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Published: Wed 13 Nov 2002 09:22 AM
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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Turning Over the ACT Party Credentials
"A tongue with two forks," is how Libertarianz leader Rusell Watkins descibe’s Richard Prebble, following The Preb’s weekend speech to the ACT conference in Wellington.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0211/S00071.htm
2: UQ Wire: Gore Vidal‘s The Enemy Within
Gore Vidal is America’s most controversial writer and a ferocious, often isolated, critic of the Bush administration. Here, against a backdrop of spreading unease about America’s response to the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath, we publish ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0210/S00205.htm
3: US Election Vote Fixing Reports Hit The Mainstream
SCOOP EDITOR’S NOTE: Scoop has in the past 48 hours published several real deal media commentaries ( C.D.Sludge , Michael Ruppert , John Kaminski ) pointing to problems with the electronic voting systems used extensively in Tuesday’s mid-term elections ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00049.htm
4: Elle Intimates Strips Off With Billboard Campaign
Rush-hour traffic was treated to a striptease in Auckland today as the second of two new Elle Mapcherson Intimates billboards were unveiled by a pair of Kiwifire dancers.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0210/S00031.htm
5: Barrie Walsh: The Greenspan Pus
The Performance of U.S. equity markets in the month leading up to the mid-term American elections has been heralded by Wall Street as the beginning of the long awaited recovery. Belief in the Greenspan Put has been reborn. What is the Greenspan Put? A better ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00070.htm
6: Images: National MPs Visit Australia's Parliament
The following photo sequence shows seven members of a New Zealand National Party contingent visiting the Australian Parliament. Lockwood Smith (holding his nose and smiling) appears to be having a nice time…
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00072.htm
7: Wellstone Plane Was Out Of Control – Media Survey
The following is a summary of the facts available at this time via the media, surrounding Senator Paul Wellstone's airplane crash of 10-25-02. Judge for yourself, was this more likely an assassination or an accident?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0210/S00206.htm
8: Questions For Oral Answer - 12 November 2002
1. GRAHAM KELLY to the Prime Minister: What further contribution is New Zealand making to the international campaign against terrorism
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0211/S00261.htm
9: American Coup: Mid-Term Election Polls vs Actuals
Scoop’s analysis found shows that - according to the polls - the Republican Party experienced a pronounced last minute swing in its favour of between 4 and 16 points. Remarkably this last minute swing appears to have been concentrated in its effects ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00078.htm
10: Scoop Link: What Is The Voter News Service Hiding?
The Voter News Service, the exit poll service used by a consortium of major news organizations, failed election night, and it's unclear whether the service will ever release the data it collected around the country.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00082.htm
11: Tawdry Peters 'without brains or breeding'
Responding to the weekend’s immigrant-baiting by headline-hogger Winston Peters, Libertarianz spokesman Peter Cresswell described Winston Peters as "Enoch Powell, with neither the brains nor the breeding - and without any sense of regret."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0211/S00077.htm
12: Canada Warns Citizens Regarding Travel to U.S.
When Maher Arar, a man holding joint Canadian-Syrian citizenship changed planes at New York's Kennedy airport on Sept. 26, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service detained and eventually deported him to Syria.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00077.htm
13: UQ Wire: Jeb Bush Flies High With Terror Airways
Terror Flight School Owner’s Plane Seized For Heroin Trafficking & Jeb Bush And Katherine Harris Fly With Drug Running Airways
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0210/S00214.htm
14: Guest Opinion: Arise Maurice Williamson
In much the same way as the English - Boag combination blew the election for National, Bill English's post election performance has likewise blown his brief hold on the party's leadership.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00083.htm
15: Diebold - The Face Of Modern Ballot Tampering
The lack of any exit polling on November 5 has been oddly ignored by the media. Those pesky tracking polls leading up to the elections have been explained away by a ‘late surge to the Republicans’ caused by.... hmmmm, how about sun spot activity? With ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00081.htm
16: Marc Ash: Terror On the Hill
A Republican reader of ours called in yesterday and asked, "You don't really believe that Paul Wellstone was murdered, do you?" What could I say to him? He asks what I ask, what you ask -- what every one of Wellstone's colleagues has asked themselves.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00066.htm
17: Cullen Speech to National Press Club
Good morning. I thought that today I would try and get behind the retail media interest in Ross Armstrong’s recent foray into public policy and open up on some of the more substantial policy issues that surround discussion on what are generally known as ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0211/S00260.htm
18: UQ Wire: The Desert of the Real
How difficult is it to reprogram a machine which leaves no paper trail to say that 2 + 2 = 5? Is it about as difficult as sabotaging the workings of a small corporate jet, perhaps?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00080.htm
19: Peters, You Can’t Shake Hands With a Clenched Fist
Howard’s End: I was brought up to believe that acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviours, their belief's, brings you inner peace and tranquillity - instead of anger and resentment. This Scoop correspondent has a message for Winston Peters ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00075.htm
20: Statement Introducing Crisispapers.Org
The Crisis Papers was launched about 24 hours before Election Day, 2002. The title, and the reason for starting up yet another progressive website, could not have been more appropriately timed. For we are now in as severe a constitutional and political ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00076.htm
21: Dubya’s Triumph: What Can Stop Him Now?
With the Republican victories in the Mid-Term elections and the new U.N. Security Council's resolution calling on Iraq to allow weapons inspectors back into the country, President George W. Bush is riding high and immediately talking tough. Mr. Bush clearly ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00074.htm
22: Clampdown On Illegal Street Racing
More streets are to be restricted to non-residential traffic on weekends and public holidays in order to tackle the scourge of illegal street racing in Manukau. This will include a large stretch of Te Irirangi Drive between Dawson Road in Otara and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/AK0209/S00105.htm
23: EXOTICA 2003 – more than just sex!
“At this year’s Exotica we promise you can see everything from a Ferrari to a vibrator – if adults want it, we’ve got it!” says Charlotte Mules of adult lifestyles expo, Exotica.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0211/S00079.htm
24: Sludge Report #143 - Think People!!! The Fix Was In
In This Edition: Think People!!! The Fix Was In - Who Now Rules The World
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00043.htm
25: Maori Cyberterrorism Vs LEGO Leads To Reprisals
New Zealand website Aotearoalive.com has been threatened with hacker attacks from a group calling itself the Army of Free Speech following a denial of service hacker attack earlier this week on a website run by a subsidiary of LEGO by an anonymous ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00055.htm
26: Tsunami threaten New Zealand
New Zealand is in a tectonically active part of the roaring forties and is vulnerable to a wide range of natural hazards. Yet, the threats of a tsunami in New Zealand are underrated, according to the latest report from the Natural Hazards Centre.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/SC0211/S00018.htm
27: Warning on local government bill
New legislation would mean weaker financial controls but vastly increased powers for local government. This was the message delivered to local government finance managers by Rob McLagan, chairman of the Local Government Forum*, today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0211/S00080.htm
28: Wellstone Plane Crash Media Survey - Updated
A summary of the facts available at this time, surrounding Senator Wellstone's airplane crash of 10-25-02. (Updated 11-01-02 – note this posting is an update of… Wellstone Plane Was Out Of Control – Media Survey )
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00013.htm
29: Scoop Interactive: Dim Son Caption Competition
Scoop readers have produced a few corker captions for the following picture - circulating widely on the Interent - of U.S. President George W. Bush apparently looking across the Korean DMZ.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00065.htm
30: NZ Navy & AirForce join campaign against terrorism
Prime Minister Helen Clark and Defence Minister Mark Burton announced today that a New Zealand frigate and a P3 Orion maritime surveillance aircraft would be deployed to international operations campaign against the Taleban and Al-Qaeda as part of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0211/S00245.htm
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