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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
Racists in our midst? Without doubt Winston Peters has won first place in the ‘racist we all love to hate,’ category. No
right thinking, liberal minded person would embrace his philosophies. Even his deputy, Peter Brown landed in hot water
over his comments ...
Midweek, a Yugoslavian work colleague went out of his way to tell me what a great team the Tall Blacks are, thus saving
me from the conspiracy theory that had been forming in my mind since the previous weekend. Who can blame me for thinking
that ...
Green Party Foreign Affairs spokesperson Keith Locke has criticised the government for denying the public information
about our SAS troops in Afghanistan that is readily available on the internet.
If the Accident Compensation Corporation was a private company it would likely have no customers, MP's would be jumping
up and down in the House over its behaviour and state-owned television, TV1, would be carrying programs on Fair Go,
Holmes and Sunday ...
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, ...
As we move towards a broader war against Iraq - remember, the last one never ended - one thing is clear: there is a
definite need for a regime change. . . in the American media.
Helen Clark is now among the world’s leading critics of President Bush’s call for action against Iraq. She even
questions the legality of UN resolutions on Iraq, saying Saddam has been in defiance so long, the resolutions have
lapsed. NZ is one of the ...
It seems America and Bush in particular wants to wage war on Iraq, and has spent months trying to convince American
citizens and other countries that Saddam is so dangerous that he must be removed at all costs.
The difficulty when investigating the possible criminal actions of powerful officials is that they can use their power
to cover up involvement in criminal conspiracies. One of the ways around this problem is to examine a politician's
behavior at the ...
In This Edition: A reply to Keith Rankin's "A Brief Reflection" - Getting Right Up Their Noses - The Real Y2k Bug - 911
And All That - Link: The Ballad of John O'Neill
United Future MP Bernie Ogilvy is stretching credibility to think he should receive a real Doctorate after serving as a
volunteer at the 1984 Olympic Games, says National's Deputy Leader Roger Sowry.
Images from the Green Party showing Green Party MP Nandor Tanczos and Co-Leader Rod Donald installing Hemp Insulation
into a ceiling space in a Green Party owned Wellington house. See also… First hemp insulation installed - a boost for
bill
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide said today that contrary to Jim Anderton's projections, his much-vaunted Kiwi Bank is
struggling to attract deposits.
An August 8 USA Today article that described how Saddam Hussein is "complicating U.S. plans to topple his regime"
repeated a common myth about the history of U.S./Iraq relations. Reporter John Diamond wrote that "Iraq expelled U.N.
weapons ...
We must let our children be children, said National Party Leader Bill English, responding to a radio station promotion
in Palmerston North that emulates the TV reality series Big Brother.
Welcoming the world's central bankers to their annual summer conclave at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 30 2002, Fed
chairman Alan Greenspan delivered a remarkable speech. In unusually clear language, he acknowledged the existence of a
bubble in ...
Suggestions by Energy Minister Pete Hodgson that the Conservation Act should be amended to allow conservation areas to
be made available for other purposes were rejected with impatience and anger today by the chair of the Environment and
Conservation ...
Disability Issues Minister Ruth Dyson will launch the New Zealand CCS national disability awareness campaign, ‘What Did
you Say?’ in the Banquet Hall at 5.30pm on Monday, 16 September 2002.
Once again I have happened upon a website espousing anti-American ideals. Let me say right off, the world depends on US,
so the world BELONGS to us, therefor, it ain't "stealing", as you so pejoratively label it.
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 ...
Images of NZ Foreign Minister Phil Goff at 911 commemorations in New York.
A freak hailstorm this morning left up to 30mm of hail on the ground in parts of Miramar and on the Wellington airport
runway. The hailstorm led to the closure of the Wellington Airport till around 10am. The following images were taken by
Wellington ...
Internal Affairs Minister, George Hawkins, today announced the appointment of Nicola McCully as the new Deputy Chief
Censor at the Office of Film and Literature Classification.
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.
Now that it's the first anniversary of the attacks by (presumably) Al Qaeda on New York and Washington, two things in
particular worry me. The American political leaders seem to have learned nothing about how to avoid terror, and they
make statements ...
Suggestions by Energy Minister Pete Hodgson that the Conservation Act should be amended to allow conservation areas to
be made available for other purposes were rejected with impatience and anger today by the chair of the Environment and
Conservation ...
The following images were sent to Scoop today by a Scoop reader. They are reported to show lights over Manhattan last
night.
“The departure of Northland District Health Board chief executive Ken Whelan will be a loss to the public health service
and will be missed,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today.
Mr Whelan is ...
Green MP Nandor Tanczos' bill seeking to allow farmers to grow industrial hemp received a boost today as the first
insulation fibre made from New Zealand-grown hemp was installed in two Wellington houses.
“Democracy is under threat in the upcoming Victoria University Student Association elections,” says VUWSA Education
Officer Daniel Phillips. Though not seeking re-election in the upcoming vote Phillips is fuming over several decisions
by the VUWSA Election ...