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Published: Tue 23 Jul 2002 09:49 AM
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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: UQ Wire: Is Harken Energy Bush's Watergate?
Is Harken Energy Bush's Watergate? Introduction By Scoop and UQ Wire Editor Alastair Thompson
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00158.htm
2: Poll Watch: Herald DigiPoll Has Surprises Galore
A snap NZ-Herald DigiPoll conducted over the weekend shows remarkably different results than all previous Herald DigiPolls, and for that matter all previous polls full stop.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00154.htm
3: Coca-Cola and Latin American Death Squads
* Reminiscent of the slaughter of trade union leaders in the 1980s at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Guatemala City
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0207/S00087.htm
4: Poll Watch: Press Poll - Anderton Safe In Wigram
A UMR Research Ltd poll on Wigram commissioned by The Press shows Progressive Coalition leader Jim Anderton comfortably winning his Wigram seat.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00156.htm
5: Scoop Feedback: Thinking Clearly
In This Edition: The clear thinker – Keith Rankin – New Zealand’s Straw Mattress
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00157.htm
6: Election Result Now Wide Open
The latest political polls show that this Saturday's election is now wide open with a definite shift to the centre-right, says National's Deputy Leader Roger Sowry.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0207/S00571.htm
7: Big News: Making Your Vote Count
It’s the final week of the election campaign and things are getting interesting. Both National and Labour have lost a combined 13.3 percent of the vote since Helen Clark called the election, according to polls. The minor parties and the undecided ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00151.htm
8: Laila Harré in front in Waitakere
Alliance Leader Laila Harré has released poll results today which put her clearly ahead in the Waitakere electorate.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0207/S00570.htm
9: Poll Watch: Marae Digipoll - Maori Seats Labour's
According to a Marae Digipoll published over the weekend Labour is set to comfortably win all seven Maori seats, meanwhile five times as many Maori voters support Labour as support the next most supported party, the Greens.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00155.htm
10: Peter Dunne's Actions Speak Louder than His Words
Alliance MP Liz Gordon is questioning how United Future leader Peter Dunne can claim to promote 'common sense' and pro family policies when his actions in Parliament over the past 2 and a half years have demonstrated that United Future is just a right-wing ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0207/S00602.htm
11: Richard Prebble's Letter from Wellington 22/7/2002
ACT's tracking polls at the weekend put the party at 10 percent - that's 13 MPs. ACT's focus groups say Richard Prebble "won" the third party leaders' debate. Last week ACT's website received a record 500,000 hits.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0207/S00601.htm
12: Stateside: Aunt Minnie and the Mow-Ped
The United States Postal Service is conducting a trial use of that damned stupid epitome of everything that's wrong about research and development in this country - the Segway.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00152.htm
13: Black Widow At Large
Then the pesky Greens stood up for their GE principles and the Black Widow began to eat its mate.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0207/S00577.htm
14: 'Dangerous Peace Cult' On The March In Auckland
On Saturday, about 200 Falun Gong practitioners and supporters marched down Queen Street from Aotea Square, protesting the three-year anniversary of the Chinese Government's banning of their organisation, labelling it a 'Dangerous Cult'.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00148.htm
15: Scoop Image: Nuclear Flotilla Ready And Waiting
The Nuclear Free Pacific Flotilla pictured out in the Tasman sea yesterday. They expect to meet the MOX Nuclear Fuels shipment later in the day.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00149.htm
16: Gold Cartel Destroying Dev. Countries Economies
A Gold Cartel Aims at Destroying the Economies of Developing Countries Economic Factors or "International Conspiracy" Behind the Depressed Price of Gold? Translation from Al-Hayat , London, Friday, July 19, 2002 Al-Hayat is arguably the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00150.htm
17: Lindsay Perigo: 'I've Had it ... Up to Here!'
It's been a while. Sorry about that. Something came along called a general election. We haven't had it yet, but *I* have had it.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00144.htm
18: Image: Greenpeace - Clarkies Corn Cover up - GE
Auckland, 20 July: Giant “Clarkies Corn Cover up” cans greeted Helen Clark on her campaign trail in Auckland today. The giant “Clarkies” cans, and a can-to-Parliament campaign launched by Greenpeace aim to demand Government accountability over the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0207/S00204.htm
19: UQ Wire: DOJ Loses 9/11 Evidence Control Attempt
Synopsis: Judge Asserts Citizen Rights; Will Decide Discovery Issues, but DOJ Gains Seat Next to United Airlines Defense as Lines Now Drawn in First 9/11 Lawsuit. UAL and Justice Attorneys To Be Last Firewall Against Possible Mariani Access To Pre-9/11 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00097.htm
20: Image: Crackers Returns…. And Brings A Friend
Yesterday Afternoon students from all across the Canterbury region joined together to cry foul at the current state of the Tertiary education system. What the gathering students did not know was that late Thursday night a secret call to the Chicken hotline ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0207/S00206.htm
21: Website Features Virtual Election Calculator
The Electoral Commission has designed a special “Virtual Election Result Calculator” on the electoral website, www.elections.org.nz that allows people to calculate the number of seats each political party can gain in the coming election based on the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0207/S00211.htm
22: Montana New Zealand Book Awards - Winners
Prime Minister Helen Clark tonight announced the winners of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards at a gala function in Auckland.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0207/S00032.htm
23: HARD NEWS 19/07/02 - And the Rain Stopped ...
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... it's daft, really, the Worm - an electronic mood meter driven by 100 flakes who haven't worked out how they're voting yet. The usual swinging-voter lollies - crime, immigration and the Treaty - inevitably hit the hot button. Or, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00142.htm
24: DeWorm Law and Order- LEGALISE say Mild Greens
"If cannabis is decriminalised there'll be a lot (500,000) less criminals", say the Mild Greens. And a lot less criminality, prejudice, intolerance, mistrust, alienation and mutual community disrespect amongst New Zealanders.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0207/S00205.htm
25: UQ Wire: Investment Espionage And The White House
There is growing evidence that the FBI and other government intelligence entities are more closely linked to the documented accumulation of pre-9/11 insider trading profits than was originally thought.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00119.htm
26: Scoop: Top Scoops + Campaign 2002
Miraculous Exception In United Future’s Polling - UQ Wire: Bush's Watergate - Links & Commentary - Stateside: Look Who’s In My Junk Mail - Flotilla Intercepts Nuclear Cargo - DOC May Make Bid For Young Nicks Head
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00159.htm
27: Tube Talk: John Campbell’s Angry Inch
Like his immovable Ken Doll hairdo, John Campbell’s career seems to defy the laws of gravity. As chief anchor of TV3 News, he defies the norms of other newsreader sock puppets by actually attempting to do political commentary.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00138.htm
28: Making Headlines For All The Wrong Reasons
Green Co-leader Rod Donald is laughing off the latest Labour attempt to portray the party as anti-growth.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0207/S00568.htm
29: Families under pressure: New CTU research
“A Council of Trade Unions research study released today clearly shows many New Zealand families are under severe pressure as a result of long work hours and changing work hour patterns,” Council of Trade Unions president Ross Wilson said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0207/S00132.htm
30: RNZAF P3 Orion locates Nuclear Fuel Ship
A Royal New Zealand Air Force P3 Orion successfully located at 9:30 AM the vessels carrying nuclear fuel, Defence Minister Mark Burton confirmed today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0207/S00589.htm
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