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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
Pictures of the majority of the new All Blacks squad - pictured courtesy of All Blacks sponsor Air New Zealand today at
Auckland Airport.
Wolfowitz - ''The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy we settled on the
one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason, but -- Hold on one
second.''
The Bush Administration, in the interests of Corporate America (how can anyone tell where one ends and the other
begins?) is on the warpath again. Like its “war on terror”, it is fighting on several fronts.
"And it would appear there's more cronyism than ever, according to the Government's latest phone list," says National
Party Deputy Leader Roger Sowry.
While the hawks in the Bush administration attempt to justify the logic behind a pre-emptive strike against Iraq now
that its become clear the country’s alleged weapons of mass destruction are nowhere to be found, the true reasons for
going to war are ...
The Glassons Breast Cancer Research Trust t-shirt campaign has now topped the $300,000 mark.
Latest reports from Evian are that in Geneva, after some hours of quietness, things have kicked off again. The G8
delegates were disrupted and the summit was delayed for a couple of hours as a resoult. Local swiss people were attacked
by German riot ...
Two cartoons by John Chuckman…
Good to hear that elements of the mainstream media are raising questions, however gingerly, about whether or not the
Bush administration may have deceived the public to garner support for the war in Iraq. Duh!!!!!
A really big shadow hangs over Maori broadcasting, or at least the public perception of it. It's a shadow in the shape
of those notoriously expensive underpants of Tuku Morgan, and everything negative that they represent.
The Green Party conference at Karapiro was potentially the Party’s most important since they split from the Alliance.
The Party that had expected to be in government with Labour finds itself irrelevant and facing electoral defeat.
Thank you, John. I am delighted that the Shangri-La conference is back for a return engagement and I am delighted to be
back again, myself, and very honored to be here sharing the podium with two distinguished Senators like Chuck Hagel and
Jack Reed. ...
What does Public Relations mean to you? Sharp suits and beguiling smiles? Off the record hints and misinformation?
Public Relations has a bad image. The dismissive phrase 'it's just PR' encapsulates a lot of what people everywhere feel
about PR.
One wonders how many people in Washington have actually read the full text of the "Performance-based Road Map to a
Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict". Precious few, to judge from the reaction on the part
of influential figures ...
Evian, France -- Leaders of industrial powers, other countries and multilateral institutions have gathered in France to
tackle questions of global security, sluggish world growth and development in poor nations while trying to overcome
divisions stemming from ...
At least the foreign investors are happy - or so Allan Wagner claims. The Foreign Minister of Peru was defending the
decision, taken on 28th May, to declare a state of emergency in the South American state.
The single worst thing about the US presidential elections is the presidency itself. To understand what that institution
has aspired to over the past 100 years, you only have to look at this weekend's photo ops of the Bushes in St Petersburg
- the poster ...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Rapporteur for Myanmar have jointly
expressed concern over the recent political developments in Myanmar. They expressed particular worry about the Myanmar
Government's detention ...
It beggars belief, but it is true. Last week, a group of influential politicians who inhabit the rarefied but
influential world of Washington DC think-tanks proposed that US government officials be given the right to sit in on the
European Union's ...
Green MP Mike Ward said he has grave doubts about the Prime Minister's commitment to New Zealand small business by
opening a new distribution centre for The Warehouse.
After ignoring the unending bloodshed between Israel and the Palestinians for the first two years of his administration,
Bush is being sent out by Karl Rove to burnish up his appearance as a ''statesman''.
Despite having accepted that GE is here to stay, the Greens are again trying to be the tail that wags the dog with their
move to position themselves as Labour's long-term partners and oppose a future National-led government, United Future
leader Peter ...
W32.Sobig.B@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to all the email addresses, purporting to have been sent by
Microsoft (support@microsoft.com).
10 things overheard when Phil Goff met Yasser Arafat
The Palestinian Minister of Cabinet Affairs has refuted Israeli claims that stringent restrictions have been eased in
the occupied Palestinian territory, and labeled them as “baseless lies, which will not deceive anybody.”
ACT New Zealand MP Deborah Coddington today urged the politicians who express concern at the release of convicted
paedophile Lloyd Alexander McIntosh to get behind her legislation to create a register of sex offenders.
My invitation suggested that I reflect on “the Third Way three years on”; the “renewal of social democracy” and how I,
as a former academic sociologist, made the transition to politics.
Washington -- A senior Defense Intelligence Agency official who will head a new U.S. operation to seek out weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq says the effort represents "a significant expansion" of the ongoing work in that area.
On Wednesday I was invited to the launch of the National Party’s welfare discussion paper, “Saving The Next Generation
From Welfare Dependency”.
There is a "new dynamic" in the Middle East resulting from the ouster of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, new governments in
Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and President Bush's ability in recent weeks to get Israelis and Palestinians to
...