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1: Sludge
Report #142: Richard Butler Is A CIA
Asset
In This Edition: Senate Hearing On Iraq “Blitzkrieg” Now On - Richard Butler Is A U.S. Spy – A CIA Asset
2:
Briefing
by Ari Fleischer 31/7 - Harken Tax
Dodge
Q I have some questions about the President's time at Harken Energy. Can you confirm for us that when he was on the board of directors at Harken, that the company set up an overseas subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, which many companies use as a tax ...
3:
Bush
Justice Department Enforcement
Required
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, said today that President Bush’s signing of corporate reform legislation is merely a cosmetic effort by the Bush administration ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
UQ
Wire: Connecting Dots - Profits Of Death Pt.
3
Profits Of Death Part Three - The Mother Of All Enrons - All Roads Lead To Deustchebank And Harken Energy, George W’s Own 1991 Insider Trading Scam
5:
HARD
NEWS 02/08/02 - If We Had Any Trains
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES - there was an emblem of Labour's case for a return to the Treasury benches in the very fact of the vote on Saturday. Immediately after the 1999 election, Helen Clark promised that the next one would be properly organised and the votes ...
6:
UQ
Wire: Investment Espionage And The White
House
There is growing evidence that the FBI and other government intelligence entities are more closely linked to the documented accumulation of pre-9/11 insider trading profits than was originally thought.
7:
Tube
Talk: Election 2002 - 24 Hour Party
Poopers
Like the birth of a giant panda, a general election is a rare, wondrous, but agonisingly drawn-out experience.
8:
26
Questions For Senators On J.P. Morgan
Chase
GATA Chairman Bill Murphy has sent the following letter to the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and we ask that our supporters in the United States send similar letters to their own senators.
9:
FTMN:
The Internal Logic Of A Late
Shift
There is no reason, but sometimes it is good to hear what other people do in their jobs in front of computers. I start at four in the afternoon by saying hello and sit with my back to the rest of the room.
10:
President
Bush Denies Involvement In Tax
Dodge
Q Mr. President, what's your position on American companies moving their headquarters to foreign tax havens? Should it be outlawed? Did Harken do this while you were a director?
11:
ACT
Calls On Dunne To Stick With
Principles
It's astonishing how quickly Peter Dunne has backed away from his party's policy to cut the size of the Government's executive - now he senses an opportunity to gain a Cabinet post, ACT acting leader Ken Shirley says.
12:
20
Things We've Learned Nearly a Year After
9/11
As we approach the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it might be useful to see how far an ordinary citizen's knowledge has progressed one year on. So here, in the way of a summing-up, based on journalistic documentation, is a list of things ...
13:
Upton-on-line:
NZ General Election Special
Issue
…upton-on-line reflects on the consequences of the 2002 NZ General Election for the centre-right of politics. (Results table on last page)
14:
Democrat
Fact Sheet – Enron, Haliburton And
Harken
I. The President II. The Vice-President III. Deputy Attorney General (Larry Thompson) IV. Secretary of the Army (Thomas White)
15:
Firas
Al-Atraqchi: Troops Not On Kuwait
Border
The United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM), which monitors military activity in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait, today denied initial reports that Iraqi troops had been massing near the border with Kuwait.
16:
Don't
Wrap Kiwi Kids in Cotton Wool
Standards New Zealand must heed the warnings of early childhood educators and dump plans to adopt US playground safety standards, ACT MP Stephen Franks said today.
17:
Firas
Al-Atraqchi: Who is Khidhir
Hamza?
This week Khidhir Hamza, a former Iraqi nuclear scientist who defected to the U.S. in 1994, testified before a U.S. Senate panel investigating Iraq's nuclear armaments. Hamza told U.S. Senators that Iraq was three years away from creating up to three ...
18:
Keith
Rankin: From Labour "Landslide" to
2008
If last weekend's election had been held under "First-Past-the-Post" (FPP) with 69 electorates Labour+Anderton would have won 62 to 65 of those seats. This is because, when we only had an "electorate vote", we had to use it as ...
19:
Greenpeace
Chairman Steps Down
Auckland 2 August 2002: Gordon Jackman announced that he was stepping down as Chair of Greenpeace at the Board meeting held today in Auckland.
20:
Anna
Leese Wins Mobil Song Quest
Anna Leese, a 21 year old soprano from Woodville, has won the Mobil Song Quest 2002.
21:
Breast
Is Best – For Mum Too!
World Breastfeeding Week launches today, Thursday 1 August. The week is celebrated in more than 120 countries worldwide every year to highlight the health benefits of breastfeeding.
22:
Hook
Line And Sinker – Dominion Ring
Winked
Re: Cate Blanchett and Galadriel's Evil Sister. THEONERING.NET'S Tehanu writes To the Dominion Letters To the Editor page.
23:
ACT
Seeks Multi-Party Selection for Key
Roles
Acting Leader of the Act Party Ken Shirley today called on the Government to introduce a more collaborative approach to the workings of Parliament.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/e2/...4.b1a5dd03.html
25:
Policeman
Admits Planting Bomb On G8 Protester
Scoop Link: Italian police planted petrol bombs on G8 summit protesters - By Jessie Grimond in Rome - The Independent - 30 July 2002
26:
Judges
Should Update Themselves On New
Legislation
Judges must update themselves on what the new Sentencing Act requires, says Justice Minister Phil Goff.
27:
INVESTIGATION:
Sept 11th - Unanswered Questions
Within a few months, the events of Sept. 11th, 2001 became but an echo of the events that followed. War in Afghanistan, anthrax, unprecedented powers of detention: the public mind moves from one shock to another, appearing to accept the government’s ...
28:
National:
what’s on where listings
~ before 6 August - send a message of solidarity and support to the Kobe Port Council against A and H Bombs (Kobe Port Gensuikyo). The Kobe Port Gensuikyo is composed of trade unions in the Port of Kobe, where the nuclear-free 'Kobe Formula' has successfully ...
29:
NZ
Welcomes US Administration Getting
TPA
Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton today congratulated President George W Bush, United States Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, and the United States Administration on achieving trade promotion authority.
30:
Scoop:
Top Scoops + Just Politics
Hard News Is Here: Very MMP - Senate Debates Iraq Blitzkrieg! - GE Testing Of Only 1 In 3 Corn Shipments Rejected - Tube Talk: Hoskings' Touch Of Victorian Kitsch - Democrats On Bush Insider Trading Allegations
Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Does Cosmic Intelligence Care About Humanity?
Binoy Kampmark: Far From Benign - The US Aid Industrial Complex
Richard S. Ehrlich: Chinese Criminals' International Scams & Kidnappings
Ian Powell: Is Health New Zealand Becoming An Audit Office Frequent Flyer?
Peter Dunne: Dunne's Weekly - Next Election Still National's To Lose
Gordon Campbell: On The Government’s Epic Fails In Jobs And Housing