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The weekend’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Images:
U.S.Troops In Iraq Sexual Abuse
Photos
*** WARNING: This page contains graphic images of sexual abuse seemingly being committed by US Troops against Iraqi civilians and POWs. While images have been edited to remove sexually explicit details, many of the images remain highly offensive. Please view ...
2:
Why
Not Just Genetically Engineer Women For
Milk?
MAdGE (Mothers Against Genetic Engineering in Food and the Environment) today launched a highly controversial billboard campaign in Auckland and Wellington to provoke public debate about the social and cultural ethics of genetic engineering in New Zealand.
3:
Images:
Lord Of The Rings Exhibition At Te
Papa
In anticipation of the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the central instalment in writer/director/producer Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on the J.R.R. Tolkien masterpiece, Te Papa proudly announces a world exclusive and a bold ...
4:
Scoop
Feedback: Death and Casualty From
Iraq
The following feedback has been received from Scoop readers in response to our decision to publish graphic pictures from Al Jazeera showing the true horror of war.
5:
A
Chance To Meet Mary-Kate And Ashley In
LA
The ZM radio network in association with the mary-kateandashley brand is searching for New Zealand's biggest Mary-Kate and Ashley fan! The winner and two companions will get to meet the most famous teenagers on the planet in their home city, Los ...
6:
War
Pictures Cause Yellowtimes.Org To Be Shut
Down
Somebody doesn't like hearing the truth. Okay, for a second, lets scratch that and choose a slightly less politically charged term. Someone doesn't like to be disputed with alternative views, counterclaims, research and fact. Someone wants you, the ...
7:
Photo-Essay
1: Death and Casualty From
Iraq
Editor’s Warning: The images in this series are horrific and depict the reality of injury and death in this US-led War against Iraq. Scoop is determined that its editorial policy will continue to serve truth, accuracy and honesty and that its reportage ...
8:
Fitrakis:
A Truth Commission For The United
States
The official word from the Bush administration is that the torture and sexual abuse in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison is not ''systematic''. If we ignore all of the facts in the public record over the last four decades, this would be a plausible explanation.
9:
Powell
Interview on CNN's Larry King Live
Secretary Colin L. Powell New York, New York May 4, 2004 (4:15 p.m. EST)
10:
Brash
nuke position more bizarre by the
day
National's position on changing New Zealand's nuclear-free legislation becomes more bizarre by the day, says Foreign Minister Phil Goff.
11:
Rumsfeld
and General Pace On CBS, ABC and
NBC
I don’t know if you were able to hear Senator Biden as he was talking just now. I know you were just sitting down. But he basically says he wants to know what did you know and when did you know it. When did you find out about the abuses taking ...
12:
UQ
Wire: Links - Fahrenheit 911 & FAA
Tapes
Disney Forbidding Distribution of Film That Criticizes Bush & F.A.A. Official Scrapped Tape of 9/11 Controllers' Statements - LINKS TO NEW YORK TIMES
13:
Public
Address 07/05/04 - Some Week
It appears that we may not have seen the half yet of the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. The Washington Post has taken possession of more than 1000 disturbing digital images ("a soldier holding a leash tied around a man's neck in an Iraqi prison...
14:
Colin
Powell Remarks On Iraqi Prisoner
Abuse
Secretary Colin L. Powell C Street Entrance Washington, DC May 5, 2004 (10:15 a.m. EDT)
15:
Scoop
Images: U.S. POWs Shown On Al Jazeera
TV
An unknown group of U.S. soldiers have been captured by Iraqi forces. The U.S. mainstream media has not shown footage of the event, even though they have shown footage of Iraqi POWs. Apparently there are five U.S. soldiers captured, and an unknown number ...
16:
Photo-Essay
2: Death and Casualty From
Iraq
Editor’s Warning: The images in this series are horrific and depict the reality of injury and death in this US-led War against Iraq. Scoop is determined that its editorial policy will continue to serve truth, accuracy and honesty and that its reportage ...
17:
UN
Disarms Over 18,000 Ex-Rebels In
Liberia
With more than 10,000 weapons collected from over 18,000 ex-fighters, the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) is winding down the first phase of its programme to demobilize and disarm the war-torn West African country's three main warring factions.
18:
Photo-Essay
3: Death and Casualty From
Iraq
Editor’s Warning: The images in this series are horrific and depict the reality of injury and death in this US-led War against Iraq. Scoop is determined that its editorial policy will continue to serve truth, accuracy and honesty and that its reportage ...
19:
Ivan
Eland: Torturing Iraq in an Unnecessary
War
The humiliation, abuse, torture and perhaps even murder of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. and British forces have enormous implications—if the American and British publics choose not to deny them.
20:
John
Chuckman: The Thing With No
Brain
I had an unpleasant moment on the day Bush decided to address ''the Arab world.'' He is a man I cannot stand hearing, so when his voice comes on the radio, I always switch it off.
21:
UQ
Wire: The Red Herrings Of
9/11
What the search for the truth about September 11 desperately needs right now is a zealous prosecutor somewhere in America—someone like New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison, who appears to have been right on the money—willing to investigate and indict the ...
22:
Scoop
Continues To Publish Reality Of War
Images
Editorial: Scoop is determined that its editorial policy will continue to serve truth, accuracy and honesty and that its reportage of this US invasion of Iraq will not be censored nor sanitised. Let us consider why this is so.
23:
Images:
NZ Frigate Joins Multi-Nation Naval
Force
HMNZS TE MANA has now joined 11 ships of the international coalition assigned to Operation Enduring Freedom. The ships gathered briefly yesterday (May 6 2004) in a tight arrowhead formation, before splitting up to continue with their patrol and ...
24:
Assistance
to a Free Cuba Executive Summary
Executive Summary Report to the President from the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba
25:
UN
Gen Assembly Palestinians Right To
Sovereignty
The 191-member United Nations General Assembly today overwhelmingly affirmed the need to enable the Palestinian people "to exercise sovereignty and to achieve independence in their State, Palestine."
26:
Photo-Essay
2: Tell Us Is This
Liberation?
GRAPHIC IMAGES MAY DISTURB: The purpose of information sharing is to empower individuals to make informed choices. If publishing these images causes those, who would support more killing to consider their decisions, then publishing is justified.
27:
A
Second Look At Bill Ralston's
Bills
Yesterday, May 6 2004, various ‘top brass’ at Television New Zealand were supposed to have appeared before the Commerce Select Committee. Unfortunately due to TVNZ Chief Executive, Ian Fraser, being reportedly ‘under the weather’ this meeting between ...
28:
Scoop
Images: Seabed Hikoi Reaches
Parliament
A set of images of today's Hikoi to Parliament. The Hikoi's welcome to Parliament is presently underway. Far from being snubbed at Parliament a large contingent of MPs was present to welcome the Hikoi. Particularly visible were members from the ...
29:
Full
Coverage: A Coalition's Shame - Abusing
POWs
It was revealed this past week that, on top of the indiscriminate bombardment of civilians in Iraqi urban areas, both U.S. and British soldiers have become involved in the torture of Iraqi prisoners as well.
30:
Turbo-Charging
The Broadband Drive For Kiwis
New Zealanders are set for a dramatic rise in the world’s broadband stakes. Telecom has signed up to a strategy to get broadband into 250,000 New Zealand homes by the end of 2005, Telecom Chief Executive Theresa Gattung said today.
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