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1: Upton-on-line
- Diaspora Edition
Upton-on-line notes french reaction to the slaying of Sir Peter Blake, gives a glimpse of how one young diasporan, Hamish Coop, thinks about New Zealand from afar and describes the sorry tale of an aborted submarine expedition of Lake Taupo by the Institute ...
2:
Gandalf
is VSA's Latest Supporter
With Peter Jackson's signature becoming as rare as dragons' teeth, Volunteer Service Abroad is hoping for a good return when it puts a copy of the Lord of the Rings, signed by the film director, up for auction this week.
3:
PC's
Opinion: Hell's Half-Acre?
This opinion piece is the ninth in a new series of "PC's Weekly Opinion" - a pithy, heavily spiced editorial from Peter Cresswell that can be delivered to your in-box once a week. If you like what you read then feel free to forward it to ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Scoop
Satirical Image: New Afghani
Money
The following image, circulating widely on the Internet in the Middle East, was submitted by a reader for publication. It shows a new design for Afghanistan's currency.
Reviews are pouring in for the first the first installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring , following yesterday¡¦s premiere in London.
6:
Firas
Al-Atraqchi: Terrorism In Goshen,
Indiana
Terrorism struck at the heartland of America as major news broadcasters reported that a ¡¥terrorist¡¦ had shot 35 people at a manufacturing plant in Goshen, Indiana late last week. As America prepared to Strike Back, initial reports indicated that ...
7:
$350
Billion In Subsidies To US
Farmers
Trade delegations in Washington admitted defeat yesterday in their efforts to stop the U.S. from handing more than $350 billion in subsidies to its farmers. Maree Howard reports.
8:
Behind
the Veil: Outrage at More
Aggression
Rumors of the United States increasing the war against terrorism to include and punish other countries in the region has been wafting through the Middle East. If the US is intent on doing so, it is not without a price to pay. Mistrust, outrage, ...
9:
Feedback:
Skyhawks Were An Air Combat
Arm??
Ross Ewing's contradictory bleating about the retirement of the fast strike and training arm of the air force is as contradictory as it is imaginative.
10:
Lesbian
Couples Reject Equality
"It is a little known fact that the benefit laws which apply to heterosexual couples do not apply to same sex couples," says Lindsay Mitchell, Petitioner for a Parliamentary Review of the DPB.
11:
Northwoods:
U.S. Plan for Terror to Justify
War
The Northwoods plan for staging phony attacks on the U.S. to justify invading Cuba was developed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1962. It was never implemented, perhaps due to fear of Soviet retaliation.
12:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day ¡V 13
December
Today's questions of the day concerned: Parole Reform Bill ¡V Decile Funding ¡V Mental Health Legislation ¡V Parental Leave ¡V Air Combat Wing ¡V Fisheries Court Decision ¡V Feds Views On Kyoto ¡V Health Funding Announcement Reaction ¡V Auckland Burglary ...
13:
Apology
demanded
Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton is demanding a parliamentary apology from Act MP Rodney Hide following false allegations made by Mr Hide against an Industry New Zealand staff member.
14:
Scoop
Images: Skyhawks Over The City Of
Sails
Somehow the funereal greyness of the day made a fitting backdrop for the NZAF Skyhawks as they flew down Auckland Harbour and on their way into the nation's history books.
15:
Scoop
Feedback: Orbital Mind Control Rays
Required
In This Edition: Northwood a plan for the 21st century?? ¡V One Way To End the Violence In Israel/Palestine - My Peace Plan - The Long and the Short of it - Keep it Clean
16:
Vindictive
Govt. Blocks ACT from AirForce
Farewell
The refusal by the Labour/Alliance Coalition Government to allow ACT to take up National's generous offer to use one of their seats on an aircraft going to Ohakea for the laying up of the air combat Squadron's colours is pathetic, ACT Defence Spokesman ...
17:
Big
News: How Corporate Greed Helps The
Poor
Hey kids, want to make the world a better place? Then grow up: Start a business or get a job. Do you want to provide new help for the world¡¦s poor? Hire them. Corporate greed has helped far more people than big puppets ever will.
18:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Thursday, 13 December
1. Dr WAYNE MAPP to the Minister of Justice: Is it his intention that serious violent offenders, including rapists, will be eligible for parole at one-third of their sentence under the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill; if so, why?
19:
Microsoft¡¦s
US Classroom Monopoly Play
Only a company like Microsoft could be attacked for offering kids free computers. But that was what happened when the company announced recently that it would donate up to $1bn worth of computers and software to more than 12,500 schools in the US.
20:
Feedback:
From Cave To The White
House
President Bush was correct in his speech on the Pearl Harbor Day that leaders, whether the commander of chief of the most powerful nation or the spoke person of a fragile extremist group, always hide in shelters when young soldiers fight in the front in ...
21:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day ¡V 12
December
Today's questions of the day concerned: Workplace Learning ¡V Work Testing DPB ¡V Cancer Treatment ¡V Middle East Violence ¡V Pharmac Funding ¡V US Free Trade Negotiations ¡V Police Wrankling - Aquaculture Moratorium x 2 ¡V Gifted Students ¡V Painted Apple ...
"We are going to war against GE protagonists" declared the first National Maori Hui on GE at Te Ao Hou Marae at Wanganui today.
23:
Stop
Weakening the Law on Murder
Eight murder victims in as many days should persuade the Minister of Justice to halt his Bill to reduce murder penalties, says ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks.
24:
Protection
Of Provincial Cinemas
The government¡¦s plan to change legislation on parallel importing of films, videos and DVDs is a response to many concerns about the future of regional cinemas, Associate Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Judith Tizard said today.
25:
The
Militant Jewish Face of Terrorism In The
US
Two Jewish members of the Jewish Defense League were arrested in Los Angeles early Wednesday in connection with an alleged plot to bomb Arab-American and Islamic institutions in Culver City, California.
26:
Avoiding
Property Pitfalls The Focus Of New
Guide
A multi-storey development across the street, a motorway designation through the backyard, or noise from the nightclub next door ƒ{ all factors that could potentially ruin the perfect property.
27:
Government
Signals Livestock Emission Tax
The Minister of Agriculture has signalled that the Government will apply a tax on livestock methane emission, ACT Environment Spokesman MP Gerry Eckhoff said today.
28:
PeopleSoft
8 CRM Sets New Industry
Standard
Auckland, Friday 7th December 2001 ¡V At launch events in Auckland and Wellington, PeopleSoft Inc. (Nasdaq: PSFT) has demonstrated the industry¡¦s first pure internet Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, PeopleSoft 8 CRM.
29:
Letter
From Elsewhere: Come See The
Future!
I don¡¦t know what the recently routed Queenstown council was planning to build when they carved a great chunk out of the green hillside of trees above their town, to make way for a ¡§development¡¨ they called the Commonage. But I wouldn¡¦t mind betting ...
30:
Launch
of ¡¥Thinking of buying a property?¡¦
guide
Launch of ¡¥Thinking of buying a property?¡¦ guide, 2/219 The Terrace, Wellington, 11.30am
ENDS
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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