The Top 29 rating stories on Scoop in the last week were...
Dates: 01/Mar/2002, 02/Mar/2002, 03/Mar/2002, 04/Mar/2002, 05/Mar/2002, 06/Mar/2002, 07/Mar/2002
In This Edition: The Hunt For Flight 77 - A Truly Remarkable French Website - Disinformation Warning! - Not Everyone Is
Convinced - Eyewitness Reports Of The Crash….
Within a few months, the events of Sept. 11th, 2001 became but an echo of the events that followed. War in Afghanistan,
anthrax, unprecedented powers of detention: the public mind moves from one shock to another, appearing to accept the
government’s ...
Labour should explain why they put petrol tax up when the Government's roading agencies can't spend the money it
already has, says National Party Leader Bill English.
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... was it rude of us to beat the long-suffering English cricket team while the Queen was here?
Just asking. For as surely as a one-day batsman premeditates sweeping a spinner, there seemed to be an uncontrollable
urge amongst the press and ...
On Sunday Chris Laidlaw, on his radio show (National Radio), said that all except a few "flat earthers" accept that
global warming is a reality.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Le Monde today NZT published a lengthy report into Israeli spy activities in the US prior to 911 which
raises clear questions about the extent of Israeli prior knowledge of the attacks. The story expands on material which
first emerged in a ...
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.
Is the Deputy Prime Minister the same “socialist” who used to argue in the 1980s for the necessity of party activists
and MPs to stand up and be counted if their party was selling its soul? Huw Jarvis examines whether Jim Anderton still
stands ...
On the Israeli prime time First Channel TV news Sharon was quoted as saying that the number of Palestinian casualties
should be increased. He was also shown speaking to the Knesset: "We first have to give the Palestinians a very heavy
blow, before ...
Mayor John Banks did not even step inside the Council Chamber last night at a meeting of the full Council that was also
attended by 50 Auckland residents concerned at the “new direction” Banks is taking. When asked point blank by Holmes on
ZB this ...
New Zealanders are at their worst when they are "provincial", using the pejorative sense of that word. First there was
that irritating minder of Peter Jackson at the Bafta awards who had to spoil the moment by saying "Up the Mainland" ...
September 11th drove me to turn off my tv and even CBC radio. I had to face dealing with the internet as my primary
source of information - I long ago learned to say no to the telephone workers of the Sun and Province. The first days of
September ...
In This Edition: Unpleasant Thoughts, Truth, Peace & Love - First Some Quotes - Immediate Threats To Peace And Security – Who Is The Enemy?
There's a special place, somewhere between martyrdom and pariahdom we reserve for people who scratch the veneer of our
sexual self-deception. And Amy Gehring is going there.
Such was the headline in the 'Sydney Morning Hotpot' last week, quoting actor Michael Poe's outrage at learning his
fellow Australians had been disenfranchised by their election system all these years. Poe discovered this on a flight
from LA when someone ...
In This Edition: From An Ex-Pat Yank - Re: Scoop Feedback & Response On Conspiracy Theories - No Time For Grace Or Toast
The Sam and Dave dilemma of "to deal or not to deal" is made worse by the power of popular opinion.
* Denis Halliday, former U.N. under-secretary general in charge of Iraq's oil for food program, examines the Bush
administration's war plans and the potential threat that Iraq poses to its neighbors and the U.S.
New Zealanders’ understanding and appreciation of our country¹s heritage places will take a huge step this month when
the statutory Register of Historic Places, the only official record of our rich and diverse heritage, goes on-line.
Auckland public transport has gone high-tech with the launch of a Rideline service allowing mobile phone users to check
public transport services by text messaging.
The second-phase of Operation Enduring Freedom was launched last week: to hunt Abu Sayyaf in the jungles of Basilan and
Sulu. Whilst originally a breakaway from the Moro (Muslims of the southern Philippines) independence movement, the
800-strong ...
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those
who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed" - Dwight D Eisenhower
Scoop is delighted to present to Frodo and Bilbo Baggin’s house in the Waikato – Bag End. Now we are getting magical….
Rodney Hide Speech to the Nelson Club, Nelson at 12.30pm on Friday, March 1, 2002
Correct me if I am mistaken, but in 2002 the 1980’s appear to have returned. It would seem that the music of that decade
is being heard more and more in nightclubs and bars throughout the country, Duran Duran have reformed and are back with
their original ...
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that mans consent." -Abraham Lincoln 1. A WORD FROM THE PREZ 2. A
GUIDE TO STUDENT POLITICS 3. AWATERE HUATA: TIME TO END VIOLENCE TOWARDS WOMEN 4. NOBODY WANTS YOUTH RADIO, SAYS STUDY
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EDITORS NOTE: The following is a transcript of a link submitted to Scoop by a Scoop reader. Clearly questions are
raised in this material about the nature of the relationship between the Bush family and the family of Osama Bin Laden.
AUCKLAND, February 26, 2002 – Intel CEO Craig Barrett today said that the world’s economies are increasingly driven by
technology, and that investing in and developing new technologies is key to prosperity and economic development. Despite
the current ...
The good news on all of this is that there are solutions. New technology blesses us with the potential tools we can use
to radically increase productivity in a way that can "jump the curve" on our narco dollar addiction.