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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Full
Coverage: Nicolas Berg Beheading
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Zarqawi Be Damned - Nicholas Berg screamed. He screamed when he saw the sword brandished in the hands of one of his captors. He screamed when he was pushed down on the ground and his held pulled back, ready for the slaughter. ...
2:
Firas
Al-Atraqchi: Zarqawi Be
Damned
Nicholas Berg screamed. He screamed when he saw the sword brandished in the hands of one of his captors. He screamed when he was pushed down on the ground and his held pulled back, ready for the slaughter.
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.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Iraq:
Beheading Of Civilian Condemned
Amnesty International condemns in the strongest terms the abduction and beheading of an American civilian by an armed group, Muntada al-Ansar, in Iraq - a video of which was released yesterday. The organization is appalled by the public display ...
5:
Scoop
Link: Seymour M. Hersh - The Gray
Zone
The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation, which had been focussed on ...
6:
Images:
U.S.Troops In Iraq Sexual Abuse
Photos
*** WARNING: This page contains graphic images of sexual abuse seemingly being committed by US Troops against Iraqi civilians and POWs. While images have been edited to remove sexually explicit details, many of the images remain highly offensive. Please view ...
7:
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 ...
8:
John
Chuckman: Sex, Lies, And
Videotapes
Among the hoard of pictures from Iraq viewed by members of America's Senate in a top-secret, eavesdrop-proof room - a rather grandiose version of one of those smelly little, stained booths for which patrons of Times Square shops used to pay to watch ...
9:
Mac
Deford: Don Rumsfeld and Al
Capone
Should Rumsfeld be fired over the prisoner abuse scandal? Frankly, at this point, we're talking barn doors and escaped cows.
10:
Continuing
Grave Human Rights Problems in
Haiti
A Delegation from the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) visited Haiti from April 12-19, and documented serious continuing violations of human rights, including killings, disappearances, burning of homes and intimidation, often directed at supporters of ...
11:
Questions
& Answers for Oral Answer 18 May
2004
1 Auckland Central Remand Prison—Review 2 Tertiary Education Organisations—Standards 3 Kiwibank—Success 4 Television New Zealand—Charter Funding 5 Civil Union Bill—Introduction 6 Nuclear-free Legislation—Amendments 7 Parole—Breaches
12:
Bush
Condemns Brutal Execution of Nicholas
Berg
THE PRESIDENT: I want to express my condolences to the family and friends of Nicholas Berg. Nicholas Berg was an innocent civilian who was in Iraq to help build a free Iraq. There is no justification for the brutal execution of Nicholas Berg -- no justification ...
13:
Images:
Peter Jackson & The Plane From
Casablanca
Members of the Aviation Heritage Centre Trust flew up to Wellington airport from Marlborough in a Lockheed 12 aircraft today to meet Mr Anderton and Peter Jackson, who is a strong supporter of the Centre and has aircraft based there already.
14:
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 ...
The opening of TrustPower's expanded Tararua windfarm today marks the beginning of an era of rapid growth for wind power in New Zealand, says Energy Minister Pete Hodgson.
16:
Martin
LeFevre: Whirling on the Axis of Twin
Evils
Just when I thought I couldn’t feel more disgust in this race-to-the-bottom ''war against terrorism,'' both sides attain new depths of human depravity.
17:
W.
David Jenkins III: Mourning
America
The Bush- and Rumsfeld-haters have never been so happy. Like pigs rolling in, as the expression has it, effluent. They're downright rejoicing - glorying! - in the shame the United States has suffered at the hands of the Abu Ghraib yahoos.
18:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Tuesday, 18 May
2004
1. MARC ALEXANDER to the Minister of Corrections: Has he decided to conduct a review of the Auckland Central Remand Prison; if so, why?
19:
Images:
1 Million Cubans March Against US
Policy
CUBA PROTESTS AND ACCUSES By Ángel Rodríguez Álvarez http://www.ain.cubaweb.cu/english/may13edprotest.htm
20:
Scoop
Archive: UQ Wire: 9/11 Visibility Project - Action
Alert
A number of AMAZING breakthroughs are taking place right now within the 9/11 Truth movement. There are so many, in fact, that we decided to compile them together into this single ACTION newsletter, rather than send them out one at a time.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/37/e7/200405141149.61e7bd7f.html
21:
No
Right Turn: Somebody's Going To Jail
Seymour Hersh's latest instalment in the New Yorker is earth-shattering:
22:
Corporate
Political Censorship Runs Wild
It appears that the Corporate Media giants have decided to cripple the efforts of the most effective critics of Bush Republicanism going into the 2004 Presidential elections.
23:
Public
Address 18/05/04 - Spoiled For
Choice
So what's the lead in Iraq today? Head of Governing Council assassinated? One not-very-mass WMD turns up? Pentagon denial of New Yorker claim that accountability for prison abuse goes all the way up followed by another investigation that says the same thing? ...
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25:
Students
win complaint against sexist advertising
A campaign against sexist advertising led by students has ended in a complaint being upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority about a sexist promotion at Dunedin pub the Bowler.
26:
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.
27:
Jim
Peron: Atrocities And The Mentality Of
War
There are times that the world is a horrific place. And we've witnessed two events that can turn the biggest optimist about the human condition into a pessimist.
In a similar way to the economic upside that is now being attached to divorce – that it doubles the market – researchers are now redefining the economic and social consequences of abortion. Abortion used to be a purely moral issue with the debate surrounding ...
29:
A
Political Miscalculation or Outright Arrogance
Don Brash’s foray into defence and nuclear issues last week was not a success and it is not surprising that he has quickly returned to beating his race-relations drum. After all, this is safer ground for the National leader to tread. Yet Dr. Brash cannot ...
30:
Kidd
Millennium Cartoon: Secretary Of
Offense
Cartoon by kiddmillennium.com…
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