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The Weekend’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
The announcement of the filming of part of the Hollywood feature film The Last Samurai in Taranaki is the culmination of
12 months' activity by Film New Zealand, Investment New Zealand, and regional film promotion organisations.
For the moral high-grounders among us the decisions to ban the movie Baise Moi both in New Zealand and Australia must
seem like a victory for all that is good in the world. Certainly Baise Moi is pornographic in many aspects. There's
real-time sex ...
Fears that used car importers would be forced out of business by new frontal impact rules have proved to be completely
groundless, based on a near-record 11,929 used cars imported in April, the first month that the new standard came into
operation.
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... well, let's hope the police have the right men, and all of them. You didn't need to live in
South Auckland to feel a sense of dread this week in the wake of three armed robberies - two of which culminated in
cold-blooded ...
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 ...
SCOOP EDITORS NOTE: CBS News is being attributed with breaking the news of White House foreknowledge of the 911
hijackings. The following are links to their Scoop reports.
Defying critics and the worried jitters of millions of fans, George Lucas' second instalment in the Star Wars universe
of prequels delivers one hell of a laser punch.
BSB’s article makes some good points, but it misses what I see as the big picture.
I am ambivalent on global warming. I am sure it is happening, while sceptical that it is happening to the extent that
many environmentalists claim. I am not at all sure that human activity is the principal cause of global warming. I
certainly dislike ...
Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
The increasing number of suicide belt-bombers and the diversity of their backgrounds is causing concern to global
security experts who now fear the low-cost and difficult to detect bombing tactic could be used more often on buses,
trains and in shopping ...
Green MP Keith Locke has backed Professor Jane Kelsey's exposure of an earlier, harsher, version of the anti-terrorism
bill currently before Parliament.
The Electoral Commission will not be taking any further action about donations Fay Richwhite made to the National Party
in 1996.
East Timor's Independence must be celebrated. And New Zealand must share in that, but we must also say sorry for past
government's policy of silence, a policy nurtured significantly in the 1990s by the then New Zealand Foreign Minister
Don McKinnon.
Auckland University law professor Jane Kelsey has secured the release of the original amendments to the Terrorism Bill
(dated 25 October 2001) which the Government attempted to push through without public scrutiny late last year.
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks has written to the Corrections and Justice Ministers seeking assurances that when
the murderers in the two South Auckland shootings are convicted, their previous criminal record details will not be
suppressed.
MP Clayton Cosgrove’s Land Transport (Street and Illegal Drag Racing) Amendment Bill was introduced to the House as a
government Bill today.
New Zealand, American, and Japanese scientists have found new submarine hot springs northeast of New Zealand.
In a typical knee-jerk reaction to the problem of street racers, both local and central government politicians are all
jumping on the bandwagon wanting to introduce yet another law, this time to be called the Land Transport (Street and
Illegal Drag ...
At 10am today the Animal Liberation Delivery Team covered Mainland Poultry’s Central Dunedin Office with hay and leaves,
in an action highlighting the company’s total lack of animal ethics.
New Zealand First has harsh criticism of Alliance Leader and Youth Affairs Minister Laila Harré’s drug education
initiative, most notably the decision to have pro-cannabis activist Nandor Tanczos front the programme.
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has expressed shock and dismay at the extent to which commissioners have dipped
into Waitangi fisheries assets. Commenting on revelations that $11 million in fees has been paid to Waitangi Treaty
Fisheries commissioners ...
We are relieved that Police have charged three men in relation to the Manukau Serial Killings.
Today’s questions concerned: Drug Education – Corrections Emergency Response Unit – Jim’s New Party – Youth Offending –
Party Hopping Bill – Venture Investment Fund – Local Body Election Donations - MidCentral Health Cancer Treatment –
Petrol And ...
Praise the Lord and pass the broccoli, "The West Wing" has returned! Grandiose, witty and slightly pretentious, "West
Wing" follows the workings of the staff of the Oval Office, home of the American President.
Limbaugh: We rarely have guests on the program, as you know, but we make exceptions now and then when warranted, and
certainly such a circumstance is warranted today. The Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld joins us. Mr. Secretary, this
is a real ...
A Petone man with no sporting ability was arrested this morning after entering the Starship Troopers Children’s
Hospital in Wellington and attempting to comfort children in the Leukaemia ward.
New Zealand First MP and campaigner for improved censorship standards Peter Brown has secured a meeting with the
Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon George Hawkins next week to seek the removal of the present censor, on the grounds
that he has failed ...
Hard News Is Here! - 911: How Much Did George W. Know? - East Timor Independence Day: Memories Good And Bad - Howard’s
End: The Global Threat Of Suicide Bombing - No Further Action Over National Donation - Govt’s Preferred Terror Bill
Exposed - ...
Can you tell us specifically what date the President was briefed that there was a threat of hijacking, where he was when
he got the briefing, who he gave -- a couple more -- who gave him the briefing, what agencies were warned about the
threat, and ...