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Can Israel be a state like all others? That is the true question of its existence, writes Edward Said.
The recent attempt to ban ski masks and scarves in Quebec City during the Summit of the Americas provides a useful
insight into the way anti-globalization movements are perceived by the powers-that-be. Much has already been said about
excessive police ...
1. Hon BILL ENGLISH to the Prime Minister: Following Alliance MP Dr Liz Gordon's statement "[Hon] Jim Anderton isn't my
leader and [Hon] Jim Anderton can't speak for me in Parliament and [Hon] Jim Anderton in fact can't speak for the
Alliance ...
Scoop’s roving editor Alastair Thompson sent Scoop Central in Wellington this picture of his new friend, Robin, whom he
met in St Stephen’s Grove, Dublin.
TV3 told its viewers last Monday that Labour is at 56% support and its popularity has been rising all year. In fact, the
TV3 poll found just 37% would vote Labour. Labour's support has been falling all year. Why the discrepancy?
Today’s questions concerned: Who Is The Alliance Leader? - Retirement Incomes - Sovereign Yachts - New Race Relations
Commissioner – Alliance Break-Up - EU Trade Negotiating Stance - Rugby World Cup - Early School Numeracy - Ransom For
Baby Kahu ...
The Mexican government at the Biodiversity Convention meeting in the Hague on Friday confirmed that the worlds home of
corn diversity has become contaminated with a GE virus and other GMO material used in genetically engineered corn. This
contamination ...
Israel has decided to allow members of a United Nations fact finding team into the West Bank – changing its mind after
first refusing a UN humanitarian team entry to both Israel and the Occupied Palestinian territories.
In the most significant leak since the Multilateral Agreement on Investment was exposed to public scrutiny in 1997 and
eventually sunk, drafts of the European Union's 'requests' of other countries in the WTO services negotiations have just
been posted on a European ...
One has to wonder about the content of the long delayed Carruthers Defence report on allegations of improper lobbying
among defence circles.
This statement is to advise all editors and news editors to check the source of material presented to them in the name
of Stephen Robert Tindall.
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 ...
The “loneliness of the long distance runner” syndrome is a prescription for an early drop-off of involvement in fitness
programmes, according to Lincoln University doctoral researcher Kim Sinclair.
There is a huge amount of intolerance in the Jewish world as there is in the Palestinian world. What you're seeing right
now is an attempt to squelch even the slightest acknowledgment of the pain of the other.
ACT Corrections Spokesman Stephen Franks said today that if the Corrections Department is serious about reducing the
cost of prison inmates' food a good start would be to end the practice at many prisons of supplying a cooked breakfast.
Trade Minister's response to EU WTO Services Document Misleading: Call For NZ GATS positions to be made public. GATT
Watchdog says that Jim Sutton’s dismissal of a draft of European Union (EU) requests made of New Zealand and 28 other
countries ...
The IRB’s decision to award Australia sole hosting rights to the upcoming rugby World Cup has angered many New
Zealanders, and the issue won't go away. There is a feeling that the decision has somehow brought shame on the country.
National’s hope of winning support from Maoridom is not based on a credible track record of delivering from Maori. The
party is overwhelmingly Anglo-Saxon and is regarded as unsympathetic to the plight of low-income Maori, particularly
urban Maori.
"Ignore the hypocritical control-freak Kedgley" declared Libertarianz Leader and Tauranga Candidate Russell Watkins
today in response to Sue Kedgley's call for people to turn off TVs for one week in protest at a lack of local programmes
for ...
For those who lust after power, frustration ensues at any barrier to the exercise of that power. From the U.S. to New
Zealand, the reaction of the power-luster to his (or her) power being blunted is the same.
This news has just come in. The Israeli government has announced that it will not facilitate entry of the UN Human
Rights mission into Israel and the Palestinian territories. The mission was to have been led by UN rights chief Mary
Robinson, former anti-apartheid ...
Transit New Zealand security measures are failing to prevent damage, vandalism and theft from occurring in the upper
Cuba Street area since tenants were evicted in February, and concern is mounting over the safety of heritage buildings
in the area.
A secret National party plan by to work-test superannuitants was revealed by Social Services and Employment Minister
Steve Maharey in Parliament this afternoon.
The voting out of Dr Robert Watson from his position as head of the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) is a further indication New Zealand has been out of step with international thinking on remedies to climate
change, the ...
The oceans around New Zealand are warming at a rate not seen since the 1930s. Figures from NIWA show that the ocean
temperature around New Zealand has increased rapidly over the last 10 years.
What’s it like to be a man? No really, what is it like? Short of putting one into therapy for 10 years and extracting
marrow from bone we may never know. Not because we don’t want to or because men are aliens but because men don’t seem to
know themselves.
The Ministry of Health says new figures released today showing a decline in suicide deaths in 1999 are encouraging but
New Zealand's suicide rate is still too high.
Warehouse founder Stephen Tindall’s current internet identity crisis serves as a reminder that your name is not
necessarily your domain,” warns Robert Wiles, Chief Executive of New Zealand’s only personal domain name company
http://www.pdom.com/.
A supreme court? Steady on, Old Girls! Faint though it is, there is still a glimmer of hope that a stay-at-home Kiwi
will win an Academy Award for best director/best picture without Aotearoa having to become the 52nd state of the United
States. Australia, ...
In research with significant implications for Marian “Bobo” Hobbs’ TV charter, student website Varsity.co.nz has found
that students overwhelmingly rate The Simpsons as the greatest cartoon of all time.