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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Daniel
Patrick Welch: Nothing to
Lose
Senator Harry Reid, the minority leader of the upper chamber of the U.S. Government, infuriated the Bush administration and its Republican cronies on Tuesday by forcing the body into closed session. The move is allowed under a little used rule that permits ...
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:
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 ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Guest
Opinion: Why The CIA Reads The
Internet
We need to rethink the distinction between open sources and secrets. Too many policymakers and intelligence officers mistake secrecy for intelligence and assume that information covertly acquired is superior to that obtained openly.
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:
Images:
Hurricane Wilma - No lives lost in
Cuba
Photo Essay: NOT one person died in Cuba in the 10 days that Wilma was in the vicinity of the island, informed the Headquarters for Cases of Disaster attached to the National Defense Council. A preliminary count estimates that 607,542 persons were evacuated ...
7:
Winston
Peters On Wrong Side in the Middle
East
GPJA is deeply disappointed that the New Zealand government is rushing to re-open diplomatic relations with Israel and allowing it to again establish an Embassy in Wellington while the Palestinian people continue to be brutally oppressed under Israeli ...
8:
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
9:
Will
Pitt: Nothing Shakin' on Shakedown
Street?
Mr. Libby is in deep dung. Fitzgerald absolutely nailed his hide to the shed, detailing lie after lie after lie. From what I am given to understand, Libby intends to offer a "faulty memory" defense when he gets dropped into the skillet. Given the incredibly ...
10:
Kiwis
beat Aussies in battle of physical
activity
Minister for Sport and Recreation Trevor Mallard today congratulated Kiwis for winning the ‘Bledisloe Cup of physical activity’ in recent research that compares New Zealand and Australian physical activity levels.
11:
Scoop
Link: Fortune On Rumsfeld's Tamiflu
$$$Mns
NEW YORK (Fortune) - The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it's proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California ...
12:
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 ...
13:
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 ...
14:
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 ...
National Party Broadcasting spokeswoman Georgina te Heuheu says if Ian Fraser isn't working as Chief Executive, he should not be paid the Chief Executive's salary. Mr Fraser is to remain on the TVNZ payroll for six months, for which he will be paid ...
16:
Wilson
for Speaker, Simich for Deputy
Leader of the House Michael Cullen announced today that the government would support Margaret Wilson to be returned as Speaker and National list MP Clem Simich as Deputy Speaker.
17:
Radical
Youth Response to Youth Gang
Violence
We’re most disturbed to hear about the recent spate of senseless youth gang violence in Auckland.
18:
What’s
going on inside the Ngawha
Hilton?
National’s Law & Order spokesman, Simon Power, says Corrections Minister Damien O’Connor must urgently sort out the mess in his department.
19:
Fire
calls go sky-high as Guy Fawkes approaches
Less than a week after fireworks went on sale, firefighters have seen a six-fold increase in vegetation fires and a two-fold increase in minor call-outs.
20:
Call
For Aid To Central African
Republic
With Central African Republic (CAR) "gradually returning to a path of peace, economic recovery, reconstruction and sustainable development," United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is calling for comprehensive joint assistance from the country's development ...
21:
Media
Spins 'Success' of Iraqi Troops in Bush
War
Media Spins 'Success' of Iraqi Troops in Bush War Plan - Interview with John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper's magazine, conducted by Scott Harris
22:
Want
A Memorable OE? - Try Lebanon
"Why take the children to Lebanon?" I was asked before our recent family holiday in the miniature-sized republic which only ever seems to get news coverage when there is some turn for the worse in Middle Eastern politics.
23:
Bonus
Joules: Holey Leaks!
This blog nearly wasn’t. I just about lost hope, cashed up, bought a passport, jumped on a plane and spent the rest of my days lazing on some (raised, sheltered) Pacific atoll that you see in the travel ads. The flame of hope did flicker low in me for ...
24:
Stirling
Newberry: Deconstructing the
Indictment
For the last two years, Federal Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has investigated a potential crime, namely the revealing to the general public that Valerie Wilson nee Plame worked for the CIA in counter-proliferation, and was an undercover agent.
25:
Cheney,
Libby and Rove in "Legal
Jeopardy"
Showtime -- Finally, the endgame is near. After a grueling two-year elimination process, three senior Bush administration officials have advanced to the "Indictment Round" of Patrick Fitzgerald's wildly popular judicial version of the hit game show "Jeopardy."
26:
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.
27:
Uni
Advertising Campaign Goes To Extra
Lengths
The Wellington Office of integrated advertising, direct marketing and relationship management firm Robbins Brandt Richter has just launched a major new advertising campaign for client Victoria University.
28:
Maharey
continually flouts OIA
New Education Minister Steve Maharey leads the pack of Labour Ministers dodging the Official Information Act, says National's Education spokesman, Bill English.
29:
Public
Address 02/11/05 - Let's Do It Again
Folks, it's Great Blend Time again. Public Address stages the fourth Karajoz Great Blend on Sunday November 13 at the Hopetoun Alpha in Auckland. And boy, do we have something for you. Our star guest is Ashley Highfield, the BBC's Director of New ...
30:
AUDIO:
Meet The Ministers – Clayton
Cosgrove
This morning Scoop dropped by Bowen House to have a cup of coffee and a quick chat to Clayton Cosgrove, one of the new crop of Cabinet Minister's in the third term Clark labour Government. Mr Cosgrove entered Parliament in 1999 and was widely touted ...
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Gordon Campbell: On The Coalition’s Awful, Not Good, Very Bad Poll Results
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Gordon Campbell: On Iran Killing Its Rappers, And Searching For The Invisible Dr. Reti
Peter Dunne: MPs Unusually Quiet On Pay Rise
Ian Powell: Cuba And New Zealand: A Relationship Worthy Of Strengthening
Gordon Campbell: On bird flu, AUKUS entry fees and Cindy Lee