Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest Dec. 14-19

Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 10:38 am
Article: Alastair Thompson

SCOOP COMMENT & OPINION:
Culture: Jackie Little Considers The Deserving Recognition Of A Brit Pop Idol
Suzan Mazur: Max Bernegger Talks John Deuss
Race Relations: Sydney Cops' Big Day At The Beach
American Coup: A Flaw In The Emerging US Election Reform Consensus
The Rule Of Law: Justice Weighs In On Post Constitutional America
Fundamentalism: Video Game For 21stC Crusaders
Biological Weapons: - Anthrax Murderers To Walk Free Thanks To FBI Coverup
MORE SCOOP COMMENT & OPINION:

Culture: Jackie Little Considers The Deserving Recognition Of A Brit Pop Idol

- Oh Happy Day! Joyous, joyous day!!! My best friend just texted from England to inform me of the final result in the Greatest Living British Icon poll. And Boy did those proud compatriots of mine get it right? See... Jackie Little: The People See The Light [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00260.htm

Suzan Mazur: Max Bernegger Talks John Deuss

- I remember Max Bernegger's disarming smile the day he walked through the doors at Alexandra Christie, the 1970s fashion company owned by Dutch oil trader John Deuss -- where I was the model. Max was expensively tailored in a dark suit. I had no idea who he was, but I was certain he was not there to write an order for slinky silk chiffon dresses. See... Mazur: John Deuss Oil Trader Max Bernegger Speaks [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00258.htm

Race Relations: Sydney Cops' Big Day At The Beach

- The first anniversary of last year’s violent and racially-motivated riots on Sydney’s Cronulla Beach has passed without a major hitch. New Zealand freelance journalist Jehan Casinader presents this photo essay from Sydney. Casinader is reporting from Australia courtesy of Flight Centre. See... Photo Essay: Sydney’s Cronulla Beach One Year On [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00257.htm

American Coup: A Flaw In The Emerging US Election Reform Consensus

- An impressive coalition of election fraud-election integrity groups signed an open letter to the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives calling for paper ballots as the only standard for voting in the United States. This open letter is encouraging on a number of levels but it leaves the door open for election fraud by allowing optical scan voting machines to stay in place. Referring to "a paper ballot, whether counted by optical-scan system or hand…" does not address the numerous problems associated with optical scan systems. See... Coalition Paper Ballot Call Spares Vote Villains [1] MORE:

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The Rule Of Law: Justice Weighs In On Post Constitutional America

- Washington - In the first legal decision on a federal law that denies access to U.S. courts to detainees in the war on terrorism, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that foreign prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, could not sue for freedom. See Los Angeles Times… US Immigrant Detainees' Treatment Unconstitutional [1] MORE:

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Fundamentalism: Video Game For 21stC Crusaders

- "This is the first time any Christian religious instructional video has recommended killing all non-Christians who refuse to convert to Christianity. It is unprecedented and dangerous." This was the view expressed yesterday by Rev. Timothy Simpson, president of the Jacksonville, Florida-based progressive advocacy group The Christian Alliance for Progress, in describing a new video game titled ""Left Behind: Eternal Forces." See… William Fisher: Death To Infidels Via Video Game [1] MORE WILLIAM FISHER:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00225.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00219.htm

Biological Weapons: - Anthrax Murderers To Walk Free Thanks To FBI Coverup

- The perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attack on Congress likely was a government scientist employed at the Army’s Ft. Detrick, Md., bioterrorism lab having access to a “moonsuit” that made it possible to safely process and manufacture super-weapons-grade anthrax, a bioterrorism authority says. Although only a “handful” of scientists had the ability to perpetrate the crime, the culprit, or culprits, among them may never be identified as the FBI ordered the destruction of the anthrax culture collection at Ames, Ia., from which the Ft. Detrick lab got its pathogens, the authority said. See... UQ Wire: Anthrax Attack On Congress FBI Cover Up [1] MORE UQ WIRE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00222.htm
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