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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1:
Steve
Irwin
Australian GovernmentI was saddened and shocked to learn today of the death of Steve Irwin. Steve was a great Australian and a great Australian tourism icon who contributed enormously to our nation.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0609/S00065.htm
2:
Steve
Irwin's death a loss to environment
movement
Green PartyGreen Party Conservation Spokesperson Metiria Turei expressed her shock and dismay at the accidental death yesterday of Australian wildlife champion Steve Irwin.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0609/S00107.htm
3:
Iraqis
Who Sweated Hussein Are Leaving Under
Bush
Sherwood RossIt’s not easy to create a situation where life is better under a dictatorship than in a democracy, but George Bush has succeeded in achieving the impossible by invading Iraq.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00054.htm
4:
Steve
Irwin
Australia ZooAt 11am today, 4 September 2006, Steve Irwin was fatally wounded by a stingray barb to his heart while filming a sequence on Batt Reef off Port Douglas for a new TV series.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0609/S00072.htm
5:
Oil
Seen As Reason For U.S. Middle East
Invasions
Sherwood RossIf you think President Bush’s invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are not about oil, read bestseller “The Sorrows of Empire” by Chalmers Johnson(Owl Books).
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00033.htm
6:
Anti-bus
campaign remarkably shortsighted -
Greens
Green PartyNews that residents of two upmarket Christchurch suburbs are campaigning against a proposed bus service through the area has disgusted Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0609/S00096.htm
7:
Psychologist
who talks with the angels
Doreen VirtueShe’s a glamorous blonde American psychologist whose dramatic career change came as the result of a violent car-jacking incident in 1996.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0609/S00037.htm
TV OneThe Samoan custom of mea alofa or "lafo" may support the giving of money to chiefs but this can still be turned down without causing offence, according to a Pacific community spokesman.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0609/S00017.htm
9:
Jason
Leopold: Plame Leak(s)
Jason LeopoldRichard Armitage, the former deputy Secretary of State, may be syndicated columnist Robert Novak's primary source who told him on July 8, 2003, that Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the CIA. But that doesn't change the fact ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00030.htm
Zero Waste New ZealandThe Zero Waste New Zealand Trust views with some alarm the indication that government is to proceed with its plans to use whey and tallow for the production of biodiesel and ethanol. The Zero Waste Trust believes that the inefficient use of these valuable ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0609/S00009.htm
11:
John
Bolton: Burma, IAEA Report & Other
Matters
US State DepartmentAmbassador John R. Bolton, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Remarks to the media following a Security Council Stakeout New York City September 1, 2006
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0609/S00093.htm
12:
Bush
vs. Ahmadinejad: A TV Debate We'll Never
See
Norman SolomonWhen Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, invited President Bush to engage in a "direct television debate" a few days ago, the White House predictably responded by calling the offer "a diversion." But even though this debate will never happen, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00044.htm
13:
Official
NZ Music Chart & Chartbitz - Sept. 6
2006
Official New Zealand Music ChartBob Dylan debuts atop the Albums Chart this week with Modern Times, the third time the 65-year-old has scored a New Zealand #1 set. Dylan had the very first #1 album on the Official New Zealand Music Chart when it was launched back in May 1975 - thirty-one ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0609/S00046.htm
14:
Questions
And Answers - Tuesday, 5 September
2006
Office of the Clerk1. Savings—Support Mechanisms 2. Speech from the Throne—Political Integrity of Parliament and Electoral Process 3. Transport Network—Government Policy 4. Immigration Intelligence Unit—Ministerial Briefings 5. Members of Parliament—Payment for ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0609/S00116.htm
New Zealand Labour Party
16:
Nepal:
Secretariat of His Majesty the King
The attention of this Secretariat has been drawn to various reports in sections of the media that arms were purchased during the official visit of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Paras Bir Bikram Shah Dev to the Republic of Austria last March
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0609/S00069.htm
17:
Protest
At Funds Block In Sri Lanka
Humanitarian AppealThe humanitarian organization TRO protested the freezing of its accounts in Sri Lanka Sunday, saying the Colombo government had made no communication with the NGO, which has been registered as a charity there since 1985. Warning that “the current humanitarian ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0609/S00079.htm
18:
Stateside:
Disappearing Croc Doc Google Mystery
Rosalea BarkerIt’s Labor Day holiday here today, and it happens that in the early hours of this morning I was answering email and chanced to look over at Google News, where I learned that Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter, had died. The Age news story at the top of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00059.htm
19:
Condoleezza
Rice Interview with Essence Magazine
US State DepartmentQUESTION: Thank you for doing this for Essence. SECRETARY RICE: Oh, glad to do it. QUESTION: We're so excited. We're just so excited. So, you've talked to so many different people so we decided to also ask just regular readers, you know, some questions.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0609/S00094.htm
20:
Response
to Meningococcal Gold Rush III Claims
Ministry of HealthMinistry of Health responds to claims made by Ron Law and Barbara Sumner Burstyn in Meningococcal Gold Rush III:post-MeNZB Vaccine Update
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0609/S00014.htm
21:
Auditor
General asked to investigate National
New Zealand Labour PartyLabour strategist Pete Hodgson has today referred to the Auditor General a National Party pledge pamphlet from the 2002 election which was paid for from Parliamentary Services funding.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0609/S00091.htm
22:
Bush
& Rumsfeld: They’ve Lost the 'War of
Ideas'
Martin LeFevre - MeditationsPresident Bush made an extraordinary statement at his unexpected news conference on August 21st. He said: “the consequence of leaving Iraq before the job is done…[is that] we will have lost our soul as a nation.” The Nazis used that kind of rhetorical ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00023.htm
23:
Aucklanders
urge DHBs to review lab contract
DontRiskOurHealth.comNurses, GPs, pathologists and other medical professionals want Aucklanders to help them present a petition to the Auckland DHBs this Thursday 7th September outside Auckland Hospital, Park Road at 8:30am.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0609/S00015.htm
24:
Possible
New Nuclear Reactor is Threat to
Georgia
Atlanta Progressive News(APN) ATLANTA – A possible new nuclear reactor at the plant in Vogtle, Georgia, being plotted by big business and the Republican-controlled State Senate, is posing serious dangerous threats to the people, animals, and environment of Georgia and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00053.htm
25:
US
Officials Guilty Of Violating Anti-Torture
Laws
Sherwood RossAt least a score of high Bush Administration officials authorized, and hundreds of U.S. military and other government employees committed, crimes involving the torture of prisoners captured in the Middle East, published reports and legal documents indicate.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00039.htm
26:
Nominations
Now Open For 2006 Roger Award
CAFCAThe Roger Award is for The Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2006 Nominations are now open for the annual Roger Award, which is organised by the Christchurch-based groups Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0609/S00043.htm
27:
Scoop
Link: Israel Plans For War With Iran &
Syria
Scoop LinkThreatened by a potentially nuclear-armed Tehran, Israel is preparing for a possible war with both Iran and Syria, according to Israeli political and military sources.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00031.htm
28:
Email
shows Brethren sought to get around
rules
New Zealand Labour PartyThe National Party needs to come clean on their role in encouraging the Exclusive Brethren to pull out all the stops to ensure their $1.2 million pro-Brash campaign could be counted as separate from National's 2005 election spend up, Labour strategist ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0609/S00104.htm
29:
Kiwi
Herald: Brash Announces Alternative
Govt
The Kiwi HeraldNews too good to be true from the chronicle of Moenui - proud holder of the 'Northern Region Best Kept Grass Verge Award'
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00076.htm
30:
Jason
Miller: It’s the American Way or the
Highway
Jason MillerPersistently ticking off the precious seconds in humanity’s “Countdown to Extinction”, the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin for Atomic Scientists has advanced to seven minutes of midnight. Yet despite nuclear terror unleashed on Japan, an arms race of monumental ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00043.htm
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