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Published: Tue 7 Dec 2004 09:20 AM
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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: 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/mason/stories/PO0310/S00003.htm
4: Complete US Exit Poll Data Confirms Net Suspicions
Scoop.co.nz is delighted to be able today to publish a full set of 4pm exit poll data for the first time on the Internet since the US election. The data emerged this evening NZT in a post on the Democratic Underground website under the forum name ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm
7: Civil Unions Isn’t Gay Marriage – Yeah Right
Dunedin South MP David Benson-Pope woke this morning to find every single window on his electorate office covered in colour posters modelled on the Tui Beer ads protesting the duplicity behind the Civil Unions Bill.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0412/S00050.htm
8: New Doctor Who series licensed to Prime Television
BBC Worldwide announces today the licence of the new series of the cult classic Doctor Who to Prime Television New Zealand. Only the second international deal to be finalised, the new series will deliver to Prime Television in the first quarter of 2005.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0412/S00076.htm
9: A New Baalism
A New Baalism and the cultic priests and priestesses of the Labour government Garnet Milne
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0412/S00052.htm
11: Quantum Physics Looks At The 2004 Election
Quantum physics points out that the way we observe the universe in this present moment literally evokes the universe that is observed. Our perception of the universe is a part of the universe that is happening through us that has an effect on the universe ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0412/S00058.htm
12: Unknown Warrior hijacked for pagan purpose
The hijacking of the Unknown Warrior for pagan purposes by Helen Clark and her government and the homosexual agenda
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0412/S00054.htm
13: 3 News TNS Opinion Poll Results - 4 Dec 2004
Labour has a 14 point lead over National in Party Vote support. On party support alone this would translate to 62 seats in Parliament and Labour would be able to govern alone. If Peter Dunne and Jim Anderton win their Electorate seats, then Labour ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0412/S00056.htm
14: Civil Union Bill, Sodomy & “Neofascism” Slurs
“Homosexual activists promoting the Civil Union Bill have been driven into a state of apoplexy over news that an amendment calling for a referendum on the Bill will be tabled in the House this week,” says spokesperson for the Campaign Against the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0412/S00051.htm
15: COHA: Brazil’s Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti
On November 29, the United Nations’ Security Council announced that the Brazilian-led MINUSTAH peacekeeping force will be staying in Haiti until June 2006.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0412/S00061.htm
17: Hydro and Wind Electricity Generation Up
Electricity generation by hydro and wind was 27.4 percent higher in the September 2004 quarter than in the September 2003 quarter, according to Statistics New Zealand. Hydro and wind generation reached 7,663 gigawatt hours in the September 2004 quarter, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0412/S00078.htm
18: Public Address 06/12/04 - Journeys Of Mind
I crane my neck and look down the public gallery. Yes, it really is Brian Tamaki; slick-haired, chewing gum, at the centre of a cohort of burly, self-conscious men. The men on the outside are wearing radio earpieces - ready, presumably, to ward off ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0412/S00061.htm
19: Major Internet Policy Meeting In Wellington
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has just announced that its March 2006 meeting will be held in Wellington, New Zealand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/SC0412/S00008.htm
20: "Civil Relationships Bill” - a better option
National’s Justice spokesman, Richard Worth, has introduced an amendment to the Civil Union Bill which has been dogged by claims of dishonesty and undue haste.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0412/S00125.htm
21: 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.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0312/S00024.htm
22: True intention of Civil Union Bill revealed
"The Prime Minister's dismissal of 'civil relationships' as a workable alternative to the Civil Union Bill reveals the government's intention all along has been to introduce same-sex marriage", says National Justice Spokesman Richard Worth.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0412/S00130.htm
23: Secretary Powell: Interview With Reuters
MR. MOHAMMED: You're going to the OSCE meeting next week and will have a chance to speak to Foreign Minister Lavrov. Do you believe Russia has interfered in Ukraine's electoral process, with President Putin's two visits there during their campaign, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0412/S00064.htm
24: Civil union alternative offered up
National Party Justice spokesman Richard Worth is launching an 11th-hour bid to change the controversial Civil Union Bill by introducing an amendment called the Civil Relationships Bill.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0412/S00121.htm
25: Extreme Skydiving Postie Launches Series of Stamps
Photo caption: Extreme measures! Hawkes Bay postie Mai Fitzsimmons launches New Zealand Post’s latest stamp issue featuring extreme sports.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0412/S00033.htm
26: "Civil Relationships" will expose dishonesty - ACT
ACT MP Stephen Franks today said he will support Richard Worth's amendments to the Civil Union Bill.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0412/S00119.htm
27: Catholics will make up own minds on Civil Unions
Christians for Civil Unions, an ecumenical network of New Zealanders supporting the Civil Union Bill, reacted today with dismay to the letter from Catholic Bishops read in some churches yesterday. However, they do not believe that Catholics who ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0412/S00058.htm
28: “Shelve the Civil Union Bill”
United Future MP Gordon Copeland today called on the Government to shelve its controversial Civil Union Bill.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0412/S00132.htm
29: Why Haven't They Counted 250,000 Votes In Ohio
On Saturday Dec 4th , from 6pm-9pm EST, Rev. Jackson joins investigative reporter Greg Palast to ask what happened to nearly a quarter million votes, overwhelmingly from African-American precincts, not counted in Ohio.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0412/S00065.htm
30: Maori and Student Debt - Tariana Turia
‘The announcement that Maori students now owe more than $1billion in student loans is of great concern to the Maori Party’ said Tariana Turia, co-leader of the Maori Party.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0412/S00131.htm
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