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The weekend’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: $300,000
Raised For Breast Cancer Research
Trust
The Glassons Breast Cancer Research Trust t-shirt campaign has now topped the $300,000 mark.
2:
Chuckman
Cartoons: George Bush The Laughing
Monkey
Two cartoons by John Chuckman…
3:
Wolfowitz
Interview with Vanity Fair's
Tannenhaus
Wolfowitz - ''The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason, but -- Hold on one second.''
4:
Virus
Pretends To Come From
support@microsoft.com
W32.Sobig.B@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to all the email addresses, purporting to have been sent by Microsoft (support@microsoft.com).
5:
All
News Is Lies: Becoming The 51st
State
It beggars belief, but it is true. Last week, a group of influential politicians who inhabit the rarefied but influential world of Washington DC think-tanks proposed that US government officials be given the right to sit in on the European Union's ...
6:
Top
10 things overheard when Goff met
Arafat
10 things overheard when Phil Goff met Yasser Arafat
7:
Kidd
Millennium Cartoon: Deja Who?
Cartoon by http://www.kiddmillennium.com …
8:
Between
The Lines: War Profiteering
&Halliburton
Allegations of War Profiteering Leveled Against Halliburton and Other Companies With Close Ties to White House - Interview with Charlie Cray, a senior corporate reform campaigner at Citizen Works, conducted by Scott Harris
9:
Hard
News 30/05/03 - Friday Afternoon
Infotainment
Flesh blogs from nearly everyone! Assume the appearance of working and read them at the office this afternoon, or peruse at your leisure this weekend ...
10:
Names
and Faces of Sudan's Slavery Statistics
Washington -- There can be no debate over whether slavery exists in Sudan. It has now been fully documented, according to the compilers of a comprehensive database that lists the names of 11,000 people who were abducted from rebel-held areas by ...
11:
Scoop:
Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday Funnies With Babylon Express & Others - Paul Wolfowitz Gets Bitten By A Truth Snake - Hard News And Much More Is There! - Between The Lines On War Profiteering - John Laughland: Beltway Seeks To Expand Across The Atlantic - Imad Khadduri: Nuclear ...
12:
Scoop
Satire: Nats Deny Smith To Be Traded
In
The National Party has come out fiercely denying rumors that former conservation minister Nick Smith is about to be traded in for a late-model Japanese import.
13:
CIA
Assassination Operation In Vietnam
Revealed
Created by the CIA in Saigon in 1967, Phoenix was a program aimed at "neutralizing"--through assassination, kidnapping, and systematic torture--the civilian infrastructure that supported the Viet Cong insurgency in South Vietnam. It was a terrifying "final solution" ...
14:
Mass
Suicides Tonight A Sick 'Entertainment'
Fest
PATRONS Sir John Kennedy-Good KBE QSO Professor TV O'Donnell MD FRACP CBE Marilyn Pryor Founder Patricia Bartlett O.B.E.
15:
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, ...
16:
Combating
Prostitution, Human Trafficking In Iraq
Eight Members of the United States Helsinki Commission have written to Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage requesting information about State Department efforts to ensure that U.S. contractors do not participate in prostitution or human trafficking-related ...
17:
Imad
Khadduri: Iraq's Free Fall
There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. This apparently became the case a few months after the end of the 1991 war when Hussain Kamel, the man in charge of the nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs, ordered the destruction ...
18:
What
Congress Does Not Know about Enron and
9/11
A captured Al Qaida document reveals that US energy companies were secretly negotiating with the Taliban to build a pipeline. The document was obtained by the FBI but was not allowed to be shared with other agencies in order to protect Enron.
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:
Post
Headline on 9/11 Inquiry May Prove
Prophetic
Washington Post Headline on 9/11 Inquiry May Prove Prophetic Says Watchdog Group - Witnesses not under oath raises doubts about Commission process
21:
Rumsfeld Interview with WCBS-TV
I first want to address the death of two United States soldiers in Baghdad in a firefight, that makes I believe 4 soldiers died with hostile fire within the last 24 hours or so. Obviously the war is not over, you ve said that you ve made that apparent.
22:
Move
Over, Right Wing Radio - Liberals Are
Coming
NEW YORK - A political explosion happened the weekend of May 17th-18th in New York, and it may be the big one that gives Karl Rove nightmares. It could mean the end of George W. Bush's seemingly unending ability to tell overt lies to the American ...
23:
Rumsfeld
Interview with WNYW-TV
Q: First of all, I just have to ask you before we really get started. You had a car accident today?
24:
Whitman
Interview with CNN On Saving Private
Lynch
Q: Its a script straight out of Hollywood and the story that gave America an injection of patriotism. A raid in the dead of night under enemy lines where US soldiers daringly rescued one Private Jessica Lynch held captive in an Iraqi hospital. But a BBC reporter ...
25:
Colin
Powell Will Visit Pope to Discuss
Mideast
John Paul II will receive U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell in audience to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and the Mideast situation in the wake of the Iraqi war.
26:
Chuckman:
An Interpretation of Bush's
Character
While I find those images on the Internet of a blunt little mustache digitally-scribbled onto President Bush's upper lip feeble and unhelpful, still, there are parts of Bush's character and behavior that strikingly resemble at least one major biographer's interpretation ...
27:
Govt
pursues bewildering foreign
policy
Foreign Minister Phil Goff should be focussing on issues in his own back yard rather than holding hands with Yasser Arafat, according to National Party Foreign Affairs spokesman Dr Wayne Mapp.
28:
Economists:
AIDS to Be a Leading Issue at G-8
Washington -- President Bush will challenge the heads of the other major industrialized countries meeting June 1-3 in Evian, France, to pledge more of their budgets to the fight against HIV/AIDS, according to a panel of economists.
29:
NZ
should follow Egypt and pull out of GE WTO
case
The Greens are calling on the New Zealand Government to follow Egypt's lead, and pull out of the wrong-headed United States world trade case against Europe over Genetic Engineering.
30:
Upcoming
G-8 summit should tackle
anti-poverty
The head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said today he hoped the leaders of the eight most industrialized countries meeting next week in Evian, France, would be discussing not whether to address the anti-poverty goals of the 2000 Millennium ...
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