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The White House has been caught in a lie about the alleged terrorist threat against Air Force One [U.S. President's
official airplane] which it had cited as the reason for President Bush's absence from Washington for most of September
11.
In this short book, I argue that there is strong evidence that the events of 11th September represent a terrorism of a
kind not currently being discussed, and include the involvement of agents and agencies not publicly imagined as being
associated ...
(1) There has been an immense movement of troops and extreme use of military rhetoric, up to comments about terminating
governments, etc. Yet, to many people there appears to be considerable restraint...what happened?
I’m reminded of the old story about a surgeon, an engineer and an economist discussing which profession has the longest
history.
“It’s about science” says Act. “If we don’t go ahead New Zealand will become a 3rd world country” says National. “We
don’t want frog genes in our potatoes” say Greens. In this debate, the remarkable news story is being completely
ignored. Where are ...
September 11 has brought indescribable suffering to New York City's working people. We have lost friends, family members
and coworkers of all colors, nationalities and religions -- a thousand of them union members. An estimated one hundred
thousand ...
Finance Minister Dr Michael Cullen is NOT expecting to make an announcement on Air New Zealand today.
An apology to Michael Kepler and the American people on behalf of many New Zealanders
1. DAVID BENSON-POPE to the Associate Minister of Education (Tertiary Education): Is he committed to continuing to
ensure the affordability of tertiary education?
My response to these allegations has not altered from the time they were first put to me on 4 September 2001. I
reiterate that I do not accept responsibility for the leaks.
Auckland, October 1, 2001 - Businesses and government agencies meeting here have endorsed a plan to set up a world data
security centre in New Zealand, an initiative that is gaining momentum in the wake of the terrorist attacks in the
United States.
C.D. Sludge has often marvelled at the ability of economists to juggle facts and figures to present any manner of
results to a stupified public. Last week, we all witnessed an extraordinary set of exchanges, led by the country's most
powerful public ...
The government is taking steps to help stop electric fences interfering with internet service in rural areas.
How far we have come as a nation from the notorious “dawn raids” of the 70s aimed at finding and consequently sending
home Samoan overstayers to welcome parades, packets of biscuits, cakes and cuddly toys for illegal Afghan immigrants.
New Zealand's experiment with privatisation of publicly-owned strategic assets largely failed, Deputy Prime Minister
and Alliance leader Jim Anderton argues in a speech prepared for the Commonwealth Business Forum.
The New Zealand comic anthology Officer Pup was released this week and is now available from comic stores and magazine
retailers around the country.
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 ...
The government has moved to ensure that Parliament’s intentions for employment relations are given full effect.
Four new settlements are about to be created on Sunday, October 7, at various points in the occupied territories. The
pirate radio station "Channel 7", which operates illegally but unimpeded from studios at the settlement of Beit El,
right ...
It's outrageous for Foreign Minister Phil Goff to create the impression that National has discredited New Zealand
overseas, Opposition Leader Jenny Shipley said today.
All photos are from http://www.indymedia.org where many more pictures can be found...
Patrick Tyler of the New York Times is reporting from Washington: "In the first days after the attacks on Sept. 11, the
Saudi Arabian ambasador to Washington, Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, supervised the urgent evacuation of 24 members of Osama
bin Laden's ...
Another Eyewitness account of what it felt like in New York this morning. This time the account is relayed in the form
of an Internet Relay Chat conversation between Jeremy in NZ and Glyn in NYC.
The idea of introducing car stops in order to relieve traffic congestion has been put to Infrastructure Auckland.
EDITORS NOTE: Two more poems from New York City, this time from Scoop Correspondent Miles Thompson. See also… Scoop
Poem: The Bones of September, 2001 .
* Afghan Women's Mission's Sonali Kolhatkar says that in the 1980s, the U.S. government, through the CIA, gave billions
of dollars' worth of arms, weapons and training to the seven most fundamentalist, extremist parties that the United
States could find ...
"Verdi...has bursts of marvellous passion. His passion is brutal, it is true, but it is better to be impassioned in this
way than not at all. His music is never boring." Georges Bizet 1959
Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
A Sober Analysis Of Some Very Troubling Thoughts - George Bush And Dick Cheney Admit Telling Lies - Poetry Concerning
Motion - Scoop Images: Protests For Peace - More Negative Scoop Feedback
ACT Commerce Spokesman Stephen Franks says if Gary Toomey and other senior Air New Zealand executives are being dumped,
the directors who have brought that company to its humiliation should fall on their swords first.