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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:
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]
3:
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: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:
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.
7:
Sludge
Report #163: Where Is George?
Boy do we have one hell of a job for the thememoryhole.org/ . If the following hypothesis is correct then the world wide weirdness we call internet propaganda and media just got a whole order more complicated.
8:
Zaoui
Case: Seeking Asylum From Inside A
Cell
Scoop Investigation: NZ’s reputation as a fair and egalitarian society erodes as revelations emerge of ongoing prison abuse of refugee Ahmed Zaoui. Here for the first time Scoop publishes excerpts of Ahmed Zaoui’s account of being behind bars...
9:
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.
10:
Details
Emerge About Zaoui Assault Cover-Up
Last week the Crown argued for NZ's most famous detained refugee, Ahmed Zaoui, to continue a term of indeterminate detention in a penal institution. They claimed essentially that they were looking after him well.
11:
Locust
Swarms Begin Invading West
Africa
The first desert locust swarms have moved into several West African countries, posing a threat to crop production in a broad swath of land stretching from the Atlantic coast in Mauritania to Chad, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture ...
12:
Scoop
Link: SS Oriana has NOT Sunk
A few days ago, Xinhua Chinese News Agency reported that SS Oriana had sunk. ssMaritime reported on 18 June that Oriana had been damaged during a severe storm on 17 June, which resulted in a 2.2 meter gash in her bow causing her lower decks to flood, thus ...
13:
Public
Address: Houston, We Have A Problem
...
I was with the kids at Incredible Science on Monday morning, thus missing Linda Clark's interview with National leader Don Brash about his party's new law and order pitch, but someone has kindly sent me a transcript...
14:
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
15:
EU-Mercosur
Free Trade: U.S., a Third Wheel?
• In trade talks that have gestated for almost a decade, the EU and Mercosur have each made serious concessions in order to reach a compromise.
16:
Who's
Talking Nonsense, Mr
Copeland?
"United Future's proposal to apply a zero rate of GST to rates is bad public policy and anti-business, despite United Future's claims to the contrary", Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today.
17:
US
Transferring Nuclear Material Out Of
Iraq
Relaying information received from Washington, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency has told the Security Council that the United States transferred nuclear material out of Iraq last month.
18:
Global
Peace And Justice Auckland Newsletter
#64
Global Peace and Justice Auckland's News: Submission On Foreshore And Seabed Deadline July 12 - Don't Buy Fahrenheit 9/11 Tickets Until You've Read This!- Films On Mideast And War Of Terror – Cuba Tour - What's On In Auckland – Best News On The Web...
19:
Closing
Or Widening The Gaps?
New Zealand First Maori affairs spokesperson Pita Paraone says the Government’s “Closing the Gaps” strategy has failed to produce any real benefits or advancement for disadvantaged Maori and Pacific Islanders.
20:
China:
Uighurs "anti-terror" torture and
execution
China is using the "war on terror" to justify its longstanding repression of the rights of the Uighur community, according to a new report by Amnesty International. Many Uighurs flee to neighbouring countries, but growing numbers are being forcibly ...
21:
New
Zealand Is Only 50% Pure
The recent report by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research on 229 lowland waterways, which found they were unsafe to swim in just confirmed the validity of Fish & Game’s “Dirty Dairying Campaign” the organisation said today.
22:
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.
23:
Kidd
Millennium Cartoon: Selective
Editing
Cartoon by kiddmillennium.com…
24:
Scoop
Images: Magic Mountain Expecting A Magic
Day
Turoa Tuesday. Last night it snowed again… Today the perfect forecast…. & watch this space for more above the clouds action from Whakapapa., Ruapehu. – The Scoop Team
25:
Anger
over capacity-building lolly
scramble
National Party Social Services spokeswoman Katherine Rich says taxpayers should be angered by the incompetence which appears to surround the Community Employment Group's 'capacity-building lolly scramble'.
26:
Turning
up the volume on music exports
Moves to help New Zealand musicians achieve more export success, have been welcomed by Economic Development Minister, Jim Anderton and Associate Arts Culture and Heritage Minister Judith Tizard today, speaking at the launch of the Music Industry Export ...
27:
All
the DVD you can eat from fatso.co.nz™
Fed up with late fees? Don’t want to go out in the cold to drive to your local video store, or your local video store is miles away and doesn’t cater for your tastes?
28:
Anderton
Speech: Launch of Creating
Heat
Jim Anderton Speech: Launch of Creating Heat – Tumata Kia Whita! -- The Report of the Music Industry Export Development Group
29:
Acheh:
Johan Tortured To Death While
Detained
Early this morning at 1.00 am Johan was found death in his cell with heavy torture marks all over his body. Inna Lillahi Wa Inna Ilaihi Raajiun (From Allah we came and to Allah we return).
30:
Inside
A U.S. Election Vote Counting
Program
Publication of this story marks a watershed in American political history. It is offered freely for publication in full or part on any and all internet forums, blogs and noticeboards. All other media are also encouraged to utilise material. Readers ...
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