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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
Former FBI contract translator and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds and her attorneys were ordered removed from the E.
Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse so that a three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals panel could discuss her case in private
with Bush administration ...
Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi, one of the most influential figures in modern social and political activism, considered
these traits to be the most spiritually perilous to humanity. [2]
Former Vice President Al Gore gave a lengthy speech on Wednesday on the topic of Republicans' attempt to eliminate the
right to filibuster in the Senate.
Hands up who knew before this week that former police commissioner Peter Doone was still pursuing legal action over a
story run by the Sunday Star Times five years ago? It was revealed yesterday that the action against the paper had been
dropped ...
As yet another neoliberal, pro-US government falls in Latin America, Resistance’s Stuart Munckton looks at the continent
that might defeat Uncle Sam.
The hotly disputed results of the 2004 presidential election have become entangled in a fundamentalist crusade over who
will control Ohio. Extremist right wing screachers such as Pastor Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church, Ann Coulter,
Alan Keyes, ...
Rt Hon Winston has asked the Government to confirm whether a high ranking member of Saddam Hussein’s political party is
seeking refugee status in New Zealand.
Auckland, Wednesday 20th April, 2005: The recent death of Pope John Paul II, as well as the Easter festivities, has
resulted in a surge of interest online. While much of this interest has a religious flavour, Easter also propelled the
popularity of ...
Randall Terry claims he has mellowed, as most of us do with age. But, along with many of his fellow evangelicals, he
remains aggressively committed to his goal of turning America into "a Christian nation."
National Party Leader Don Brash is questioning the ethics of Helen Clark’s behaviour around the Peter Doone defamation
case.
Nuclear officials from more than 50 countries have wrapped up a meeting at the Vienna headquarters of the United Nations
atomic watchdog agency to share information and upgrade precautions in a bid to ensure the safety of nuclear power
plants and prevent ...
In February of this year, United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) , a coalition of more than 800 peace and justice groups
throughout the United States, held their second annual Assembly to hear and vote on proposals for a 2005 “action plan.”
As we reflect on ANZAC day and give remembrance to the men who gave their lives on foreign fields, we must ask ourselves
one question: Why haven't we given those Turks the lesson they deserve? It's been 90 years, already!
Was chatting with a mate a few days back and we both agreed. The product of the Destiny Church may be a couple of good
things. When you see the discussion blogs and the newspapers reporting around election time, there seems to be a bit of
a panic on ...
The spectacular twentieth century was convulsed repeatedly by wars over ownership. The first decade, known to us as the
Edwardian period, was generally peaceful & prosperous in the British Empire and many other regions, but Communism got going in Russia and ...
The ambitious DNA profiling “Genographic project” which seeks to retrace the path of human settlement on Earth has been
encountering resistance among indigenous people. After a boycott-appeal by the US-American Indigenous Peoples Council on
Biocolonialism, ...
Increasing numbers of economists are saying interest rates are rising in advance of Labour's big spending on the Working
for Families redistribution package.
Prime Minister Helen Clark must release the transcripts of her calls with the Sunday Star Times in which she knifed
former Police Commissioner Peter Doone in the back, ACT leader Rodney Hide said today.
The Maxim Institute, a New Zealand think-tank has won two international awards from the United Stated based Atlas
Foundation. “Maxim is delighted to be recognised by the two awards, one for Social Entrepreneurship and the other for
Institute Excellence,” ...
We are calling on supporters to join us on May Day this Sunday. The traditional May Day march to commemorate
international workers day is also a march against the current wars of occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and a protest
against police attacks on ...
n unprecedented group of national security whistleblowers have formed a united front as the National Security
Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC).
It's crunch time, folks. The Bush Administration is quite aware that lame-duck, second-term presidents have a very brief
window of opportunity during which they can push through their agendas with a likelihood of success. So Karl Rove,
seeing the window starting ...
Tonight at 7pm on Prime, Paul Holmes speaks exclusively with Schapelle Corby’s mother and close friends.
Discrimination against women in Afghanistan will continue to have grave consequences until the government takes concrete
steps to end it, said Amnesty International following the killing by stoning of a 29 year-old woman accused of adultery.
I was astonished this morning to hear Defence Minister Mark Burton laying into Dr Brash for politicising Anzac Day, ACT
MP Stephen Franks said today.
SECRETARY RICE: Thank you very much and thank you, Anna, for that wonderful introduction and for the warmth with which
you received me and showed me the wonderful pictures, as we walked along, of you as a child, of your mother, of your
family, of your grandfather. ...
Images from Selwyn Manning of the Chunuk Bair service commemorating the NZ Wellington Battalion's brief capture of the
high ground above Anzac Cove. Prince of Wales Charles attended the service and was left waiting for 40 minutes on the
parade ground as ...
SYRIA/LEBANON Syrian Withdrawal of Military Forces from Lebanon UN Verification Team Sent to Lebanon and Damascus UN
Secretary General's Report on Implementation of Res. 1559 Prospects for Return of US Ambassador Scobey to Syria Security
Situation ...
Presently en route back to New Zealand from Gallipoli via the Middle East and Malaysia with a plane load of veterans and
military personnel Scoop's Selwyn Manning sent in the following photo essay of his trip to Istanbul. (See also… Scoop
Images: Postcards ...
Without building a Tardis, Scoop has nevertheless managed to travel back to January 2000 to discover how the various
political parties viewed Police Commissioner (at the time) Peter Doone, and the driving incident that sparked his early
retirement.
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