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Published: Thu 27 Mar 2003 09:24 AM
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Yesterday’s top 29 rating items on Scoop were...
1: War Pictures Cause Yellowtimes.Org To Be Shut Down
Somebody doesn't like hearing the truth. Okay, for a second, lets scratch that and choose a slightly less politically charged term. Someone doesn't like to be disputed with alternative views, counterclaims, research and fact. Someone wants you, the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00228.htm
2: Scoop Images: U.S. POWs Shown On Al Jazeera TV
An unknown group of U.S. soldiers have been captured by Iraqi forces. The U.S. mainstream media has not shown footage of the event, even though they have shown footage of Iraqi POWs. Apparently there are five U.S. soldiers captured, and an unknown number ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00212.htm
3: Scoop Link: Dick Cheney's Daughter A Human Shield?
The London based Arabic daily Al Quds Al Arabi reported on Tuesday, March 25 that the American vice president, Dick Cheney, would soon head to the Jordanian capital, Amman. The newspaper claimed that the visit would be an attempt by Cheney to convince ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00239.htm
4: HARD NEWS 26/03/03 - What The Russians Are Seeing
Official Iraqi information on the war seems to have been a mixture of the familiar grand fantasy and apparently reliable body counts. The coalition side, meanwhile, seems desperately keen to reassure us that it's all going to plan, when in some respects ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00243.htm
5: Iraq And Waco: Same Op., Larger Scale — Same End?
Has anybody but me noticed that this tragic and needless Iraq operation is just like Waco? Most of you remember Waco, that 51-day siege in 1993 in which thugs with badges refused all opportunity to talk to people and figure out what the problem ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00240.htm
6: Scoop Images: The Last Iraq War Looked Like This
A few days after the end of the Gulf ground war, an American soldier inspects the carbonized bodies of Iraqi soldiers killed when their convoy of vehicles was bombed and strafed by Allied aircraft as the convoy attempted to retreat from Kuwait back ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00125.htm
7: Scoop Images: Kuwait And Iraq Satellite Images
Image of Kuwait and Iraq taken today by the NOAA Modis satellite imagery programme. Each image below zooms in closer on the head of the Gulf, and a larger version of each image can be viewed by clicking on the images. Scoop will post follow up images ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00189.htm
8: WTO, War and Globalisation: Forever New Frontiers
Forever New Frontiers could be the motto for the world’s self-styled globocop. From Plan Colombia in Central America to Operation Balikatan here in the Philippines, from the roundups and detention of Middle Eastern and Asian immigrants across America ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00213.htm
9: US POW Has New Zealand Citizenship
A USA based news agency has named one of the American POW’s as Sgt. James Riley, who also holds New Zealand citizenship. Riley is reported as having lived in New Zealand until the age of ten years.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00233.htm
10: UQ Wire: A Very Odd Incident At LaGuardia Airport
White powder and gas mask are found in luggage, but Israeli woman not detained and allowed to board plane to Texas. - The Texas FBI won't return calls asking if the woman has actually been interviewed. - The powder tests positive for anthrax, then ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00211.htm
11: Satellite Images: Iraq Bathed In A Winged Cloud
Image taken by the NASA MODIS satellite Terra 01/28/03 07:50 UTC
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00148.htm
12: Scoop Images: Heavenly Skies Over Ohau
More images from Norman McKay of the environs of Lake Ohau, the most beautiful mountain village in the world, location of several Lord of The Rings location shoots, and venue for the most remarkable sunsets ever seen. Send feedback to.. Norman Mackay ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00222.htm
13: Don't be alarmed. No, really. Don't.
Stateside with Rosalea: Don't be alarmed. No, really. Don't - Gmng, gmng, gmng! Do you still have a smile that looks like a left-over from last year? That's what a radio ad for a dentist just asked, with totally unconscious humour. And did my ears ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00236.htm
14: Advertising is All About the Product—Yeah Right!
Most of us are well familiar with the “Yeah Right” billboard campaign that has been used to advertise Tui Beer. We can recall such slogans as “I’ve got something in my eye”, “I’d rather have a quiet one tonight”, and “I’ve been studying all summer”.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00244.htm
15: Thom Hartmann: How To Take Back America
Marching in the streets is important work, but wouldn't we have greater success if we also took control of the United States government? It's vital to point out right-wing-slanted reporting in the corporate media, but isn't it also important to seize enough political ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00241.htm
16: Al Jazeera TV Statement on Bin Laden Tape
Al Jazeera Satellite Channel received Tuesday evening 11th of February 2003 an An audio tape carrying a message from the leader of Al Qaeda Osama Bin Laden.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0302/S00132.htm
17: Jason Leopold: The Reality of War Sinks In
I hope the stock market gets hammered. I hope the Iraqis set fire to as many oil fields as possible. I hope oil prices in the United States surge and shortages persist. I hope the antiwar protestors become disobedient. I hope the economy never recovers. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00227.htm
18: Matthew Reid: Embarrassing Your Nation
The Iraqi people have a long and celebrated history. Mesopotamia, the Cradle of Civilization, has been subjugated by the most uncivil of regimes. Saddam Hussein and, to borrow a favorite phrase of the Iraqi Minister of Information, his criminal gang have left ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00229.htm
19: Eco-Economy: Economic Perspective On The War
*** It's Not About Oil Or Iraq. It's About The US And Europe Going Head-To-Head On World Economic Dominance. ***
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00182.htm
20: Amnesty: Iraq/USA - No Double Standards For POWs
Amnesty International called today on all sides of the conflict to treat prisoners of war (POWs) in full conformity with the Third Geneva Convention, and warned, in a new report, against double standards in the upholding of international law.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0303/S00397.htm
21: Momentum Builds for New UN Peace Resolution
Demands for a UN emergency session are on the rise! 32,015 of you have written to UN Ambassadors around the world. You've sent 29,700 E-cards to friends, colleagues, fellow students, and family members. This is an extraordinary response in a very ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0303/S00377.htm
22: Questions Of The Day Transcript - 25 March 2003
1. GORDON COPELAND (United Future) to the Minister of Energy: Does he stand by his statement made last April that Max Bradford’s 1998 electricity reforms were “irreversible or mostly irreversible”, and does he believe the market model is the best way forward ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0303/S00477.htm
23: Supercomputer Weather: Long Range NZ Rain Forecast
New Zealand is currently experiencing a severe drought. Many farming areas have received no significant rain since Christmas, and Hydro lake inflows were yesterday running at 54% of average.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00234.htm
24: Scoop Advertising – All You Need To Know
CONTENTS: 1. General Information – Audience Statistics - The Scoop Market 2. Why Advertise On Scoop? - Increasing Brand Awareness - Generating Profile For Announcements & Product Launches - Generating Traffic To Online Services - Generating A Response ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00084.htm
25: Iraq: Treatment of POWs
Amnesty International calls on the Iraqi authorities to treat United States (US) prisoners of war in full conformity with the Third Geneva Convention, following the broadcast today on Iraqi television of captured US soldiers. They should not be subjected ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0303/S00358.htm
26: John Cory: Your Media At Work
Have you noticed? The media? Used and abused by Rumsfeld and still breathlessly sucking the exhaust pipe of war that left them at the starting gate. There is no need to ask how far this American corporate media will stoop because they would first ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00238.htm
27: Stateside: You Go, Gollum!
Well, *that* creature won't ever work in this town again. No, I don't mean Clammy G, but the lady in the beautiful gown at the Oscars who was shown mouthing "And so they should!" at Steve Martin's wisecrack that a bunch of teamsters were ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00220.htm
28: Poor Reporting on Iraq Weapons Claims
A lack of skepticism toward official U.S. sources has already led prominent American journalists into embarrassing errors in their coverage of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, particularly in relation to claims that proof had been found that Iraq possesses ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0303/S00403.htm
29: Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tube Talk: Hollywood's Biggest Night - Stateside: Rosalea's War Diary - Monday - War Is Not Like A Basketball Mis-match - The War Pictures You Are Not Supposed To See - Priest Paints Cross Of His Blood On US Consulate Floor - Scoop Satire: Blair ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00235.htm
30: HARD NEWS 25/03/03 - Factualities
The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines actuality as "reality; realism", or, in plural, "existing conditions". This, said the communications manager of the Arab satellite channel al-Jazeera, Jihad Ali Ballout, to Paul Holmes last night, is the essence ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00230.htm
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