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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Complete
US Exit Poll Data Confirms Net
Suspicions
Scoop.co.nz is delighted to be able today to publish a full set of 4pm exit poll data for the first time on the Internet since the US election. The data emerged this evening NZT in a post on the Democratic Underground website under the forum name ...
2:
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.
3:
Ohio
Election Fraud Uproar Blasting To New
Level
The bitter battle over the stolen November 2 election in Ohio has turned into a rapidly escalating all-out multi-front war with the outcome of the real presidential vote count increasingly in doubt.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Questions
& Answers for Oral Answer 7 December
'04
1. Security—New Zealand Law 2. Adoption—Same-sex Couples 3. Taxation—Reduction 4. Aged-care and Disability Services—Funding 5. Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology—Enrolment Evaluation 6. Modern Apprenticeships—Implementation
5:
Powell:
Remarks at the Kennedy Center
Honors
SECRETARY POWELL: Good evening. Thank you very much. Well, good evening to you, Ladies and Gentlemen. Alma and I are pleased to welcome you to the State Department. This is an event we look forward to every year. And this year we especially welcome ...
6:
Clandestine
Op. Paid For "Vote Switching"
Software
The manipulation of computer voting machines in the recent presidential election and the funding of programmers who were involved in the operation are tied to an intricate web of shady off-shore financial trusts and companies, shady espionage ...
7:
Next
American States Org Leader Open
• A below-the-surface battle has broken out in the race to be the next Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS) after previously-elected Miguel Angel Rodríguez stunned the regional organization by resigning from his post on October ...
8:
Marjorie
Cohn: Chickens Come Home to Roost
Twenty-four days after the September 11 attacks, I wrote in an article called Hoist on Our Own Petard: ''The hatred that fueled 19 people to blow themselves up and take thousands with them has its genesis in a history of the United States government’s ...
9:
Why
the UN Matters to US Foreign
Policy
Kim R. Holmes, Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs Remarks before the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs World Trade Center, Baltimore, Maryland December 6, 2004
10:
Public
Address 08/12/04 - Sharp
I wouldn't want them to get big-headed, but DogBitingMen does seem to reach places that other blogs don't. Item: Neil Falloon's thinkpiece on Stephen Franks, based on what I am assured is a genuine conversation, comes up with a brilliant, and probably ...
11:
Michael
Hammerschlag: Could America Go
Bad?
After the total defeat of the Democratic ticket by a ruthless demagogic President, and the ascension of extremist elements in the Congress, Executive, and Supreme Court; one must question how long America will retain its tattered moral authority in the ...
12:
STORY
OF THE WEEK: Civil Unions Final Stages
(2)
STORY OF THE WEEK: Week Ending December 10th 2004 Civil Unions Bill Reaches Final Stages (Part 2)
13:
Anderton
should resign over report
National Party Deputy Leader Gerry Brownlee is calling for Economic Development Minister Jim Anderton's head after a damning report on the Trade and Enterprise business grants scheme.
14:
Gathering
Marks Ahmed Zaoui’s 44th
Birthday
Two days before the New Zealand Supreme Court is scheduled to consider a bail application to release refugee Ahmed Zaoui from prison, approximately 100 people gathered at the St Columba Centre in Auckland to mark the Algerian MP’s birthday.
15:
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.
16:
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 ...
17:
The
Dishonest Homosexual Agenda
First politicians were told that all homosexuals wanted were that we celebrate diversity: sexual diversity – “GAY” SEX. So to appease them they passed the Homosexual Law Reform Act decriminalising homosexual acts (sodomy) between men. Such acts, clandestinely ...
18:
Jerusalem
Women Promote Peace on U.S.
Tour
In a promotion-for-peace tour titled, “Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Vision,” the speakers talked about their life experiences with occupation, not prevalent in U.S. mainstream media. The UN-registered organization, Partners for Peace, sponsors ...
Human rights and New Zealand's reputation as a fair and inclusive society, without a culture of discrimination, bigotry and prejudice, is under threat from the tone of debate that is now coming from some opponents of the Civil Union Bill, the New ...
20:
Protest
Civil Union Bill: A Parasitic
Pantomime
Marriage, an institution recognised by the state and predating the state, can only by definition involve a relationship between opposite sex partners – one man and one woman – who under the marriage (social) contract become husband and wife. Any ...
21:
Major
Funding Needed To Avert China Aids
Epidemic
China has made an “an impressive turnaround” over the past year in its response to its growing HIV/AIDS problem and fighting tuberculosis, but investment must continue to grow if a major epidemic is to be averted, the head of a United Nations-backed ...
22:
Civil
unions and personal feelings
We notice that some MPs debating the civil union bill in parliament are voting on the basis of their personal feelings about family members. NZ First MP Brian Donnelly referred to his gay brother, saying that his family accepted his brother in a "non-negotiable ...
23:
Greg
Palast: The View From My Black
Helicopter
I'd just stepped out of my black helicopter to read that one of my favorite journalists, David Corn, had attacked my analysis of the vote in Ohio as the stuff of "grassy knoll conspiracy theorists." ( "A Stolen Election," The Nation, November 9 )
24:
PM's
Presser: Civil Unions And Mr Zaoui's
Bail
In this edition: - Civil Unions Spark Religious Ructions - Pubs And Clubs About To Become Smokefree - Will Ahmed Zaoui Get Bail After Two Years Penal Detention? - The Douglas White Report Regarding John Tamihere
25:
Evelyn
Pringle: Bush + Republicans + Amway =
Fraud
Former Amway insider, Eric Scheibeler, has written a must read new book called ''Merchants Of Deception''. This one time member of the Amway motivational cult has turned whistleblower and FBI witness and boy does he have some tales to tell.
26:
UN
MiddleEast Observer Force Extention
Recommended
Since the Middle East “is very tense and likely to remain so,” United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today recommended extending the mandate of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) between Israel and Syria until the end of next June and called on UN ...
27:
Broad
Christian Support for Civil
Unions
A media release today from twenty-one church leaders is not representative of Christian views. While some of those who have signed may represent their churches’ views, others are simply making a personal statement. Even within churches that have made denominational ...
28:
Get
tough with defiant yobbo
Alexander: 'Take his car, keep his fine and throw his ass in jail' The justice system now has the chance to get it right after being too soft on the Rotorua teen who recently had $43,000 worth of fines commuted to 300 hours of community service and then failed ...
29:
Sodomy,
School Boys and Civil Unions
“Gay” sex (sodomy) with school boys by adults will be sanctioned by the Civil Union Bill if it is passed into law on Thursday. Soon those who dare criticise this abhorrent, unnatural and immoral lifestyle will be the subject of “hate speech” legislation ...
30:
Myanmar
Urged To Release Political
Prisoners
Amnesty International today issued a document detailing hundreds of the more than 1,350 political prisoners in Myanmar. It provides details of individuals imprisoned solely for their peaceful exercise of the rights to freedom of association, expression ...
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