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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Two
Former Saddam Hussein Officials In
NZ?
In Parliament's Question Time this afternoon New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters has alleged that a former Iraqi Agriculture and Agrarian Reform Minister, and representative to the FAO has been living in New Zealand for a month.
2:
Screw
cap manual released at London Wine
Fair
Taming the screw: A manual for winemaking with screw caps will be released next month at the London International Wine & Spirit Fair. This exhaustive technical manual details all of the procedures relevant to the use of screw caps on bottled wine.
3:
Questions
for Oral Answer -Tuesday, 3 May 2005
1. Hon PETER DUNNE to the Minister of Health: Does she believe that Pharmac's operating policies and procedures deliver consistently satisfactory outcomes sufficient to ensure the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders; if so, why?Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Googling
Amer Mahdi Saleh Khashaly
Some cursory research into the Saddam Hussein Cabinet Minister who allegedly arrived in NZ on a UN Passport a month ago reveals skant, albeit interesting, information.
5:
Winner
Of Roger Award For The Worst Transnational
The full 18 page Judges' Report, including a Financial Analysis, is attached as a PDF. It will also be online at www.cafca.org.nz from midnight tonight.
6:
NZ
Border Security "In Tatters"
New Zealand’s border security is described as being in tatters after Rt Hon Winston Peters revealed today that another more senior Iraqi and his wife have been allowed into New Zealand and have not been picked up by immigration officials.
7:
PM's
Presser: Defence & Defending On Doone
In This Edition: - Burton Plays Increased defence Spending Card - Academic Concurs With Minister - Doone Verification Defended By Prime Minister
8:
PM
Backs Decision To Revoke Saddam Official’s
Visa
The Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that the Iraqi man who has had his visitor’s visa revoked has not broken any laws but that the Immigration Minister and Labour Department’s decision to revoke his visa was correct.
9:
Public
Address 03/05/05 - Scoops And
Blackouts
How clever of Metro magazine to stage a major power cut last night as a marketing device for its cover story on Auckland's ailing infrastructure. Or possibly not. Anyway, shortly before 7pm, the lights went out in Pt Chevalier, Grey Lynn, Westmere, ...
10:
Questions
& Answers for Oral Answer 3 May
2005
1. Pharmac—Policies and Procedures 2. Police—Former Commissioner 3. Cataract Operations—Announcements 4. Immigration—Iraqi Former Official 5. Public Service—Staff Numbers 6. Police—Former Commissioner 7. Public Works Act—Land Acquisition 8. Police—Former Commissioner
11:
Am
Johal: Oil And Palestine - The New Cold
War
Two significant events happened last week - both of which carried more meaning than their literal interpretation. But they both had everything do with the New Cold War and the reality of American hegemony.
12:
ACT's
The Letter Monday, 02 May
2005
Parliament resumes on Tuesday with MPs wanting to know why the PM never told parliament she was the reason the media printed false and defamatory claims about Police Commissioner Peter Doone. The Reserve Bank admits it does not know what is happening in the economy ...
13:
Labour
must change defence
attitude
National’s Defence spokesman, John Carter, says Labour must change its whole focus on defence.
14:
Most
murderous countries for journalists
ID-ed
New York, May 2 2005 - Murder is the leading cause of job-related deaths among journalists worldwide, and the Philippines is the most murderous country of all, a new analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists has found. Iraq, Colombia, Bangladesh, and ...
15:
Former
Iraqi Ag. Minister May Have Visited in
1984
Further research into the former Iraqi Cabinet Minister named in Parliament today by Winston Peters as having arrived in New Zealand a month ago on a UN passport has revealed that he may have visited New Zealand in 1984 as a guest of the Government.
16:
Cohn:
Team Bush Goes Unpunished for
Torture
Team Bush Goes Unpunished for Torture By Marjorie Cohn t r u t h o u t | Perspective Monday 02 May 2005 From: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/050205B.shtml
17:
Mallard
gives students the Heineken
treatment
National’s Education spokesman, Bill English, says it’s outrageous that Trevor Mallard is blaming students for the failure of his $65 million student support package.
18:
Job
Related Deaths Top 2 Million Annually
With job-related accidents and illnesses claiming more than 2 million lives each year, and the toll rising because of rapid industrialization in some developing countries, the United Nations labour and health agencies joined forces today in calling for ...
19:
Sentence
trivialises sex violence against
children
The paltry fine imposed on a lawyer convicted of importing objectionable material trivialises the sexual exploitation of children and young people, says an organization working to combat the trade.
20:
HIV/AIDS
crisis in Papua New Guinea
A recent report that Papua New Guinea stands to lose nearly half of its labour force to HIV/AIDS is a warning the whole of the Pacific region should heed, the New Zealand AIDS Foundation says.
21:
Democracy
Triple Play: Ecuador, Mexico to the
OAS
For the first time in the history of the Organization of American States, the United States has been unable to impose its own candidate as head of that organization.
22:
Goff
introduces Evidence Bill
Decades of judicial decisions and reforms of statutes have been brought together in an Evidence Bill introduced to Parliament today by Justice Minister Phil Goff.
23:
Paul
Buchanan: On the Issue of NZ's
Defence
Beyond the unseemly spectacle of politicians using the commemorations of duty and sacrifice on ANZAC Day to score cheap partisan points on the issue of New Zealand’s defence, the question begs as to what, exactly, they are on about.
24:
Nepal:
Cynicism Amid Competing
Visions
The range of reaction to King Gyanendra’s announcement last week lifting the state of emergency he imposed on February 1 after dismissing Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba’s government and taking over the reins of government underscores the cynicism ...
25:
When
$3 billion is worthless
"Minister of Disarmament Mark Burton yesterday announced the next 10 years of inflation adjustments to the defence budget," notes Libertarianz Defence Spokesman Robert Palmer. "Surrounded by his antiwar protester comrades, the hapless minister ...
26:
Politicians
don’t care about murdered
prostitutes
The headline was “dead woman ran local massage parlour”. Another prostitution related murder occurs over the weekend in Auckland. Crime and prostitution have always been and will be closely linked in New Zealand. But the hedonists in our parliament ensured ...
27:
Stateside
Images: Boise, Idaho
When I told friends that I was going to Boise, Idaho, the response I got was illuminating. "They're all survivalists up there." "White supremacist country. Beware." Coupled with my inkling that Boise (pronounced boys-ee) is the States' fun-time equivalent ...
28:
Labour’s
defence spend a con job
National’s Defence spokesman, John Carter, says Labour’s reported $3 billion spend-up on defence is just a re-hash of what they have previously announced.
29:
Greg
Palast: Ground Zero-Zero-Zero
The equator is far more tacky than I imagined. I'd taken time out from the state of siege in the capitol to take the twins on a quick holiday further up the Andes (or down, I don't know which).
30:
Bush
energy advisor puts Peak Oil on world
agenda
A significant international oil industry conference in Scotland has acknowledged the imminent threat of Peak Oil and it's time New Zealand's Government did the same, says Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons.
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