Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest 19-22 Dec.

Friday, 22 December 2006, 1:15 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

SCOOP COMMENT & OPINION:
Antiquities: Suzan Mazur Examines The Provenance Of A Bronze Boy
Motornet: BMW's Hatchback Reviewed
Iraq: President Bush – Mission Not Accomplished
Biological Weapons: Bush Admin. Developing Illegal Bioterror Weapons
The Rule Of Law: Justice Weighs In On Post Constitutional America (2)
American Coup: Brad Friedman & Paul Lehto Comment On Paper Ballot Coalitions
MORE SCOOP COMMENT & OPINION:

Antiquities: Suzan Mazur Examines The Provenance Of A Bronze Boy

- New York collector Stuart Pivar says the odyssey of his "nearly life-size" Roman bronze boy includes a chapter on an attempted "assassination" of the statue. He identifies the place of treachery as the Hunt-Sotheby's auction, June 19,1990. And he fingers the lead assassin: Bob Hecht. Hecht is now on trial in Rome for another conspiracy, one to traffic in ancient art, including pieces from the Hunt-Sotheby's sale. See... The Odyssey Of Stuart Pivar's Roman Bronze Boy [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00326.htm

Motornet: BMW's Hatchback Reviewed

It’s a Friday night. Things are quiet at this end of town, and few people are about save a couple of commuters who perhaps stayed for one beer two many and now make haste to catch a train to the suburbs. The night is unusually still for Wellington, and yet the still air of the carpark is punctuated by a noise petrolheads everywhere would recognize – the revving of a BMW straight six singing sonorously. Like giddy schoolboys, we simply can’t get enough of its gloriously mechanical noise. See... MOTORNET: Free-Revving Six - BMW 130i [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00309.htm

Iraq: President Bush – Mission Not Accomplished

- President Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday that the United States is not winning the war in Iraq and said he plans to expand the overall size of the "stressed" U.S. armed forces to meet the challenges of a long-term global struggle against terrorists. See…Washington Post: Bush Admits US Is Losing War [1] & Press Conference by the President December 20 2006 [2] MORE ON BUSH & THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00305.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0612/S00402.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00308.htm

Biological Weapons: Bush Admin. Developing Illegal Bioterror Weapons

- In violation of the U.S. Code and international law, the Bush administration is spending more money (in inflation-adjusted dollars) to develop illegal, offensive germ warfare than the $2-billion spent in World War II on the Manhattan Project to make the atomic bomb. See… Developing Illegal Offensive Use Bioterror Weapons [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00294.htm

The Rule Of Law: Justice Weighs In On Post Constitutional America (2)

Washington - Former ambassador Joseph Wilson asked a federal judge Wednesday not to force him to testify in the CIA leak case and accused former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby of trying to harass him on the witness stand. See... Link: Wilson Challenges Subpoena in CIA Case [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00316.htm
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American Coup: Brad Friedman & Paul Lehto Comment On Paper Ballot Coalitions

- Concerning Michael Collins' latest article in regard to the coalition formed to demand a paper BALLOT for every vote cast in America, he has made a number of points (and perhaps one error, at least in terminology) that I'd like to clear up. See... Scoop Feedback: Re. The Paper Ballot Coalition [1] & Coalition Paper Ballot Call Spares Vote Villains [2] RELATED:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00307.htm
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