will go into the Waitakere Fireworks Display on November 4 -
claimed to the biggest and most spectacular in Auckland.
Between The Lines
2 transcripts on the case for impeaching President George W. Bush, plus information on how to obtain books, audio CDs
and video DVDs of "The Case for Impeachment" with journalist David Lindorff and Center for Constitutional Rights
attorney Barbara Olshansky, ...
Importers Institute
The Importers Institute knows of a possible opportunity for members interested in parallel importing: Vittoria bike
tyres, made in Italy (www.vittoria.com).
Schwarzkopf Professional New Zealand Hairdresser
19 finalists from around the country have been selected by a team of international judges for this year’s Schwarzkopf
Professional New Zealand Hairdressing Awards.
Council on Hemispheric Affairs
As an addendum to Dr. Feinsilver's article on Cuba's Medical Diplomacy, please note that in August the Bush
Administration announced its intention to lure to the U.S. some of the 15 to 20 thousand doctors now providing medical
aid mainly in Venezuela ...
Ethan Tucker
Wellington turned on a blissful sunny evening for the New Zealand premiere of King Kong tonight, as the stars came
downtown to mingle with we gleeful-but-sweaty masses. The Embassy, renamed 'The Alhambra' for the night, gleamed in the
sunshine as Courtenay ...
Robert Parry
George W. Bush's blunt assertion that a Democratic victory in the Nov. 7 elections means "the terrorists win and
America loses" misses the point that Osama bin Laden stands to advance his strategic goals much faster with a Republican
victory.
Evelyn Pringle
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is conducting a formal investigation into whether Halliburton made improper
payments to government officials in Nigeria in connection with the construction and expansion by TSKJ of a natural gas
liquefaction ...
Mark Bradley
Pssst. Don’t tell Karl Rove, but I’ve just come up with a fool-proof plan guaranteeing a national Democratic Party sweep
in 2008. And the best thing about it is, it works no matter whom the Dems throw up as their presidential candidate:
Barack Edwards, ...
Akanimo Sampson
Some 12 weeks after the wife of a detained real estate businessman, Mrs. Precious Onwudinjo, accused the Nigeria Police
Force, Zone Six Command, of being involved in a scheme to nail her husband, some emerging facts tend to give credence to
Mrs. ...
New Zealand National Party
National’s Welfare spokeswoman, Judith Collins, is seeking an assurance that the Government will ramp up identity checks
to ensure there is no repeat of a $3.2 million welfare scam.
Robert Parry
Part 3 of our series about the "Original October Surprise" of 1980 addresses the troubling question of whether
disgruntled CIA officers collaborated with their former boss, George H.W. Bush, to sabotage President Jimmy Carter's
Iran-hostage negotiations ...
Visa
Visa cardholders have the exclusive opportunity to purchase tickets to Elton John’s one and only New Zealand performance
in Wellington on December 6, before the rest of the country. Tickets go on sale this morning at 9am and can only be
purchased ...
Bob Fitrakis
COLUMBUS---With major GOP federal court victory, the Ohio 2006 election has descended into the calculated chaos that has
become the trademark of a Karl Rove election theft, and that could help keep the Congress in Republican hands
nationwide.
Jason Leopold
Last week, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and senior White House officials, in hopes of shoring up the
GOP's sagging poll numbers before the November 7 midterm election, went on a media blitz, granting on-the-record
interviews to dozens of conservative ...
Scoop Review
There’s a message in her songs. Through Te Reo she sends her message and the messages of her ancestors. But there is
quite an amusing contemporary edge to her messages – almost a political one – when she embraces songs that ‘discuss’
smoking ...
New Zealand Government
Prime Minister Helen Clark welcomed today’s announcement that the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will participate in
the official dedication ceremony for the New Zealand Memorial in London on Armistice Day, 11 November.
Robert Parry
Consortium News Editor's Note: Part 2 of our series about the "Original October Surprise" of 1980 focuses on the role of
banker David Rockefeller and his collaboration with Republicans during the Iranian hostage crisis, which doomed Jimmy
Carter's presidency ...
Scoop Link
Washington - The Pentagon is buttressing its public relations staff and starting an operation akin to a political
campaign war room as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld faces intensifying criticism over the Iraq war.
Immunisation Advisory Centre
Doctors at the University of Auckland’s Immunisation Advisory Centre (IMAC) are appalled by a Norwegian documentary that
portrays the MeNZB vaccine as unproven and unsafe.
John Bishop
Corrosive and cancerous; Brady’s time is coming; Success is Wonderful; A further economic thought; Regional Strategy: a
five wheeled car; I passed secrets to the Russians; Get it right BNZ; The Language of politics; See Hillary Run;
Re-fighting ...
Public Address
New Zealand's award-winning group blog site Public Address just got bigger. A companion site, Public Address System at,
launches today at publicaddress.net/system with an array of features aimed at better serving its growing reader
community - and at better ...