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1:
Krumpets
With Medici Conspiracy's Peter Watson
Suzan MazurThe Carlyle Hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side was the designated meeting spot, in the bar made famous by Ludwig Bemelman's mural of Manhattan, Carlyle's very own Euphronios masterpiece. Bemelman's was packed at 5:30, and I ran into US News & World ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00363.htm
2:
The
Greatest Line In Kiwi Film
FrontseatA line from Bad Taste’s hero, Derek, written and spoken by Peter Jackson, was revealed as The Greatest Line in Kiwi Film on TV One’s flagship arts show Frontseat in its final episode for 2006.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0611/S00223.htm
3:
Peter
Jackson On Why He Isn't Making The
Hobbit
THEONERING.NETAdvertisement - scroll to continue readingPeter Jackson and Fran Walsh Talk THE HOBBIT From Scoop Content Partner TheOneRing.Net By Xoanon @ 10:32 pm EST
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00364.htm
4:
Images
& Audio: Nicky Hager "Hollow Men"
Presser
The Scoop TeamAfter torturing political insiders for more than a year the secret of who had Don Brash's emails has finally been revealed - New Zealand's leading investigative journalism sleuth and author Nicky Hager.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00368.htm
5:
Iraq
Is Now The Democrats’ Problem, Not
Dubya’s
David MillerAccording to news reports from Washington, George W. Bush is now an isolated figure. Having seen his party lose control of Congress, the President is being deserted by the same allies who supported his presidency and the war in Iraq. Men such as Kenneth ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00384.htm
6:
Tanveer
Jafri: Veils & The Muslim Women
Tanveer JafriHijab or Burqa tradition among the Muslim women, which has been accepted by the Islam religion, has again become a subject of controversy, these days. The Burqa controversy that came out from the statement of former foreign minister of Britain, Jack Straw ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00393.htm
7:
Bush's
Reason To Back Israel’s Attack On
Lebanon
Sherwood RossCondoleeza Rice shocked the world when she rejected calls for an immediate cease-fire after Israel invaded Lebanon. But her stalling may have been to give Israel the time it needed to wind up its bombing campaign against Hezbollah.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00372.htm
8:
Gordon
Campbell – Bruce Jesson Lecture
Gordon CampbellGood evening, thanks for coming. My name is Gordon Campbell, and it is my privilege tonight to present this annual lecture which, as you know, is intended to honour the life and works of Bruce Jesson. As much as anything, it was the deeds of politicians ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00325.htm
9:
Truth
About '100% Pure NZ Advertising
Campaign
Management School of Restorative BusinessPrepared by the Management School of Restorative Business (MSRB) Date of Release: November 16, 2006
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00286.htm
10:
Brash
Sticks To 2005 Story Over Brethren
Contacts
Kevin ListFollowing the revelation's this morning that respected researcher/investigative journalist Nicky Hager had written a currently legally suppressed book detailing the ins and outs of National under the leadership of Dr Don Brash – the National Leader kindly ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00369.htm
11:
MGR
IV: Novartis Vaccines Enters The MeNZB
Debate
Barbara Sumner BurstynThroughout the debate surrounding the controversial MeNZB vaccine, Chiron (now called Novartis Vaccines) has remained strangely silent. On 14 November 2006 they broke that silence in a press release to criticize MeNZB vaccine researchers Ron Law and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00403.htm
12:
Questions
And Answers - Tuesday, 21 November
2006
Office of the Clerk1. KEITH LOCKE (Green) to the Minister for the Rugby World Cup: Is the Government prepared, in the words of constitutional law expert Dr Bill Hodge, to damage “the constitutional fabric of New Zealand” by ramming through a waterfront stadium requiring ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00402.htm
13:
How
Multinational Corporations Avoid Paying
Taxes
Peter Rost M.D.Drug companies and other multinational companies based in the U.S. systematically avoid paying tax in the U.S. on their profits. The companies elect to realize profits in low-tax countries and because of this the rest of us have to pay billions of unnecessary ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00390.htm
14:
Evelyn
Pringle: Big Pharma Hits On Pregnant
Women
Evelyn PringleIf Big Pharma cared one iota about the unborn fetus, at a bare minimum, it would call off its hired-guns traveling around the country peddling SSRI antidepressants to pregnant women by convincing doctors to prescribed the drugs and ignore the studies ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00394.htm
15:
Scoop
Link: Seymour Hersh – Iran, The Next
Act
Scoop LinkA month before the November elections, Vice-President Dick Cheney was sitting in on a national-security discussion at the Executive Office Building. The talk took a political turn: what if the Democrats won both the Senate and the House? How would ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00377.htm
16:
NZ
Owned Marketplace Backs Outrage At Trade
Me
DizzleNew online marketplace Dizzle says it sympathises with members outraged by Trade Me's decision to carry ads that compete with the listings of its users. "It is appalling behaviour and Trade Me is only fuelling its growing reputation as a soulless money ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0611/S00398.htm
New Zealand GovernmentNew Zealand has reinforced its already strong position on the prevention of torture and ill treatment in places of detention with yesterday's passing of the Crimes of Torture Amendment Act, Justice Minister Mark Burton said.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00406.htm
18:
Energy
saving 'Hydro-charger' to be launched
Renewable Energy NZA breakthrough device that can be retrofitted to any internal combustion engine to save fuel and reduce carbon emissions is to be internationally launched in Queenstown, New Zealand early next month.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0611/S00390.htm
19:
Briefing
on NATO Issues Prior to Riga Summit
US State DepartmentMR. GALLEGOS: Good morning, thank you for coming. This morning we have Under Secretary R. Nicholas Burns who will speak to you about the NATO summit. Under Secretary Burns.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00388.htm
20:
9/11
bin Laden Family Evacuation Disclosure
Order
www.UnansweredQuestions.orgWASHINGTON, Nov. 20: Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Richard W. Roberts of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ordered ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00361.htm
21:
South
Seas animation competition winner
announced
South Seas Film and TV SchoolThe inaugural Youthtown/South Seas animation competition has a winner. 14 year old Hamiltonian Gabrielle Bradley took out the first prize with her entry entitled “For Justice”. The medieval-themed storyboard impressed the judges with the quality ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0611/S00237.htm
22:
Guardian
Link: Did the CIA kill Bobby Kennedy?
Scoop LinkAt first, it seems an open-and-shut case. On June 5 1968, Robert Kennedy wins the California Democratic primary and is set to challenge Richard Nixon for the White House.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00378.htm
23:
New
Book: United States v. George W. Bush et
al
Error: Couldn't get authorA 20+ year prosecutor with the US Attorney’s Office does what she knows best in the face of gross criminal activity--she convenes a grand jury
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00353.htm
24:
UQ
Wire: Sarasota Herald Tribune Retraction
Sought
www.UnansweredQuestions.orgFor at least the past three years, news accounts published in the MadCowMorningNews and in my book "Welcome to TERRORLAND" have asserted that while he was in Venice and Southwest Florida, several of terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta's closest associates ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00382.htm
25:
Friedman:
Killing America Softly With His Song
Sam SmithYou'd never guess it from the sycophantic obituaries, but Milton Friedman did more damage to American democracy and culture than just about any figure in the 20th century.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00379.htm
26:
Siddhi
B. Ranjitkar: Winners and Losers
Siddhi B. RanjitkarJudging from the latest six-point agreement reached between the seven-party alliance (SPA) and the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist) on November 08, 2006, more than eighty-year-old Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and about fifty-six-year ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00392.htm
27:
Thomas
D. Williams: The Decline of
Journalism
Thomas D. WilliamsIf some doomsday industry analysts are to be believed, newspapers are laid out and stacked neatly inside their own future death warehouses, not only in the United States, but worldwide.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00381.htm
28:
“An
inconvenient truth” Bledisloe is
feasible
Auckland Heart of the CityAn independent report released today by Heart of the City makes a clear case for moving the national stadium east towards Bledisloe wharf, contradicting previous claims that this was not feasible.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0611/S00262.htm
29:
Avenues
to allow book's release being
explored
New Zealand National PartyNational Party Leader Don Brash has confirmed that he has this morning had an initial brief telephone conversation with his legal counsel, Brendan Brown QC, who is currently in Sydney.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00417.htm
30:
COHA:
Bush Admin. Onslaught On Caribbean
Economy
Council on Hemispheric AffairsThe Clinton administration, fought to strip away the preferential benefits provided by the Lomé agreement to small-scale banana producers in the English-speaking Caribbean. This was done at the behest of campaign donor and CEO of Chiquita banana, Karl Linder. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00349.htm
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Gordon Campbell: On The Coalition’s Awful, Not Good, Very Bad Poll Results
Ian Powell: Policy Vacuum Enables For-profit Corporate General Practice Ownership By Stealth
Gordon Campbell: On Iran Killing Its Rappers, And Searching For The Invisible Dr. Reti
Peter Dunne: MPs Unusually Quiet On Pay Rise
Ian Powell: Cuba And New Zealand: A Relationship Worthy Of Strengthening
Gordon Campbell: On bird flu, AUKUS entry fees and Cindy Lee