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This film provides eyewitness testimony that U.S. troops massacred of thousands of Taliban prisoners during the Afghan
War. It's an account of thousands of prisoners who surrendered to the U.S., were herded into trucks and suffocated...
A small sample of Afghan civilians have shown "astonishing" levels of uranium in their urine, an independent scientist
says. Other researchers suggest new types of radioactive weapons may have been used by the USA in Afghanistan...
Scoop readers will be well aware of the tale of the missing trillions of dollars from the US Department of Defense. The
story of the missing trillions that the world's biggest military organisation has been unable to properly account for
has till now ...
General Franks has advised me of his desire to step down as the commander of the U.S. Central Command in the weeks
immediately ahead and his intention to retire from active duty later this summer.
The All Blacks squad announced today is undoubtedly the most controversial in recent history with numerous big names,
most notably Andrew Mehrtens and Christian Cullen not included.
Soft-drink giant, Coca-Cola, plans to launch a new milk-based drink in July aimed at children and teenagers called
"Swerve", but Scoop reckons NZ milk producers should counter-punch and launch a competition flavoured milk product
called "Too ...
1. Heather Simpson couldn't find Pete Hodgson in the power-crisis darkened corridors of the Beehive. 2. Given it's a
desert country, there's little chance Mallard could 'sink' another $34 million into another stupid yacht race.
The Green Party is inviting the public to find the nation's worst power squanderers.
As you know, I’m at Wolfson College, one of the very new colleges in Cambridge, compared with the centuries-old
Peterhouse, St John’s, Queens’ (yes – the apostrophe’s in the right place; there were two queens), King’s, Gonville & Caius (pronounced ...
Secretary of State Colin Powell took part in a press conference at the G-8 meetings in Paris May 23. Excerpts from that
briefing follow:
I have been trade minister for almost four years now, and during that time it has been a constant learning process.
The following two Op-ed opinion pieces appeared in recent days in the Washington Post Newspaper. They relate to
Rumsfeld's push for a $400 billion appropriation for the Department of Defense in which he also pushes to largely
eliminate Congressional ...
New OMB Director Josh Bolten is genetically predisposed to silence. Bolten, 48, is the son of a Seymour Bolten, a CIA
agent who worked in covert espionage. Both Josh and his father were cozy with George H.W. Bush.
Jayson Blair was a reporter for The New York Times who fooled his employers and readers by making up stories. Until a
few weeks ago he embroidered, faked and invented reports that were printed in the now embarrassed NYT and was eventually
found out and fired.
A cavernous conference room within the Colonnade Hotel in Boston became the center of gravity for the Massachusetts
liberal/progressive community on the evening of May 17.
I was so happy after the whistle went. I felt dizzy - I think I was hyperventilating from shouting at the top of my
lungs. Then I felt a bit emotional. I hugged my friends...
Within 24 hours of US criticism, Helen Clark has abandoned her 'principled' position on New Zealand's sovereignty for a
clumsy fawning offer to send the SAS back to Afghanistan, says the National Party Leader Bill English.
W32.Sobig.B@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to all the email addresses, purporting to have been sent by
Microsoft (support@microsoft.com).
A vision and direction for the development of biotechnology in New Zealand is set out in the Government’s Biotechnology
Strategy, released today [Monday 26 May].
Washington -- The U.S. Congress passed the $400.5 billion fiscal 2004 defense authorization bill that includes a
provision authorizing research on two new types of nuclear weapons -- small, low-yield nuclear weapons of less than 5
kilotons, and earth-penetrating ...
GENEVA / NEW YORK, 26 May 2003 -- Musician and activist Bob Geldof will return to Ethiopia with UNICEF next week for the
first time since his landmark visit to the drought-stricken country 20 years ago.
Recalling all its previous relevant resolutions,Reaffirming the sovereignty and territorial integrity of
Iraq,Reaffirming also the importance of the disarmament of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and of eventual
confirmation of the disarmament of Iraq,Stressing ...
ACC Minister Ruth Dyson says she is pleased to announce today the release of the consultation document for the review of
the medical misadventure provisions in the ACC scheme.
This week justifies celebration across the country as New Zealanders - Maori and pakeha alike - who believe in the
sanctity of property rights and one law for all, see the beginning of the end of the Treaty industry. Meanwhile, the
Treaty cult has ...
Goverment meeting at the PM's office in Jerusalem about the Prime Ministers statement on the Roadmap.
Wow. Shades of 'Economy in Nosedive' or what? The Herald today takes a story that even NBR relegates to page three and
devotes its entire front page to this : 'PM's comments death knell to trade deal: US'...
A Human Rights complaint has been laid with the New Zealand Human Rights Commission over the lack of access within
politics. Mr Kim Robinson a member of the Kirk Branch under the Labour Party is profoundly Deaf and relies on a NZ Sign
Language Interpreter ...
Another day another inexplicable event on the world wide weirdness. This time we have the odd case of the prescient
registration of an Internet Domain Name.
Cartoon by http://www.kiddmillennium.com …
Parents will have the chance to nominate the best and worst children's foods, at the New Zealand Children's Food Awards,
being launched by Green MP Sue Kedgley on Monday 26 May at 12 noon.