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Howard's End: Show Us The Evidence!
Sunday, 16 September 2001, 2:00 pm | Maree Howard
From having no intelligence information whatsoever of terrorist plans to attack targets in the U.S. the West has now moved, in just four days, to being so absolutely certain of the perpetrators than it forms a posse alongside Sheriff George Bush to ... More >>
Howard's End: bin Laden’s Net Spreads Wide
Friday, 14 September 2001, 9:52 am | Maree Howard
The U.S. administration is busy gathering a coalition together to attack Osama bin Laden and his Afghani-based camps, but its intelligence gathering capacity is so weak that it really doesn't know who to go to war with or whether it can legally ... More >>
Trauma Counselling In Australia After Terrorism
Friday, 14 September 2001, 9:17 am | Maree Howard
State Government's in Australia are sending circulars to all schools to help staff deal with children distressed over the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. Maree Howard reports. More >>
Howard's End: Check! Check! Check!
Thursday, 13 September 2001, 9:08 am | Maree Howard
Check! Check! Check! That's my advice to world leaders as the global drums of war start beating over the terrorist attack on the heartland of the United States. The answer is as plain as the nose of your face. Ask not who did it but, rather, ask ... More >>
Howard's End: Free Press For Free People
Monday, 10 September 2001, 10:20 am | Maree Howard
Do you remember when there were only one or two newspapers and your father always argued out loud with the editorials? Do you remember the stories your local newspaper selected for you to read? Do you remember how control was exercised over what you ... More >>
Howard's End: Britain Shows Us The Third Way
Wednesday, 5 September 2001, 11:40 am | Maree Howard
Tony Blair's "Third Way" Government has its traditional supporters fuming at plans to turn to the private sector to help deliver radical reform to schools, hospitals and transport. Doesn't New Zealand follow the "Third Way?" Maree ... More >>
Howard's End: Home Truths About Radical Islamists
Tuesday, 4 September 2001, 10:57 am | Maree Howard
The United States and Israel delegations have quit the UN Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in protest at attempts by delegates to single out Israel as a racist state. Time for some media balance. ... More >>
Howard's End: Viral Bureaucracy
Monday, 3 September 2001, 9:42 am | Maree Howard
My recent Howard's End column "Organisational Psychopaths" drew a global response to my email from Scoop readers. The central thrust of the feedback was very positive and asked for my views of exactly where I consider things could be further ... More >>
Howard's End: $200 Barrier To Fair Representation
Tuesday, 28 August 2001, 11:56 am | Maree Howard
Someone in the Puzzle Palace in Wellington has decided in their wisdom to charge a $200 deposit for candidates putting themselves up for election to local councils and district health boards. Are the clowns now in charge of the circus? Maree Howard ... More >>
Howard's End: No Justice And Fairness For Coasters
Monday, 27 August 2001, 9:26 am | Maree Howard
Scoop readers know that I stand for justice and fairness and that includes for the people where I live in on West Coast. For a moment, let's forget about mining, logging and the other extractive industries and focus on words like discrimination, marginalisation, ... More >>
Howard's End: Organisational Psychopaths
Friday, 24 August 2001, 8:37 am | Maree Howard
If you are working in middle or upper management of government or business, one in twenty of you is likely to be an organisational psychopath and you are causing untold grief to your fellow Kiwi's and costing this country millions of dollars. ... More >>
Howard's End: Europe-Wide Web Of Watchers
Tuesday, 21 August 2001, 9:35 am | Maree Howard
Anti-capitalist protesters travelling between European Union countries will be subject to unprecedented surveillance following a decision by European leaders last month, but civil liberties campaigners are outraged. Maree Howard writes. More >>
Howard's End: Generation Boy Racer
Friday, 17 August 2001, 9:09 am | Maree Howard
The Christchurch City Council's response to street racers who use Christchurch roads in industrial areas as drag strips and burnout pads has been to establish a burnout pad sub-committee. Maree Howard writes. More >>
Howard's End: Waiting For Rain In Brazil
Tuesday, 14 August 2001, 8:51 am | Maree Howard
Brazil is facing an unprecedented energy crisis as a result of severe drought with banks estimating that for every 10 percent of energy cutbacks, industrial production falls by 7.7 percent. Maree Howard writes. More >>
Howard's End: The Luck Of The Irish
Monday, 13 August 2001, 8:44 am | Maree Howard
We're told the success of Ireland is an example for New Zealand to follow in surfing the knowledge wave into the future. But, hold on, Ireland receives millions of dollars of U.S. and EU cash subsidies. Maree Howard writes. More >>
Howard's End: Healing Technology
Friday, 10 August 2001, 1:01 pm | Maree Howard
Humans are dumb if they spend billions of dollars on genetic engineering, human cloning and stem-cell research before asking why is it that crayfish, star fish, the octopus, crabs, the salamander, lizards, frogs, and the plant kingdom can naturally regenerate ... More >>
Howard's End: Frightening Possibilities
Tuesday, 7 August 2001, 12:39 am | Maree Howard
Italian embryologist Severino Antinori, the man who enabled a 62-year-old women to have a baby in 1994, is scheduled to announce later this week at the National Academy of Sciences, that he will genetically clone humans by impregnating 200 women. ... More >>
Howard's End: Imagination Vs Knowledge
Sunday, 5 August 2001, 3:04 pm | Maree Howard
A high school student Scoop reader has responded to my Catching the Knowledge Wave column asking that I explain what I meant when I wrote, "imagination is more important than knowledge". Maree Howard responds. More >>
Howard's End: Messy Surf At Knowledge Wave
Friday, 3 August 2001, 10:23 am | Maree Howard
If New Zealand faces such dire economic consequences that it prompts speakers at the Catching the Knowledge Wave Conference to call for desperate and urgent changes, then how do they explain that Japan, the world's second-most productive economy, ... More >>
Japanese Economic Reform On Howard Agenda
Thursday, 2 August 2001, 11:37 am | Maree Howard
Scoop sources say the Japanese economy, which is reeling under a staggering $10,000 billion debt, will be a key issue for Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, after arriving in Tokyo tonight. Maree Howard reports. More >>
