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The weekend’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Exposing
Bush and His "Techniques of
Deceit"
President George W. Bush and his foreign-policy team have systematically and knowingly deceived the American people in order to gain support for an unprovoked attack on Iraq.
2:
Images:
Cyanide Terror Threat Letter
Released
Police tonight released a copy of the terrorist threat letter intercepted on its way to three diplomatic missions late last week.
3:
UQ
Wire: Tracking All Hijackers (LIHOP
Series)
Tracking All Hijackers (LIHOP Series) From forthcoming "911Skeptics Unite! -the encyclopedia" - now up in a preview at http://www.globalfreepress.com See also… UQ Wire: 911 - They Let It Happen On Purpose!Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Howard's
End: Russia Provides Iraq a
Lifeboat
Scoop's Middle-East intelligence sources are reporting that Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has stepped into the bipolar crisis over Iraq between US-led and French-led world blocs with a proposition to avert the war and provide Saddam Hussein with a ...
5:
Confronting
the Empire - Noam Chomsky
Speech
We are meeting at a moment of world history that is in many ways unique – a moment that is ominous, but also full of hope. The most powerful state in history has proclaimed, loud and clear, that it intends to rule the world by force, the dimension in which ...
6:
Bush
Tied to Terror Suspect Sami al-Arian -
Image
George and Laura Bush with Sami Amin Al-Arian during the 2000 campaign in Florida. Al-Arian is charged with 50 counts of terrorism. Al-Arian even went to a White House briefing with Karl Rove.
7:
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, ...
8:
NZ
Anti-War Documentary to Screen in Three
Centres
A 25 minute documentary about the peace weekend (Feb 15, 16) produced by Aotearoa Indymedia - in collaboration with PlaNET TV will screen on community TV stations in 3 main centres around New Zealand. Dunedin Gets to view it tonight!
9:
US
Armed Saddam Hussein With Chemical Weapons
On August 18, the New York Times carried a front-page story headlined, ``Officers say U.S. aided Iraq despite the use of gas''. Quoting anonymous US ``senior military officers'', the NYT ``revealed'' that in the 1980s, the administration of US President ...
10:
Evers-Swindell
sisters out to show supremacy
World champion sisters Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell will defend a string of national titles at the New Zealand rowing chamionships on Lake Ruataniwha near Twizel on Saturday.
11:
HARD
NEWS 28/02/03 - Very Busy
I thought I'd better get out a post to the list before the week expired. I haven't had the time to blog much this week: my partner strained her back so badly on Friday night that she couldn't walk unaided for two days, and I, as luck would have it, ...
12:
Streets
Of London: Smokin' Dude...It Ain't
Cool
The best way to give up smoking is to never start in the first place…those of us who've done battle with the evilest weed know this. However, on the Channel Island of Guernsey the number of teenagers smoking or intending to was halved over five ...
13:
Star
Witness on Iraq Said Weapons Were
Destroyed
FAIR-L Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Media analysis, critiques and activism http://www.fair.org/
14:
Super
liner Oriana berths in
Auckland
Hundreds of lucky New Zealanders and Australians will be on board one of the world's great superliners, P&O Cruises' Oriana, when it arrives in Auckland on Monday March 3, 2003.
15:
Scoop:
Top Scoops + Just Politics
Intelligence Sources Reveal A Cunning Plan - Jonnie Howard’s a Protest Target: GPJA - Hey Jonnie – Keep Your Yank Missiles Out Of Our Region - Naked in Nuhaka: Are Coutts and Butterworth Still Kiwis? - Are There Any Terrorists George W Doesn't Know? - ...
16:
Photograph:
Oriana To Birth in Auckland
Monday
Super liner Oriana berths in Auckland Hundreds of lucky New Zealanders and Australians will be on board one of the world's great superliners, P&O Cruises' Oriana, when it arrives in Auckland on Monday March 3, 2003.
17:
For
Six Years Think Tank Has Been Hell-Bent On
War
Never before in the history of the United States presidency has a think tank had such an impact on shaping U.S. foreign policy as the Project for the New American Century has on helping President George W. Bush set foreign policy goals for his ...
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:
UQ
Wire: The Crimes Of 9/11 (Part
3)
PATRIOT II - ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Card for Federal Officers Responsible for “Intelligence Failure”
20:
Iran
& North Korea Will Be Next Targets -
Mahathir
Kuala Lumpur (Tribune Correspondent, Sunday the 24 Feb ): Western powers are using terrorism as a pretext to conquer the world and will target Iran and North Korea once they succeed in Iraq, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Sunday. ...
21:
UQ
Wire: The Crimes Of 9/11 (Part
1)
Where is the line between investigative discretion and obstruction of justice? What level of forewarning of attack is so compelling that failure to order protective measures makes officials liable to prosecution for reckless endangerment?
22:
Get
Up, Stand Up, Stand Up For Your
Rights
I am one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit that seeks to prevent President Bush from launching a military invasion of Iraq without Congressional declaration of war because to do so would be in direct violation of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, ...
23:
Naked
in Nuhaka: Identity Crisis
"Can you please refer no longer to the likes of Russell Coutts, Brad Butterworth and the rest of the ex-Team NZ defectors as NZers -- they are now Swiss. Let's strip them of any references to being Kiwis because as far as I'm concerned they lost that ...
24:
UQ
Wire: The U.S. Tilts toward Iraq,
1980-1984
The Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) was one of a series of crises during an era of upheaval in the Middle East: revolution in Iran, occupation of the U.S. embassy in Tehran by militant students, invasion of the Great Mosque in Mecca by anti-royalist Islamicists, ...
25:
Archiving:
Countdown To War Full Coverage
(1)
EDITOR'S NOTE: This page archives material from the Scoop: Countdown To War With Iraq A Scoop Special Feature ... page which was getting very long...
26:
Terrorism
-- A Threat to World Peace?
Marie T. Huhtala, U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia Remarks to the Rotary International Dinner Forum Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia February 22, 2003
27:
Bernard
Weiner: Explaining Iraq To The
Grandkids
Within a few weeks, the world is going to change drastically. A terrible war is about to be unleashed, and -- even though the events will happen far, far away from America -- it will affect your parents and Gran and me, indeed all of us in this country ...
28:
Question
And Answer With Ernesto
Bertarelli
AUCKLAND - November 15, 2002 - Alinghi President and navigator Ernesto Bertarelli spoke at the Louis Vuitton Cup Press Conference after race 3 of the quarter-finals, a match in which Alinghi emerged victorious against Prada.
29:
New
Ally In Welfare Reform
Battle?
Last week Associate Minister John Tamihere distributed a controversial speech at Auckland's Knowledge Wave Conference.
George W. Bush gave a speech Wednesday night before the Godfather of conservative Washington think tanks, the American Enterprise Institute. In his speech, Bush quantified his coming war with Iraq as part of a larger struggle to bring pro-western governments ...
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