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Lyndon Hood
Even as urgency commences, neither the public, nor opposition MPs, nor for that matter many Government MPs have any idea
what other bills might appear. Good news! The following draft has appeared on Scoop's desk.
Keith Harmon Snow
Merchants of Death: Exposing Corporate Financed Holocaust in Africa by Keith Harmon Snow www.allthingspass.com
HCD Research
A new national survey of 854 Americans conducted by HCD Research December 6-8, found that an overwhelming majority (75%)
believe that religion is a reliable and necessary guide to life. Similarly, 86% of Americans believe that miracles have
occurred in ...
Durex
Kiwis looking for a role with a difference this summer can apply to become a Durex product tester.
Michael Collins
(Wash. DC) The prospect of the criminal in chief, George W. Bush, issuing pardons to his co-conspirators is repugnant to
all citizens who've paid any degree of attention over the last eight years.
ACT New Zealand
An examination of the Emissions Trading System (ETS), by a Special Select Committee, which is part of the coalition
agreement between National and ACT, is being welcomed by ACT Leader Rodney Hide.
Amnesty International
As the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is celebrated tomorrow on International
Human Rights Day (10 December), Amnesty International calls upon world Governments, including New Zealand's new National
Government, to use this ...
Progressive Party
National's tax Bill imposes the largest tax increase on business in New Zealand's history, opposition spokesperson on
agriculture Jim Anderton says.
New Zealand Government
Speech from the Throne, delivered by Governor General the Honourable Anand Satyanand, PCNZM, QSO, to Members of the
House of Representatives in Parliament's Legislative Council Chamber at the State Opening of Parliament.
Greenpeace
"This may be your meeting but my home is drowning," Young Pacific Islander stands up to world leaders.
Undernews
One of the problems with hiring a Harvard Law School graduate as president is that you're likely to find someone
steeped in precedent and shallow - even skeptical of - possibility.
Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the 90 day ‘fire at will’ legislation, and on the faster broadband plan.
New Zealand Labour Party
Tax legislation being rammed through Parliament by National proves National doesn’t care about tens of thousands of
Kiwi battlers, many of whom will lose money instead of getting a tax cut, says Labour Leader Phil Goff.
New Zealand Labour Party
The National-Act government has prevented key education stakeholder groups from having a say on plans to rush into law
standardised testing for primary school age pupils, Labour Education spokesperson Chris Carter said today.
Neve Gordon
Professor Yinon Cohen and Neve Gordon from Ben-Gurion University write that Barack Obama is about to face a most
daunting challenge - how to confront the age old Israeli-Palestinian conflict... A problem unsuccessfully tackled by
every US president since Carter.
Mary Robinson
Ireland's former president and current Oxfam honorary president, Mary Robinson writes that millions of people's human
rights – to security, health, and sustainable livelihoods – are increasingly under threat and that climate change is a
contributor.
New Zealand Government
New Zealand's next High Commissioner to South Africa will be career diplomat Geoff Randal, Foreign Minister Murray
McCully announced today.
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Progressive Enterprises and Proximity iD win the NCDM Silver Medal at Database Marketing Awards in Orlando, Florida
PHARMAC
PHARMAC has played its part in the decision to fund 12 months Herceptin and will continue to assist the government as
required. PHARMAC’s role has included providing information as necessary, and assisting the Ministry of Health with its
contract ...
Green Party
The Green Party is gravely concerned the new Government is keeping Kiwis in the dark on laws it plans to pass under
urgency this week, leaving no opportunity for the people of New Zealand to debate these proposals before they become
law.
New Zealand Government
Prime Minister John Key announced today that the National-led Government will honour its pre-election promise to ensure
a full 12-month course of the breast cancer drug Herceptin is available.
United Nations
Corruption is partly to blame for the current global financial crisis and is also an obstacle to the achievement of
development and human rights goals, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, calling for stepped up efforts to wipe out
the scourge.
New Zealand Labour Party
New Zealand women who have breast cancer need the best and most effective treatment available, Labour Health
spokesperson Ruth Dyson said today.
New Zealand Government
New Zealand needs to build a broader consensus about how to make progress on climate change issues, Climate Change
Minister Nick Smith said today in releasing the terms of reference for the select committee to review the Emissions
Trading Scheme and ...
Jim Miles
Robert Kagan is a difficult subject to analyze. At times his writing seems to be very honest and directly critical of
U.S. intentions as well as being clearly honest about the sometimes “dangerous nation” aspect of its history and foreign
policy. ...
Scoop Audio
95bFM Audio: Paul Deady talks to Selwyn Manning who dropped in to talk Human Rights day. He looks at pieces on climate
change and the Israel/Palestine conflict and grades our previous and current government's track record on human rights.
Roche
Roche Products (New Zealand) Limited says it has worked productively with the government, the Ministry of Health and
PHARMAC in order to supply Herceptin to New Zealand women with early HER2 positive breast cancer.
United Nations
A delegation United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is currently visiting Zimbabwe, to help the Southern African
nation respond to its worst cholera outbreak in over a decade.
Amnesty International
On the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Nicky Hager writes that it is
needed in New Zealand as much as in faraway troubled places...
New Zealand Government
New Environment Minister Nick Smith today released the independent report commissioned by the Ministry for the
Environment into its handling of the Mapua contaminated site clean-up near Nelson.