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Scoop 2002-03 Holiday Period Greatest Hits
The top 30 rating items on Scoop over the Christmas/New Year holiday period were...
1: Is
Bush About to be ‘Stiffed’?
Germany’s now on the UN Security Council. Will it vote yes to an Iraq war? And is its goal to 'stiff' Bush and have Europe become the balancing superpower preventing the USA from achieving its stated goal of sustainable global dominance?
2:
Sweden
Offers Free-speech Refuge To U.S.
Officials
STOCKHOLM - Blaine Williams hasn't stopped grinning since he arrived in Sweden two weeks ago. Several times a day he'll approach a complete stranger, offer a handshake and a smile, introduce himself as a former CIA analyst from America, and proceed ...
3:
FBI
Knows Who Was Behind Anthrax
Attacks
During the Fall of 2001, we witnessed anthrax attacks on the United States government that were obviously designed to shut down the government at a very critical time immediately after September 11. It was during this time that Congress should have ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Top
Ten Conspiracy Theories of
2002
Courtesy of Indymedia New York, Mike Ward of PopMatters lists the most outrageous top ten officially spun conspiracy theories of the year - Scoop Editor's Note: If you feel like a laugh then read this!
5:
Rumsfield
Has Other Plans For Thomas
White
Secretary of the Army Thomas White, the former vice chairman of Enron, may have avoided the scandals that brought down his former colleagues at the one-time energy behemoth, but White’s got bigger problems these days that could make him the latest Bush appointee ...
6:
Jaggi
Singh Beaten and Deported from
Israel
ISM Activist Abducted And Beaten To Be Deported To Canada - Jaggi was to be deported to Canada for visa violations. The Canadian Consulate visited him in prison and provided laisse passé documents for his return to Canada. Jaggi is now at Ben Gurion airport ...
7:
America
Killing Its Own Soldiers
A study of the irresponsible and continuing use of depleted uranium ammunition by the United States armed forces proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that exposure to this poisonous substance guarantees cancer, birth defects and other lethal hazards.
8:
Scoop
Images: Helms Deep Press Conference
(1)
The following pictures show film director Peter Jackson with members of the cast and crew of the Lord of the Rings trilogy of films, the filming of which is now drawing to a close in the Wellington region.
9:
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, ...
10:
Nuclear
Policy: Moral Clarity or Double
Standards?
Just listen to President George W. Bush the commander-in-chief of a military force that not only possesses and maintains nearly 10,000 nuclear weapons but also boasts an array of weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological, lecturing ...
Air NZ's chief operating officer Andrew Miller launches Air NZ's bold worldwide promotion of Lord of the Rings - Unveiling a special Boeing 747-400 emblazoned with Frodo imagery. For more information see… Air NZ Unlocks The Secrets Of Middle Earth.... . Pics: ...
12:
Enron
and the Dodgy $8 million Army Fortress
Scam
Army Secretary Thomas White just put the finishing touches on a $4.6 million mansion in Naples, Florida, using funds some lawmakers have said White, the former vice chairman of Enron, obtained by selling his stock in the company using inside information. ...
13:
Ellsberg's
"Secrets" and Bush's War
American politicians have a vested interest in carrying out their true agendas away from public scrutiny. Only on rare occasions do we ordinary citizens get a glimpse of how things really operate -- the Army-McCarthy hearings in the '50s, the Watergate ...
14:
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 ...
15:
Israel,
Wants Palestine Without
Palestinians
This is Genocide! As an Indian, experienced with British Occupation and British imposed partition and son of a refugee from then East Bengal (now Bangladesh), I always wondered why Israel doesn’t either Annex Palestine or give them freedom? I found the answer ...
16:
Howard’s
End - There’s Madness Afoot
Whom the God's wish to punish they first make mad. With the massing of troops and firepower for an invasion of Iraq there is madness afoot which will summon up a host of unforeseen dangers and unimagined consequences.
17:
David
Miller Online: What Motivates North
Korea?
North Korea has always been an enigma ever since it was created at the end of the Second World War. This latest crisis has once again raised concerns of instability on the Korean Peninsula and a possible outbreak of war although the problem this ...
18:
The
Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media
NEW YORK (Seven Stories/Pacific Media Watch): A new book, Our Media, Not Theirs! The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media, examines how the current media system in the United States undermines democracy, and what we can do to change it.
19:
United
To Discontinue Service To New
Zealand
AUCKLAND, Jan. 10, 2003 - As part of the carrier's programme to return the company to profitability United Airlines today announced changes to its international schedule which includes discontinuing flying its aircraft between the United States and New ...
20:
Stateside
With Rosalea – Images of a
Time
Stateside With Rosalea captures images from another perspective from inside the USA.
21:
Jaggi
Singh Nabbed in Jerusalem
Jaggi Singh, a Montreal based activist and organizer, was kidnapped today in Jerusalem by a group of undercover Israeli police officers. He was on his way to visit a friend, and was arrested as he arrived at his friend's apartment. Jaggi traveled to Israel ...
22:
Scoop
Archive: Scoop Images: Lord Of The Rings Preview
Highlights
At the weekend the official LOTR website http://lordoftherings.net broadcast a two minute preview from the movie. The preview is attracting unprecedented internet attention.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/a9/99/200004100055.8b5d43fa.html
23:
Scoop
Letters to the Editor
Scoop Letters to the Editor - New Zealand’s Debt Crisis - Concerning your article: Christmas-New Year holiday period begins...
24:
Kahukura
Saga Gets Murkier
Answers to new parliamentary questions show the New Zealand Film Commission has been totally irresponsible with taxpayers' money over the demise of Larry Parr's Kahukura Productions Ltd, and Chief Executive Ruth Harley - or the Associate Minister ...
25:
Buzzflash:
CNN Peace Protest Becomes A 404
Why Did the Mainstream - So-Called Liberal - News Media Downplay the 100,000+ Antiwar Protestors in D.C. In October? A Special BuzzFlash News Analysis
26:
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.
We've all likely seen or read about scientific studies of aggression and violence in that otherwise intelligent and loveable species, chimpanzees. Some even take these observations as a kind of biological justification of war. But intellects able to ...
28:
Guilty
Until Proven Innocent: The New American
Way
Guilty until proven innocent. This is the new American way. And no evidence is necessary to order someone killed. Just the say-so of the man with the gun.
John Kaminski writes how we are responsible, in times of war, for the evil that enslaves us, and what we ought to do about it: I used to love fireworks. But I haven't been able to watch them for better than a decade now...
30:
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.
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