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Scoop's Top 30 Items For Monday Dates: 12/Dec/2005
1:
British
Mercenaries Shooting at Baghdad Motorists
Security contractors of the so-called "Victory" Group of the British mercenary Firm Aegis Defense Services have committed the ultimate war crime: the indiscriminate killing of civilians as part of a "game", not a video game but a real game of shooting ...
2:
Rice's
Indefensible Brief; Cheney's Last Throes
European reaction to visiting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's statements on torture can be summed up in lead commentary Wednesday in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, among the most widely respected German newspapers.
3:
Jane
Kelsey WTO: The Antidote to
Fear-Mongering
The battle for the hearts and minds of Hong Kong took a turn yesterday when the first mass mobilization against the WTO was a colourful, festive and totally peaceful affair. Local media reports expressed surprise; yet their stories were still refracted against ...
4:
Harold
Pinter Nobel Lecture: Art, Truth &
Politics
In 1958 I wrote the following: 'There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.'
5:
Breaking
News: Explosions Strike Oil Depot Near
M1
London -- "Massive" explosions struck an oil depot about 20 kilometres from London's Luton airport, close to the M1 near Hemel Hempstead filling the sky with orange flames and shattering windows and doors at nearby homes, police and witnesses ...
6:
Explosion
At Buncefield Oil Depot - Hertfordshire
Police and other emergency services are attending the area of Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead this morning following reports of an explosion just after 6am.
7:
Fideo
Castro Speech: 60th University
Commemoration
Speech delivered by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of his admission to University of Havana, in the Aula Magna of the University of Havana,
8:
Public
Address 12/12/05 - Scary
In the last couple of years, the slightly foggy concept of "race relations" has ridden high in surveys of issues of concern to New Zealanders. That might be put in context by what happened in Sydney yesterday...
9:
Veil
of Secrecy lifted on Somali
Community
In a national first, one of New Zealand’s newest and most misunderstood communities is the focus of a social photography project due to open at the Waikato Museum on December 3.
10:
'TIS
the season to be wary
Tips from ASB as peak time of year for fraudulent activity approaches
11:
Vanuatu
volcano eruption: Oxfam’s
response
International aid agency Oxfam is responding to the humanitarian needs of people affected by the volcanic eruption of Mt Ambae in Vanuatu which displaced half the population of Ambae island.
12:
Scoop
News: Wairarapa Shaken By Moderate
Quake
An earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter Scale struck the Wairarapa at 2:55am, centered 20 kilometres east of Pahiatua. The Geological & Nuclear Sciences data centre said the quake had a focal depth of 25 km and will have been felt throughout the ...
13:
Cost
of suicide to NZ nearly $1.4 billion a
year
Minister of Agriculture Minister for Biosecurity Minister of Fisheries Minister of Forestry Associate Minister of Health Associate Minister for Tertiary Education
14:
ACT's
The Letter - 12 December
2005
Parliament's last week for the year. TVNZ's Colmar-Brunton polls that predicted National would win the election continue to place National ahead. The Reserve Bank has raised interest rates again. The Greens accept baubles without office.
15:
Sam
Smith: A Confederacy Of Doers
I had never been invited to dinner by Ralph Nader before, so I figured I'd better check it out. The hall where the drinks were being served could have been at any one of the scores of events Washington was throwing that night, but the difference ...
16:
Maori
name to Promote Smoking Outrages
Sharples
Dr Pita Sharples, Co-leader of the Maori Party, spoke out about the mis-use of the Maori name in a brand of cigarettes produced by tobacco company Philip Morris.
17:
OH
Sen. Rules Cmtte. Approves Anti-Democratic
Bill
COLUMBUS, OH - The Rules Committee of the Ohio Senate approved H.B. 3 December 7, 2005, despite two days of strong opposition testimony. The four Democrat committee members refused to take part in the final vote as a protest to the Republican steamrolling ...
18:
Intel
Announces Chip Technology
Breakthrough
Intel Corporation today announced development of a new, ultra-fast, yet very low power prototype transistor using new materials that could form the basis of its microprocessors and other logic products beginning in the second half of the next decade.
19:
Kyoto
here to stay, get used to it
Don Brash and the other Kyoto detractors in Parliament need to now accept that the world is going to make some sort of adjustments for climate change and New Zealand is going to have to be part of it, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.
20:
UK
Explosion: Evening Press Briefing -
Update
Good evening – it’s been a long day for many people and I thank you once again for attending this final briefing of today.
21:
Government
Whitewash True Impact of
Dioxin
“The report released today by the Ministry of Health into cancer rates in New Plymouth is nothing more than a sham” stated Tariana Turia, Member of Parliament for Te Tai Hauauru.
22:
New
Zealand trade payments remain in
decline
The dramatic increase in time it is taking businesses to pay their bills continues, putting pressure on small and medium-sized businesses as they head into the Christmas and New Year period.
23:
A
vegan Christmas dinner: no turkey, no
problem
Catering for a vegan at Christmas dinner would probably be enough to cause heart palpitations in the average omnivore. Not so for self-taught Birkenhead chef Colin Sky, who is organising a Christmas feast for up to 50 vegans on December 18, at Blissful ...
24:
Kyoto
Protocol moves ahead
Montreal, Canada 9 December 2005 - Greenpeace today congratulated the 157 countries, who have ratified the Kyoto Protocol, as they moved the landmark climate change treaty towards deeper emissions reductions after 2012.
25:
Scoop:
Top Scoops + Just Politics
World Trade: Prelude To WTO Round: Jane Kelsey Reports, Official Suicide Statistics Calculate Cost In Dollar Terms, Employment: Who Will Fix The Doctor Shortage?, Police: Govt And NZ First Seal More Cops Deal, Santa Sends Karma Filled Feast To Auckland ...
26:
Research
on link between social factors,
suicide
Social factors do have an influence on suicide, according to a report released today by the Associate Health Minister Jim Anderton.
27:
Pop
Corn Type
Thunderstorms
Thunderstorms have been popping like pop-corn over New Zealand over the weekend and will continue to do so for the rest of this week. MetService meteorologists have issued a special weather advisory on thunderstorms for Waikato, Waitomo, Taumarunui, ...
28:
Resale
of Telecom broadband services for
business
The Commerce Commission has released its final determination under the Telecommunication Act on resale by TelstraClear Limited of several Telecom broadband retail services for business.
29:
Michael
Crawford: Music of the Night - March
2006
Michael Crawford to perform in New Zealand for one concert only, at New Plymouth’s TSB Bowl of Brooklands, on Saturday, 11 March 2006, in a concert to benefit the Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy Trust. Tickets on Sale Thursday, December 15, 2005
30:
Sanjay
Upadhya: Nepal Now It’s The Military’s
Turn
Judging from King Gyanendra’s latest cabinet reshuffle, the monarch appears unfazed by last month’s 12-point accord reached between Nepal’s mainstream political parties and Maoist rebels in New Delhi.
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