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Scoop: Weekend Ratings

Published: Mon 17 Dec 2001 09:31 AM
The weekend's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
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1: Sludge Report #122: Why The Centre May Yet Hold
In This Edition: Why The Centre May Yet Hold - Afghanistani Peace Means Iraq Is About To Get A Pasting - Peace Is Infectious - Meanwhile... Sharon Is Not To Be Left Behind - Those Who Live By The Sword…
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0112/S00086.htm
2: No Arms Race... It's Arms Dominance
By March 2002, the United States Bush administration will be ready to begin construction of silos and a testing command centre for a futuristic and expensive U.S. anti-missile defence shield near Fairbanks in Alaska. This is US Superpower Nuclear Dominance.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0112/S00088.htm
3: Scoop Satire: Moneychangers Chased from NZRFUKU
An excerpt from the Book of Mate: Ch 5, verses 6-16.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0112/S00085.htm
4: The New Write 13/12/2001
"The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces." -Maureen Murphy
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0112/S00074.htm
5: Feedback: Stirring Up A Skyhawk’s Nest
In this edition: Ross Ewing Feeds Back To Mike Campbell’s Feedback Re Axing The Skyhawks - Mike Campbell’s Comments Timely But Ill-informed - Missiles on the RNZAF's Orions
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0112/S00082.htm
6: The Militant Jewish Face of Terrorism In The US
Two Jewish members of the Jewish Defense League were arrested in Los Angeles early Wednesday in connection with an alleged plot to bomb Arab-American and Islamic institutions in Culver City, California.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0112/S00078.htm
7: US Security Council Veto Condemns More To Death
The United States today vetoed a Security Council resolution condemning "acts of terror" against Israelis and Palestinians - the veto prevents the United Nations from attempting to stop deaths in the Middle East through diplomatic means.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0112/S00089.htm
8: Image: Greenpeace Speaks Directly To Whaling Crew
Auckland/Southern Oceans - 14th December 2001: Greenpeace today announced it’s presence in Antarctica to protest whaling. In the early hours of this morning a Japanese Greenpeace campaigner on board the MV Arctic Sunrise (1), spoke directly to the crew of the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0112/S00133.htm
9: PeopleSoft 8 CRM Sets New Industry Standard
Auckland, Friday 7th December 2001 – At launch events in Auckland and Wellington, PeopleSoft Inc. (Nasdaq: PSFT) has demonstrated the industry’s first pure internet Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, PeopleSoft 8 CRM.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/SC0112/S00006.htm
10: Southland Schools Shafted By Policy Change
Rural Southland schools are being hammered by a change in Government education policy, according to National leader and Clutha-Southland MP Bill English.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0112/S00277.htm
11: Withdrawal From ABM Treaty A Backward Step
The United States’ announcement today of its withdrawal from the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty, signed between the US and the USSR in 1972, is disappointing, Disarmament and Arms Control Minister Matt Robson said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0112/S00278.htm
12: PC's Opinion: Hell's Half-Acre?
This opinion piece is the ninth in a new series of "PC's Weekly Opinion" - a pithy, heavily spiced editorial from Peter Cresswell that can be delivered to your in-box once a week. If you like what you read then feel free to forward it to ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0112/S00074.htm
13: Scoop Archive: Lords Of The Rings Six Minutes @ ShoWEST
Peter Jackson's latest movie in progress The Lord Of The Rings was recently given a sneak preview at the 'ShoWEST' Trade Fair in Paris.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/7b/b7/200007011532.3f5ce8e5.html
14: Greenpeace Rejects Terrorism Label
Amsterdam, 14 th December 2001- Following Greenpeace’s first encounter with the Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctica, the Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) – a private institute that catches whales under a license from the Fisheries Agency ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0112/S00134.htm
15: Flatulence Tax Gone With The Wind - Greens
The Green Party said today it would not support any Government moves to introduce a "flatulence tax" on farm animals as a way of meeting Kyoto Protocol targets.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0112/S00269.htm
16: Scoop Images: Arwen Catches A Few Digital Snaps
Lord of the Rings' Princess Arwen (Liv Tyler) is pictured with what looks a lot like a digital camera. Source - Anonymous. See also... Ringswatch: Our Liv Freaks Out In Battle - Scoop Images: Wellywood's Favourite Starlet - Scoop Images: Liv Meets ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0008/S00139.htm
17: HARD NEWS 14/12/01 - See You Next Week
Christmas deadlines being what they are, I haven't managed to fit in a bulletin this week. But I will be back next week to sign off for 2001. See y'all then.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0112/S00084.htm
18: Usama Bin Laden Discussing September 11 Attacks
The Defense Department has released a videotape of Al Qaida leader Usama bin Laden discussing the September 11 terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon during a courtesy visit with an unidentified Shaykh that is believed ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0112/S00127.htm
19: USA Tender For Anti-Terrorist Inventions
The United States' fight against terrorism involves looking for high-tech solutions to combat terrorism and the US Government (Under Secretary of Defence for Acquisition Technology and Logistics) has issued an open tender to technology companies around ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/SC0112/S00018.htm
20: BBC Transcript Of Osama Bin Laden Statement
Transcript Of Message From Shaykh Usaamah Ibn Laadin (Osama bin Laden) broadcast November 3rd by Al-Jazeera satellite television channel
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0111/S00049.htm
21: Streets Of London: Show Me The Art
There’s a story that a friend of Sunday’s 2001 Turner Prize winner, artist Martin Creed, visited London’s Tate Britain art galleries three times and couldn’t find Creed’s celebrated work. Hardly surprising if he wasn’t aware that The Lights Going ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0112/S00083.htm
22: Feedback: Skyhawks Were An Air Combat Arm??
Ross Ewing's contradictory bleating about the retirement of the fast strike and training arm of the air force is as contradictory as it is imaginative.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0112/S00077.htm
23: Development Of 'Human-Like' Computer Vision
AUCKLAND, December 12, 2001 - Intel Corporation researchers have released at no cost software that allows developers to build computers that can view thee world the way people do - in stereo.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/SC0112/S00016.htm
24: Howard's End: Witnesses Refute Flight 587 Fallacy
Thirteen witnesses are now prepared to say that when Flight 587 out of JFK in New York crashed on November 12 killing all 265 on board, the tail did not mysteriously fall off. Truth will out! Maree Howard writes.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0112/S00027.htm
25: Greenpeace labeled “eco-terrorists”
Dr. Seiji Ohsumi, Director General of the Institute of Cetacean Research in Tokyo today referred to Greenpeace as an “eco-terrorist organization” and issued a public statement following the sighting of the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise in the Antarctic ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0112/S00132.htm
26: Links: Le Figaro Reports CIA, bin Laden Contacts
The Front-Page lead story in French Newspaper Le Figaro on Wednesday, October 31, 2001 is that Osama bin Laden was in an American Hospital in Dubai, in July, and had contacts with the CIA. The story, also featured on Radio France Internationale and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0111/S00018.htm
27: 'Natural Born Killers' Bred In NZ For First Time
New Zealand's most ferocious predators, the stoat, has been bred in captivity for the first time in the Southern Hemisphere. Scientists say this will help them find ways to stop stoats breeding as prolifically in the wild.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/SC0112/S00017.htm
28: Upton-on-line - Diaspora Edition
Upton-on-line notes french reaction to the slaying of Sir Peter Blake, gives a glimpse of how one young diasporan, Hamish Coop, thinks about New Zealand from afar and describes the sorry tale of an aborted submarine expedition of Lake Taupo by the Institute ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0112/S00073.htm
29: Scoop Images: Helms Deep Press Conference (1)
The following pictures show film director Peter Jackson with members of the cast and crew of the Lord of the Rings trilogy of films, the filming of which is now drawing to a close in the Wellington region.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0011/S00121.htm
30: U.S.-EU Relations
Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs Remarks to Transatlantic Policy Network Washington, DC November 30, 2001
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0112/S00126.htm
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