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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: World
Poll Reveals Growing Hostility Toward
USA
World Public Opinion Poll Reveals Growing Hostility Toward America and Its Foreign Policy - Interview with Ed Bice, executive director of People's Opinion Project, conducted by Scott Harris
2:
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.
3:
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 ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Peter
Jackson (The Bastard) Sacks His Fan
Club
"Right now I'm the most famous export since the lamb! They're naming a street after me! I'm the king of the southern hemisphere!! I can't have you lot running around calling me a bastard! That's not just rude! It's downright disrespectful!" ...
5:
French
Compensation Could Make Amends to
Haiti
Haiti’s political opposition decided this afternoon to turn down Secretary of State Powell’s peace plan solution. If nothing is done, Haiti’s current reality can only change for the worse in the next few hours and days, as forces of the violent opposition ...
6:
Indigenous
People From Western Colombia
Displaced
More than 1,200 Colombians from indigenous communities recently fled their ancestral homelands near the border with Panama because of heavy fighting between left-wing and right-wing forces, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) ...
7:
Beltway
Humor: Media React to Bush's Weapons
Jokes
When presidents appear appear at the annual Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner, it's traditional for them to tell a few jokes. But when George W. Bush appeared last week (3/24/04), he made a series of "jokes" about the failure to find the weapons ...
8:
The
Bush Admin. and 9-11: Open Eyes
Required
The recent controversy swirling around the Bush White House, the 9-11 Commission and the Richard Clarke book, Against All Enemies has been very enlightening. Sensing that Bush has almost nothing else to run on in the 2004 elections, the Bush Republican ...
9:
Photo-Essay
1: Death and Casualty From
Iraq
Editor’s Warning: The images in this series are horrific and depict the reality of injury and death in this US-led War against Iraq. Scoop is determined that its editorial policy will continue to serve truth, accuracy and honesty and that its reportage ...
10:
A
Coverup for What's Really at Stake in Palestine
Assassination!! My, my, how Israel loves assassination! Perhaps its part of a special Zionist democratic impulse, a sort of over enthusiastic way of making their point perfectly clear, this need to kill.
11:
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 ...
12:
Jim
Peron: Many Miss The Real Brash
Revolution
It appears that a lot of political analysts just don't get the Don Brash revolution.
13:
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.
14:
Public
Address 01/04/04 -
Encounters
Sometimes I think Alias only exists to show Jennifer Garner in her underwear. Or a bikini - did you see that on Tuesday? The panning shots, the slo-mo. If the acting thing doesn't work out for her, there's a great career awaiting at Victoria's Secret ...
15:
Questions
& Answers for Oral Answer 30 March
2004
1 Environment, Minister—Confidence 2 Auckland Transport Package—Reports 3 Spring Hill Prison, Waikato—Iwi Consultations 4 Employment Relations Law Reform Bill—Amendments 5 Security—Residency and Citizenship Legislation 6 Social Development and Employment ...
16:
Photo-Essay
2: Death and Casualty From
Iraq
Editor’s Warning: The images in this series are horrific and depict the reality of injury and death in this US-led War against Iraq. Scoop is determined that its editorial policy will continue to serve truth, accuracy and honesty and that its reportage ...
17:
Easter’s
sweeter without Politicians &
Colleagues!
Auckland – 31 March 2004, Wotif.com ( www.wotif.com ) New Zealand’s leading last-minute accommodation website revealed the results of their Easter poll: 27% of Kiwis can’t stand the thought of spending the four day break with politicians and worldwide political ...
18:
All
Kiwis Will Pay For Cruel April Fools
Prank
All New Zealand workers will pay the price for a cruel April fools day prank hatched by the humourless jokers in the Beehive, says the National Party spokesman for Small Business Lindsay Tisch.
19:
Michael
King's Last Interview -
Transcript
Long live the King The following is a transcript of the last interview Michael King gave before his untimely passing. It aired March 22, 2004 on 95bFM . Interviewer is Simon Pound, transcriber Matt Nippert. From: http://fightingtalk.blogspot.com
20:
Being
Pa'alagi - A Tribute To Michael King
Being Pa'alagi - A Tribute To Michael King By Anthony Haas Wednesday, March 31, 2004
21:
Future
of British High Commission in NZ
questioned
Labour must act quickly to ensure the British High Commission in New Zealand is not reduced in size or closed, says National's Associate Foreign Affairs spokesman, Simon Power.
22:
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 ...
Talk of yet another 'review' of the RMA gets at least one person incensed. "It's appropriate on April Fool's Day to be discussing 'reviewing' the RMA because the whole RMA is a joke.
24:
No
electricity crisis: there are
alternatives
Otago MP David Parker today reassured the community that New Zealand does not face an electricity crisis right now - there are alternatives.
25:
Annan
Urges Myanmar To Allow National
Convention
With Myanmar announcing that it will convene a national convention to draft a new constitution, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged the government to lift restrictions on democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and to allow the broadest ...
26:
On
martyrdom and the limited horizon of
generals
[In the following you read how Uri Avnery places the assassination of Sheikh Yassin in context, and in the four forwarded articles of the Israeli-Palestinian email magazine Bitter Lemons (Assassinations and the conflict - Ed.12) you find the subject approached ...
27:
Inspector-Gen.
of Intelligence & Security
resigns
Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that following the High Court judgment issued today, the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Laurie Greig, has given written notice of his resignation to the Governor-General.
28:
Sen.
Daschle on the Abuse of Government
Power
Mr. President, last week I spoke about the White House's reaction to Richard Clarke's testimony before the 9-11 Commission. I am compelled to rise again today, because the people around the President are systematically abusing the powers and prerogatives ...
29:
A
Second Look At The IG Of Intelligence &
Security
A man very much in the news this week has been New Zealand's first Inspector General of Intelligence and Security (the Inspector-General) Laurie Greig. As of 5pm last night the Inspector-General is now the former Inspector-General, having succeeded ...
30:
Photo-Essay
3: Death and Casualty From
Iraq
Editor’s Warning: The images in this series are horrific and depict the reality of injury and death in this US-led War against Iraq. Scoop is determined that its editorial policy will continue to serve truth, accuracy and honesty and that its reportage ...
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