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1: UQ
Wire: DOJ To Attempt Shut Down of 9/11
Evidence
On June 20, Bush Administration officials quietly informed a New York judge of their intention to commence legal actions likely to be far-reaching in their constitutional, political, and individual rights implications pertaining to current lawsuits and ...
2:
UQ
Wire: Investment Espionage And The White
House
There is growing evidence that the FBI and other government intelligence entities are more closely linked to the documented accumulation of pre-9/11 insider trading profits than was originally thought.
3:
Scoop
Satire: Inside George Bush's Diary
The last time I wrote at length in my journal, in January, the first of the business debacles was just starting to unfold. [ See "Inside Bush's Diary: Bobbin' & Weavin' Over Enron." ] Course, I had to tell a major whopper -- that I didn't ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Lindsay
Perigo: 'I've Had it ... Up to
Here!'
It's been a while. Sorry about that. Something came along called a general election. We haven't had it yet, but *I* have had it.
5:
HARD
NEWS 19/07/02 - And the Rain Stopped
...
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... it's daft, really, the Worm - an electronic mood meter driven by 100 flakes who haven't worked out how they're voting yet. The usual swinging-voter lollies - crime, immigration and the Treaty - inevitably hit the hot button. Or, ...
6:
Coca-Cola
and Latin American Death Squads
* Reminiscent of the slaughter of trade union leaders in the 1980s at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Guatemala City
7:
Bin
Laden’s Relatives Evacuated From NYC
Patrick Tyler of the New York Times is reporting from Washington: "In the first days after the attacks on Sept. 11, the Saudi Arabian ambasador to Washington, Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, supervised the urgent evacuation of 24 members of Osama bin Laden's ...
8:
Tube
Talk: John Campbell’s Angry
Inch
Like his immovable Ken Doll hairdo, John Campbell’s career seems to defy the laws of gravity. As chief anchor of TV3 News, he defies the norms of other newsreader sock puppets by actually attempting to do political commentary.
9:
Poll
Watch: TV3/NFO Poll – Labour Loses
Majority
A TV3 NFO poll tonight was the third poll in recent days to show Labour falling below the level needed to form a government without minor party support.
10:
The
Real Deal: The Money Lords Of
Harvard
Harvard University is governed by two boards: The President and seven Fellows of Harvard College, or the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers. The Corporation is self-perpetuating, filling its vacancies itself, with the consent of the Board ...
11:
UQ
Wire: DOJ Loses 9/11 Evidence Control
Attempt
Synopsis: Judge Asserts Citizen Rights; Will Decide Discovery Issues, but DOJ Gains Seat Next to United Airlines Defense as Lines Now Drawn in First 9/11 Lawsuit. UAL and Justice Attorneys To Be Last Firewall Against Possible Mariani Access To Pre-9/11 ...
12:
Peter
Wills Replies To Russell
Poulter
Russell Poulter has answered all of three of my specific questions (generally suggesting that we could bet closer to a resolution of Corngate by the release of further documents) with the retort "I am assured by Novartis that no such report exists".
13:
Terry
York Election 2002: Dancing Into The Future
Terry in the Area Columnist with Remix magazine and Express newspaper looks at the election and the emergence of the greens and new liberalism
14:
'Dangerous
Peace Cult' On The March In
Auckland
On Saturday, about 200 Falun Gong practitioners and supporters marched down Queen Street from Aotea Square, protesting the three-year anniversary of the Chinese Government's banning of their organisation, labelling it a 'Dangerous Cult'.
15:
Images:
Alliance Chicken On The Campaign
Trail
Crackers the Alliance chicken returned to haunt erstwhile Alliance leader and new Progressive Coalition leader Jim Anderton at his home scratching ground in Wigram on Wednesday.
16:
Scoop
Satire: Agents Arrested Breaking Into
SIS
Questions about the mental competence of the nations highest intelligence unit are being raised after three Security Intelligence Service officers were caught while breaking into their own offices in Wellington early this morning.
17:
Firas
Al-Atraqchi : CNN's Black Shroud
A black shroud hangs over CNN head offices in Atlanta, Georgia. A shroud of mourning as CNN goes full throttle with its "To Hell With Objectivity" campaign.
Things really heated up in the Auckland Central campaign with chickens flying in Ponsonby last week as Judith Tizard's secretary attacked a local butcher over the Pansy Wong poster displayed in his shop.
19:
Dr
Russell Poulter - Re: Corn
Wars
Dear Sir, I am delighted that this nonsense is disappearing from the media allowing other more important issues to be considered prior to the election. However, more in sorrow than in anger, I note Dr. Wills continues to publish innuendo concerning ...
20:
Not
Important! Think Again: Money Laundry
Special
The United States is in the process of creating a national network of informers. Thus, in imitation of some of the nastier regimes around the world, including those against which the US waged the Cold War, the Bush regime is in the process of recruiting ...
21:
UQ
Wire: Harvard’s Millions Poured Into
Harken
WASHINGTON - As a congressional candidate in the Texas oil patch in the late 1970s, the last thing George W. Bush wanted to mention to the rural electorate was his postgraduate degree from Harvard. But when Bush later was involved in struggling Harken Energy ...
22:
The
quality of campaigning is not
strain'd
"Robert Reid Alliance: Butchered Shakespeare to pull off a creative coup in the speeches ... though he chose a few tragedies as source material. If only Laila Harre could be this immaginative, the party might actually survive beyond July 27." ...
23:
What
Labour Isn't Telling You
ACT leader Richard Prebble said today he had obtained a full set of provisional crime figures from the Police, under the Official Information Act.
24:
Clear
Now No Party Will Govern Alone
The four most recent political polls clearly show no single party will be able to govern alone after the election, says National Party Leader Bill English.
25:
Scoop:
Top Scoops + Campaign 2002
Hard News Is Here! - Cross-Party Non-judgemental Dancefloor Support - Corn Wars: Scientists’ Battle Rages On - Perigo Has Had Enough! - Satire: Security Service Accidentally Classifies Itself A Threat To National Security
26:
Kiwi
Green, Tobacco And Other Little
Pleasures
"The Greens have one thing right - legalize marijuana," says Libertarianz spokesman for Tobacco "and for life's other little pleasures" Joy Faulkner. "But," she says, they are also the biggest bunch of hypocrites on the campaign ...
27:
Laila
Harré responds to Jim Anderton’s costings
“Yawn”, says Laila Harré.
28:
Industry
may be holding proof of
contamination
Evidence that corn grown in New Zealand was potentially GE-contaminated is still being kept from the public.
29:
INVESTIGATION:
Sept 11th - Unanswered Questions
Within a few months, the events of Sept. 11th, 2001 became but an echo of the events that followed. War in Afghanistan, anthrax, unprecedented powers of detention: the public mind moves from one shock to another, appearing to accept the government’s ...
30:
NZ
Software Innovator Dictates To Us
Market
An innovative New Zealand software developer has made significant inroads into the lucrative US transcription and dictation market with its Internet-based digital dictation and workflow management solution WinScribe.
1:
UQ
Wire: DOJ To Attempt Shut Down of 9/11
Evidence
On June 20, Bush Administration officials quietly informed a New York judge of their intention to commence legal actions likely to be far-reaching in their constitutional, political, and individual rights implications pertaining to current lawsuits and ...
2:
UQ
Wire: Investment Espionage And The White
House
There is growing evidence that the FBI and other government intelligence entities are more closely linked to the documented accumulation of pre-9/11 insider trading profits than was originally thought.
3:
Scoop
Satire: Inside George Bush's Diary
The last time I wrote at length in my journal, in January, the first of the business debacles was just starting to unfold. [ See "Inside Bush's Diary: Bobbin' & Weavin' Over Enron." ] Course, I had to tell a major whopper -- that I didn't ...
4:
Lindsay
Perigo: 'I've Had it ... Up to
Here!'
It's been a while. Sorry about that. Something came along called a general election. We haven't had it yet, but *I* have had it.
5:
HARD
NEWS 19/07/02 - And the Rain Stopped
...
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... it's daft, really, the Worm - an electronic mood meter driven by 100 flakes who haven't worked out how they're voting yet. The usual swinging-voter lollies - crime, immigration and the Treaty - inevitably hit the hot button. Or, ...
6:
Coca-Cola
and Latin American Death Squads
* Reminiscent of the slaughter of trade union leaders in the 1980s at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Guatemala City
7:
Bin
Laden’s Relatives Evacuated From NYC
Patrick Tyler of the New York Times is reporting from Washington: "In the first days after the attacks on Sept. 11, the Saudi Arabian ambasador to Washington, Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, supervised the urgent evacuation of 24 members of Osama bin Laden's ...
8:
Tube
Talk: John Campbell’s Angry
Inch
Like his immovable Ken Doll hairdo, John Campbell’s career seems to defy the laws of gravity. As chief anchor of TV3 News, he defies the norms of other newsreader sock puppets by actually attempting to do political commentary.
9:
Poll
Watch: TV3/NFO Poll – Labour Loses
Majority
A TV3 NFO poll tonight was the third poll in recent days to show Labour falling below the level needed to form a government without minor party support.
10:
The
Real Deal: The Money Lords Of
Harvard
Harvard University is governed by two boards: The President and seven Fellows of Harvard College, or the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers. The Corporation is self-perpetuating, filling its vacancies itself, with the consent of the Board ...
11:
UQ
Wire: DOJ Loses 9/11 Evidence Control
Attempt
Synopsis: Judge Asserts Citizen Rights; Will Decide Discovery Issues, but DOJ Gains Seat Next to United Airlines Defense as Lines Now Drawn in First 9/11 Lawsuit. UAL and Justice Attorneys To Be Last Firewall Against Possible Mariani Access To Pre-9/11 ...
12:
Peter
Wills Replies To Russell
Poulter
Russell Poulter has answered all of three of my specific questions (generally suggesting that we could bet closer to a resolution of Corngate by the release of further documents) with the retort "I am assured by Novartis that no such report exists".
13:
Terry
York Election 2002: Dancing Into The Future
Terry in the Area Columnist with Remix magazine and Express newspaper looks at the election and the emergence of the greens and new liberalism
14:
'Dangerous
Peace Cult' On The March In
Auckland
On Saturday, about 200 Falun Gong practitioners and supporters marched down Queen Street from Aotea Square, protesting the three-year anniversary of the Chinese Government's banning of their organisation, labelling it a 'Dangerous Cult'.
15:
Images:
Alliance Chicken On The Campaign
Trail
Crackers the Alliance chicken returned to haunt erstwhile Alliance leader and new Progressive Coalition leader Jim Anderton at his home scratching ground in Wigram on Wednesday.
16:
Scoop
Satire: Agents Arrested Breaking Into
SIS
Questions about the mental competence of the nations highest intelligence unit are being raised after three Security Intelligence Service officers were caught while breaking into their own offices in Wellington early this morning.
17:
Firas
Al-Atraqchi : CNN's Black Shroud
A black shroud hangs over CNN head offices in Atlanta, Georgia. A shroud of mourning as CNN goes full throttle with its "To Hell With Objectivity" campaign.
Things really heated up in the Auckland Central campaign with chickens flying in Ponsonby last week as Judith Tizard's secretary attacked a local butcher over the Pansy Wong poster displayed in his shop.
19:
Dr
Russell Poulter - Re: Corn
Wars
Dear Sir, I am delighted that this nonsense is disappearing from the media allowing other more important issues to be considered prior to the election. However, more in sorrow than in anger, I note Dr. Wills continues to publish innuendo concerning ...
20:
Not
Important! Think Again: Money Laundry
Special
The United States is in the process of creating a national network of informers. Thus, in imitation of some of the nastier regimes around the world, including those against which the US waged the Cold War, the Bush regime is in the process of recruiting ...
21:
UQ
Wire: Harvard’s Millions Poured Into
Harken
WASHINGTON - As a congressional candidate in the Texas oil patch in the late 1970s, the last thing George W. Bush wanted to mention to the rural electorate was his postgraduate degree from Harvard. But when Bush later was involved in struggling Harken Energy ...
22:
The
quality of campaigning is not
strain'd
"Robert Reid Alliance: Butchered Shakespeare to pull off a creative coup in the speeches ... though he chose a few tragedies as source material. If only Laila Harre could be this immaginative, the party might actually survive beyond July 27." ...
23:
What
Labour Isn't Telling You
ACT leader Richard Prebble said today he had obtained a full set of provisional crime figures from the Police, under the Official Information Act.
24:
Clear
Now No Party Will Govern Alone
The four most recent political polls clearly show no single party will be able to govern alone after the election, says National Party Leader Bill English.
25:
Scoop:
Top Scoops + Campaign 2002
Hard News Is Here! - Cross-Party Non-judgemental Dancefloor Support - Corn Wars: Scientists’ Battle Rages On - Perigo Has Had Enough! - Satire: Security Service Accidentally Classifies Itself A Threat To National Security
26:
Kiwi
Green, Tobacco And Other Little
Pleasures
"The Greens have one thing right - legalize marijuana," says Libertarianz spokesman for Tobacco "and for life's other little pleasures" Joy Faulkner. "But," she says, they are also the biggest bunch of hypocrites on the campaign ...
27:
Laila
Harré responds to Jim Anderton’s costings
“Yawn”, says Laila Harré.
28:
Industry
may be holding proof of
contamination
Evidence that corn grown in New Zealand was potentially GE-contaminated is still being kept from the public.
29:
INVESTIGATION:
Sept 11th - Unanswered Questions
Within a few months, the events of Sept. 11th, 2001 became but an echo of the events that followed. War in Afghanistan, anthrax, unprecedented powers of detention: the public mind moves from one shock to another, appearing to accept the government’s ...
30:
NZ
Software Innovator Dictates To Us
Market
An innovative New Zealand software developer has made significant inroads into the lucrative US transcription and dictation market with its Internet-based digital dictation and workflow management solution WinScribe.
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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