Top 30 Articles On Scoop For Tuesday Dates: 06/Dec/2005
Speech delivered by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the Commemoration of the 60th
Anniversary of his admission to University of Havana, in the Aula Magna of the University of Havana,
Interview with Spc. Douglas Barber - OIF Vet suffering from PTSD Interview conducted by Jay Shaft, Editor and Lead
Investigative Reporter for Coalition For Free Thought In Media 12/03/05
The attorney representing Karl Rove in the federal investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson
has made a desperate attempt to ensure President Bush's deputy chief of staff does not become the subject of a criminal
indictment.
The Baghdad by Swords of Righteousness Brigade released a second video of hostages Auckland University student, Canadian
and New Zealand resident, Harmeet Sooden (32); Canadian James Loney (41); American Tom Fox (54); and Briton Norman
Kember (74). ...
He says "victory." But the bromide-heavy speech that President George W. Bush gave yesterday at the Naval Academy
presents a clear strategy for quagmire and eventual disaster. Despite the gathering storm of opposition to his approach
to the war in ...
1. JEANETTE FITZSIMONS to the Minister for Trade Negotiations: Has he told China, Korea and Argentina that New Zealand
rejects their claim that energy efficiency standards and labels should be treated as non-tariff trade barriers; if not,
why not?
The National Party today confirmed it made an error in the booking of its broadcast radio and television advertising for
the 2005 election campaign.
In a national first, one of New Zealand’s newest and most misunderstood communities is the focus of a social photography
project due to open at the Waikato Museum on December 3.
Today the Police released a CD full of information comprising the investigation file into allegations against David
Benson-Pope. The following are several of the key documents from the file. Click on the headline below to view the
document. All documents ...
EUROPE Query on Secretary Rice's Comments Concerning Terrorism and Europe Allegations of Secret CIA Prisons
MISCELLANEOUS Reports that Abu Hamza Rabia has been Killed U.S. Guidelines on Rendition
1. JEANETTE FITZSIMONS (Co-Leader—Green) to the Minister for Trade Negotiations: Has he told China, Korea, and Argentina
that New Zealand rejects their claim that energy-efficiency standards and labels should be treated as non-tariff trade
barriers; ...
Auckland University student, Canadian and New Zealand resident, Harmeet Sooden (32), Canadian James Loney (41), American
Tom Fox (54), and Briton Norman Kember (74) were seized in Baghdad by Swords of Righteousness Brigade on November 26
2005. This video ...
Palestine groups held a vigil in Aotea Square in central Auckland on Monday to show the world that Harmeet Sooden and
his fellow captors are peaceful men. Harmeet Sooden was a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and a friend
to many in the ...
To the Editor of Al-Jazeera News: As groups concerned with the plight of Palestinians and Iraqis, we owe it to our
friend and supporter Harmeet Sooden, held hostage with three other peace activists, to ask their abductors not to commit
an unforgivable ...
Take the case of "outed" CIA agent Valerie Plame-Wilson, and the "crime" for which some senior members of the Bush
Administration may be facing jail time. Of all the thoughtful observers I routinely scan across the internet, I have
found only two ...
• The corruption scandal within the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) has captured the public’s attention, as well as its
disgust, throughout much of 2005.
“The issues raised by the Auditor-General are serious and highlight concerns that the government has been pursuing with
Te Wânanga o Aotearoa for some while,” Tertiary Education Minister Michael Cullen said today.
The following are links to zipped files corresponding to 8 folders in the David Benson-Pope New Zealand Police
investigation file. Once unzipped you will find you have a large number of sequentially numbered .pdf files. Many of
these files contain brief summary ...
It is a pleasure to welcome the Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his distinguished delegation of
Ministers, parliamentarians, officials, business leaders, and media representatives to this seminar on New
Zealand/Turkey business ...
Bob Woodward is Valerie Plame. Granted, he has a few more lines in his face and a less captivating hairdo, but in one
very important sense he is indeed she: Both have job classifications or titles, or perceived job titles, that have
little to do with ...
Shortly as we came into the House, Dr Cullen issued a release, stating that: "I believe it would be in the best
interests of the wânanga if Rongo Wetere listened to some of those closest to him and stood aside as chief executive”.
Such a statement is ...
I have been asked by several network members to comment on the cancellation by the Federal Reserve of the publication of
its broadest series of aggregate monetary statistics, known as "M3."
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins says David Benson-Pope has changed his story on historical assault
allegations which he earlier refuted and said were ridiculous.
A European insect that devours new growth on gorse has overcome a slow start and is now being found in greatly increased
numbers, much to researchers' delight. Gorse is one of New Zealand's worst weeds.
African nations were today challenged to publicly declare their support for an international Arms Trade Treaty as the
France-Africa Summit began in Mali.
An idyllic retirement has gone by the wayside for a Canterbury couple who were shocked by the slow dial-up Internet
connections to their new home, and set about finding a solution.
The State Services Commission has made available to government agencies, both central and local, the open source code
for a Government Web Guidelines compliant Content Management System.
Today the Prime Minister Helen Clark held a joint press conference with her Turkish counterpart the Prime Minister of
Turkey, Mr Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A large Turkish media contingent seemed to want to traverse the vexed subject of
divided Cyprus.
SAM SMITH - History has a way of coming up with the wrong things at the wrong time. For example, just as Hillary Clinton
is gearing up for her 2008 presidential run, increasing numbers of Democrats are diverging from her on Iraq. While she
hasn't ...
Bob Hecht, the dean of antiquities dealers now on trial for trafficking stolen art, has apparently since his youth at
Haverford College been single-minded in his passion for recapturing the glories of the ancient world. Much like late
paleoanthropologist ...