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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Bald-Faced
Lies About Black Box Voting
Machines
Diebold voting machines are used in 37 states. The entire state of Ohio is considering dumping its old system to buy Diebold. Georgia already did. The Diebold files, supposedly secret voting machine files left on an unprotected web site for nearly six years ...
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:
47
State Exit Poll Analysis Confirms Swing
Anomaly
" In the 12 critical states (CO,FL,MI,MN,NE,NV,NH,NM,OH,PA,WI,IA) the average discrepancy was a 2.5% red shift (= total movement of 5.0%), nearly twice that in the safe states. " - Jonathan SimonAdvertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
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.
5:
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 ...
6:
Questions
& Answers for Oral Answer 16 Nov.
2004
1. Employment—Labour Market 2. Health, Minister—Confidence 3. Foreshore and Seabed Bill—Policy Development 4. Early Childhood Education—Free Education Policy 5. Communications Centres, Police—Pîhâ Incident 6. Prime Minister—Travel and Police Escorts 7. Crime—Police ...
7:
Musicians
Band Together for Ahmed Zaoui
Ahmed Zaoui may not be able to hear the music from his cell in Mt Eden Remand Prison, but that won't stop some of Auckland's best-known artists from performing a fundraising concert in his honour, at the Kings Arms, on Sunday 21 November.
8:
Reflections
on President Arafat Under
Occupation
1. Not in his name: Palestinian Jew speaks out against `apartheid state' 2. The vitality of the source - eyewitness report from the funeral By Uri Avnery 3. A letter from Palestine to my fellow Americans Ryan Borgen writing from Ramallah, occupied West ...
9:
Amb.
OAS - World Affairs Council of San
Antonio
Ambassador John F. Maisto, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States Remarks to the World Affairs Council of San Antonio San Antonio, TX November 5, 2004
10:
Gull
Petroleum Drop Fuel Prices
As part of Gull Petroleum’s ongoing commitment to the consumers Gull is pleased to announce a 2 cent drop in fuel prices
11:
Daniel
Hopsicker: The Big Fix 2004 (Part
1)
An investigation into the surprisingly-sordid history of America’s “election services industry” has revealed that executives and owners of the two largest companies, E S & S and Sequoia Pacific, have been convicted of bribery and suborning public officials ...
12:
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 ...
13:
Public
Address 17/11/04 - Have A Go
I can't help but think that the National Party's refusal to participate in the government's constitutional review indicates a fatal lack of confidence. Even if everything Don Brash said about the review yesterday is true - that it is a political move aimed ...
14:
Explaining
the 2004 Election Disaster To
Europeans
Thank you for your long, handwritten letter (don't see many of those these days). Yes, I know that our election and our vote-counting process do not make sense to you citizens of Europe. But I'll try to answer your questions as best as I can -- ...
15:
US
Greens: Recount in Ohio a Sure Thing
On Thursday, David Cobb, the Green Party’s 2004 presidential candidate, announced his intention to seek a recount of the vote in Ohio. Since the required fee for a statewide recount is $113,600, the only question was whether that money could be ...
16:
Faun
Otter: Vote Fraud - Exit Polls Vs
Actuals
Within parts of the U.S. progressive community there is already widespread concern that electronic voting fraud may provide an explanation for the astonishing 8 million vote gain made by George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential U.S. election.
17:
Electricity
market summary - 14 Nov
2004
Wholesale electricity market summary for the week ending 14 November 2004
18:
Maori
Party Appalled At Foreshore And Seabed
Fiasc
‘Dr Cullen’s belief that the Foreshore and Seabed Bill will result in a ‘swing of Maori support back to Labour’ is nothing more than a delusion’ said Mrs Turia today after the second reading of the Foreshore and Seabed Bill.
19:
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 ...
20:
Reserve
Bank Says External Debt Needs
Stabilising
Reserve Bank Deputy Governor Adrian Orr is warning that the rise in New Zealand's external debt in recent years stresses the need for policies to promote the soundness of the financial sector. That's come in a speech in Napier to the New Zealand Society ...
21:
Don
Brash Writes - No. 44, 17 November
2004
An uncritical media has been suckered into accepting a line of Government spin which suggests that National has not released any policy, or is holding everything back until the election. Candidates and MPs are regularly challenged about this.
22:
New
organisation to develop New Zealand’s
leaders
Concern among top New Zealand business and community leaders about the country’s lack of focus on and value of leadership has seen the launch today of Leadership New Zealand, a new organisation set to foster and develop our emerging leaders.
23:
The
Dawn of a Peoples Republic of New
Zealand
Plans are afoot to structure a Peoples Republic Party which would seek a mandate from the electorate to cut ties with the monarchy. The party has applied to the Electoral Commission to register as a political party.
24:
Ohio
Election Officials Held Back Voting
Machines
One telling piece of evidence was entered into the record at the Saturday, November 13 public hearing on election irregularities and voter suppression held by nonpartisan voter rights organizations.
25:
Labour
spin starts to unravel on seabed
“The Labour Party spin, which has been so warmly embraced by some sections of the media, is beginning to unravel around the foreshore and seabed law,” says National Party Maori Affairs spokesman Gerry Brownlee.
26:
Turia
Speech Foreshore and Seabed Bill 2nd
Reading
Tariana Turia, Co-leader, Maori Party Second Reading, Foreshore and Seabed Bill, 16 November 2004
27:
Fallujah
Eyewitness Account: Tragedy Engulfs
City
US and Iraqi forces are locked in desperate street battles against insurgents in the Iraqi city of Falluja. The BBC News website spoke by phone to Fadhil Badrani, a journalist in Falluja who reports for the BBC World Service in Arabic.
28:
Rule
By Theft – Reconstructing The Crime
Massive irregularities in the November 2 presidential vote count “will probably lead to congressional hearings in the Committee on the Judiciary,” predicts Rep. John Conyers, the committee’s ranking Democrat and longest sitting member of the Congressional ...
29:
Mark
Crispin Miller: Let’s Get
Real
Bush & company’s theft of the election was a crime so obvious that it requires more effort to deny than to affirm. This rip-off was as flagrant as the L.A. cops’ assault on Rodney King, Kerry’s stellar soldiering in Vietnam, or Bush’s lousy record in ...
30:
Michael
Savage would be spinning in his
grave
Green Party Co-leader Rod Donald is calling on the Prime Minister to observe her own party's founding principles before she signs up to free trade agreements with China and Thailand at this weekend's APEC meeting in Chile.
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