The top 30 rating items on Scoop for the month of October were...
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, ...
Tony Blair has tonight ordered a D-Notice on British media reporting government officials signing court gag orders. This
regards the case of former MI5 officer David Shayler, who has evidence to prove MI6 gave £100,000 to bin Laden and
Al-Qaeda, arms to Iraq ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: In breaking news over the last two days President George Bush has been accused of double speak over the
creation of an Independent Commission to investigate the events surrounding the attacks of September 11th 1991. The
following reports ...
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 ...
The Case Against G.W. Bush: a Preliminary "Hearing" in the Court of Common Sense
The following report from Taiwannews.com sheds some light on the earlier report carried by Scoop concerning warnings
given by the US to Taiwan of an imminent terrorist attack in South East Asia. (See… Report May Suggest Foreknowledge Of
Bali Bombing )
The story is not about allegations of fraud — it's about an appearance of impropriety that is stunning in its magnitude.
Unfettered by any disclosure regulations about ownership or political affiliations, just a few companies create and
control almost ...
In September 2000, as the Palestinian Intifadha raged, a blueprint for U.S. foreign policy and strategy was drawn up by
a prominent U.S. think-tank. The blueprint, titled Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A
New Century, ...
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, ...
NOTE: Scoop thanks the reader who very kindly made the following translation of the report cited in... "Report May
Suggest Foreknowledge Of Bali Bombing" . See also... "More News On Taiwan’s Attack Warning From The US" for another ...
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?
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
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 ...
In Khamisiyah, southern Iraq, 1991, a man made plague was unleashed. Some of the world’s deadliest chemical and
biological warfare agents were housed in Khamisiyah, a sprawling desert bunker complex – and then released into the
atmosphere.
Today Symantec Security Response has upgraded W32.Bugbear@mm from a 3 to a level 4 virus on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being
the most serious. The upgrade is due to the increase of customer submissions to Security Response from customers. As of
yesterday ...
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 ...
One key trade just a few weeks before Iraq invaded Kuwait -- but reported some eight months late after the Gulf War was
over -- netted Bush close to $1 million in profit as he sold stock in Harken Energy, an oil company doing business in
the Middle East ...
Expozay Swim advertising images of stunning Australian singer Sophie Monk are proving so hot that half the outdoor
posters used in the first Australian advertising campaign have been stolen.
Replying to a Maxim Institute attack on his party for supporting the decriminalisation of prostitution unrepentant
Libertarianz leader Russell Watkins says that "the Very Reverend Paul McMahon is right: my calling Maxim 'Marxist' was a
misrepresentation. ...
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.
Scoop Links to Washington Post and Sydney Morning Herald stories reporting: “U.S. intelligence officials said they
intercepted communications in late September signaling a strike on a Western tourist site. Bali was mentioned in the
U.S. intelligence report.”
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 ...
General acceptance by a society of the Rule of Law is probably the principle ingredient in defining what a civilised
society is. Unfortunately however many law makers in the United States appear not to understand this. Either that or
they have forgotten ...
I want to connect the dots between the New York Times piece attached below on transfer of US government assets to
private investors at below market values to the far more important story we have been getting from HARVARD WATCH (
http://www.harvardwatch.org ...
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.
New Zealand’s leading interactive sports entertainment company, Virtual Spectator has today launched its premium 3D
service for the Louis Vuitton Cup and America’s Cup.
Salon's account of the circumstances that led up to the removal of the Tom White story contains nothing but lies. I
suppose the New York Times will now release their version of the events. I can see the headline now "Jason Leopold Must
Die."
Scoop is New Zealand’s leading independent online news provider. Our readership levels of 10,000 visitors a day provide
advertisers with a credible – and extremely cost effective - alternative to advertising in the business newspapers (NBR,
the Independent), ...
Clearly the Bush Administration has been issued legal advice that a pre-emptive strike against Iraq at this time would
contravene international law and conventions protecting human rights. Could George Bush be tried for war crimes? Yes.
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