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Published: Tue 18 May 2004 08:38 AM
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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Full Coverage: Nicolas Berg Beheading
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Zarqawi Be Damned - Nicholas Berg screamed. He screamed when he saw the sword brandished in the hands of one of his captors. He screamed when he was pushed down on the ground and his held pulled back, ready for the slaughter. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0405/S00151.htm
2: Firas Al-Atraqchi: Zarqawi Be Damned
Nicholas Berg screamed. He screamed when he saw the sword brandished in the hands of one of his captors. He screamed when he was pushed down on the ground and his held pulled back, ready for the slaughter.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0405/S00124.htm
3: Why Not Just Genetically Engineer Women For Milk?
MAdGE (Mothers Against Genetic Engineering in Food and the Environment) today launched a highly controversial billboard campaign in Auckland and Wellington to provoke public debate about the social and cultural ethics of genetic engineering in New Zealand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0310/S00003.htm
4: Iraq: Beheading Of Civilian Condemned
Amnesty International condemns in the strongest terms the abduction and beheading of an American civilian by an armed group, Muntada al-Ansar, in Iraq - a video of which was released yesterday. The organization is appalled by the public display ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0405/S00145.htm
5: Images: U.S.Troops In Iraq Sexual Abuse Photos
*** WARNING: This page contains graphic images of sexual abuse seemingly being committed by US Troops against Iraqi civilians and POWs. While images have been edited to remove sexually explicit details, many of the images remain highly offensive. Please view ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0405/S00001.htm
6: NZ Broadband Prices Very Competitive – OECD
New Zealand broadband customers are getting good value. And New Zealand is doing well getting broadband to rural areas, the OECD has also found.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0405/S00167.htm
7: Images: Lord Of The Rings Exhibition At Te Papa
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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0210/S00234.htm
8: Scoop Link: Seymour M. Hersh - The Gray Zone
The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation, which had been focussed on ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0405/S00155.htm
9: Bush Condemns Brutal Execution of Nicholas Berg
THE PRESIDENT: I want to express my condolences to the family and friends of Nicholas Berg. Nicholas Berg was an innocent civilian who was in Iraq to help build a free Iraq. There is no justification for the brutal execution of Nicholas Berg -- no justification ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0405/S00126.htm
10: Suzan Mazur: Peak Oil - Debate Or Vendetta?
I sometimes think peak oil has already hit Manhattan as subways become increasingly unpredictable (although surveillance cameras are state-of-the-art) and escalator shut-downs present stair master survival challenges, a kind of perverse underground ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0405/S00143.htm
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0405/S00172.htm
12: A Chance To Meet Mary-Kate And Ashley In LA
The ZM radio network in association with the mary-kateandashley brand is searching for New Zealand's biggest Mary-Kate and Ashley fan! The winner and two companions will get to meet the most famous teenagers on the planet in their home city, Los ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0310/S00118.htm
13: No Right Turn: Somebody's Going To Jail
Seymour Hersh's latest instalment in the New Yorker is earth-shattering:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0405/S00167.htm
14: Images: 1 Million Cubans March Against US Policy
CUBA PROTESTS AND ACCUSES By Ángel Rodríguez Álvarez http://www.ain.cubaweb.cu/english/may13edprotest.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0405/S00164.htm
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0405/S00335.htm
16: Public Address 17/05/04 - Running On Empty
Dear Island Life? Where are you? Got any more quizzes planned? How's Mary-Margaret? I'm very well indeed, and thanks for asking. I have this habit of saying "yes" to anyone who asks me to do a job - or at least any job that sounds like fun…
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0405/S00168.htm
17: Act's The Letter - 17 May 2004
The Primary, The Budget, The surplus, Family Facts, Beneficiaries the Winners, Brash's Economic Policy, War in Digital...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0405/S00339.htm
18: Don Brash Address - A New Agenda For Maori
May I begin by thanking you all - the President Judy Kirk, regional office-holders, electorate office-holders, delegates, Parliamentary colleagues - for the tremendous effort you have all put in over the last year. It has been a turbulent year. But ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0405/S00331.htm
19: Israel Agents Send NZ Message Via Asian-Based NGOs
Non-Government-Organisations with New Zealand connections are being sent a stern message from the Israeli intelligence community apparently in retaliation for New Zealand openly trying two suspected Israel intelligence connectives on passport charges.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0405/S00133.htm
20: NZ Vets Arrive In Cassino - North By North-West
CASSINO, ITALY -- New Zealand World War II veterans have arrived at the place of a famous battle at Monte Cassino, Italy.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0405/S00153.htm
21: Brash demonstrates his ignorance again
National leader Don Brash’s ill-informed latest attack on Maori tertiary students confirms he has no idea what he is talking about and has instead resorted to making up stories, Associate Education (Tertiary Education) Minister Steve Maharey said ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0405/S00346.htm
22: Full Coverage: Abu Ghraib Torture Scandal (2)
Just when I thought I couldn’t feel more disgust in this race-to-the-bottom ''war against terrorism,'' both sides attain new depths of human depravity.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0405/S00150.htm
23: Scoop Feedback: Death and Casualty From Iraq
The following feedback has been received from Scoop readers in response to our decision to publish graphic pictures from Al Jazeera showing the true horror of war.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00265.htm
24: Progressive saves centre-left Majority post-Turia
Mrs Tariana Turia's decision to resign from Labour today in order to establish a new Maori party which apparently supports privatising the justice system threatens neither the stability of the Labour-Progressive government nor the Centre-Left's ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0405/S00337.htm
25: Nuclear Notes Reveal Brash Amateurism
Rt Hon Winston Peters has described the release of the MFAT notes on the Brash meeting as unfortunate, but revealing of Dr Brash’s inexperience and inability to handle foreign affairs issues.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0405/S00320.htm
26: Martin LeFevre: Whirling on the Axis of Twin Evils
Just when I thought I couldn’t feel more disgust in this race-to-the-bottom ''war against terrorism,'' both sides attain new depths of human depravity.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0405/S00149.htm
27: Corporate Political Censorship Runs Wild
It appears that the Corporate Media giants have decided to cripple the efforts of the most effective critics of Bush Republicanism going into the 2004 Presidential elections.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0405/S00166.htm
28: PM welcomes new film projects
Prime Minister Helen Clark has welcomed the announcement at the Cannes Film Festival that two new films are to go into production in New Zealand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0405/S00336.htm
29: Emirates Springs Dubai Summer Surprises
Emirates Airline is offering its customers worldwide a fantastic opportunity to experience northern summer fun in Dubai with travel packages that start from as little as US$29.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0405/S00176.htm
30: Scoop Archive: UQ Wire: 9/11 Visibility Project - Action Alert
A number of AMAZING breakthroughs are taking place right now within the 9/11 Truth movement. There are so many, in fact, that we decided to compile them together into this single ACTION newsletter, rather than send them out one at a time.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/37/e7/200405141149.61e7bd7f.html
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