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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1:
Pringle:
Psych Drugs Used To Manufacture Insanity
Many experts say the wide-spread epidemic of mental health problems in the US is man-made. The case of Susan Florence is a testament to this theory of man-made insanity.
2:
Reflections
on the Balata Invasion
1.Simply. Not. News. by neta Golan 2.Report of Balata Invasion by IWPS 3.Watching your tax dollars at work by Katie 4.A few days in a war zone by Harrison Healy
3:
A
New Era Of Surveillance & Military Police In
Oz
Australian security services' powers to conduct domestic surveillance and to use the military against civilians are being strengthened in two bills before the Australian Parliament.
4:
Conservatives
Are Jumping Ship: Bush Is Going
Down
I'm more and more convinced that it will be Republicans, many of them of the true conservative and realist kind, who effectively will do in the Bush Administration.
5:
Most
Controversial, Most Powerful, Bush The
Great
The president of United States of America, George w. Bush (2) may consider himself the most powerful and the best statesman of the world but in reality he stands at the top of the list of controversial leaders.
6:
Costa
Rica's Politics of Change
• An analysis of Oscar Arias’ presidential victory by COHA Senior Research Fellow Frank Kendrick, Ph.D.
7:
Sex
Worker Rights Group Participating In Bus
Trip
Sex worker rights group participating in national bus trip to stop violence against women and children
9:
Suspicion
Inhibits Journalists In New
Zealand
SYDNEY (IFJ-Asia/Pacific Media Watch): The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply concerned about reports that newspaper employers in New Zealand have tried to undermine the working rights of journalists by illegally listening in on ...
10:
Racism
and discrimination on rise around the
world
Racism and racial discrimination are on the upswing and becoming widespread throughout the world, with the current global situation confirming the worst expectations that man's worst tendencies are created in the womb, a United Nations expert on racism ...
11:
Way
Is Now Clear For Zaoui To Return Home
New Zealand First says that Ahmed Zaoui's charmed taxpayer funded existence must come to an end with the news that the Algiers government is granting an amnesty to those belonging to the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS).
13:
Scoop
Link: Video Shows Harmeet Sooden
Alive
A videotape of three of the four kidnapped Christian Peacemaker activists shows the men asking their governments and countries in the Gulf to work for their release.
14:
Leopold:
CIA Leak Path: Cheney, Libby,
Woodward
In mid-June 2003, when former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's criticism against the White House's use of pre-war Iraq intelligence started to make national headlines, Vice President Dick Cheney told his former chief of staff and close confidant I. Lewis ...
15:
Bush's
Illegal Conduct and Impeachable
Offenses
Civil Liberties Advocates Maintain Bush's Illegal Conduct Constitutes Impeachable Offenses - Interview with Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, conducted by Scott Harris
16:
Howard
to keep troops in Iraq as British
withdraw
In Adelaide today Greens Leader Bob Brown slammed the Howard government's determination to keep troops in Iraq, even as American and British troops are withdrawn.
17:
Improvements
for minorities, Kosovo status
talks
Improvement in the lives of minorities in Kosovo must be made immediately, a senior United Nations envoy said today, as a prerequisite to settling the final status of the Albanian-majority Serbian province which the United Nations has run ever since ...
18:
Scoop
Images: Len Lye's Water
Whirler
The Wellington waterfront has new sculpture. Water Whirler , realised from drawings and descriptions by Len Lye, is now operating on a specially-constructed pier by Frank Kitts Park.
19:
Arts
Festival Review: Aarero Stone
Aarero Stone - as its full title suggests, puts two very different performers in an intriguing space. The first is Carol Brown, an expat New Zealander whose London-based company, Carol Brown Dances, has toured around the world. Charles Koroneho is a maori ...
The first feature film from HEADSTRONG will start shooting on March 12th. Chris Stapp and Matt Heath are better known to New Zealand audiences as the individuals responsible for the country's most notorious television show: Back of the Y Masterpiece Television, ...
21:
Europeans
Turn to Kiwifruit for Safe
Food
Europeans are increasingly turning to “safe” foods like kiwifruit to improve their health and avoid the many food-related problems emerging around the world, according to two major European fruit and vegetable distributors visiting New Zealand this ...
22:
Newspaper
Advertising Bureau - Ad Of The
Month
WINNER - FEBRUARY AD OF THE MONTH NOKIA 6265
23:
Women
on Afghan buses to get new deal
By the end of the year at least 30 per cent of seats on all public buses in Afghanistan will be reserved for women under an ambitious United Nations-backed programme launched in a country where drivers now speed past stops if only women are waiting while men ...
24:
Intel/Microsoft:
Management & Virtualisation
Tech
INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, March 7, 2006 - Intel Corporation and Microsoft Corporation today outlined plans to connect computer network management technologies and also to work together to advance promising virtualisation technology that will ...
25:
Draft
on UN Human Rights Council
Unsatisfactory
The draft resolution to establish a United Nations Human Rights Council, presented recently by UN General Assembly President Jan Eliasson, is more than a disappointment. Its adoption by the General Assembly will constitute an enormous missed opportunity ...
26:
Visit
To Australia by Her Majesty The
Queen
Visit To Australia by Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke Of Edinburgh
27:
Howard
follows Bush in making world less
safe
Prime Minister John Howard is set to undermine international law and make the world less safe, Australian Greens energy spokesperson Senator Christine Milne said today.
28:
Call
rule out South Aust. uranium sales to
India
The Greens have called on the Rann government and the Liberal opposition to oppose the sale of uranium from South Australia to India.
29:
Deputy
sheriff Howard: stand up to sheriff
Bush
The Australian Greens today welcomed the Howard government's commitment not to sell uranium to India while it remains outside the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty but called on the Prime Minister to use Australia's position to block the US-India nuclear ...
30:
Pakistan:
Protect Civilians From Fighting in
North
(New York) – Pakistan’s government and Taliban militants must ensure that civilians are not deliberately targeted and that necessary precautions are taken to avoid civilian casualties in fighting in Pakistan’s volatile tribal areas on the Afghan border, ...
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Gordon Campbell: On Fast Track Powers, Media Woes And The Tiktok Ban
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