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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1:
UQ
Wire: 911 - They Let It Happen On
Purpose!
Imagine you wake up from a coma and you learn that 11 months ago, an "Attack on America" destroyed some significant buildings, killed 3,000 people and forced a war against terrorism. You switch on the news and see pictures of Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, ...
2:
Scoop
Images: Katya Rivas In Wellington
Dr Ricardo Castanon With A Slide Showing A Cloud Formation (In The Image Of Mary)
3:
“Baise-Moi”
should be Banned says Bill
Hastings
Chief Censor Bill Hastings has confirmed that the French sex-violence film “Baise-Moi” (transl. “F*** Me” or “Rape Me”) is a shocking film that is injurious to public good and should be banned.
4:
Questions
For Oral Answer Wednesday, 28 August
200
1. Hon BILL ENGLISH to the Prime Minister: What will be the role of Green Party spokespeople in Government decision-making on Category A issues, as set out in the agreement between the Government and the Green Party?
5:
Funds
To Be Found For Suburbs Rugby Club
Upgrade
A big increase in the number of women's rugby teams is one of the reasons the Suburbs Rugby Football Club in Avondale urgently needs to upgrade its changing and showering facilities.
6:
Treasury
Briefing Papers Released
Finance Minister Michael Cullen today released the Treasury’s briefing papers to the incoming government.
New Zealand First has made a number of changes to its line up for the Parliamentary term.
8:
Activists
in 40-Day Fast to Protest Iraq
Attack
The Bush administration's plan to wage war against Iraq has run into opposition from some unexpected quarters in recent weeks.
9:
Greens
Astonished At Minister Breaking Own
Rules
Green Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley said she was astonished that the Minister of Health had breached rules contained in legislation she had personally introduced into Parliament when she appointed Wayne Brown as Chair of the Auckland District ...
10:
The
New Write - 26th August 2002
1. SLACK ATTITUDES FAILING CHILDREN - ENGLISH 2. ALLIANCE ROUT HUMILIATES NZUSA 3. HIPPIES ON A PLANE 4. HOT GOSS FROM PARLIAMENT 5. TOP TEN REASONS WHY DAVID BENSON-POPE ATTACKED THE MEDIA 6. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
11:
Pakistan
Border Crossing - By Alastair Mcleod
EDITOR’S NOTE: Intrepid Kiwi journalist Alastair McLeod died on Saturday in Kabul. The following farewell note and travelogue are offered here in his memory. Farewell Sam.
12:
David
Miller: Al-Qaeda Deals the US Another
Blow
The discovery of a large archive of video footage in the remains of an al-Qaeda training camp could not have come at a worst time for the United States. For one thing, the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks is only a few weeks away. Given that ...
13:
DHB
Resignations Are Tip Of Iceberg
The Health Minister's supposed `surprise' at the resignations of top health bosses is very difficult to take at face value, ACT Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today.
14:
UQ
Wire: 911 Hijackers Who Lived At A US Navy
Base
Come Fly With Me? A Saudi Flying Instructor Who Died Mysteriously On May 8 Had The Same Name as Two 9/11 Hijackers Who Lived At The Same U.S. Naval Air Base
15:
Reducing
Poverty Key To NZ’s
Future
Reducing poverty in NZ needs to be a key priority for this government according to a report released today by the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services.
It is a privilege for me to exercise the prerogative of Her Majesty the Queen and open the 47th Parliament.
17:
Pelvic
Floor - Peak Performance
Introduce the simple lifelong habit of pelvic floor exercise that will enhance your physical and sexual well being, now and in the future.
18:
Figures
Show 'Concern' Over Hard Drugs A
Sham
Green MP Nandor Tanczos today said figures proving that police spend much more money enforcing cannabis laws than on all other drugs combined show that Government's concern over the rising use of hard drugs is a sham.
19:
New
Zealand Has Largest Reading Gap
The real news from the latest international literacy comparison is that New Zealand has the largest reading gap in the developed world, ACT Education Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata said today.
20:
UQ
Wire: Harken Energy Chronology
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21:
Research,
Science And Technology Briefing
Released
The Briefing for the Incoming Minister of Research, Science and Technology identifies four key “opportunity areas” for the portfolio as an agent of economic transformation.
22:
Images:
Portland George Bush Protest Turns
Nasty
The following images and press statement come from the Portland Indymedia website which is carrying extensive coverage of the Bush Protest and its aftermath. See… http://portland.indymedia.org/
23:
Saudi
Arabia: The Sarajevo of the 21st
Century?
Is Iraq a Diversion from the Real Invasion or Will Bush Try to Occupy Both Countries at Once? - by Michael C. Ruppert of From The Wilderness
24:
Katya
Rivas: I Am So Lonely in My
Shrines
Please, keep Me company. I am so lonely in My Shrines. Will you watch over Me? There is so much struggle in the world! So much inequality! The rich are richer and the poor have turned into the poorest among the poor.
In This Edition: GOD Bless Scoop – My Oath - Maree Howard article, re: ACCountability - Kiwi Speak
26:
For
what ails you - A dose of pregnant mares
urine
With the recent high profile backtrack on the latest women’s wonder drug HRT; thousands of New Zealand women have gone on high alert. They’re terrified, as one of my Ponsonby friends reported over her soy latté, that the medical profession has once again used ...
27:
Government
Trying Hard, Means Well But…
New Zealand First’s spokesman on Law and Order Ron Mark has dismissed the Governments’ recently announced initiatives on youth crime as well intentioned but inadequate.
28:
Not
the Speech from the Throne
The Alliance today released its own “Speech from the Throne” top ten priority list, highlighting the lost opportunity to deal with the chronic under funding of health and education services and increasing inequality.
29:
Questions
Of The Day - 28 August 2002
Mr SPEAKER: Before we come to questions for oral answer, I would like to advise all members that as from today an uncorrected transcript of oral questions, question time in the House, will be available on the Office of the Clerk Internet site from ...
30:
American
Group Defies Iraq War Rhetoric - Part
I
They say bravado breeds idiocy, arrogance, and insensitivity. That is certainly true of all the politicians who stand in the shadows, spewing their Iraq war rhetoric, systematically ignoring the humanitarian toll such a war would produce.
Peter Dunne: Dunne's Weekly - Removing An Incapacitated Leader
Gordon Campbell: On A Textbook Case Of Spending Waste By The Luxon Government
Alison Forrest: Whose Values Do You Mean, Winston And Judith?
Eugene Doyle: It’s Bigger Than NATO And It’s Heading Our Way
Ramzy Baroud: Dear West - Your ‘Age Of Monsters’ Has Begun
Keith Rankin: Is Inflation Really Too High?