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On Wednesday, as results come in from the US election, I’ll be blogging the signs/consequences live on Scoop. The target
to win the Presidency is 270 votes in the US Electoral College, and even the most zealous US patriot would probably
concede that this system is an imperfect one... More »[1]
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"Police have completed enquiries into the circumstances of the New Zealand First return of party donations for 2007
lodged on 16 May 2008. Having assessed a range of information from various sources, and having considered the elements
of the offence contained in s214G, Police are satisfied that no offence was committed." More »[1]
Helen Clark and Maryan Street recently unveiled the latest Labour affordable housing initiative. The HOPE (Home
Ownership on the Public Estate) programme involves building starter homes on Crown land for modest income families. They
will pay for the house and the Crown will continue to own the land, effectively halving the cost of home ownership. More »[1]
Annette King: "The investigation and design phases of the Tauranga Central Corridor has not yet been completed, so there is no
accurate costing for the project, yet Mr 'Pork Barrel" Key is telling the independent New Zealand Transport Agency what
it has to do." More »[1]
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Scoop co-editor Selwyn Manning: If National pitches itself well this week, especially in the provinces, all electorates south of Manurewa to New
Plymouth could turn blue – the closest exception to this being Hamilton West. Anyway, here are the predictions! More »[1]
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[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00060.htm [10]
Voting commonly plays out as an act of retribution, with the motivation to vote being either a desire to wreak vengeance
on the incumbent, or to send a warning shot across the bow of their likely replacement. So, its hardly surprising that
the law and order ‘debate’ tends to be the killing floor of the election campaign. More »[1]
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[3] - http://fightingtalk.blogspot.com/2008/11/lyndon-hood-corrector-lower-hutt.html" target="_blank [3]
On Saturday evening 1 November 2008, a 15 year old girl was reported missing in Kerikeri. Her disappearance was out of
character. The missing girl and her parents had recently moved from Kerikeri to Auckland. She was visiting friends in
Kerikeri for the weekend. More »[1]
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Rt Hon Winston Peters says New Zealand First has used helicopters for travel during two election campaigns – but not for
campaigning itself. “We used a helicopter to travel and I do not deny that, but to suggest that I somehow stood at the
door of a flying helicopter shouting at voters is preposterous. More »[1]
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Opposition from United Future and NZ First helped block vital amendments to fisheries laws to protect fish stocks,
Progressive MP Jim Anderton says. More »[1]
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"All New Zealanders, city and rural, have to work together if we are to make progress as a nation and remain a first
world country," Federated Farmers president, Don Nicolson, said today at the Federation's Manifesto launch. More »[1]
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[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00023.htm [10]
[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0811/S00032.htm [11]
Rather than sell fireworks, Progressive Enterprises is teaming up with the New Zealand Fire Service to improve fire
awareness. This follows on from a decision taken after last year’s Guy Fawkes Day by Progressive Managing Director Peter
Smith. More »[1]
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Following the announcement by the Minister of Finance that the Crown will offer a wholesale funding guarantee facility
to investment-grade financial institutions in New Zealand, the Treasury and the Reserve Bank have released further
details of the facility. More »[1]
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Conservation staff at Wellington’s world-first Karori Sanctuary have found what is almost certainly the first confirmed
tuatara nest on mainland New Zealand in over 200 years. More »[1]
MediaWorks Radio has enjoyed nationwide share growth for its key network brands across New Zealand in the latest
Research International commercial radio survey. More »[1]
Auckland-based firm Logick Print & Graphics has put New Zealand on the global printing stage by winning a top prize at the world’s premier packaging
awards in Monaco. More »[1]
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The attack involves Facebook messages that trick users into watching an online video, usually via click through to
another site like Google Reader or Picasa. The videoclip is actually an attack, and prompts the user to install an
upgrade to allow them to view the video. More »[1]
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Cuba's Ambassador to New Zealand discusses the UN General Assembly vote to lift the US embargo against Cuba. The vote,
Thursday NZ Time, was passed 185 votes to 3 with only the US, Israel and Palau voting against. More »[1]
(Wash. DC) Did you know that 2004 was not a ''red versus blue'' election? Did any analysis that you heard or read
mention that the very red rural voting segment went from 23% of the vote total in 2000 to 16% in 2004? How about the 2.4
million fewer votes Bush... More »[1]
Judging by the polls, the Republicans’ best chance of victory looks like it will require them to screw around with the
machinery of voting. They’re very good at it. Given the near certainty of record turnouts in next week’s election... More »[1]
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[2] - http://usacoup.scoop.co.nz/ [2]
[4] - http://usacoup.scoop.co.nz/?p=905 [4]
[5] - http://usacoup.scoop.co.nz/?p=904 [5]
Paul G. Buchanan writes: Heading into the homestretch of the 2008 US presidential elections, there's an elephant in the
room few want to speak about... The possibility of political assassination of Barack Obama. Let us discuss it here. More »[1]
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It’s not every night in the U.S. that you see what looks like the back row of a Tongan rugby team standing in the bed of
a pick-up truck—one wearing a pair of novelty glasses with fluorescent green whirly lights—jumping up and down, waving
... More »[1]
With exquisite grace, a dozen Canadian geese glide silently to a soft landing on the calm Michigan bay. In the last
seconds of their flight, during which their wings are held in curved motionlessness, time itself seems to stand still. More »[1]
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LIFESTYLE------------
New Zealand’s fashion future is in safe hands judging by the design talent on display at AUT’s Rookie show last Friday
night. Twenty one young designers in their final year of AUT University’s Bachelor of Design (Fashion) were selected to
show their debut collections in front of a packed fashion crowd at Auckland’s St Paul’s Church. More »[1]
Circa’s fabulous Christmas panto is back! The team that brought you Cinderella, Aladdin, and Jack & the Beanstalk returns with one of those great stories that everybody knows and loves. Roger Hall’s Red Riding Hood. More »[1]
This Labour weekend marked a pilgrimage to Hamilton gardens for many people with Dutch roots or with an interest in
culture from the Netherlands. More »[1]
Ace Scoop photo contributor Karim Sahai recently captured Diwali and the celebrations of the Indian new year. More »[1]
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WORLD------------
As the world’s demand for sharks continues to grow, shark populations are plummeting. The Asian market for shark fin is
the key driver of shark fishing globally and is fuelling illegal fishing. More »[1]
Survival International has targeted corporate social responsibility consultancy CO3 for representing British mining
company Vedanta Resources, and is urging CO3 to resign its account in the interest of human rights. More »[1]
GOMA, NORTH KIVU, DRC, 3 November, 2008 - Up to 100,000 people, around 60 per cent of which are children, have fled
their homes due to heavy fighting between armed groups in North Kivu last week. More »[1]
Voting for the wrong political party in the upcoming New Zealand election will not land you in jail or a torture camp.
Nor would you expect to be beaten, or arbitrarily arrested by the police. However this is the grim reality documented in
Amnesty International's ... More »[1]
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday urged Nepal’s leaders to forge ahead with rehabilitating thousands of Maoist
ex-fighters as part of the ongoing peace process, as he wrapped up his visit to the South Asian nation. More »[1]
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been heavily engaged in discussions with leaders in Africa, the European Union and the
United States in an effort to stabilize the situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. More »[1]
The sexual exploitation of children is a matter for concern in Latvia despite the low number of reported cases, an
independent United Nations human rights expert said today, warning that continued vigilance is needed. More »[1]
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