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Pacifists like our current Government and the Greens, are far from being the "moral choice" of say refusing to fight for
the Nazi's in WW2 would have been are actually hurting the cause of freedom by siding with the perpetrators of terror
and whether ...
New Zealand is breaching its United Nations obligations by not enforcing legislation for compulsory schooling, ACT
Education Spokesman MP Donna Awatere Huata said today.
The overwhelming consensus at a dinner party I attended last night was that in the confusion in the West, Osama bin
Laden will strike at the corrupt rulers of his home-land and try to recapture the sacred soil of his country which will
economically destabilise ...
To hell with the twin towers, where's my laundromat?!! Just half a block down the street was the scummiest,
not-workingest collection of washers and driers you ever did see, and now the building's been gutted. Its only virtues
were that it was close ...
The Green Party has written to Prime Minister Helen Clark outlining the party's position on the role New Zealand can
play in the efforts to combat terrorism, following the recent tragedies in the USA.
Editor's note: Outraged by American military intervention in the Phillipines, Mark Twain wrote this and sent it to
Harper's Bazaar. This women's magazine rejected it for being too radical, and it wasn't published until after Mark
Twain's death, when ...
ACT Commerce Spokesman Stephen Franks says the Government needs to give some assurance the strong wave of public
goodwill towards Air New Zealand will not be wasted through money being sucked offshore and into the wreckage of Ansett
Australia.
NB This Sat. 29th September. Noam Chomsky is interviewed by John Campbell 8:25am on Nat. Radio
Around 500 people marched up Queen Street in Auckland to protest against any US military response to the World Trade
Centre attacks on September 11. They also called for the New Zealand government to not lend support to any US actions
and called for racist ...
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... well, she did it: a blunder, an out-and-out foot-in-mouth verbal howler. And, perhaps
unsurprisingly, she did it to herself, rather than being lured into it by a political opponent. Air New Zealand shares
fell and rose, it seemed, ...
A poll showing 73 percent of New Zealanders don't want the air combat force disbanded, represents a huge shift in public
opinion, ACT leader Richard Prebble says.
Scoop does not wish to be alarmist but the following report was received today from Scoop intelligence sources ;
He looked like a mummy: face frozen, body averted, no eye contact with the other person. Shimon Peres meeting Yasser
Arafat. Next to him sat the general who was sent to oversee him, so that he would not talk, God forbid, about solutions,
political ...
The U.S. administration is in a real quandary over the form of military action to take following the terrorist attacks
in America on September 11. Is it war, a police action, an incursion, or what? Maree Howard writes.
The Immigration Service's naivete in dealing with refugees resulted in the brawl at the temporary refugee camp in
Whangaparaoa, ACT Immigration Spokesman MP Penny Webster said today.
NOTE: The following text has been sent in by a reader to clarify any reader confusion around the following picture
published on Scoop (See... Scoop Oddity #5: A Postcard From The Edge ) on Monday.
“The exchange of letters concluded between the Crown and Tranz Rail is a sign of the good progress being made in
negotiations over the Auckland rail corridor,” Finance Minister Michael Cullen, Transport Minister Mark Gosche and Tranz
Rail Managing Director ...
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Their zip and bounce has given the tiny artemia brine shrimps the endearing name of sea monkeys, but they're about to
play a big role in the aquaculture industry, thanks to research carried out by a Marlborough company.
The Monarchist League of New Zealand is disappointed that Mr Dave Guerin of the Republican Movement should have taken
the postponement of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, and the royal visit to New Zealand, as an opportunity
to make ...
The INL owned paper Auckland City Harbour News published today contains a damaging misquote from Alliance Mayoral
Candidate Matt McCarten. Under the headline ‘McCarten plays vote splitter’, the publication quotes him as saying in a
speech at the Gay ...
Taxpayers are headed for a bill of hundreds of millions of dollars more to bail out Air New Zealand, National's Finance
spokesperson Bill English said today.
Mayoral candidate Mary Varnham has written to all her fellow candidates urging them to support the Wellington Regional
Council’s proposal to purchase local services in partnership with the private sector.
Peoples Global Action calls on all grassroots social movements, community based organisations, trade unions, student
organisations, indigenous peoples, farmers organisations, autonomous collectives and everyone who wishes to participate
around the world to carry out ...
Today is World Vegetarian Day and the Green Party is calling for new labelling laws which would require manufacturers to
disclose whether they use animal-based ingredients in their food.
As the image above from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center shows, Typhoon Lekima is presently monstering Taiwan, again
(Lekima has already passed over the island travelling in the other direction!). But what will the Typhoon be doing after
it leaves Taiwan?
The events of September 11, gave us a glimpse of hell. None of us in our worst nightmares could have imagined the
destruction of the World Trade Centre by civilian aircraft used as bombs. We will never forget witnessing the mass
murder of more that 6000 ...
His most recent book The Bells of St Babel’s won the poetry section of this year’s Montana Book Awards and a documentary
film on his life and work Early Days Yet, made by Shirley Horrocks, has just screened at Film Festivals nationwide.
Stateside: The Buick of Unconditional Love - Prayer For Peace - Scoop Negative Feedback - Guest Comment: As Samson Said
To The Philistines - Auckland March For Peace - Green Party Outlines It’s Position On NZ Involvement in War On Terror -
Howard’s End: Osama ...
EDITORS NOTE: The following is a transcript of a link submitted to Scoop by a Scoop reader. Clearly questions are
raised in this material about the nature of the relationship between the Bush family and the family of Osama Bin Laden.