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1: Scoop
Images: Taste Martinborough
Images from the weekend’s 10th annual Taste Martinborough event, a sellout with 10,500 tickets sold.
2:
Opinion:
From The Frying Pan To The
Fire
Even as the Berlin Wall was taken apart brick by brick, another institution was crumbling around the world: the enforced socio-economic integration of different ethnicities within former Communist nations.
3:
Big
News: When Bombing Activates Peace
Activists
Well, if it wasn’t for the war, the Taliban would still be in Kabul - and so would the eight Christian Aid workers who were detained for three months after being accused of preaching Christianity. The bombing did sufficient damage to allow the Northern ...
4:
Uri
Avnery: The Holy Alliance, Past And
Present
At the reception desk of the War-Against-Terror Coalition, there lies an application form for new partners. After stating his name, country and function (king / president / emir / dictator / tyrant), the applicant is invited to answer the question: “Do ...
5:
The
New Write - November 14th 2001
1. YET ANOTHER CONTROVERSIAL TEAC REPORT 2. BUSH STILL THE MAN 3. WALK FOR CAPITALISM 4. TOP TEN HEADLINES WE'D LIKE TO SEE 5. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
6:
Richard
Prebble's Letter from Wellington –
19/11
The PM and her deputy have become experts at claiming all is well with the coalition, but an objective way of measuring the cost of internal tensions is to look at the parliamentary order paper - the government's legislation and its progress through ...
7:
HARD
NEWS 16/11/01 - Sing, Shave and Fly Kites
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... New York deserved none of this. Its triple calamities - September 11, anthrax attacks and, now, this week's air disaster - can be feasibly be put down to three different causes - external terrorism, an enemy within and an ...
8:
Stateside
with Rosalea: San Francisco's
Streets
On Saturday I started changing the world, one doorknob at a time. Armed with some pamphlets that fit over doorhandles and the house numbers of registered voters who'd voted in the November 2000 election, I walked down the sunny side of 21st Ave, from ...
9:
No
Cleavage Until Christmas
Another reason to love New Zealand: It’s still the only country in the world that will make the weather the lead item on the TV news, ahead of GM, the war on Afghanistan and the top ten New Zealand songs of the last 75 years.
10:
Crack
Anti-Terrorism Squad Working For
Free.
New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters, has learned that Armourguard have been staffing the new anti-terrorist security force in Parliament with students who are working for free and are on work experience. “It seems that since Parliament ...
11:
Attorney-General
Statement On Contact With Courts
Attorney-General Margaret Wilson said today she had now considered a Courts Department report on a telephone call list MP Tariana Turia made to Maori Land Court Chief Judge Joseph Williams.
12:
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
13:
Govt.
Turns Record Keeping Into Profit
Taking
“The recent decision by the Government to substantially increase the charges for accessing information or records held by its department of Births Deaths and Marriages, will come as a most unpleasant surprise when they are required to now pay a grossly ...
14:
Photographs
Of The Sex Industry
"The women told me many stories while I photographed, mostly about survival....." In 1999, one of New Zealand's most significant documentary photographers went behind the scenes to strip clubs, massage parlours and brothels in Auckland and Hamilton ...
15:
ACT
To Campaign Against Bill
ACT leader Richard Prebble has pledged to lead a campaign against Margaret Wilson's Health and Safety in Employment Amendment Bill.
16:
Should
the NZ Govt. Fund Broadband for
Everyone?
The Infotech article did an excellent job summarizing the relevant key topics of the 70-page "Blazing a Trail" report and their current relevance in light of the specific regional industry developments, e.g., Telecom has been subsidized by the ...
17:
Hobbs
fudging GE sheep and cow dilemma
Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today called on Environment Minister Marian Hobbs to urgently clarify whether the Govt will allow new experiments involving genetically engineered sheep and cows with human genes to go ahead.
18:
Maharey
to meet first social
entrepreneur
Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey joins Geoff Chapple, the first social entrepreneur to receive funding under the new Government scheme which backs local people making a difference in their communities.
19:
The
World’s Toughest Multisport Event Is On
The world’s greatest, gutsiest and gruelling adventure race will take place in New Zealand over 28 days at the end of this year.
20:
New
Commanding Officer Welcomed In True
Tradition
Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Antony 'Lofty' Hayward along with another one hundred and sixty members of the Fifth New Zealand Battalion Group (NZBatt 5) arrived in East Timor on Thursday to begin a six month tour of duty with the United Nations ...
21:
National
moves on last-minute libel
law
National will next week seek leave of the Parliament to change a tough new defamation clause which was slipped into the Electoral Amendment Bill (No.2) at the last minute.
22:
Sludge
Report #119 - Superpower Summit
Forecast
As this item is published US President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are headed south to “The Ranch” for a superpower summit. And as has been oft reported before by this column. Where goes Dubya, there often follows a ...
23:
Woolworth's
Brand's go "GE-Free"
GE-Free New Zealand is welcoming the decision by Woolworths, one of New Zealand's major supermarkets and owners of Big Fresh, to make their own products GE-Free.
24:
Assessing
The Employment Relations Act - R.
Kerr
In my view a good deal of commentary about the Employment Relations Act has been misdirected. I want to open this panel discussion by making six brief points.
25:
Illegal
Overstayers Cost Taxpayers
Millions
Labour's policy of allowing illegal overstayers to live permanently in New Zealand is costing the taxpayer a fortune in hospital and welfare bills, ACT Immigration spokesman MP Penny Webster revealed today.
26:
Prebble
To ACT Christchurch Regional
Conference
It's a pleasure to be speaking at the Christchurch Regional Conference of ACT. I believe your decision to take the Party to the public is both innovative and bold.
27:
Labour
Admit They Botched Up Electoral
Bill
New Zealand First Deputy Leader, Peter Brown, is astonished that Labour MP Tim Barnett on the Kim Hill show, has admitted the Government will need to amend an amendment to the Electoral Act—less than a day after passing it.
28:
Feedback:
You’re A GEM, Jim
In this edition: Anderton's Entrepreneurs An Ideological Dichotomy – No David Miller, You’re wrong
29:
“Eco
City” Opposed To Genetic
Engineering
At a meeting last night Councillors voted to declare the City, the fifth largest City in New Zealand, free from genetic engineering field trials and also to oppose the genetic modification of food items.
30:
The
GW Bush - Osama Bin Laden
Connection
EDITORS NOTE: The following is a transcript of a link submitted to Scoop by a Scoop reader. Clearly questions are raised in this material about the nature of the relationship between the Bush family and the family of Osama Bin Laden.
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