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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Amnesty
Seeks Tolerance For Rights
Defenders
Uganda: East Africa and Horn of Africa governments must put an end to targeting of human rights defenders
2:
The
Second Coming of Jesus Christ and Bird
Flu
The great thing about a blog site is that you get to make predictions which if you are correct, give you the ability to point everyone to the archived blog saying "told you so".
3:
Patricia
Johnson: Tongue-Tied Or Timid?
The AP headline read “U.S. Military Deaths Reach 2,000 in Iraq” and I shuddered, not because 2,000 of our young men and women’s lives have been cut short in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) - most of us are already sickened by that fact, but by the failure ...
4:
Video:
Holmes, Jonah, Hariwira, Melbourne Cup
Hope
PrimeTV Video - Paul Holmes interviews: Jonah Lomu & wife Fiona about his Welsh Rugby transfer before getting up close and personal with Hone Harawira and mum Titewhai. Also includes a report on New Zealand's big Melbourne Cup hope Xcellent.
5:
Greenpeace
launches Clean Energy
Guide
Whangarei Tuesday 1st November -- Greenpeace today launched New Zealand's first 'Clean Energy Guide' that ranks electricity companies according to their current and future impact on the climate, on a simple thermometer-shaped fridge magnet.
6:
National
Claim TVNZ 'Unfairly Hounded' Dr
Brash
National's Broadcasting spokesperson Georgina Te Heu Heu has accused TVNZ of having abandoned political neutrality during the election campaign. She told RNZ that "during the election... [TVNZ's] political neutrality... seemed to be absent."
7:
Lion Red "undie 500" in conjunction with The
Rock
When is it ever appropriate to get your kit off and sprint down Queen Street in your undies to the screams of hundreds of supporters?
8:
New
National Party Chief of
Staff
National Party Leader Don Brash today named Wayne Eagleson, currently Transpower’s general manager, public affairs, as his new chief of staff.
9:
A
Strategy for Central Asia - Daniel
Fried
Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Statement Before the Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia of the House International Relations Committee Washington, DC October 27, 2005
10:
Israel
“Far Worse” Than Apartheid South
Africa
The situation for Arabs in Israel & Palestine is “far worse” than that of the blacks in what was apartheid South Africa. This was Ronnie Kasrils’ response to the question of whether Israel could be compared to South Africa during its apartheid ...
11:
Varieties
Of Aggression : Andean Trade
Treaties
When the UN received the recent Mehlis report on the murder of former Lebanese President Rafik Hariri, one suggested tribunal for a possible prosecution was the International Criminal Court. Rejecting such a proposal, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rica remarked ...
12:
Sports
Café On the Last Lap
TVNZ would like to announce that this year's season will be the final for the long running and successful Hyundai Sportscafe programme.
13:
SPCS
Calls Minister to replace Board
Members
The Society is calling on the new Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. Rick Barker, to replace all nine members of the Film & Literature Board of Review ["the Board”], including the Governor-General's husband Peter Cartwright. Mr Cartwright’s ...
14:
Events
leading to resignation of TVNZ
CEO
Broadcasting Minister Steve Maharey today received a report from the Board of TVNZ explaining the circumstances of the resignation of CEO Ian Fraser.
15:
Linda
Minor: Scooter Libby’s Client, Marc
Rich
Amidst rumors that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is close to indicting White House officials in the Plame leak case are reports that Scooter Libby was Judith Miller’s source of information. Part One of this series explored Libby’s “handler,” ...
16:
Global
Research: Rumsfeld To Profit From Bird Flu
We bring to the attention of Global Research readers this important commentary by Dr.Joseph Mercola. The fundamental issue is who owns the intellectual property rights over Tamiflu. The media reports suggest that the Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche ...
17:
2005
Media Peace Award Finalists
Print Merania Karauria Deafening Silence Robyn Langwell New Zealander of the Year: Doug Flett Tearaway Magazine a) Label Bashers b) Express Yourself c) Pride and Prejudice Jon Stephenson a) War Zone: a Reporter’s Story b) No End in Sight
18:
Chris
Ritchie: Power Shifts Rattle
Lebanon
"Welcome home,” the Beirut airport official said to me as he stamped the passport that betrays my birthplace. It has been quarter of a century since I was last in Lebanon. Driving into the capital on the smart new highway, my mind finds it difficult ...
19:
Call
for Immediate Review on Govt use of
tikanga
Maori Party Calls for Immediate Review on Government application of tikanga Maori in Government Policies, Procedures and Practices
20:
Comedian
says he chose to be disabled
Gay, disabled comedian and social entrepreneur Philip Patston today told delegates at the Public Health Forum’s symposium on health and human rights in Auckland that he chose to be disabled and gay to help humanity evolve.
21:
Public
Address 01/11/05 - Rumour And Fact
This rumour comes to you entirely without warranty, but from a fairly good source. There will be a New Zealand iTunes store very early next year - perhaps even on January 1, 2006. I'm not sure exactly what the hold-up is, but presumably negotiations are ...
22:
The
Letter
Ian Fraser goes before he is pushed. Today Cabinet signs off the government program for the opening of Parliament next week.
23:
Greg
Palast: Opec & The Economic Conquest Of
Iraq
TWO AND A HALF YEARS AND $202 BILLION into the war in Iraq, the United States has at least one significant new asset to show for it: effective membership, through our control of Iraq's energy policy, in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting ...
24:
Jason
Leopold: Now It’s About The Niger
Forgeries
On Friday, after securing a five-count criminal indictment against Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, for lying to a grand jury about what he knew and when he knew it in regard to the outing of a covert CIA agent, ...
“I can confirm that I told the Chairman of TVNZ on Friday that I intended to resign my position as Chief Executive.
26:
Dobriansky:
Toward a Free and Democratic Burma
Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Remarks at Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement With National Endowment for Democracy and Church World Service Washington, DC October 26, 2005
27:
The
Mapp Report
My appointment in respect to Political Correctness will be a fascinating challenge. Everyone rails against it, but no one has a coherent plan to first stop it, and then roll it back. I have been concerned for some time at the creeping political correctness ...
28:
TAB:
Zabeel Progeny Feature in 2005 Melbourne
Cup
TAB: Zabeel Progeny Feature in 2005 Melbourne Cup Champion New Zealand stallion Zabeel – currently the leading sire in Australia this season - has a very strong hand in the final field for the 2005 $A5 million Emirates Melbourne Cup run over ...
29:
What
will Mr Fraser's $300,000
buy?
National's Broadcasting spokeswoman, Georgina te Heuheu, says Steve Maharey can mince his words all he likes, but there is no denying that Ian Fraser's $300,000 payment for six months worth of "odd jobs" is a golden handshake.
30:
William
Engdahl: Avian Flu another Pentagon
Hoax?
No sooner are indictments being handed down to Scooter Libby, the Chief of Staff of the Vice President of the United States for lies and coverup of information used deliberately to suppress the fact the Bush Administration had no ‘smoking gun’ to ...
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