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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:
Questions
& Answers for Oral Answer 13 October
1. Housing New Zealand—Treaty of Waitangi 2. Career Planning—Economic and Social Policy 3. Accident Compensation Corporation—Bold Perspectives, Shared Objectives Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation Conference 4. Local Government—Voting System ...
3:
NZ
First 100% Behind Govt Regarding
Zaoui
As well as receiving support from New Zealand First regarding the Seabed and Foreshore legislation it would seem Helen Clark’s Government also has an ally in New Zealand First when it comes to the Government’s handling of detained refugee, Ahmed Zaoui. ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Cheney's
Halliburton Helped Saddam Siphon UN
$Bns
The one company that helped Saddam exploit the oil-for-food program in the mid-1990s that wasn't identified in Duelfer's report was Halliburton, and the person at the helm of Halliburton at the time of the scheme was Vice President Dick Cheney.
5:
Violence
in Haiti: Powell Blames
Aristide
Violence in Haiti: Colin Powell and Gerard Latortue Blame Aristide, When the Blame Lies With Them
6:
Questions
for Oral Answer - Thursday, 14 October
1. HELEN DUNCAN to the Minister of Education: What progress has been made implementing the recommendations of the School Staffing Review Group?
7:
House
Prices -- The Worst Is Yet To
Come
HOUSE PRICES -- THE WORST IS YET TO COME, SAYS INVESTOR AND TOP SELLING AUTHOR OLLY NEWLAND
8:
Mark
Levey: Sharon's Green Light To Attack
Iran
The Bush Administration urged the members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to approve an October 31 deadline on Iran for compliance or face sanctions at the UN Security Council. Bush lost that vote. Had the motion passed, that would ...
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:
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.
11:
Public
Address 14/10/04 - Curiousity!
In this time of peace and reconciliation in local body Auckland, it would seem a little tacky to be in possession of the infamous Hubbard-NBR PDFs, wouldn't it? Yet if you go to Aaron Bhatnagar's blog, click on the link marked My personal photos, ...
12:
Scoop
Link: Seymour Hersh Talks Iraq As It
Is
"The only sense you get is we're basically in a full-scale air war against invisible people that we can't find, that we have no intelligence about, so we bomb what we can see."
13:
NZQA
should mind its political
manners
The NZQA should heed a warning by the State Services Commissioner and remove a politically charged press release from a prominent position on its website, says National's Education spokesman, Bill English.
14:
Electricity
and Gas legislation passed
Energy Minister Pete Hodgson has today welcomed the completion of the third reading of the Electricity and Gas Industries Bill.
15:
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 ...
16:
Adams:
Business NZ needs to get real
The rigid right-wing ideologues of Business New Zealand have lost the plot, United Future's Paul Adams said today.
17:
Students
launch Maori ‘Thursdays In
Black’
Te Mana Akonga (National Maori Tertiary Students’ Association) and The Tertiary Women’s Focus Group (TWFG) of the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) will today launch a te reo Maori ‘Thursdays in Black’ shirt to add to the ‘Thursdays in ...
18:
D.
Fisk: Advancing the Day When Cuba Will Be
Free
At the outset, I want to recognize the commitment and sacrifice Cuban Americans have made in service to this country. Your sacrifices have helped to secure the freedoms and values that we all hold dear.
19:
UF
slams ‘Treaty nonsense’ in Housing
NZ
United Future leader, Peter Dunne, today called on Housing Minister Steve Maharey to instruct immediately his Housing New Zealand officials to put an end to the ‘Treaty nonsense’ that surrounds the appointment of middle managers at the State agency.
20:
Chuckman
Cartoon: John Kerry, Bush Lite
Cartoon by John Chuckman
21:
Matt
Robson Writes To Dail Jones On
Zaoui
Matt Robson, Progressive MP, sent this email to Dail Jones at eight o'clock last night in response to the NZ First MP's media release .
22:
Cullen
Address to Rail & Maritime Transport Union
It is my pleasure to address your 2004 Conference. The last year has been a momentous one for the New Zealand rail industry, and this morning I would like to review what has been achieved, and the progress that is being made towards making rail a pivotal ...
23:
American
Coup: Mid-Term Election Polls vs
Actuals
Scoop’s analysis found shows that - according to the polls - the Republican Party experienced a pronounced last minute swing in its favour of between 4 and 16 points. Remarkably this last minute swing appears to have been concentrated in its effects ...
24:
The
Real Crime Is The Hijacking Of Our
Democracy
I Was Arrested but the Real Crime is the Corporate Hijacking of Our Democracy by David Cobb, Green Party presidential nominee
25:
Richard
L. Armitage Press Conference in
Tokyo
MODERATOR: Good afternoon everyone. We are "on the record" today with Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. First, the ground rules. We do have simultaneous translators, so when you come to ask a question, please give your name, your organization, ...
26:
NZ
to contribute to Caribbean hurricane relief
New Zealand will contribute NZ$200,000 in disaster relief to the hurricane-plagued Caribbean, Aid Minister Marian Hobbs announced today.
27:
Cobb
To Debate Bush & Kerry
Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb is doing everything he can to make sure the American people hear more than two frighteningly similar voices in this election.
28:
Norwegian
Parent Vaccine Never Released In
Norway
Jonathan Eisen reveals that the now-famous "Norwegian parent vaccine" from which the New Zealand meningococcal vaccine was "derived" and which has been used to justify claims of "safety" and "efficacy"... was not even released in Norway, after scientists ...
29:
Cullen
Address - Doing Business with
Australia
It is my pleasure to open today’s seminar. I have made it one of the goals of my tenure as finance minister to strengthen the trans-Tasman business relationship, which is of enormous significance to us in terms of trade and investment.
30:
Papers
confirm electricity fears
Treasury papers released today confirm fears that the security of the electricity supply would be undermined, rather than enhanced, if Genesis built its gas generator at Huntly, National's Energy spokesman, Roger Sowry, says.
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