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1:
UQ
Wire: 911 Hijackers Who Lived At A US Navy
Base
Come Fly With Me? A Saudi Flying Instructor Who Died Mysteriously On May 8 Had The Same Name as Two 9/11 Hijackers Who Lived At The Same U.S. Naval Air Base
2:
UQ
Wire: 911 - They Let It Happen On
Purpose!
Imagine you wake up from a coma and you learn that 11 months ago, an "Attack on America" destroyed some significant buildings, killed 3,000 people and forced a war against terrorism. You switch on the news and see pictures of Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, ...
3:
Scoop
Link: Iraq - The War's Already
On
How do you tell a war has begun? This is not the 17th or 18th century. There are no highfalutin' declarations. Troops don't line up in eyesight of each other. There are no drum rolls and bugle calls, no calls of "Chaaa...rge!". When did the Vietnam ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Amazing
Crop Formation Discovered August
15th!
Once again the silence continues around the crop circle phenomenon and one of the most spectacular and significant crop formations ever made.
5:
How
To Silence the War Drums on the
Potomac!
The Bush Administration plans to topple the government's of Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia (in that order) to establish an American controlled oil cartel of Middle Eastern puppet states. Maybe a win-win opportunity for Bush's "oil buddies" & ...
6:
Parliament
Seating Row A Nonsense
"I am disappointed that today's meeting did not reach a resolution on the seating arrangements in Parliament," says National MP and Shadow Leader of the House Gerry Brownlee.
7:
New
Green MP Rejects Two-Parent
Families
"Yesterday we received a letter written on behalf of Metiria Turei, MP," says Lindsay Mitchell, petitioner for a Parliamentary review of the DPB. " It contained the following message; 'The Member does not believe that.... the two-parent ...
8:
Bush-Nazi
Connections: Beware The Cornered
Rat
In the period of national mourning following the September 11 attacks, public suggestion of U.S. government negligence or complicity in the attacks would have been an apostasy to most Americans. The blind trust and faith in the American “leadership” was such ...
The New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has accused the National and Act parties of refusing to face the consequences of their recent poor electoral performance.
10:
Are
We Unworthy Of The Liberty To Stand
Erect?
Something is seriously wrong when the survival of the human race becomes the overriding theme at our family gatherings. When each waking moment, and those just before falling asleep are overwhelmed by the question of the survivability of our species -something ...
11:
David
Miller Online: Why Russia Will Save
Saddam
The United States’ war on terrorism has just hit a major hurdle - one which may prove its undoing. This week Russia announced that it is set to sign an economic and trade cooperation agreement with Iraq.
12:
Draft
of Bush's Astounding 9/11-Anniversary
Speech
The following, alleged to be a draft of a speech George W. Bush wrote himself, to be delivered on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, recently came into our hands from a usually reliable White House source, the person known to us as "Shallow ...
13:
North
Shore To Be Treeless
North Shore City Council has unwittingly created a treeless landscape for the region in years to come, ACT MP Gerry Eckhoff said today.
14:
Mallard
Owes Parents An Apology
Education Minister Trevor Mallard should continue the Labour Government's noble tradition of apologising and beg forgiveness from children for his complete stuff-up of nearly two years of their education, ACT New Zealand Associate Education Spokesman ...
15:
Tanczos’s
Promotion Of Drug Kits Is
Nuts
“Green MP Nandor Tanczos is nuts to promote drug use by selling drug testing kits in a shop he part-owns”, NZ First’s MP Craig McNair said.
16:
Mallard
Caught In Union Vice
“The Minister of Education, Trevor Mallard, has been caught between a PPTA rock and an NZEI hardplace with the recommendations of the independent arbitration panel on the secondary pay claim,” says NZ First MP, Brian Donnelly.
17:
NCEA
Must Go - Challenge to Mallard
The bureaucratic mush served by NZQA and Education Ministry representatives at a parents' meeting to discuss NCEA last night confirmed the new qualification must be dumped, ACT New Zealand Associate Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington said ...
18:
Simple
Actions To Beat Oil Price
Increases
The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) is advising New Zealand motorists to take efficiency measures to avoid getting hit in the pocket by surging oil prices.
19:
Pre-Crime
Detection - It’s not all
sci-fi
In the new Tom Cruise movie Minority Report the police can predict with chilling accuracy just who will commit future crimes. The film is promoted as science fiction but if you look closely at a new report just released covering a study of 442 Dunedin ...
20:
Govt.
Accepts Independent Panel
Recommendations
The government will accept the recommendations from the independent panel brought in to provide alternative dispute resolution to help settle the secondary teachers’ collective agreement.
21:
Streets
Of London: Talking Nukes And Iraq With
JC
It appears the UK anti-war movement is encouraged, energized and somewhat galvanised by the low support among Brits for an attack on Iraq and for George W Bush: an anti-war demonstration scheduled for 28 September in London is being promoted as Britain’s ...
22:
BTL
Q&A: Anti-Nuclear Weapons Movement
Organizing
In June, several veterans of the anti-nuclear weapons movement of the 1980s issued an "Urgent Call to End the Nuclear Danger."
23:
Dunedin
Council Supports Common Sense
ACT MP Gerry Eckhoff today congratulated the Dunedin City Council for rejecting a move to declare Dunedin a GM-free zone.
24:
Pay
Parity: Mallard Causes Another
Headache
Having accepted the arbitrated resolution of the teacher pay dispute, Trevor Mallard must now explain how he intends to placate upset primary school teachers, ACT Education Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata said today.
25:
Parasites-
Care of the State
"Mr Campbell needs to get out a bit and experience the real world - he has obviously been over-institutionalised,"said Peter Osborne, Libertarianz Associate Spokesman to reregulate education today following a press release issued by Mr Andrew ...
26:
Images:
Oz Parliament Climate Change
Protest
Canberra/Auckland, Tuesday August 21, 2002: In a peaceful protest today, three Greenpeace climbers, including New Zealander Michael Simpson, scaled the flagpole at Parliament House in Canberra, urging the Australian Government to ratify Kyoto now.
27:
Dragonflies
- The Latest Inspiration For Defence
The uncanny ability of a dragonfly to fly steadily even when the weather is bad has proved inspirational for scientists from the Defence Science and Technology Organisation and the Australian National University.
28:
Govt.
found guilty in teachers' pay
decision
The Government's previous pay offers to secondary teachers have been found to be grossly inadequate by an independent arbitration panel, and the Education Minister must take the rap for 12 months' chaos in our schools, says National's Education ...
29:
ACT
New Zealand Portfolios
"The ACT Caucus met this morning to allocate spokesmanships and refine our strategic direction for the forthcoming Parliament," ACT New Zealand Acting Leader Ken Shirley said.
30:
Scoop:
Top Scoops + Just Politics
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Gordon Campbell: On The Coalition’s Awful, Not Good, Very Bad Poll Results
Ian Powell: Policy Vacuum Enables For-profit Corporate General Practice Ownership By Stealth
Gordon Campbell: On Iran Killing Its Rappers, And Searching For The Invisible Dr. Reti
Peter Dunne: MPs Unusually Quiet On Pay Rise
Ian Powell: Cuba And New Zealand: A Relationship Worthy Of Strengthening
Gordon Campbell: On bird flu, AUKUS entry fees and Cindy Lee