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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: “Peak
Oil” – An Urgent Issue for New Zealand!
Introduction Human activity in New Zealand is heavily reliant on abundant and cheap energy, much of which we get from oil. Yet oil is a finite resource, and one that the world is rapidly using up.
2:
Bolivia
Balkanized - Aid to Haiti Coup
Regime
Today in The Narco News Bulletin, Narco News correspondent and leading Bolivian intellectual José Mirtenbaum reports on a new political compromise in the Bolivian congress that would postpone the referendum on "regional autonomy" that the country's business ...
3:
Images:
Hurricane Dennis Monstering Gulf
Coast
Hurricane Dennis, a category four monster hurricane packing 230kmh winds, which may yet strengthen to a maximum category 5, is about to strike the Gulf Coast of the mainland United States, most probably close to the Alabama, Florida & Mississippi ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Public
Address: Not Anywhere Else In The
World
I think Ken Livingstone's speech was amazing, and I DO believe it's what most Londoners feel about London. That we (I was born here, though I spent all my childhood and youth in NZ and have now lived here longer than anywhere else) actively like being ...
5:
Was
Israel Warned Ahead of First
Blast?
Reports just in suggest U.S. Army Radio quoting unconfirmed reliable sources reported a short time ago that Scotland Yard had intelligence warnings of the attacks a short time before they occurred.
6:
A
Week of It: Liberal values, Liberated
Algerians
In This Edition: - Future of Institute For Liberal Values (Slightly) Uncertain - Alleged Security Risk Enjoys Cable Car Ride - Sorry Old Chap, No Can Do, Chatham House Rules! - McCully accuses Dominion Post of Left Wing Bias!? - Market Forces ...
7:
Allegations
Of Incitement Stupid And
Unacceptable
New Zealand First leader Rt Hon Winston Peters today condemned suggestions from some quarters that attacks made on mosques in Auckland over the weekend somehow had something to do with the New Zealand First party.
8:
Newman:
Whangarei people duped over name
change
I would like to use this opportunity to discuss the Parahaki/Parihaka name-change debacle and to reflect on the future of race-relations in New Zealand.
Cutting taxes may seem attractive. But the cost of tax cuts as a result of consequent cuts to spending is often studiously ignored by those who promote them.
10:
Rice
IV With James Rosen of Fox News Channel
QUESTION: Madame Secretary, thank you for your time as always. We've had this big announcement that the North Koreans are going to return to the six-party talks later this month. You know what some people are going to say, you know what some people ...
11:
Cancellation
Arrangements In Place
Singapore Airlines (SIA) New Zealand has made special cancellation and postponement arrangements for travellers to London concerned about yesterday’s explosions. In view of the incidents and the effects on the city’s transport system, SIA passengers ...
12:
Buzzflash
Interview: Ambassador Joe Wilson July
9
If there's a list of people who have fearlessly stood up for democracy, decency and the truth against the corrupt buzzsaw of the Bush Administration, Ambassador Joe Wilson is certainly at the top of the list.
13:
Dalai
Lama 70th Sees Withdrawal from
politics
Tibet’s exile leader the Dalai Lama has celebrated his 70th birthday while still in exile in India by relinquishing politics to elected representatives. In a speech to thousands of Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala the spiritual and worldly leader of ...
14:
‘National
Party Vote Mobile’ launched
National Party Leader Don Brash and General Manager Steven Joyce today launched National’s campaign bus – the ‘National Party Vote Mobile’, which will spread the message that the only way to change the government is to give your party vote to ...
15:
Doug
Giebel: Death And Cynicism
Plucky Londoners interviewed on the BBC following the July 7 terrorist subway and bus bombings noted that the crisis had brought out the best in people. Strangers rushed to help the injured while some individuals risked their lives making rescue ...
16:
Zimbabwe
Tour – Judith Todd to Tour
NZ
Judith Todd – daughter of Sir Garfield Todd and campaigner for human rights in Zimbabwe is arriving in New Zealand later this week to join the campaign to stop the New Zealand Cricket Tour to Zimbabwe – scheduled for August. She is being brought to New Zealand ...
17:
PM's
Presser: Getting Labour’s Message
Out
Kevin List reports that the Government emphasised this week work that had been achieved in looking after NZ’s elderly. With this in mind the Prime Minister attended a rather truncated post cabinet press conference then left leaving Maharey & Hodgson to explain ...
18:
Political
Islam in the heart of secular
Europe
The following speech was given at the International Humanist and Ethical Union Congress on July 6, 2005 in Paris, France, at a parallel session entitled ‘Women’s rights in religious and secular societies’.
19:
Bush
remains out in cold on climate change at
G8
Gleneagles, UK, 8 July 2005 - The Group of Eight communiqué issued by world leaders at their summit in Gleneagles today highlights the divisions between President Bush and the rest of the world on tackling climate change.
20:
Antony
Wright: Achieving Justice And Finding
Peace
Today I nearly got blown to pieces on a London Tube (metro). I was one of the lucky ones - many others were not.
21:
ACT’s
The Letter - Monday, 11 July
2005
Parliament is in recess. Labour’s come back campaign fails. National releases policy to give tax rebates. LABOUR STILL WINNING All polls show National ahead of Labour with National and NZ First appearing to have a majority of seats. So it’s PM Brash? ...
22:
Steven
A. Hass: Fortitude, British-Style
So London was bombed. If you missed any of it, and I mean any of it, come to America and turn on a television. In the America of 2005, you can sit in front of a television after an event like this and have your gag reflex tested as the event is continuously ...
23:
PM
condemns attacks on mosques
"New Zealanders across all communities are horrified by the terrorist attacks in London which are the work of evil people.
24:
Mosque
vandals and UK bombers both target
innocent
The Greens totally condemn the vandalism of Auckland mosques last night, Human Right Spokesperson Keith Locke says.
25:
A
step in the nice direction!
A New Zealand charitable foundation is tapping into the "extraordinary niceness" of Kiwis to drive a community initiative aimed at enabling people to help others.
26:
Advances
in subsidised breast cancer
treatment
New generation hormonal drugs are to be subsidised for some women with early breast cancer from 1 August 2005.
27:
Labour's
arrogance knows no bounds
The four main welfare benefits: Unemployment, Sickness, Invalids and the Domestic Purposes Benefit, cost taxpayers $14million every day. That's $2,500 per year for every taxpaying New Zealander. But under Labour that is still not enough. Labour ...
28:
Earthquake
5 On Richter Scale Hits Near
Pongaroa
An earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter Scale occurred 40 kilometres south of Porangahau at 11:09am this morning. Geological & Nuclear Sciences reported that the quake had a focal depth of 12 kilometres and may have been felt in southern Hawke's Bay.
29:
Green
Left Weekly: Baghdad Comes To
London
Riding the number 30 bus to the annual Marxism conference today, the day after a bus on that route was attacked, I caught a tiny glimpse of the terror in terrorism. When I went upstairs to sit down as usual, it was empty.
30:
Mosque
attacks appalling - Brash
National Party Leader Don Brash describes the attacks on four mosques in Auckland overnight as an appalling act of intolerance.
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