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The campaign to stifle dissent and censor any questioning of current U.S. policies vis-a-vis the Middle East in general,
and Iraq in particular, has reached new levels.
President George W. Bush and his foreign-policy team have systematically and knowingly deceived the American people in
order to gain support for an unprovoked attack on Iraq.
More news behind the news, and in a startlingly similar vein to a Scoop from the very recent past. It seems that nothing
is quite as effective at tripping up the major US news networks as a statement from public enemy number one.
North Korea's recent admission of enriching uranium for the purpose of creating a nuclear weapon may be an attempt to
foil the U.S. strategy of keeping North Korea a public threat in order to facilitate the creation of the Theater Missile
Defense ...
As the war storm against Iraq swirls and gathers momentum, seeded by the efforts of the American and British
governments, serious doubts arise as to the credibility of their intelligence sources, particularly the issue of Iraq's
nuclear capability. ...
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.
This week Khidhir Hamza, a former Iraqi nuclear scientist who defected to the U.S. in 1994, testified before a U.S.
Senate panel investigating Iraq's nuclear armaments. Hamza told U.S. Senators that Iraq was three years away from
creating up to three ...
The Bush administration's proposed war in Iraq is testing how much regional powers across the globe are willing to lose
in their stand against U.S. global hegemony. As the talk of war in Iraq was still building late last year, France and
Russia spoke ...
An panoramic image of the central North Island volcanoes, from left Mt. Tongariro, Mt. Ngauruhoe and Mt. Ruapehu. The
mountains were a feature location for Lord of the Rings Trilogy filming, primarily for the final film “Return of The
King”, due ...
U.S. media touted the official line before even hearing the tape, or awaiting a reliable translation. "Undeniably links
Iraq with Al-Qaida," says one CNN anchor. And then something happened that neither the U.S. administration nor the media
anticipated: ...
1. GEORGINA BEYER to the Minister of Social Services and Employment: What recent reports has he received on the state of
the labour market?
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Where is the line between investigative discretion and obstruction of justice? What level of forewarning of attack is so
compelling that failure to order protective measures makes officials liable to prosecution for reckless endangerment?
All the bloggers have blogged, so it's time for another post. Chad has been talking to Linda Clark and I've been
listening to her. Rob's back, Damon's going away, Jolisa's dumpster-diving in the Big Apple and Debra has teenage sons.
In his speech in front of the U.N. Security Council on February 5, 2003, Colin Powell did not offer any viable new
evidence concerning Iraq's nuclear weapon capability that Bush and his entourage continue to wave as a red flag in front
of the eyes of ...
Critics Charge Control of Oil Behind Bush Drive for War with Iraq - Interview with Michael Klare, professor of peace
and world security studies at Hampshire College, conducted by Scott Harris
Sights of Auckland, taken over the weekend with a new Scoop Fuji-finepix digital camera. Scoop thanks those who have
supported Scoop via Paypal for making this photo spread possible.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait, a shortlisted candidate for position of CEO of the Maori Television Service, has described the
appointment of Mr Fox as unbelievable and highly disturbing.
For the greater majority of the world, we remember the exact moment when John F. Kennedy was shot, when Challenger blew
up in the Florida sky, when Martin Luther King was assassinated, and how the strike on Pearl Harbor instigated the
United States ...
Utter panic and ugly scenes of death in a Baghdad heavily hit by US aerial bombing. Then, just as US troops have the
special republic guard surrounded and move to storm the last citadel, taking out Iraq’s ruling elite, Saddam Hussein
detonates a dirty ...
Next week, I will be the same age the United States presidency was when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, and it got me
to wondering why that office has become so powerful in world politics in so short a time - just 214 years. (Yes, I
really am ...
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today slammed Government plans to amend the Resource Management
Act, to allow energy projects - such as the Waitaki development scheme - to proceed with haste.
The New Zealand Government this week listed the following groups and individuals as terrorist entities pursuant to the
provisions of the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002:
When it comes to earthquakes, spring was much quieter in 2002 than it was in 2001. There were only 89 earthquakes of
magnitude four and above in spring 2002, compared with 291 in the same period in 2001.
The first tranche of papers relating to the proposed strategic alliance between Air New Zealand and Qantas was posted
today on the Treasury website – www.treasury.govt.nz/release/airnz/alliance/
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 ...
The Prime Minister’s statement to Parliament on this first sitting day of the year provides a formal opportunity to
review public affairs and outline the Labour-Progressive Coalition Government’s legislative and other intentions for the
next twelve months.
How stupid do they think we are? Only hours after our much-praised Secretary of State is revealed to have been using
material plagiarized from a college student to justify why we're going to kill thousands of people with bombs, our
government ...
The veracity of Colin Powell's report on Wednesday before the United Nations Security Council was dealt a serious blow
when Britain's Channel 4 News broke a story that severely undermines the credibility of the intelligence Powell used to
make his case ...
A planned invasion by US discounter giant Costco will harm the local economy, Green MP Mike Ward warned today.