The top 30 rating items on Scoop over the Christmas/New Year holiday period were...
Germany’s now on the UN Security Council. Will it vote yes to an Iraq war? And is its goal to 'stiff' Bush and have
Europe become the balancing superpower preventing the USA from achieving its stated goal of sustainable global
dominance?
STOCKHOLM - Blaine Williams hasn't stopped grinning since he arrived in Sweden two weeks ago. Several times a day he'll
approach a complete stranger, offer a handshake and a smile, introduce himself as a former CIA analyst from America, and
proceed ...
During the Fall of 2001, we witnessed anthrax attacks on the United States government that were obviously designed to
shut down the government at a very critical time immediately after September 11. It was during this time that Congress
should have ...
Courtesy of Indymedia New York, Mike Ward of PopMatters lists the most outrageous top ten officially spun conspiracy
theories of the year - Scoop Editor's Note: If you feel like a laugh then read this!
Secretary of the Army Thomas White, the former vice chairman of Enron, may have avoided the scandals that brought down
his former colleagues at the one-time energy behemoth, but White’s got bigger problems these days that could make him
the latest Bush appointee ...
ISM Activist Abducted And Beaten To Be Deported To Canada - Jaggi was to be deported to Canada for visa violations. The
Canadian Consulate visited him in prison and provided laisse passé documents for his return to Canada. Jaggi is now at
Ben Gurion airport ...
A study of the irresponsible and continuing use of depleted uranium ammunition by the United States armed forces proves
beyond a shadow of a doubt that exposure to this poisonous substance guarantees cancer, birth defects and other lethal
hazards.
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.
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, ...
Just listen to President George W. Bush the commander-in-chief of a military force that not only possesses and
maintains nearly 10,000 nuclear weapons but also boasts an array of weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and
biological, lecturing ...
Air NZ's chief operating officer Andrew Miller launches Air NZ's bold worldwide promotion of Lord of the Rings -
Unveiling a special Boeing 747-400 emblazoned with Frodo imagery. For more information see… Air NZ Unlocks The Secrets
Of Middle Earth.... . Pics: ...
Army Secretary Thomas White just put the finishing touches on a $4.6 million mansion in Naples, Florida, using funds
some lawmakers have said White, the former vice chairman of Enron, obtained by selling his stock in the company using
inside information. ...
American politicians have a vested interest in carrying out their true agendas away from public scrutiny. Only on rare
occasions do we ordinary citizens get a glimpse of how things really operate -- the Army-McCarthy hearings in the '50s,
the Watergate ...
More streets are to be restricted to non-residential traffic on weekends and public holidays in order to tackle the
scourge of illegal street racing in Manukau. This will include a large stretch of Te Irirangi Drive between Dawson Road
in Otara and ...
This is Genocide! As an Indian, experienced with British Occupation and British imposed partition and son of a refugee
from then East Bengal (now Bangladesh), I always wondered why Israel doesn’t either Annex Palestine or give them
freedom? I found the answer ...
Whom the God's wish to punish they first make mad. With the massing of troops and firepower for an invasion of Iraq
there is madness afoot which will summon up a host of unforeseen dangers and unimagined consequences.
North Korea has always been an enigma ever since it was created at the end of the Second World War. This latest crisis
has once again raised concerns of instability on the Korean Peninsula and a possible outbreak of war although the
problem this ...
NEW YORK (Seven Stories/Pacific Media Watch): A new book, Our Media, Not Theirs! The Democratic Struggle Against
Corporate Media, examines how the current media system in the United States undermines democracy, and what we can do to
change it.
AUCKLAND, Jan. 10, 2003 - As part of the carrier's programme to return the company to profitability United Airlines
today announced changes to its international schedule which includes discontinuing flying its aircraft between the
United States and New ...
Stateside With Rosalea captures images from another perspective from inside the USA.
Jaggi Singh, a Montreal based activist and organizer, was kidnapped today in Jerusalem by a group of undercover Israeli
police officers. He was on his way to visit a friend, and was arrested as he arrived at his friend's apartment. Jaggi
traveled to Israel ...
At the weekend the official LOTR website http://lordoftherings.net broadcast a two minute preview from the movie. The
preview is attracting unprecedented internet attention.
Scoop Letters to the Editor - New Zealand’s Debt Crisis - Concerning your article: Christmas-New Year holiday period
begins...
Answers to new parliamentary questions show the New Zealand Film Commission has been totally irresponsible with
taxpayers' money over the demise of Larry Parr's Kahukura Productions Ltd, and Chief Executive Ruth Harley - or the
Associate Minister ...
Why Did the Mainstream - So-Called Liberal - News Media Downplay the 100,000+ Antiwar Protestors in D.C. In October? A
Special BuzzFlash News Analysis
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.
We've all likely seen or read about scientific studies of aggression and violence in that otherwise intelligent and
loveable species, chimpanzees. Some even take these observations as a kind of biological justification of war. But
intellects able to ...
Guilty until proven innocent. This is the new American way. And no evidence is necessary to order someone killed. Just
the say-so of the man with the gun.
John Kaminski writes how we are responsible, in times of war, for the evil that enslaves us, and what we ought to do
about it: I used to love fireworks. But I haven't been able to watch them for better than a decade now...
With only two days to go before their first $250,000 draw, the organisers of the new rewards programme Kachingo! are
reminding shoppers to check their Kachingo! tickets.