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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1:
Time
Runs Out On South Pacific HIV/AIDS
Crisis
Scoop Investigation: HIV is threatening the Pacific's isolated communities with an infection rate that destroys cultural, economic, and community stability. For example: HIV/AIDS, not global warming, is the number one problem threatening Tuvalu's survival. ...
2:
Diebold
Optical Scan Voting System Hacked (3
Ways)
Tallahassee, FL: "Are we having fun yet?" This is the message that appeared in the window of a county optical scan machine, startling Leon County Information Systems Officer Thomas James. Visibly shaken, he immediately turned the machine off.
3:
Osama
bin Laden & 9.11 Souvenirs In S.E.
Asia
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Osama bin Laden cigarette lighter is adorned with his raised, chrome portrait, an embossed "9.11", sketches of the World Trade Center, an approaching airplane, and a big red splotch.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Watergate
Proves That Even Presidents Break Laws
Tuesday's revelation that W. Mark Felt, the former number two man at the FBI, was the anonymous source known as Deep Throat, who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein unravel the Watergate scandal in the pages of the Washington Post 30 years ago should ...
5:
Questions
for Oral Answer Wednesday June
1
1. ROD DONALD to the Prime Minister: Was freedom of speech one of the human rights issues she discussed with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during her meeting with him this week?
6:
Holy
Messiah Speaks To His Congressional Fan Club
Author's note: I cannot attest to the absolute accuracy of the following transcripts, as the print was smudged with perspiration by the time I received them. It seems my confidential source, a congressional page, had to smuggle them out of the House ...
7:
The
Meningococcal Gold Rush - Second
Edition
Scoop Editors' Note: Following publication on Scoop.co.nz of Barbara Sumner Burstyn and Ron Law’s report, Investigation: The Meningococcal Gold Rush [1] - a report into the flawed science and bad policy of the MeNZB™ vaccine - the Ministry of Health ...
8:
Cullen
Backdown Unleashes Storm of Retractions
The recent experience of Dr Michael Cullen seems to have given his colleagues ideas. For years they have struggled with the burden of it being inadvisable - and in some cases expensive - to declare obvious and demonstrable falsehoods. Or at any rate, ...
9:
New
Zealand Salary Survey released
The 2005 Hays Salary Survey, detailing typical salaries for a range of sectors and locations, including Auckland and Wellington, will be released tommorrow.
10:
Public
Address 01/06/05 - D'oh!
Michael Cullen apparently surprised a few gallery reporters yesterday morning by laying into TV3, claiming that one of its reporters had posed as a former Bayfield High student on the Internet in search of historical scuttlebutt on David Benson ...
11:
National
Beaches Billboard To Be Unveiled
Tomorrow
A National Party billboard that is working a number of New Zealand internet political diarists into a lather is not quite kosher according to National Party Election 2005 campaign manager, Steven Joyce.
12:
Samoan
flag to fly on Auckland Harbour
Bridge
Auckland Harbour Bridge will fly the flag of Samoa tomorrow in recognition of the Samoan National Day. The flag will fly from dawn until dusk on Wednesday 1 June.
13:
Questions
& Answers for Oral Answer 31 May
2005
1. Iraqi Immigrants—Saddam Hussein Regime 2. Genetically Modified Organisms—Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety 3. Budget 2005—Taxation Thresholds 4. Budget 2005—Fiscal Proposals, Alternative 5. Budget 2005—Taxation Changes 6. Crimes Act—Repeal of Section 59
14:
Questions
& Answers for Oral Answer 1 June
2005
1. China—Human Rights 2. Iraqi Immigrants—Investigation 3. Sexual Health Campaign—Minister's Statement 4. Education System—Performance 5. First Home Ownership—Government Assistance 6. Taxation—Consumer Price Index 7. Genetically Modified Corn—Unapproved Presence ...
15:
NEWSFLASH:
Schapelle Corby Found
Guilty
Australian beauty therapist Schapelle Corby has been found guilty of drug trafficking by a court in Bali Indonesia of trafficking 4 kilograms of marijuana to Indonesia.
16:
America's
Religious Right (IV): Pie in the
Sky
Rev. Tim LaHaye thinks deep thoughts. Co-author of the best-selling Left Behind and Babylon Rising novels, the 78-year-old evangelical probes the mind of God as revealed in Holy Scriptures.
17:
Prime
Rejects Dr Cullen's Claims
Prime and the Paul Holmes programme rejects entirely the suggestion made by Dr Michael Cullen in a press statement earlier today that Prime Television used false pretences to elicit information from Bayfield High pupils against David Benson-Pope.
18:
Are
you fed up with the quality of TV
?
Come and hear what your MPs are going to do about TV standards in NZ.
19:
Dr
Cullen - Clarification regarding
TV3
“Comments I made in relation to TV3 using false pretences to elicit information from former Bayfield High pupils against David Benson-Pope were incorrect,” Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today.
20:
It’s
expensive being a woman
The first national Women’s Convention in nearly thirty years is being held in Wellington over Queens Birthday weekend. And if the registration fee is anything to go by, you have to have the salary of a Theresa Gattung to count as a woman in New Zealand these ...
21:
Family,
Household Growth to Exceed Populatn
Growth
The numbers of families and households in New Zealand are projected to increase by 24 percent and 28 percent, respectively, between 2001 and 2021, according to updated 2001-base national family and household projections released by Statistics New Zealand ...
22:
Stop
'dicking around' over Transmission Gully
National's Transport spokesman, Maurice Williamson, says it is time the "dicking around" over Transmission Gully stopped and Labour cleared the way for the private sector to begin work on it immediately.
23:
Scoop
Link: Guardian(UK) - When The Wells Run
Dry
When The Wells Run Dry We use more oil than we find, and if producers are fixing their figures the end could be closer than thought Adam Porter Wednesday May 25, 2005 The Guardian
24:
Warships
Showcase New Zealand To The
World
Sailors from New Zealand warships TE MANA and ENDEAVOUR will showcase New Zealand culture, food and wine to a large and influential audience during a week long defence diplomacy visit coinciding with New Zealand Day at the Aichi World Expo, Japan.
25:
NZ
Stance on GM Liability Provokes
Laughter
New Zealand negotiators at a conference on liability for GMOs have effectively proposed that the four year programme to develop an international liability regime should aim at agreeing no liability rules at all.
26:
State
Of It: Fear And Loathing… In Orewa
NZ
During the 1981 Springbok tour it was observed that New Zealand had a scab, and once picked it lifted, releasing the pus of racism to flow. The metaphor was again put to test at New Zealand First’s immigration policy launch at Orewa on Friday. The scene there was best described by another more famous cliché: fear and loathing… in Orewa.
27:
Narconews:
More Marches In Bolivia, Protests
Widen
This morning they did it again: the steep kilometers that separate La Paz from EL Alto were completely covered by the biggest march the Bolivian capital has seen since October 2003. Workers, street merchants, and other groups from El Alto led the human ...
28:
Labour,
Greens turn their back on
victims
The Greens have sold out the victims of crime in favour of financial gain for offenders in a “cynical act of political desperation in backing the disgraceful Prisoners and Victims Claims Bill”, United Future’s law and order spokesman Marc Alexander said ...
29:
SAS
commitment to US Afghan war will tarnish NZ
New Zealand human rights record will be further tarnished by the new SAS commitment to Afghanistan to fight alongside US forces, says Green MP Keith Locke.
30:
Jean-Pierre
Desmoulins: They Just Said,
"NO!!"
French citizens have just said "NO" to the new constitution that was submitted to their vote. I have heard so many things, in both the French and international media, so many analyses of the "NO" campaign in which I don't see my opinion included, that ...
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Ian Powell: Cuba And New Zealand: A Relationship Worthy Of Strengthening
Gordon Campbell: On bird flu, AUKUS entry fees and Cindy Lee
Binoy Kampmark: Israel’s Anti-UNRWA Campaign Falls Flat
Peter Dunne: Luxon Gets Out His Butcher's Knife - Briefly
Binoy Kampmark: Warring Against Encryption, Australia Is Coming For Your Communications
Gordon Campbell: On Fast Track Powers, Media Woes And The Tiktok Ban