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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:
Scoop
Oddity: US Lap Top Bag Laundry
Instructions
In the photo you will see a label from a lap top bag, which is made by a small American company. The label is in French. The translation is below:
3:
Mapping
the Real Deal : Where Would Jesus
Bank?
I think of Jesus as a real deal, straight up kind of guy who always cared deeply about his fellow man. That's why we often ask “What would Jesus do?” when looking for the action of highest integrity. [1]Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
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 ...
5:
A
Chance To Meet Mary-Kate And Ashley In
LA
The ZM radio network in association with the mary-kateandashley brand is searching for New Zealand's biggest Mary-Kate and Ashley fan! The winner and two companions will get to meet the most famous teenagers on the planet in their home city, Los ...
6:
Scientology
Exhibition Dangerous – says
Group
The public should be warned about a controversial anti-psychiatry exhibition exhorting people to stop taking their medication says co-chairperson John Tovey of Central Potential – Te Rito Maia, a regional network of mental health service users.
7:
Can
Individual Farmer's Benefit From Wind
Power?
"A recent survey in New Zealand showing that 82 percent of respondents approve of wind power as a solution for our energy needs is good news for future electricity generation in this country" the Convenor of the Sustainable Energy Forum, John Blakeley, ...
8:
Public
Address 06/06/04 - Gossip, Rumour And
Fact
Whatever the merits of Canwest's New Zealand IPO, it might not be wise to count its acquisition of MTV programming for C4 among them: not when MTV itself may be with us as soon as September...
9:
New
Ministerial Appointments
Prime Minister Helen Clark today appointed Mahara Okeroa as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary, and announced new responsibilities for John Tamihere, Dover Samuels, Harry Duynhoven, and Mita Ririnui.
10:
PM's
Presser: Brash & Law'n'Order, Spies &
Cabinet
In This Edition: National Leader Don Brash's Law and Order speech Toughening Up Sentences Already DNA Testing Costings Private Prisons Parole New Roles for Labour's Maori Caucus Members Cultural Diplomacy Conviction Of Israeli's For Passport Fraud/Theft
11:
New
High Court Judge
appointed
Attorney-General Margaret Wilson today announced the appointment of Christopher John Allan as a Judge of the High Court.
12:
New
Zealand 'Big Brother' Awards
New Zealand’s first “Big Brother Awards” were announced at an awards ceremony at Auckland Art Gallery this evening. The awards, for outstanding contributions to the abuse of privacy in New Zealand, are modelled on Big Brother Awards held annually ...
13:
“Gay
Express” Rag Resorts To Bully Tactics
“The latest Express Magazine (30 June-12 July), the major organ for the homosexual, lesbian and transgender communities, resorts to desperate bully tactics in its efforts to denigrate MPs who voted against sending the Civil Union Bill to the Justice & ...
14:
Empire-Speak
- A Primer In Practical
Translation
Few people get to read US imperial declarations in the original. Access to official imperial texts is mostly via the interpretations and translations offered in newspapers, magazines and radio or TV.
15:
The
Letter
THE CRIME ISSUE In NZ, crime is an issue because the chances of you being a victim of crime are now higher than in America. This country has gone from being one of the world's safest places to live to being one of the Western world's most dangerous. ...
16:
"The
Revolution Will Not Be
Televised"
The Venezuelan elite has already tried to stage several coups against the government of President Chavez with US support. The defeat of the April 2002 coup was captured in gripping detail by a group of Irish film makers. "The revolution will not be televised" ...
17:
Minister
disregards parents of 20,000
A move by Trevor Mallard to ban parents from moves to restructure New Zealand's biggest school is another example of Labour's anti-parent policies, says National's Education spokesman, Bill English.
18:
The
Sergeant Who Wants To Come In From The Cold
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- An American sergeant who slipped into North Korea in 1965 may soon emerge from his time-warp existence, if he can dodge a U.S. court martial for allegedly deserting the army and defecting to the communist regime.
19:
Young
Labou: Maxim Lose it!
"One of the often-used examples of discrimination is the claimed inability of same-sex couples to be buried in the same plot next to their partner. No complaints have been received the HRC on this issue."
20:
Brace
yourself for another Peters hate
campaign
Progressive deputy leader Matt Robson accuses NZ First of softening up New Zealanders for another Winston Peters hate campaign against migrants.
21:
Dick
Frizzell designs a new New Zealand
flag
Leading New Zealand artist and designer Dick Frizzell has designed a new New Zealand flag.
22:
Zaoui’s
Prison Mistreatment Began At
Paremoremo
Mistreatment by prison gaurds against Algerian asylum seeker Ahmed Zaoui first occurred while he was held at Paremoremo's notorious D-Block. Scoop investigations are unearthing disturbing facts on how prison officers allegedly deprived Zaoui of basic human rights.
23:
Scoop
Archive: 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.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/a4/6e/200310011051.a758ad73.html
24:
Tamihere
welcomes challenge of new
department
“Homes aren’t just another product that people purchase. Owning your own home is something most kiwis aspire to and for most of us the family home is the most significant purchase we ever make,” says John Tamihere.
25:
William
Marina: The American Revolution and
Iraq
As Americans mark the 228th anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence this Fourth of July, two parallels between our Revolution and today’s insurgency in Iraq come to mind.
26:
Response
to Attack on Maxim
Mr Michael Wood, president of Young Labour, has demonstrated his incompetence in his puerile attack on the Maxim Institute. He asks: "How are dead people supposed to send complaints to the Human Rights Commission?"
27:
Unholy
Coupling: Maxim and SPCS
In their hilarious response to Young Labour's identification of a ludicrous mistake in Maxim's recent bulletin (which argued that a lack of complaints to the Human Rights Commission meant that the law contained no discrimination that mattered), the "Society ...
28:
Dave
Stratman: Beware the Liberal War on
Terror
Many people who oppose the war in Iraq are living under a dangerous illusion: that the war is the work of a cabal of fundamentalist Christians and Jewish neo-conservatives who have hijacked the government for their own purposes–that the war, in other words, ...
29:
Palestine
Rights Campaign Applauds NZ Aid
Package
The Palestine Human Rights Campaign congratulates the Government on the recent news that $800,000 will be provided for UNRWA to help in the current crisis in Palestine.
30:
Graduates
ideal to fill skilled migrant
shortfall
If the Minister of Immigration is serious about increasing numbers of skilled migrants he will make well-qualified international graduates of New Zealand universities a priority, says National's Immigration spokesman, Wayne Mapp.
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