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Yesterday’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:
American
Bounty Hunter Jonathan ''Jack'' Idema
BANGKOK, Thailand -- American bounty hunter Jonathan "Jack" Idema, who was put on trial in Kabul for allegedly torturing Afghans, arrived in Afghanistan alongside U.S. invasion forces in 2001 and enjoyed threatening to kill journalists.
3:
Questions
& Answers for Oral Answer 15 September
Question No. 1 to Minister 1. Justice, Acting Minister—Prisoners' Compensation 2. Boys—School to Work Transition 3. Health Services—Pacific Children 4. Fisheries—Wage Compliance 5. Employment Relations Law Reform Bill—Unions 6. Drugs—International ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
EDS
likely to support power company
Genesis Energy has just had resource consent for its proposed Awhitu Windfarm turned down by planning commissioners appointed by the Franklin District Council. The proposal involved the construction of 19 wind turbines at Awhitu on the coast south of the ...
5:
An
Audience With Tim O'Brien: In With
Tim?
In With Tim? An Audience With Wellington Mayoral Candidate Tim O'Brien By Kevin List
6:
Open
letter to New Zealand
journalists
As you know, the Australian publisher of the NZ Herald, APN, plans to launch a new Herald on Sunday on October 3.
7:
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.
8:
Relief
Prepared As Hurricane Ivan Passes
Caribbean
United Nations humanitarian agencies are accelerating the deployment of staff and emergency kits to the Caribbean, where Hurricane Ivan - the latest in a series of tropical storms to strike the region this season - is already wreaking deadly havoc.
9:
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.
10:
Questions
for Oral Answer - 16 September 2004
1. H V ROSS ROBERTSON to the Minister of Education: What steps is he taking to improve career information and guidance in schools? 2. RODNEY HIDE to the Minister of Defence: Is New Zealand ending the involvement of our troops in Iraq; if so, why?
11:
No
Right Turn: Tony Blair And Climate Change
So, Tony Blair has given a major speech on climate change, and said that he is "shocked" by the scientific evidence. So am I.
12:
Herald
Journalists Ban New Sunday
Paper
New Zealand Herald journalists have banned work for the Herald’s new Sunday paper until the paper’s owners allow journalists on the Sunday edition to negotiate their pay and conditions collectively.
13:
Steve
Weissman: Don't Count On Europe In
Iraq
Should John Kerry become America's next president, most Europeans will rejoice. According to recent polls, the Democratic candidate has overwhelming support here in the Old World. Even British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who continues to pay a huge political ...
14:
New
Zealand Companies Mistrust Flexible
Workers
Auckland,16 September 2004 – The majority of New Zealand managers do not trust their employees to work away from the office and are denying them the opportunity to work flexibly, according to the results of a survey launched today. Mistrust and rivalry ...
15:
PUBLIC
ADDRESS 16/09/04 - Get Me Out Of
Here!
Clearly, this is the right time for New Zealand's lightly-armed engineering corp to be gotten the hell out of Iraq. Although the Minister of Defence is, inevitably, offering a benign explanation - the troops have simply reached the end of their year-long ...
16:
High
Voltage Opera Helps Oncology
Genesis Energy Chief Executive, Murray Jackson momentarily swopped his “captain of industry hat” for a toreador’s montera this week assisted by opera star, Jessie Raven (pictured). Miss Raven who performs the title role in the upcoming Genesis ...
17:
The
Kerry-Edwards Economic Plan
Announced
Detroit, MI - After four years of a president who makes excuses in an attempt to cover up his failures, John Kerry Wednesday called for a new direction in America while laying out the economic case against George W. Bush in a speech at the Detroit ...
18:
Supercomputer
Weather: Tracking Ivan's Landfall
IN THIS EDITION OF SCOOP HURRICANE WATCH: - NASA MODIS Satellite Image - Introduction - Latest National Hurricane Center Forecast & Discussion - NOAA GFS Model Supercomputer Landfall Impact Forecast
19:
Israeli
Troops Assassinate 6 Palestinian
Activists
In less than a week since Monday, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed twelve Palestinians, eight of them in extra-judicial executions, only a week after shooting dead three boys and a teenager among eight others during the four-day reoccupation of the northern ...
20:
Damian
Clarke’s Update From Palestine
(12)
Includes Images: On Saturday I went from Jerusalem to Bethlehem to visit some of the holy sites there. I had finished volunteering for ISM and wanted to play tourist for a day. I caught a Palestinian service taxi to get there.
21:
PM
Address To NZ Chambers of
Commerce
Rt Hon Helen Clark Prime Minister Address at Annual Conference of New Zealand Chambers of Commerce Rutherford Hotel Nelson
22:
This
drink-driving ad belongs in the toilet
The toilet at your local pub might be the last place you’d expect to see an anti drink driving message, but the unexpected is about to become reality with a new safe driving campaign from the Land Transport Safety Authority.
23:
Sludge
Report #127 - The Hunt For Flight
77
In This Edition: The Hunt For Flight 77 - A Truly Remarkable French Website - Disinformation Warning! - Not Everyone Is Convinced - Eyewitness Reports Of The Crash….
24:
Kiwi
Troops Redundant In Iraq
New Zealand First defence spokesperson Ron Mark says he understands the Government’s decision to bring New Zealand troops home from Iraq.
25:
Scoop
Images: Hurricane Ivan Makes
Landfall
The eye of Hurricane Ivan is a few hours away from making landfall on the US southern coast. Ground Zero appears to be Mobile, Alabama, near to the Alabama Mississippi border.
26:
English
embarrasses himself again
National Party education spokesperson Bill English has been embarrassed again because information he has been forced to table in the House has failed to back up his extravagant claims, Associate Education Minister Steve Maharey said today.
27:
Scoop
Images: Hurricane Ivan To Clobber
Jamaica
Hurricane Ivan, now Category 5, has strengthened markedly over the last 24 hours and is bearing down on Jamaica where 500,000 people have been urged to evacuate from low lying areas of the Island group. On its way towards Jamaica Ivan clobbered the ...
28:
The
Jakarta Bombing, Poverty, War And Desperation
I condemn the bombing outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta on September 9, which has taken at least nine lives and injured more than 180 Indonesians — mainly people doing business at the embassy and passers-by. I express my full sympathy to all those ...
29:
G-8
Senior Group Meeting On WMDs - John R.
Bolton
John R. Bolton, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Press Conference at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations Geneva, Switzerland September 10, 2004
30:
Another
slice of heaven goes west
Green Party Co-leader Rod Donald says the sale of a large slice of iconic South Island high country to American Country and Western star, Shania Twain will send a loud message to the world's wealthy that New Zealand is up for sale.
ENDS
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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
Gordon Campbell: On bird flu, AUKUS entry fees and Cindy Lee