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ALKD, June 14, 2001 – The first instalment in New Line Cinema’s movie trilogy THE LORD OF THE RINGS will now release in
cinemas around New Zealand on December 19, 2001.
Last week I suggested that the result of the British election would be closer than most people expected. I was right,
the gap between Labour and the Conservatives was only nine percentage points. What I did not realise, however, is just
how much the ...
The American president is in Europe, being demonstrated against by sundry statist scum, foot-soldiers in the
"anti-industrial revolution" as Ayn Rand called it. Specifically, Mr Bush stands indicted for pulling America out of the
Kyoto Accord, ...
Background: 12 June 2001, Wellington: Greenpeace New Zealand today sandbagged Mobil HQ in Lambton Quay, Wellington, and
called on Mobil to stop undermining the Kyoto Protocol. See... Greenpeace Sandbags Mobil – No. 1 Villain
Almost all of the genetically engineered foetuses, in an AgResearch experiment in Hamilton, New Zealand, designed to
insert a human myelin gene into milk-producing cows, have aborted. Only three calves, of the sixty promised, are
believed to have ...
In This Edition: Prostitution Law Reform Debate - The Human Rights Of Selling Sex – An Alternative Plan
Today's questions of the day concerned: CYFS New Directions – NCEA Training – Early Childhood Education – Uni Fee
Freeze – Technology NZ – Hospital Funding – Australia’s Hijacking Of ANZFA – Student Loan Abuse – Dental Health –
Ruapehu Lahar Protection ...
1. TAITO PHILLIP FIELD to the Minister of Social Services and Employment: What reports has he received on the
Department of Child, Youth and Family Services' New Directions initiative?
"It appears that the Christian Heritage Party has no sense of shame, irony or proportion, given its recent accusation
that our President, Doctor Margaret Sparrow, is leader of a "death squad." Craig Young, Research Officer of the Abortion
...
Wellington - Mobil Oil New Zealand Ltd is disappointed with today's protest action by Greenpeace.
In This Edition: Russian-Syrian $1billion Arms Deal Realigns Middle East Balance - It’s Our Peace And We’ll Screw It Up
If We Want To
Oz Bomb – Cervical Screening – Dr Nitschke – Grass Skirt – Local government – Airline Action – Ecuador Storms –
Macedonia – Charities Tax – Wahid Visit – Tree Theft – People Smuggler – Whitianga Waterways – Professional Mourners
Regular subscribers to Scoop may have noticed an article by Kevin Loughlin about the founders of Tolkien website
TheOneRing.net - that is, about myself and Mike Regina.
Today's questions of the day concerned: Borrowing And Saving For Super – Super Alternatives – Gagging DHBs – Minimum
Wage – Bay of Plenty Health – Far North Power Disconnections – Ruapehu Lahar Protection – Electricity Prices –
University Funding – UE Subjects ...
Maori boarding schools are robbing our brightest youths of their potential, ACT Maori Affairs and Education Spokesman
Donna Awatere Huata said today.
The following two photos were taken by Lake Ohau based photographer Norman Mackay in the past week. As can be seen the
recent big chill has already partly frozen over Lake Middleton, a smallish lake adjacent to Lake Ohau.
The present high prices for wholesale electricity, brought on by low lake levels, highlight an advantage of wind power:
it will reduce price hikes during dry years.
Terrorist George Speight's lawyer Navin Naidu has been charged with 3 criminal counts and will be appearing in Suva
Magistrate's Court today.
New Zealanders have been called on to boycott Mobil motor fuels as part of a growing international move to persuade the
United States government to agree to support the Kyoto protocol on climate change. The call comes from Terry Dunleavy,
national convenor ...
Today’s confirmation of the birth of just 3 calves containing the myelin basic protein gene must be a huge embarrassment
to AgResearch after it obscenely inserted human genes into cows and then publicly boasted the merits of transgenic
research.
Prime Minister Helen Clark and Minister of Local Government Sandra Lee today said that a review of the Local Government
Act would allow local authorities to better serve their communities.
“Please Prime Minister – keep reading your bible, keep saying your prayers, keep listening to God” – Anglican
clergyman. Big News With Dave Crampton
The Green Party has accused NZ First and the Alliance of selling out their supporters by voting to allow the public
service pension fund - the GSF - to be invested on the international sharemarket.
Health Minister Annette King’s decree that only Health Board Chairs may speak to the public is a dictatorial move to
tighten political domination of health news, ACT Health Spokesman Ken Shirley said today.
SCOOP NEWS ANALYSIS - British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook's, arrival in New Zealand prior to September's APEC forum
caused Thailand Foreign Ministry official, Kobsak Chitikul, to ask, "Why is Mr Robin Cook here?" Britain is not a member
...
The Auckland Regional Council and Mobil Oil New Zealand Limited have held top level talks in an attempt to end their
stand off over lower sulphur diesel for the Auckland region.
The Rt Hon Winston Peters MP, Leader of New Zealand First, today said the continued politicking of Bill English and the
National Party on superannuation only serves to highlight the type of destructive political games that the public have
had to ...
Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today that NZ Dairy Foods' commitment to go GE-Free raised the stakes in
the dairy industry.
Embargoed until 12 noon, 12 June 2001, Wellington: Greenpeace New Zealand today sandbagged Mobil HQ in Lambton Quay,
Wellington, and called on Mobil to stop undermining the Kyoto Protocol.
The decision by the Waikato University Council to reject the government’s funding offer in exchange for freezing fees in
2002 has been meet with cynicism by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA).