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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: 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, ...
2:
UQ
Wire: Secret Bush Iraq Regime Change Blueprint
A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001.
3:
Questions
For Oral Answer - 18 September
2002
1. GEORGINA BEYER to the Minister of Social Services and Employment: What reports, if any, has he received on the placement of welfare recipients into paid employment?Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
UQ
Wire: Bush Regime Change Blueprint - The
Report
UQ WIRE EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the full text of the “secret report” referred to in an earlier UQ wire item today, “UQ Wire: Secret Bush Iraq Regime Change Blueprint” . The original in .pdf format is located at http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf ...
5:
Questions
Of The Day Transcript - 17 September
'02
Hon. BILL ENGLISH (Leader of the Opposition): I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. This question was submitted to the Prime Minister, because it related specifically to comments, by either herself or her spokesperson, that she was not going to comment ...
6:
New
report explodes GM myths -
Fitzsimons
A comprehensive new report into the impact of genetically modified crops in North America has huge implications for this country, Green Party Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today.
7:
Firas
Al-Atraqchi: Who is Khidhir
Hamza?
This week Khidhir Hamza, a former Iraqi nuclear scientist who defected to the U.S. in 1994, testified before a U.S. Senate panel investigating Iraq's nuclear armaments. Hamza told U.S. Senators that Iraq was three years away from creating up to three ...
8:
Sludge
Report #142: Richard Butler Is A CIA
Asset
In This Edition: Senate Hearing On Iraq “Blitzkrieg” Now On - Richard Butler Is A U.S. Spy – A CIA Asset
9:
United
Future to oppose two Govt
Bills
United Future New Zealand leader, Peter Dunne, today announced that the Parliamentary caucus has decided to oppose the Tertiary Education Reform Bill and the Television New Zealand Bill, currently being considered by Parliament.
10:
PM
Has Selective Amnesia Over Timor
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Foreign Affairs & Defence Spokesman Ken Shirley today accused the Prime Minister of selective amnesia over the 1975 Indonesia invasion of East Timor.
11:
Royal
Commission Report a Fraud
The release of a report by the UK Soil Association entitled “Seeds of doubt: experiences of North American farmers of genetically modified crops” has led Groundswell spokesperson Tremane Barr to conclude that the Royal Commission on Genetic Modifications belief ...
12:
Shared
Alcohol Gene Reveals Asia/Pacific
Ancestry
A genetic discovery by Dr Geoff Chambers of Victoria University has revealed that many Polynesians have inherited a genetic factor from Asian ancestors which may assist in reducing an overall risk of them developing alcoholism. The discovery also reveals ...
13:
Clark
dodges the questions again on Iraq
Helen Clark’s policy of playing dumb on the SAS troops looks more and more like a political convenience than a genuine concern for the safety of the troops, says National Leader Bill English.
14:
PM
Must Solve Impasse Between
Ministers
ACT New Zealand Conservation and Energy spokesman Ken Shirley is calling on the Prime Minister to settle the impasse created by two of her Ministers.
15:
Is
A War Against Iraq A Real
Possibility?
Unfortunately the US is on a determined course towards war that can only be stopped by a massive international movement of opposition.
Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
17:
Honour
Your Election Pledge Says NZ First
New Zealand First has called on the Government to honour its election pledges and accept the social security legislation that abolishes income and asset testing for elderly people in long term care.
18:
Student
Debt limits access to
Mortgages
New research released today by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) shows that some banks are rejecting applications for mortgages based on the size of graduate’s student loan debt despite the Banking Ombudsman and the Government ...
19:
Law
and Order committee offended by Mild
Greens
In a teleconferenced select committee hearing today on the "boy racer bill", the Mild Greens were told by acting committee chair Georgina Beyer, that the content of their submission was considered abusive of members of the committee.
20:
Labour
ignoresthe wishes of voters at its
peril
“Reports that the killers of Michael Choy could be out of prison in just 18 months confirms that Labour’s Sentencing and Parole Act was nothing more than a worthless exercise and exposes their willingness to continue to ignore the 1999 referendum ...
21:
Greenpeace
alerts NZ farmers to GE disaster in
US
A damning new report from the UK Soil Association demonstrates that GE food crops have been a practical and economic disaster, estimated to have cost the US economy at least NZ$ 25 billion between 1999 and 2001 in farm subsidies, lower crop prices, ...
22:
Government
can’t ignore building crisis
The Government must hold a full inquiry into the leaky building crisis if it wants to restore faith in the country’s building industry, says National’s Housing spokesperson, Dr Wayne Mapp.
23:
UQ
Wire: US Drillers Eye Huge Iraqi Petroleum
Pool
A U.S.-led ouster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein could open a bonanza for American oil companies long banished from Iraq, scuttling oil deals between Baghdad and Russia, France and other countries, and reshuffling world petroleum markets, according to ...
24:
New
Pro Vice-Chancellor for Victoria
University
Victoria University Vice-Chancellor Professor Stuart McCutcheon today announced the appointment of a new Pro Vice-Chancellor to join the University’s senior management team. “I am delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Pat Walsh as Pro Vice-Chancellor ...
25:
Katya
Rivas: Nobody is Superior to Anyone
Else
There now, calm down, My little cucarachita [a familiar, affectionate term in Spanish] . You are the only one to blame for accepting situations or people that upset you. Now, get away, you have a week to escape everything, to think more calmly and analyze ...
26:
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 ...
27:
Smith
goes to court to push truancy
issue
Nelson MP Nick Smith today goes to the Wellington District Court for the first hearing in his attempt to prosecute Child, Youth and Family for not ensuring children in it’s care are attending school.
28:
Speech
Notes: pharmacy sector set to
explode
General Debate Speech – Sue Kedgley - DELIVERED AT 3.25PM - I have in my possession a memorandum that was sent by the Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand to all District Health Board members over a week ago, which states that the entire pharmacy sector in New ...
29:
New
credit legislation gives consumers more
clout
New consumer credit legislation introduced to parliament yesterday will make credit providers more accountable to consumers, Acting Consumer Affairs Minister Lianne Dalziel said today.
30:
Government should come clean over housing
scandal
The Government is trying to avoid the leaking building crisis by suppressing key parts of the report, and refusing to debate the issue in Parliament, says National's Internal Affairs spokesperson Judith Collins.
Ian Powell: When Politics Gets In The Pocket Of The Gun Lobby
Binoy Kampmark: AUKUS - Flawed And Sinking
Martin LeFevre - Meditations: The Darkest Hour Before Dawn Or The Sum Of All Dark Ages?
Gordon Campbell: On Justin Trudeau’s Demise, In A Global Context
Ramzy Baroud: Israel Destroyed Gaza ‘For Generations To Come’ And The World Stayed Silent
Binoy Kampmark: Detained Without Charge - Eleven Yemenis Leave Guantánamo