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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
Big Day Outers in Auckland were left scratching their heads this afternoon as a light plane flew above Ericsson Stadium
towing a straight talking banner that would cause any red blooded kiwi bloke to cringe.
Overnight the spokespeople for Speight's Breweries made their thoughts on Genetic Modified crop known. Appearing on a
billboard at the Waltham Road overbridge in Christchurch as part of their nationwide advertising campaign they stated,
"they would have ...
President George W. Bush delivers his State of the Union Address to the nation and a joint session of Congress in the
House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2004. "We have not come all this way – through tragedy, and trial,
and war ...
From June 1996 to July 1997, General Clark served as Commander of the US Southern Command, where he was responsible for
US military activities concerning Latin America, including the School of the Americas (SOA), now known as the Western
Hemisphere Institute ...
After Bush's State of the Union speech last year, a couple of correspondents ticked me off for being churlish about the
billions promised to fight Aids in Africa. Well, a year later,not a penny of those billions has been allocated - and
2005 Aids funding ...
Scoop readers will be well aware of the tale of the missing trillions of dollars from the US Department of Defense. The
story of the missing trillions that the world's biggest military organisation has been unable to properly account for
has till now ...
The fact that very little has been published about the real conditions on Internet in Cuba, even after a very clarifying
statement by the Cuban Minister of Communications indicates the need for me to request you to shed light on the Cuban
position on this ...
January 21 - The East Timor Action Network (ETAN) today urged the United Nations and United States to strongly condemn
Indonesia's use of military force in a territorial dispute with East Timor. ETAN called on Indonesia to negotiate claims
through normal ...
Prime Minister Helen Clark has designated the following individuals as terrorist entities pursuant to the provisions of
the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002:
Against the background of changes in the overall political setting of the Middle East it is important to focus on
Israel's nuclear strategy as the former possibilities of the superpowers to control and fence in the conflicts in the
Middle East have ...
Further evidence is emerging that the Green Party and its pro-cannabis campaigner, MP Nandor Tanczos, are on the
completely wrong track with their obsessive campaign to promote greater dope-smoking among young New Zealanders,
according to United Future ...
Energy Minister Pete Hodgson's claims of not interfering in the New Zealand electricity market are completely farcical,
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Energy Spokesman Ken Shirley said today.
IRAQ 1-4 United Nations Delegation / November 15th Agreement / Direct Elections 3 Fair and Transparent Process for
Bringing Saddam Hussein to Justice 3 Demonstrations / Democracy
News today that a Welsh coroner recorded the cause of death as cannabis poisoning in the tragic case of a 36-year-old
man, serves as a reminder that dope should never be decriminalized until or unless independent scientific evidence
emerges that the ...
In a troubling sign that accounting problems have grown beyond corporate balance sheets, two of the main economic gauges
used by Wall Street, banks, and in the calculation of Social Security payments have been found to contain serious
problems.
New Zealand First claims that British police officers recruited to fight crime on our streets are being treated like
alien criminals while bogus asylum seekers and refugees are received with red carpet treatment.
Ariel Sharon Cartoon by John Chuckman
I have to confess, the President's State of the Union address was competing for my attention with a magazine article
about how high school journalism classes start training the media to be obedient puppy dogs at an early age.
SENTANI (RW/Pacific Media Watch): The death of Australian print, radio and film journalist Mark Worth has shocked
Papuans and all those involved in the campaign to free West Papua from brutal repression by the Indonesian military.
Worcester, MA (PRWEB) January 21 2004-—Michael John Dobbins, once a regular citizen with a stable job and ordinary life,
has given up everything in the hope of defeating President Bush this November. Dobbins, 26, worked as a teacher at an
outdoor education ...
The morning after the 2000 election, Americans woke up to a disturbing realization: our electoral system was too flawed
to say with certainty who had won. Three years later, things may actually be worse. If this year's presidential election
is at all ...
The illiberal ACT Party is all over the place when it comes to appropriate government spending levels, Progressive MP
Matt Robson said today.
Leading New Zealand artist Ian Scott says public attitudes to nude paintings have changed significantly in the last 30
years.
Presidential elections in America are long, with formal campaigns lasting about a year and positioning leading to the
campaigns lasting nearly three years. A President's four-year term of office leaves just enough time to dish out
contracts and jobs.
Back before video games, heck, even before there was much on TV, adolescent boys imbibed science fiction. I grew up
reading such giants of the genre as Ray Bradbury, who gave a hopelessly optimistic view of humankind's place in the
universe recently ...
New Zealand First is calling on the Government to make reducing welfarism a priority for 2004.
Fish & Game New Zealand said today that it was disgusted by Minister for the Environment, Marian Hobbs, speedy decision to set
up a Special Tribunal to hear an application to alter part of the Water Conservation Order on the Buller River.
In anticipation of the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the central instalment in
writer/director/producer Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on the J.R.R. Tolkien masterpiece, Te Papa proudly announces
a world exclusive and a bold ...
It is imperative that the Haitian authorities show clearly to the Haitian and the international community that they
will no longer tolerate human rights abuses, said Amnesty International in a letter addressed to the president, Jean
Bertrand Aristide, ...
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today predicted that, despite its assurances, Capital and Coast District
Health Board would inevitably have to cut patient services as a result of its $5 million budget blowout for the year to
date.