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| Recordings + Rumour + Innuendo = Historian's Rant |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| Selwyn Manning writes: Much energy has been directed to identify who secretly recorded National Party MPs. That's their prerogative. However, the ridicule directed at Scoop Media and two of its reporters by historian Dr Michael Bassett, is in need of reply. |
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| Top Scoop Stories - 08 August 2008 News Summary |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| Health, Herceptin & Electioneering / Robson-On-Politics / Pet Grooming & ACC / Poverty & Kids / Sheep Population / Unpasteurised Cheese / Subway Guy / Wind Energy / Oil & Arctic / Bush In Thailand / Beijing 2008 / Ecstasy Seizure / Islam Awareness. |
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| The Anti-Empire Report For August 5, 2008 |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| The New Yorker magazine in its July 14 issue ran a cover cartoon that achieved instant fame. It showed Barack Obama wearing Muslim garb in the Oval Office with a portrait of Osama bin Laden on the wall. Obama is delivering a fist bump to his wife, Michelle, ... |
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| Ernest Partridge: The Outsourcing Tragedy |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| My computer and I have been through a bad spell these past couple of weeks. First, my router/modem developed a terminal malfunction, and then my new anti-virus software failed to install. Thankfully, three very capable and patient gentlemen at various ... |
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| Game over for Pakistan's spy agency |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| Meeting his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee in Colombo on the sidelines of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Summit, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Quereshi was candid in his desperation. |
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| Matt Renner: Playing Politics With Iraqi Oil Money |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| Washington, DC - Republicans and Democrats have been in an uproar over a new report that examines the amount of money the government of Iraq has been taking in and where they have been spending it. However, according to a leading Iraq economy scholar, ... |
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| Olympics: Men of Conscience should Raise HR Issue |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| The original purpose of the Olympic Games, both ancient and modern, is to foster the ideal of, “A sound mind in a sound body,” and to promote friendship among the nations. The Official Olympic Anthem runs “Immortal spirit of Antiquity, Father ... |
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| The McCain Plan: Homer Simpson without the Donut |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| I’m guessing it was excessive exposure to either radiation or George Bush, but Senator John McCain’s comments from inside a nuclear power plant in Michigan are so cracked-brained that I fear some loose gamma rays are doing to McCain’s gray ... |
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| The Games They Play in Burma |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| On August 8, a small team of six athletes from Burma is scheduled to participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing. Very few back home, however, may be wondering on this occasion about the team's fortunes in the field, track, ... |
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| Is Africa a Cold War Battleground? |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| A new cold war looms over Africa, fueled by "dwindling primary natural resources, oil and gas" elsewhere on the planet. The continent has never recovered from centuries of European and American exploitation of her land and people, while "the human, social ... |
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| Obama Won’t Address Specific Black Concerns |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| "Barack Obama has hard-wired himself to avoid" answering questions on redress of specifically Black grievances in the United States. To pull this off, he must deny the legitimacy of such grievances - which in turn requires him to constantly lie ... |
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| SRB: Guangzhou Spastic |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| Beijing Coma by Ma Jian Chatto & Windus, $37. Review By Jeremy Rose for the Scoop Review of Books My first conversation in China was with a spastic street cleaner in Guangzhou. After establishing I was from New Zealand he asked whether the Treaty ... |
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| Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings August 8 2008 |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were... |
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| KiwiFM: Wammo & Aidan Moran on Olympic Doping |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| KiwiFM Audio: Wammo talks to Aidan Moran - Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University College of Dublin talking about how coaches may affect top-level athletes’ attitudes to doping. |
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| Wammo & Bryan Bruce on NZ's Unsolved Mysteries |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| KiwiFM Audio: Wammo talks to Bryan Bruce talking about his new book Hard Cases: NZ's most Baffling Unsolved Mysteries. |
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