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Published: Tue 6 Nov 2001 08:45 AM
Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
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1: Behind The Veil: Who Really Attacked The WTC?
Many people here in the Middle East believe that behind the acts of hijacking and building destructions and the murdering of innocents were non-Muslim encouragement or assistance.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0111/S00022.htm
2: NZ Remains In Top 3 Clean In Corruption Countries
NZ has been ranked as 3rd cleanest country in terms of corruption again by Transparency International.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0111/S00027.htm
3: Scoop Feedback: "Get Off Internet And Find A Cave"
In This Edition: Get A Conscience! - NZ's Best Response To Afghanistan Crisis - New Zealand's Stand On Terrorism - Who Are The Real Terrorists? - Part II
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0111/S00028.htm
4: Stateside with Rosalea: Pass The Envelope Please
"Math Instructor. 2 month assignment on US Navy ship at sea. Immediate openings. Masters Degree in Math required. Central Texas College, San Diego." Try telling me THAT's not scary! It's an ad currently on the San Francisco Chronicle's website ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0111/S00021.htm
5: Lecturer should be dismissed
The Christian Heritage Party Leader, Graham Capill, calls for the immediate dismissal of Canterbury University lecturer Dr. Anwar from her position at the university.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0111/S00016.htm
6: Scoop Link: You Too Can Read Arabic On The Web!
News junkies surfing the web for new perspectives on the War Against Terror may find a whole new world opened to them through the following link to an Arabic/English translation engine.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0111/S00026.htm
7: GE Free NZers Face Attacks From PM
Public Majority Supporting A GE Free New Zealand Face Attacks From Prime Minister Shameful comments by our prime minister, describing majority public opinion as extremism and according to National radio comparing the public to the Taleban, show the lengths ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0111/S00013.htm
8: Howard's End: Show Us The Money!
When Government paid the West Coast $120 million of taxpayer's money to halt native timber harvesting, optimism for new jobs was high. But a year on, the publicly-elected economic development trust who is charged with managing the money, has not held a ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0111/S00025.htm
9: HARD NEWS 02/11/01 - Clean Up After Yourself
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... Taliban with an "i" or an "e"? GM or GE? It might be taken as a sign of the confusion of the present times that we don't seem to even agree on how to spell or what to call what we're all worried about.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0111/S00017.htm
10: Links: Le Figaro Reports CIA, bin Laden Contacts
The Front-Page lead story in French Newspaper Le Figaro on Wednesday, October 31, 2001 is that Osama bin Laden was in an American Hospital in Dubai, in July, and had contacts with the CIA. The story, also featured on Radio France Internationale and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0111/S00018.htm
11: ACT Appoints Experienced Political Operator
President of ACT New Zealand, Catherine Judd, today announced the appointment of Graham Watson as ACT Party Manager. This is a new position based in Auckland but reporting to me, with key responsibilities being to run the Party's day-to-day membership ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0111/S00020.htm
12: New Zealand’s Top Ten Volunteers Honoured By Lions
Hundreds of New Zealanders selflessly give time to their communities every year. These efforts often go unrecognised – but not this year.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/GE0111/S00002.htm
13: Images: Japanese Whalers At It Again
Auckland: Giant eyeballs are protesting today at the Japanese consulate in Auckland imploring the Japanese Prime Minister not to send his whaling fleet to Antarctica to kill minke whales.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0111/S00023.htm
14: Check Your Till Receipts! - Kachingo!
With only two days to go before their first $250,000 draw, the organisers of the new rewards programme Kachingo! are reminding shoppers to check their Kachingo! tickets.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0111/S00026.htm
15: An Open Letter From NYC – From Mitchel Cohen
The bones of September have barely been exhumed, and new crises are already punching through the once hum-drum droppings of everyday life. Flying in an airplane; attending antiwar protests; wearing darker skin; praying to an unsanctioned God facing the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0111/S00016.htm
16: Little Change in Spending
The 2000/01 Household Economic Survey results from Statistics New Zealand showed that since 1997/98 average household spending has risen 2.5 percent to $758 per week.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0111/S00029.htm
17: Eyewitness Report: Nights of Death in Kandahar
It was deafening. The walls shook and I heard glass shatter. Jolted out of bed, I held my breadth. The first thought was whether our building was hit. There was a hiss as if of a low flying plane and then the second explosion shook the walls.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0111/S00023.htm
18: Open Letter From Robert Redford On Oil Crisis
It is understandable that we Americans feel an almost reflexive need for unanimity in trying times like these. As a nation, we are rightly consumed with responding to the terrorist attacks on September 11th.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0111/S00013.htm
19: Anderton welcomes Kiwibank
“The Kiwibank with its new board is a solid foundation for the new nationwide bank owned for and by New Zealanders,” Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0111/S00078.htm
20: Good Progress on Holidays Act Review
Labour Minister Margaret Wilson says a report on the Holidays Act from a joint union-employer advisory group will allow good progress to be made on a "complex and difficult" area of employment relationships.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0111/S00073.htm
21: NZ defence links with Australia in trouble
The Australian Labour Party's decision to list New Zealand at the bottom of its regional defence priorities confirms again that New Zealand's defence policy has widened the Tasman between the two countries, National's Defence spokesperson Max Bradford said ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0111/S00076.htm
22: Images: Sandra Lee Opens Tussocklands
Photos from Friday's opening ceremony of the new Korowai Torlesse Tussocklands Park in Canterbury, which the Minister of Conservation presided over. See also… Korowai Torlesse Tussocklands - Lee Speech
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0111/S00077.htm
23: Libz Declare War On Activists
"In the wake of the Clark Compromise on GE, the eco-terrorists and sandalled vandals have crawled out of their caves and begun boasting about the violent direct actions they will be taking," notes Libertarianz leader and environment deregulation ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0111/S00014.htm
24: 1 black widow, 2 black widow, 3 black widow, 4...
Green MP Ian Ewen-Street today said imports of Californian grapes must be banned immediately, following the fourth black widow spider found in New Zealand last week.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0111/S00075.htm
25: Six Questions Posed To Professor Noam Chomsky
(1) There has been an immense movement of troops and extreme use of military rhetoric, up to comments about terminating governments, etc. Yet, to many people there appears to be considerable restraint...what happened?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0110/S00014.htm
26: Political Deal Over Parental Leave Scheme?
"What has made the Prime Minister shift her stance on a paid parental leave deal expected to be announced next week?" National's Women's Affairs spokesperson Anne Tolley asked today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0111/S00065.htm
27: Scoop Images: Wellington Peace March - Nov. 1
A windy Thursday afternoon, threatening and occasionally spitting rain, was the backdrop to a procession of around 250 Wellington peace lovers from the Cenotaph to the US Embassy at the top of Mulgrave Street.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0111/S00015.htm
28: Government must address Kyoto threat
With the world staring down the barrel of a recession the government has to pull back its timetable for ratification of the Kyoto Protocol Carter Holt Harvey’s Chief Operating Officer Jay Goodenbour said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0111/S00021.htm
29: Mobile V8 International At Pukekohe
Motor racing fans are guaranteed three days of petrol head heaven when the V8 SUPERCARS cross the Tasman in November this year.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0108/S00094.htm
30: Scoop: Just Politics
Jim’s Bank Gets A Name - Four Weeks Annual Leave (If Labour Is Relected) – Paid Parental Leave Now - Carter Holt Harvey Seeks Kyoto Slowdown - ACT New Party Manager - Sandra Lee Images: Tussock Mountain High - Labour Party Election Snub Indicates ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0111/S00030.htm
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