The top 30 rating items on Scoop for the week ended Friday 20th June 2003 were...
In This Edition: Just Whose Revisionist History Is That George? - Revisionist History Is Code For Holocaust Denial -
And Does George Really Want To Remind Us About The Holocaust? - Why Then Would Bush Risk Such An Association?
Dear Dr. Rice: Since March 17, 2003, I have been trying without success to get a direct answer to one simple question:
Why did President Bush cite forged evidence about Iraq's nuclear capabilities in his State of the Union address?
Dear Diary: The war went well. We licked those Iraqi towelheads real quick. We didn't get Saddam, though, which is more
than a little embarassing, since we also didn't get Osama in Afghanistan. Makes me look bad. Also makes me look like I'd
rather have ...
One by one, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are falling into line and voting to join the European Union. In
all cases, the pattern is basically the same.
Many Americans are suggesting that the Patriot Act (and its proposed "improvements" in Patriot II) is totally new in
the experience of America and may spell the end of both democracy and the Bill of Rights. History, however, shows
another view, which ...
A real resistance movement seems to be starting up in Iraq. Although the Pentagon and Donald Rumsfeld are blaming
attacks against US troops on Saddam supporters and Baath Party members, it looks like a countrywide uprising is
starting.
Q1. [116549] Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 4 June.
GRAPHIC IMAGES MAY DISTURB: The purpose of information sharing is to empower individuals to make informed choices. If
publishing these images causes those, who would support more killing to consider their decisions, then publishing is
justified.
Richard L. Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State Akasaka Prince Hotel Tokyo, Japan June 10, 2003
After several years teaching high school, I've heard all the excuses. I didn't get my homework done because my computer
crashed, because my project partner didn't do their part, because I feel sick, because I left it on the bus, because I
had a dance ...
President Bush and virtually the entire American power structure lied to the whole world when they said Iraq possessed
weapons of mass destruction that were an imminent threat to the safety of the so-called free world.
The following speech by Sen. Jim Jeffords was delivered at the National Press Club on June 5, 2003 to commemorate the
second anniversary of his decision to leave the Republican Party and become the Senate's only Independent.
A power confrontation between the EU and USA looms. Is the stoush just Washington demanding compliance from a former
subservient diplo-partner? Or is this the emergence of a new world superpower, the inauguration of a 21st Century Cold
War Clash?
A country with an unsustainable external debt burden, an overvalued exchange rate leading to increasingly large current
account deficits, a huge and deteriorating fiscal position: Argentina 2001 or the USA 2003?
As delegates to the Somalia Peace and Reconciliation Conference begin, in the coming days, to choose an interim
parliament, Amnesty International calls on them to ensure that the new members of parliament, and of the interim
government it will subsequently ...
Afghanistan, the country the U.S. invaded after 9/11/01 to root out al-Qa’ida and remove the repressive regime of the
Taliban. In all respects the stated intentions of U.S. policy makers and leaders have gone terribly off course. This
isn’t just ...
Mass media’s obligation is to fulfill the critical role of fourth estate, the defenders of public interest. The term is
frequently attributed to the nineteenth century historian Thomas Carlyle who ranked the press above and apart from the
three Estates of Parliament. ...
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 ...
United Nations Special Envoy Razali Ismail has just visited Burma and was able to bring us news that Aung San Suu Kyi, a
Nobel Peace Prize winner and the leader of a peaceful democratic party known as the National League for Democracy, is
well and ...
Why mince words? These are the facts: 1) President George W. Bush is a liar. 2) Secretary of State Colin Powell is a
liar. 3) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is a liar. 4) National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice is a liar.
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
A Scoop reader has asked if anyone has a screen-shot of TV3 news where a photograph of U.S. President George Bush was
thought to be captioned: “Professional Fascist”. All responses to editor@scoop.co.nz
The photos below were taken at 5.15pm just as the sun was sinking behind the Ohau mountain range. The cloud formation
and the setting sun created this wonderful assortment of colours that would be near on impossible to reproduce.
WASHINGTON, April 12, 2003 – Coalition forces in Iraq are using a specially created deck of 55 playing cards to identify
the "most wanted" members of Saddam Hussein's regime.
...there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all
its citizens and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud.
W32.Bugbear.B@mm is a variant of W32.Bugbear@mm (originally discovered and named in the Sydney Symantec Security
Response Centre in October 2002) and appears to be spreading quickly.
With No Weapons of Mass Destruction Yet Found in Iraq, White House Justification for War Comes Under Fire - Interview
with Reese Erlich, journalist and author, conducted by Scott Harris
1. ROD DONALD to the Minister for the Environment: What steps has the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet taken to
ensure that “Sustainable development must be at the core of all government policy.” as announced in the Sustainable
Development ...
ROD DONALD (Co-Leader—Green): I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. We submitted this question to the Prime Minister
because we believed that the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet is coordinating the Government’s sustainable
development ...
QUESTION: The trip to Jordan, the stop in Jordan, any chance you’ll go on to Israel and talk to the Palestinians?