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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: Calling For Breast-Cancer Volunteer Collectors
Volunteer Collectors are urgently needed between 11.00am & 1.30pm on Saturday 4th September to help raise money for breast cancer awareness at the 'Great Race' Gallagher Boathouse 8s.
3: Norma Sherry: Girls Of The Olympics
Playboy Magazine arrived in our mailbox yesterday. On the cover was a striking Olympiad in a rather demure bathing suit, but the promised story was far different.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4: 9/11 Commission Report Recommendations
E. Anthony Wayne, Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs Testimony before the House International Relations Committee Washington, DC August 19, 2004
5: 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.
6: Flushing away cancer research
Christchurch Animal Action will be out on the streets during Daffodil Day, encouraging members of the public to not flush half their donation down the toilet.
7: UQ Wire: Presser & Opening for 9/11 Truth events
Press Conference & Film Showings WHEN? Fri. Aug. 27 - 11AM - 3PM Kicking off Summer of Truth 2004 in New York City http://summeroftruth.org Presentation of "The 9/11 Omissions Dossier" http://www.911Truth.org
8: La Paz Paralyzed - Blockades Return to Bolivia
Claudia Espinoza reports from La Paz, Bolivia, an important news story that, surprisingly, has not been reported by any English-language wire or news media: The capital city was paralyzed, beginning yesterday.
9: Destiny's Dealings With The Party Of Common Sense
Noticeably absent from the 'Enough is Enough' rally on Monday were any of Peter Dunne's flock of United Future MP's, particularly the more evangelically inclined. Kevin List investigates.
10: Sanders/Austin Fitts: The Negative Return Economy
The United States government has operated a secret budgeting and spending program for decades outside the framework of the American Constitution. The institutional and political roots of this system of clandestine finance reach back to at least ...
11: Olympic Sailing Results – 26 August, 2004
Barbara Kendall has finished the Athens Olympics in 5th, while fellow kiwi, 21 year-old Thomas Ashley came in with a top ten result. Racing came to an end overnight in Athens for both of New Zealand’s Mistral board sailors concluding the New Zealand sailing ...
12: Peak Oil 101. For the benefit of Dr Cullen.
The fact that our Minister of Finance is completely and utterly unaware of the “peak oil” issue is absolutely astounding. By inference one can only conclude that this ignorance clearly demonstrates the current Government’s Energy politics are in total ...
13: Steve Weissman: Neo-Cons Rethink Iraqi Fiasco
One of America's friskiest neo-conservatives, young Michael Rubin leads a heady life. While still in his twenties, he did his Ph.D. on Iran, Iraq, and the Middle East, sat in on meetings of the Bush transition team, and worked in the Pentagon's Office ...
14: 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 ...
15: State Dept. Daily Press Briefing for August 25
RUSSIA - Plane Crashes - Official Condolences - Secretary Powell s Call to Foreign Minister Lavrov THAILAND - Resettlement of Hmong Refugees in the United States COLOMBIA - U.S. Support for Counterterrorist Efforts / Political
16: Freemasons throw open the doors
New Zealand Freemasons are opening the doors of their lodge rooms during September in an unprecedented move to dispel once and for all the incorrect public perception of secrecy that surrounds the organisation. There are just over 300 Masonic Lodges ...
17: Chuckman Cartoon: Global Pollution
Cartoon by John Chuckman
18: Damian Clarke: Update From Palestine 4 photos/text
Yesterday I met a young man in a village who had just been released from a detention centre. For his sake I won't name him or his village or the detention centre he was held in. For the purposes of this article I'll call him Walid...
19: Free Iraq, Free Palestine, Free NYC, Free Speech
In the Great Struggle : For the Great Lawn : In Central Park : Free speech : Once again : Takes a back seat : To corporate : And political interests : In a world devoid : Of dissent only : Consent of the governed : By mass decree
20: Permitted Not In Our Name Rally To Kick Of f March
Permitted Not In Our Name rally to kick of massive march on this Sunday. Sunday, August 29
21: Peru: Human Rights Key To Ending Conflict
Peru: A National Human Rights Plan is key to ending the consequences of internal conflict
22: Fracture - Kiwi Move To Open Soon
A bungled burglary causes the lives of two families to spiral out of control
23: Bush & Rummy's Crime in Torture's Chain of Command
How much torture will it take before someone in power asks the right question: Who gave the orders that put the torturers to work?
24: Simon Pound: ACC And Response, Or Lack There-Of
Sooooooo. It has now been over 11 weeks since I sliced my hand whilst at work in a small yet brilliantly disabling accident.
25: Questions & Answers for Oral Answer 26 August 2004
1. Roading—Transport Congestion 2. Refugees—Immigration, Minister 3. National Certificate of Educational Achievement—Cambridge High School 4. International Reputation—Criticism in Australia 5. National Certificate of Educational Achievement—Cambridge High School ...
26: Rod Stewart – One Night Only at the Mission Estate
Rod Stewart – One Night Only at the Mission Estate Winery Concert – It’s All Rod and It’s All Night!
27: 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 ...
28: Peters: “Look out 2005, here we come!”
An address by Rt Hon Winston Peters to a public meeting, James Cumming Wing (Gore Town Hall), Ardwick Street, Gore, 12.30pm Friday 27 August 2004
29: Images: Final Photocall - LOTR Stars Depart NZ
A final photocall for The Lord of the Ring's stars 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.
30: UNICEF Reviews Liberia's War-Traumatized Children
United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF head Carol Bellamy is on a three-day visit to Liberia to assess progress in reintegrating thousands of youngsters who were abducted, recruited as soldiers or sex slaves and otherwise exploited in the 15-war civil war ...
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Gordon Campbell: On The Coalition’s Awful, Not Good, Very Bad Poll Results
Ian Powell: Policy Vacuum Enables For-profit Corporate General Practice Ownership By Stealth
Gordon Campbell: On Iran Killing Its Rappers, And Searching For The Invisible Dr. Reti
Peter Dunne: MPs Unusually Quiet On Pay Rise
Ian Powell: Cuba And New Zealand: A Relationship Worthy Of Strengthening
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