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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: The GW Bush - Osama Bin Laden Connection

EDITORS NOTE: The following is a transcript of a link submitted to Scoop by a Scoop reader. Clearly questions are raised in this material about the nature of the relationship between the Bush family and the family of Osama Bin Laden.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00108.htm


2: HARD NEWS 14/9/01 - Making Sense of It

GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... It was as strange as if we had dreamed it. And, in a very modern sense, we have. We have seen Armageddon, Deep Impact and Independence Day. We have seen New York laid waste in the movies.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00106.htm


3: HARD NEWS 16/09/01 - Making Sense of It II

There has been a lot of email since Hard News went out on Friday. It began not long after: To quote, the people who wrote thought it was "perfect", "fantastic stuff", "a bright beacon", "one of the best thought pieces about the week", that it "ruled" ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00115.htm


4: HARD NEWS 17/09/01 - Making Sense of It III

Well, this thing has a life of its own and the logical option seems to be to go with it. Below is a digest of some of the many emails I've received since Friday's Hard News and the subsequent follow-up yesterday. I thought that, taken as a whole, the ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00123.htm


5: Sludge Report #106 – Who Was The Target?

It would then seem grossly wrong for a war between millions of people to be started as a direct consequence of the personal enmity and bad blood that exists between two severely corrupt families. Is this the justice that George Bush and others say ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00109.htm


6: Scoop Link: Afghan-American speaks - Salon

The following is circulating widely on the internet as a message. It is also linked and published on Salon.Com.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00117.htm


7: On the Bombings, Noam Chomsky

The terrorist attacks were major atrocities. In scale they may not reach the level of many others, for example, Clinton's bombing of the Sudan with no credible pretext, destroying half its pharmaceutical supplies and killing unknown numbers of people ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0109/S00058.htm


8: On The Brink - Human Catastophe On Afghan Borders

On the brink of war - Reports tonight speak of a human catastrophe unfolding by the hour along Afghanistan's borders while thousands of civilians flee the country.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00118.htm


9: Lindsay Perigo: Rallying Around A Phoenix

My enemies keep telling me everything is relative & reality is subjective; there are no absolutes, no right & wrong; reality is not real, simply a construct in the mind of the beholder.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00125.htm


10: Howard's End: Show Us The Evidence!

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 ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00113.htm


11: NEWSFLASH: Global Financial Meltdown Imminent?

At the beginning of the first week following the terror attacks in New York and Washington D.C. stock markets in the Asia Pacific region have opened in a woeful state – perhaps indicating a global financial collapse is in the air.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00126.htm


12: Big News: The Hunt For Bin Laden Is On

Well, it doesn’t really matter that Wellington lost to Southland at home any more, does it? That shocking rugby result all faded into insignificance after last weeks even more shocking terrorist attack on the financial, political and defence powers ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00124.htm


13: Scoop Oddity: Eerie Elevens And Spooky Smoke Face

No sooner had US papers printed this picture than they received calls, asking if the photo had been faked to appear to show a face with horns. The answer from Associated Press was no.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00127.htm


14: Guest Opinion: Twin Towers

After the smoke has cleared, the dust has settled down and the initial fury blown over, humankind will wake up and realize a new fact: there is no safe place on earth.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00116.htm


15: Scoop Images: New York Mourning

Miles Thompson captures images of New Yorkers coming to terms with their loss.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00122.htm


16: US Under Attack: Implications For Muslims

The attack on America is catastrophic. It is even bigger than Pearl Harbor. Words cannot describe the magnitude of the human tragedy that has taken place. The consequences of this event will be far reaching and will necessarily have global as well as local ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0109/S00059.htm


17: Scoop Images: Love One Another – God - NYC

God is in the House, with the Beatles, in Union Square New York. Images miles@mail.com .

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00121.htm


18: Stateside: Peace And Love District No. 9

There's these three guys out goat-hunting, right, and they come to a stream that has been turned into a raging torrent by heavy rain up in the headwaters. They have to cross the stream and can't think of any way to do it as a team so it's every man ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00120.htm


19: Minister Briefed On Defence Issue

The Minister of Defence Mark Burton says an internal issue at Defence Headquarters in Wellington is being handled in an appropriate manner.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0109/S00261.htm


20: Did Israel Attack the Pentagon and WTC?

U.S. Government agencies should also deeply investigate to determine that did the anti-American regime of Israeli international terrorist, serial killer and war criminal Ariel Sharon play any role in the Sept. 11 suicide airplane attacks on the Pentagon ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0109/S00057.htm


21: Independent Defence Inquiry Now Essential

National's Defence spokeperson Max Bradford today revealed shocking allegations of improper conduct by the New Zealand Army's most senior officer.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0109/S00260.htm


22: An open letter to GE-Free NZ and the Green Party

An open letter to GE-Free NZ and the Green Party, in response to the GE-Free survey of candidates' views

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/SC0109/S00014.htm


23: Saddam Hussein’s Letter To The American People

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's Letter to the American People, Western People and Their Governments

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0109/S00052.htm


24: Saddam Blames USA of Drawing the Rage of God

Iraq president Saddam Hussein met last night [New Zealand time] with his Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Military and issued a disturbing statement against the USA accusing it of drawing the rage of God.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00094.htm


25: ACT Seeks Snap Debate On NZ Response To Terrorism

ACT leader Richard Prebble has asked the Speaker for an urgent debate in Parliament tomorrow to discuss New Zealand's response to the United States' call for world-wide assistance in the war against terrorism.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0109/S00263.htm


26: Reflections: One Day In America: 9.11.01

Its been intriguing, America makes so much of tragedy to its own. Living in San Francisco, which was razed to the ground almost a century ago, you carry an almost pregnant expectation of something terrible happening. Planning my return to Aotearoa at the ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00112.htm


27: Minister's Inability To Manage Defence Portfolio

Minister of Defence Mark Burton should have immediately called for a full and immediate inquiry when allegations of shredded documents were raised, ACT Defence Spokesman MP Owen Jennings said today.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0109/S00264.htm


28: Opinion: This Is A Time For Peace

Whatever happens next, the attack on the US will be with us forever. It will be this time’s equivalent to the shooting of JFK – we will all always remember where we were when we heard about it – and it will eventually become a movie epic like the disaster ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00110.htm


29: NYC Eyewitness Report: From Shock to Hope

On Tuesday morning the world as we knew it came crashing down. I had just arrived at work in Rockefeller Center in mid-town Manhattan. It was just after 9am.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00111.htm


30: NZ Non-Committal On US Support Through ANZUS

The National opposition today called for New Zealand to join with Australia, our most important security partner, and the United States to invoke Articles III and IV of the ANZUS Treaty.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0109/S00254.htm

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