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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Elle
Intimates Strips Off With Billboard Campaign
Rush-hour traffic was treated to a striptease in Auckland today as the second of two new Elle Mapcherson Intimates billboards were unveiled by a pair of Kiwifire dancers.
2:
Which
State Did Not Have DOJ Election
Observers?
Just when you thought you couldn't get any more cynical. Guess which state did not have Federal Observers assigned to it by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for the 2002 mid-term election?
When it comes to sex, Kiwis are busy in the bedroom and want more of it. Results from the 2002 Durex Global Sex Survey released today show that Kiwis are having sex on average 135 times per year, up from 115 times in 2001. Survey findings also show ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Buzzflash:
CNN Peace Protest Becomes A 404
Why Did the Mainstream - So-Called Liberal - News Media Downplay the 100,000+ Antiwar Protestors in D.C. In October? A Special BuzzFlash News Analysis
5:
Arresting
The U.S. Economy’s Suicidal
Trajectory
Although their objectives are to provide support to the capitalist economy, financial advisers, business consultants, etc. continually stumble over the undesired truth of what the future holds for their clients.
6:
Scoop
Archive: UQ Wire: Was Paul Wellstone
Murdered?
Democrats Twice As Likely to Die In Crashes: Was Paul Wellstone Murdered? - History Suggests It - Crash Inconsistencies Suggest It - Many, Including Some Members of Congress, Believe Ithttp://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/1c/83/200211201748.9b4c3d66.html
7:
Wintringham
Must Front with Legal Advice -
Fast!
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide said today that State Services Commissioner Michael Wintringham better have rock solid legal advise that PSA bounty payments to civil servants are lawful.
Three years down the track and what is this Government's standout feature? Cronyism, according to ACT's Economic Development Spokesman, Deborah Coddington.
9:
Dunne
unmoved by a load of old
Coddingtons
“It’s always a pleasure to see the performance of new MP’s in Parliament and ACT MP, Deborah Coddington, is proving to be a particular source of delight,” said Ohariu-Belmont MP, Peter Dunne, today.
10:
Abbott
Murder Trial: Warning Shot, The Worst
Thing
Following evidence given yesterday , the testimony from the prosecution’s expert witnesses has raised more questions on the accuracy of police testimony of the shooting.
11:
Civil
Money Laundering Action Against Rj Reynolds
The European Commission has filed a civil action on behalf of the European Community (EC) and ten Member States against the US cigarette manufacturer R. J. Reynolds, following the dismissal of its cigarette smuggling action last February.
12:
The
World Celebrates Capitalism!
From Colorado Springs To Caracas - From Anchorage To Alaska - We're Cheering Human Creativity!
13:
Scoop
Image: A New American Flag?
This image is intended to reflect a reality rather than a point of view, but in so much as it may be construed as reflecting a point of view, it is my own and does not necessarily reflect the vision of the Bucks County Green Party. All are welcome ...
14:
National
seeks answers on PSA
payments
National’s Finance spokesman, Don Brash, is testing the legality of lump-sum payments made to civil servants simply for belonging to a union.
15:
Scoop
Cartoon: A Christmas Gift That Keeps
Giving
16:
Images:
Te Kaha Sails For Enduring
Freedom
HMNZS Te Kaha sailed from Stirling, Western Australia yesterday and after completing final specific-to-mission training for its role in Operation Enduring Freedom. The Ship’s Company have been honing their force-protection and boarding skills in preparation ...
17:
Qantas
deal turns sour for workers
Days after the announcement of the proposed partial sale of Air New Zealand, the deal’s already turning sour for Kiwi workers, says the National Party’s Transport spokesman Roger Sowry.
18:
The
Real Deal: RJR Takeover Wars - Episode
II
Cigarettes as Currency --- The European Union Sues RJR Tobacco for Two Decades of Global Money Laundering for Colombian Drug Lords, Russian Mafia, Italian Mafia, Saddam Hussein’s Family & New York Real Estate Investors.
19:
Abbott
Murder Trial: Constable Abbott Takes The
Stand
Constable Keith Abbott turned from the jury and wiped away tears while giving evidence in his defence on charges of murder in the High Court in Wellington this morning.
20:
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, ...
21:
The
Real Deal: The Ultimate New Business Cold
Call
Lest you think that my comment about the New York Stock Exchange is too strong, let's look at one event that occurred before our "war on drugs" went into high gear through Plan Colombia, banging heads over narco dollar market share in Latin America.
22:
Government
strengthens BIA, welcomes Hunn
report
The Deputy Prime Minister Michael Cullen and Internal Affairs Minister George Hawkins today welcomed the final report of the Hunn Overview Group into weathertightness saying the recommendations reflected government thinking and that work on them was ...
23:
Final
Section of the “Hunn Report”
released
The final section of the Overview Group Report on weathertightness of buildings, released today, finds the Building Act fundamentally sound but identifies aspects that require revision to prevent the reoccurrence of similar problems in the future.
24:
Jim
Shultz: Bechtel Strikes Back at
Bolivia
Sometime in the next few weeks, behind closed doors at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C., panelists in a secret trade court will decide if the people of South America's poorest country will have to pay $25 million to one of the world's ...
25:
Hide
and Brash have got it all wrong
MPs Rodney Hide and Don Brash should get their facts right before they issue inaccurate press statements which are bordering on being defamatory. PSA national secretary Richard Wagstaff said today.
26:
Sky
Launches New Interactive Tv Email Service
SKY Digital subscribers now have the option of sending and receiving text emails on their television screens using a special interactive infrared keyboard.
27:
Alliance
2002 Conference: Advisory and
Agenda
The Alliance is holding its 2002 Conference this weekend in Wellington. Originally scheduled for July this year it was postponed due to the early election.
28:
UQ
Wire: The Kissinger Bombshell
Our lord and emperor George W. Bush has just tied together the entire ball of 9/11 lies and related wax, stuck a wick in it, and handed us the match. He has done so by appointing Henry Kissinger chairman of the long-awaited "independent" ...
29:
Stateside
With Rosalea - We can be heroes
One balmy summer evening in 2000, as newly endorsed VP candidate Dick Cheney innocently aided and abetted terrorists by giving an audience of millions a monument-by-monument description of the flightpath to take for a landing at the Pentagon, my home was ...
Payments to workers for being PSA members are potentially unlawful, says Business NZ.
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