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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1:
Images:
All Blacks Take A Tour Of Frodo's
Plane
Pictures of the majority of the new All Blacks squad - pictured courtesy of All Blacks sponsor Air New Zealand today at Auckland Airport.
2:
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.''
3:
Bush's
Biotech Bullies Vs. The World
The Bush Administration, in the interests of Corporate America (how can anyone tell where one ends and the other begins?) is on the warpath again. Like its “war on terror”, it is fighting on several fronts.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Beehive
staff list grows as Labour's luck runs
out
"And it would appear there's more cronyism than ever, according to the Government's latest phone list," says National Party Deputy Leader Roger Sowry.
5:
Iraq
War Planned Two Days After 9-11-
Wolfowitz
While the hawks in the Bush administration attempt to justify the logic behind a pre-emptive strike against Iraq now that its become clear the country’s alleged weapons of mass destruction are nowhere to be found, the true reasons for going to war are ...
6:
$300,000
Raised For Breast Cancer Research
Trust
The Glassons Breast Cancer Research Trust t-shirt campaign has now topped the $300,000 mark.
7:
Tear
Gas, the Smell of Frightened
Capitalists
Latest reports from Evian are that in Geneva, after some hours of quietness, things have kicked off again. The G8 delegates were disrupted and the summit was delayed for a couple of hours as a resoult. Local swiss people were attacked by German riot ...
8:
Chuckman
Cartoons: George Bush The Laughing
Monkey
Two cartoons by John Chuckman…
9:
Greatest
Hits On Iraq Shows Up Corporate
Media
Good to hear that elements of the mainstream media are raising questions, however gingerly, about whether or not the Bush administration may have deceived the public to garner support for the war in Iraq. Duh!!!!!
A really big shadow hangs over Maori broadcasting, or at least the public perception of it. It's a shadow in the shape of those notoriously expensive underpants of Tuku Morgan, and everything negative that they represent.
11:
Richard
Prebble's Letter From Wellington - June
3
The Green Party conference at Karapiro was potentially the Party’s most important since they split from the Alliance. The Party that had expected to be in government with Labour finds itself irrelevant and facing electoral defeat.
12:
Wolfowitz
Remarks at the IISS Asian Security
Conf.
Thank you, John. I am delighted that the Shangri-La conference is back for a return engagement and I am delighted to be back again, myself, and very honored to be here sharing the podium with two distinguished Senators like Chuck Hagel and Jack Reed. ...
13:
David
Miller: Unspinning The Globe
What does Public Relations mean to you? Sharp suits and beguiling smiles? Off the record hints and misinformation? Public Relations has a bad image. The dismissive phrase 'it's just PR' encapsulates a lot of what people everywhere feel about PR.
One wonders how many people in Washington have actually read the full text of the "Performance-based Road Map to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict". Precious few, to judge from the reaction on the part of influential figures ...
15:
G-8
Summit Focuses on Economy, Security,
Developme
Evian, France -- Leaders of industrial powers, other countries and multilateral institutions have gathered in France to tackle questions of global security, sluggish world growth and development in poor nations while trying to overcome divisions stemming from ...
16:
All
News Is Lies: Darkest Peru
At least the foreign investors are happy - or so Allan Wagner claims. The Foreign Minister of Peru was defending the decision, taken on 28th May, to declare a state of emergency in the South American state.
17:
Stateside
with Rosalea: 2004 Presidential
Election
The single worst thing about the US presidential elections is the presidency itself. To understand what that institution has aspired to over the past 100 years, you only have to look at this weekend's photo ops of the Bushes in St Petersburg - the poster ...
18:
UN
Radio Highlights Dire Myanmar
Situation
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Rapporteur for Myanmar have jointly expressed concern over the recent political developments in Myanmar. They expressed particular worry about the Myanmar Government's detention ...
19:
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 ...
20:
Big
box opening a can of worms
Green MP Mike Ward said he has grave doubts about the Prime Minister's commitment to New Zealand small business by opening a new distribution centre for The Warehouse.
21:
Israel,
the Palestinians, Sharon, Arafat and
Bush
After ignoring the unending bloodshed between Israel and the Palestinians for the first two years of his administration, Bush is being sent out by Karl Rove to burnish up his appearance as a ''statesman''.
22:
Dunne: Sell-out Greens on way
out
Despite having accepted that GE is here to stay, the Greens are again trying to be the tail that wags the dog with their move to position themselves as Labour's long-term partners and oppose a future National-led government, United Future leader Peter ...
23:
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).
24:
Top
10 things overheard when Goff met
Arafat
10 things overheard when Phil Goff met Yasser Arafat
25:
Israeli
Claims of Easing Restrictions
“Lies"
The Palestinian Minister of Cabinet Affairs has refuted Israeli claims that stringent restrictions have been eased in the occupied Palestinian territory, and labeled them as “baseless lies, which will not deceive anybody.”
26:
Sex
Offender Register will help in McIntosh
Case
ACT New Zealand MP Deborah Coddington today urged the politicians who express concern at the release of convicted paedophile Lloyd Alexander McIntosh to get behind her legislation to create a register of sex offenders.
27:
Maharey:
The Third Way and how I got on to
it
My invitation suggested that I reflect on “the Third Way three years on”; the “renewal of social democracy” and how I, as a former academic sociologist, made the transition to politics.
28:
New
WMD Survey Group to Begin Operation in
Iraq
Washington -- A senior Defense Intelligence Agency official who will head a new U.S. operation to seek out weapons of mass destruction in Iraq says the effort represents "a significant expansion" of the ongoing work in that area.
29:
Muriel
Newman’s The Column
On Wednesday I was invited to the launch of the National Party’s welfare discussion paper, “Saving The Next Generation From Welfare Dependency”.
30:
Powell
Sees "New Dynamic" at Work in Mideast
There is a "new dynamic" in the Middle East resulting from the ouster of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, new governments in Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and President Bush's ability in recent weeks to get Israelis and Palestinians to ...
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Gordon Campbell: On The Coalition’s Awful, Not Good, Very Bad Poll Results
Ian Powell: Policy Vacuum Enables For-profit Corporate General Practice Ownership By Stealth
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