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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1:
Iraq
Oil Wealth May Be Headed Toward
Privatization
Under White House Control, Iraq's Oil Wealth May Be Headed Toward Privatization - Interview with Michael Renner, a senior researcher with World Watch Institute, conducted by Scott Harris
2:
Shallow
Throat: How to Take Bush
Downnnnnnnn
Appalled at the damage being done by the HardRight ideologues who had hijacked the GOP, "Shallow Throat" -- the highly-located mole in the Bush Administration, who revealed secrets from behind the White House curtain -- had had enough and had moved ...
3:
Greg
Palast IV: The Lies Are Brilliantly
Crafted
The USA is home to the largest, longest, deepest river of burbling bullshit known to man - home of the brave and of double-talk, nonsense, half-truths, Tom Brokaw, disinformation, baloney, CNN, white lies, black lies and Katie Curic - laughably ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Will
Europe And Russia Seek To Check U.S.
Power?
Now that the United States has expressed its desire to weaken the United Nations politically and to create a new world order in which the U.S. can become the sole, unrestrained power in the world, it will be important to watch how Europe responds.
Cartoon by kiddmillennium.com…
6:
Halliburton
Breaks Law While Profiting From
Terror
Cheney’s Old Company Continues To Break Laws While Profiting From Terror By Jason Leopold
7:
Deck
of Cards Helps Identify Regime's Most
Wanted
WASHINGTON, April 12, 2003 – Coalition forces in Iraq are using a specially created deck of 55 playing cards to identify the "most wanted" members of Saddam Hussein's regime.
8:
Dimson
Kooky Caption Competitions Are
In
Again Scoop readers have proven outstanding caption writers – this time for the Dimson Kooky Caption Competition. Perhaps Ari Fleischer in the White House could benefit from your talents!
9:
Mothers
Say: Label All GE Foods
“New Zealand mothers demand the right to know what GE foods they are feeding their children” Alannah Currie, Madge spokeswoman.
10:
US
Colonel Admits 500 Tons of DU Were Used In
Iraq
In three separate interviews a U.S. Special Operations Command Colonel admitted that the U.S. and Great Britain fired 500 tons of D.U. munitions into Iraq.
11:
Propulsion
And Weapons Details Of HMS
Marlborough
The British warship HMS Frigate Marlborough will be in Auckland from May 14 – 21. Scoop asked New Zealand Defence: "Has the British Government detailed whether the Royal Navy Frigate HMS Marlborough is nuclear armed and or powered?”
12:
SRA
Commentary: War As You Like
It
Markets have not yet absorbed the realities of the new war. This is particularly true of equities, which have behaved since the "end" of the Iraq campaign as though it was all over. It is not over.
13:
Questions
For Oral Answer Tuesday, 13 May
2003
1. DAVE HEREORA to the Associate Minister of Education (Tertiary Education): What is the Government doing to ensure that 15-19 year olds are in education, training or employment?
14:
Dimson
Kooky Caption Competition
We all know the Dimson loves his war-boys n toys… but this image from Bartcop takes the cake… We're lost for words... Sooooo send your captions in to the Scoop editors...
15:
ISM
Press Conf at Uited Nations
Press Conference Tues., May 13 At Un: International Solidarity Movement To Announce Freedom Summer Campaign 2003
16:
NewsFlash:
Car Bomb In Riyadh Targets
Americans
Three car bomb explosions in an American compound in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh are already being attributed to the terrorist group Al Qaeda.
17:
New
Zealand on show in the US
Minister of Tourism Mark Burton will spend the next week promoting New Zealand to the US tourism market.
18:
Why
is the America’s Cup so
Important?
Having recently returned to New Zealand, I was dismayed to learn that the government has allocated 34 million dollars to support another bid for the America’s Cup. Their case is predicated upon the idea that this money is not only an investment in the ...
19:
Clampdown
On Illegal Street Racing
More streets are to be restricted to non-residential traffic on weekends and public holidays in order to tackle the scourge of illegal street racing in Manukau. This will include a large stretch of Te Irirangi Drive between Dawson Road in Otara and ...
20:
Does
My Triple Bottom Line Look Big In
This?
New Zealand's Mighty River Power recently confronted promoters of a corner-stone of corporate sustainable development, the triple bottom line. In essence, it said TBL reporting is just single bottom line reporting in tart's clothing.
21:
UQ
Wire: The Women Like This
War
We’re proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who’s physical, who’s not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who’s president. ...
22:
Top
10 things to improve NZ-USA
relations
Top 10 things the government could do to improve NZ-USA relations
23:
The
Thomas E. White Affair – The Documents
The following are the source documents (emails, charts and spreadsheets from Enron Energy Services) which were used by freelance journalist Jason Leopold for his expose about U.S. Army Secretary Thomas E. White’s direct involvement in crooked accounting ...
24:
Scoop
Feedback: Death and Casualty From
Iraq
The following feedback has been received from Scoop readers in response to our decision to publish graphic pictures from Al Jazeera showing the true horror of war.
25:
Helen
Clark: Dishonest, Or Out Of
Touch?
Prime Minister Helen Clark's comments on ZB radio this morning, concerning amendments to the Resource Management Amendment Bill currently before Parliament, reveal either her lack of understanding or her propensity to obvisacate or distort facts, ACT New ...
26:
Rick
Barker promoted to Cabinet
Rick Barker was today promoted to Cabinet, following the resignation last week of Mark Gosche due to family circumstances.
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today questioned why the Labour Government is not extending its young persons education, training and work scheme, announced today, to all unemployed New Zealanders.
28:
How
NYT's Howell Raines Enables Journalistic
Lying
We learn in the May 11 New York Times that, since 1999, America’s newspaper of record has regularly published reporter Jayson Blair’s flights of fancy as straight news.
29:
Fears
Government is abandoning ‘GE-Free’ options
Fear that Government is abandoning ‘GE-Free’ options as consumers mark anniversary of supermarket protests
30:
Have
National-ACT seen the light?
A series of releases from ACT and National recently calling on the government to work in partnership with the tourism industry and to put more money into biosecurity and welfare suggest they have seen the light on cooperation, constructive partnerships ...
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Gordon Campbell: On The Coalition’s Awful, Not Good, Very Bad Poll Results
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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