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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1:
Robert
Parry: The Original October Surprise
(2)
Consortium News Editor's Note: Part 2 of our series about the "Original October Surprise" of 1980 focuses on the role of banker David Rockefeller and his collaboration with Republicans during the Iranian hostage crisis, which doomed Jimmy Carter's presidency ...
2:
Toni
Solo: Nicaragua's Election, Things Turn
Nasty
Critical comment on the Nicaraguan election campaign has tended to neglect the nitty gritty of life for the country's impoverished majority. The closer the November 5th election looms the nastier the campaign becomes.
3:
Photo
Exhibition - Eyes to
Cambodia
There will be a photographic exhibition at Thistle Hall from 9-14th November. It opens from 10:00am - 4:00pm daily. The exhibition is called "Eyes to Cambodia" by Sotheany Ream. Sotheany is an emerging documentary photographer. Her work explores ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Brad
Will Indy. Reporter Assassinated in
Oaxaca
Today, pro-government forces attacked barricades manned by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO). Brad Will, a documentary filmmaker and reporter for Indymedia in New York, Bolivia and Brazil, was shot and killed while reporting on ...
5:
The
Letter – Monday, 30 October
2006
The Haps; A party of professional politicians; The corruption of the list; Don has gone; How would we have handled it?; Don wanted to resign; Leadership qualities?; It is Key; That Auditor General's ruling; Bulk Fund; Hard Landing; Wisdom of Crowds; ...
6:
Mystery
Of Israel's Secret Uranium Bomb
This story has already created some interest in the Israeli media but just how serious it has been taken is yet to be seen with today being the start of the working week and with today’s edition of some of the dailies available in a few hours.
7:
Admin
Officials Bill $1.5Mn For Private Air
Travel
On the campaign trail, Bush administration officials often boast that Republicans are more savvy than their Democratic colleagues when it comes to issues like taxes and the economy in general. But behind the scenes, dozens of cabinet members and ...
8:
"Stay
The Course" A Victory For Iran & Nth.
Korea
Leaving right after toppling Saddam Hussein would have preserved the United States' role as liberator and left the destiny of the Iraqis in their own hands. Saddam Hussein could not retake power because his heavy armament was destroyed, his army was dismantled ...
9:
Julie
Webb-Pullman: The Mad Hatter’s PRI
Party
If memorial events for murdered Mexican human rights lawyer Digna Ochoa last weekend marked a melding of Mexico’s past and present, the future was forged this week, as Oaxaca unravelled in events of unrivalled insanity.
10:
74
million silver coins will be
worthless
An estimated 74 million silver coins worth over $11 million will be in people’s possession but not legal tender from midnight Tuesday 31 October, with retailers the main losers, reveals the country’s leading retailing district.
11:
Where
are the sinking PI evacuees, Mr
Gore?
The New Zealand Super Fund has been challenged to ask Al Gore, when he visits the country next month, for the whereabouts of the Pacific Islanders that Gore says in his film have been evacuated to New Zealand because their islands are drowning.
12:
Debating
Non-Recognition of the Armenian
Genocide
Yasmine Ryan's latest edition of Les Yeux on France examines how two different approaches by French politicians in the past few weeks have stirred debate in France on how Turkey might be made to recognise the Armenian Genocide that took place during WWI.
13:
Carla
Binion: Bush's Absolute Power
Grab
On October 17, George W. Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006. This new law gives Bush power similar to that possessed by Stalin or Hitler, and grants agencies within the Executive Branch powers similar to those of the KGB or ...
14:
Letter
from Elsewhere: Death Of A
Teenager
On 22 October nineteen years ago, my younger son Patrick died. He was eighteen, and he thought he was indestructible. But he made one mistake, and he fell to his death.
15:
Election
Fraud 2006 – Quantifying The Risk
Potential Election Fraud And Certain Confusion At Polls Threaten Public Will. By Michael Collins and TruthIsAll “Scoop” Independent News Washington, DC
16:
Latin
America: The Heavy Hand Of The Right
Arrives
People disappeared, false dossiers, secret services in action, electoral fraud, the battle in the UN, an imminent coup d'etat in Bolivia, the lives of militants and political leaders threatened. For the Latin American Spring it is time to prove itself ...
17:
Food
Miles Claims Miss the Target
Calls by former United Kingdom cabinet minister Stephen Byers for a tax based on miles travelled by agricultural products to their market are utterly inconsistent with claims that this is the way to reduce global emissions, says Trade Minister ...
18:
William
Rivers Pitt: Andy's Election
My bar has been running this neat gimmick for several years now. If you drink every kind of beer they have in the place - about 130 labels when you combine the bottles, the taps and the unutterably wretched stuff they keep buried under the dumpster out ...
19:
PM
wrong to listen to coal man on climate
change
Greenpeace is utterly flabbergasted that the Labour Party got advice at the weekend from one of Australia's pariahs of climate policy: the Queensland premier and coal man Peter Beattie. Queensland is the biggest coal exporting state in the world's ...
20:
Ambassador
David Satterfield: Update on Iraq
Update on Iraq Ambassador David Satterfield, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq Foreign Press Center briefing Washington, DC October 26, 2006
21:
More
misinformation in campaign against NZ
food
Claims that New Zealand kiwifruit exports place a heavy burden on the climate has been rubbished by Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton today. He was responding to a statement in the Guardian and New Zealand Herald newspapers that “one kilo of kiwifruit ...
22:
Robert
Parry: The Original October
Surprise
As the United States heads toward a pivotal election on Nov. 7, both Republicans and Democrats are worried about the prospect of an "October Surprise" that could alter the political dynamic in the next two weeks.
23:
Symantec's
Vision of Next-Generation
Security
Products and Partnerships Focus on Protecting Information and Interactions, Increasing Customer Confidence in a Connected World Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:SYMC) today outlined its vision for protecting customers from the next generation of threats targeting ...
24:
Bush
Gang Swore Under Oath Saddam Was Behind
9/11
Much to the dismay of the Bush administration, Americans can remember all on their own, without any help from Democrats, that in the run up to the war in Iraq, it was top White House officials who were making the claim that Saddam was in cahoots with ...
25:
Cameron
Walker: Sri Lankan State
Terror
Occasionally in the world section of the NZ Herald you might see a headline like ‘Rebels Clash’ or ‘Sri Lanka Force bombards rebels’, usually accompanied by a couple of sentences of reporting that explain nothing.
26:
For
Cod's Sake Canada, Stop Blocking Progress
Today the Canadian High Commission got a timely reminder of Canada's necessity to learn lessons from the past and stop undermining a global moratorium on bottom trawling in international waters at the UN.
27:
Water
filter system will benefit millions
Pure drinking water, the most sought after commodity on the planet, could soon be within reach of millions of people thanks to the ingenuity of Kiwi Russell Kelly, backed by space age technology developed for NASA.
28:
One
Act Play: News From Palestine
NEWS FROM PALESTINE Based on the life and writings of Samah Jabr A One-Act Play By Genevieve Cora Fraser
29:
US
Naval War Games Off The Iranian
Coastline
There is a massive concentration of US naval power in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea. Three US naval strike groups off the Iranian coastline are deployed: USS Enterprise, USS Eisenhower and USS Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group.
30:
Will
Interest in Sustainability Be
Sustainable?
This afternoon the Prime Minister sustained a barrage of questions on sustainability and other ecologically associated issues.
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