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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1:
George
Galloway Receives A Hero's Welcome
Home
George Galloway received a rapturous welcome this Wednesday at a Respect rally in central London, less than twenty four hours after his barnstorming performance in the US Senate.
2:
Fidel
Castro Speech: “A Different
Behavior”
Special address by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the “Jose Marti” Anti-imperialist Square. May 20,2005.
3:
David
Ray Griffin: 9/11 and the American
Empire
This lecture was delivered at the University of Wisconsin at Madison on April 18, 2005. - I will begin by unpacking the key terms in the title of my talk: “9/11,” “American empire,” and “religious people,” beginning with the last one.
4:
Labour
approved brother-sister sex
paper
Labour approved a discussion paper that proposed legalising brother-sister sex for over-20-year-olds, according to official documents released today by National’s Law and Order spokesman, Tony Ryall.
5:
Complete
Testimony of George Galloway At US
Senate
Testimony of Mr. George Galloway, Member of the British Parliament, before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee
Consumers will be the winners in a digital broadcasting future that offers almost endless choice to television and radio users, according to a new report released today by NZ On Air. The report has been prepared by Paul Norris and Brian Pauling ...
7:
Confidence
And Supply Move Threatens Stable
Govt.
United Future MP Judy Turner today confirmed that her party threatened to vote against the Government on confidence and supply unless it supported a last minute backroom change to the Misuse of Drugs Act, says Green MP Nandor Tanczos.
8:
Call
For Info On Corrupt U.S. Bomb-Detector
Deal
Thailand wants Washington to confirm no Thai government officials received bribes in an attempt to sell American bomb-detectors to Bangkok's international airport, after the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Securities and Exchange Commission, ...
9:
Public
Address 23/05/05 - Strange Things
Planting a book is not like planting a bomb ... Of all obscure experiences nested within other obscure experiences, how fares the finding of a well-thumbed English language paperback of 'The Mind of Adolf Hitler' planted on a random shelf of the ...
10:
Chuckman:
A Breath Of Fresh Air Sweeps Into
Hell
Like a refreshing breeze blowing briefly over those damned to endure the hell created by America's government came the words of British M.P. George Galloway to an American Senate Committee. The man was simply magnificent. Tough, brave, and articulate - ...
11:
Interview:
Confessions Of An Economic Hit
Man
An interview with, John Perkins - author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" - who says he says he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and ...
12:
Replacement
Due For Police Rifles
"The new rifle will be more operationally compatible with the other police standard issue firearm, the semi-automatic Glock," says Assistant Commissioner Peter Marshall.
13:
Scoop
Link: Seymour Hersh On Abu Ghraib
Inquiries
It's been over a year since I published a series of articles in the New Yorker outlining the abuses at Abu Ghraib. There have been at least 10 official military investigations since then - none of which has challenged the official Bush administration line that ...
14:
Stateside
With Rosalea: The Mother of All
Bells
Will somebody please tell the Minister for Information Technology that you don't actually have to type www. into a browser these days to get to a web address? It does not make you look hip to use "dub, dub, dub" when making a speech; it makes ...
15:
Left-hand
Drive Enthusiasts Demand
Action
More than 3000 left-hand drive enthusiasts have banded together to lobby Land Transport New Zealand to keep its promise to review the law governing the importation of late model left-hand drive vehicles.
16:
National
list an insult to New Zealand
National list an insult to New Zealand National’s luring the chair of the WTO agriculture committee and New Zealand’s ambassador to the WTO at a crucial time in multilateral negotiations is a kick in the teeth for all New Zealanders, Trade Negotiations Minister ...
17:
Revenge
of the Sith Gets Largest Cinema
Opening
MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 20 May 2005 STAR WARS FINAL EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH RECIEVES LARGEST CINEMA OPENING
18:
Human
Resources Toolkit for farmers
launched
A new tool to help sheep and beef farmers in employing and managing staff has been launched by Meat & Wool New Zealand.
19:
Job
ad analysis shows skill shortages
deepening
The number of advertised job vacancies in newspapers nationwide was 13% higher in April, compared with April 2004, according to the Department of Labour’s Job Vacancy Monitor.
20:
John
Bolton's Divorce – Group Sex
Allegations
Publisher Larry Flynt's Questions Posed to State Department Regarding Corroborated Allegations that First Wife was Forced into Group Sex go Unanswered
21:
COHA:
Deteriorating U.S.-Mexico
Relations
COHA Speaks: 1. Luis Posada Carriles 2. Deteriorating U.S.-Mexico Relations 3. The Brazil-Argentina Rivalry
22:
Will
Pitt: Short Tales from Bizarro
World
You know things have gone more than a bit around the bend when it takes a British MP with a hard Scottish brogue to throw a little truth against the walls of the U.S. Senate chamber to see what will stick. George Galloway, accused of profiteering in ...
23:
Greens
hope many pens will save the
whales
The Green Party is hoping to prove that the pen is mightier than the harpoon, in launching a letter-writing campaign aimed at stopping Japan's plan to kill humpback and fin whales.
24:
MeNZB(tm)
Vaccination Campaign Starts
Derailing
"The Minister of Health has confirmed that none of the five deaths acknowledged as being due to meningococcal disease so far this year could have been prevented by the MeNZB(tm) vaccination programme," say risk & policy analyst Ron Law, and writer/researcher ...
25:
Tickets
On Sale - Premiere Of Star Wars Episode
3
NEW ZEALAND CINEMA INDUSTRY HEATS UP WITH PREMIERE OF STAR WARS EPISODE 3: Revenge of the Sith
26:
Link:
1 Trillion Missing - DoD Waste Under
Fire
The Department of Defense, already infamous for spending $640 for a toilet seat, once again finds itself under intense scrutiny, only this time because it couldn't account for more than a trillion dollars in financial transactions, not to mention ...
27:
SEC
Declares Symantec Proxy Statement
Effective
Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) and VERITAS Software Corp. (Nasdaq: VRTS) today announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission has declared effective the Form S-4 Registration/Joint Proxy statement concerning their proposed merger. Each company will hold a special ...
28:
Brash:
Tax Cuts Key to a Spirit of Enterprise
Nearly 600 people get on a plane and leave New Zealand to move permanently to Australia each week - 30,000 in the past year - the equivalent of losing the city of Gisborne each year. They go because they can see a better life with better rewards for themselves ...
29:
Bill
Berkowitz: Getting its Buzz On
As the deadline approached for naming its GOP Hypocrite of the Week for the Friday, May 13, edition of BuzzFlash.com , Editor Mark Karlin was faced with a daunting challenge. While some of the previous "winners" -- Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, House ...
30:
UN
Burundi Mission Probes Deaths of 2
Peacekeepers
Two South African soldiers with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Burundi were dead today, one of them allegedly killed by a volley of gunshots from a companion who then shot himself to death, leaving four others in the group wounded, a UN spokesman ...
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Binoy Kampmark: Israel’s Anti-UNRWA Campaign Falls Flat
Peter Dunne: Luxon Gets Out His Butcher's Knife - Briefly