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1: 1000s to Expose Double Standard in War onTerror
Thousands to Expose Double Standard in War on Terrorism: Massive Convergence at Ft. Benning, Georgia, November 15-17 to Close the School of the Americas background footage available in DV format at http://www.soaw.org/newsroom
2: Elle Intimates Strips Off With Billboard Campaign
Rush-hour traffic was treated to a striptease in Auckland today as the second of two new Elle Mapcherson Intimates billboards were unveiled by a pair of Kiwifire dancers.
3: Controlling NATO: The Real Agenda At Prague
European diplomacy has clearly often been the nucleus of destruction. Is it now the only buffer left between peace-comparative and Manifest Destiny – the dream of Fortress USA to express its institutions around the world? The NATO Summit will be a decider.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4: UQ Wire: Gore Vidal‘s The Enemy Within
Gore Vidal is America’s most controversial writer and a ferocious, often isolated, critic of the Bush administration. Here, against a backdrop of spreading unease about America’s response to the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath, we publish ...
Point of View with Barbara Sumner Burstyn: In the ‘if it weren’t so tragic it might be funny’ file, David Lane the secretary for the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards has once again stumbled into the limelight.
6: President Saddam Hussein Message To United Nation
The meeting discussed UNSC Resolution 1441. The Foreign Affairs Minister was directed to send a message to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan including Iraq's stance towards the said resolution. The following is the full text of the message:
7: Congratulations Eric Watson
Eric Watson heads to London with the full blessing, if not congratulations, of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce - and a message!
8: UQ Wire: bin Laden Message To American Allies
To The People That Are Allied With The Oppressive American Government By Abdullah Osama bin Laden
9: NY Media Elite Shoots - and Misses - Narco News
Scores of journalists and publications have written about Narco News, pro and con, but all of them had, so far, been accurate and fair in their reports.
10: Questions For Oral Answer - 14 November 2002
1. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS to the Prime Minister: Is it the Government's policy to accept that New Zealand is a constitutional monarchy?
11: US Election Vote Fixing Reports Hit The Mainstream
SCOOP EDITOR’S NOTE: Scoop has in the past 48 hours published several real deal media commentaries ( C.D.Sludge , Michael Ruppert , John Kaminski ) pointing to problems with the electronic voting systems used extensively in Tuesday’s mid-term elections ...
12: Wellstone Plane Was Out Of Control – Media Survey
The following is a summary of the facts available at this time via the media, surrounding Senator Paul Wellstone's airplane crash of 10-25-02. Judge for yourself, was this more likely an assassination or an accident?
13: McClay On Two Bottles of Red
After two bottles of red wine the Commissioner for Children is not a good role model, ACT Family Spokesman Heather Roy said today.
14: UQ Wire: "...the full story has yet to be told"
How refreshing to hear a powerful Republican Senator who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence reflect my sentiments exactly!
15: Scoop Link: Early Peak In Oil Production Analysis
HOUSTON, Aug. 12 -- The world is drawing down its oil reserves at an unprecedented rate, with supplies likely to be constrained by global production capacity by 2010, "even assuming no growth in demand," said analysts at Douglas-Westwood ...
16: UQ Wire: They're Still A Bunch of Crooks
If a tree falls in the forest and the media refuses to report it, did it actually happen? Of course. Ask the tree.
Pete Hodgson's feeble attack on the ACT Party as anti-business is just laughable, ACT New Zealand Commerce Spokesman Deborah Coddington said this morning.
18: Clampdown On Illegal Street Racing
More streets are to be restricted to non-residential traffic on weekends and public holidays in order to tackle the scourge of illegal street racing in Manukau. This will include a large stretch of Te Irirangi Drive between Dawson Road in Otara and ...
19: Guest Opinion: Arise Maurice Williamson
In much the same way as the English - Boag combination blew the election for National, Bill English's post election performance has likewise blown his brief hold on the party's leadership.
20: Questions Of The Day Transcript - 13 November
Hon. RICHARD PREBBLE (Leader--ACT NZ): I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I apologise to my honourable friend, but I notice that Mr Anderton is not here. I do not want to comment on the absence of members, but we have been trying to ask Mr Anderton ...
21: Ground-breaking government web portal launched
Prime Minister Helen Clark and State Services Minister Trevor Mallard today officially launched - govt.nz - a “one stop shop” government web portal, allowing the public easy and quick access to a vast range of central and local government information ...
22: Scoop Link: What Is The Voter News Service Hiding?
The Voter News Service, the exit poll service used by a consortium of major news organizations, failed election night, and it's unclear whether the service will ever release the data it collected around the country.
23: Indonesia: Protests Over Assault On Two Journalist
(AJI/IFEX) - The following is a statement by the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), of which AJI is a member: The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) Jakarta denounces the assault on two journalists by a Pontianak member of parliament (MP) and one of ...
24: "Sick-In" Against Corporate Media Today At NBC
NEW YORK - A group of activists from New York University's Radical Art Collective staged an action outside of NBC's Manhattan Studios at 10:00 a.m. today to protest the corporate bias in the network's news programming. The protestors will vomit to ...
25: John Kaminski : The Tide Of Lies Keeps Rising
Maybe it has always been this way. Phony pretexts — repeated often enough — become real reasons. Things that we know for certain are not true become true in the public mind simply through endless repetition.
ACT leader Richard Prebble said today's announcement that Australia and the USA are about to start talks on a free trade deal that excludes NZ, represents the most significant foreign affairs trade policy failure. It's a black day for New Zealand.
Act MP Deborah Coddington is living in a strange fantasy world where her attacks on the reputations of leading business people under cover of Parliamentary privilege make her "pro-business", says Associate Minister for Industry and Regional Development ...
28: 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, ...
29: Scoop Advertising – All You Need To Know
CONTENTS: 1. General Information – Audience Statistics - The Scoop Market 2. Why Advertise On Scoop? - Increasing Brand Awareness - Generating Profile For Announcements & Product Launches - Generating Traffic To Online Services - Generating A Response ...
30: Wellstone Plane Crash Media Survey - Updated
A summary of the facts available at this time, surrounding Senator Wellstone's airplane crash of 10-25-02. (Updated 11-01-02 – note this posting is an update of… Wellstone Plane Was Out Of Control – Media Survey )
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