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1: “The
Lord Of The Rings” New Zealand Date
Change
ALKD, June 14, 2001 – The first instalment in New Line Cinema’s movie trilogy THE LORD OF THE RINGS will now release in cinemas around New Zealand on December 19, 2001.
2:
Keith
Rankin: A Minuscule Landslide
Last week I suggested that the result of the British election would be closer than most people expected. I was right, the gap between Labour and the Conservatives was only nine percentage points. What I did not realise, however, is just how much the ...
3:
Lindsay
Perigo: Warming Up The Kyoto
Science
The American president is in Europe, being demonstrated against by sundry statist scum, foot-soldiers in the "anti-industrial revolution" as Ayn Rand called it. Specifically, Mr Bush stands indicted for pulling America out of the Kyoto Accord, ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Images:
Greenpeace NZ Sandbags Mobil
Background: 12 June 2001, Wellington: Greenpeace New Zealand today sandbagged Mobil HQ in Lambton Quay, Wellington, and called on Mobil to stop undermining the Kyoto Protocol. See... Greenpeace Sandbags Mobil – No. 1 Villain
5:
Scores
of foetuses abort - 3 sad calves are
born
Almost all of the genetically engineered foetuses, in an AgResearch experiment in Hamilton, New Zealand, designed to insert a human myelin gene into milk-producing cows, have aborted. Only three calves, of the sixty promised, are believed to have ...
6:
Sludge
Report #87 – Human Rights And Selling Sex
In This Edition: Prostitution Law Reform Debate - The Human Rights Of Selling Sex – An Alternative Plan
7:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 14
June
Today's questions of the day concerned: CYFS New Directions – NCEA Training – Early Childhood Education – Uni Fee Freeze – Technology NZ – Hospital Funding – Australia’s Hijacking Of ANZFA – Student Loan Abuse – Dental Health – Ruapehu Lahar Protection ...
8:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Thursday, 14 June
2001
1. TAITO PHILLIP FIELD to the Minister of Social Services and Employment: What reports has he received on the Department of Child, Youth and Family Services' New Directions initiative?
9:
"Christian"
Hypocrites Party?
"It appears that the Christian Heritage Party has no sense of shame, irony or proportion, given its recent accusation that our President, Doctor Margaret Sparrow, is leader of a "death squad." Craig Young, Research Officer of the Abortion ...
Wellington - Mobil Oil New Zealand Ltd is disappointed with today's protest action by Greenpeace.
11:
Sludge
Report #86 – Levantine Superpower
Games
In This Edition: Russian-Syrian $1billion Arms Deal Realigns Middle East Balance - It’s Our Peace And We’ll Screw It Up If We Want To
12:
National
Radio Midday Report
Oz Bomb – Cervical Screening – Dr Nitschke – Grass Skirt – Local government – Airline Action – Ecuador Storms – Macedonia – Charities Tax – Wahid Visit – Tree Theft – People Smuggler – Whitianga Waterways – Professional Mourners
13:
The
Real Story Behind TheOneRing.Net
Regular subscribers to Scoop may have noticed an article by Kevin Loughlin about the founders of Tolkien website TheOneRing.net - that is, about myself and Mike Regina.
14:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 13
June
Today's questions of the day concerned: Borrowing And Saving For Super – Super Alternatives – Gagging DHBs – Minimum Wage – Bay of Plenty Health – Far North Power Disconnections – Ruapehu Lahar Protection – Electricity Prices – University Funding – UE Subjects ...
15:
Maori
Boarding Schools Rob Youths of
Potential
Maori boarding schools are robbing our brightest youths of their potential, ACT Maori Affairs and Education Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata said today.
The following two photos were taken by Lake Ohau based photographer Norman Mackay in the past week. As can be seen the recent big chill has already partly frozen over Lake Middleton, a smallish lake adjacent to Lake Ohau.
17:
Wind
Power Offers Price Stability
The present high prices for wholesale electricity, brought on by low lake levels, highlight an advantage of wind power: it will reduce price hikes during dry years.
18:
Terrorist's
Lawyer Charged
Terrorist George Speight's lawyer Navin Naidu has been charged with 3 criminal counts and will be appearing in Suva Magistrate's Court today.
19:
Boycott
Mobil Say Bluegreens
New Zealanders have been called on to boycott Mobil motor fuels as part of a growing international move to persuade the United States government to agree to support the Kyoto protocol on climate change. The call comes from Terry Dunleavy, national convenor ...
Today’s confirmation of the birth of just 3 calves containing the myelin basic protein gene must be a huge embarrassment to AgResearch after it obscenely inserted human genes into cows and then publicly boasted the merits of transgenic research.
21:
Proposals
Put The 'Local' Back In Local
Government
Prime Minister Helen Clark and Minister of Local Government Sandra Lee today said that a review of the Local Government Act would allow local authorities to better serve their communities.
22:
Big
News: PM Out Of Touch With God
“Please Prime Minister – keep reading your bible, keep saying your prayers, keep listening to God” – Anglican clergyman. Big News With Dave Crampton
23:
NZ
First, Alliance back National, sell out
support
The Green Party has accused NZ First and the Alliance of selling out their supporters by voting to allow the public service pension fund - the GSF - to be invested on the international sharemarket.
24:
Health
Minister Abuses Power
Health Minister Annette King’s decree that only Health Board Chairs may speak to the public is a dictatorial move to tighten political domination of health news, ACT Health Spokesman Ken Shirley said today.
25:
British
Oil The Main Beneficiary Of Timor
Crisis
SCOOP NEWS ANALYSIS - British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook's, arrival in New Zealand prior to September's APEC forum caused Thailand Foreign Ministry official, Kobsak Chitikul, to ask, "Why is Mr Robin Cook here?" Britain is not a member ...
The Auckland Regional Council and Mobil Oil New Zealand Limited have held top level talks in an attempt to end their stand off over lower sulphur diesel for the Auckland region.
27:
National
Shows True Colours with Super
Politicking
The Rt Hon Winston Peters MP, Leader of New Zealand First, today said the continued politicking of Bill English and the National Party on superannuation only serves to highlight the type of destructive political games that the public have had to ...
28:
NZ
Dairy Foods Butter Up Consumers With
Stand
Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today that NZ Dairy Foods' commitment to go GE-Free raised the stakes in the dairy industry.
29:
Greenpeace
Sandbags Mobil – No. 1
Villain
Embargoed until 12 noon, 12 June 2001, Wellington: Greenpeace New Zealand today sandbagged Mobil HQ in Lambton Quay, Wellington, and called on Mobil to stop undermining the Kyoto Protocol.
30:
Universities
should stop posturing
The decision by the Waikato University Council to reject the government’s funding offer in exchange for freezing fees in 2002 has been meet with cynicism by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA).
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.
Gordon Campbell: On Miserly School Lunches, And The Banning Of TikTok’s Gaza Coverage
LKTranslator: Eurovision 2024 Making Colonialism Cool Again 
Conor English: Global Esports And Game Development Landscape Fast Changing
Robert G. Patman: Confused Or Playing For Time? Why Is NZ Taking So Long To Make A Call On AUKUS
Binoy Kampmark: A Clubbable Admission; Palestine’s Case for UN Membership
Gordon Campbell: On The Hamas Ceasefire Offer, And Mark Mitchell’s Incompetence