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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1:
UQ
Wire: Gore Vidal‘s The Enemy
Within
Gore Vidal is America’s most controversial writer and a ferocious, often isolated, critic of the Bush administration. Here, against a backdrop of spreading unease about America’s response to the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath, we publish ...
2:
UQ
Wire: Harken Energy Chronology
PLEASE NOTE: This is a work in progress and will be updated periodically. Check back at http://scoop.co.nz for the latest version. The last version was published on 27 August 2002
4:
Osama
bin Laden: Why We Are Attacking
America
Here we outline our reply to two questions addressing the Americans: Q1) Why are we waging Jihad against you? Q2) What advice do we have for you and what do we want from you?
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5:
Wellstone
Plane Was Out Of Control – Media
Survey
The following is a summary of the facts available at this time via the media, surrounding Senator Paul Wellstone's airplane crash of 10-25-02. Judge for yourself, was this more likely an assassination or an accident?
6:
UQ
Wire: Wheels Come Off U.S. War Plans For Iraq
INSIDE THIS REPORT: * Reported Coup Attempt in Qatar Threatens Base * Worldwide Attacks on U.S. Interests * Massive Domestic/International Protests * U.N./Foreign Political Opposition Proves Effective
7:
US
Army Secretary Helped Cook Enron's
Books
Three months before he was nominated as secretary of the Army by President Bush, Thomas White faced what surely was the most difficult task in his 10-year career as an Enron executive: Helping hide the hundreds of millions of dollars in losses ...
8:
Revealing
Areva’s Plutonium Weapons
Connection
Auckland, October 29, 2002 - Greenpeace activists inflated a 15 metre high balloon bomb outside the French base in the Viaduct Basin this morning. The inflatable bomb was tethered to large yellow barrels marked Areva –the French nuclear company sponsoring ...
9:
Streets
of London: Do Mention The War
Streets of London special: on the Streets of Berlin. Malcolm Aitken speaks with some Berliners about Iraq, Saddam Hussein, war and the Nazis at Tacheles, Berlin’s renowned alternative arts centre.
10:
Press
Silent As US Army Is Entrusted To
Wrongdoer
Secretary of the Army Thomas White is preparing to lead thousands of the nation’s soldiers into war with Iraq and still, not one journalist has spilled any ink on White’s knowledge of the suspect accounting practices at Enron Energy Services, the ...
11:
Ask
Ministry About Fishing Corruption -
Peters
New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters says any inquiry into allegations of corruption around the scampi industry should be aimed at the dysfunctional Ministry of Fisheries.
12:
Poll
Watch: TV1 And TV3 Final Election 2002
Polls
TV1’s Colmar Brunton Poll and TV3’s NFO Poll have recorded remarkably similar results on the night before the final day of the election campaign. Today will not be recorded among National Party Leader Bill English's finest moments.
13:
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.
14:
Peters
Gets Nod For Intelligence Committee
National Leader Bill English has nominated New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters for an opposition roll on the committee overseeing the country's intelligence service.
15:
National
Pushes Fisheries Inquiry
National is looking for support from all political parties as it pushes for an urgent select committee inquiry into alleged corruption at the Ministry of Fisheries.
16:
Paulo
Politico - Worth’s Egypt Antics Defy
Belief!
National MP Richard Worth was selected to represent the opposition to mark the commemoration of the Battle of El Alamein. But during a commemorative service, Worth decided to go sightseeing!
17:
General
Tommy Franks Briefs At The
Pentagon
DoD News Briefing General Tommy Franks, commander, U.S. Central Command Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 12:32 p.m. EST
18:
Big
News: How ACC Breaks The Law
Much has been made of ACC’s “stock” comments when referring to claimants, and Scoop revealed last week that ACC – related complaints to the Ombudsman doubled in two years.
19:
Scoop
Feedback: All About ACC
In This Edition: ACC Claimant’s Rights - ACC - ACC Articles - Feedback - Catalyst And Still No Rehab Plan
20:
Jason
Leopold – Shafted By The New York
Times
Editor's Note: This is a story about a story. A great story. A scoop that ought to see a member of George Bush's cabinet at least indicted, if not behind bars. But that is not what has happened. This is a scoop, that for reasons unknown to its author, ...
He's been married less than four months but already Danny Moder's out and about seeing pretty women in LA's strip clubs. Julia Roberts' hubby and pals were spotted partying up a storm in the Fourplay club, chugging down lagers and stuffing girls' garters ...
22:
Greens
urge Cullen not to sell Air New
Zealand
Green co-leader Rod Donald today urged Finance Minister Michael Cullen to reject selling any of Air New Zealand to Qantas.
23:
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, ...
24:
Assistance
To War Crimes Tribunal To Be
Punishable
Assistance to International War Crimes Tribunal to be punishable - Israeli Government Coalition Chair proposes new bill - Gush Shalom activists would face 10 years in prison
25:
Anti-War
Protest This Saturday - QE2 at
Noon
Saturday 26th October is another day of international action to oppose American plans to attack Iraq. Big gatherings are planned in many centres around the world - including Washington - and here in New Zealand marches are planned in several centres. The ...
26:
Senator
Wellstone, Minnesota, Dies In Plane
Crash
Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife, and his two daughters were killed today in a plane crash in northern Minnesota. The plane was a two-engine turboprop; five other people were on board and also killed.
27:
Upton-On-Line
- Diaspora Edition 26th October
We cover issues profane and profound: the divertissements that Paris’s Mayor Bertrand Delanoe has been organising for his ratepayers and the deep foreign policy confessions of one of Australia’s leading strategic thinkers, Hugh White. Also, the response ...
28:
Joy
in Brasilia, Despair in Buenos
Aires
While a majority of Brazilians are seized by hope as a result of Lula's triumph in their country's presidential race, Argentina's economic crisis has left its population unemployed, deeply embittered, resentful of government corruption and snarling at ...
29:
No
Select Committee Inquiry into Armstrong
Affair
Cosgrove: Today the Finance & Expenditure Select Committee considered a proposal put forward by Rt Hon Winston Peters for an inquiry to be held into the circumstances relating to Dr Ross Armstrong’s resignation.
30:
Stateside
With Rosalea - New York, New
York
Columbus Day this year was observed on October 14. As usual, it wasn't observed by everyone, including my employer, so I had to take a day's leave in order to have a long weekend. But it was a holiday for most schools and federal and state employees, ...
Gordon Campbell: On The Three Strikes Cycle Of Failure
Binoy Kampmark: Stifling The Sikh Diaspora - India’s Continuing War On Khalistan
Gordon Campbell: On The Language Of Healthcare, And Mink DeVille
David Cooke: Languages In Hospital
Binoy Kampmark: Weak Endeavours - The Meekness Of Australia’s Anti-Corruption Body
Binoy Kampmark: Widening The War - The US Sends Troops To Israel