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The weekend’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Super
Computer Weather: Hurricane
Isabel
A deepening hurricane presently in the Carribean appears headed for the US mainland and could eventually make landfall anywhere from North Florida up to Massachusetts. The current NOAA medium range super computer forecast (see images below) however ...
2:
Return
Of The King Trailer Is
Here!
TheOneRing.net brings you this exclusive first look at THE RETURN OF THE KING! This file was sent to us by person or persons unknown, it shows 1:35 minutes in GLORIOUS quicktime a TON of shots from ROTK. Sam and Frodo in Moria, Pippin and Merry, Gandalf ...
3:
Dimona
Reactor… a Mystery Threatening Middle
East
“The Israeli nuclear reactor of Dimona is vulnerable to meltdown, like the Russian reactor of Chernobyl two decades ago, which caused a humanitarian and ecological catastrophe. If Dimona melts down, it would affect an area 500 aerial kilometers ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Eritrea:
detention of prisoners of
conscience
Eritrea: Continued detention of prisoners of conscience and new arrests of members of religious groups
5:
Cheney
Says Pre-emption Needed to Thwart
Terrorism
Vice President Dick Cheney says the United States, together with its allies, is confronting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan "so that innocent civilians will not have to confront terrorist violence" anywhere in the world.
6:
Cancer
Society Applauds Progress
The Cancer Society is delighted with the progress of the Smokefree Environments Amendment Bill as it goes through its committee stages in Parliament.
7:
Microsoft
Security Bulletin Alert -
MS03-039
We are contacting you today to ensure you are aware that we have released Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-039 over night.
8:
N.
Carolina Eyewitness Reports Of Hurricane
Isabel
It is raining sideways. The wind is gusting up to 50 mph. Most businesses and schools are closed today. All of this and we are in Raleigh, North Carolina about 200 miles west of the coast.
9:
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 ...
10:
Diebold
Confirms U.S. Vote Count
Vulnerabilities
Scoop has obtained internal mail messages from Diebold Election Systems which clearly and explicitly confirm security problems in the GEMS vote counting software that were highlighted in reports published on Scoop.co.nz and widely elsewhere in July.
11:
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 ...
12:
Stamps
Return For The King
Anticipation of December’s world premier of the final The Lord of the Rings film is building with New Zealand Post today unveiling a series of stamps to celebrate the third movie.
Imagine The Good $87 Billion Could Do - Cartoon by John Chuckman….
14:
Desperately
Seeking The ROTK Trailer? Click
Here
Go to Google , type "ROTK Trailer" into the box and click the "I am feeling lucky" button.
15:
A
special plea from the parents of Coral Burrows
The parents of missing Featherston schoolgirl Coral Burrows are making an impassioned plea for public help in finding their six-year-old daughter.
16:
Arrest
for murder of Coral Burrows
Wairarapa Police have early this morning arrested a man and charged him with the murder of six year old Featherston girl Coral Burrows.
17:
Hard
News 19/09/03 - Fried Day
Who'd be a Californian? Larry King's interview last night with Arnold Schwarzenegger, the man who would be Governor of the golden state, would have filled no sensible person with joy. Arnie, as you might expect, knew his lines well enough...
18:
Richard
S. Ehrlich: Landmine Torture Burmese
Style
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Burma's military is killing people by forcing them to walk across minefields to reveal where explosives are buried, and Burmese rebels are buying U.S. landmines on the blackmarket, causing death and injury to soldiers and civilians, ...
19:
Hurricane
Eyewitness Report: Farewell
Isabel
Isabel has left over 1 million people without power tonight in both North Carolina and Virginia. That is twice as many people as our most recent hurricane, Floyd. Isabel is continuing to the northwest with a little bit less power than she began with, ...
20:
Scoop
Image & Links: Hurricane Isabel's
Landfall
http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0309/98867b7f2ffd731a3217.jpeg NASA MODIS IMAGE – CLICK IMAGE FOR BIG VERSION
21:
Liberia:
Annan to close old UN office
In light of the impending establishment of a new United Nations mission in Liberia, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has decided to close an office that was set up in the war-torn West African country six years ago but whose efforts to bring peace, reconciliation ...
22:
‘Health
Nazis’ Actually Saving Lives
The Asthma and Respiratory Foundation, Heart Foundation and Cancer Society are extremely disappointed by United Future leader Peter Dunne’s comments in Parliament last night about tobacco control health workers. Mr Dunne called the workers ‘health Nazis’, ...
23:
Coral’s
body found in bush near Lake Onoke
(Ferry)
Detective Inspector Rod Drew, head of Operation Reef, says Coral’s body was found about 9.15am in bush near Lake Onoke (Ferry), on Wairarapa’s south coast.
24:
Upton-on-line:
Special Trade & Environment
Issue
A lengthy rumination about just what Europeans might (and then again might not) be on about when they raise environmental issues in the context of trade liberalisation; but first, some notes on the fall-out from France's summer heatwave.
25:
Scoop
Images: Dom's Stale Hobbit Photos Are
Fake!
More than three weeks after Scoop first published a picture of, allegedly, the home of a Hobbit from the Lord of the Rings, and the day after we published aerial photos of the Waikato set the Dominion News Paper have run two highly dubious – and probably ...
26:
Scoop
Images: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: BAG
END!
Scoop is delighted to present to Frodo and Bilbo Baggin’s house in the Waikato – Bag End. Now we are getting magical….
27:
New
Telecom Xtra Jetstream Plans From
$49.95/Month
Broadband will be more affordable with the launch on Monday of three new Telecom Xtra JetStream plans starting at a low monthly rental of just $49.95 ($11.53 a week).
28:
Mother
Jones article + response
Thank you to everyone who has already written in to Mother Jones Magazine (ISM Action Alert of Tuesday, September 16). Some, however, have indicated trouble accessing the original article and response via the links that we sent out. For those that ...
29:
ACT
Smacks Children's Commissioner
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today said that new Commissioner for Children Cindy Kiro's leap into the anti-smacking debate was showing Labour's ideology.
30:
Sky
To Launch Three New Channels
SKY Television has announced today that it will launch UKTV, The History Channel and Disney Channel before the end of the year on Start-up, SKY Digital's basic package.
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