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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1:
New
Symbol To Express Concern About Climate
Change
The International Climate Symbol is being launched during the Climate Change Conference (CoP 9) with a fashion show today by WWF, UNEP, Greenpeace and with support from the Dutch Ministry of the Environment.
2:
Diebold
Memos Disclose Florida 2000 E-Voting
Fraud
Something very strange happened in Volusia County on election night November 2000, the night that first Gore won Florida, then Bush, and then as everybody can so well remember there was a tie.
3:
US
Soldiers to America: Bring Us Home Now (Pt.
5)
The following interview is with an enlisted man who has not been in the military that long. He is not really mad at Bush or the leaders and he does not want to get out of what he sees as his duty to serve in Iraq.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Noam
Chomsky: Of Course It Was About
Resources
"Of Course, It Was All About Iraq's Resources" - Edited excerpts of an interview with Noam Chomsky by Simon Mars of Dubai's Business Channel - 12/02/03
5:
Questions
& Answers for Oral Answer - 9 December
1. Employment Relations Law Reform Bill—Policy 1 2. Business—Compliance Costs 2 3. Foreshore and Seabed—Public Access 2 4. Methamphetamine—Supply 3 5. Advance Passenger Screening System—Refusals 4 6. Cannabis—Legislation 5 7. Petrol Tax and Road User ...
6:
911
Victim Ellen Mariani Open Letter To The
POTUS
This ''open letter'' is coming from my heart. I want you to know that I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat and that this is not an attempt to ''bash the Government''.
7:
911
Victim’s Wife Files RICO Case Against GW
Bush
Philip J. Berg, Esquire, announced today that he, attorney for Ellen Mariani, wife of Louis Neil Mariani, who died when United Air Lines flight 175 was flown into the South Tower of the World Trade Center on 9-11 at a news conference regarding the ...
8:
Satire:
Bush Makes Secret Trip To The
Moon
Washington, D.C.-- Just two weeks after the Bush Administration first announced its “bold, visionary and completely original” plan to send a manned spacecraft to the moon, Americans woke up last Saturday morning to find that President George W. ...
9:
Questions
for Oral Answer - Wednesday, 10
December
1. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS to the Minister of Immigration: In 208 weeks as Minister of Immigration, is she satisfied she has in place sufficient checks and investigative systems to ensure people are not abusing New Zealand's entry and exit laws?
10:
Martin
LeFevre: What Will It Take To Defeat
Bush?
The thought of another four years of the devil's right hand man as "leader of the free world" is too horrible to contemplate. But can Bush, and what he represents, be defeated?
11:
Russian
Ratification Of The Kyoto
Protocol
The results of yesterday's elections to the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, show that Russian ratification is still on track and that final ratification could take place after the Presidential elections in March 2004, said WWF today.
12:
Once
Were Warriors Musical Tour
Coming
Once Were Warriors, Alan Duff's landmark New Zealand novel that became the film everyone just had to see, is about to face its most intriguing retelling - as a musical drama.
13:
Al
Gore: Getting Revenge, Making History
AL GORE'S ENDORSEMENT of Howard Dean gives the former vice president a chance to revenge the damage Bill Clinton did to his political career. The relationship between Clinton and Gore was always far more complicated that the media understood.
14:
Eco-Friendly
Energy On Its Way
Four new research programmes are to receive substantial funding to investigate environmentally-friendly ways to supply energy to New Zealanders.
15:
State
Dept. Daily Press Briefing for
Dec.8
NORTH KOREA 1 Status of Six-Party Talks 1-2,4 Call for Dismantling of Nuclear Weapons Program 2-3, 5 Efforts of China, Russia, and Others to Negotiate
16:
Inside
A U.S. Election Vote Counting
Program
Publication of this story marks a watershed in American political history. It is offered freely for publication in full or part on any and all internet forums, blogs and noticeboards. All other media are also encouraged to utilise material. Readers ...
17:
Peter,
Dumb Or Just A Liar?
In his latest attempt to justify his parties ideological support of arresting adult cannabis consumers Peter Dunne gets just about everything wrong, as usual.
18:
Government
transport sector to be
reviewed
The government is to review its agencies in the transport sector, State Services Minister Trevor Mallard and Transport Minister Paul Swain announced today.
19:
US
Soldiers to America: Bring Us Home
Now
I had the unique opportunity to interview five US military servicemen who just got back from Iraq, or in the case of two men, corresponded with their wives so that I could ask questions of these soldiers by mail.
20:
FBI
Spying on Peace Groups Chills Free
Speech
Critics Charge that FBI Spying on Peace Groups Chills Free Speech - Interview with Barbara Olshansky, attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights conducted by Scott Harris
21:
Uri
Avnery: The Weathercocks Are
Turning
It is not yet a tidal wave. But it is more then a ripple. It is a wave in the process of formation.
22:
Otago
University - Return to the Dark
Ages
Next year, Otago University students will face fee increases of up to 16.9 percent, with an overall average increase of 6 percent across the University.
23:
UQ
Wire: The Trial of John Kerry
One of these days, this will be a textbook case for political science professors to use as a teaching tool. Here is a Democratic candidate for the Oval Office in a year when the liberal base of the party is almost completely unified in its disgust ...
24:
That
Kyoto Is A Fraud - Owen McShane
Two weeks ago I was invited to participate in the Vice-Chancellor's debate at Waikato University. The debate was "That Kyoto is a Fraud". Jeanette Fitsimons took one side and I took the other. I wrote the attached paper to inform myself of ...
25:
Maori
Given Preferential
Treatment
Farmers are being shut out from consultation on government plans for the foreshore and seabed, said Tom Lambie, President of Federated Farmers of New Zealand.
26:
John
Chuckman: The Parable Of
Samarra
Front-page stories announced the greatest battle since the end of combat in Iraq with fifty-four insurgents killed and not an American soldier lost.
27:
Ethiopia:
Long-Term Emergency Food
Warning
World Vision is urging people not to forget the famine in Ethiopia, after a food security watchdog warned that nine million people will need food assistance next year and 17 million people may need it by 2007.
28:
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.
29:
Stop
Beating Around The Child Support
Bush
Last week's debacle over New Zealand's ballooning child support debt - now standing at more than $730 million - failed to even address the fundamental cause of the problem, ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today.
30:
Public
Address 09/12/03 - Local
Bodycount
It's exactly a year since the Auckland City Council sold half its shares in Auckland Airport, allowing the mayor, John Banks, to brag incessantly that the council was debt-free. The council got $4.90 for its 38 million shares. Last night they closed ...
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Ramzy Baroud: The World Owes Palestine This Much - Please Stop Censoring Palestinian Voices
Dee Ninis, The Conversation: Why Vanuatu Should Brace For Even More Aftershocks After This Week’s Deadly Quakes: A Seismologist Explains
Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Meditation Without A Method
Ramzy Baroud: Israel To Annex The West Bank – Why Now? And What Are The Likely Scenarios?
Binoy Kampmark: The Strawman Of Antisemitism - Banning Protests Against Israel Down Under
Gordon Campbell: On The Coalition’s Empty Gestures, And Abortion Refusal As The New Slavery