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1:
Scoop
Images: Amazing New Two Towers Screen
Shots
A selection of an astonishing new set of images published today by Scoop’s online content partner theonering.net - CLICK HERE FOR FULL SET OF IMAGES . See also the Scoop LOTR feature page
2:
Symantec’s
New Norton Systemworks 2003
Delivers
Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC), the world leader in Internet security, today announced Norton SystemWorks 2003 and Norton SystemWorks Professional Edition, the new best-of-breed problem-solving suites that offer comprehensive, integrated solutions to help keep ...
3:
Chomsky
on Iraq, US, Weapons – A
Preview
Last week journalist Michael Albert asked a dozen timely questions in writing of Professor Noam Chomsky. The full responses appear in the upcoming issue of Z Magazine . Here are the first three questions and answers.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
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, ...
5:
Howard's
End: ACC Victimisation
Imagine you have a good job and you've planned the lives of your family and your financial commitments around your success, but then your boss approaches you and says that from this afternoon, the law now requires that - through no fault of your ...
6:
Images:
Smirnoff Fashion Winner Frances
Howie
See also… Image: Frances Howie's Winning Garment and NZ's Frances Howie Wins Smirnoff Fashion Award
7:
Will
Sununu’s TV Pollster Tell About The
Taliban
The question of polling conflicts has thus far quietly escaped media scrutiny in the highly-contested New Hampshire Primary. However, Senator Robert Smith’s September 10 opponent, Rep. John E. Sununu, has been paying well-known national television ...
like so many others, as I got to understand more of the world my views changed. As Winston Churchill once said "If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain." ...
9:
Stateside:
Two Movies And A Lecture
"I can't slip you the tomahawk 20 minutes of the day, but I can give you a wonderful life the other 23:40," says Sy to the woman he loves but has just told he is "two-spirited" (gay). They are both students at a university in Seattle, ...
10:
Beware
the black widow - Greens
Green Biosecurity Spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street today said New Zealanders should be on the lookout for poisonous spiders when handling Californian grapes after MAF agreed to allow both the grapes and the spiders back into New Zealand.
11:
Bernard
Weiner: Is Mideast Peace Still
Possible?
An American Jew's Open Letter to Hanan Ashwari: Is Mideast Peace Still Possible? By Bernard Weiner
12:
UQ
Wire: Connecting The Dots Bush..Bath..Bin
Laden
Saudi Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, an Osama bin Laden benefactor, has laundered money into tax-exempt U.S. entities for years as a foreign financier of terrorism. But a new 9/11 lawsuit is thrusting Mahfouz’s latent past business links to George W. ...
13:
Knowledge
Wave Not Even A Ripple
The Government's much-vaunted "Knowledge Wave" launched with much fanfare has proved not even a ripple on the marketplace. The reason is simple enough. The Government's "hands on partnership" approach to the economy is at loggerheads with making use ...
14:
William
Rivers Pitt: A Bright September
Morning
The sky above me today is as hard and bright and blue as it was one year ago. The air carries that same hint of crisp autumn that lies in wait within the yellow becomings on the green leaves shivering in the breeze outside my window. It seems, somehow, ...
15:
Tamihere Prepares for Major New Land
Grab
The Government is preparing for a major land grab that will take property from rural land owners using the excuse that the public needs greater access to streams and lakes, ACT Conservation Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff warned today.
16:
Richard
Prebble's Letter from
Wellington
War with Iraq: US military action against Iraq will have worldwide ramifications. So our Parliament has ignored it. It seems for the first time our traditional allies - the US, UK and Australia - will be involved in a war without the support of NZ.
17:
Of
Mice and Men
Sometimes a scientific breakthrough is so remarkable it stops you in your tracks. The announcement recently that Dr Ina Dobrinski, a researcher at The University of Pennsylvania has created mice with fleshy lumps on their backs is one of those.
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:
Four
years too long for struggling
families
Green Social Services Spokesperson Sue Bradford Today Urged The Government To Begin Urgent Reform Of The Benefit System, Saying Families Living In Poverty Could Not Wait Three To Four Years For Government To Act.
20:
Newman:
Why the Left Wants to Destroy the
Family
The two-parent married family is the most successful child rearing institution ever invented. That is not to say that other family forms do not do well; it's just that population trends clearly show that children who are not raised in an intact, married ...
21:
Media
Beat: The Powell Trap - Easing Us Into
War
There's something pathetic -- and dangerous -- about the crush of liberal commentators now pinning their hopes on Colin Powell.
22:
New
Zealand Legislation goes on
line
Attorney-General Margaret Wilson today launched the first, free public online access to up-to-date electronic versions of Acts and Statutory Regulations.
23:
Iraq
Attack
As the world tentatively approaches the anniversary of the horrendous events of last September 11 the New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters urges caution as world leaders contemplate the next steps in the war on terrorism.
24:
Slow
Growth Will See Wealth Gap
Widen
Slow growth will see wealth gap widen New Zealand runs the risk of ending up like Latin America unless it fast-tracks its rate of economic growth, says National’s Finance spokesman, Don Brash.
25:
When
best friends fall out
The days of the Prime Minister having good friends in high places appears to be coming to an end, says National Party Leader Bill English.
26:
WSSD
recognises its Hard to be Green When
Red
The strong support for calls to eliminate farming subsidies was a positive outcome of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, says Federated Farmer's President Tom Lambie.
27:
Minister
clearly embarrassed
Social Services Minister Steve Maharey is clearly embarrassed about social service papers he has released late today, says Nationals Deputy Leader Roger Sowry.
28:
Loop’s
50Hz Album Out Now!
After a five year absence Wellington studio whiz Jeremy Geor, a.k.a. 50Hz, is back with his highly anticipated second album Carbon - another booming batch of beats and breaks set to take New Zealand by storm. While his debut album was strictly a ...
29:
Guy’s
World: Goodbye Garden Shed
Past the carcasses of plastic toys spurned, through the long grass littered with rusting bicycle parts and discarded sports equipment, and into New Zealand’s most interconnected garden shed.
30:
Peters
attacks on immigrants an
embarrassment
Speaking to an audience of 200 Asian business people in Auckland Jim Anderton today attacked Winston Peters for his outrageous comments attacking Asian immigrants.
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