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Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest May 25 2007

SCOOP COMMENT & OPINION:
Scoop Satire: Hood: Govt Struggles to Overreact to Tragedies
Mormons: LDS Church - Mexico Drug Money Connection?
Motornet: A Bit Of Swagger
Whistle Blowing: Exec. Blows The Whistle On Pfizer
Spying In The USA: Michael Collins - Comey’s Evidence Of A Crime
Video/Cartoon: Jim Hightower on Why We're in Iraq
Israel/OT: M Shahid Alam - Chosenness & Israeli Exceptionalism
US Attorneys: Missing Rove Emails A Violation of Records Act
American Coup: Inconvenient Truths About Stolen Elections?
Impeachment: 13 State Democratic Parties Demand Impeachment
Iraq War: Dean Baker - The Peace Weenies Were Right
LATEST SOUTH ASIAN NEWS & COMMENT:
RIP: Bill Berkowitz - Jerry Falwell
Budget 2007: Budget Crisis - Lack of Nickname
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Scoop Satire: Hood: Govt Struggles to Overreact to Tragedies

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Satire by Lyndon Hood - The purpose of the State, it is widely accepted, is to stop bad things happening. Recent events show this Government's spectacular failure in this regard. Their only hope is that other role was ask of our leaders, finding the right overreaction in a crisis. More >> [1]


[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00456.htm


Mormons: LDS Church - Mexico Drug Money Connection?

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has had a presence in what is now Mexico since the 1870s. Some of those early polygamist Mormon settlers of Chihuahua's Colonia Dublan and Colonia Juarez – where Mitt Romney’s father George W. was ... See... More >> [1]


[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00311.htm


Motornet: A Bit Of Swagger

Rightly or wrongly, Jaguar’s are often seen as stately, even genteel cars – cars that convey their passengers in comfort and silence, cosseted, removed even from the real world. It’s the smoking jacket effect, lingering on even in the face of some modern and technologically advanced product. See... More >> [1]


[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00453.htm


Whistle Blowing: Exec. Blows The Whistle On Pfizer

- On November 17, 2005 Pfizer’s CEO Jeff Kindler, who was then Pfizer’s General Counsel, received and read a highly unusual e-mail, according to the internal read receipt on that mail. See... More >> [1]


[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00454.htm
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[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00426.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00368.htm


Spying In The USA: Michael Collins - Comey’s Evidence Of A Crime

Tuesday was a remarkable day at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearings . The exchange between Sen. Charles Schumer, R, NY and former Deputy Attorney General James Comey provides clear evidence pointing to criminal activity by the president, U.S ... See... More >> [1]


[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00343.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00423.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00395.htm


Video/Cartoon: Jim Hightower on Why We're in Iraq

US national radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of Thieves In High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time to Take It Back, Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be. Here's his recent video-cartoon. See... More >> [1]


[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00316.htm


Israel/OT: M Shahid Alam - Chosenness & Israeli Exceptionalism

No idea has played a more seminal role in the recent history of Jewish and Christian Zionism than the Jewish doctrine of divine election or chosenness.[1] Since this doctrine is the cornerstone of Zionism, divine sanction for Jewish uniqueness has ... See... More >> [1]


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[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00449.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00396.htm


US Attorneys: Missing Rove Emails A Violation of Records Act

Three years ago, Robert Luskin, the attorney who defended White House Political Adviser Karl Rove in the CIA leak case, made a startling discovery: a July 2003 email Rove sent to then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley proved Rove was ... See... More >> [1]


[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00435.htm
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[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00302.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00363.htm


American Coup: Inconvenient Truths About Stolen Elections?

- Al Gore has just made his second major contribution to our national political dialog. His first, "An Inconvenient Truth," has helped make the perils of global warming real to the American mainstream. See... More >> [1]


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Impeachment: 13 State Democratic Parties Demand Impeachment

It took 13 colonies to throw out the last King George. Thirteen state Democratic parties have now passed resolutions demanding impeachment, nine of them since Nancy Pelosi ordered the Democratic Party away from impeachment. See... More >> [1]


[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00445.htm
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[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00391.htm


Iraq War: Dean Baker - The Peace Weenies Were Right

Last week I was struck to see a well-respected centrist foreign policy analyst discuss President Bush's "surge" as a serious policy for bringing stability to Iraq. This sight was striking, because at this point it is very difficult to imagine the surge ... See... More >> [1]


[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00432.htm
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[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00301.htm


LATEST SOUTH ASIAN NEWS & COMMENT:

  • Rajat KC - Young Communist League Or Young Criminal League [1]
  • Kamala Sarup - Patriotism Is Important In A Democracy [2] , Strong Development Policy [3] & US Democracy in South Asia [4]
  • Tanveer Jafri - India: Failure Of Another Effort To Spoil Harmony [5] & A Change Awaits Pakistan [6]
  • Dr. Chandrakala - Nepal - Anniversary [7]
  • Sanjay Upadhya - Nepal: The Koiralas - Crown Compulsions [8]
  • Bobby Ramakant - India MOH Alert On Iron-Deficiency Anaemia [9] & Medical Students Need To Quit Tobacco First [10]
  • Mohan Nepali- Mohan Nepali: Oil Politics Tortures the Nepalis [11]

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    [10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00357.htm
    [11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00356.htm


    RIP: Bill Berkowitz - Jerry Falwell

    The Reverend Jerry Falwell, who died Tuesday at the age of 73, is perhaps best known for his fundamentalist social positions and tirades against lesbians, gays and feminists, not to mention "pagans", "abortionists" and assorted other miscreants. See... More >> [1]


    [1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00409.htm
    [2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00394.htm


    Budget 2007: Budget Crisis - Lack of Nickname

    - Concern is mounting in political and media circles that Michael Cullen's latest budget may not receive a proper nickname. This puts media coverage of an important economic issue in jeopardy and raises the terrifying possibility that no part of the Government's ... See... More >> [1]


    [1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00344.htm
    [2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00342.htm
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    [5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00337.htm


    MORE SCOOP COMMENT & OPINION:

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  • Rosalea Barker- Stateside With Rosalea: All Over The Map [5]
  • Ernest Partridge - Ernest Partridge: Liberals and Libertarians [6]
  • Harvey Wasserman - Bush, Rudy and Whitman to New York: Drop Dead [7] & Harvey Wasserman: Can BLUE GRIT win in 2008? [8]
  • Evelyn Pringle - FDA Protects SSRI Makers With Misleading Warning [9]
  • Martin LeFevre - Martin LeFevre: Paradise Lost [10] & Martin LeFevre: A Workable Global Polity, Part Two [11]
  • UQ Wire: Alain Chouet 911 Interview With Le Monde [12] , Senators Want CIA to Release 9/11 Report [13] , Letter to Tweety & MSNBC regarding Rudy Giuliani [14] & Italian Television Enters The "911" Ring [15]
  • Frida Berrigan - US Is No. 1: A Nation of Firsts Arms the World [16]
  • Sam Smith - Undernews: The Coup In Waiting Peeks Out Again [17]
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  • Kelpie Wilson - Climate Change Despair, Empowerment [19]
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  • William Fisher - Padilla Trial Opens in Miami [25]
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    [27] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00306.htm

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