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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Sludge Report #154 – Bigger Than Watergate!

In This Edition: Bigger Than Watergate! - How To Rig An Election In The United States - Fantasy vs Reality - How We Discovered The Backdoor - Evidence Of Motive - Evidence Of Opportunity - Evidence Of Method - Evidence Of Prior Conduct - Consistent Unexplained ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00064.htm


2: Faun Otter: Vote Fraud - Exit Polls Vs Actuals

Within parts of the U.S. progressive community there is already widespread concern that electronic voting fraud may provide an explanation for the astonishing 8 million vote gain made by George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential U.S. election.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00072.htm


3: 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 ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00065.htm


4: 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.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0310/S00211.htm


5: Greg Palast: Kerry Won

As a journalist examining that messy sausage called American democracy, it's my job to tell you who got the most votes in the deciding states. Tuesday, in Ohio and New Mexico, it was John Kerry.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00080.htm


6: 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


7: Bald-Faced Lies About Black Box Voting Machines

Diebold voting machines are used in 37 states. The entire state of Ohio is considering dumping its old system to buy Diebold. Georgia already did. The Diebold files, supposedly secret voting machine files left on an unprotected web site for nearly six years ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00078.htm


8: Mapping the Real Deal : Where Would Jesus Bank?

I think of Jesus as a real deal, straight up kind of guy who always cared deeply about his fellow man. That's why we often ask “What would Jesus do?” when looking for the action of highest integrity. [1]

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0407/S00040.htm


9: How George Bush Won the 2004 Presidential Election

Purging voter lists is just the beginning: the U.S. has embraced a form of electronic voting that is unreliable, unverifiable and funded by the radical Christian right.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00147.htm


10: Is An All Out Assault On Fallujah A War Crime?

Four years ago in December 1999 Grozny, the capital of the rebel Russian region of Chechnya, faced a very similar situation to that now faced by Fallujah. Ultimatums to surrender the city had expired several times and the Russian Government led by ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00092.htm


11: STORY OF THE WEEK: American Coup II

STORY OF THE WEEK: American Coup II Scoop.co.nz Story Of The Week Ending November 8th 2004 http://scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=usacoup

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00087.htm


12: Hartmann: The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy

The hot story in the Blogosphere is that the ''erroneous'' exit polls that showed Kerry carrying Florida and Ohio (among other states) weren't erroneous at all - it was the numbers produced by paperless voting machines that were wrong, and Kerry ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00082.htm


13: SCOOP FEEDBACK: US Election Coverage

In this edition: BUSH! - RE: Your BS Newswire Piece - What a pathetic attempt you make to discredit the American election! - Vote Fraud

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00085.htm


14: Scoop Top Scoops: American Coup II

- http://scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=usacoup AMERICAN COUP II – SCOOP SPECIAL FEATURE - American Coup II: - – Greg Palast - American Coup II: - Martin LeFevre - American Coup II: - Russell Brown - American Coup II: - Feedback (Part 1) - American Coup ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00089.htm


15: European Union position on Burma "weak"

Brussels, 5th November 2004 (ICFTU Online): The EU's common position on Burma is nothing short of "seriously inadequate", said the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) in ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0411/S00080.htm


16: Housing NZ Plans To Repossess Neville Yates' Home

I was Neville Yates personal assistant for his trial 2 November 2004. I just got a call from Neville Yates at Paparoa Prison. He told me he had just received a call from Housing N.Z. this afternoon 5 November, telling him they were going to repossess ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0411/S00065.htm


17: Meditations (Politics): Don’t Organize, Mourn

Well the inevitable happened. The dark genius of Karl Rove brought millions of Christian followers (not of Jesus but of Bush) out of the woodwork, and “W” was re-elected.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00086.htm


18: Public Address 05/11/04 - Fretful As Ever

As part of my new programme of post-election emotional maintenance, I got irie last night, put on Deja Voodoo nice and loud and cleaned up the kitchen. And I got to thinking about how an economic split between the red and blue states might measure ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00084.htm


19: Netguide announces finalists for Web Awards 04

Netguide magazine today announced the finalists in its annual Web Awards, the premier competition for recognising the best websites produced in New Zealand. Leading sites from across a range of categories as diverse as news, finance, e-tail and tourism ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0411/S00097.htm


20: King's Waiting List Rage Returns To Haunt Her

Months of pursuing the Health Minister Annette King to disclose the true number of patients on waiting lists has finally resulted in the revelation that, at the end of September 2004, there were over 62,000 people assessed by a specialist as ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0411/S00179.htm


21: Crowd Yells "Shame" At Judge Holderness

It was a shameful day for justice in our garden city of Christchurch, as Neville Yates, a brain damaged amputee from an accident 30 years ago, was given 5 months jail for growing 9 spindly plants for his own medical use. " I am the only victim ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0411/S00066.htm


22: 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.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0312/S00024.htm


23: Asia Pacific Nuke Terrorism Threat to be Discussed

Disarmament and Arms Control Minister Marian Hobbs will be in Sydney on Monday for an Australian Government hosted conference focused on reducing the threat of nuclear terrorism.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0411/S00166.htm


24: Indonesia Frees War Criminal: Goff Urged To Act

Indonesia frees war criminal Abilio Soares, the only person held in Indonesia for the 1999 East Timor Crimes.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0411/S00068.htm


25: Worse Than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral Disaster

Everyone remembers Florida's 2000 election debacle, and all of the new terms it introduced to our political lexicon: Hanging chads, dimpled chads, pregnant chads, overvotes, undervotes, Sore Losermans, Jews for Buchanan and so forth.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00106.htm


26: Hartmann: Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked

When I spoke with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004), the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 16th District said he was waiting for the FBI to show up.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00102.htm


27: Want a work permit? Apply in Sydney

Skilled people wanting a New Zealand work permit should fly to Sydney to apply, says National’s Immigration spokesman, Tony Ryall.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0411/S00167.htm


28: Stateside with Rosalea: Election Miscellany

Those states that went blue--the West coast, around the Great Lakes, and in the North East--have been subsumed into The United States of Canada. The rest of the country is renamed Jesusland.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00091.htm


29: No consistency in taxpayer-funded Treaty courses

"There appears to be huge differences in the quality and the cost of Treaty of Waitangi education courses that public servants are attending at the taxpayer's expense," says National Party Finance spokesman John Key, commenting on recent answers to written ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0411/S00181.htm


30: 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

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