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Scoop: Weekend Ratings

Published: Mon 27 Jan 2003 09:25 AM
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The weekend’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Bush Is Racking Up "Frequent Liar Miles"
Lyndon Johnson is remembered for lying about Vietnam, Richard Nixon for lying about Watergate, Bill Clinton for lying about adultery. George W. Bush is known as a straight shooter. What’s wrong with that picture?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00062.htm
2: Rumsfeld’s Good Advice On Leaders’ Lies
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is deeply concerned that the American people may be taken in by smooth-talking Saddam Hussein, and he wants the news media to take pre-emptive action. On the January 19 edition of the ABC News show “This Week,” ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00111.htm
3: Marc Ash: Standing On The Dead
In October of 1942, under the Trading With the Enemy Act, the U.S. government halted operations at New York's Union Banking Corporation. A bank official was charged with ''Running Nazi front groups in the United States.'' His name: Prescott Bush.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00114.htm
4: Scoop Images: Get Your Deception Dollars Today!
Click on the green folding below ( http://www.delcanton.com/otherprod/deceptiondollars.asp ) to order your own deception dollars. Deception Dollars were reputedly a huge hit during the Jan 18th demonstrations in Washington D.C. and San Francisco at the weekend.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00105.htm
5: UQ Wire: Don't Do It, George
With the suddenness of an earthquake in Mexico, the ground under George W. Bush's feet has heaved, cracked and shattered.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00113.htm
6: John Kaminski: The System Can't Be Fixed
Our president is a criminal, if not surely guilty, at least chargeable for the following offenses: Military desertion, cocaine smuggling, conspiracy to destroy American landmarks, conspiracy to commit mass murder in New York, Washington, Pennsylvania and Afghanistan. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00066.htm
7: Undernews: Michael Kelly's Washington Post Libel
Michael Kelly's Libel A Response To “Marching With Stalinists” – Washington Post Jan 22 By Undernews Editor Sam Smith
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00112.htm
8: US Corporations & Iraqi Oil, Skulduggery Since 20s
In all the countless hours the corporate media devote to broadcasting the Bush administration's lies and deceits about Iraq, that simple and crucial question is almost never addressed. And for good reason.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00097.htm
9: UQ: Target Scott Ritter - The War Party Gets Ugly
This is what we're up against, in America: an evil that is almost demonic in its pure malevolence, a dark destructive spirit that feeds on pain and is animated by the will to crush its enemies underfoot. This is the face of an enemy that must be ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00096.htm
10: Kaminski: The World Can't Trust What America Says
The key to integrity, this old Mayan guy once told me, is admitting our faults. If we don't do that, our whole lives are built on a bed of lies. This is the United States of America 2003 version — built on a bed of lies and disintegrating all around ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00089.htm
11: Surge In Us Tourists Proof Positive Of Power Of
Air New Zealand’s The Lord of the Rings motion picture themed aircraft are taking Middle-earth tourism promotion to new heights around the globe as The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers fever continues to grow.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0301/S00068.htm
12: UQ Wire: John le Carré - USA Has Gone Mad
America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00053.htm
13: Howard's End: Dumping Culture Must Be Changed
ACC Minister Ruth Dyson has confirmed that she has asked ACC to review its decision to dump Christchurch boy Ryan Becker from the ACC scheme next week. But there are others and it's the ACC dumping culture which the Government has signed-up to that ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00115.htm
14: Fatima No. 9 – We Will Remember Your Death
She was young. She was beautiful. She prayed for peace and she dreamt of freedom. And now she is dead. Her name was Fatima and she was the ninth person to die from the cruelty of detention.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0301/S00125.htm
15: Scoop Images: Canberra’s Ring Of Fire From Space
In the images below of fires on the East Coast of Australia in Victoria and New South Wales were taken on the 21st UTC. The fire front is roughly 300km long. Canberra can be located roughly at the center of the C shaped fire formation in the center ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00091.htm
16: Scoop Images: Helms Deep Press Conference (1)
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.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0011/S00121.htm
17: Impeachment Resolution Against President G.W. Bush
Mr./Ms. Y submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0301/S00117.htm
18: Safari Browser Downloads Top 1 Million
CUPERTINO, California - January 20, 2003 - Apple® today announced that more than 1 million copies of its new Safari web browser have been downloaded since the free public beta was posted on Apple’s web site (www.apple.com) on January 7.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/SC0301/S00014.htm
19: DoC Ban on Filming Tongariro is Idiotic Lunacy
The draft management plan for Tongariro National Park reveals the idiotic lunacy that has become ingrained within DoC's culture, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0301/S00192.htm
20: Clampdown On Illegal Street Racing
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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/AK0209/S00105.htm
21: Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix - June 21
J K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to be published on 21st June, 2003 in Britain, the USA, Canada and Australia
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0301/S00030.htm
22: Images: Lord Of The Rings Exhibition At Te Papa
In anticipation of the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the central instalment in writer/director/producer Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on the J.R.R. Tolkien masterpiece, Te Papa proudly announces a world exclusive and a bold ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0210/S00234.htm
23: Scandal Swirling Leadership Bids, And Race-Baiting
At a time when the opposition parties are at a low point, consumed by scandal, infighting and embarrassing gaffes, the government appears able to continue almost unchallenged. It is a scenario that one might expect during the first year of the first term of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00110.htm
24: Bolton Goes East – The Wrong Man For Korea
State Department's John Bolton the Wrong Man to Send to Korea * Peace emissary is one of the administration's prime unilateralists and a jingoist nationalist. * Progenitor of invented Cuban bioweaponry charge, strangely silent when it came to proving it.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0301/S00110.htm
25: Film New Zealand head announces resignation
Jane Gilbert, Executive Manager of Film New Zealand, announced her resignation today. After more than five years of developing Film New Zealand into the stand-alone entity it is today, Jane wants to now spend time out pursuing her own goals, which includes ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0301/S00072.htm
26: Government Insults Rural New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today stepped up his opposition to Labour's new land access reference group by calling on representatives to resign, saying they risked being seen as pandering to the Labour agenda.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0301/S00206.htm
27: Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
One U-Turn Does Not An Ethical Organisation Make - Australian Immigration Policy Kills Again - Scoop Is “Outstanding Democratic, Independent Media” - Paulo Politico: Plain Sailing For The NZ Gummint - Reserve Bank Answers Critics On Rocketing Kiwi ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00116.htm
28: 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, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0208/S00068.htm
29: John Kaminski: What If America Was Really Invaded?
If the U.S. government's defensive response was anything like it was on 9/11/2001, and the invasion was anything like we imagined during the Cold War, you could rest assured that all the targets would be destroyed, the perps would get away, and America ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00099.htm
30: Making sense of a rising exchange rate - Speech
My subject today is "Making sense of a rising exchange rate". The exchange rate has risen sharply over the last year or so, and has become the stuff of media headlines in ways not seen for some time, and the concern of exporters which I acknowledge. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0301/S00072.htm
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