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Management Committee manipulate voting system Chairman and Vice Chairman voted out but refused to resign Members
interrogated for collecting signatures for petition Further no confidence motions refused by committee
World travellers of the nineteenth century took it for granted that their wallets were stuffed with bank notes which
came not only from different countries but from different private banks within those countries.
Not too many years ago I trudged into the local BNZ laden down with coins which I had saved. Being a kindly type, and
really feeling for the plight of workers, especially bank tellers who have the monotonous task of counting all those
coins, I had bagged ...
I hate Banks. I really do. It's the tellers I hate. Banks is the most arrogant teller in the country - he tells people
what to do all the time - and charges them interest.Banks has done more harm to the country than Blumsky, Prendergast,
Bell-Booth Shadbolt ...
Increasing ethnic and cultural diversity in New Zealand calls for celebration rather than intolerance and hostility.
While the media spotlight was on the mis-cues at the perennially "troubled" INS, the real news this week was that Rudi
Dekkers was telling reporters a significantly different version of his relationship with terrorist ringleader Mohamed
Atta than ...
There are times when management is unaware of the effects their policies and training programmes have at the branch
level so I thought I would write to you about my recent experience.
Farmers can take steps to reduce their "Auckland" tax, says Federated Farmers of New Zealand (Inc) Vice President Tom
Lambie.
I see on Friday that you are asking people why they hate "Banks". Well I don't "hate" Banks. I think hatred is a kind
of illness that pervades too much of the world.
HONIARA: A New Zealand diplomat has died of stab wounds after she apparently disturbed burglers at her residence in the
Solomon Islands, Radio Australia reports.
AUCKLAND (Pasifik Nius): The radical reforms imposed on New Zealand’s state sector in the late 1980s and early 1990s are
being introduced in other Pacific nations with "disastrous effects", say delegates at a conference of public service
unions taking ...
In This Edition: The Hunt For Flight 77 - A Truly Remarkable French Website - Disinformation Warning! - Not Everyone Is
Convinced - Eyewitness Reports Of The Crash….
Act-less: Is Act sprinting into the valley of political death? It’s nine years since Act’s parent organisation – the
Association of Consumers and Taxpayers – was formed. Now with nine months to go before an election the Act Party is in
serious trouble.
Transcript of Interview of Greg Palast, Journalist for BBC and Observer, London, by Alex Jones
Eyewitnes account of a day out protesting by Guido... 9.ooam first port of call is Sagada familia for the "Lobby
Busters" action. For the the first half hour there are few activists, many police and even more press.
At last count, there were a dozen U.S. Congressional Committee's investigating the tragedies surrounding the Sept. 11
attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. It is difficult to grasp the magnitude of the chaos, but as former
FBI chief, J. ...
NZ Young Nationals will be holding their annual conference in Wellington at Parliament Buildings in the Opposition
Caucus Rooms (Room 3-034) on Thursday 21 - Saturday 23 March 2002.
There's a popular US saying that refers to something being so obvious and so discomforting that nobody even mentions it
- "the elephant in the living room". One such creature loomed large in the nation's living rooms last Sunday night when
CBS broadcast ...
Thank you for your responses to Plain English. It's welcome and I see all of it. Some readers don't like the negative
comment on the Government. I am working to more positive material, particularly as our policy making hits high gear.
However no-one ...
The following is the second part of a detailed analysis of the events of September 11th by anonymous analyst and netizen
MalcontentX.
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... Chaos. Tears. People arrested but not charged with any offence, or driven away by private
muscle. An autocrat who badgers and intimidates his political opponents and accuses them of things they have not done.
No, not Zimbabwe. That's ...
Prime Minister Helen Clark is seriously misrepresenting the United States position at a critical time in US-NZ
relations, ACT Defence Spokesman MP Owen Jennings said today.
The Prime Minister needs to tell her message boy, Steve Maharey to think straight before making comments, says National
Party Leader Bill English.
Within a few months, the events of Sept. 11th, 2001 became but an echo of the events that followed. War in Afghanistan,
anthrax, unprecedented powers of detention: the public mind moves from one shock to another, appearing to accept the
government’s ...
[In this weeks column Uri Avnery finds logic in the madness, without losing sight of the simple truth: its awful what is
happening.].
Authors of the first ten stories about banks accepted for publication on Scoop will receive a free double pass to see
The Bank Movie, opening on the biggest Screen in the Southern Hemisphere at the Embassy Theatre on March 28th and moving
to the Paramount ...
Images from yesterday’s Round The Vines walk/run in Martinborough, a fundraiser for the local school. The 10 or 21
kilometre route meanders through Martinborough’s vineyards, where competitors are encouraged to sample the produce.
Silly costumes ...
Teradata has announced a new CRM offering, scheduled to be available in NZ from July this year
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 ...
"Then, when the government hands out photos of the actual impact taken by a security camera, the same media will work
hard to dismiss all critics of the government, indeed the internet community as a whole, as not worthy of serious note.
Intelligence ...