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1: Scoop
Archive: UQ Wire: Was Paul Wellstone
Murdered?
Democrats Twice As Likely to Die In Crashes: Was Paul Wellstone Murdered? - History Suggests It - Crash Inconsistencies Suggest It - Many, Including Some Members of Congress, Believe Ithttp://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/1c/83/200211201748.9b4c3d66.html
2:
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, ...
3:
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.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
No
One Is Safe From America's Killer
President
No One Is Safe From America's Killer President By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net
5:
American
Coup: Mid-Term Election Polls vs
Actuals
Scoop’s analysis found shows that - according to the polls - the Republican Party experienced a pronounced last minute swing in its favour of between 4 and 16 points. Remarkably this last minute swing appears to have been concentrated in its effects ...
6:
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 ...
7:
Debate:
The Homeland Security ACT of
2002
The American people expect us to provide our best judgment and our best insight into such monumental decisions. This is a far, far cry from being our best. This is not our best. As a matter of fact, it is a mere shadow of our best. Yet we are being ...
8:
UQ
Wire: Was Paul Wellstone
Murdered?
Democrats Twice As Likely to Die In Crashes: Was Paul Wellstone Murdered? - History Suggests It - Crash Inconsistencies Suggest It - Many, Including Some Members of Congress, Believe It
9:
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 ...
10:
Eco-Economy:
The Long Bond Mystery
The world now finds itself in a most precarious situation, where the finances of nearly all nations are anchored to the American dollar through their reserves, which for the greater part are held in US government bonds.
11:
Recourse
to Independent Courts Most Valued
Right
Access to the independent courts is one of the most valued and valuable human rights in New Zealand. But this was ousted earlier this week when the Government signed-off on a new code of ACC claimants rights which denies people access to the courts over ...
12:
Scoop
Update #11 – Award Recognition
Thankyou
As it came down to the line Rupert Murdoch’s News Ltd, Tony O’Reilly’s Granny Herald, The Government’s TVNZ, and the portal of the near monopolist mega-corporations Telecom & Microsoft were the competition. And as Scoop.co.nz was announced as a fellow finalist ...
13:
Upton-on-line
- Special Kiwi Nostalgia Issue
Upton-on-line reports on a recent outing to the Stade de France for a rendez-vous with Franco-New Zealand rugby tribalism, British MP Austin Mitchell’s regurgitations on pavlova and a uniquely French scandal involving a parrot.
14:
Tube
Talk With John T. Forde -
Adbusters
If, like me, you’d rather put a cigarette out on your eyeball than watch TV advertisements, there’s a particularly masochistic pleasure in watching the Fair Go Best & Worst TV Ad Awards.
15:
UQ
Wire: Gore Vidal’s 911 Analysis Called
"Wacko"
Gore Vidal once tried to get me to print an alleged secret—a very big secret—about Richard Nixon’s penis. About what has come to be called, in post-Clintonian euphemistic legalese, its "distinguishing characteristic."
16:
Jason
Leopold: Secrets And Lies In Cheney’s
Closet
The front pages of California’s major daily newspapers were buzzing last week with fresh reports of one energy company ripping off the state in the spring of 2000 by deliberately keeping a power plant from generating electricity so the company could ...
17:
Venezuelan
Coup Foiled – Arms Cache
Revealed
I was fooled when they told me that they sought a democratic solution and what had really been intended was a secret pact between (union boss) Carlos Ortega and (ex-General) Medina Gómez that a general strike… would try to generate disorder, violence and ...
18:
Government
Sneaks Through New Tax
The Government is about to use tacked-on legislation to introduce a new tax for motor vehicle traders under urgency this afternoon, ACT Commerce Spokesman Deborah Coddington revealed.
19:
Naked
In Nuhaka 9: Think, Discover,
Be!
Having followed the discussions around "Kaupapa Wairoa: Think, Discover, Be!", I feel it important to add my "10 cents worth" and, by way of explanation, give some more details on the proposed branding for Wairoa.
20:
Abbott
Murder Trial: Further Police
Evidence
The jury in the murder trial of Senior Constable Keith Abbott heard evidence from three more prosecution witnesses today, all police personnel.
21:
Fringe
NZ Sinks Money Into The Harbour
Regan Gentry is an artist who wants to spell out ‘ArrRghT’ in 300 lightbulbs suspended underwater. Fringe NZ is providing money to help him do this.
Hi folks, Public Address is here, at: http://publicaddress.net It is home to weblogs by myself (it's still called Hard News), Chad Taylor, Debra Daley and Damian Christie. It has been beautifully constructed by CactusLab.
23:
TUBE
TALK With John T. Forde: What the Butler
Saw
Just when TV is becoming so bad, so boring and so banal that chewing your own arm off starts looking like a riveting evening’s entertainment, along comes some fun, trashy Brit TV to take the edge off.
24:
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 ...
25:
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.
26:
UQ
Wire: Jeb Bush Flies High With Terror
Airways
Terror Flight School Owner’s Plane Seized For Heroin Trafficking & Jeb Bush And Katherine Harris Fly With Drug Running Airways
27:
Scoop:
Top Scoops + Just Politics
Scoop Says Thanks! - Maree Howard: Government Signs Of ACC Appeal Abolition - More On The Homeland Security Sham - Upton Online – Diaspora Edition - Tube Talk: Fair Go’s Advert Awards - Police Evidence Concludes First Week Of Abbott Trial
28:
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.
29:
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?
30:
'Marc
My Words' from Marc Alexander
Time wasting tactics reach an all new low... The ‘debate’ in the chamber last Thursday evening was an example of dim-witted time-wasting by the so-called Opposition. This parliament began sitting on Tuesday with a menu of ten Bills to be debated, and by ...
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Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Why Trump Could Become POTUS Again
Ramzy Baroud: Words Kill - Why Israel Gets Away With Murder In Gaza And Lebanon
Gordon Campbell: On The Dunedin Hospital Fiasco 
Binoy Kampmark: Unrealisable Justice - Julian Assange In Strasbourg
Martin LeFevre - Meditations: We Cannot Return And Recover As Humans; We Can Only Transcend As Human Beings