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1: Scoop
Update #9 – Good Tidings Of Great
Joy
In This Edition: Good Tidings Of Great Joy – To The Barricades - Calling all Cultural Patriots (With The Ultimate LOTR Christmas Present!) – The Plan - And.... The Secret of Scoop’s Success
2:
Scoop
Satire: Brian-Drain Figures Continue To
Rise
Latest figures released by the government show that the so-called ‘Brian-drain’ continues unabated with a further 412 Brians leaving for overseas in the last 6 months.
3:
Greenpeace
Images: Japanese Whale Tissue
Sampling
Latest images from the Southern Ocean show the fate of the Minke Whale caught yesterday. It was sampled....
4:
Greenpeace
labeled “eco-terrorists”
Dr. Seiji Ohsumi, Director General of the Institute of Cetacean Research in Tokyo today referred to Greenpeace as an “eco-terrorist organization” and issued a public statement following the sighting of the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise in the Antarctic ...
5:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 18
December
Today's questions of the day concerned: Peace-Keepers To Afghanistan – SAS In Afghanistan – Tania Furlan Murder Witness Payment – Murders And Police Resources – University Entrance / NCEA- Budget Cap/ DEFU – Business Compliance Costs - Dodson Report – Pacific ...
6:
Baise-Moi
An Invitation To Murder And
Mayhem
Christmastime – the season of peace and goodwill – has already been marred by murder and mayhem here in New Zealand. Yet our film censor has given an R18 rating to a violent French movie featuring rape, torture and murder of the most brutal kind and ...
7:
Top
PC Tips For The
Holidays……
AUCKLAND, December 18, 2001 – With holidays looming there a number of ‘quick and simple’ things you can do before you leave for the break.....which will make life easier on your return.
8:
'Loose
Lips' Anderton Reveals What PM Won't
Prime Minister Helen Clark needs to discipline her Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton after his 'loose lips' revealed that the SAS had been deployed to Afghanistan, National's Defence Spokesperson Max Bradford said today.
The idea of separate jails for Maori, is turning the Treaty of Waitangi on its head, ACT leader Richard Prebble says.
10:
No
Arms Race... It's Arms
Dominance
By March 2002, the United States Bush administration will be ready to begin construction of silos and a testing command centre for a futuristic and expensive U.S. anti-missile defence shield near Fairbanks in Alaska. This is US Superpower Nuclear Dominance.
11:
Labour
Threatens The RMA For Christmas
The Labour Government is threatening the fundamental tenets of the Resource Management Act, says Forest and Bird.
12:
Huge
Interest In Web-Based Audio-Visual On
LOTR
As excitement builds about the first feature in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which is receiving rave reviews in London and has its Australasian premiere in Wellington tomorrow, a web-based audio visual that lets people journey through the New Zealand ...
13:
Howard's
End: Society & State Disconnected
The defensive posture taken by the Higher Salaries Commission over public criticism of politicians pay rises, suggests a disconnect and a tension between society and the modern state, such that the political party who can reconcile that and provide ...
14:
Scoop:
Top Scoops From Middle Earth
Scoop Update: Season’s Greetings - Satire: Brian Drain Figures Worst Yet - Scoop Is In The House - Under Urgency!- Government Is Seizing the Power To Sack MPs - With Bill of Rights Breaching Bill! - Petitioning Rages On As SAS May Or May Not Get A ...
15:
Greenpeace
Rejects Terrorism Label
Amsterdam, 14 th December 2001- Following Greenpeace’s first encounter with the Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctica, the Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) – a private institute that catches whales under a license from the Fisheries Agency ...
16:
Parliament
vehicle checks cost $31,000 a week
Taxpayers are being 'ripped off' by additional police and security costs of over $31,000 per week at Parliament following the September 11 terrorist attacks, according to National MP Murray McCully.
17:
'NGO
Support For Hercules'?
Earlier today we received the media release below which came as an email message with the subject heading 'NGO support for Hercules'.
18:
Scoop
Satire: Crash To Host ‘Black
Breakfast’
In an attempt to get the New Zeal economy moving in a growth-focused directional capacity, Lord High Inquisitor of the Preserved Bank, Reverend Don Crash, is to host a ‘Black Breakfast’, despite such rituals being banned in most national treasuries, ...
19:
Greenpeace
Images: Whale Murder In Southern
Seas
Full Screen Size Images of Japanese whaling underway in the Southern Ocean. Minke whale flees a harpoon. A whale is shot. And pulled in to be slaughtered. Greenpeace activists are sprayed with watercannon as they attempt to go to the whales aid.
20:
Scoop:
Top Scoops + Just Politics
Calling all cultural patriots!!! Online Charity Auction For The *** The Ultimate LOTR Christmas Present *** http://scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=onering ONE OF A KIND - PLACE YOUR BID NOW USD $660 SEEMS A CHEAP PRICE TO LOSE A CULTURAL ICON!
21:
ACT
Opposes Taxpayer Funding for Political
Parties
ACT leader Richard Prebble says the ACT Party strongly opposes taxpayer money being spent to fund political parties.
22:
Government
Puts Business Before
Environment
Environment Minister Marian Hobbs is putting business concerns ahead of the environment with today's announcement of changes to the Resource Management Act.
23:
Sharp
Objects Find Good Home
Scissors, pocket-knives and other sharp objects that have been relinquished by airline travellers since September 11 are being found a good home.
24:
“Flightless
Kiwi” Bikes The Globe
Edwin Tucker, of Papatoetoe, leaves New Zealand December 27th to begin an expedition to circumnavigate the world by bicycle.
25:
Resource
Management Amendment Bill 2001-
Spch
Mr Speaker, I move that the Resource Management (Aquaculture Moratorium) Amendment Bill be now read a first time. At the appropriate time I will move that the Bill be referred to the Primary Production Select Committee with an instruction that the ...
26:
Serious
Security Breach By Government
Officials
Helen Clark must immediately launch an inquiry into a serious breach of security around the deployment of SAS troops to Afghanistan, says National Leader Bill English.
Green co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today proposed changes to the Resource Management Act show the Government has lost its nerve and is rolling over for big property developers.
28:
2,521
More Signatures Presented To
Parliament
On Thursday 13 December a further 2521 signatures on the petition for peaceful resolution were presented to parliament in Wellington. More than a hundred people joined the lively march, led by Brass Razoo, from Midland Park down Lambton Quay through parliament ...
29:
Telecom
And Govt Sign New Kiwi Share
Agreement
General Manager, Government Relations Bruce Parkes said today Telecom was pleased to have completed the process of updating the Kiwi Share as one component of New Zealand¡¦s new framework for regulating telecommunications.
"Last week's reported cumulative $200 million bill for long-term jobless is nothing," says Lindsay Mitchell, Petitioner for a Parliamentary Review of the DPB.
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.
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