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Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest 9 May 2007

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SCOOP COMMENT & OPINION:
S59: Dr Ian Hassall - Perspective On The New Section 59
Paul Smith On Media: Crank It Up For The Oldies
MOTORNET: Best Of Both Worlds - Volvo C70
Energy: Bonus Joules - Eye of the Unknown
War & Religion: Jason Leopold - A Holy War In The US Military
UQ Wire: Dusty & 'The Boys' II
American Coup: RFK & Palast - Rove And Rove's Brain, 'Should be in jail'
US Election 2008:Sam Smith On Why Obama Is Called Black
US Attorneys: Thor Hearne The White House & A Fire In Missouri
George Tenet's Book: -Robert Parry On Tenet-Bush Pre-9/11 "Small Talk"
LATEST IRAQ WAR COMMENT & NEWS:
LATEST SOUTH ASIAN COMMENT & OPINION:
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S59: Dr Ian Hassall: Perspective On The New Section 59

- Public uncertainty over the fate of the Crimes (Substituted S59) Amendment Bill came suddenly and dramatically to an end last Wednesday. The Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition and the Bill’s sponsor called a press conference mid-morning and announced that they had struck a deal to allow the passage of the Bill which had up to then been held up by a National-led parliamentary filibuster. More >> [1]


[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00108.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00100.htm


Paul Smith On Media: Crank It Up For The Oldies

Once upon a time older TV viewers were barely considered by those running the media Market, though occasionally a stallholder might offer glimpses into their lives. Now all that's changing rapidly. See... More >> [1]


[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00075.htm


MOTORNET: Best Of Both Worlds - Volvo C70

- It’s easy to feel smug in a convertible. It’s also easy to feel a bit of a git. On the one hand you’re confident that people are looking at you enviously as you cruise with the top down, the sunlight reflecting stylishly on your sunglasses. But there’s also a sneaking suspicion that everyone’s secretly laughing at you. After all, you’re putting yourself out there as if to say, ‘this is cool, don’t you want to be like me?’ And that has its price as I was to discover. More >> [1]


[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00099.htm


Energy: Bonus Joules - Eye of the Unknown

- Dear Bryan Leyland. No, start again. Dear all the Bryan Leylands in New Zealand. And the world, for that matter. I believe you are making a massive error demolishing the Auckland Energy Community Trust, which owns most of Vector Ltd i.e. the utility grids of Auckland and Wellington cities. Your action will dwarf the disastrous fiascos of NZ Telecom and NZ Rail and will cost our nation dearly. Please, please reconsider. See... More >> [1]


[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00191.htm


War & Religion: Jason Leopold - A Holy War In The US Military

An Orthodox Jew and former petty officer in the US Navy said his civil rights were violated after a chaplain and officials at a Veterans Administration hospital in Iowa City, Iowa, tried to convert him to Christianity while he was under the VA's care. See... More >> [1]


[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00190.htm


UQ Wire: Dusty & 'The Boys' II

- A MadCowMorningNews investigation has learned that the company which owned the DC9 airliner caught carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine at an airport in Mexico’s Yucatan last year was engaged in other illegal activities as well, including massive “pump and dump” stock fraud involving a network of companies led by scandal-ridden San Diego defense contractor Titan Corp. See... More >> [1]


[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00188.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00134.htm


American Coup: RFK & Palast - Rove And Rove's Brain, 'Should be in jail'

NEW YORK -- Voting rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called for prison time for the new US Attorney for Arkansas, Timothy Griffin and investigation of Griffin's former boss, Karl Rove, chief political advisor to President Bush. See... More >> [1]


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[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00158.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00141.htm


US Election 2008:Sam Smith On Why Obama Is Called Black

- One of the jobs of a journalist is to keep cleaning up one's own mind. It is so easy to drift into a colloquial world in which habit, cliche and spin conspire to make one an unconscious co-conspirator in the myths of the time. See... More >> [1]


[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00183.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00156.htm


US Attorneys: Thor Hearne The White House & A Fire In Missouri

A high-level GOP operative and master "voter fraud" snake-oil salesman, Mark F. "Thor" Hearne of Missouri, was in charge of hiring a high-level White House/DoJ operative to help put out the fire in an investigation by former U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins, according to a recent interview. See... More >> [1]


[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00094.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00181.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00168.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00144.htm


George Tenet's Book: -Robert Parry On Tenet-Bush Pre-9/11 "Small Talk"

In late August 2001, when aggressive presidential action might have changed the course of US history, CIA Director George Tenet made a special trip to Crawford, Texas, to get George W. Bush to focus on an imminent threat of a spectacular al-Qaeda attack only to have the conversation descend into meaningless small talk. More >> [1]


[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00179.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00167.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00091.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00035.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00053.htm


LATEST IRAQ WAR COMMENT & NEWS:

  • Robert Parry - The Ongoing Iraq Intel Fraud [1]
  • William Rivers Pitt - A Veto Inked in Blood [2]
  • Toni Solo - Varieties Of Imperial Decline: The Rif To Iraq [3]
  • David Swanson - Swanson: The Hard Bigotry of the New York Times [4]
  • Dean Baker - Dean Baker: The Economic Costs of the Iraq War [5]
  • Scoop Link - Los Angeles Times Editorial: Bring Them Home [6]
  • Tanveer Jafri - Justice in George Bush's Veto? [7]
  • Lawrence R. Velvel - Dean Lawrence R. Velvel: Let’s Hear It For Hillary [8]

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    [4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00164.htm
    [5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00166.htm
    [6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00157.htm
    [7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00154.htm
    [8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00153.htm


    LATEST SOUTH ASIAN COMMENT & OPINION:

  • Bobby Ramakant - Indians Receive '07 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights [1]
  • Madan P. Khanal - Nepal: Realism And Responsibility Of Realignment [2]
  • Kamala Sarup - Diminish Violence and Extremism [3] , Kamala Sarup: Hope And Freedom For Women [4] & Violent Groups And Terrorism [5]
  • Bobby Ramakant - Addressing Gender Inequalities & Microbicides [6]

  • [1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00177.htm
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    [6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00090.htm


    MORE SCOOP COMMENT & OPINION:

  • Greg Palast - Hillary’s Mother-F’ing Tour Business [1]
  • Russell Brown & Ors. - Public Address 09/05/07 - Graceless Islanders [2] , Public Address 08/05/07 – Where The Parties Are [3] & Public Address 07/05/07 - Public Address Science [4]
  • Naomi Wolf - Fascist America, in 10 Easy Steps [5]
  • Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Negation in Meditation [6]
  • Bernard Weiner - Weiner: A Meditation On The Building Of Walls [7]
  • Kevin Roberts - Speech: You Rock My World [8]
  • Middle East News Service - Translation: Gideon Levy - Everyone Is Guilty [9]
  • Ernest Partridge - On the Morality of Science [10]
  • Richard L. Franklin - Richard Franklin: For Whom The Constitution Tolls [11]
  • Akanimo Sampson - Nigeria: Fubara Writes Odili Again! [12] , Nigeria: $60million Power Project Under Threat [13] & Nigeria: RCCG Sets Rivers, Oil State On Fire [14]
  • Lawrence R. Velvel - More Moral Meltdown In America [15] & A Nail In The Coffin Of Competent US Journalism [16]
  • Sheila Samples - When We Forget To Remember [17]
  • LA Times - LAPD "Stands Down" 60 Over May Day Violence [18]
  • Bradblog.Com - LAPD Cracks Down On Immigration Rally Crowd [19]
  • Scoop Link - Waxman May Cast Wider Net Into Niger Uranium Probe [20]
  • Narconews - Nacho del Valle, Sentenced to 67 Years in Mexico [21] , White House Firing for Trying to Protect President [22]
  • Scoop Link - Scoop Link: Military Sound Effects Killing Whales [23]
  • Fitrakis & Wasserman - Lethal Media Silence On Kent State's Smoking Guns [24]
  • David Swanson - I Told You It Was Off the Table, You Don't Listen! [25]
  • Scoop Link - NYC GOP Convention Police Papers Ordered Opened [26]
  • William Fisher - Gitmo Lawyers Push Back [27]
  • Scoop Link - The Peak Oil Crisis - Week Twelve [28]
  • Bob Fitrakis - OH Gov. Rhodes And His Relationship With The FBI [29]
  • Rabbi Michael Lerner - Spiritual Progressives Meeting with Jimmy Carter [30]

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    [29] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00135.htm
    [30] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00133.htm


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