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1: Scoop
Feedback: Demilitarising
Aotearoa
Now as Alliance Party members seem to be into head-on collision with their leadership and parliamentary members, and therefore the Labour Government too, I wonder if anyone will take a longer view of this sort of foreign policy problem so it will not keep ...
2:
Bin
Laden Met with the CIA in July and Walked
Away
FTW, November 2, 2001 ¡V 1200 PST -- On October 31, the French daily Le Figaro dropped a bombshell. While in a Dubai hospital receiving treatment for a chronic kidney infection last July, Osama bin Laden met with a top CIA official - presumably the Chief of ...
3:
Oracle
Delivers A First In J2EE With New Java
Tool
Oracle Corp., the world's largest enterprise software company, today announced that it will complete delivery of its Oracle9i generation of technology with Oracle9i Jdeveloper: a major Java tool innovation that offers application developers unprecedented ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Images:
More Indymedia Anti-War
Pictures
All images below originally published on Indymedia.org .
5:
'Lord
Of The Rings' Tickets On Sale Nov
15th
Thousands of lucky movie fans will be able to enjoy the first ever public screening of 'Lord of the Rings' in Hoyts cinemas around New Zealand at one minute past midnight on 20th December.
6:
Auditor-General
Report On Ms Susan Bathgate¡¦s
Pay
The Auditor-General has reported to the Labour Minister Margaret Wilson on remuneration issues involving Employment Relations Authority member Ms Susan Bathgate.
I was glad I had my digital camera with me the other weekend when I walked 'up town'. I saw this old guy sitting on his electric cart, one third of the way into the street around the Martinborough Square, just drinking in the sight of these guys across ...
8:
Entrepreneurial
Biotech Company Wows Audience
A2 Corporation received strong international interest in the commercialisation of A2 milk, as a result of the IDF World Dairy Summit held in Auckland last week.
9:
BBC
Transcript Of Osama Bin Laden
Statement
Transcript Of Message From Shaykh Usaamah Ibn Laadin (Osama bin Laden) broadcast November 3rd by Al-Jazeera satellite television channel
10:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Wednesday, 14
November
1. Hon TONY RYALL to the Prime Minister: Did she and the Associate Minister of Corrections discuss the Associate Minister's "special relationship" with Matthew Solomon Thompson; if so, on what date was it first discussed?
11:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day ¡V 14
November
Today's questions of the day concerned: Tariana Turia ¡V Phonics Report ¡V Skill Shortages ¡V Tariana Turia ¡V Opposition Health Policy ¡V Police Interference ¡V Susan Bathgate ¡V New Medical Official ¡V RTLBs ¡V Health And Safety Bill ¡V Communications Trumps ¡V ...
12:
Inside
The Media: US News Memo On Civilian
Deaths
EDITORS NOTE: Ever wondered how and why the levers of press censorship in your local newspaper operate? The following memo from a Florida newspaper news editor, circulating widely on the Internet, sheds some light on the issue. Scoop would be delighted to ...
13:
Minister
Disappointed By Business NZ
Ignorance
Business NZ has revealed its ideological rigidity with its criticism of the New Zealand delegation at the World Trade Organisation ministerial meeting in Doha, Qatar, Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton said today.
The Young Labour 2002 Fantasy calendar is available for sale and delivery, Young Labour Vice-President Leila Boyle announced today.
15:
Ms
Susan Bathgate Statement On AG
Report
¡§I welcome the report of the Auditor-General. It has clarified many matters, and enabled the Department of Labour and I to complete a reconciliation of my salary entitlements.
16:
Muqtedar
Khan: To War Or Not To War In
Ramadan
Bush administration¡¦s decision to continue its present attacks on Afghanistan during the holy month of Ramadan will have a significant impact on two fundamental components in the war on terrorism ¡V propaganda and alliance building. The US could resort to ...
17:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day ¡V 13 November
Today's questions of the day concerned: SAS Troop Deployment x 3 ¡V NZ Post Board Minutes ¡V Volunteer Workers ¡V SAS Deployment ¡V Humanitarian Aid To Afghanistan ¡V Tariana Turia ¡V Reading Report ¡V Tariana Turia ¡V TV Standards ¡V Susan Bathgate¡¦s ...
18:
Sunbeds
Not ¡¥Safe Way To Tan¡¦ Warns Cancer
Society
The Cancer Society is concerned that people are not being told of the risks associated with sunbed use.
19:
Research
Shows Women Choose Vanity Over
Health
Research released today indicates 34 percent of New Zealand women aged 18 to 39 years of age forgo breakfast to spend more time in the shower, putting on make-up and deciding what to wear in the mornings.
20:
David
Miller: Not A War For
Imperialism
This is not a war of imperialism, it is a war against terrorism and it will be fought regardless of the number of stickers stuck on traffic lights in Christchurch.
21:
Six
Questions Posed To Professor Noam Chomsky
(1) There has been an immense movement of troops and extreme use of military rhetoric, up to comments about terminating governments, etc. Yet, to many people there appears to be considerable restraint...what happened?
22:
10th
Mountain Division Soldiers -
Uzbekistan
DoD News Briefing Soldiers Of The 10th Mountain Division - Uzbekistan Friday, November 2, 2001 - 10:00 a.m. EST
23:
Inner
city residents warned: check before you
buy
Inner city residents need to be aware of potential developments when they buy and develop land, especially if an adjacent site is vacant or underdeveloped.
24:
Scoop
Images: "CNN - Half The News, All The
Time"
Saturday, Nov. 10 - 100 people came out for a CNN protest march and rally. Three were arrested and remain in jail.
¡§It is a deplorable decision by National to reconsider its support of the Government¡¦s anti-terrorist position and therefore of our elite soldiers who may at this moment be engaged in this war,¡¨ according to New Zealand First leader Winston Peters.
26:
Scoop
Link: BBC On GW Bush - Bin Laden
Connection
The following is the first part of a transcript of a BBC Newsnight programme broadcast on November 6th concerning problems the FBI has been having with investigating certain Saudi citizens and their connections in their efforts to combat terror in the US. ...
27:
Howard's
End: Is Nutrition The Missing
Link?
Putting aside the rights or wrongs of genetic modification for a moment, is the food that we're already eating as nutritious as it could be, and is nutrition the missing link for the explosion of modern degenerative diseases? Is your food killing ...
28:
Links:
Le Figaro Reports CIA, bin Laden
Contacts
The Front-Page lead story in French Newspaper Le Figaro on Wednesday, October 31, 2001 is that Osama bin Laden was in an American Hospital in Dubai, in July, and had contacts with the CIA. The story, also featured on Radio France Internationale and ...
29:
Westpactrust
Announces Interest Rate Triple
Dip
„h Floating rate drops 0.50 percent „h Lowest one year fixed rate in almost 20 years „h Lowest five year fixed rate ever offered by a major NZ bank
30:
"Wake
Up And Smell The Coffee Crisis" - Trade
Aid
Trade Aid Campaigns Manager, Simon Gerathy today called on Cerebos Greggs to take a more meaningful step to address the issues facing poverty stricken coffee farmers who are in a desperate situation due to the collapse in world coffee prices.
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