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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Steve Irwin
Australian Government
I was saddened and shocked to learn today of the death of Steve Irwin. Steve was a great Australian and a great
Australian tourism icon who contributed enormously to our nation.
Green Party
Green Party Conservation Spokesperson Metiria Turei expressed her shock and dismay at the accidental death yesterday of
Australian wildlife champion Steve Irwin.
Sherwood Ross
If you think President Bush’s invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are not about oil, read bestseller “The Sorrows of
Empire” by Chalmers Johnson(Owl Books).
Sherwood Ross
It’s not easy to create a situation where life is better under a dictatorship than in a democracy, but George Bush has
succeeded in achieving the impossible by invading Iraq.
TV One
The Samoan custom of mea alofa or "lafo" may support the giving of money to chiefs but this can still be turned down
without causing offence, according to a Pacific community spokesman.
6: Steve Irwin
Australia Zoo
At 11am today, 4 September 2006, Steve Irwin was fatally wounded by a stingray barb to his heart while filming a
sequence on Batt Reef off Port Douglas for a new TV series.
Jason Leopold
Richard Armitage, the former deputy Secretary of State, may be syndicated columnist Robert Novak's primary source who
told him on July 8, 2003, that Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the CIA. But that doesn't
change the fact ...
Green Party
News that residents of two upmarket Christchurch suburbs are campaigning against a proposed bus service through the area
has disgusted Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons.
Norman Solomon
When Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, invited President Bush to engage in a "direct television debate" a few days
ago, the White House predictably responded by calling the offer "a diversion." But even though this debate will never
happen, ...
Scoop Link
Threatened by a potentially nuclear-armed Tehran, Israel is preparing for a possible war with both Iran and Syria,
according to Israeli political and military sources.
Rosalea Barker
It’s Labor Day holiday here today, and it happens that in the early hours of this morning I was answering email and
chanced to look over at Google News, where I learned that Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter, had died. The Age news
story at the top of ...
Humanitarian Appeal
The humanitarian organization TRO protested the freezing of its accounts in Sri Lanka Sunday, saying the Colombo
government had made no communication with the NGO, which has been registered as a charity there since 1985. Warning that
“the current humanitarian ...
Rabobank
The Australia and Asia Pacific head of global beverages group Foster’s has identified five areas of global opportunity
for New Zealand wine producers, arguing that the industry should not be put off by the global wine glut.
Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA – A possible new nuclear reactor at the plant in Vogtle, Georgia, being plotted by big business and the
Republican-controlled State Senate, is posing serious dangerous threats to the people, animals, and environment of
Georgia and ...
New Zealand Labour Party
Martin LeFevre - Meditations
President Bush made an extraordinary statement at his unexpected news conference on August 21st. He said: “the
consequence of leaving Iraq before the job is done…[is that] we will have lost our soul as a nation.” The Nazis used
that kind of rhetorical ...
Sherwood Ross
At least a score of high Bush Administration officials authorized, and hundreds of U.S. military and other government
employees committed, crimes involving the torture of prisoners captured in the Middle East, published reports and legal
documents indicate.
Doreen Virtue
She’s a glamorous blonde American psychologist whose dramatic career change came as the result of a violent car-jacking
incident in 1996.
Ministry of Health
Ministry of Health responds to claims made by Ron Law and Barbara Sumner Burstyn in Meningococcal Gold Rush
III:post-MeNZB Vaccine Update
Robert Parry
In the movie "Shawshank Redemption," the wrongly convicted Andy Dufrense (Tim Robbins) gets frustrated when the corrupt
prison warden blocks Dufrense's chance to prove his innocence. "How can you be so obtuse?" Dufrense asks.
Jason Miller
Persistently ticking off the precious seconds in humanity’s “Countdown to Extinction”, the Doomsday Clock of the
Bulletin for Atomic Scientists has advanced to seven minutes of midnight. Yet despite nuclear terror unleashed on Japan,
an arms race of monumental ...
The attention of this Secretariat has been drawn to various reports in sections of the media that arms were purchased
during the official visit of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Paras Bir Bikram Shah Dev to the Republic of Austria last
March
Guest Opinion
Dear Jeremy and Barbara, You are both out of your tree, to quote our late David Lange. Anyone who wants to find “dirt”
and badmouth China can easily do this, and anyone who wants to depict China as a modern clean efficient “shiny” nation
can do that ...
HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'm not sure I get Bill Ralston's moment of shame, as breathlessly reported by two Sunday newspapers. During the week,
a Herald on Sunday reporter was pursuing a "news" story on an itinerant Auckland man, whose only conventional news value
appears to ...
Unisys Security
Auckland, New Zealand - 5 September 2006 - More New Zealanders are concerned about identity theft such as the misuse of
personal information and credit card fraud than they are over terrorism, war and epidemics according to a benchmark
Unisys Security ...
Kevin List
This year consists of two stories – the goings on of former cabinet minister and now potentially gardening 'garden leave
taking 'MP for Mangere Taito Philip Field and election spending. As last week's post cabinet press conference was
devoted to ...
Interscribe
Given the stresses of today’s ‘commuter reality’ in our larger cities; chronic traffic congestion, the rapidly rising
cost of fuel, parking hassles, more of our own precious time wasted just getting to our places of work - is it any
wonder more ...
Australian Government
I was shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the sudden death of Steve Irwin today. Steve Irwin captured the
imagination of Australia and the world through his television appearances as The Crocodile Hunter.
New Zealand Labour Party
Labour strategist Pete Hodgson has today referred to the Auditor General a National Party pledge pamphlet from the 2002
election which was paid for from Parliamentary Services funding.
CAFCA
The Roger Award is for The Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2006 Nominations are now
open for the annual Roger Award, which is organised by the Christchurch-based groups Campaign Against Foreign Control of
Aotearoa (CAFCA) ...
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