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Scoop: Greatest Hits For August 2002
The top 30 rating items on Scoop for the month of August were...
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1: UQ
Wire: 911 - They Let It Happen On
Purpose!
Imagine you wake up from a coma and you learn that 11 months ago, an "Attack on America" destroyed some significant buildings, killed 3,000 people and forced a war against terrorism. You switch on the news and see pictures of Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, ...
2:
UQ
Wire: 911 Hijackers Who Lived At A US Navy
Base
Come Fly With Me? A Saudi Flying Instructor Who Died Mysteriously On May 8 Had The Same Name as Two 9/11 Hijackers Who Lived At The Same U.S. Naval Air Base
3:
UQ
Wire: Connecting The Dots Bush..Bath..Bin
Laden
Saudi Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, an Osama bin Laden benefactor, has laundered money into tax-exempt U.S. entities for years as a foreign financier of terrorism. But a new 9/11 lawsuit is thrusting Mahfouz’s latent past business links to George W. ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
911
Terrorist Links to Congress & White
House
Secret Hearings Conceal 9/11 Terrorist Links to Congress & White House by Tom Flocco * AmericanFreePress.net * And Scoop.co.nz 7 August 2002
5:
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
6:
The
Real Deal: Stealing Enron
The rich are not getting richer. The rich are stealing. And the people doing the stealing for them have names and addresses.
7:
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.
8:
Saudi
Arabia: The Sarajevo of the 21st
Century?
Is Iraq a Diversion from the Real Invasion or Will Bush Try to Occupy Both Countries at Once? - by Michael C. Ruppert of From The Wilderness
9:
Scoop
Images: Satellite Reveals Qatar US Air Base
Images published by GlobalSecurity.org taken by DigitalGlobe.com on June 13 2002 – and used here with permission of DigitalGlobe - reveal that preparations are well advanced for air strikes against Iraq.
10:
UQ
Wire: The Loyalties of George W.
Bush
There is a thread running through George W. Bush’s biography that connects family to power to wealth. With no assets but his name and connections, Bush became a wealthy man, and a governor, and now a President. Without those connections, he’d be nothing.
11:
Check
Your Till Receipts! -
Kachingo!
With only two days to go before their first $250,000 draw, the organisers of the new rewards programme Kachingo! are reminding shoppers to check their Kachingo! tickets.
12:
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 ...
13:
UQ
Wire: 911 Debate Opened Wide On Donahue
- 911 Debate Opened Wide On Donahue Aug 13 2002 - Michael Moore- ANTI CORPORATE GADFLY - Jean Charles Brisard - FRENCH INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATOR - Kristen Breitweiser - HUSBAND KILLED ON 9/11
14:
Draft
of Bush's Astounding 9/11-Anniversary
Speech
The following, alleged to be a draft of a speech George W. Bush wrote himself, to be delivered on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, recently came into our hands from a usually reliable White House source, the person known to us as "Shallow ...
15:
Unanswered
Questions For Rep. Cynthia
McKinney
HEADER NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: I have compiled a list of relevant questions on 9/11 taken from a recent post asking DUers to list their favourites. In addition, some DUers provided lists of questions posted on other sites which I have included here. ...
16:
UQ
Wire: Wag The Gassed Dog
WAG THE GASSED DOG By Michael Rivero & When Puppies Die - On Animal Abuse, Al-Qaeda's Got Nothin' on the US Military By Jeremy Sapienza
17:
Ministerial
List - 14 August 2002
1 Rt Hon Helen Clark Prime Minister Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Ministerial Services Minister in Charge of the NZ Security Intelligence Service
18:
UQ
Wire: 911 - Foreknowledge or
Deception?
THE Bush Administration's "official line" for what happened on September 11 is that Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network were solely responsible for the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. This not only justifies the ...
19:
Amazing
Crop Formation Discovered August
15th!
Once again the silence continues around the crop circle phenomenon and one of the most spectacular and significant crop formations ever made.
20:
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 ...
21:
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)
22:
Scoop
Link: Iraq - The War's Already
On
How do you tell a war has begun? This is not the 17th or 18th century. There are no highfalutin' declarations. Troops don't line up in eyesight of each other. There are no drum rolls and bugle calls, no calls of "Chaaa...rge!". When did the Vietnam ...
23:
Images:
Portland George Bush Protest Turns
Nasty
The following images and press statement come from the Portland Indymedia website which is carrying extensive coverage of the Bush Protest and its aftermath. See… http://portland.indymedia.org/
24:
Scoop
Feature: Who Owns Aotearoa’s
Media?
Three multi-national corporations dominate the news media in NZ, combined they control: -- Over 90% of daily newspaper circulation -- Over 90% of commercial radio stations -- Commercial free-to-air and pay-TV (excluding TVNZ )
25:
HARD
NEWS 09/08/02 - God's Little Rally
Driver
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... It was as inevitable as death, taxes and last-second Bledisloe Cup losses. Any fool could have forecast it last week and, indeed, I did.
26:
NewsFlash:
Clark Announces New Cabinet
Line-Up
Prime Minister Helen Clark has just announced the portfolio allocations for her new Labour/Progressive Coalition minority Government Cabinet at a press conference in the Beehive.
27:
The
911 Evidence that May Hang George W. Bush
The Case Against G.W. Bush: a Preliminary "Hearing" in the Court of Common Sense
28:
We
have An Accidental Centre Right Govt -
Donald
New Zealand has inadvertently elected a centre-right government, Green Co-leader Rod Donald said this morning, as his party announced that it would not be entering a confidence and supply agreement with Labour.
29:
Image:
Treebeard The Ent Revealed?
TheOneRing.net ’s Michael Regina reported that this figurine of Treebeard the Ent, posted on www.applause.com , is an exact replication of what he'll look like in the second instalment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Two Towers.
30:
Letter
From Elsewhere: Back To The
Future?
Where you as bemused as I was by the election? All of sudden, thanks mainly to a media beat-up about the way 100 undecided Auckland voters twiddled their knobs, an virtually unknown little designer party called United Future NZ shot up from almost ...
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Binoy Kampmark: The Australian Defence Formula, Spend! Spend! Spend!
Ian Powell: New Hospital Building Trumps ‘Yes Minister’ Hospital Without Patients
Mike Treen: Prices Are Still Rising - It's A Cost Of Living Crisis
Gordon Campbell: On When Racism Comes Disguised As Anti-racism
Peter Dunne: Newshub And TVNZ Tip Of Media Iceberg
Harry Finch: Austerity – For And Against