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Two giant Nazgul riding winged Fell Beasts swooped into Courtenay Place on Sunday in preparation for the festivities
surrounding the World premiere of Peter Jackson's Return Of The King, the third part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy
next weekend.
The six mobile breast-screening buses are lying idle when they could be saving more lives, says National's Health
spokeswoman Dr Lynda Scott.
Terror, invasion, occupation and militarization are hallmarks of the US-led corporate recolonisation of Iraq. But they
have long been the hallmarks of colonialism and imperialism the world over.
Acclaimed New Zealand landscape photographer Andris Apse has achieved the ultimate exhibition space - on the side of an
Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400.
A little over four months ago, on July 8th, Scoop Media broke a significant international news story about apparent
security flaws in the United States voting apparatus - see… Sludge Report #154 – Bigger Than Watergate! & Bev Harris: Inside A U.S. ...
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Meridian Energy is hosting an online auction for the children’s charity Kiwi Can. The auction is on the popular trading
site Trade Me (www.trademe.co.nz) from 9am Monday 24 November finishing on Monday 1 December.
I am normally allergic to political arguments that hinge on a definition of "class", but as the outrageous detail of
exactly what went on in media baron Conrad Black's Hollinger group seeps out, Dick Meyer's angry editorial, The Predator
Class, seems ...
A number of explosions tore through the British consulate in Turkey today, killing scores of people. George W. Bush is
in England, surrounded on all sides by enraged British citizens whose massive protests have required nearly every police
officer ...
It is testimony to the ubiquity of crime in the modern American economy that the criminal investigation of one of the
country’s largest corporations and lending institutions has been greeted with the equivalent of a bored yawn.
Exploiting the environment is not the same as saving it, Green Party Co-leader Rod Donald advised United Future's Peter
Dunne today.
Government planners are blithely ignoring the fact that the world's oil demand will very soon exceed supply, Green
Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons warned today.
International Biotechnology companies- including those that operate in New Zealand and Australia- will be held liable
for the contamination of Mexico's native Maize stock and any other gene-banks and natural gene-reserves.
Some of the bloodiest chapters in New Zealand history will be revisited in hearings today (Eds: Monday Nov 24) as the
Waitangi Tribunal embarks on a major new inquiry.
With the ''weapons of mass destruction'' charade exposed like the bare bones on an X-ray film the Armageddon gang
running the White House reverted to that pathetically over-used justification: ''liberation''.
Fifteen years ago, Canada was running huge deficits and debt had reached 100 percent of GDP. Canada signed a trade
agreement with the US (their CER), deregulated state trading institutions, introduced GST and cut tax - a mild
Rogernomics. The result: ...
The Human Rights Commission says that smoking is not a human right. Therefore employers may discriminate against
smokers. The conclusion is right, the reasons given entirely wrong. But the decision does reflect something important
about the Human Rights Commission ...
This week thousands of protestors came to Miami to oppose the FTAA. The Free Trade Agreement of the Americas is an
international trade agreement that aims to extend corporate control throughout the Western Hemisphere.
So we've come full circle--the Queen of the old word order toasting the King of the New World Order. With polished
insincerity, Queen Elizabeth droned: ''as your father [Bush the First] said, we know what is right; freedom is right.''
Cartoon by kiddmillennium.com…
United Future leader, Peter Dunne, and the chairman of the Council of Outdoor Recreation New Zealand, Paul Check, today
signed a Memorandum of Understanding which aims at seeing the two parties jointly contesting the 2005 general election
under the United ...
Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), today, sent a letter to the Chairman and the Ranking Member of the House
Judiciary Committee requesting that the Committee hold a hearing to investigate abuses of the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA) ...
CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- When a U.N.-sponsored tour about communities with AIDS led five doctors from Afghanistan into a
risque Thai massage parlour, the men were thrilled to learn a few tricks of the trade.
Air New Zealand workers concerned about the direction the airline is taking will hold major stopwork meetings over the
coming week.
Something very strange happened in Volusia County on election night November 2000, the night that first Gore won
Florida, then Bush, and then as everybody can so well remember there was a tie.
Health Minister Annette King has announced a new deputy chair for Southland District Health Board, and three other new
DHB board appointments.
[] Anti-Semitism (Avnery's acceptance speech for the Lev Kopelev prize.) [] Forwarded alerts & reports other groups Tomorrow's outpost tour & olive harvest & court case etc.
The Council chairman of Outdoor Recreation New Zealand, Paul Check, says the attacks on his party by Green co-leader,
Rod Donald, are ill-directed and wrong ‘as usual’.
It appears the Iraqi Resistance Forces will continue to badger and attack the occupation forces for as long as the
creative properties of the human mind can invent new methods.
Bush Schmoozes Whitehall Over Iraq Invasion - Europe's peaceful unity is one of the great achievements of the last
half-century. And because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's
sometimes an assumption ...