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1 The Sporting Trial of Thierry Henry
21 November 2009 4:47pm | Binoy Kampmark
That much air time, and column space, is being given to this issue might be seen as worrying. But football matches have a habit of transfixing global audiences. No sport attracts more money or tribal interest. The largest sporting event on the planet ... More >>
2 Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 20 November 2009
21 November 2009 9:19am | Scoop Daily Ratings
1: Minto: Hone Harawira - Speaking Truth To Power John Minto John Minto writes: None of this should need to be said but the reaction of so many to Harawira's angry email resembles the deeply embedded racism which Don Brash tapped into so successfully ... More >>
3 Thai Military Wants US Satellites to Hunt Rebels
21 November 2009 4:52pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's military wants the U.S. to provide satellite equipment and imagery so it can hunt thousands of Islamist separatists who are killing Thai troops and civilians with hidden roadside bombs in the south. More >>
4 Minto: Hone Harawira - Speaking Truth To Power
20 November 2009 9:19am | John Minto
John Minto writes: None of this should need to be said but the reaction of so many to Harawira's angry email resembles the deeply embedded racism which Don Brash tapped into so successfully a few years back at Orewa. More >>
5 Profits Mask Food Shortages in a Land of Plenty
20 November 2009 5:10pm | Damian Baker
The petroleum industry arrived in the Lake Kutubu area, around 20 years ago with Chevron and BP and soon the delicate ecological balance often in play in remote areas began to shift. More >>
6 Public Address 20/11/09 - Please, be our guests
20 November 2009 4:40pm | Public Address
We've told you it's happening, some of you have already bought the books, but here it is -- the omnibus round-up of Public Address Books launch detail. If you would like to help David Haywood celebrate the launch of The New Zealand Reserve Bank Annual ... More >>
7 Bomber's Blog: The War On News, Nov 20 2009
20 November 2009 2:36pm | Bomber's Blog
Bomber's Blog - The War On News Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury. Bomber's Blog - the war on news. Weekly TV show on Triangle/Stratos. Bomber also posts on the Tumeke! blog: www.tumeke.blogspot.com More >>
8 Report on Yoo, Bybee Legal Work to Be Released
20 November 2009 4:36pm | Jason Leopold
A long-awaited Justice Department watchdog report that is said to be highly critical of the legal work three attorneys who worked at the agency's powerful Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) conducted for the Bush administration will be released at the end of ... More >>
9 The Israeli Exception: Gilo and East Jerusalem
20 November 2009 4:18pm | Binoy Kampmark
In 1987, the conservative author Midge Decter described her association with Israel and those willing to place it above conventional judgment. ‘We know ourselves to be bound by ties so deep, so essential, so unconditional, that they are beyond daylight ... More >>
10 Paul Buchanan: The Strategic Utility of Terrorism
19 November 2009 9:27am | Paul G. Buchanan - A Word From Afar
A Word From Afar: Paul Buchanan writes: One of the axioms of counter-terrorism is that the nastiness of the atrocity is inversely proportional to the terrorist’s chances of success. That is to say, the worse the act, then less likely that terrorist ... More >>
11 Scoop Link: Guardian's Greenwash vs New Zealand II
20 November 2009 10:57am | Scoop Link
When New Zealand's sink forests are harvested in the 2020s, as is likely, all that carbon will return to the atmosphere More >>
12 Werewolf: California's crowded prisons
19 November 2009 2:51pm | Rosalea Barker
California fails to cope with its crowded prisons Werewolf.co.nz September Issue Original Article by Rosalea Barker E very person in prison in California will one day be released. Take a deep breath and repeat after me: Every person in prison in ... More >>
13 Tom Frewen: The Week In Parliament 20.11.09
20 November 2009 3:10pm | Tom Frewen
Parliament congratulates All Whites on qualifying for Football World Cup finals in South Africa, welcomes new Green MP David Clendon as Sue Bradford's replacement, and spends the week skirmishing around National's revised Emissions Trading Scheme ... More >>
14 Gordon Campbell: the 9/11 terrorists on trial
19 November 2009 10:59am | Gordon Campbell
For years, human rights advocates have argued that terrorism is essentially criminal behaviour, and terrorists should therefore be tried under the rules of due process that democratic states have developed over centuries for dealing fairly with crime, ... More >>
15 Top Scoop Stories November 20th 2009 News Summary
20 November 2009 4:22pm | The Scoop Editor
LEAD STORY Super-Wards: Commission Proposes New Boundaries For Auckland NZ POLITICS Greenwash II: Government Baits Guardian Columnist John Minto: Hone Harawira - Speaking Truth To Power Harm Mimisation: NZ Needle Exchange One Of World's Most Successful ... More >>
16 Martin LeFevre: Falling Leaves, and Squirrels
19 November 2009 12:02pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
One is so accustomed to seeing the gray squirrels in the parkland leap from branch to branch with perfect dexterity that it came as quite a shock to see one miss his mark and fall into the creek. More >>
17 How Alien Media is Suffocating Real Culture
19 November 2009 11:56am | Ramzy Baroud
A Muslim family sits across of me in café, in a largely Muslim Asia country. An older woman shyly hunches over and desperately trying to avoid eye contact with the giant plasma screen TV, blazing loud music on the popular music video channel, MTV. ... More >>
18 Werewolf: License to prey
20 November 2009 1:56pm | Catriona MacLennan
Let’s make 2010 the year that New Zealand stamps out loan sharks. The Government and the community working together have the power to do this, using a range of strategies. And what’s more – it would not actually be that difficult to do. More >>
19 Werewolf: Politics in the P Pipe
20 November 2009 1:53pm | Denis O'Reilly
P rime Minister John Key’s anti-methamphetamine initiatives have a good chance of long term success. The ban on across-the-counter sales of remedies containing pseudoephidrine is something of a red-herring in my view. More >>
20 Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament 18.11.09
18 November 2009 4:36pm | Tom Frewen
Finance minister Bill English and his Labour shadow, David Cunliffe, play dancing with the stars as TVNZ's controversial "Plain English" programme promotion gets hauled over the coals in the chamber and the committee rooms. John Key goes too far in his ... More >>
21 The Real Deal: Narco-Dollars For Dummies
14 February 2002 12:06pm | Catherine Austin Fitts
The Solari Index is my way of estimating how well a place is doing. It is based upon the percentage of people in a place who believe that a child can leave their home and go to the nearest place to buy a popsicle and come home alone safely. More >>
22 Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament 17.11.09
17 November 2009 4:34pm | Tom Frewen
Parliament resumes after a fortnight's adjournment, welcomes David Clendon as Sue Bradford's replacement for the Greens, congratulates the All Whites on beating Bahrain, and gets into a shouting match over the cost of the emissions trading scheme with ... More >>
23 Medical Professionals Write Parliament an RX
19 November 2009 4:04pm | Carolyn Meers
Medical professionals representing the OraTaiao: New Zealand Climate and Health group delivered oversized prescription forms to Parliament today, urging lawmakers to reconsider the current changes proposed to the emissions trading scheme (ETS), changes they ... More >>
24 Werewolf: Doing the Transtasman tango
20 November 2009 1:58pm | Gordon Campbell
O ver the course of 2009, global practices in business regulation have toughened up considerably. US regulators have used phone taps to clinch their recent insider trading case against the huge Galleon Group hedge fund, and last week they arrested ... More >>
25 Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament 19.11.09
19 November 2009 5:00pm | Tom Frewen
More criticism of Treasury's emissions trading scheme cost estimates, this time from their own minister, Bill English. Labour MPs take offence after Paula Bennett claims they are sick and tired of hearing about child abuse. More >>
26 Undernews For November 19, 2009
20 November 2009 12:07pm | Undernews
EMAIL US REVIEW E-MAIL UPDATES REVIEW INDEX UNDERNEWS XML FEED Control + Click on date for permanent link, on Comments to make or read comments, and on the envelope to email story to someone GLOBAL TEMPS SET TO RISE OVER TEN DEGREES BY 2100 Independent, ... More >>
27 95bFM Audio: Deady & Hood On Coverage Of Nats ETS
19 November 2009 2:10pm | 95bfm
Scoop's Lyndon Hood cracks into the news coverage of the National government's revised ETS - is ANYONE getting the numbers right? More >>
28 Werewolf: Portugal weathers the recession
20 November 2009 1:47pm | Gordon Campbell
T uesday night in Lisbon had started out like an old murder mystery movie. I’d been told to take Tram 15 to the end of the line and he’d be waiting for me, in Alges. More >>
29 Werewolf: Unpacking the basis of a legend
20 November 2009 1:23pm | Gordon Campbell
CD reviews tend to be consumer guides, a few paragraphs that boil the music down to a buy/don’t buy advisory note. At The Complicatist, we’re pointed in the opposite direction. More >>
30 Full Coverage: ETS Deadlock, Cost Corrections
18 November 2009 9:50am | Scoop Full Coverage
Revelations that Climate Change Minister Nick Smith’s proposed changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme are going to cost taxpayers an extra $105 billion is something really worth swearing about, Dr Russel Norman, Green Party Co-Leader said today. More >>
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