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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:
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.
3:
Inside
A U.S. Election Vote Counting
Program
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4:
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.
5:
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 ...
6:
Eminem
Rocks The Vote Against Bush -
MOSH
And after hearing the song later that month it seemed Mr. Mathers had also been in the lab concocting his own plans for the election and it was precisely the anthem I had been looking for.
7:
UQ
Wire: Connecting The Dots Bush..Bath..Bin
Laden
Saudi Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, an Osama bin Laden benefactor, has laundered money into tax-exempt U.S. entities for years as a foreign financier of terrorism. But a new 9/11 lawsuit is thrusting Mahfouz’s latent past business links to George W. ...
8:
Insurgents
Threaten To Burn Bangkok In Revenge
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Suicide Muslim insurgents threatened to use ''fire and oil'' to ''burn down'' Bangkok in revenge for the deaths of 85 people, including 78 Muslim men who suffocated after Thai security forces crammed them into army trucks, laying ...
9:
Florida
Computers Snatch 1000s of Votes from
Kerry
Before one vote was cast in early voting this week in Florida, the new touch-screen computer voting machines of Florida started out with a several-thousand vote lead for George W. Bush.
10:
The
U.S. Agenda at the UN General
Assembly
The United Nations should be a forum where diverse countries and cultures of the world work together for freedom, democracy, peace, human rights, and prosperity for all people.
11:
UQ
Wire: Osama's Election
Editorial
So the bastard is still alive. He isn't dead of kidney failure or rotting in a cave somewhere in the Hindu Kush. He wasn't smoked out of his hole, and he in no way appeared to be on the run.
12:
Turning
Waste Wood Into Profit
Tokoroa Company Central Wood Recyclers (CWR) has developed a waste wood recovery business that reduces the impact of commercial forestry on the environment and provides an alternative fuel for industrial use.
13:
Photo-Essay
1: Death and Casualty From
Iraq
Editor’s Warning: The images in this series are horrific and depict the reality of injury and death in this US-led War against Iraq. Scoop is determined that its editorial policy will continue to serve truth, accuracy and honesty and that its reportage ...
14:
Meeting
Aligns Industry and Education
Provider
Waiariki Institute of Technology's skill, course structure and approach to education in wood processing and forestry were highly praised during a visit to the institute's Waipa campus and wood-processing mill by the Forest Industries Council CEO Stephen ...
The Crown Forestry Rental Trust (CFRT) is transforming itself into a streamlined organisation focused on achieving results quickly and efficiently. A number of positions are in the process of being advertised and an announcement regarding the appointment ...
16:
Carter
Holt Harvey completes Tissue
sale
On 12 May 2004 Carter Holt Harvey (CHH) advised the market that the agreement to sell its Tissue business and 50 per cent interest in Sancella to Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA) had become unconditional.
17:
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 ...
18:
LINKS:
Explosives Caught On Tape After
Invasion
The original link to this KSTP-TV report has a video link at the top which shows the embedded reporters filming the now-disputed explosive materials at the al Qaqaa facility in Iraq.
19:
A Backgrounder On Today's Anti-Racism
March
When first-generation Chinese New Zealander Tze Ming Mok talked to a National Front member outside the Chinese Embassy in June, she was called a "peasant" and to return to her "third-world country". When she asked why he refused ...
20:
Sydney
Dance Co. In NZ With Nick Cave
Inspiration
Dancers hurl through space with razor-sharp precision; fiercely energised one moment, strikingly sensual the next – Sydney Dance Company returns to the Auckland stage with Underland, a stunning work by influential New York-based choreographer Stephen ...
21:
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 ...
22:
UQ
Wire: 9/11 Complaint To Spitzer
Investigator
New York, NY (October 28, 2004) - Chief Investigator William Casey from the office of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer received a Complaint and Petition today from a group of New York City citizens demanding a grand jury be convened on ...
23:
UQ
Wire: 9/11 Black Box Cover-Up At Ground
Zero?
Two men who worked extensively in the wreckage of the World Trade Center claim they helped federal agents find three of the four " black boxes " from the jetliners that struck the towers on 9/11 - contradicting the official account.
24:
CNN
Said It So It Must Be True, Or
Not?
The shifting sands of online message boards are a notoriously unreliable place to find information. Yet today just such a source has been quoted by CNN for a report that Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the Bali bombings on October 12th. Mo ...
25:
Chuckman
Cartoon: John Kerry, Bush Lite
Cartoon by John Chuckman
26:
Simon
Pound: Well Meaning Goats
With the entire world’s attention focused on the American election it is pretty interesting to look at how the rest of the world views what is, in fact, purely up to the Americans.
27:
Steve
B. Cobble: Stolen Election Deja
Vu
We all remember what happened in Florida in 2000. The candidate that had the most support lost both the state, and the electoral college. There were police barricades in minority precincts.
28:
2005
British and Irish Lions Shirt Revealed
At a launch in London yesterday, global sportswear giant adidas unveiled the official shirt of the British and Irish Lions squad to tour New Zealand in June and July 2005.
Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced that Hon Margaret Wilson was taking on the Building Issues portfolio. She will be responsible for the new Department of Building and Housing, which will be established on Monday.
30:
Wayne
Madsen: A Bush Pre-Election Strike On
Iran?
According to White House and Washington Beltway insiders, the Bush administration, worried that it could lose the presidential election to Senator John F. Kerry, has initiated plans to launch a military strike on Iran's top Islamic leadership, its ...
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