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1:
Recovered
History: When Donald Met Saddam
As diplomats and weapons inspectors in New York, Washington, London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing pour over the 12,000 pages of Iraq’s weapons declaration it is a good time to resurrect a key part of un-told story of Iraq’s relationship with weapons ...
Air NZ's chief operating officer Andrew Miller launches Air NZ's bold worldwide promotion of Lord of the Rings - Unveiling a special Boeing 747-400 emblazoned with Frodo imagery. For more information see… Air NZ Unlocks The Secrets Of Middle Earth.... . Pics: ...
3:
Sweden
Offers Free-speech Refuge To U.S.
Officials
STOCKHOLM - Blaine Williams hasn't stopped grinning since he arrived in Sweden two weeks ago. Several times a day he'll approach a complete stranger, offer a handshake and a smile, introduce himself as a former CIA analyst from America, and proceed ...
4:
Scoop
Links: Rape Accusations Against George
Bush
Margie Schoedinger of Missouri City, Texas has filed a lawsuit against George W. Bush in Fort Bend County Court. In her suit she is alleging "race based harassment and individual sex crimes committed against her and her husband." The suit lists ...
5:
Bernard
Weiner: Arrogance Leads To Bush's
Undoing
The last time "Shallow Throat" and I talked, at a dimly-lit D.C. suburban tavern several months before the midterm election, the highly-placed GOP mole within the Bush Administration was extremely nervous about being discovered. This time, there ...
6:
Air
NZ Unlocks The Secrets Of Middle Earth....
The Lord of the Rings fans can enjoy a birds eye view of some of the most famous locations in the movie trilogy thanks to the extensive flight network of Air New Zealand - “Airline to Middle-earth.”
7:
Scoop
Link: CIA Linked To Venezuelan Coup
Plans
Uruguayan EP-FA congressman Jose Nayardi says he has information that far-reaching plans have been put into operation by the CIA and other North American intelligence agencies to overthrow Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias within the next 72 hours.
8:
Bernard
Weiner: Ten Cracks in the Bush
Facade
Through a Glass Lightly: 10 Hopeful Cracks in the Bush Facade By Bernard Weiner The Crisis Papers
9:
UQ
Wire: The Pure Essence of Stupid
On a number of different occasions, permutations of the following comment have appeared on a variety of online forums. Essentially, this is a fragment of what may be the most crystalline rant ever recorded on the internet. I have no idea who the original ...
10:
HARD
NEWS 12/12/02 - On the P and Other
Stories
Public Address continues to go nicely - although I'm finding it a bit difficult to attend to business amid the parties and (more to the point) multiple Christmas deadlines.
11:
Eco-Economy:
US Dollar Hegemony Has Got To Go
There is an economics-textbook myth that foreign-exchange rates are determined by supply and demand based on market fundamentals. Economics tends to dismiss socio-political factors that shape market fundamentals that affect supply and demand.
12:
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, ...
13:
Letter
from Richard Prebble to the PM
This is to respond to your statement in Parliament today that the government is considering appointing me to be a judge in the new Supreme Court to replace appeals to the Privy Council.
14:
ACC:
Three Stooges and the Mad Hatter’s Tea
Party
News that the Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee is too busy to undertake an inquiry into ACC in the immediate future has gone down like a lead balloon with affected claimants. The select-committee or ACC itself should appoint a retired ...
15:
Naked
in Nuhaka: The Sentient
Islands
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world, indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead, Anthropologist (1901-1978)
16:
Firas
Al-Atraqchi: Jerry Falwell, Agent of
Israel
A live broadcast of the Donahue show (MSNBC - Monday, December 9) examining the current push towards an invasion of Iraq revealed a few things about its guest speakers.
17:
Clampdown
On Illegal Street Racing
More streets are to be restricted to non-residential traffic on weekends and public holidays in order to tackle the scourge of illegal street racing in Manukau. This will include a large stretch of Te Irirangi Drive between Dawson Road in Otara and ...
18:
SOL:
Cherie Blair's Defence
Unconvincing
Cherie Blair's short televised rebuttal on Tuesday evening vis-à-vis her dealings with convicted fraudster Peter Foster was arrogant, self righteous and demonstrated how little real importance Mrs Blair attaches to exposing and eliminating corruption ...
19:
Images:
Lord Of The Rings Game
Screenshots
Screenshots from the new Lord of the Rings video game. See… EA Ships The Lord Of The Rings, The Two Towers for more background.
20:
GPJA
Antiwar Protest This Saturday Dec
14
Global Peace and Justice Auckland is organising an Antiwar Protest for this Saturday December 14. People are to assemble at Auckland's QEII Square, Downtown, at 11am.
21:
Scoop:
Top Scoops + Just Politics
Antiwar Protest This Saturday! - The PM Talks To The Big Apple - Eco-Economy: The Necessary End Of The Greenback - CIA Linked To Venezuela’s Latest Coup Attempts - Streets Of London: Cherie Blair Must Try Harder - Naked In Nuhaka - Howard’s End: ...
22:
Questions
Of The Day Transcript - 12
December
1. JILL PETTIS (NZ Labour--Whanganui) to the Minister of Research, Science and Technology: What progress has the Government made recently in encouraging private sector investment in research?
23:
Two
Towers Premiere In Paris Theatre
It's now official, the premiere of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers will take place in Le Grand Rex Theater on 10 December 2002.
24:
The
Dirty And Deadly Secrets Of Khamisiyah
In Khamisiyah, southern Iraq, 1991, a man made plague was unleashed. Some of the world’s deadliest chemical and biological warfare agents were housed in Khamisiyah, a sprawling desert bunker complex – and then released into the atmosphere.
25:
Wellingtonians
Say "No War on Iraq"
An ad hoc group of Wellington organisations and individuals has come together in opposition to any new war on Iraq. Local activists and grass roots groups, unions, political parties, students, artists and entertainers have been meeting fortnightly ...
26:
Scoop
Cartoon: Saddam Is Not A Bit Out Of
Place
Cartoon by John Chuckman...
27:
PM
On The US And NZ: Co-Operating For
Prosperity
During my last visit to New York in March, the scars of 11 September were still very evident. It was an emotional experience for me to go to Ground Zero and be presented with a New Zealand flag pulled from the rubble by New York policemen.
28:
NZ/US FTA: PM's New York Speech: "You Go
Girl"
The Trade Liberalisation Network was pleased to see the Prime Minister make a strong plug for freeing up global trade in her speech to the Asia Society in New York this morning.
New Zealand First Law and order spokesperson Ron Mark MP is asking the Minister for Inland Revenue what he intends doing about beneficiary fraudsters who run million dollar businesses and still collect benefits.
30:
Go
Hard, New Zealand Business
Now is the time for every employer in this country to speak out against the Labour Government's hidden agenda to strip them of their rights, ACT New Zealand Business Development Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today.
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