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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1:
Bush
Impeachment Resolution Introduced In
Illinois
Representative Karen A. Yarbrough, a Democratic member of the Illinois State Assembly, introduced a resolution calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush.
2:
Kamala
Sarup: World Refugees Day
In 2000 the General Assembly of the United Nations passed a resolution that proclaimed June 20th to be World Refugee Day. Some time ago the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees said the following: "Every day we can observe incredible courage and strength of ...
3:
Senator
John Kerry: The Right to Dissent
Thirty-five years ago today, I testified before the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, and called for an end to the war I had returned from fighting not long before.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
ING
Property Trust Unit Purchase
Plan
On 31 March 2006 ING Property Trust announced that it would introduce a Unit Purchase Plan for unitholders. The Unit Purchase Plan enables all Eligible Unitholders to subscribe for units having an aggregate subscription amount of $5,000 per unitholder.
America is a nation of losers. It's the best thing about us. We're the dregs, what the rest of the world barfed up and threw on our shores.
6:
California
2nd State To Introduce Bush
Impeachment
Joining Illinois, California has become the second state in which a proposal to impeach President Bush has been introduced in the state legislature. And this one includes Cheney as well.
7:
NZ
Prime Minister out of the closet on Peak
Oil
As the price of oil hangs at record heights, unmoving, like a pall threatening to choke economies and festering the sore that is inflation (October delivery contracts on the NYMEX are over US$75 a barrel), the cattle-class as well as the impotent media ...
8:
Mazur:
Deeper Into The Dillon-Euphronios
Nexus
I first met University of Arizona political science professor David N. Gibbs about a year ago while researching a story about the Patrice Lumumba matrix. Dr. Gibbs spent a couple of years in Africa in the Peace Corps(Niger, 1979-1980) where his ...
9:
Ryan
& Dorday: Another Day In The Solomon Islands
(Honiara, 26 April 2006) - After flying down to Christchurch Monday night, the Scoop contingent (photographer Jason Dorday and myself) caught the New Zealand Defense Force cargo flight to the Solomon Islands. At around 11 hours, including a stop-off ...
10:
Solo:
Shifting Centres Of Gravity In Latin
America
COPA the Panamanian airline is now flying the Brazilian company Embraer's E-190 commercial airliners on routes previously dominated by Boeing 737s. This detail highlights broader shifts in the economic balance of power in Latin America away from United States ...
11:
Keith
Lyons: Chernobyl - A Thinly Wrapped
Monster
A thinly wrapped monster On the 20th birthday of the world’s worst nuclear accident, Keith Lyons recalls his 10th anniversary visit inside Chernobyl’s ‘dead zone’.
12:
Bushism
As Greek Drama: "Hubris" And "Tragic
Flaws
The world of theatre that I've swum in for decades as a drama critic provides a useful prism through which to view today's political events and players.
13:
Bushco:
Lame Duck, Or Armed And
Dangerous?
I once heard a story about a certain playwright with a bad personality who asked his assistant ‘why must people take such an instant dislike to me??” To which the assistant replied, “it saves time.”
As a people who praise humanity; as a human race we have a despicable history. Since the beginning of time we, as a people, have abolished those with whom we didn’t like or agree with, or those who had what we wanted: like land or rich resources. We haven’t ...
15:
Audio
& Images: ANZAC Day Dawns In
Wellington
Audio & Images: ANZAC Day Dawns In Wellington Sounds and sights from this mornings Dawn Service at the Cenotaph in Wellington.
16:
Rice
Print Roundtable With Greek Journalists
QUESTION: Okay, we'll start with, actually, I think Iran dominates, actually, I think, and you're arriving in a quite crucial moment in Greece. On the 28th, the date set for the Security Council expires. So my question is: Do you think that it's time ...
17:
Greenpeace:
The 20th anniversary of
Chernobyl
Amsterdam, 26th April 2006 - Today, on the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster we must reflect on the impact of the day that changed the world's view of nuclear power. Chernobyl was not simply an industrial accident. It was a human tragedy on ...
18:
Condoleezza
Rice With Turkish Deputy PM A.
Gul
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER GUL: (Via interpreter) -- very pleased to see the Secretary of State of the United States, the friendly and allied country of United States, Dr. Rice, to Turkey. You will remember Dr. Rice visited Turkey last year when she ...
19:
Public
Address 26/04/06 - Wiki Trouble
My column in the next issue of The Listener looks at the troubles rising at Wikipedia: internal fighting, edit wars, entries that degrade over time. Brilliant idea, shame about the humans. It turns out that the Helen Clark entry is fairly troubled... http://publicaddress.net/default,3104.sm
20:
Result
of David Parker Investigation
The Registrar of Companies has announced today that he has accepted the advice of the Auckland Office of the Crown Solicitor, Meredith Connell, that no prosecution action be taken against Mr Davld Parker MP, or any other director associated with ...
21:
Wake
Up! Our Fish is Being Stolen
CATCHLINE.. South Pacific countries are sitting on a time bomb if pirate fishing is not contained within two to three years as key species of fish in the Pacific Ocean will be critically over fished.
22:
Two
Laws In Parker Inquiry
ACT Leader Rodney Hide said today that the Companies Office failure to prosecute David Parker was a disgrace, and that business laws now mean nothing in New Zealand if you're a Minister in Helen Clark's Government.
23:
Kiwi
Students Spend Six Days in the
DPRK
After months of organisation and belated email exchanges between a North Korean tour company, the New Zealand DPRK friendship society and ourselves (group of three Auckland University Arts students), what begun as a faint idea sometime last year in the Quad ...
24:
Broadband
+ Tolls = Rewards with
Quicksilver
Quicksilver Internet announces the launch of its new rewards plan that will allow users to earn free broadband.
25:
William
Blum's Anti-Empire Report April 22,
2006
The recent paper by two prominent academics, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, on "The Israel Lobby", has spurred considerable discussion both in the mainstream media and on the Internet about the significance of the role played by this lobby in instigating ...
26:
Solomon
Islands Prime Minister
Resigns
Solomon Islands newly elected Prime Minister Snyder Rini this morning resigned just minutes before a “no confidence motion” against his coalition government was debated in parliament. He was understood to have expected a number of defections from his ...
27:
Labour
propaganda at Te Papa
unacceptable
An interactive computer display at Te Papa which gives the user the option of joining the Labour Party but no other political group is unacceptable propaganda, says National's State Services spokesman, Gerry Brownlee.
28:
Ray
McGovern: McCarthyism: Mary and
Joe
As additional information on the firing of CIA official Mary McCarthy just ten days short of her retirement becomes available, what is afoot is becoming quite clear. We are witnessing a Stalinesque show trial sans the actual trial and inevitable execution. ...
29:
Earth
Day Media Release - Winds of
Change
The Green Party had some fun with a beach camp at Wellington's Cuba Mall fountain on Earth Day this last Saturday to illustrate the impact of global climate disruption for International Earth Day. Kids played in the sand, and others in wet suits and ...
30:
Game-Changing
Direction for Business PCs
The way the world views and uses business PCs is about to change with the introduction of Intel Corporation’s new Intel vPro™ technology, a revolutionary shift in desktop PC security and manageability along with remarkable energy-saving computing performance.
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Gordon Campbell: On The Coalition’s Awful, Not Good, Very Bad Poll Results
Ian Powell: Policy Vacuum Enables For-profit Corporate General Practice Ownership By Stealth
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