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New evidence linking the owner of the Venice Florida flight school which trained Mohamed Atta to the Central
Intelligence Agency surfaced earlier this month.
Tony Benn is a household name in the UK. Professor Benn has made his name as a principled yet personable socialist
Labour MP with broad cross-party appeal. Scoop’s London correspondent Malcolm Aitken spoke with him several days ago
about the legality of ...
In this edition: Those Damned Conspiracy Theory Articles - Re: articles of WTC Attack. 9-11 - As Always Your Criticism
Is Welcome At Scoop
It's 1947. You want to make sure that America wins in the great game of globalization. The winner will be the country
that accumulates the largest pool of capital to finance its corporations and investment in new technology.
Today’s questions concerned: Babies’ Hearts - Auckland DHB Deficit – Business Confidence – Palmerston North Home Care –
Unemployment – Prison Payouts – Waste Management – Kin Care For Kids – Money For Jam - Police Recruitment – Vote
Education And The Treaty ...
A ruling by the majority of the New Zealand Press Council not to uphold a complaint against the Dominion for breaching
an embargo raised important issues about media responsibility, Disability Issues Minister Ruth Dyson said today.
The continuing occupation of empty pensioner units in Beresford Street, Freemans Bay, is an action that was supported by
the recent public meeting on the sale of Council housing, attended by over 40 people, mainly pensioner and residential
Council ...
Anti-bypass protestors numbering about 200 campaigned for a better city this evening in a march from Civic Square
through Cuba Street to Kensington Gardens, a postage stamp-size oasis directly in the path of the proposed motorway.
In the seven years since the founding of the first online plushophile website, organizers say their community has
mushroomed from a few people discussing their obsessions with soft toys to include thousands of adherents worldwide.
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." So says Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights. And New Zealand has breached it - again. Maree Howard writes.
The second-phase of Operation Enduring Freedom was launched last week: to hunt Abu Sayyaf in the jungles of Basilan and
Sulu. Whilst originally a breakaway from the Moro (Muslims of the southern Philippines) independence movement, the
800-strong ...
Green co-leader Rod Donald today acknowledged the huge contribution of comedian and Green Party life member Spike
Milligan.
As more time passes and Israel encroaches on more and more Palestinian autonomous territory, the Palestinian "stateless"
people suffer more and more, and become more frantic and desperate.
Wife bashing, gangs and marae protocol are intrinsically linked, ACT Maori Affairs Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata, MP,
argues in this article.
Today’s questions concerned: Health System Responsibility – TOW & Police Expenditure – Orthopaedic Outpatient Waiting Times – Economy – OECD Status – Motorway Evictions – Brian Rees
Payout – Whanau Care – Injury Rate – Aquaculture Moratorium – Tourism ...
One of challenges of doing the numbers on the narcotics business is that narcotics are not always a commodity --
sometimes narcotics are a currency used to pay for other things.
A New Zealand woman flies to Paris on Friday (01.03.02) to receive a prestigious UNESCO (United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organisation) science award.
“I am delighted to announce that the new aid agency will be called NZAID (New Zealand Agency for International
Development). I also welcome the announcement today of the appointment of NZAID’s new Executive Director, Peter Adams,”
says the Minister responsible ...
If you haven’t already heard, British Airways is in trouble. Big trouble. On February 13, BA announced job losses of
5800. This follows hard on the heels of 7200 redundancies announced immediately after September 11th.
1. SUE KEDGLEY to the Minister of Health: Will she instigate an inquiry into the ethical, legal and medical issues
surrounding the removal and storage of dead babies' hearts and other organs obtained without first getting permission
from the babies' ...
Like US congressional leaders, the business press is finally waking up to Enron’s dirty-dealings, and it is now making
a great show of going over the carcass. But in a sense this just prompts the question: What the hell was the business
press doing ...
The Auckland City Council, led by Mayor John Banks and Deputy Mayor David Hay, yesterday denied a deputation from the
Director of the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand regarding the planned re-introduction of chemical weedspraying in Auckland ...
Te Roopu Tautoko, the Maori advisory committee of the Aotearoa Tertiary Students’ Association (ATSA), is outraged at
Donna Awatere Huata’s claims that a triad of evil exists between the rituals of the marae, family abuse and the
predominance of gangs.
Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
A group of concerned Aucklanders have today occupied empty flats in 49 Beresford St, Freeman’s Bay. The group are
protesting against the continued sale of council owned housing. Auckland City Council will decide about the sale
strategy of all remaining ...
Tourism Industry Association New Zealand (TIANZ) Chief Executive, John Moriarty welcomes the Government’s intentions to
invest more in transport but says a rise in petrol tax to help fund this investment would perpetuate a shameless tax
policy.
The decision of Mr Speaker Hunt to refer written statements by NZ Post to Parliament's Privileges Committee has been
welcomed by National MP Murray McCully.
Thanks for inviting me to speak at this function to help celebrate the opening of the new Ministry of Education.
The ACT party's formerly invisible spokesperson on Tourism has shown how poorly informed she is, with her criticism of
the new Tourism Research and Development Strategy, Tourism Minister Mark Burton said.
A new Mäori strategy and a commitment to working with Mäori by the Department of Labour was reflected in Te Puni
Kökiri's report, 'Follow up Review of the Department of Labour's Service Delivery to Mäori, released today. The first
report on the Department ...