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The weekend’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: 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.
2:
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 ...
3:
Guest
Opinion: Oil, War and the Euro
In attempting to make sense of the Bush administration's drive to war in Iraq, we have heard much from the White House of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. When that rationale proved to be an illusion, the administration turned to ''liberating'' ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
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 ...
5:
Aid
For Côte D'ivoire Could Stave Off
Instability
Failure to increase international assistance to post-conflict Côte d'Ivoire for the disarmament of its militias could lead to the destabilization of precarious neighbouring countries, the United Nations aid coordinating office said today.
6:
Israel
fence/wall violates international
law
On the eve of the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) opening hearing on the construction of the fence/wall by Israel, Amnesty International calls on the Israeli authorities to immediately dismantle the sections already built inside the West Bank ...
7:
An
Outcry from Strangled Bethlehem
1) A Palestinian Plan of Work against the apartheid wall 2) An Outcry from Strangled Bethlehem
8:
Helen
Clark Announces Dalziel
Resignation
Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that she had received the resignation of the Honourable Lianne Dalziel from all her portfolios and has advised the Governor General to accept it.
9:
SPECIAL
REPORT: The Big Blow - Feb. 16-17
Storm
Met Service Warn More Wind & Rain On Its Way - MetService meteorologists have issued severe wind and heavy rain warnings for an active front moving across New Zealand on Thursday. See... Severe Wind and Rain Warnings for Thursday
10:
St
Molesworth: Top 10 Signs Labour Is Worried
Top 10 signs Labour is worried about Don Brash
11:
SIS
summary of allegations against Ahmed
Zaoui
The following document from the Director of New Zealand's Security & Intelligence Service was released by Ahmed Zaoui's lawyers on 20 Feb 2004:
12:
Kidd
Millennium Cartoon: Janet Jackson vs
Rodin
Cartoon by kiddmillennium.com…
13:
Patricia
L Johnson: Was GWB Licensed To
Fly?
We all remember the photo of George W. Bush, Commander-In-Chief, waving from the co-pilot's seat of what was dubbed "Navy One' on May 1, 2003.
14:
Inquiry
still needed despite Dalziel's
resignation
National Party MP Judith Collins is maintaining her call for a full judicial inquiry into the Government's handling of sensitive documents relating to the deportation of a young Sri Lankan girl.
15:
Chávez
must respect legitimate human
rights
Amnesty International said today that President Hugo Chávez must respect the right of non-governmental human rights organizations to carry out their legitimate work, such work is underpinned by international human rights treaties which the Venezuelan ...
16:
Government
flood response will cost millions
The final bill after this week's severe flooding will run into many millions of dollars, Civil Defence Minister George Hawkins says.
17:
Dr
Kelly's Death: We're After The Truth
Professor Chris Milroy had this letter - "Fantasists and Dr Kelly" - published in the Guardian (see below, top) hot on the heels of a letter - "Medical Evidence Does Not Support Suicide by Kelly" - by medical specialists from the Kelly Investigation ...
18:
Dominionist
Bill Limits Supreme Cts
Jurisdictiion
We wrote about it before it happened, we called them by their own name, Dominionists, and we told you that Dominionists in Congress were about to fire their first guns for reformation of the American government.
19:
Bumpy
Old Summer Continues
MetService meteorologists have issued severe wind and heavy rain warnings for another front moving across New Zealand on Saturday.
20:
10,000
Burundian Refugees Return From
Tanzania
More than 10,000 Burundian refugees have returned home from Tanzania in the first month and a half of this year, bound for destinations that include the previously insecure eastern Ruyigi province, the United Nations refugee agency said today.
21:
Public
Address 20/02/04 - Lots Of Good
Reading
What with all the issues and everything, I haven't got around this week to writing something about going to see Evan Dando play on Tuesday night, if only so as to use the headline above...
22:
Dalziel
Resignation Inevitable
“The resignation of Lianne Dalziel as Minister of Immigration was inevitable,” said New Zealand First leader Rt Hon Winston Peters.
23:
Ahmed
Zaoui Should Be Released:
Robson
Matt Robson notes that the “Summary of Allegations,” prepared by the Security Intelligence Service at the direction of the High Court and released by Ahmed Zaoui’s lawyers after Official Information Act requests, contains nothing of substance that has not ...
24:
Poverty
Reduction Campaign Launched In
Bolivia
Some 1,200 Bolivian university graduates will fan out across the South American country over the next two years to fight poverty, empower women and promote small and family businesses under a new United Nations Volunteers ( UN V) programme.
25:
Martin
LeFevre: Cosmology and
Consciousness
Every week now it seems, astronomers are making a new mind-blowing discovery or observation. Black holes tearing apart stars that come too close; galaxies flickering on just after the "Dark Age" of the universe following the Big Bang; unseen "dark energy" ...
26:
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.
27:
Arrest
Warrant Out For CHRISTCHURCH
MP
Police have an arrest warrant out for Clayton Cosgrove, on a charge of being the Member of Parliament for Waimakariri.
28:
First
wind farm for Wellington wins carbon
credits
Plans for Wellington's first wind farm have won "carbon credits" from the government for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and helping to make New Zealand's electricity supply more secure, Hutt South MP Trevor Mallard announced.
29:
Lawyers
Release Allegations Agaist
Zaoui
The reason we have called a conference and released the summary this morning is an unusual step however the Zaoui case is an unusual case. We have taken this step given that the Minister of Immigration has chosen to reveal the existence of the Director’s ...
30:
Nigeria:
The death penalty and women
The death penalty as applied in Nigeria violates fundamental human rights and is sometimes used in a discriminatory way against women, Amnesty International said today in a new and its first report on women and the death penalty entitled: "Nigeria: ...
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