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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
On May 30, US President George Bush told Polish television that the US military had found Iraq's “weapons of mass
destruction” (WMD). Well, sort of. Remember the three (some media outlets have inaccurately reported two) trailers the
US found.
Wolfowitz - ''The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy we settled on the
one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason, but -- Hold on one
second.''
Let's be blunt. The real agenda of the new conservatives is nothing less than the destruction of democracy in the United
States of America. And feudalism is one of their weapons.
The Palestine National Authority (PNA) Minister of Information, Nabil Amre, condemned the Israeli assassination attempt
on Hamas political leader Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi as a “terrorist attack” aimed at sabotaging the Palestinian government’s
efforts ...
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today that TV3's lead story that the ACT Caucus had re-suspended Donna Awatere Huata is
totally wrong.
Forced to evacuate staff and suspend deliveries of desperately needed medical and health supplies, United Nations
relief agencies in Liberia warned that a "dire humanitarian situation" is unfolding as rebel forces close in on the
capital, ...
The Palestine National Authority (PNA) strongly condemned the Israeli extra-judicial assassination attempt on the life
of Hamas leader Abdul Aziz Al-Rantisi in Gaza City early Tuesday as a premeditated operation to torpedo international
efforts to reactivate ...
1. Iraq—Peacekeepers 2. Rail Network—Protection 3. United States—Prime Minister's Views 4. Housing—Supply 5.
Immigrants—Qualifications 6. Te Mângai Pâho—Mâori Sportscasting International 7. Reports—United Nations Committee on the
Rights of the Child 8. Mâori ...
Sources within the New York Times say Howell Raines would still be executive editor if only he had refrained from
pressuring publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. to sign off on a major investigative story that, it turned out, simply was
not fit to print.
"I'm from the South, so I've had people like that in my home. They're one step up from trailer trash." People like the
Clintons, that is. Thus spake a well-heeled matron in a San Francisco bookstore vox pop last week, when asked if she was
likely ...
The veneer of civilization is thin. We know this from our own observations, and various writers -- from Shakespeare to
Sinclair Lewis (''It Can't Happen Here'') -- have shown us how easily populations can be manipulated by leaders
skillfully playing ...
1. DAVID BENSON-POPE to the Minister of Immigration: Has she followed up on the correspondence tabled in the House
yesterday by Dail Jones who alleged the Minister turned a blind eye to fraudulent and improper activity?
As the swelter of anger bubbles from the machination of misinformation that led to the faltering WMD casus belli for
invading Iraq, the retreat and half-baked excuses of Bush, Blair, Cheney, Wolfowitz and Powell further expose the sharp
edge of their ...
Tonga's form of governance can be described as a benevolent regal autocracy. Saudi Arabia with freedom for women and no
religious police, perhaps. Or a more genial version of any of the Gulf States. The king is, well, King . . .
Cartoon by http://www.kiddmillennium.com…
SECRETARY POWELL: I want to thank you for joining the party on a Sunday afternoon, and on our way to Santiago, Chile
for the annual General Assembly of the Organization of American States.
Cartoon By John Chuckman
NOTE: The following is a translation of the Polish Newsweek article linked to by Scoop last week. A big thankyou to
Scoop reader Luke for providing the translation. – The Scoop Editor
The G8 summit was portrayed in the usual circles as a success for American diplomacy. This conclusion is apparently
based on the idea that the Americans came with an agenda and had another party to go to afterward. That
ACC SUPPORT-ACTION GROUPS are appalled to see yet another example of ACC's blatant disregard for human dignity
featuring on the Holmes Show last night. Following TV 3's exposure on its 20/20 programme of paraplegic Richard
Maxwell's plight last weekend, ...
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, ...
“I voted for the Republicans. The Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth.” -Monica Lewinsky
Myanmar: UN Envoy Sees Daw Aung San Suu Kyi; Annan Urges Her Release United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today
welcomed the report from his Special Envoy for Myanmar that he has seen Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, but also remained
seriously concerned ...
Being still a relative newcomer to the US, I'm sometimes at a loss to understand the correct etiquette in a particular
situation. Is it bad manners, for example, to sock a supermarket checkout operator in the chops when she holds you up by
reading ...
(New York, June 10, 2003) - Following a meeting on Friday of legal advisors at European Union (EU) headquarters in
Brussels, the EU Political and Security Committee today adopted a revised Common Position reinforcing EU support for the
International Criminal ...
In December of 2002, the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press released a study titled, "What the World
Thinks in 2002." The study, containing poll results from 27 countries around the world, examines how the global
community perceives the ...
Emirates Airlines decision to fly between Dubai and Auckland from 1 August would provide a significant boost to our
links with the Middle East, Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton said today.
The two ACC failures towards a paraplegic and a tetraplegic reported on TV 3's 20/20 last Sunday and on Holmes last
night, are not isolated incidents but are just the tip of an iceberg of systemic failure by an organisation who has
responsibility for ...
The evidence, or lack thereof, speaks for itself. In the months leading up to the war in Iraq, the Bush administration
produced hundreds of pages of intelligence for members of Congress and for the United Nations that showed how Iraq’s
President Saddam ...
Wellington is a city twitching irritably in the throes of a crisis today as regional coffee-levels slumped to their
lowest point since the pre-café days of the 1970’s.