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Scoop Images: Bomb Scare At Parliament
Thursday, 20 January 2011, 4:29 pm | The Scoop Team
A suspicious package near Parliament on Bowen Street caused the Beehive and Bowen House to be evacuated this afternoon. Police diverted traffic away from Bowen Street while the bomb squad assembled robot, dogs and padded suits on Parliament's forecourt. More >>
Explosive Revelations From 9/11: Susan Lindauer Interview
Wednesday, 19 January 2011, 1:09 pm | Scoop Link
Today on The Intel Hub Radio, Shepard interviewed former U.S. asset Susan Lindauer. Susan worked primary in the Libyan and Iraqi embassies and warned of the 9/11 attacks months before they happened. More >>
Social Media Used to Unite People in Fight for Justice
Wednesday, 19 January 2011, 12:53 pm | Scoop Link
The following facebook pages are established and ready for use. We encourage you to join any group and give your views. Feel free to share experiences and information. We will update this as progress is made. The more action you take, the stronger each ... More >>
Media Balk At Rugby World Cup Conditions
Tuesday, 18 January 2011, 5:08 pm | The Scoop Team
Scoop understands that Fairfax, APN and NZPA will not accept the current conditions, and media bodies are involved in ongoing attempts to renegotiate them. Other media have been asked to consider holding off applications. More >>
WikiLeaks: Turkey let US use airbase for rendition flights
Tuesday, 18 January 2011, 2:47 pm | Scoop Link
Turkey allowed the US to use its airbase at Incirlik in southern Turkey as part of the "extraordinary rendition" programme to take suspected terrorists to Guantánamo Bay, according to a US diplomatic cable. Turkey's involvement in the controversial ... More >>
Israel tested worm linked to Iran atom woes - report
Monday, 17 January 2011, 3:43 pm | Scoop Link
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israel has tested a computer worm believed to have sabotaged Iran's nuclear centrifuges and slowed its ability to develop an atomic weapon, The New York Times reported on Saturday. More >>
Stuxnet cyberworm heads off US strike on Iran
Monday, 17 January 2011, 3:26 pm | Scoop Link
The chances of a military strike against Iran this year are receding because of the success of a joint Israeli-US cyberattack on the country's nuclear facilities, according to officials and analysts with knowledge of the clandestine operation. More >>
Obituary: Harvey John McQueen, ONZM, JP
Monday, 17 January 2011, 3:04 pm | Scoop Obituary
McQueen, Harvey John, JP, ONZM 13 September 1934 - 25 December 2010 Born Little River, Banks Peninsula; died Wellington, aged 76. m.(1) Mary Thompson (1963, diss. 1982); (2) Anne Else (1985). More >>
Radio Adelaide: Mine Recovery Efforts Suspended + Storms
Monday, 17 January 2011, 11:01 am | Scoop Audio
Selwyn Manning & Catherine Zengerer discuss how a decision to suspend recovery efforts at the Pike River Coal Mine has upset the families of the 29 miners who lost their lives in the tragedy Also, Kiwis are preparing for their first big storm of 2011. More >>
Photo Essay: Queensland Flooding January 2011
Thursday, 13 January 2011, 3:08 pm | The Scoop Team
Photo Essay: Queensland Flooding January 2011 featuring Towoomba and Rockhampton. More >>
Photo Essay: Brisbane Flooding January 2011
Thursday, 13 January 2011, 2:20 pm | The Scoop Team
Photo Essay of the January 2011 flooding in Brisbane City. More >>
Brisbane suburbs start to count the cost after flood
Thursday, 13 January 2011, 1:13 pm | Scoop Link
PREMIER Anna Bligh says some Brisbane residents are waking up a ``post-war zone'' this morning after the devastating floods that have destroyed a number of suburbs. While the Brisbane River peak was lower than first feared, and well below the record ... More >>
Selwyn & Talia - Nats' Top Contenders For Botany By-Election
Wednesday, 12 January 2011, 7:26 pm | Scoop Audio
95bFM Audio: Scoop's Selwyn Manning joins 95bFM's Talia Blewitt to discusses the National party hot contenders for the Botany re-election. Who can inject some intellectual grunt into the National Pary caucus? More >>
WikiLeaks: What our politicians didn't want you to know
Wednesday, 12 January 2011, 3:11 pm | Scoop Link
Former National Party leader Don Brash was "not unhappy" about losing the 2005 election because it meant he didn't have to work with NZ First. "Winston Peters really is a nutter," he is quoted as saying by a United States Embassy staff member in a November ... More >>
WikiLeaks: Drug firms tried to ditch Clark
Wednesday, 12 January 2011, 3:01 pm | Scoop Link
Drug companies tried to get rid of Helen Clark when she was health minister, leaked US Embassy cables claim. They also claim that one major drug firm so strongly objected to restrictive drug buying rules that it lobbied against New Zealand getting a Free ... More >>
Full List of Wikileaks Published on Scoop – 10-01-11
Monday, 10 January 2011, 3:22 pm | The Scoop Team
Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Michael McBryde, the Foreign Ministry's UN Division Deputy Director, urging GNZ to vote no or abstain (as NZ did in November 2009) on the February 26 UN Goldstone Report draft resolution recently ... More >>
Radio Adelaide: Selwyn Manning - NZ News In Review
Friday, 31 December 2010, 12:01 pm | Scoop Audio
Selwyn Manning & Stephen Smiley's NZ news review for 2010, including how the Wikileaks cables between the US' New Zealand-based Embassy and Washington reveal a major security breach where top NZ Defence officials were providing info on Cabinet discussions. More >>
Video: Children Of Gaza - Channel 4 - Documentary
Sunday, 26 December 2010, 11:05 pm | Scoop Video
In December 2008, the Israeli Defence Force unleashed a campaign to destroy the ability of Hamas to launch rockets and mortars into Israel. Around 300 children were among the 1,300 Palestinians that were killed. After the ceasefire, BAFTA-winning filmmaker ... More >>
Jakarta fuelling West Papua unrest: report
Thursday, 23 December 2010, 2:18 pm | Scoop Link
The United States believes that Indonesia's government will provoke unrest in its troubled province of West Papua due to neglect, corruption and human rights abuses, according to leaked US diplomatic cables reported on by Fairfax Media . More >>
Cable Reveals US Accuses Jakarta of Failure in Papua
Thursday, 23 December 2010, 2:00 pm | Scoop Link
THE United States fears that Indonesian government neglect, rampant corruption and human rights abuses are stoking unrest in its troubled province of West Papua. Leaked embassy cables reveal that US diplomats privately blame Jakarta for instability and ... More >>
