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COMMENT & OPINION:
Police: Anne Else On
The Rickards Verdict
Lebanon: Yasmine
Ryan Photo Report From Beirut
Plamegate:
Finally Fitzmas Is Here!:
Meditations:
Where Did We Come From? Who Are We? And What Lies Ahead
For Us?
Culture: Everyone Gets Together
For Sydney Mardi Gras
Iraq: David Swanson
On The Best Way To Swiftly End The War
American Coup: Michael Collins On The Voting Rights
Revolution In Florida
Economics: Changing
How Money Works Is The Key To Changing The World
Israel/Palestine: - Red Herrings Multiplying In The
Sea Of Galilee?
UQ Wire: Rabbi Michael
Lerner On 911 Conspiracy Theory
Iran: A
Second Interview With Iran Whistleblower Karen
Kwiatkowski
MORE SCOOP COMMENT &
OPINION:
Lent 2007: Katya Rivas' Passion
Part 3
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SCOOP COMMENT & OPINION
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Police: Anne Else On The Rickards Verdict
- I didn’t
want to write this column, but it can’t be avoided. It’s
been obvious for a few years now that women are being more
and more insistently defined (and often successfully urged
to join the fun and define themselves) in terms of how
“hot” men think they are. (I haven’t seen any channel
promos featuring a woman taxi driver rabbiting on about the
hotness of a male newsreader. But vice versa – well,
that’s business as usual.) See… Some
Call It Rape: The Sex Kitten & The Tomcat [1]
MORE:
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00075.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00034.htm
Lebanon: Yasmine Ryan Photo Report From
Beirut
- Politics are everywhere in Beirut. From
the city’s west coast to Downtown, the mood is calm but
tense. There have been no outbursts of violence for two
weeks, but the political deadlock continues… See... Scoop
Photo Essay: Uneasy Calm in Central Beirut [1] .
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00039.htm
Plamegate: Finally Fitzmas Is Here!:
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Dick Cheney's Chief Of Staff Convicted Of Lying About
Revenge Attack On CIA Agent Valerie Plame (For Her Husband's
Exposure Of Iraq War Lies) - Washington - Former White
House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was convicted Tuesday of
obstruction, perjury and lying to the FBI in an
investigation into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's
identity to reporters. See... Scoop
Link: Libby Found Guilty in CIA Leak Case [1]
MORE BUSH VS RULE OF LAW COMMENT:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00116.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00110.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00101.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00095.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00100.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00111.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00062.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00061.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00058.htm
Meditations: Where Did We Come From? Who Are We? And
What Lies Ahead For Us?
- There’s a lot of interest in human origins these days. A new, permanent exhibition, featuring more than 200 casts of prehuman and human fossils, just opened at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. On the same day I came across the article about the opening of the exhibition, I happened upon the movie, “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Arthur Clark’s story and Kubrick’s classic movie address the same three questions, and were the inspiration, when it debuted in 1968, for my philosophical work in ‘theories of human nature.’ See... Martin LeFevre: Homage to “2001: A Space Odyssey” [1] . See also... Martin LeFevre: President’s Day in the USA [2]
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00083.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00078.htm
Culture: Everyone Gets Together For Sydney Mardi
Gras -
Scoop reader Jamie Melbourne-Hayward sent these images from the Sydney Mardi Gras. Jamie was marching behind a the parade float of an HIV/Aids NGO, ACON. The NGO also supports Aboriginal and Torres Straight Island issues. See... Scoop Images: Sydney Mardi Gras [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00091.htm
Iraq: David Swanson On The Best Way To Swiftly End The
War
- The shortest route to ending the Iraq war
(and preventing additional wars) is almost certainly through
Congress. Influencing the White House directly is
unimaginable, and stopping the war through the courts
unlikely. Clearly, Congress is the way to go. But what
specifically can Congress do? See.. David
Swanson: Can Congress End the War? [1] MORE
IRAQ WAR NEWS:
[1]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00073.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00115.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00114.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00099.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00104.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00068.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00065.htm
[8]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00054.htm
American Coup: Michael Collins On The Voting Rights
Revolution In Florida
-"TALLAHASSEE, FL (AP)
-- Governor Charlie Crist says he will continue working to
change the rules so that felons will have their voting
rights automatically restored once they have paid their debt
to society." This is one of the most revolutionary and
far reaching proposals made by a Southern governor in years.
See... Michael
Collins: Florida Gov. Crist Makes History [1]
MORE AMERICAN COUP NEWS:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00063.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00112.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00106.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00103.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00064.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00066.htm
Economics: Changing How Money Works Is The Key To
Changing The World
- All-too frequently I
encounter activists who don’t like to talk about money.
While they crusade loudly for “economic justice”, they
resist talking about their own relationship with money as if
it were somehow an X-rated topic on par with sexuality or
bathroom habits. In other words, these well-meaning
individuals have little or no financial literacy. For this
reason I wrote a 2005 article “Activists And Accountants:
Absolute Allies” in which I emphasized that economic
IN-justice only happens when people sacrifice sustainability
for profit and that whenever we attend to our own
sustainability and that of our community, we are practicing
economic justice, but we cannot do so without acquiring
financial literacy. See... No
Change Until You Change How Money Works [1]
MORE VIEWS ON RECENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS :
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00105.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00048.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00113.htm
Israel/Palestine: - Red Herrings Multiplying In The Sea
Of Galilee?
-While the world silently spectates
the immense suffering that the occupation continues to bring
upon an innocent peoples, the Israelis keep seeding the land
with new reality on the ground which too then becomes
"impractical" to undo and becomes new leveraging points in
any subsequent peace talks - take 10 and give back 1 if the
Palestinians behave, then repeat! This reality formally got
constructed in 1948 and is continually being constructed as
we speak, at each turn becoming impractical to undo
requiring the victims to continually having to accommodate
to the new reality for peace settlement, because true
justice is now deemed "impractical". See... Zahir
Ebrahim: The Endless Trail Of Red Herrings [1]
MORE ISRAEL/PALESTINE NEWS & VIEWS:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00049.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00102.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00072.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00096.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00084.htm
UQ Wire: Rabbi Michael Lerner On 911 Conspiracy Theory
- The I am an agnostic on the question of what
happened on 9/11. I’m convinced that there are huge holes
in the official story and contradictions that suggest that
we do not know the whole story. I would not be surprised to
learn that some branch of our government conspired either
actively to promote or passively to allow the attack on
9/11. See... Critique
Of Griffin’s “The American Empire & 9/11" [1]
MORE:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00085.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00086.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00069.htm
Iran: A Second Interview With Iran Whistleblower Karen
Kwiatkowski
- The following is a remarkable
interview of Karen Kwiatkowski who retired from the active
duty USAF as a Lieutenant Colonel in early 2003. Her final
assignment was in the Office of the Secretary of Defense,
Under Secretary for Policy Near East South ... See... Karen
Kwiatkowski On Feith, Cheney & Planning Iran [1]
MORE:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00070.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00032.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00052.htm
MORE SCOOP COMMENT & OPINION:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00093.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00089.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00074.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00088.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00108.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00080.htm
Lent 2007: Katya Rivas' Passion Part 3
- Now
let us go to the story of My Passion… The story that shall
give glory to the Father and holiness to other chosen
souls… See... Katya
Rivas: The Last Supper [1] EARLIER:
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00109.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00094.htm
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