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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: War-Hawk
Republicans and Anti-War
Democrats
The past week in DC found me in many offices of our elected officials: Senators, Congresspersons, pro-war, "anti-war," Democrat, Republican. With a few notable exceptions, all of our employees toed party lines.
2:
NZ
Conspirators Association Praises Victoria
Uni
Satire: Emerging from a traditional smoke-filled meeting this afternoon, representatives of the New Zealand Conspirators Association praised the administration of Victoria University of Wellington for actions furthering the suppression of information.
3:
Greens
defer Special General Meeting
The Green Party has deferred its Special General Meeting, which had been scheduled for tomorrow.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
UN
urges Darfur parties to tackle key
questions
The top United Nations envoy to Sudan today called on the parties to the conflict in the Darfur region to discuss the distribution of power, wealth-sharing and security arrangements at peace talks aimed at reaching a settlement to their long-running ...
5:
Elle
Macpherson Intimates Go Sky
High
Elle Macpherson Intimates is turning heads with 14-storey high billboards in Queens, New York city. The two giant billboards, featuring stunning images from the latest Elle Macpherson Intimates campaign, were unveiled this month as part of the North ...
6:
Victoria
University 5-10% FEE RISE!
Leaked documents reveal that Vic students are in for a massive increase in fees in 2006, with the University considering 5-10% across-the-board fee rises.
7:
News
Worthy
Robert Ripley left his legacy with 27 Ripleys' "Believe it or not" museums worldwide and a syndicated daily cartoon. At the peak of its popularity the cartoon was being read by about 80 million readers.
8:
Military
Grade Biological Bacteria At Peace
Demo?
What do we make of the Saturday, October 1 Washington Post headline “Poison Found in Air During Anti-War Protest”? Washington D.C. Public Health Director Greg A. Pane posed the right question in the Post article, “Why that day? That’s what is not explained.” ...
9:
A
girl’s total guide to Mary-Kate and
Ashley
You’ve seen them on TV, in movies, on their website and gracing the pages of many magazines. Now you can read the ultimate guide to Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen, uninterrupted, from cover to cover.
10:
The
Real Deal: Regarding The Price Of
Milk
Mr. Chairman and ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for the privilege of speaking to you today. I am not an economist with a degree, but for the last 25 years I have published and edited a financial newsletter, and I hope that qualifies me to speak ...
11:
Marjorie
Cohn: Harriet Miers - Bush's Pit
Bull
Bush has nominated his Texas crony as a stealth appointment to the Supreme Court. Although the Senate will be hard-pressed to discover Harriet Miers's positions on the critical issues, she does have a long record of loyalty to Bush, whom she calls ...
12:
National
Summit to Save US Elections – Days
2-3
Days 2 & 3: The Ghost You’ll Never See in the Machine (“electronic voting”); Outsourcing Elections to Corporate America; Methods of Monitoring Elections; plus State and Community Level Action.
13:
Video:
Prime TV’s Holmes Interviews Don
Brash
Scoop is pleased to provide Video On Demand re-screening of Prime TV’s Holmes/Don Brash interview that was broadcast on Thursday Oct 6. Scoop thanks Prime TV for making this video stream possible.
14:
real
issues 6 October 2005
Anton Oliver claims in his new book that a drinking culture is prevalent among the All Blacks. That should concern all New Zealanders. Rugby is central to the lives of a greater proportion of young men in New Zealand than probably any other country ...
15:
Diversity
Honoured At Vodafone NZ Music
Awards
An exciting mix of new and seasoned Kiwi music talent has taken home the 21 Tui Awards at the 2005 Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards announced tonight (Wednesday October 5) at the Aotea Centre-THE EDGE® in Auckland.
16:
Resignation
Of CYFS Chief Executive
The State Services Commissioner, Mark Prebble, said it is with reluctance that he has accepted the resignation of the Chief Executive of the Department of Child, Youth and Family Services, Paula Tyler.
17:
National
Summit to Save Our (US) Elections – Day
1
In this report: - Activist Attorney Paul Lehto Makes a Strong Case - VotersUnite.Org's Theisen Explains How Citizens have "Outsourced" the Voting and Tabulation Process to Corporations - A Huge Opportunity in New Mexico and Three Weeks to Raise the Money ...
18:
Aust.
Border Security: Biometrics, Passport
Alerts
Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone today said trials of two new systems at Sydney airport could help dramatically strengthen Australia’s border security.
19:
NZ
sponsors assured Niger children
safe
New Zealand child sponsors will be relieved that their sponsored children are not suffering from the severe food crisis in Niger, says World Vision Niger's child sponsorship coordinator, Hannatou Hassane. Ms Hassane has just visited the most severely affected ...
20:
No
New Nuclear Transfers to Iran, Say
U.S.
Washington -- A top U.S. arms control and nonproliferation official has called on all governments to prohibit new nuclear transfers to Iran and to freeze activity on all ongoing nuclear projects with that country.
21:
Greens
Shouldn’t Waste Time With Greed
Merchants
Despite a well intentioned and highly publicized meeting, big business still finds the Green Party scary. By the way the media has portrayed this it seems like we are all supposed to be worried that the ‘anti-business Greens’ may well form part of ...
22:
Falloon
Shall Be Missed - Peters
Rt Hon Winston Peters has expressed his sadness over the passing of former New Zealand politician Hon John Falloon.
23:
Average
Risk of Tropical Cyclones in SW
Pacific
For most tropical South Pacific countries the chances of tropical cyclone activity are near normal for the coming season, according to NIWA climate scientist Dr Jim Salinger.
24:
Diversity
honoured at NZ Music Awards
An exciting mix of new and seasoned Kiwi music talent has taken home the 21 Tui Awards at the 2005 Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards announced tonight (Wednesday October 5) at the Aotea Centre-THE EDGE® in Auckland.
25:
Interview
with PM Howard on Bali
bombings
Last night I spoke to the President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. I expressed my condolences to him on the loss of Indonesian lives, he in turn expressed his sadness at the loss of Australian lives and the injuries that had been done. He assured me ...
26:
Alastair
Thompson and Simon Pound on
95bFM
Alastair Thompson and Simon Pound discuss the latest from Wellington and the New Zealand political scene.
Child, Youth and Family’s Chief Executive Paula Tyler has tendered her resignation from the position for family reasons and will be returning to Canada. Her resignation has been accepted by the State Services Commissioner.
Average weekly gross income for all people from all sources was $586 in the June 2005 quarter, up 5.8 percent from the June 2004 quarter, Statistics New Zealand said today. Average weekly income from all sources was $738 for males and $442 for females.
29:
Bill
English Chapman Lecture – 3 October
2005
Last week the class photos came home. In one photo there were only three names I would identify as traditional Kiwi names, and they belonged to the only three obviously European faces.
30:
Global
Peace And Justice Auckland Newsletter
#110
It is with great sadness that we must report that David Wakim, a much-loved Auckland activist and a tireless champion of the rights of the Palestinian people, has died suddenly whilst traveling in Namibia at age 60. David was an inspirational man who ...
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