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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Cuba
Report To UN On Why USA's Blockade Must
End
Report by Cuba on Resolution 59/11 of the United Nations General Assembly “The necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba” - The economic, commercial and financial blockade impose ...
2:
Suzan
Mazur: The Dorak Affair's Final Chapter
The Dorak mystery flower has opened at last. Earlier this week in phone conversations I had with David Stronach, Professor of Near East Archaeology at the University of California - Berkeley, Stronach disclosed that Jimmie Mellaart invented Dorak. He ...
3:
National
Moves To Drive Labour From
Parliament
Leonard Cohen, a couple of decades back, sang an odd tune about 'taking Berlin' and then somehow 'occupying Manhattan'. Mr Cohen's words could prove prophetic for New Zealand politics in the early 21st century should National prove successful in occupying ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Public
Address 11/10/05 - Salient Sells Out &
More
I don't think this is what the Maori Party wanted before its first group of MPs are even seated. Its third-ranked list candidate Atareta Poananga has blasted its consultative hui process, describing it and co-leader Tariana Turia's glad-eye approach to National ...
5:
If
DOC Won’t Protect Moose, Then I Will, Says
Roy
Invercargill MP Eric Roy will introduce a Members’ Bill to protect Fiordland’s moose population if the Department of Conservation or Conservation Authority tries to have them culled.
6:
Depleted
Uranium, George Bush & Tony
Blair
While U.S. and British military personnel continue using uranium munitions- America's and England's own "dirty bombs" U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Energy, and U.S. Department of Defense officials continue to deny that there are any adverse health and environmental ...
7:
Kiwi
home buyers lose out to foreign
investors
New Zealand house prices are being pushed beyond the reach of many ordinary Kiwis thanks to an out of control buy up by foreign investors - but lack of monitoring means the true picture is hidden, Green Party Co-Leader Rod Donald says.
8:
PG
Buchanan: Al-Qaeda’s Perverse
Environmentalism
One of the less studied aspects of al-Qaeda’s global strategy of irregular warfare is the environmental element of the campaign. As it turns out, the jihadi project meshes neatly with the concerns of Western environmental groups, especially those ...
9:
Rice's
Upcoming Trip to Central Asia /
Afghanistan
Josette Shiner, , Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs; Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs; and Christina Rocca, Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs
10:
Jason
Miller: We Can’t Let It Happen Here
Over a year ago, the comfort of my world severely diminished as I took my journey through the looking glass and discerned the ugly truths about the nation of my birth, the United States of America. “Logic and proportion” certainly seemed to have “fallen ...
11:
United
States proposal welcomed
Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton today welcomed news overnight of a United States offer to make deep cuts in trade distorting farm subsidies.
12:
Australian
farmer falls prey to GE
contamination
The first confirmed case of genetically engineered (GE) contamination in a field of commercial canola has struck a Victorian farmer. The incident opens up a legal mine-field for farmers and threatens Australian export markets.
13:
Emergency
Pakistan earthquake appeal
Aid and relief organisation TEAR Fund New Zealand is appealing for donations to assist victims of the earthquake that struck Pakistan on Saturday morning, and has caused damage stretching into India and Afghanistan.
14:
Bill
Berkowitz: Michael Moore gets ready to
roll
As Moore prepares a new film on America's ailing health care industry, will it continue being open season on the 'scruffy guy in a baseball cap'?
15:
Leuren
Moret: Depleted Uranium Is WMD
My grandfather, U.S. Army Col. Edwin Joseph McAllister, was born in Battle Creek in 1895. He does not know that his first grandchild is an international expert on depleted uranium. I have worked in two U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories, and in ...
16:
George
Weah: From Soccer Star to
President?
Liberia’s George Weah was crowned as FIFA’s World Footballer of the Year in 1995, the most prestigious individual award that a soccer player can achieve. Ten years later, Weah is running for President of the small West African nation of Liberia, ...
17:
Backgrounder:
The DeLay/TRMPAC Indictments
The charges against Tom DeLay are simple. He has been indicted for conspiring with political allies to use corporate money on Texas campaigns and for laundering corporate funds for that purpose. The indictments charge that DeLay used the Republican National ...
18:
1.7
million aid to victims, El Salvador,
Guatemala
Commission to provide €1.7 million in humanitarian aid for victims of tropical storm Stan in El Salvador and Guatemala
19:
New
Style of Politics Welcomed by iwi
Maori
The Maori Party has wound up a series of thirty hui around the country. The four Members of Parliament have been on a whirlwind trip to visit as many members as possible within the space of five days.
20:
National
Caucus Votes Lindsay Tisch As Senior
Whip
The National Party caucus has voted Lindsay Tisch to be its senior whip. Tische, was in the previous parliamentary term, National's junior whip, spokesperson for racing, small business, and internal affairs and was on the Government Administration ...
21:
Sheila
Samples: A Horrid Reality...
While recently watching George Bush's carefully orchestrated performance from New Orleans' French Quarter a week late and a billion dollars short, I was struck by the confused desperation in his eyes, and I was overcome with sympathy. Not at the ...
22:
Massey
Lecturer Awarded Top Science
Prize
Massey University's James Watson was presented with the 2005 Agricultural History Ig Nobel prize at the 15th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony at Harvard's Sanders Theatre on Thursday night.
23:
Salvation
Army Needs Cash For Pakistan
Relief
THE SALVATION ARMY has launched a national appeal for urgent public donations to assist with its emergency response to the earthquake that has devastated Pakistan and parts of India and Afghanistan.
24:
Pakistan
mission coordinating relief response,
UN
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 9 (APP) -- Acting swiftly, Pakistan's U.N. Mission in New York has been working with relevant U.N. officials to coordinate the world body's response to the calamitous situation brought about by Saturday's huge earthquake which struck ...
25:
Earthquake
Info Centre: Pakistan Quake
Map
Earthquake Info Centre: Pakistan Quake Map
26:
Video
Promo: Tampa Refugees Doco Broadcast
Looms
Video: Pacific Solution - From Afghanistan to Aotearoa is a documentary that follows the plight of the Tampa refugees. The Tampa refugees are 438 Afghanis who on the day the World Trade Center crumbled were awash in a small boat off the coast of Australia, ...
Central America has been devastated by Hurricane Stan, which has caused massive mudslides and extensive damage in Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador. El Salvador has also faced volcanic eruption.
28:
Greenpeace
- GE Crops Out Of Control in
Romania
Bucharest - Massive illegal cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) crops threatens farmers and the economy in Romania. At a Greenpeace press conference today in Bucharest, Monsanto's former general manager in Romania warned that Romanian authorities have ...
29:
Freepressed:
Democrats Fiddle While GOP Burns
DNC Headquarters -- The cluelessness of the Democratic Party has hit a new high in recent weeks as it continues to demonsrate an astonishing inability to capitalize on the implosion of the Republican Party.
30:
The
Letter
The Bribe of Office; the Greens Dilemma; the Last Cab; U Turns; Queen Maker; Calling the Kettle Black; Don't Bank on It; Labour's Cabinet; New Ministers; Interesting Electoral Facts; the Economy
ENDS
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