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The Weekend's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Cheney Spearheaded Effort to Discredit Wilson
Vice President Dick Cheney and then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley led a campaign beginning in March 2003 to discredit former Ambassador Joseph Wilson for publicly criticizing the Bush administration's intelligence on Iraq, according ...
2: FULL COVERAGE: Cartoon Caricature Controversy
Audio: Pankhurst Apologises For Offending Muslims + Javed Khan IV - Tim Pankhurst: "They recognise the freedom of speech issues, but we also accept that that does not come without responsibilities. We have agreed to apologise for causing offence ...
3: Bluebridge Hula Laguna party to transform Lagoon
This Sunday will see the Lagoon on Wellington’s waterfront transformed into an exotic island paradise for a new free music event – Bluebridge Hula Laguna and the Late Night Luau – running from 11am until 11pm.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4: Navy's new MRV to be launched
The Royal New Zealand Navy's new Multi Role Vessel (MRV) will be launched on Saturday (local time) at the Merwede shipyard in Rotterdam.
5: Mexico Parties Slam US Cuba Policy
Mexico, Feb 6 (Prensa Latina) Leaders and legislators of main Mexican parties condemned the implementation in Mexico of US anti-Cuban measures such as the Helms-Burton, which tightens the blockade of the Island.
6: Suzan Mazur "No Ransom" - Part II (With Audio)
Unlike many in the museum world, Metropolitan Museum Ancient Near East expert Oscar White Muscarella was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. His childhood was spent in foster homes. And at age ten or eleven he was adopted by his mother's second ...
7: Paul Buchanan: The Politics of Cartoon Conflict
Recent controversies surrounding the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad have raised the spectre of a deepening cultural clash between Islam and the West. The issue has been debated as one of freedoms of speech and press versus ...
8: Clark must answer on overspending
National Party Deputy Leader Gerry Brownlee says Helen Clark must be the one answering questions on Labour's pledge card overspending.
9: McDonald’s Backs down after Workers Strike
McDonald’s workers in Queen St carried out a symbolic strike at lunchtime today despite the company’s threats to sue individual workers if they took part in union action.
10: Calling for a rational immigration debate
The reaction to comments made by Don Brash in his latest Orewa speech about the need for an immigration debate was out of proportion to the amount of time he spent discussing this topic. In total, there were 192 words devoted to this out of a total ...
11: Fringe Review: Shanghai Sheba
In the 2005 Fringe Festival Sheba Williams dazzled with her tribute to tribute to 1920s icon Josephine Baker. Now she gives us the story of Shanghai, as told in a stylish mix of prose and song by the quintessential bar girl – Shanghai Sheba.
12: Anderton Attends Training Trust's Graduation
Jim Anderton is attending the Apprenticeship Training Trust's Graduation, Annual Awards and Prizegiving Ceremony on the North Shore in Auckland tonight.
13: Hot air misses the Global Warming point
Solid Energy's environmental report in which it says it has delivered on its environmental goals misses perhaps the largest environmental effect of all: climate destabilising global warming - says the Environment and Conservation Organisations (ECO) co-chair, ...
14: Labour Outspends National By More Than $500,000
In a surprise twist to the ongoing saga of Election 2005 Labour look to have spent well in excess of National in election advertising. According to the Election Commission not only did Labour spend more than National on election advertising they spent more ...
15: Greens meet Zimbabwe opposition representative
A high profile member of the Zimbabwe Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Mrs Sekai Holland, met with Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke in Wellington today. Mrs Holland is a national executive member of the MDC, which is the major ...
16: Fringe: You Know What, I Really Don’t Like You
The stage is fairly bare, containing some cushions in the middle, some books nearby, a punching bag hanging to the right and another lying on the floor, an inflatable hammer and baseball bat, and a yoga ball off to the left.
17: Volunteering NZ welcomes ‘Cheers Volunteers’
“Volunteering New Zealand joins with government today in saying ‘cheers volunteers’,” said Tim Burns, Executive Director of Volunteering New Zealand.
18: Undertaker To Bury New Zealand
World Wrestling Entertainment® and Dainty Consolidated Entertainment today announced that UNDERTAKER® has been added to the list of SmackDown Superstars appearing in New Zealand’s first ever WWE Live Event at Wellington’s Westpac Stadium on Saturday ...
19: Fringe Review: Ye Olde Horrore Tour
I’ve been on walking tours through many cities, including a Witch Walk in Edinburgh, a Jack the Ripper Tour in London, and a Voodoo Walk through the cemeteries of old New Orleans. So, the 2006 Wellington Fringe Festival’s offering of "Ye Olde Horrore ...
20: Fiji aid to focus on squatter settlements
Ending his visit to Fiji, Foreign Minister Winston Peters has said that New Zealand intends to focus its bilateral aid efforts on addressing the growing problem of squatter settlements.
21: Build Up To Fringe 06 This Is It. Yeehah!
Karen Blyth, director, is ecstatic about the opening of Fringe 06. “Everyone is welcome to the Fringe 06 opening night party, 9pm, at the Paramount. It’s going to be a monster!” Celebrated DJ extraordinaire RECLOOSE will be turning out upbeat sounds to rock the ...
22: Greenpeace dismisses WTO ruling on Europe & GMOs
Brussels - Greenpeace tonight dismissed as irrelevant a WTO ruling that reportedly backs the US, Canada and Argentina in their efforts to force Europe to accept genetically modified organisms (GMOs); according to first press reports, the WTO decided that ...
23: Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Election Law: Did Labour Get Value For Its Alleged Overspend? - Politics: Workers, Unions And Activists To Hold Public Rally Sunday - Justice: Restorative Justice Model Reduces Reoffending - Report - Health: Ryall Set To Battle Government Over Old Napier ...
24: East Timor President Must Veto Criminal Defamation
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has written to the President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao calling for a veto of the penal code proposed by the Government of Timor-Leste criminalising defamation ...
25: Budget 2006: More Spending and Less Growth
Last December the government released its latest Budget Policy Statement (BPS). It gives the government’s assessment of the medium-term outlook for the economy and outlines the broad shape of the 2006 Budget. The first striking point about the BPS ...
26: Aust.: Report into Immigration’s visa cancellation
A report by Commonwealth and Immigration Ombudsman, Prof. John McMillan, released today highlights deficiencies in the Department of Immigration’s administration of visa cancellation powers under s 501 of the Migration Act 1958 as it applies to long-term ...
27: Zero tolerance goes from strength to strength
The Zero Tolerance to Graffiti programme continues its success with the number of reported incidents of graffiti significantly down on this time last year.
28: Unsafe Flaming Gel Recalled
The Ministry of Consumer Affairs is working with the supplier and retailers of a product called 'Nu-reZ Flaming Gel' to undertake an immediate voluntary recall.
29: Hopsicker: Abramoff & The Republican Black Hand
When Jack Abramoff showed up looking like an old-time Mafia don complete with black fedora and matching trench coat last month, to plead guilty to felony fraud charges in a Federal Court in Washington D.C., puzzled observers were asking: what could ...
30: Intelligence Alliance Binds NZ To US War Machine
Let's give credit where credit's due. It was commendable that Warren Tucker, the Director of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) made its first ever public statement (January 31). News coverage of his unprecedented article focused ...
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