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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1:
Return
Of The King Trailer Is
Here!
TheOneRing.net brings you this exclusive first look at THE RETURN OF THE KING! This file was sent to us by person or persons unknown, it shows 1:35 minutes in GLORIOUS quicktime a TON of shots from ROTK. Sam and Frodo in Moria, Pippin and Merry, Gandalf ...
2:
Rumsfeld
Admits Downside To Shooting Iraqi
Police
Rumsfeld admits it will be harder to recruit Iraqi policemen if the Army keeps killing them - US military opens investigation to determine what Iraqi policemen did to get themselves shot.
3:
N.
Carolina Eyewitness Reports Of Hurricane
Isabel
It is raining sideways. The wind is gusting up to 50 mph. Most businesses and schools are closed today. All of this and we are in Raleigh, North Carolina about 200 miles west of the coast.
4:
Super
Computer Weather: Hurricane
Isabel
A deepening hurricane presently in the Carribean appears headed for the US mainland and could eventually make landfall anywhere from North Florida up to Massachusetts. The current NOAA medium range super computer forecast (see images below) however ...
5:
UN
Reports Warn of Humanitarian
Catastrophe
Meanwhile, a UN human rights expert is preparing to submit a report to the UN General Assembly that charges Israel of triggering a “humanitarian catastrophe” in the occupied Palestinian territory, newspaper reports said on Wednesday.
6:
Air
New Zealand's First Airbus Touches
Down
Air New Zealand's first Airbus A320 aircraft touched down on New Zealand soil at noon Sunday, heralding a new era of aviation history in this country.
7:
Cancer
Society Applauds Progress
The Cancer Society is delighted with the progress of the Smokefree Environments Amendment Bill as it goes through its committee stages in Parliament.
8:
Dunne
underwhelmed by Green abuse
United Future leader, Peter Dunne, has received a communication from a senior Green Party official that he feels compelled to share with the rest of the world.
9:
Blogwatch:
Election Theft 2000! A New
Bombshell!
A remarkable exchange concerning Diebold's voting machines in Volusia County, Florida. On January 17, 2001, Lana Hines, a county elections official sends out an inquiry as to how Al Gore ended up with a vote-count of -16,022.
10:
Microsoft
Security Bulletin Alert -
MS03-039
We are contacting you today to ensure you are aware that we have released Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-039 over night.
11:
Eritrea:
detention of prisoners of
conscience
Eritrea: Continued detention of prisoners of conscience and new arrests of members of religious groups
12:
Inside
A U.S. Election Vote Counting
Program
Publication of this story marks a watershed in American political history. It is offered freely for publication in full or part on any and all internet forums, blogs and noticeboards. All other media are also encouraged to utilise material. Readers ...
13:
Hard
News 22/09/03 - Gadgets
So Adam, who's a dustie, had had the intuition to cut open a bag he'd lifted and save the Sportronic 4 from oblivion. The rotten old batteries were replaced, Simon knocked up an RF lead and - yes! - we had a working model of New Zealand's own games ...
14:
Al-Sahaf:
Americans Urged Us to Recognize
Israel
Former Iraqi Minister of Information, Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf, told Abu Dhabi TV that US Senators maintained communication with Iraqi officials between 1991 and 1997, and delivered a set of ‘requirements’ that the Clinton administration hoped would ...
15:
Maharey
Exploits Tragedy For Labour Ends
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today accused Labour of exploiting the Coral Burrows tragedy to re-attempt to impose its child-raising theories on parents, after Social Services Minister Steve Maharey revealed an anti-smacking law change ...
16:
Chuckman
Cartoons: Condi, Bush, Iraq And
Palestine
Four cartoons by John Chuckman…
17:
ACT's
The Letter - Monday, 22 September
2003
The government has produced a “Making Tax Easier for Small Businesses” discussion document - yet more talk. Proposed is a tax concession to use PAYE agents. As there are good, cheap software programs, paying PAYE is not a problem. There is a risky ...
18:
Four
Kiwis In World Top 10
New Zealand has four entries in the top 10 at the close of day 9 of the ISAF World Sailing Championships in Spain. The regatta is now in full swing with racing being held at all three venues and in 11 classes.
19:
Scoop
Images: Dom's Stale Hobbit Photos Are
Fake!
More than three weeks after Scoop first published a picture of, allegedly, the home of a Hobbit from the Lord of the Rings, and the day after we published aerial photos of the Waikato set the Dominion News Paper have run two highly dubious – and probably ...
20:
Shell
first to reduce fuel price
Shell New Zealand today announced a reduction in the price of petrol and diesel, effective immediately. Pump prices will fall by 2 cents per litre at most Shell service stations throughout the country.
21:
Dimona
Reactor… a Mystery Threatening Middle
East
“The Israeli nuclear reactor of Dimona is vulnerable to meltdown, like the Russian reactor of Chernobyl two decades ago, which caused a humanitarian and ecological catastrophe. If Dimona melts down, it would affect an area 500 aerial kilometers ...
22:
Damage
Done By Employment Contracts
Act
CTU President, Ross Wilson, says a new report released this month provides stark proof of the damage done by the Employment Contracts Act and the failed economic experiment of the 1980s and 1990s.
23:
Arrest
for murder of Coral Burrows
Wairarapa Police have early this morning arrested a man and charged him with the murder of six year old Featherston girl Coral Burrows.
24:
Hodgson
Says 'We Got It Wrong'
Climate Control Convenor Pete Hodgson's admission that the amount he would demand from farmers, to fund methane gas emissions research could be lower than expected, reflects badly on Labour and its officials, ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman ...
25:
Might
Bush's Blank Check for War
Bounce?
On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, George W. Bush said what virtually every other senior member of his administration had been going out of their way to refute.
26:
Stateside:
Ah, Mccain - Are You Doing It
Again?
First, the weather. A couple of weeks ago, the source for the Bay Area's winds became the North American continent instead of the Pacific Ocean.
27:
Scoop
Image & Links: Hurricane Isabel's
Landfall
http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0309/98867b7f2ffd731a3217.jpeg NASA MODIS IMAGE – CLICK IMAGE FOR BIG VERSION
28:
Desperately
Seeking The ROTK Trailer? Click
Here
Go to Google , type "ROTK Trailer" into the box and click the "I am feeling lucky" button.
29:
Feedback:
Reply To Peter Dunne PR On Hostile
Email
I am astonished that Peter Dunne has made public a humourous email sent in a personal capacity by a member of the public.
30:
Guatemala:
Legitimacy on the line:
In an open letter sent today, Amnesty International's Secretary General, Irene Khan, urged all presidential and vice-presidential candidates to place human rights at the core of their political agendas and to publicly condemn any acts of violence ...
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