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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Scoop
Video Link: George W. Bush’s Big
Pick
While we are addressing the subject of fingers, noses and so-called world leaders . Scoop’s editors would be remiss not to notify readers of perhaps the most famous nose pick in Internet history. A quick search of Google will show you just how much ...
2:
John
Kerry Takes on Cheney and
Halliburton
17, 2004 Kerry Takes on Cheney and Halliburton; Unveils Plan to Stop Halliburton Type Abuses For Immediate Release
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:
UQ
Wire: BushCheney Testimony Before 911
Comission
Chairman Kean: The Commission will come to order. Welcome, Mr. President and Mr. Vice President. Although, per our agreement, you are not being placed under oath, we expect that your testimony will consist only of the truth. The Commission and ...
5:
Public
Address 20/09/04 - Hubbard et al
I dropped into Magazzino on Friday to pick up a copy of the National Business Review so I could read its Dick Hubbard hatchet job in its entirety. All five pages of it. But unfortunately, there were no NBRs...
6:
Calling
For Breast-Cancer Volunteer
Collectors
Volunteer Collectors are urgently needed between 11.00am & 1.30pm on Saturday 4th September to help raise money for breast cancer awareness at the 'Great Race' Gallagher Boathouse 8s.
7:
Zaoui:
Police error shows need for
review
The Prime Minister revealed this morning on Breakfast TV that the police counter-intelligence unit wrongly labelled Ahmed Zaoui’s political party, the FIS, as terrorists. The Police action led to the FIS being added to a United Nations’ list of named terrorist ...
8:
Wind
energy a smart option says EECA
The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) believes that wind energy has a vital role to play in electricity generation.
9:
GAYNZ.com
attack on 95% Opposed to Civil
Unions
The massive and overwhelming opposition to the Civil Unions Bill, evidenced by 5,892 submissions (95.5% of the total of 6,170 submissions received by the select committee of parliament considering it), has been ignored by the media. Could it be that media ...
10:
Images:
John Kerry Takes To The Offensive On Iraq
Introduction: The Kerry/Edwards 2004 Campaign has moved to the offensive over the issue of the Iraq War. As Democratic Party sources are widely reported saying that Kerry intends to take the President on directly over his mishandling of the Iraq ...
11:
Welcome
to Washington, Mr. Peruvian
President
• President Toledo, you will arrive to Washington carrying the dubious distinction of being one of the America’s most unpopular leaders since Latin America’s re-democratization commenced a decade ago. As of September 12, your popularity stood at a miniscule ...
12:
Images:
Departing LOTR Stars Meet Their
Planes
The Lord of the Ring's stars come face to face with themselves on the side of Air NZ planes as they bid New Zealand goodbye at Wellington Airport before boarding the Air New Zealand 767 emblazoned with giant images of the characters Aragorn and Arwen.
13:
Police
Threat Assessment Dec '02: Ahmed El
Zaoui
The following is the NZ police threat assessment written in December 2002 on the arrival of Algerian refugee Ahmed Zaoui in New Zealand. It was released to Scoop.co.nz under the Official Information Act.
14:
Response
to Air NZ-Qantas decision
Finance Minister Michael Cullen today expressed disappointment with the High Court’s decision on an Air New Zealand application to form an anti-competitive alliance with Qantas.
15:
Envoys
present credentials
The new Ambassadors of the Netherlands, Chile and the Czech Republic, and the High Commissioners for Malaysia and India, will present their credentials to Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright at Government House on Tuesday 21 September at 11.00am.
16:
Visa
waivers for new EU states
Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today that New Zealand is extending visa-free arrangements to six new European Union states, whose citizens have until now required tourist visas to visit New Zealand.
17:
Mary
Pitt: The World's Greatest Living Con
Man
This would make a good movie, if only it were make-believe. A son of privilege, reared in New England and educated at Andover and Harvard moves to Texas to make his fortune in the oil patch. Not quite having what it takes to succeed, he turns to his wealthy ...
18:
Israeli
Soldiers Force Palestinian to Drink
Urine
GAZA - An Israeli newspaper revealed one more example of the sadistic treatment, Israeli soldiers extend to the Palestinian civilians, crossing the different checkpoints in the occupied Palestinian territories, after reporting a story about a Palestinian ...
19:
Coddington’s
Liberty Belle
I have to confess to a new bad habit. Upon awakening each morning, before I drag myself out of bed for a run, I have an Anzac biscuit with my cup of tea. Well, I hear you say, what's so wrong with that? But once upon a time it was the norm for ...
20:
Reading
Workers' picket rousing show of
solidarity
Solidarity was in abundance down at the picket organised by low-paid workers union Unite outside Courtenay Central Reading Cinema in Wellington on Friday. Over fifty people from over eight different unions came to show their support for the cinema ...
21:
Another
home detention fiasco
National is demanding that the Government justifies why a $2 million fraudster on home detention is working in the same sort of business where he committed fraud in the past and is paying no reparation.
22:
GM
Corn Recall Demand Has Authorities
Scrambling
Demand for Recall of Suspect GM Corn Has Food Authorities Scrambling GE Free (NZ) is demanding a total national recall of the MON 863 (A484) corn by New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) following revelations that it was found to be harmful in ...
23:
Intel
And New Zealand’s Reach Wireless Join
Forces
New Zealand based Reach Wireless has been added to Intel’s international Wireless Verification Program. The program is designed to enhance the user experience for owners of Intel® Centrino™ mobile technology-based notebooks by testing the compatibility ...
24:
Paul
Buchanan: The Neo-Colonial
Fallacy
With the US presidential election campaign now entering the home stretch, the Bush administration has placed its bets on the issue of strong leadership and staying the course in Iraq and the War on Terror.
25:
Zaoui
Can Be Moved From Prison – Court Of
Appeal
Today's Court of Appeal judgment concerning the detention of Algerian refugee, Ahmed Zaoui, strongly emphasised that prison was certainly not the only option that could be considered for Mr Zaoui's ongoing detention.
26:
Copeland:
Oil self-sufficiency a national
goal?
United Future energy spokesman Gordon Copeland today called for wider debate in New Zealand about making self-sufficiency in oil a national priority.
27:
The
Column: "Newman Online"
This week, Newman On-Line looks at upcoming local government elections, and asks whether we will soon simply see local councils mirroring the Government’s attempts to run people’s lives.
28:
Israeli
Army Kill Five Men Execution
Style
At 1:00am the Israeli Army attacked homes on Old Najav Street in Nablus, West of the old city. Five young men were killed and one eleven year-old girl. Medical examination evidence suggests the five men were executed.
29:
Stateside
With Rosalea: Around The Traps
''I don't know on what lines the parties were drawn, or what principles they advocated. I think that the difference was just that some were in power and some were out, and that those who were out wanted in.''
30:
Tourists
Spend $2.2b on Visa Cards in NZ
A new report from Visa International shows that international tourists spent more than $2.2 billion in New Zealand during 2003 on their Visa Cards - nearly 30 percent of all tourist purchases for the year.
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