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1: Five
Migrants Beaten To Death
United NationsThe perilous people-smuggling across the Gulf of Aden, which this year alone has brought tens of thousands of Somalis and Ethiopians to Yemen, is claiming more lives, with five migrants savagely beaten to death and thrown overboard by the smugglers ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0612/S00299.htm
2:
Ohura
regains Television Transmitter – for a
while
BCLIn the recent lightening storms the transmitter (technically called a translator) that serves the area around the small King Country community of Ohura, including Tokirima, was struck. All the local residents lost both Ch1 and Ch2 – Sky reception ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0607/S00281.htm
3:
Thai
Military Push Against Muslim Guerrillas
Fails
Richard S. EhrlichAdvertisement - scroll to continue readingBANGKOK, Thailand -- After staging a bloodless, right-wing coup to expand their political and economic control, Thailand's U.S.-trained military has been unable to crush Muslim guerrillas in the south, resulting in hundreds of Buddhists fleeing ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00228.htm
4:
World
first wild algae bio-diesel test
drive
Aquaflow Bionomic CorporationThe world’s first wild algae bio-diesel, produced in New Zealand by Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation, was successfully test driven in Wellington today by the Minister for Energy and Climate Change Issues, David Parker.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0612/S00039.htm
5:
New
doubts about Auditor's spending
report
United Future NZ PartyUnited Future MP Gordon Copeland today commented on the report of the Finance and Expenditure committee, of which he is a member, to Parliament for the Financial Review of the Office of the Controller and Auditor General.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00310.htm
6:
Today's
Top Scoop Stories - News Summary
The Scoop TeamElection Spending: AG Admits Flaws In Process - Economy: Manufacturing Sales Keep Rising - Transport: Monster Spaghetti Junction Opening - Charity: Wanna Buy A Politician? - Comment: Pinochet's Project And The New Zealand Connection - Defence: NZ Troops ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00233.htm
7:
UQ
Wire: McKinney Discusses Impeachment
Bill
www.UnansweredQuestions.org(APN) ATLANTA – “Nothing is off the table unless the American people allow it to be so,” US Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) said in an exclusive interview with Atlanta Progressive News (APN) about her Articles of Impeachment against President ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00223.htm
8:
Repatriation
Of Sudanese From Ethiopia Resumed
United NationsAfter a more than six-month suspension due to the rainy season, the United Nations refugee agency has resumed the assisted repatriation of Sudanese from Ethiopia with a first group of 500 leaving for their homeland earlier this week, the vanguard of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0612/S00304.htm
9:
2006
On Track To Be 6th Warmest Year On
Record
United NationsThe year 2006 is currently estimated to be the sixth warmest on record with prolonged drought in some regions, heavy rainfall and flooding in others and deadly typhoons in south-east Asia, according to the latest update by the United Nations World Meteorological ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0612/S00301.htm
10:
UQ
Wire: Anthrax Attack On Congress FBI Cover
Up
www.UnansweredQuestions.orgThe perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attack on Congress likely was a government scientist employed at the Army’s Ft. Detrick, Md., bioterrorism lab having access to a “moonsuit” that made it possible to safely process and manufacture super-weapons-grade anthrax, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00222.htm
11:
Health
insurance coverage up
Health Funds Association of NZThousands more New Zealanders signed up to major medical health insurance in the September quarter according to statistics released by the Health Funds Association of New Zealand (HFANZ).
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0612/S00072.htm
12:
The
Draft New Zealand Energy Strategy
The Royal Society of New ZealandMonday saw the release of the draft New Zealand Energy Strategy, at the head of a long line of discussion documents aiming at reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. The Royal Society's Energy Panel produced a major report to inform this strategy ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0612/S00036.htm
13:
The
Commerce Commission Releases Issues
Paper
Commerce CommissionThe Commerce Commission today released an issues paper to begin public consultation on whether or not to amend the roaming and co-location services.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0612/S00299.htm
14:
Child
sex abuse pictures bring Xmas in
prison
Department Of Internal AffairsTwo Christchurch men are the latest to be jailed for dealing in child sex abuse pictures. They bring to 13 the number of offenders who have been sent to prison since Parliament, in February 2005, introduced tougher penalties under the Film, Videos and Publications ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0612/S00201.htm
15:
Lyndon
Hood: The Week In Headlines
Lyndon HoodKiss of John Key Turns National Party Into Beautiful Princess; Helen Clark Remains Predictably Agitated After Fiji Prime Minster Overthrown Over Corruption Allegations, Foreshore Legislation; Report Attributes Prison Van Death To Multiple Corrections ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00235.htm
16:
The
Dems & Bush’s Deeply Flawed Lat. Am.
Policy?
Council on Hemispheric AffairsIs there, or will there be, a revitalized Democratic Latin American policy as distinct from the farrago of ineptitude witnessed under the Bush administration? To begin, in Bush’s eye, the Cold War remains. The head of his personal list of enemies is ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00215.htm
17:
Goff:
Succeeding in a Globalised World
New Zealand GovernmentSucceeding in a Globalised World: The New Zealand Experience Address to Koc University, Istanbul, delivered on 11 December
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00313.htm
18:
"Spaghetti
junction" opening gets Auckland
moving
New Zealand GovernmentAuckland Issues Minister Judith Tizard today officially opens the $200 million Central Motorway Junction, which she says will help get Auckland moving and get through-traffic off city roads.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00309.htm
19:
Today's
Scoop Just Politics News Summary
The Scoop TeamElection Spending: AG Admits Flaws In Process; Economy: Manufacturing Sales Keep Rising; Transport: Monster Spaghetti Junction Opening; Charity: Wanna Buy A Politician?; MORE POLITICAL HEADLINES; NEW POLITICAL COLUMNS
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00234.htm
20:
John
Key Address: Inaugural Jenny Shipley
Lecture
New Zealand National PartyE nga mana, e nga reo, e nga rangatira, tena koutou, tena koutou, kua huihui kia ora katoa, katoa.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00302.htm
21:
Frida
Berrigan: What We Leave Behind
Frida BerriganIn just one week in October, a series of bomb scares swept across Germany. Outside of Hannover, 22,000 people were evacuated when three bombs were discovered. A few days later in the same city, a weapons removal squad defused a 500-pound bomb found ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00216.htm
22:
Public
Address 15/12/06 - Winners And Loose
Units
HARD NEWS from Russell BrownLadies and gentlemen, we have a winner. The main motive for the Flying Nun Moments competition that's been running the past week and a half was really to flush out some popular memory and get it forever on the Interweb, but I'm delighted to be able ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00232.htm
23:
Sri
Lanka: Young Child Among 7 Killed
United NationsA young child was among seven Sri Lankan displaced persons who died today when their boat capsized while they were fleeing fighting between Government troops and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the east of the island, the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0612/S00298.htm
24:
Public
Address 14/12/06 - Walk The Line
HARD NEWS from Russell BrownThe news that drug-impaired drivers will be treated the same way as drunks behind the wheel has been coming for some time, and was essentially inevitable. But I think the Greens' Metiria Turei is right when she says the new regime raises some tricky ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00231.htm
25:
Imminent
collapse of ocean ecosystems refuted
Secretariat of the Pacific CommunityResearch conducted by an international team of scientists, including SPC’s Oceanic Fisheries Programme Manager, Dr John Hampton, and reported in a paper published this week in Science, refutes claims that ocean ecosystems are on the brink of collapse.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0612/S00038.htm
26:
Army
Targets Truthout for Subpoenas in Watada
Case
Jason LeopoldIn a case that cuts right to the heart of the First Amendment, a US Army prosecutor has indicated he intends to subpoena Truthout Executive Director Marc Ash, a Truthout reporter, and two of the nonprofit news organization's regular contributors, to authenticate ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00229.htm
27:
Robert
Parry: A Way Forward, a Look Back
Robert ParryThe abrupt resignation of the Saudi ambassador to the United States and the postponement of George W. Bush's new Iraq policy speech mark a troubling new chapter for a U.S. strategy for the Middle East that continues to spiral toward catastrophe.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00227.htm
28:
Losing
An Information War Against Muslim
Jihadists
Sherwood RossWASHINGTON, D.C. --- The Army and Marine Corps tomorrow (Dec. 15th) will release a new counterinsurgency field manual that notes how insurgents use the media “to magnify the effects of their actions” and which suggests ways to defeat those efforts.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00221.htm
29:
A
single motor industry association
Motor Industry AssociationFor many years the interests of the importers and distributors of road transport products have been represented by two organisations – the Motor Industry Association (MIA) which represents the importers and distributors of new cars, light and heavy ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0612/S00320.htm
30:
30
Years of the Metric System
New Zealand GovernmentThirty years ago today the metric system was introduced into New Zealand says Consumer Affairs Minister Judith Tizard.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00304.htm
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