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1: UQ
Wire: 911 - They Let It Happen On
Purpose!
Imagine you wake up from a coma and you learn that 11 months ago, an "Attack on America" destroyed some significant buildings, killed 3,000 people and forced a war against terrorism. You switch on the news and see pictures of Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, ...
2:
UQ
Wire: 911 Hijackers Who Lived At A US Navy
Base
Come Fly With Me? A Saudi Flying Instructor Who Died Mysteriously On May 8 Had The Same Name as Two 9/11 Hijackers Who Lived At The Same U.S. Naval Air Base
3:
Amazing
Crop Formation Discovered August
15th!
Once again the silence continues around the crop circle phenomenon and one of the most spectacular and significant crop formations ever made.
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4:
Scoop
Link: Iraq - The War's Already
On
How do you tell a war has begun? This is not the 17th or 18th century. There are no highfalutin' declarations. Troops don't line up in eyesight of each other. There are no drum rolls and bugle calls, no calls of "Chaaa...rge!". When did the Vietnam ...
5:
David
Miller Online: Why Russia Will Save
Saddam
The United States’ war on terrorism has just hit a major hurdle - one which may prove its undoing. This week Russia announced that it is set to sign an economic and trade cooperation agreement with Iraq.
6:
Draft
of Bush's Astounding 9/11-Anniversary
Speech
The following, alleged to be a draft of a speech George W. Bush wrote himself, to be delivered on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, recently came into our hands from a usually reliable White House source, the person known to us as "Shallow ...
7:
UQ
Wire: The Loyalties of George W.
Bush
There is a thread running through George W. Bush’s biography that connects family to power to wealth. With no assets but his name and connections, Bush became a wealthy man, and a governor, and now a President. Without those connections, he’d be nothing.
8:
Pre-Crime
Detection - It’s not all
sci-fi
In the new Tom Cruise movie Minority Report the police can predict with chilling accuracy just who will commit future crimes. The film is promoted as science fiction but if you look closely at a new report just released covering a study of 442 Dunedin ...
9:
How
To Silence the War Drums on the
Potomac!
The Bush Administration plans to topple the government's of Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia (in that order) to establish an American controlled oil cartel of Middle Eastern puppet states. Maybe a win-win opportunity for Bush's "oil buddies" & ...
10:
ACT
New Zealand Portfolios
"The ACT Caucus met this morning to allocate spokesmanships and refine our strategic direction for the forthcoming Parliament," ACT New Zealand Acting Leader Ken Shirley said.
11:
Rolex
Watches: A Freedom Fighter's New
Weapon
I can't stop laughing. And I blame a bunch of ragtag Iraqis for the incredible tickle to my funny bone.
12:
Divided,
Self-Interested
Opposition
Progressive Coalition MP Matt Robson says the scrap between Opposition parties over seating arrangements in Parliament’s debating chamber shows that the Opposition will never work together.
13:
Govt.
Accepts Independent Panel
Recommendations
The government will accept the recommendations from the independent panel brought in to provide alternative dispute resolution to help settle the secondary teachers’ collective agreement.
14:
Stateside:
37 Cents Can Buy You Love!
Ever had one of those moments when you wish the Red Sea would open up and swallow you? Charlton Heston apparently hasn't or he wouldn't have done that cringingly egotistical video this week about how he's got symptoms consistent with the early stages of Alzheimer's. ...
15:
Internship
Opportunity At Volunteering New
Zealand
Volunteering New Zealand is looking for an intern to assist the National Development Manager with the setting of national standards for volunteer management for the complete voluntary sector.
Scoop is looking for a new Web-Editor. The position is suited to a recent journalism graduate, who is prepared to do the grunt work of posting news on the website, but has the talent and confidence to write news stories as required.
17:
Richard
Prebble's Letter From Wellington
19/8/2002
Setting the Scene Much of the action this Parliament will take place in select committees. In the past these committees have been rubber stamps for the executive. But the places on the 14 committees are allocated strictly proportionately. Now Helen Clark has ...
18:
Guest
Opinion: World Inequality and
Globalization
World inequality is increasing. That’s one of the major claims of Greens, Reds and assorted anti-globalization “activists”. Take Grassroots International as just one example. They have claimed: “Inequality, by any definition, has increased.”
19:
Minister
Asked To Pull Finger
Libertarianz health deregulation spokesman Richard McGrath added his support to National's Dr Lynda Scott who wants the health minister to take responsibility for the plight of pensioner Ted Matthews who lopped off his rotting finger with a pair of scissors.
Kauri trees and even the kauri clock in your kitchen may help unravel the secrets of El Nino weather conditions, according to researchers at The University of Auckland.
21:
UQ
Wire: 911 - Foreknowledge or
Deception?
THE Bush Administration's "official line" for what happened on September 11 is that Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network were solely responsible for the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. This not only justifies the ...
22:
High
Court action against George
Hawkins
The Society is concerned that the position of DCC has been vacant since October 1999 and the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) has consequently been operating since December 1998, with only a one-person executive rather than two as ...
23:
Formway
Launches their award-winning “life”
chair
All the members of the Design Industry Taskforce have been invited (list attached) and Mark Pennington is one of the speakers
24:
Check
Your Till Receipts! -
Kachingo!
With only two days to go before their first $250,000 draw, the organisers of the new rewards programme Kachingo! are reminding shoppers to check their Kachingo! tickets.
25:
Roadley
Deserves Plaudits For
Efforts
"Retiring Fonterra chairman John Roadley deserves the gratitude of all those involved in New Zealand's dairy industry for his huge contribution to the sector," says National's Agriculture spokesman David Carter.
26:
UQ
Wire: 911 Debate Opened Wide On Donahue
- 911 Debate Opened Wide On Donahue Aug 13 2002 - Michael Moore- ANTI CORPORATE GADFLY - Jean Charles Brisard - FRENCH INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATOR - Kristen Breitweiser - HUSBAND KILLED ON 9/11
27:
Abolish
Leader Of Opposition, Say Greens
The decline of National into third-party status highlights the need to abolish the position of Leader of the Opposition, Green Party Electoral Reform spokesman Rod Donald said today.
28:
Scoop:
Top Scoops + Just Politics
NZ Armed Forces Iraq Invasion Involvement Denied - Stateside: Moses & The Waco Kid - Help Wanted, Apply Within - Bolivian Mystic Coming To Wellington - Firas Al-Atraqchi: I.D.I.O.T.S.
29:
911
Terrorist Links to Congress & White
House
Secret Hearings Conceal 9/11 Terrorist Links to Congress & White House by Tom Flocco * AmericanFreePress.net * And Scoop.co.nz 7 August 2002
30:
Business
Leadership On Climate
Change
[Address at release of New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development guide for NZ businesses on greenhouse gas emissions accounting and reporting, Auckland]
Binoy Kampmark: The Strawman Of Antisemitism - Banning Protests Against Israel Down Under
Gordon Campbell: On The Coalition’s Empty Gestures, And Abortion Refusal As The New Slavery
Keith Rankin: Judaism, Antisemitism, And Israel
Ian Powell: Haka, Hikoi And The Empowerment Of The Kohanga Generation
Binoy Kampmark: Feeding Chaos - Israel Cripples Syria’s Defence
The Conversation: News Bargaining Incentive: