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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Chuckman
Cartoon: John Kerry, Bush Lite
Cartoon by John Chuckman
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:
NGOs
Claim Israeli Agent Barkan In North
Korea
Zev Barkan the suspected Israeli Mossad agent on the run from New Zealand Police has been sighted in North Korea, according to an Asian-based NGO closely linked to New Zealand intelligence networks.
4:
Don
Should Have Walked In Rain To Rugby
Rt Hon Winston Peters says unlike Don Brash he walked in the rain to the rugby test between the All Blacks and Australia in Wellington like thousands of other people and at no stage did he seek a ride in a motorcade.
5:
President
Lagos, Chile’s Blair, Visits
Washington
• Chilean President Ricardo Lagos’ foreign and domestic policy is rapidly gaining his country a reputation as Washington’s lap dog.
6:
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.
7:
Devil
will be in the detail of Labour
U-turn
National Party Treaty of Waitangi and Constitutional Issues spokesman Wayne Mapp is warning Maori and non-Maori alike that the devil will be in the detail of Labour's apparent U-turn on time limits for historical Treaty of Waitangi claims.
8:
UN
Team To Check Remaining Iraqi Nuclear
Materials
The United Nations atomic watchdog agency is planning to inspect remaining nuclear materials in Iraq this month to ensure that they conform to the country’s safeguard obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Prime Minister Helen Clark's statement that she would rather be at home reading a book than attending a rugby test is "disappointing but not surprising," according to the National Party spokesman on Sport, Murray McCully.
10:
David
Irving and freedom of speech
The Waikato Jewish Association wants the government to prevent infamous Holocaust-denier David Irving from visiting New Zealand . This is both wrong and stupid. Irving should be treated the same as any other potential visitor; if the fact that he has previously ...
11:
SARFU
Sends Springbok Great To Kiwi Coaching
Cours
Former Springbok wing Chester Williams caught up with All Black adversary Jeff Wilson at Murray Mexted's International Rugby Academy of New Zealand ahead of the Tri Nations clash this weekend.
12:
Ideas
considered to streamline treaty
settlements
Proposals are being considered to streamline Treaty of Waitangi historic settlements, Treaty Negotiations Minister Margaret Wilson says.
13:
Spatial
Deception Used to Brainwash Israelis
Early one morning about a month ago I was awakened from a sound sleep by the phone ringing. Quite groggy, I listened to the voice of a stranger on the other end who identified herself and then insisted that I take down her address and phone number.
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:
Migration
Trend Reveals Skills Exodus
Migration statistics released today paint a worsening picture of skilled New Zealanders leaving the country permanently, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Immigration Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today.
16:
Pesticide
contamination endemic in food
supply
The latest Total Diet Survey reveals that pesticide contamination is endemic in our food supply, despite the efforts by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority to convince us otherwise, Green MP Sue Kedgley said today.
17:
US
Congress Concerned Over Timor-Australia
Dispute
Members of Congress Stress Concern Over East Timor-Australia Boundary Dispute During Australia Free Trade Debate
18:
What
Use Is The Maori Caucus?
It is ironic that the only Parliamentary Party to have a Maori Caucus is doing less than any other to help ensure that Maori children have a chance of a decent future, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Social welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman observed ...
19:
Public
Address 20/07/04 - Glass Houses
I finally got around to downloading and watching watching Fahrenheit 9/11 over the weekend. I had planned to take up the offer of a ticket for tonight's New Zealand cinematic premiere, but I can't go...
20:
Dunne:
Whinging ideologues add nothing of
value
United Future leader Peter Dunne today slammed the "pontificating, do-nothing arrogance" of the Local Government Forum over its opposition to United Future's campaign to remove GST from rates.
21:
Steve
Weissman: Americans, The Missionary
Position
Left, right, or center, Americans like to believe we have a mission, that ''the shining city on a hill'' - as Ronald Reagan quoted our Pilgrim Fathers - stands as a universal beacon to the world.
22:
Fonterra
Tries To Do New Friends In Chile
A rift between an offshore Fonterra controlled enterprise and a Chilean diary producer's body is drawing to a head - the clash is hampering not only this company's progress but also any chance of a Chile/New Zealand free trade agreement.
23:
PM
acknowledges climate change - NZ's
strategy?
Wednesday July 21, 2004: Greenpeace today welcomed Prime Minister Helen Clark’s comments yesterday that climate change is here to stay (1) and urges the Government to put its concerns into real action.
24:
Bangladesh
floods: NZ-funded projects
danger
Floodwaters have entered the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital city, Dhaka, as well as the country's central districts, and at least five million people have been affected, with floods covering half the country.
25:
Memoriam
Toma Sik 1939-2004 + autobiographic
notes
Today we heard that Toma Sik is dead - overrun by a tractor during a nightly walk home through the fields to his newly-bought old farm somewhere in a forgotten part of Hungary which should have fulfilled his dream of establishing a commune of organic-humanist ...
26:
Labour's
Fatherless Generation
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today demanded that the Government front up and admit that it is incapable of making decisions at the hard end of welfare, after new information showed that more children than ...
27:
Paid
Parental Leave: Promoting State
Dependence
Government plans to expand its paid parental leave scheme will further promote state dependency and stifle self reliance and innovation, says Charlie Pedersen, Vice President of Federated Farmers of New Zealand (Inc).
28:
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 ...
29:
Treaty
Time Limits - Let's Look Forward, Not
Back
ACT New Zealand Leader Rodney Hide today said it was good news that the Government was considering time limits for lodging historical Treaty claims and tighter targets for settling claims.
30:
The
Good Boy Scout - Avnery on
Sharon-Chirac
[In the light of recent events Uri Avnery wrote a Part Two to last week's column "Marie and the Ghosts" (the links are to Part One)]
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