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1: Sludge
Report #120 - US Participating In War
Crime
In This Edition: An Unusually Clear Moral Dilemma - US Officials Wring Their Hands (In Their Own Words) - The US Position In Summary - And So There Is Now No Way Out… For Pakistani Teenagers! - Is This A War Crime?
2:
Scoop
Link: WTC Photo Hoaxer
Revealed
The identity of the world-famous "Tourist Guy" has been revealed, but his fear of becoming an Internet freak show means he'll be shunning the limelight.
3:
Secrecy
Over Auckland City Review Causes Alarm
(2)
Birch Consulting Group has responded to the PSA, saying he would not meet but instead referred us to Brian Taylor CEO Auckland City.
4:
Secrecy
Over Auckland City Review Causes
Alarm
'The secrecy surrounding the razor gang employed by Auckland Mayor John Banks to cut $25 m from Auckland City budgets is causing alarm amongst Auckland City staff' said Richard Wagstaff, PSA National Secretary.
5:
New
Zealanders Want More Of New Zealand On
Air
New Zealanders want to see more of New Zealand programmes on free-to-air television channels according to NZ On Air's latest research into New Zealanders' television viewing choices.
6:
Osama
Bin Laden: An Enemy Of Islam
Bin Laden has become a significant moral challenge to Muslims. His alleged association with the perpetrators of 9/11 attacks raises a major question about the relationship between Islam and terrorism.
7:
Headlines
from the NZ Business Times Fri 23
Nov
Briscoe Group managing director Rod Duke is happy to go shopping with Australian retail guru Gerry Harvey but he is drawing the line at buying a block of land with him. This means property investment is out for the Briscoe Group, but using some ...
8:
Scoop
Images: Paradise Found
Two images of the environs of the most photogenic mountain village in the world taken by Norman Mackay .
9:
NZSTA
Scores 100% Strike Rate On School
Houses
The New Zealand School Trustees Association has won the war against councils charging illegal rates on school houses, collectively saving schools an estimated $1 million to $2 million.
10:
New
Zealand’s first Ambassador to North
Korea
A New Zealand Ambassador has been accredited to North Korea for the first time, Foreign Minister Phil Goff announced today.
11:
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
12:
Scoop
Archive: Auckland Joins Global Pro-Capitalism
Rally
Auckland will be one of over 100 cities around the world on December 2, 2001 to host the WalkForCapitalism - the first annual Global Rally for Capitalism.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/26/89/200111221125.ad8aacdc.html
13:
Images:
Water Group’s Interdimensional
Picket
This was the extraordinary scene as the Water Pressure Group Picket made its presence felt outside the Auckland District Court just prior to their court hearing on Friday morning.
14:
Feedback:
Green Party Says Afghans Have
Rights
Writers who attack Green party members and others for opposing the bombing of Afghanistan, nearly always refer to this opposition as being "anti American".
15:
Tühoe
Exhibition Opens At Te Papa
Tühoe moumou kai – We give you our stories Tühoe moumou taonga – We give you our treasures Tühoe moumou tangata ki te Pö – We give you our lives
16:
Reclaim
The Night Promotes Hate Crime
"The Reclaim the Night march is an exercise in denying violence by women. Denying or minimising female violence against men is spreading the message that it is acceptable for women to be violent if they can justify it to themselves, which is effectively ...
17:
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.
18:
Upton-on-line
- Diaspora Edition
SPECIAL ANTIQUARIAN NUMBER: Upton-on-line reflects on swearing fealty to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II as a member of Her Majesty’s Privy Council .
19:
Fraud
Investigation Underway Into
Enrolments
Associate Minister of Education (Tertiary Education) Steve Maharey today announced an investigation is underway into possible misuse of the student loan scheme and the activities of a private education provider based in Taranaki.
20:
But
April Fool's Day is in
April...
Green co-leader Rod Donald said his first reaction was to laugh when he saw the likes of BP, Mobil, Shell, and British American Tobacco in a list of New Zealand's 20 greenest companies.
Wanda Martini and I didn't shed a tear when 43,998 other Wellingtonians belted the chorus to "Angels" (What does "I'm loving Angels instead" mean??) down at the stadium. How far away from being "over" is Robbie Williams? I wonder if Robin Reynolds feels ...
22:
Pan
industry grouping formed to handle Kyoto
“A coalition of New Zealand business organisations spanning the electricity, petroleum, gas, forestry, agriculture, cement and transport industries has come together to work on Kyoto climate change policies. This coalition has formed because of rising ...
23:
Intel
Marks 30th Anniversary Of The
Microprocessor
From the Bathroom Scale to the Powerful PC, Your House is Home to More Than 40 “Chips”
24:
New
Zealand’s 20 Greenest Companies
Announced
New Zealand’s most environmentally responsible companies were honoured last night at Parliament in the Unlimited-Massey University Corporate Environmental Awards.
25:
Act
Denigrates Highly Valuable Creative
Industries
Act MP Muriel Newman’s 19th Century view of what real work is must ring hollow with the young, talented and able New Zealanders who have spent thousands of hours and thousands of dollars getting training and education in creative areas, says Associate ...
BP encourages motorists to take advantage of its seven cent petrol and diesel price promotion and fill up at BP today.
27:
Howard's
End: Flight 587 - Truth Will Out
Some media, including Scoop, is not convinced the explanations of the U.S. administration that American Airlines flight 587 out of JFK New York simply came apart and crashed over Long Island passes the smell test. Maree Howard writes.
28:
Keith
Rankin: Left Scenarios
The Alliance appears to be fracturing. The crisis is partly a result of maintaining the identity of a party which is in government as a minority partner. (The Greens in Germany have similar problems, indeed triggered by the same issue; the war in ...
29:
Feedback:
Scoop Offends Ground Zero
Worker
As an American Citizen, who was essentially forced to read your "propaganda" for my work, I am compelled to tell you that I am offended. Not that that will mean anything to you, as far away as you are.
30:
Mobil’s
environmental ranking a bad
joke
Auckland Regional Council chairman Philip Warren says Mobil’s inclusion in a list of New Zealand’s most environmentally responsible companies is a very bad joke.
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.
Ian Powell: Cuba And New Zealand: A Relationship Worthy Of Strengthening
Gordon Campbell: On bird flu, AUKUS entry fees and Cindy Lee
Binoy Kampmark: Israel’s Anti-UNRWA Campaign Falls Flat
Peter Dunne: Luxon Gets Out His Butcher's Knife - Briefly
Binoy Kampmark: Warring Against Encryption, Australia Is Coming For Your Communications
Gordon Campbell: On Fast Track Powers, Media Woes And The Tiktok Ban