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1:
UQ
Wire: Harken Energy - Bush’s No Good Trade
One key trade just a few weeks before Iraq invaded Kuwait -- but reported some eight months late after the Gulf War was over -- netted Bush close to $1 million in profit as he sold stock in Harken Energy, an oil company doing business in the Middle East ...
2:
The
911 Evidence that May Hang George W. Bush
The Case Against G.W. Bush: a Preliminary "Hearing" in the Court of Common Sense
3:
What
Mr Maharey Doesn't Want Us To Know
Steve Maharey doggedly resists acknowledging that the United States is leading the world in welfare reform.
4:
Big
News: Overturning ACC
Decisions
ACC may call their claimants stock, they may ask for biased medical reports, but they sometimes use medical reports to back up their biased decision at hearings set up to review decisions made. You may have thought that being exited from ACC was ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
Guest
Opinion: Palestine - The Objective
Reality
My contribution to the infamous 1981 Springbok tour protests involved stopping traffic on the Hutt Motorway along with a couple of other incidents I won’t mention for fear of incriminating those involved. Thousands of other New Zealanders who disagreed ...
6:
US
Happy To Reveal Our 'Secret' SAS
Activities
Details of the SAS incident in Afghanistan that our Government had deemed to sensitive for New Zealanders to be told about have now been revealed by the US military.
7:
US
Armed Saddam Hussein With Chemical Weapons
On August 18, the New York Times carried a front-page story headlined, ``Officers say U.S. aided Iraq despite the use of gas''. Quoting anonymous US ``senior military officers'', the NYT ``revealed'' that in the 1980s, the administration of US President ...
8:
Link:
A Brief History of Bush, Harken and the
SEC
WASHINGTON – In 1976, George W. Bush was a freshly minted graduate of the Harvard Business School looking for a job.
9:
Shell
gives motorists a long holiday
present
Shell New Zealand Retail Manager Bruce Emson said Shell was delighted to offer motorists a 10 cent discount in the lead up to the Labour Day holiday weekend.
10:
Firas
Al-Atraqchi: Lessons In Iraqi
Resistance
While Republicans strongly endorse an invasion of Iraq and hawks in the Bush Administration continue to divulge their battle plans and mapping out of a workable (non) Iraq strategy, the history of Iraq, is hardly mentioned, alluded to, or referenced. This is lamentable, ...
11:
The
Days Of The Cheats Are Numbered
A leading international expert on electronic plagiarism says the massive problem of plagiarism facing educators is gradually being overcome.
12:
Big
News: Docking The ACC Herd
It is now common knowledge that a recent ACC report referred to long term ACC claimants - on the scheme for more than a year – as stock. Yes, a bunch of claimants is now called a herd.
13:
US
Elections 2002: Florida - The Exceptional
State
To the Bushes, familial loyalty knows no bounds, including ethical ones. The George W. Bush Administration banned oil drilling off the coast of Florida while pushing it elsewhere. It lavished money on saving the Everglades while ignoring other environmental ...
14:
Which
Nov 6th News Story Would You Prefer to
Read?
The upcoming midterm election is, at the time of this writing, too close to call. One day, it looks good for the Democrats to retake the House and keep the Senate; the next day, there seems to be a surge for the GOP, with the Republicans set to ...
15:
Green
Party Holds Key to Inquiry
ACT Commerce Spokesman Deborah Coddington has approached Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons with draft terms of reference for a Transport and Industrial Relations Committee inquiry into public-private partnerships.
BP is offering cheap fuel all day today (Thursday) with a 10 cent discount on its petrol and diesel prices.
17:
The
New Write - NZ Young Nationals
Newsletter
The full insider's view of what's on, what's not, who is on who and all you can stand to know. Here's Parliament exposed!
18:
Undernews:
Whose Left Is It Anyway?
News that Christopher Hitchens had discovered his inner imperial self was greeted exuberantly by the Washington Post, which gave him Kissingeresque space to lash out at his former comrades on the left.
19:
National
demands release of meeting
papers
National is calling on the Government to immediately release the remaining papers relating to the Public-Private Partnerships fiasco by Ross Armstrong.
20:
Why
U.N. inspectors left Iraq - then and now
What a Difference Four Years Makes: Why U.N. inspectors left Iraq - then and now
21:
Peters
all rhetoric and no solutions
Winston Peters’ latest contribution to the immigration debate is based on misinformation and creates an intolerable climate for refugees doing their best to resettle in New Zealand.
22:
US
Biological Weapon Sales To Iraq -
Transcript
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following remarkable interview transcript with Joyce Riley of the American Gulf War Veterans Association details the remarkable discoveries she and her fellow Gulf War veterans have made concerning the sale of chemical and biological ...
23:
Why
is Hawkins letting rotting homes inquiry
stop?
National Housing Spokesperson Wayne Mapp says National is most concerned that an inquiry into why the Building Industry Authority had not acted sooner on the rotting homes syndrome has been indefinitely postponed.
24:
Expozay's
Sophie Monk Stolen All Over
Australia
Expozay Swim advertising images of stunning Australian singer Sophie Monk are proving so hot that half the outdoor posters used in the first Australian advertising campaign have been stolen.
25:
Jason
Leopold – Shafted By The New York
Times
Editor's Note: This is a story about a story. A great story. A scoop that ought to see a member of George Bush's cabinet at least indicted, if not behind bars. But that is not what has happened. This is a scoop, that for reasons unknown to its author, ...
26:
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, ...
27:
SOL:
Big Brother Spying Extended Via
Cellphones
Imagine government officials "seeing" through walls into peoples’ homes and tracking their every move from hundreds of kilometres away. Yes it sounds like science fiction, but the UK government is reportedly secretly developing this technology today through ...
28:
Sustainable
business in New Zealand - Jim
Anderton
NZ Sustainable Business Conference - Recently I have been reflecting that this is the best time for a young person to be leaving school in New Zealand since the early 1970s.
29:
The
Helen, Ross & Enron Show - Full
Coverage
Archive of links to Scoop Coverage of the Ross Armstrong, Public Private Partnerships controversy... as of October 23rd.
30:
Houston
Space Policy Summit -- Keynote
Address
Norman P. Neureiter, Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State Keynote address to Space Policy Summit Houston, Texas October 12, 2002
Ramzy Baroud: The Gaza Genocide - The Fall Of Israel’s Immunity
Gordon Campbell: On The History Of Doo Wop Music
Ian Powell: When Politics Gets In The Pocket Of The Gun Lobby
Binoy Kampmark: AUKUS - Flawed And Sinking
Martin LeFevre - Meditations: The Darkest Hour Before Dawn Or The Sum Of All Dark Ages?
Gordon Campbell: On Justin Trudeau’s Demise, In A Global Context