Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest 2 May 2007

Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 3:51 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

SCOOP COMMENT & OPINION:
Scoop Satire: "Anti-Shoving" Debate Nears Climax
NZ Economy: Keith Rankin On Fixing Monetary Policy
PlameGate: Tenet Book Blames White House for "16 Words"
Book Review: Suzan Mazur Reviews Joe Conason's "It Can Happen Here"
Bush Vs Rule Of Law: White House Faces Sweeping Congressional Oversight
US Attorneys: USA Under Attack for "Terror Trophy" Prosecutions
American Coup: David L. Dill Speaks Out In Favour Of HR 811
Iraq: Robert Parry Assesses The War President's Charlie Rose IV
LATEST IMPEACHMENT NEWS & VIEWS:
LATEST ISRAEL/PALESTINE NEWS & VIEWS:
LATEST SOUTH ASIAN COMMENTARY:
MORE SCOOP COMMENT & OPINION:

Scoop Satire: "Anti-Shoving" Debate Nears Climax

- In recent years a number of anti-violence campaigners have decried the "reasonable force in the pursuit of beer" defence for assault under the Crimes Act. The campaign has reached Parliament, and a controversial members bill will come to a vote soon. More>> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00009.htm

NZ Economy: Keith Rankin On Fixing Monetary Policy

- There seems to be growing acknowledgement that tight monetary policy (ie the actions taken by the Reserve Bank to raise interest rates) is a flawed concept. More commentators and policymakers are accepting that, at best, that the actions of the Reserve Bank ... See... More >> [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00058.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00463.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00415.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00349.htm

PlameGate: Tenet Book Blames White House for "16 Words"

- Ex-CIA chief says he was "in bed, asleep" during Bush's 2003 State of the Union speech when the president claimed Iraq was attempting to obtain uranium from Niger. "Steve, take it out," the ex-CIA director writes in a new book, "At the Center of the Storm," about a conversation he had with Hadley on October 5, 2002, about the 16 words that alleged Iraq tried to obtain uranium from Niger. See... More >> [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00035.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00053.htm

Book Review: Suzan Mazur Reviews Joe Conason's "It Can Happen Here"

- With the dismantling of security states there is generally a toppling of the symbol of the reign of terror. America’s emblem has come to be the surveillance camera, which exploded on the US landscape as the PATRIOT Act began the usurping of precious freedoms of speech, assembly, due process, legal representation, and freedom from search and seizure. Like some alien invasion cooked up by the producers of a cheap, sleazy science fiction movie, the camera suddenly allowed corporate property rights to trump an individual’s right to privacy. See... More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00059.htm

Bush Vs Rule Of Law: White House Faces Sweeping Congressional Oversight

- Jason Leopold Writes: Congress took unprecedented action against the Bush administration Wednesday, using its sweeping powers to vigorously pursue testimony and documents from key White House officials and agencies on issues that have mired the administration in at least a ... See... More >> [1] MORE BUSH VS RULE OF LAW:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00021.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00036.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00067.htm

US Attorneys: USA Under Attack for "Terror Trophy" Prosecutions

- A small but increasingly vocal group of protesters is charging that a United States attorney in northern New York has pursued a series of terror-related "political prosecutions" to enhance his reputation as "a loyal Bushie" and thus avoid the fate of eight of his colleagues recently fired by Alberto Gonzales's Department of Justice. See... More >> [1] MORE US ATTORNEYS NEWS & VIEW:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00024.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00460.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00028.htm

American Coup: David L. Dill Speaks Out In Favour Of HR 811

- Four years ago, when I began publicly opposing paperless electronic voting, passing a federal law to require voter-verified paper records (VVPRs) seemed an impossible dream. Rep. Rush Holt (D-New Jersey) introduced such a bill in 2003, and another ... See... More >> [1] . See also... Nancy Tobi: Rebuttal To Dill Support of the HR811 Trojan Horse [2] MORE AMERICAN COUP NEWS:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00037.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00043.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00464.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00462.htm
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[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00026.htm
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00017.htm

Iraq: Robert Parry Assesses The War President's Charlie Rose IV

- Robert Parry Writes: George W. Bush admits he has no evidence that a withdrawal timetable from Iraq would be harmful. Instead, the President told interviewer Charlie Rose that this core assumption behind his veto threat of a Democratic war appropriation bill is backed by "just ... See... More >> [1] MORE IRAQ WAR NEWS & VIEWS:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00018.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00070.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00032.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00019.htm

LATEST IMPEACHMENT NEWS & VIEWS:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00041.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00040.htm

LATEST ISRAEL/PALESTINE NEWS & VIEWS:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00022.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00052.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00045.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00013.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00002.htm

LATEST SOUTH ASIAN COMMENTARY:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00027.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00033.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00048.htm
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[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00012.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00457.htm

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