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1: 911
Terrorist Links to Congress & White
House
Secret Hearings Conceal 9/11 Terrorist Links to Congress & White House by Tom Flocco * AmericanFreePress.net * And Scoop.co.nz 7 August 2002
2:
Scoop
Images: Satellite Reveals Qatar US Air Base
Images published by GlobalSecurity.org taken by DigitalGlobe.com on June 13 2002 – and used here with permission of DigitalGlobe - reveal that preparations are well advanced for air strikes against Iraq.
3:
The
Real Deal: Stealing Enron
The rich are not getting richer. The rich are stealing. And the people doing the stealing for them have names and addresses.
4:
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.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
Official
Count Results -- Overall Status August
10
Official Count Results -- Overall Status This is not the formal declaration of results. The Chief Electoral Officer declares the results of the official count by publishing a notice in the NZ Gazette.
6:
Mr
Global Cartoon: Smug Pug The Cancer
Man
Mr Global takes on the strange tale of crooked U.S. oil giant Enron, US Government Communications contractor Dyncorp, and the man who servesd on the boards of both companies but strangely knows nothing, Harvard's Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur, a.k.a. ...
7:
HARD
NEWS 09/08/02 - God's Little Rally
Driver
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... It was as inevitable as death, taxes and last-second Bledisloe Cup losses. Any fool could have forecast it last week and, indeed, I did.
8:
Check
Your Till Receipts! -
Kachingo!
With only two days to go before their first $250,000 draw, the organisers of the new rewards programme Kachingo! are reminding shoppers to check their Kachingo! tickets.
9:
$100,000
Vodafone grant to ACC
ACC Acting Chief Executive John Saunders says he’s delighted with Vodafone’s $100,000 grant, which he says will boost ACC’s injury prevention in sport programmes.
10:
Rich
delighted with special votes
result
National MP Katherine Rich says she was delighted to hear the news today that she has been returned to Parliament for a second term.
11:
Labour
Coalition Clinched On Cannabis Hate
Crime
Labour has shafted New Zealanders in an incomprehensible and despicable cow-towing to the "anti cannabis lobby" - as 3-year coalition supply and confidence deals were signed today amongst Helen Clark, Peter Dunne and Jim Anderton's "Progressive ...
12:
Scoop
Images: Snow Fall At Mt Ruapehu
A recent cold snap has brought with it 30-40cms of new snow at both Whakapapa and Turoa Ski Areas, including snow falls down to Ohakune and Whakapapa Village. Further snow is forecast for the next couple of days!
13:
Saddam
Hussein Speech Against US
Attack
SPEECH OF HIS EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN ON THE OCCASION OF 14th ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY OF THE GREAT VICTORY
14:
Recognising
the Rights of Indigenous
People
World Indigenous People’s Day is a reminder that increasing public awareness of the rights of indigenous people is crucial to further ensure the development of a harmonious, multicultural nation.
15:
Irish
Eyes: The Wonder that was 'Down
Under'
”I had a wonderful holiday, particularly in gorgeous New Zealand and want all the natives there to know what a great country they have. I am telling everybody whom I've met since returning to Ireland to visit the 'land of the long white cloud'. ...
16:
Retaining
Rich pleasing for
National
National Leader Bill English said today he was very pleased that National was retaining Dunedin-based MP Katherine Rich.
17:
Scoop
Images: We Have A New
Government
Prime Minister Helen Clark announced the formation of a minority coalition government between Labour and the Progressive Coalition, with support from United Future on confidence and supply, in the Legislative Council Chamber at Parliament today.
18:
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 ...
19:
Streets
Of London: The War Against
Whatever
If the US attacks Iraq again events should be carefully observed by human rights groups, the new International Criminal Court, diplomats, legislators and journalists, really anyone concerned about human rights and international humanitarian law.
20:
Lesbian
Parenting Dunne’s First Challenge
“The first challenge that Peter Dunne’s United Future is going to face is legislation to provide lesbian partners guardianship rights,” says NZ First MP, Brian Donnelly.
21:
Howard's
End: The Squeeze On Gold
The price of gold and gold stocks is sky-rocketing with Central banks across the world coming in for severe criticism for the way they have sold official gold reserves, although in a disguised form. Maree Howard writes.
22:
Young
Nick’s Head protected
“Young Nick’s Head will be protected and the cliffs, pa site and peak of Te Kuri gifted into public ownership as part of a purchase deal for Young Nick’s Station,” Finance Minister Michael Cullen and Associate Minister for Land Information Paul ...
23:
"Donald
Principle" Legacy Of The Green
Party
It's many years now since Laurence Peter gave the commercial world his well-known "Peter Principle" which states: people tend to be promoted up to their level of incompetence.
24:
Election
Under Spotlight at Major
Conference
New Zealand’s third MMP election threw up results which have surprised and baffled commentators with the rise from nowhere of United Future, the resurrection of New Zealand First and decimation of National’s support and criticism of its campaign. ...
25:
"Bizzare"
Political Union Arranged
“The alliance of Labour and United Future is a genetically engineered political wedding of Frankenstein proportions, said New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters.
26:
Scoop:
Top Scoops + Just Politics
Historic Head Gifted To Public - Hard News Is Here - FOG Lifts: A Man On Her Left, A Man On Her Right - It’s Hideous! Peters Recoils From New Govt - Cartoon: Mr Global Takes On Smug Pug - GE SCARE: Seed To Be Destroyed
27:
Linking
Pornography and Sex Attacks
Police were reported yesterday to be hunting for a man they said is “a dangerous sexual predator fixated on Asian women” (Dominion-Post 8/8/02 p. A8). He was named as Richard Clarence Hunia and “is wanted for an alleged sexual attack on a Chinese ...
28:
Greens
call for GE-Free seed trade
network
Green co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today called for the establishment of an international seed trade network made up of countries which have not planted genetically engineered crops and have adequate biosecurity controls to prevent accidental genetic contamination.
29:
Cannabis
Law Reform Still On The
Agenda
Green MP Nandor Tanczos today confirmed he would seek to introduce a private members bill to make cannabis R18, and allow adults to grow their own for personal use.
30:
Crop
Circles Reveal “Signs” To
Raelians
At the dawn of the release of “SIGNS" starring Mel Gibson, the Raelian Movement are receiving some SIGNS of their own..
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Martin LeFevre - Meditations: The Pervasiveness Of Inward Deadness Is Not The Result Of “The Deadening Effect Of The Super-Rich”
Peter Dunne: Dunne's Weekly - Removing An Incapacitated Leader
Gordon Campbell: On A Textbook Case Of Spending Waste By The Luxon Government
Alison Forrest: Whose Values Do You Mean, Winston And Judith?
Eugene Doyle: It’s Bigger Than NATO And It’s Heading Our Way
Ramzy Baroud: Dear West - Your ‘Age Of Monsters’ Has Begun