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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1 &
2: Judgement
In The People Vs George Walker
Bush
The Defendant is a convicted war criminal consequently unfit to hold public office ; citizens ,soldiers and all civil personnel of the United States would be constitutionally and otherwise , justified in withdrawing all co-operation from the Defendant and ...
3:
Why
Not Just Genetically Engineer Women For
Milk?
MAdGE (Mothers Against Genetic Engineering in Food and the Environment) today launched a highly controversial billboard campaign in Auckland and Wellington to provoke public debate about the social and cultural ethics of genetic engineering in New Zealand.
4:
UQ
Wire: Police Block 9/11 Families From
Rally
9/11 Families and others calling on Bush to end stonewalling of the 9/11 Commission prevented from attending rallyAdvertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
PlayStation®2
online gaming is about to hit NZ
PlayStation®2 has the biggest online console gaming community in the world and New Zealand is about to join it. Now, not only will you be able to play your friend in your living room on your PlayStation 2, soon you will be able to play your friends ...
6:
Images:
Lord Of The Rings Exhibition At Te
Papa
In anticipation of the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the central instalment in writer/director/producer Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on the J.R.R. Tolkien masterpiece, Te Papa proudly announces a world exclusive and a bold ...
7:
The
Real Deal: HUD Sec. Mel Martinez'
Hotseat
UnAnswered Questions About $59 Billion Missing from The US Dept. of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) and the “Piratization” of Our Jobs, Land, Savings & Safety (Part I of III)
8:
UN
& Myanmar Strike Deal Possible Refugee
Returns
The United Nations refugee agency has reached an agreement with Myanmar's Government to begin measures to create the necessary conditions in the country's east to allow the large-scale return of refugees from neighbouring Thailand.
9:
Ex-Liberia
Leader Charles Taylor's Assets
Frozen
The United Nations Security Council today ordered all governments to freeze the assets of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor and his immediate family and barred them from using "misappropriated funds and property" to obstruct the restoration ...
10:
U.S.
Unloading WMD in Iraq
Mehr News Agency reports U.S. forces have unloaded a large cargo of parts for constructing long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the southern ports of Iraq.
11:
Gibson's
seedy version of Orientalism
The Passion of the Christ Written and directed by Mel Gibson With James Caviezel, Maia Morgenstern and Monica Bellucci Showing at major cinemas
12:
Powell
IV ABC Interview with George
Stephanopous
MR. STEPHANOUPOULOS: And Secretary of State Powell joins George Will and me now. Welcome, Mr. Secretary.
13:
Powell
IV on Fox News Sunday with Chris
Wallace
MR. WALLACE: Let's begin with those terrible bombings in Spain -- five men arrested, this videotape that claims that al-Qaida was responsible. What do we know?
14:
Noam
Chomsky: US-Haiti, An Analysis
Those who have any concern for Haiti will naturally want to understand how its most recent tragedy has been unfolding.
15:
The
Lion, the Witch, the Wardrobe Coming To
NZ
''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,'' the movie to be directed by kiwi director Andrew Adamson, is coming to New Zealand in what Industry Development Minister Jim Anderton says is ''a vote of confidence in our country as a location for film and ...
16:
Diebold
Memos Disclose Florida 2000 E-Voting
Fraud
Something very strange happened in Volusia County on election night November 2000, the night that first Gore won Florida, then Bush, and then as everybody can so well remember there was a tie.
17:
Public
Address 16/3/04 - New Realities, Old
Voices
The right-wing blogosphere is up in arms about the Spanish election result. With Aznar's rejection by an electorate that apparently swung against him in the days following last week's murderous bombings, they believe, the terrorists have won...
18:
Questions
for Oral Answer - Tuesday, 16 March
2004
Questions to Ministers 1. GERRY BROWNLEE to the Prime Minister: Why is she now reported as saying there will be no announcements this week regarding a commission of inquiry into Treaty of Waitangi matters, when on Thursday she was reported to be set to go ...
19:
No
Right Turn: Iraq - Was It Worth
It?
It's been a year since the US invaded Iraq. In that year, the official justification for the war has changed almost daily, from WMD to "overthrowing a tyrant" to "building a democracy" to "fighting terrorism". None of those reasons has been convincing.
20:
GPJA
#55: Global Antiwar Action Sat March
20
This Saturday, March 20, is an international day of action against war and occupation. In Auckland we meet at 12 noon at the bottom of Queen St
21:
Minister
defends sing-along courses
National's education spokesman Bill English says he is shocked that Steve Maharey is defending Maori sing-along-to-the-radio courses, costing the taxpayer $15 million a year.
22:
Eco-Economy:
The Toy Boys of Fraud…
The following essay on Mortgage and Real Estate Appraisal Fraud in the US housing market records in some detail the micro-level impacts of the largely un-told back-story of the US housing market. It does this from the point of view of an experienced operator ...
23:
Dunedin
Bishop announces retirement
The Anglican Bishop of Dunedin, the Right Reverend Dr Penny Jamieson, has announced her retirement from the end of this June.
24:
The
Real Deal: HUD Sec. Mel Martinez' Hotseat
(II)
In October of 2000, Kelly O'Meara published the first of her Pulitzer Prize deserving four year missing money series in Washington's Insight Magazine, ''Why is $59 billion Missing from HUD?''
25:
Annan's
Envoy Arrives In Haiti
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special envoy landed in Haiti's capital today, as the UN assessment mission looking at the security, transportation and humanitarian conditions in the still volatile country continued its work.
26:
Aristide
Demands White House Coup
Investigation
Haitian President Aristide Demands U.S. Investigate White House Complicity in Coup - Interview with Ira Kurzban, lawyer representing Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, conducted by Scott Harris
27:
Sexual
violence depiction causes audience
collapse
Chief Censor Bill Hastings and his censors from the Office of Film and Literature Classification Office have granted so many general R18 classifications to films containing gratuitous sexual violence combined with explicit sex, that one wonders what’s next ...
The United States vehemently condemns the outrageous and appalling terrorist attacks that took place in Madrid today. I offer deepest condolences to the families of the victims and to the people of Spain. In my telephone call with Foreign Minister Palacio ...
29:
Labour
Making Life A Royal Bore
ACT New Zealand Youth Affairs Spokesman Heather Roy today wondered whether Prince Edward had any qualms about presenting an award from which his father's title had been unceremoniously dumped.
30:
A
Chance To Meet Mary-Kate And Ashley In
LA
The ZM radio network in association with the mary-kateandashley brand is searching for New Zealand's biggest Mary-Kate and Ashley fan! The winner and two companions will get to meet the most famous teenagers on the planet in their home city, Los ...
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Gordon Campbell: On bird flu, AUKUS entry fees and Cindy Lee
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Gordon Campbell: On Fast Track Powers, Media Woes And The Tiktok Ban
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