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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
Through a Glass Lightly: 10 Hopeful Cracks in the Bush Facade By Bernard Weiner The Crisis Papers
Cartoon by John Chuckman...
1. JILL PETTIS to the Minister of Research, Science and Technology: What progress has the Government made recently in
encouraging private sector investment in research?
Images of today’s press conference to launch the group Debate Air New Zealand . From left the representatives of the new
lobby group are financier Andrew McDouall, physician Ian Prior, former Wellington Mayor Mark Blumsky and economist Brian
Easton.
A live broadcast of the Donahue show (MSNBC - Monday, December 9) examining the current push towards an invasion of Iraq
revealed a few things about its guest speakers.
As diplomats and weapons inspectors in New York, Washington, London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing pour over the 12,000
pages of Iraq’s weapons declaration it is a good time to resurrect a key part of un-told story of Iraq’s relationship
with weapons ...
The briefest of reflections on the talibanic outpourings of Race Relations Conciliator Joris de Bres, a note (by way of
contrast) on the carefully considered conclusions of Judges McGechan and Goddard in the Bleakley case and some cultural
and end-of-year ...
The dismissal of the General Accounting Office lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney is just another example of the
veil of secrecy that permeates within the Bush administration and is a grim reminder of the dark days of former
President Richard ...
It's now official, the premiere of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers will take place in Le Grand Rex Theater on 10 December
2002.
More streets are to be restricted to non-residential traffic on weekends and public holidays in order to tackle the
scourge of illegal street racing in Manukau. This will include a large stretch of Te Irirangi Drive between Dawson Road
in Otara and ...
1. Hon. BILL ENGLISH (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Has she met with the Local Government Forum to
discuss their concerns that the Local Government Bill is "clearly negative for growth", as they requested on 22 October
...
On the eve of a decision from the Transport and Industrial Relations Select-Committee about whether to hold an inquiry
into ACC, claimants are not sharing the confidence of ACC Minister, Hon Ruth Dyson, that the office of the complaints
investigator has ...
As in Eastern Europe 13 years ago, the final defeat of dictatorial power in Venezuela came last night at the doors of
its “control rooms” – the TV stations.
Green MP Nandor Tanczos today slammed a District Court judgement which found that an Auckland City Council bylaw did not
breach the Bill of Rights. The bylaw allows for signs on residential properties advertising products or services but
bans other ...
The case for more deliberation, consultation and public say in the decision on whether Qantas should be allowed to
acquire a shareholding in Air New Zealand
An UNMOVIC Biological team carried out inspection at two sites, National Project for Controlling Brucellosis and
Tuberculosis (NPCBT); and Saddam Center for Biotechnology (SCB). The NPCBT was declared and monitored before 1998. The
site inspection was ...
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, ...
Global Peace and Justice Auckland is organising an Antiwar Protest for this Saturday December 14. People are to assemble
at Auckland's QEII Square, Downtown, at 11am.
Reading the available documents, in full, certainly helps. I wonder how many of the people who reacted so furiously to
the speech by the Race Relations Commissioner to mark the International Day of Cultural Heritage have actually read the
full text ...
The Local Government Forum was established in 1994 as a pan-industry group of business organisations, with the
objective of promoting greater efficiency and effectiveness in the local government sector and to contribute to policy
issues affecting that ...
1. Hon BILL ENGLISH to the Prime Minister: Has she met with the Local Government Forum to discuss their concerns that
the Local Government Bill is "clearly negative for growth", as they requested on 22 October 2002; if not, why not?
Blowing Up The Bamiyan Buddhas: It Makes You Think Address at the Dawn Ceremony on the United Nations Day of Cultural
Heritage 4 December 2002, Civic Square, Wellington. by Joris de Bres, Race Relations Commissioner
Washington, DC--On Tuesday, December 10, more than 100 communities in at least 35 states across the country will hold
rallies, marches, teach-ins and protests to express their strong opposition to the White House's plans to invade Iraq at
any cost.
Scoop Is In The House - Talking & Thinking About Air New Zealand - Jason Leopold: Nixon Would Be Proud - Upton-On-Line: Race Relations And Poetic
Theology - Cartoon: Which One Of These Is Not Like The Other? - Letter From Elsewhere: Joris de Bres’s ...
New Zealand is one of George Bush’s most enthusiastic allies in his apparently endless and borderless "war on terror".
The public face of that is the involvement of the SAS in the war in Afghanistan. But New Zealand’s most significant
contribution ...
Prime Minister Helen Clark is putting the cart before the horse in visiting the US for the premiere of a documentary in
which she features, ACT New Zealand Rural Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today.
United Future law and order spokesman and long time Sensible Sentencing Trust advocate, Marc Alexander MP has been
given the position of Deputy Chair on Parliament's Law and Order select committee.
Warehouse Stationery Limited proudly announces sponsorship of 200 Scholarships to be known as WAREHOUSE STATIONERY
KEY4FREE SCHOLARSHIP 2003.
North Shore City Council is far from impressed with the way the current negotiations on the General Agreement on Trade
in Services (GATS) being conducted by the New Zealand Government with others in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) could
affect local government ...
Mental health patients charged with offence to keep in cells... Auckland mental health clients who are kept in police
cells for longer than six hours are now being charged with a minor offence so they can stay in the cells, PSA national
secretary Richard ...