Celebrating 25 Years of Scoop
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings - 11 November 2005
TO CHANGE MY SCOOP OPTIONS OR UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/myscoop/signin.html
IF
YOU HAVE LOST YOUR PASSWORD
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/myscoop/newpass.html
Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Congress
Reps Seek Meeting With Ahmed Chalabi
Today, Congressman John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman Maurice Hinchey and other Members will send the attached letter to Mr. Ahmed Chalabi asking for a meeting to discuss his role in manipulating the intelligence ...
Nandor Tanczos will be taking a seat as a Member of Parliament for the Green Party of Aotearoa / New Zealand.
3:
Mary-Kate
and Ashley are ACE
Teenage fashion icons Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen are among a star-studded line-up of personalities to be honoured in the 2005 Accessories Council Excellence Awards (ACE Awards).
4:
Scoop
Video: Snippets From Rod Donald's
Funeral
Green Party co-leader Rod Donald died suddenly on Sunday November 6 2005. Scoop here presents video snippets from his funeral, held at Christchurch's Cathedral on Thursday, November 10 2005.
5:
Amid
Eritrean-Ethiopian Tension, UN
Continues
Visiting Ethiopia and Eritrea amid concerns that deteriorating relations could lead to fresh fighting between the two countries, which fought a bitter border war from 1998 to 2000, a United Nations Security Council envoy today received a briefing from ...
6:
Ray
McGovern: CIA v. Cheney
Allegations keep cropping up in the press that CIA professionals are undermining the administration. In at least one sense, I suppose, this is true. For when an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking truth can be regarded ...
7:
Rod
Donald Funeral Rivals Election In Net
Ratings
Television New Zealand may be regretting its decision not to broadcast Rod Donald's funeral live on free-to-air television after its interactive services division struggled to cope with massive demand from the public to view the funeral via an online stream. ...
8:
Peters
Gives US Ambassador Good Kiwi
Welcome
Today, high among the upper levels of Bowen House New Zealand's new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Winston Peters, set about warming up relations with the latest American Ambassador to New Zealand, William McCormick.
9:
'Extinct'
seabird drops in for dinner
A small seabird known only from specimens collected over 150 years ago flew inside a fisherman’s boat anchored off Little Barrier Island on Friday night. The bird is thought to be the New Zealand storm petrel (Oceanites maorianus), which was re-discovered ...
One Law For All: A French Success Story - Bush Clarifies Position on Torture - Watching Opening of New Zealand Parliament Turns Queen into Republican
11:
The
Real Deal: Tagging Terrorist Chickens
Have you heard about the National Animal Identification System (NAIS)? The radio ads feature a “farmer” telling us how hard it is to make a living farming today - harder than it was for Momma and Daddy. Worse yet, now we’ve got the risks of all ...
12:
Selwyn
Manning Reports From Rod Donald's Funeral
Scoop Co-Editor Selwyn Manning attended this morning's funeral for Green Party Co-Leader Rod Donald at Christchurch Cathedral. After the service he talked by phone to Scoop's Alastair Thompson and gave his impressions of the funeral and the man. Later he spoke ...
13:
ImpeachPAC
Raises Over $20,000 in First
Weekend
ImpeachPAC, a new political action committee created to support congressional candidates who favor impeaching Bush and Cheney, raised over $20,000 in its first weekend. ImpeachPAC was launched late Friday at www.impeachpac.org , and by early Sunday evening had ...
14:
Sickness,
Invalid numbers a more worrying
trend
National’s Welfare spokeswoman, Judith Collins, says while it is encouraging that unemployment figures have fallen, a far more worrying trend is the continuing rise in Sickness and Invalids’Benefit numbers.
15:
DPR
Korea Urged to Take a Human Rights
Measures
In the effort to improve the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), a rights expert today urged Pyongyang to invite him and other United Nations-mandated personnel to visit the country.
16:
Westpac
Business & Financial Journalism
Awards
Outstanding business and financial journalism has been recognised by Westpac New Zealand in its 42nd annual Business & Financial Journalism Awards.
17:
The
Struggle for Coca Decriminalization in
Bolivia
Bolivian social scientist and coca historian José Mirtenbaum provides a fascinating retrospective in The Narco News bulletin today on the history of coca criminalization and the struggle to decriminalize it during the last two decades.
18:
VIDEO:
US Used Chemical Weapons In
Fallujah
Powerful new evidence emerged yesterday that the United States dropped massive quantities of white phosphorus on the Iraqi city of Fallujah during the attack in November of 2004. The attack killed insurgents and civilians with appalling burns that are the ...
19:
FULL
COVERAGE: Tributes To Rod
Donald
News Items and Tributes: Green Party co-leader Rod Donald died Saturday night at around midnight at his home in St Martins, Christchurch. A public funeral will be held at the Christchurch Cathedral, Thursday, 10:30am, followed by a private burial.
20:
Ramzy
Baroud: Rosa Parks' Enduring
Legacy
What I find truly remarkable in Rosa Parks’ now legendary defiance is the simple forthrightness of her actions. Her death, at the age of 92, should be more than a sober reminder of the legacy of a legendary Civil Rights pioneer, but rather a reminder ...
21:
Bill
Grigsby: A Culture Of Lies
The neoconservative pundits are hard at work, attempting to convince their readers that ‘Plamegate’ is an isolated incident, hardly worth the cost of the newsprint. The ever-spry George Will leap-frogged effortlessly from Harriet Miers over indicted ...
22:
Scoop
Live Video: Rod Donald's Funeral In
ChCh
In association with r2.co.nz Scoop will be streaming this morning's funeral service at Christchurch Cathedral for Green Party Co-Leader Rod Donald live.
23:
Polio
And De-Worming Campaigns In Liberia
Liberia’s third round of National Immunization Days will be kicked off tomorrow, aiming to provide 1.2 million children under five years of age with the oral polio vaccine and de-worming medicine, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported ...
24:
Respect
your workmates: always wash your
hands
There's about 119,000 cases of food-borne illness in New Zealand each year and one of the easiest ways to avoid being a statistic is to go wash your hands.
25:
Protests
against new US Ambassador - one
arrest!
The new US ambassador, William McCormick, was confronted this morning by anti-war protesters at Government House today where he was presenting his credentials to the Governer General. Fifteen anti-war protesters gathered at the entrance gate displaying ...
26:
"Kerry
Told Me He Now Thinks Election Was
Stolen"
New York University professor and author Mark Crispin Miller says in an interview on Democracy Now!: “[Kerry] told me he now thinks the election was stolen. He says he doesn't believe he is the person that can be out in front because of the sour ...
27:
Proceeds
From NZ Music Month T-Shirts
Donated
In May of this year the NZ Music Month Committee teamed up with Hallensteins to make the official NZ Music Month 2005 T-shirt available for sale for the first ever time. This was a highly successful campaign which saw thousands of New Zealanders showing ...
28:
Ernest
Partridge: The Sleeping Giant
Stirs
“The Americans will always do the right thing” Winston Churchill once remarked, “after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.” The American public may be running out of alternatives. If so, the Bush Administration and the Republicans have reason to be ...
29:
Press
Briefing: Rove, Torture, France,
Australia
# Congressional investigation/leak on secret prisons # Ethics briefings # Karl Rove/CIA leak investigation # Torture/CIA exemption? # Presidential pardon for Libby? # Illegal immigration # Australia/arrests of terror suspects # France/riots # Presidential ...
30:
Game
publisher predicts bird flu
upsurge
Publisher, Matt Taylor, reports that the response to the launch of the board game Breakscore® and it's web site www.breakscore.com has been extremely positive with recent orders from Tahiti, Finland, the UK and the USA. Taylor attributes the increase ...
ENDS
Scoop
Scoop Independent News
Scoop is NZ's largest independent news source; respected widely in media, political, business and academic circles for being the place on the internet for publishing "what was really said", and for the quality of its analysis of issues.
Binoy Kampmark: Beyond Irritation - Bali’s Tourism Scourge
Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Sunday Morning In California As The Season Changes
Ramzy Baroud: Abbas ‘Postponed’ Democracy - So, Who Speaks On Behalf Of The Palestinian People? 
Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Resolving The Problem Of Evil
Binoy Kampmark: Childish Fantasies - Age Verification for Social Media Down Under
Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Meditation Is Mutation