Hoon is a term used in Australia and New Zealand, to refer to anyone who engages in loutish, anti-social behaviours. In particular, it is used to refer to one who drives a car or boat in a manner which is anti-social by the standards of contemporary society, i.e. too fast, too noisily or too dangerously. In New Zealand, the term "boy racer" is also widely used. Another slang term, revhead—derived from "rev", short for revolutions per minute—is sometimes used in place of hoon. "Anti-hoon laws", while they generally concern road vehicles, sometimes also target anti-social behaviour in motor boats.
Hoon activities can include speeding, burnouts, doughnuts or screeching tires. Those commonly identified as being involved in "hooning" or street racing are young and predominantly male, although increasingly female, drivers in the age range of 17 and 35 years.
Hoon control laws are beginning to be extended to dangerous and annoying hoon behaviour using boats and other vessels, particularly jet skis. The State of Victoria, Australia passed legislation in late 2009 to control hoon activities using recreational vessels.
Hoon are bipedal omnivores with pale scaly skin and woolly white leg fur. Their spines are massive, hollow structures that form part of their circulatory system. The Hoon's inflatable throat sacs, originally used for mating display, are now used for “umbling”.
Like many of the races that populate Jijo, their counterparts that are still a part of the Galactic culture are quite different from them.
Galactic culture
Those Hoon in Galactic culture are respected and feared bureaucrats in the service of many Institutions, and mortal enemies of the rather pro-natalist and dynamic Urs. Hoon have a reputation for being sober, impeccably proper, and insufferably officious.
Hoon, in their capacity as incorruptible bureaucrats working for the Institute of Migration, authorized the "depopulation" of the Human colony world of NuDawn in the first decade of Terra's encounter with Galactic civilization. They refused to accept ignorance of Tradition as a mitigating factor, and refused to exercise any discretionary power to grant pleas for mercy; this, despite the fact that these imperious bureaucrats readily admitted that the laws they had to apply in this particular case were unjust. The massacre of the colonists was carried out with astounding efficiency and a minimum of terror or pain. Such Hoon forces as participated in the "Extermination of Illegal Settler Infestations" displayed neither pleasure nor remorse. They were simply professionally efficient.
Geoff Hoon, former U.K. Secretary of State for Defence, discusses how the defense industries in Europe in the United States can better utilize global defense markets.
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(7 Feb 2004)
1. Wide shot of conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defence Secretary:
"I know in my heart and my brain that America ain't (isn't) what's wrong with the world to the extent that that concept is promoted - as it is. And in this country and on television as well. To the extent that's the case only time, I guess, will deal with that. If you think what was going on in Iraq a year ago - with people being tortured, rape rooms, mass graves, gross corruption, a country that had used chemical weapons on its people and used them on its neighbours, defiant to the United Nations through seventeen UN Security Council resolutions, and look at the way it was treated in the press. There were prominent people who represent countries that are in this room that opined (e...
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File of new cabinet ministers, and the demoted Straw
(5 May 2006) SHOTLIST
AP Television-
FILE Paris - 21 Oct 2002
1. Margaret Beckett photocall with cut of British beef
2. Beckett prepares to carve beef
3. Chef shows Beckett out of kitchen
AP Television-
FILE Brussels - 24 Nov 2005 -
4. Beckett meets EU agriculture ministers
5. Becket takes seat at desk
POOL
FILE Blackburn, UK - 1 April 2006
6. Jack Straw and Condoleezza Rice at Blackburn football club
7. Straw and Rice prepare for news conference
AP Television-
FILE Basra, Iraq - 8 Dec 2004
8. Geoff Hoon visits British troops in Basra
AP Television
FILE London, 27 Aug 2004
9. Protestors outside inquiry into death of government scientist
10. Hoon''s car arrives at inquiry
11. Placard accusing Hoon of lying
STORYLINE
Tony Blair''s cabinet reshuffle threw...
Geoff Hoon, former U.K. Secretary of State for Defence, discusses how the defense industries in Europe in the United States can better utilize global defense ma...
Geoff Hoon, former U.K. Secretary of State for Defence, discusses how the defense industries in Europe in the United States can better utilize global defense markets.
Geoff Hoon, former U.K. Secretary of State for Defence, discusses how the defense industries in Europe in the United States can better utilize global defense markets.
Iain Dale talks to former Labour MP and Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon about his life and career in politics.
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(7 Feb 2004)
1. Wide shot of conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defence Secretary:
"I know in my heart and my brain that America ain't...
(7 Feb 2004)
1. Wide shot of conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defence Secretary:
"I know in my heart and my brain that America ain't (isn't) what's wrong with the world to the extent that that concept is promoted - as it is. And in this country and on television as well. To the extent that's the case only time, I guess, will deal with that. If you think what was going on in Iraq a year ago - with people being tortured, rape rooms, mass graves, gross corruption, a country that had used chemical weapons on its people and used them on its neighbours, defiant to the United Nations through seventeen UN Security Council resolutions, and look at the way it was treated in the press. There were prominent people who represent countries that are in this room that opined (expressed the opinion) that they didn't really think it made a hell of a lot of difference who won. Think of that, equating the countries of the coalition with what was going on in that country (Iraq), publicly. (It is) shocking, absolutely shocking. "
3. Cutaway
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defence Secretary:
"If you're going to live in this world, and it's a dangerous world, you do have to have elegant intelligence. And it is tough when you are dealing with closed societies, where we don't know what we need to know. And they know precisely what it is they want to hide from us and they're good at it. And people are not just proliferating weapons but they're proliferating techniques to deal with denial and deception to avoid being found, (as to what you're doing). The tunneling that's taking place on this globe is making life complicated. Fibre optics makes life complicated. Cuts in intelligence makes life more complicated. The complexity of the fact that we now not only have one target - but we have multiple targets that we have to be thinking about makes life complicated. It is a very difficult thing to do."
5. Senator John McCain (appointed by George W. Bush to be on a committee to investigate pre-war intelligence on Iraq)
6. Cutaway British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Geoff Hoon, British Defence Secretary:
"Firstly Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons and admitted seeking nuclear weapons. Those risks are now ended. And secondly since the intervention there has been more progress on counter proliferation for more than a decade, in North Korea, Iran and most dramatically Libya."
8. Wide shot conference
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Senator John McCain, Member of U.S. Committee to Investigate Intelligence on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction:
"Clearly we are in agreement that a commission is needed and that commission needs to look not just at weapons of mass destruction in Iraq but Iran, Korea and other situations as well, so people will be judging them by their results."
10. Wide shot anti-war demonstrators
11. Various demonstrators
STORYLINE:
U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld slammed opponents of the war in Iraq on Saturday at an annual defence conference being held in Munich.
He condemned the constant criticism of the US in the media as well as people who "represent countries that are in this room" for publicly equating the Coalition with Saddam Hussein's regime.
Rumsfeld's comments came after German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer earlier strongly defended Germany's opposition to the Iraq war.
Fischer told the conference that Germany was not "and are still not, convinced of the validity of the reasons" - repeating phrasing that angered Rumsfeld at the conference a year ago, during the runup to war.
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(7 Feb 2004)
1. Wide shot of conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defence Secretary:
"I know in my heart and my brain that America ain't (isn't) what's wrong with the world to the extent that that concept is promoted - as it is. And in this country and on television as well. To the extent that's the case only time, I guess, will deal with that. If you think what was going on in Iraq a year ago - with people being tortured, rape rooms, mass graves, gross corruption, a country that had used chemical weapons on its people and used them on its neighbours, defiant to the United Nations through seventeen UN Security Council resolutions, and look at the way it was treated in the press. There were prominent people who represent countries that are in this room that opined (expressed the opinion) that they didn't really think it made a hell of a lot of difference who won. Think of that, equating the countries of the coalition with what was going on in that country (Iraq), publicly. (It is) shocking, absolutely shocking. "
3. Cutaway
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defence Secretary:
"If you're going to live in this world, and it's a dangerous world, you do have to have elegant intelligence. And it is tough when you are dealing with closed societies, where we don't know what we need to know. And they know precisely what it is they want to hide from us and they're good at it. And people are not just proliferating weapons but they're proliferating techniques to deal with denial and deception to avoid being found, (as to what you're doing). The tunneling that's taking place on this globe is making life complicated. Fibre optics makes life complicated. Cuts in intelligence makes life more complicated. The complexity of the fact that we now not only have one target - but we have multiple targets that we have to be thinking about makes life complicated. It is a very difficult thing to do."
5. Senator John McCain (appointed by George W. Bush to be on a committee to investigate pre-war intelligence on Iraq)
6. Cutaway British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Geoff Hoon, British Defence Secretary:
"Firstly Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons and admitted seeking nuclear weapons. Those risks are now ended. And secondly since the intervention there has been more progress on counter proliferation for more than a decade, in North Korea, Iran and most dramatically Libya."
8. Wide shot conference
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Senator John McCain, Member of U.S. Committee to Investigate Intelligence on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction:
"Clearly we are in agreement that a commission is needed and that commission needs to look not just at weapons of mass destruction in Iraq but Iran, Korea and other situations as well, so people will be judging them by their results."
10. Wide shot anti-war demonstrators
11. Various demonstrators
STORYLINE:
U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld slammed opponents of the war in Iraq on Saturday at an annual defence conference being held in Munich.
He condemned the constant criticism of the US in the media as well as people who "represent countries that are in this room" for publicly equating the Coalition with Saddam Hussein's regime.
Rumsfeld's comments came after German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer earlier strongly defended Germany's opposition to the Iraq war.
Fischer told the conference that Germany was not "and are still not, convinced of the validity of the reasons" - repeating phrasing that angered Rumsfeld at the conference a year ago, during the runup to war.
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(5 May 2006) SHOTLIST
AP Television-
FILE Paris - 21 Oct 2002
1. Margaret Beckett photocall with cut of British beef
2. Beckett prepares to carve beef
...
(5 May 2006) SHOTLIST
AP Television-
FILE Paris - 21 Oct 2002
1. Margaret Beckett photocall with cut of British beef
2. Beckett prepares to carve beef
3. Chef shows Beckett out of kitchen
AP Television-
FILE Brussels - 24 Nov 2005 -
4. Beckett meets EU agriculture ministers
5. Becket takes seat at desk
POOL
FILE Blackburn, UK - 1 April 2006
6. Jack Straw and Condoleezza Rice at Blackburn football club
7. Straw and Rice prepare for news conference
AP Television-
FILE Basra, Iraq - 8 Dec 2004
8. Geoff Hoon visits British troops in Basra
AP Television
FILE London, 27 Aug 2004
9. Protestors outside inquiry into death of government scientist
10. Hoon''s car arrives at inquiry
11. Placard accusing Hoon of lying
STORYLINE
Tony Blair''s cabinet reshuffle threw the international spotlight Friday on Margaret Beckett, promoted to the plum job of Foreign Secretary.
She was previously the minister responsible for agriculture, grappling with issues such as the ban on British beef exports to the European Union.
She oversaw the return to France of British beef in 2002, and chaired EU talks on sugar subsidies in 2005.
Beckett''s predecessor was Jack Straw, the long-time foreign secretary who developed strong ties with his US counterpart Condoleezza Rice.
Straw takes on a far lower-profile job as Leader of the Commons, although he''s said to have welcomed the switch away from foreign affairs.
The other key international move is Geoff Hoon, the former defence secretary who becomes Minister for Europe.
Hoon was engulfed in controversy over the case of a government scientist who claimed that Blair had exaggerated the case for war in Iraq.
Hoon''s department leaked the scientist''s name to the press. The scientist later committed suicide.
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(5 May 2006) SHOTLIST
AP Television-
FILE Paris - 21 Oct 2002
1. Margaret Beckett photocall with cut of British beef
2. Beckett prepares to carve beef
3. Chef shows Beckett out of kitchen
AP Television-
FILE Brussels - 24 Nov 2005 -
4. Beckett meets EU agriculture ministers
5. Becket takes seat at desk
POOL
FILE Blackburn, UK - 1 April 2006
6. Jack Straw and Condoleezza Rice at Blackburn football club
7. Straw and Rice prepare for news conference
AP Television-
FILE Basra, Iraq - 8 Dec 2004
8. Geoff Hoon visits British troops in Basra
AP Television
FILE London, 27 Aug 2004
9. Protestors outside inquiry into death of government scientist
10. Hoon''s car arrives at inquiry
11. Placard accusing Hoon of lying
STORYLINE
Tony Blair''s cabinet reshuffle threw the international spotlight Friday on Margaret Beckett, promoted to the plum job of Foreign Secretary.
She was previously the minister responsible for agriculture, grappling with issues such as the ban on British beef exports to the European Union.
She oversaw the return to France of British beef in 2002, and chaired EU talks on sugar subsidies in 2005.
Beckett''s predecessor was Jack Straw, the long-time foreign secretary who developed strong ties with his US counterpart Condoleezza Rice.
Straw takes on a far lower-profile job as Leader of the Commons, although he''s said to have welcomed the switch away from foreign affairs.
The other key international move is Geoff Hoon, the former defence secretary who becomes Minister for Europe.
Hoon was engulfed in controversy over the case of a government scientist who claimed that Blair had exaggerated the case for war in Iraq.
Hoon''s department leaked the scientist''s name to the press. The scientist later committed suicide.
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(7 Feb 2004)
1. Wide shot of conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defence Secretary:
"I know in my heart and my brain that America ain't (isn't) what's wrong with the world to the extent that that concept is promoted - as it is. And in this country and on television as well. To the extent that's the case only time, I guess, will deal with that. If you think what was going on in Iraq a year ago - with people being tortured, rape rooms, mass graves, gross corruption, a country that had used chemical weapons on its people and used them on its neighbours, defiant to the United Nations through seventeen UN Security Council resolutions, and look at the way it was treated in the press. There were prominent people who represent countries that are in this room that opined (expressed the opinion) that they didn't really think it made a hell of a lot of difference who won. Think of that, equating the countries of the coalition with what was going on in that country (Iraq), publicly. (It is) shocking, absolutely shocking. "
3. Cutaway
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defence Secretary:
"If you're going to live in this world, and it's a dangerous world, you do have to have elegant intelligence. And it is tough when you are dealing with closed societies, where we don't know what we need to know. And they know precisely what it is they want to hide from us and they're good at it. And people are not just proliferating weapons but they're proliferating techniques to deal with denial and deception to avoid being found, (as to what you're doing). The tunneling that's taking place on this globe is making life complicated. Fibre optics makes life complicated. Cuts in intelligence makes life more complicated. The complexity of the fact that we now not only have one target - but we have multiple targets that we have to be thinking about makes life complicated. It is a very difficult thing to do."
5. Senator John McCain (appointed by George W. Bush to be on a committee to investigate pre-war intelligence on Iraq)
6. Cutaway British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Geoff Hoon, British Defence Secretary:
"Firstly Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons and admitted seeking nuclear weapons. Those risks are now ended. And secondly since the intervention there has been more progress on counter proliferation for more than a decade, in North Korea, Iran and most dramatically Libya."
8. Wide shot conference
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Senator John McCain, Member of U.S. Committee to Investigate Intelligence on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction:
"Clearly we are in agreement that a commission is needed and that commission needs to look not just at weapons of mass destruction in Iraq but Iran, Korea and other situations as well, so people will be judging them by their results."
10. Wide shot anti-war demonstrators
11. Various demonstrators
STORYLINE:
U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld slammed opponents of the war in Iraq on Saturday at an annual defence conference being held in Munich.
He condemned the constant criticism of the US in the media as well as people who "represent countries that are in this room" for publicly equating the Coalition with Saddam Hussein's regime.
Rumsfeld's comments came after German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer earlier strongly defended Germany's opposition to the Iraq war.
Fischer told the conference that Germany was not "and are still not, convinced of the validity of the reasons" - repeating phrasing that angered Rumsfeld at the conference a year ago, during the runup to war.
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(5 May 2006) SHOTLIST
AP Television-
FILE Paris - 21 Oct 2002
1. Margaret Beckett photocall with cut of British beef
2. Beckett prepares to carve beef
3. Chef shows Beckett out of kitchen
AP Television-
FILE Brussels - 24 Nov 2005 -
4. Beckett meets EU agriculture ministers
5. Becket takes seat at desk
POOL
FILE Blackburn, UK - 1 April 2006
6. Jack Straw and Condoleezza Rice at Blackburn football club
7. Straw and Rice prepare for news conference
AP Television-
FILE Basra, Iraq - 8 Dec 2004
8. Geoff Hoon visits British troops in Basra
AP Television
FILE London, 27 Aug 2004
9. Protestors outside inquiry into death of government scientist
10. Hoon''s car arrives at inquiry
11. Placard accusing Hoon of lying
STORYLINE
Tony Blair''s cabinet reshuffle threw the international spotlight Friday on Margaret Beckett, promoted to the plum job of Foreign Secretary.
She was previously the minister responsible for agriculture, grappling with issues such as the ban on British beef exports to the European Union.
She oversaw the return to France of British beef in 2002, and chaired EU talks on sugar subsidies in 2005.
Beckett''s predecessor was Jack Straw, the long-time foreign secretary who developed strong ties with his US counterpart Condoleezza Rice.
Straw takes on a far lower-profile job as Leader of the Commons, although he''s said to have welcomed the switch away from foreign affairs.
The other key international move is Geoff Hoon, the former defence secretary who becomes Minister for Europe.
Hoon was engulfed in controversy over the case of a government scientist who claimed that Blair had exaggerated the case for war in Iraq.
Hoon''s department leaked the scientist''s name to the press. The scientist later committed suicide.
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Sonny: Why do I say Don't walk away You'll be the way you were before When you don't want me anymore Don't turn around Don't ever leave A lonely room where empty days Are gathering to meet me when you're Sonny/Muses: Gone, gone Sonny: How in the world will I go on Muses: Don't walk away Sonny: All you gotta do is stay Muses: Don't walk away Sonny: All you gotta do is stay Muses: Don't walk away Sonny: Don't walk away Muses: Don't walk away Sonny: Don't say goodbye Muses: Don't say goodbye Sonny: Don't turn around Muses: Don't turn around Sonny: Don't let it die Muses: Don't let it die Sonny: When shadows fall Muses: When shadows fall Sonny: When day is done Muses: When day is done Sonny: All through the night Muses: All through the night Sonny: All of my life Muses: All of my life Sonny: Don't walk away Danny: Is it a dream, When will it end When everything we've ever known Has ended and I'm all alone Where will I go Melpomene/Calliope: Where will he go Danny: Where will I be The feelings that I've never shown Maybe I'll find the answer when you're Danny/Melpomene/Calliope: Gone, gone Danny: How in the world will I go on Melpomene: Don't walk away Calliope: All you gotta do is stay Melpomene: Don't walk away Muses: Don't walk away Sonny: Don't walk away Muses: Don't say goodbye Sonny: Don't say goodbye Muses: Don't turn around Sonny: Don't turn around Muses: Don't let it die Sonny: Don’t let it die Muses: When shadows fall When day is done All through the night Sonny: All through the night Muses: All of my life Sonny: Don't walk away Muses: Don't walk away Sonny: Don't say goodbye Muses: Don't say goodbye Sonny: Don't turn around Muses: Don't turn around Sonny: Don't let it die Muses: Don't let it die Sonny: When shadows fall Muses: When shadows fall Sonny: When day is done Muses: When day is done Sonny: All through the night Muses: All through the night Sonny: All of my life Muses: All of my life Sonny/Muses: