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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1:
UQ
Wire: Illegalities Suggests Bush Role In
9/11
www.UnansweredQuestions.orgThe trouble with thinking 9/11 was an inside job staged by George W. Bush & Co. is that it defies belief any U.S. president might be capable of such an iniquitous crime against his own people.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00086.htm
2:
Challenging
Bush Admin. Military Commissions
William FisherIn the face of multiple legal and legislative challenges, President George W. Bush this week issued an executive order to allow cases against prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to move forward to trials by military tribunals.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00101.htm
3:
Dean
Baker: The Housing Bubble Starts to
Burst
Dean BakerIs there anything as beautiful as the sound of surprised economists in the springtime? I haven't had this much fun since the NASDAQ started to deflate seven years ago.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00113.htm
4:
R.
Nicholas Burns: U.S. Policy Towards
Iran
US State DepartmentWe face a complex, interconnected set of four crises in the Middle East: the need to achieve a stable and democratic Iraq, to strengthen the democratically elected government of Lebanon, to block Iran’s nuclear and regional ambitions, and to establish ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00130.htm
5:
No
Right Turn: National's $1.25 billion
giveaway
No Right TurnHow would you feel if the government deducted $300 from your bank account to give to its mates? Because that's what National is planning to do with carbon credits. At a meeting in Christchurch yesterday, National Party leader John Key announced ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00119.htm
6:
Some
Call It Rape: The Sex Kitten & The
Tomcat
Anne ElseI didn’t want to write this column, but it can’t be avoided. It’s been obvious for a few years now that women are being more and more insistently defined (and often successfully urged to join the fun and define themselves) in terms of how “hot” ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00075.htm
7:
Key
stumbles with policy on the hoof
New Zealand GovernmentThe announcement today by John Key and Nick Smith that National would give foresters carbon credits dating back to 1990 show’s his political naivety by making up uncosted, unaffordable and unfair policy on the hoof," said Forestry Minister Jim Anderton.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00090.htm
8:
Poster
appals Police Minister
New Zealand GovernmentA poster that suggests a career in New Zealand Police is a way to hear "great rape stories" is an appalling slur on thousands of "good and honest" New Zealanders who police New Zealand with integrity and respect every day, says Police Minister Annette ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00082.htm
9:
Dobriansky:
2006 Country Reports on HR Practices
US State DepartmentOn-The-Record Briefiing on the State Department's 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00129.htm
10:
National
Party Signals on Kyoto Forests
Welcomed
The Kyoto Forestry AssociationThe Kyoto Forestry Association (KFA) has welcomed comments on carbon credit ownership made by Opposition Climate Change Spokesman Nick Smith today when he, National Leader John Key and Agriculture Spokesman David Carter attended MAF’s land-use consultation ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00104.htm
11:
Buying
Your First Home It's Still Possible
The ProfessionalsRising New Zealand house prices may make property less affordable, but real estate salespeople say that with an innovative approach and hard work, it's still possible to reach that first rung on the property ladder.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00112.htm
12:
Anderton’s
Personal Attacks Can’t Disguise
Crisis
The Kyoto Forestry AssociationForestry Minister Jim Anderton’s strategy of continual personal attacks on the forestry industry does not obscure the political and deforestation crises his policies and approach to the job have caused, the Kyoto Forestry Association (KFA) said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00116.htm
13:
Kiwis
Continue to Embrace Broadband
Statistics New ZealandInternet broadband (non-analog) subscriber numbers continue to increase, and are up nearly 30 percent in the six months to 30 September 2006, Statistics New Zealand said today. The total number of Internet subscribers in New Zealand is now almost ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00121.htm
14:
Anderton
attempts to distract from carbon
fiasco
New Zealand National PartyJim Anderton's hysterical response to National over carbon credits isn't surprising from someone seeking to distract attention from Labour's carbon credits fiasco, says National Party Climate Change spokesman Nick Smith.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00092.htm
15:
No
Change Until You Change How Money
Works
Carolyn BakerAll-too frequently I encounter activists who don’t like to talk about money. While they crusade loudly for “economic justice”, they resist talking about their own relationship with money as if it were somehow an X-rated topic on par with sexuality ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00105.htm
16:
English
and Key at odds over fiscal policy
New Zealand GovernmentNational's co-leaders are once again divided over fiscal policy, Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00129.htm
17:
Critique
Of Griffin’s “The American Empire &
9/11"
www.UnansweredQuestions.orgI am an agnostic on the question of what happened on 9/11. I’m convinced that there are huge holes in the official story and contradictions that suggest that we do not know the whole story.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00085.htm
18:
Key
promises the earth again
New Zealand GovernmentNational leader John Key is again pandering to a vocal minority and showing little ability to deal with a serious economic issue, Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00127.htm
19:
Mighty
River Power sees the light - at last
Green PartyThe Green Party has congratulated Mighty River Power for dumping its controversial plan to convert the Marsden B power station to coal, describing it as a victory for campaigners, the local community and climate change. Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00113.htm
20:
Older
workers make their mark
Department Of LabourMore older Kiwi workers are staying on the job, with New Zealand recording one of the highest workforce participation rates in the OECD for the 50-64 year age group, Department of Labour Group Manager for Workforce Policy Lesley Haines said.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0703/S00072.htm
21:
Scoop
Images: Sydney Mardi Gras
Jamie Melbourne-HaywardJamie Melbourne-Hayward sent these images from the Sydney Mardi Gras. Jamie was marching behind a the parade float of an HIV/Aids NGO, ACON. The NGO also supports Aboriginal and Torres Straight Island issues.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00091.htm
22:
Bernard
Weiner: Origins of the Iraq Disaster
Bernard WeinerHardRight conservatives tend to downplay how the U.S. got into the Iraq War. Why dive back into all that?, they say, our troops are there so let's just finish the job.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00114.htm
23:
Did
Cheney Allow 9/11 Plane To Strike
Pentagon?
www.UnansweredQuestions.orgAlthough the official 9/11 Commission Report(CR) said Vice President Richard Cheney did not arrive at the Presidential Emergency Operations Center(PEOC) under the White House until "shortly before 10 a.m." that tragic day, Transportation Secretary Norman ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00069.htm
24:
Biggest
Cheese From Little Herd
NZ Champions Of CheeseCrescent Dairy Goats Old Gold was named Saint Clair Champion of Champions Cheese at the Cuisine NZ Champion Cheese Awards gala dinner held in Auckland this evening (March 6).
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00118.htm
25:
Scoop
Link: Libby Found Guilty in CIA Leak
Case
Scoop LinkWashington - Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was convicted Tuesday of obstruction, perjury and lying to the FBI in an investigation into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to reporters.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00116.htm
26:
Walking
access report a blueprint for way
forward
New Zealand GovernmentThe independent report on walking access provides a blueprint for the way forward on an extremely complex and longstanding issue, Rural Affairs Minister Damien O'Connor says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00107.htm
27:
Cullen:
Economic transformation 2007 and
beyond
New Zealand GovernmentSpeech Notes Economic transformation 2007 and beyond Speech notes for North Shore Business Excellence Network breakfast, North Harbour Stadium, Auckland
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00095.htm
28:
Climate
change consultation needs to be
longer
New Zealand National PartyNational’s Agriculture spokesman, David Carter, is annoyed that public consultation on the Government’s climate change proposals won’t be extended. Mr Carter attended a forum yesterday, where he says around 300 angry farmers and foresters were told ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00104.htm
29:
Unlike
Hitler, Bush Gives Appearance Of
Sanity
Sherwood Ross"I believe in the universality of freedom," George Bush told the audience at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington recently, "and I believe that this country, this grand country of ours, has an obligation to help people realize the blessings ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00098.htm
30:
Killing
pests without killing you or the
earth
Error: Couldn't get authorThere are about 50 to 60 million insect species on earth - we have named only about 1 million and there are only about 1 thousand pest species - already over 50% of these thousand pests are already resistant to our volatile, dangerous, synthetic ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0703/S00016.htm
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