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2: HARD
NEWS 17/11/00 - A Vote of
Confidence
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... export growth is rampant, retail sales robust. The balance of payments, so long in the red, is heading for recovery, and business confidence will, at worst, be neutral in the months to come. How nice of Bill English to give ...
3:
Cookie
Time Interim Injunction Update
Guy Pope-Mayell the director of South Island Cookie Time Ltd, whose company this week went to the Auckland District Court seeking an Interim Injunction against Griffins Foods with respect to the Fair Trading Act said,
4:
Sludge
Report #40 – Waiting For The
Guillotine
In this edition: Waiting For The Guillotine – What Goes Around Comes Around - Sludge Examines the US Elections And Its AftermathAdvertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Thursday, 16 November
Paraphrased answers to today's questions will be posted in the Scoops wire shortly after 3pm.
9:
English-on-line
November 17th
English-on-line spent a day or two glued to CNN watching the best of the best a political junkie could ever wish for. Politicians who don’t like elections aren’t really politicians. You see elections reaffirm for us politicians that we do matter after all.
13:
New
Zealand Wins Fossil of the Day
Award
New Zealand yesterday received the Wet Belly Fossil award in conjunction with Australia, Canada and the United States for wanting to remove references to existing international environment agreements from the eligibility rules for land use, land use change and ...
14:
Scoop
Archive: IRD Battle Shows Still Too Soon To
Celebrate
"Courageous battlers Jan amd Murray Willis deserve congratulations from every New Zealander for their victory over the IRD bullies," says Libertarianz Leader Peter Cresswell. "Their fourteen year fight to get justice is something no-one should have ...http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/10/fa/200011161651.e9335d02.html
15:
Texas
set to execute mentally disabled man
Another chilling milestone in the ugly history of US judicial killing is looming, Amnesty International warned, as it released a letter sent to Governor George W. Bush yesterday. The letter calls on him to prevent the execution of a severely mentally ...
17:
Promotion
is not aim of ALCP
G. Mintrom, (28/7/99) asks how the "pro-cannabis brigade" propose to grow, harvest, distribute, warehouse, sell & advertise marijauna - and who will profit.
18:
Computer
snooping devices bug
Ryall
National's Justice spokesman Tony Ryall says he has concerns about the Government's plans to install permanent listening devices at internet service providers - meaning any communication traffic can be tapped into by the police and security agencies ...
19:
NORML
Issues Health Warning About Toxic
Marijuana
The National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws today issued a health warning that marijuana sprayed by the Police with a deadly poison is being sold in Auckland.
20:
Response
to Matrimonial Property Amendment Bill
Family lawyers say that model agreements for contracting out of the new Matrimonial Property legislation will mean fewer safeguards for the public, and ultimately an increase in litigation and costs. They are also concerned that provisions designed ...
23:
Soft
Air Guns - Toys Or Trouble
The shooting of a man north of Auckland on Thursday is a warning for parents that the soft air guns their children may own are dangerous weapons in conflict situations.
24:
TV3
News
Lundy Murders - Murder Reward Offered – Road Rage Sentence – Fletcher Energy Sale – Tariff Reduction – Labour Conference – US Elections – Tua Returns
25:
One
Small Favour By 5pm Please?
MEDIA FLASH this week appealed to its readers to help it survive as Australia's media industry E-newspaper. You can read the Open Letter at www.mediaflash.au.com/open.htm
Hard News Is Here! - Commission Gives Shell The Go-Ahead - English On-Line - Howard’s End: Driven Round The Bend By The Westland Council - Import Tariffs Removed For Poorest Countries - Wet Belly Fossil Award For NZ - Handicapped Man On Death Row - Slippery ...
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Scoop
Images: Lake Hobbitton - Another View
6: Scoop
Images: Hobbiton By The Water
7: Scoop
Images: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: BAG END!
8: Scoop
Archive: Scoop Images: Mirror Snaps Bilbo's
House
10: Scoop
Images: And Not A Hobbit Was Stirring
11: Scoop
Images: A Hobbit Summer House?
12: Scoop
Archive: Scoop Image: Where The Hobbits
Are
16: Scoop
Images: Arwen Catches A Few Digital Snaps
21:
Scoop
Images: A Mountaintop Hobbit Retreat?
22: Scoop
Archive: Ringswatch: Our Liv Freaks Out In
Battle
26: Scoop
Archive: Scoop Images: Liv Meets Some Smokin'
Ringwraiths
27: Scoop
Images: Hobbit Slips Scoop Staircase Snap
28:
Scoop
Archive: When The Wizard Gets It
30: Scoop
Images: Bree Is Spooky At
Night….
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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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