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Alastair Thompson
"And the sun came out to dry me." Stephen Mackendrick Thompson - 1939 - 2008 Husband, Father, Grandfather,
Mathematician, Engineer, Musician, Mountaineer & Co-Founder of Scoop.co.nz - Died 27 July 2008, Aged 69 years 2 days.
LawFuel
Steven Byers and Joseph Shereshevsky of WexTrust Capital, LLC ("WexTrust") were arrested today and charged in a criminal
Complaint with defrauding investors by diverting funds that they raised through private placement offerings.
Ian Wishart
Newspaper publishing has taken a new direction with the launch this weekend of TGIF Edition, a 20 page “paperless”
newspaper being emailed to thousands of readers…
Undernews
Driving jobholders out of office is like the old discredited policy of driving prostitutes out of town. Their places are
immediately taken by others who are precisely like them. - Albert Jay Nock
Michael Collins
If a man carefully plans and executes the killing of another, we call him a murderer, arrest and try him, then send him
off to the nearest death chamber. In many states, individuals convicted of three felonies are subject to an automatic
life sentence ...
Lyndon Hood
In the face of ongoing occupation of New Zealand by uncooperative beneficiary forces, John Key has heroically called for
the imposition of sanctions - the method that lead to such happy endings in, say, Cuba. Or Iraq.
Syed Akbar Kamal
Do you think public interest lies at the core of the secret tapes fiasco?
New Zealand First Party
An article in the Listener this week about New Zealand First Incorporated is “total garbage”, says Rt Hon Winston
Peters. Mr Peters says New Zealand First Incorporated was set up well before the political party with the sole purpose
to preserve the ...
New Zealand Government
Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that New Zealand is deeply concerned about the hostilities and loss of life in
South Ossetia and the ramifications for regional stability in the Caucasus.
Evelyn Pringle
The tribe of Guerillas operating a Big Pharma public relations firm under cover of the Center for Public Integrity in
Medicine may soon be on the path to extinction and the blogs on DrugWonks by the two out-of-control top bananas will
likely be cause.
Public Service Association
National’s welfare spokesperson Judith Collins is wrong when she claims that only a third of the staff at the Ministry
of Social Development work in the front line.
America.gov
"This situation can be resolved peacefully. We've been in contact with leaders in both Georgia and Russia at all levels
of government," Bush said on the sidelines of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. "The U.S. is working with our European
partners."
World Cyber Games
New Zealand’s computer gaming team the ‘eblacks’ has been named the best in Asia. The eblacks took out a gold and silver
medal at the World Cyber Games Asian Championship in Singapore – which earned them the grand prize, the Asian
Championship ...
Jim Miles
This is one of the more difficult articles/reviews I have worked on. I have been well aware of Peak Oil for a while, but
never did I gather so much information in one sitting that simply spelled out doom and gloom.
United Nations
Tests conducted by Nigeria and by the FAO show that the new virus strain - which is similar to strains identified last
year in Italy, Afghanistan and Iran - is genetically distinct from other forms detected in Nigerian outbreaks in 2006
and 2007.
United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture has announced plans to reform New Zealand family law, in a three-pronged approach designed to keep both
parents closely involved in the day-to-day lives of their children following family breakdown.
Business School
Venue: The University of Auckland Business School, Fisher & Paykel Appliances Auditorium, Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland
Awa Press
A new book that tells the stories of breakthrough discoveries by New Zealand scientists has received high praise from
Professor Gerry Gilmore of Cambridge University’s Institute of Astronomy.
Global Peace And Justice Auckland
POLISARIO FRONT REPRESENTATIVE URGENT - late notice - GPJA August Forum this Thursday - Hear Mohamed Yeslem Beissat from
the Polisario Front talk about the struggle of the Saharawi people of Western Sahara for self determination and freedom
from Moroccan ...
Scoop Audio
RDU Audio: Spanky interviews Ruth Dyson who let's us know Labour is carrying on business as usual, their young Labour
people aren't attending cocktail parties and she touches on any potential future left hand related policies.
Scoop Audio
KiwiFM Audio: Wallace Chapman and Scoop's Selwyn Manning analyse National's welfare policy. What is the benefit of
taking a microscope to those on the DPB, and triple-checking those on the sickness and invalids benefits? What lies
behind the curtains of this ...
Paper Plus
In 1983, some important things happened in little old New Zealand. Princess Diana, already on her way to becoming a
pop-culture megastar, visited New Zealand with Prince Charles and baby Prince William, who obligingly played with a
Buzzy Bee in front ...
Ministry of Health
The Ministry of Health is releasing the Problem Gambling Intervention Services in New Zealand: 2007 Service-user
statistics report. The report, released annually, presents and summarises the data collected by problem gambling service
providers ...
Jigsaw
After reading the headlines that National has plans to make parents on the Domestic Purposes Benefit head back to work
when the children reach the age of six years,. Catherine Lawson from Jigsaw Family Services invites Mr Key to think
again and see ...
Family First Lobby.
Family First NZ has written to the Minister of Police Annette King asking whether she supports the refusal by the police
to take action against the Boobs on Bikes parade.
The Maori Party
Readers will know that over the past couple of years, I have been highly critical of the Labour Maori MPs’ lack of
support for the Treaty of Waitangi, and the fact that they’d actually voted against the Treaty of Waitangi twice in the
last three ...
New Zealand Government
New research revealing that volunteers make up an impressive two-thirds of the workforce in the non-profit sector has
been welcomed by the Minister for Community and Voluntary Sector, the Hon Ruth Dyson.
Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) NZ has expressed disappointment at the National party's plans to resurrect
work-for-the-dole requirements for domestic purposes beneficiaries.
Robert Mann
The Royal NZ Forest & Bird Protection Society is (last time I checked) the world's largest conservation group, as a proportion of the host
nation population. Here is evidence that this group is using wrongful methods to suppress informed discussion ...
New Zealand Government
Associate Health Minister Steve Chadwick today announced the appointment of Bevan Turnpenny to the Tairawhiti District
Health Board (DHB).