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Scoop Top 30 Weekend Ratings - 25-26 February 2006

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The Weekend's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: IDF opens fire on medical team wounding many
"We were standing in the alley way, everything was quite when suddenly without warning we heard a big explosion and heard gun shots. I then saw Jarar and Ihab liying on the floor. Ihab wasn't moving." Wounded Dutch medical volunteer
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0602/S00441.htm
2: A Week of It: RadioNZ Ructions – Air NZ Advisories
Radio Ructions – The Story You Probably Won't Hear On Mediawatch - Air NZ Boss Leaves Potentially Departing Staff Inspiring Recorded Message - Andrew Little discusses Air NZ lay offs - National's Foreign Affairs dude lashes Out At Ex U.S. President...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00301.htm
3: Aust: Intelligent Design infiltrates science class
Greens NSW Education spokesperson John Kaye today released figures showing that 2,800 private school students in Newcastle and the Hunter valley are at risk of being taught Intelligent Design as science. He called on federal and state education ministers ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0602/S00443.htm
4: Arts Festival Review: The History Boys
Opening night of the New Zealand International Arts Festival. There's a sense of importance and occasion among the crowd at the St James, even if some of them were not sufficiently awed to remember to turn their cell phones off. This is serious ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00306.htm
5: Arts Festival Review - Tea: A Mirror of Soul
Dun’s shorter works have been heard by NZSO concertgoers and his score for the soundtrack of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has familiarised a huge audience worldwide with his work. So it was pleasing but hardly surprising to see the Michael Fowler centre ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00310.htm
6: Dubai and The Bush Dynasty Deal with the Devil
The Bush family has always had a deal with the devil. As Kevin Phillips, the man who originally crafted the GOP "Southern Strategy" for Nixon, told BuzzFlash, the Bush family only excels at two things: corporate cronyism and stealing elections. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00288.htm
7: Arts Fest: Mikelangelo & the Black Sea Gentlemen
Mikelangelo & the Black Sea Gentlemen put on a fine foot-stomping, laugh out loud and go home humming sort of show. Mikelangelo (vocals and guitar) looks like a lounge-lizard Elvis wannabe (except for the waistcoat and sombrero), and speaks with the sonorousness ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00303.htm
8: Contractors Steer Clear of No-Name Cable Products
New Zealand’s major cable manufacturer says most electricians are avoiding the temptation of cheap, unbranded cable products because of liability issues that could rest with the contractor if something goes wrong.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0602/S00335.htm
9: Arts Festival Review: Antonio Forcione Quartet
Antonio Focione and his Quartet bring an astonishing array of sounds to the National Bank Festival Club this week, and they opened their five-night run with an electrifying performance on Saturday which had the audience alternating between gasps of astonishment ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00308.htm
10: Arts Fest Review: King and Country
In August 1914 Europe descended into all-out warfare, and New Zealand stepped into the fray alongside the Mother Country. Many young New Zealanders were eager to prove themselves in battle and see the world at the same time. By 1918, the tiny country ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00304.htm
11: Arts Festival Review: Les Arts Sauts
The 28 metre high inflatable dome where Les Arts Sauts are staging Ola Karla is an instant landmark on the Wellington waterfront. Entrance to the unusual building is through hair-deranging ‘air lock’ buffer doors, and as you take your seat in a Brighton ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00309.htm
12: Arts Festival Review: Eraritjaritjaka
Eraritjaritjaka was inspired by the works of Nobel laureate Elias Canetti. His words as they appear in the performance - from notebooks and prose works - have the structure and beauty of poetry, as well as hinting at deeper meanings; about the connections ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00305.htm
13: Arts Festival Review: The Earth from Above
The photographs in the Earth from Above exhibition may seem faintly familiar from various coffee-table collections, but on this scale they are much more impressive. There is also something enormously appealing about walking through an outdoor gallery.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00307.htm
14: The Mapp Report, 24 February 2006
Even man’s best friend cannot escape from the excessive demands of political correctness. From July 1, all newly registered dogs will be required to be micro-chipped with an identity tag. The legislation was created after a series of dog-attacks in 2003.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0602/S00396.htm
15: Radio NZ should explain why Tom Frewen was sacked
Radio New Zealand appears to be breaching its own editorial policies by terminating the contract of well-respected media commentator Tom Frewen, Green Party Broadcasting Spokesperson Sue Kedgley says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0602/S00390.htm
16: Howard's march to Bush's nuclear tune dangerous
Australians ought to be shocked that Prime Minister John Howard has fallen into line behind US President George Bush in advocating nuclear power and undermining the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Australian Greens energy spokesperson Senator Christine ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0602/S00445.htm
17: World's Press Regret FIFA's Withdrawal From Talks
The World Association of Newspapers and a coalition of the world's leading news agencies today expressed their 'dismay' and 'deep regret' about the decision of FIFA, the international, soccer federation, to abandon talks about the severe restrictions ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0602/S00446.htm
18: China: Tiananmen dissident mentally ill by Torture
After 16 years, Tiananmen dissident Yu Dongyue was finally freed from prison yesterday, but with his mental health impaired. Amnesty International welcomed his release and called for all others still imprisoned in connection with the crackdown on the 1989 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0602/S00424.htm
19: “Democracy” To Justify Invasion And Mass Murder
As the pretexts to justify the illegal war of aggression against Iraq started to collapse one after the other, the Bush Administration, its vassals and the mass media adopted the cliché of “democracy” to justify the invasion and the mass murder of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00291.htm
20: Psych Drugs - Doctors Serve As Middle-Man Pushers
Although peddling psychiatric drugs for off-label treatment of every ailment known to man is highly profitable, it is also illegal. Marketing schemes that increase the rates at which drugs are prescribed for off-label use, result in the sale of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00270.htm
21: Fringe Review: Newtown Spoken Word
A spoken word festival may not be everybody's idea of a good time. However I have been known to commit poetry myself, so I happily headed off to the Newtown Community and Cultural Centre.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00302.htm
22: Questions And Answers - 22 February 2006
1. Dr DON BRASH (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in the Minister of Transport; if so, why?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0602/S00354.htm
23: Russ Wellen: The Bourse Conspiracy
For an administration that shrouds itself in the sophomoric secrecy of the Skull and Bones Club, its surprising how its plan to invade Iraq could be read like a book. With Iran though it's got the drapes closed and the shades drawn. In fact, guessing ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00290.htm
24: Questions And Answers - 23 February 2006
1. MARYAN STREET (Labour) to the Minister of Commerce: What progress has been made recently to advance the single economic market agenda between New Zealand and Australia?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0602/S00382.htm
25: Petrodollars and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
Iran has been in the gun-sights of George W. Bush and his entourage from the moment that he was parachuted into the presidency in November 2000 by his father’s Supreme Court.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00157.htm
26: UN Haiti welcomes national dialogue after election
After updating the Security Council on the election process in Haiti, the United Nations top envoy to that country welcomed President-elect René Préval’s invitation for Haitians to join together in a national dialogue.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0602/S00394.htm
27: Paul Buchanan: When Communists Look Good
In 1990, somewhere in the bowels of the Pentagon, someone in the Joint Chiefs of Staff is reputed to have said that the United States would rue the day that the Berlin Wall fell.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00274.htm
28: UQ Wire: The Secret History Of Mohamed Atta
The Secret History Of Mohamed Atta U.S. Didn't Need Able Danger To Locate Terrorist Ringleader FEB 21 2006 - Venice, FL. by Daniel Hopsicker A MadCowMorningNews World Exclusive! From: http://www.madcowprod.com/02212006.html
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00298.htm
29: Suzan Mazur: The Italy-Met Euphronios Accord?
The battle for ownership of the Euphronios vase illustrates perfectly how the New York Times publishing family fools only itself. Sales of the newspaper deservedly continue to decline as the people responsible for putting the Times out think they ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00265.htm
30: A New Era Of Surveillance & Military Police In Oz
Australian security services' powers to conduct domestic surveillance and to use the military against civilians are being strengthened in two bills before the Australian Parliament.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00287.htm
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