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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were…
1: Scoop
Images: The Battle For Manners Mall
(KFC)
May Day protestors have shut down Kentucky Fried Chicken in Manners Mall this afternoon. Several protestors were ejected by security before police took up position inside the fast food outlet.
2:
Scoop
Images: All Clothes Are
Corrupt
Protestors have now assembled in Cuba Mall to attend an anti-sweatshop fashion parade. “It’s not enough to just boycott Nike and Adidas, if you are wearing any clothes you are participating in the system. You have to smash the system,” said an MC.
3:
Scoop
Images: Jim's Bank Opens Early In
LA
Scoop has received the following picture from a recent traveller to the city of angels...
After forcing the closure of KFC and Star Mart - which avoided an occupation by closing for stock-take before protesters arrived - Wellington May Day protesters, moved to Midland Park, disrupting traffic in Willis Street and Lambton Quay.
5:
Scoop
Images: Carnival Against Capitalism
Begins
Around 50 protestors have gathered at the Freedom Shop in Upper Cuba Street for the shop’s sixth birthday celebrations and to kick off today’s Cuba St May Day Carnival Against Capitalism.
6:
May
Day: Star Mart Closed, Libz
Counter-Protest
After briefly forcing the closure of KFC, protestors moved on to Star Mart. The doors were closed with a sign saying "closed for stocktaking". Police protected the shop. There were no arrests.
7:
Stateside
With Rosalea: Cartoon Network
Holy Batballs, Wonder Boy! Doesn't that VQ1 squadron have a lightning bolt and a bat on its insignia along with the words "World Watchers"? And doesn't it surveill not only China but the West Coast of America and the Arabian Gulf? Has the Batmobile ...
8:
Majority
Of New Zealanders
'Non-Citizens'
New Zealanders who are non-Maori, non-Pacific Islander or non-ethnic are being treated as non-citizens by the Government in its public consultation over the Gaming Review, National MP Murray McCully said today.
9:
Where
Is National's Disarmament
Spokesperson?
Disarmament Minister Matt Robson wants to know whether the National Party still has a disarmament spokesperson or any interest in the topic.
Disarmament Minister Matt Robson is living in the land of Noddy if he believes sweet-talking other nations instead of committing to defence will be enough to keep New Zealand secure, National's Defence spokesman Max Bradford said today.
11:
Big
News: There’s No Such Place As
Hell
It’s official – hell is not a place, it’s just a state of being, So is purgatory. At least that’s according to two people in the Catholic Church.
12:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Wednesday, 2 May
2001
1. Rt Hon JENNY SHIPLEY to the Minister of Health: Does she stand by her statement that "Cabinet agreed that no person who is entitled to the community services card before 1 April 2001 should lose his or her entitlement as a consequence of the ...
13:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 2
May
Today's questions of the day concerned: Community Services Card – New Prisons – Health Funding - Youth Justice Facility Location – Education Review Office – Social Services Agency Merger – Centennial Highway Accidents – Police Rapist – Good Faith ...
14:
Scoop
Images: Hobbiton By The
Water
Scoop's Hobbit strikes again. This time the furry fellow with a flair for photography has produced another - never seen before - shot of Hobbiton in the the Waikato. Showing it in the sun, before it was burned down. It looks like it was a tranquil and magical ...
15:
Libertarianz
May Day Presence Pathetic
The Loony libertarianz must have disappointed that only three people showed up to support them. This isn't suprising since they are so far over to the loony right wing spectrum of politics, they would make Richard Prebble cringe.
16:
Scoop
Images: Hobbiton Bridge
Scoop's Hobbit strikes yet again. Hobbiton bridge is revealed in all its glory….enjoy.
17:
Libz
March For MayDay Capitalism
The "MayDay misanthropists" marched around the country yesterday, while Libertarianz activists taunted their tantrums with pro-capitalist signs and slogans, and gave out $100 (imitation) bills backed with praise for free minds, free markets ...
18:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day –1 May
Today's questions of the day concerned: Employment Stoppages – Community Services Card – Community Services Card And Kiwi Bank – Community Services Card – Tranz Rail Line Closures – Community Services Card – Pacific Pre-School Education – Celia Lashlie ...
19:
Why
So Long To Get Rid Of
Rapist?
Questions remain why it has taken the Government and the Commissioner over a month to begin the dismissal process of convicted rapist Colin McLean. They have known for 17 months that this conviction was coming. Now New Zealanders have to wait another ...
20:
Libertarian
Communists Comment On
Capitalism
May Day is a global day of protest against capitalism. But just what is capitalism? Let’s take a closer look...
21:
Letter
From Elsewhere: Get Your Embryos Here
Those funky fertility gods are at it again. This week they scored a double bullseye. First they called for spare stored embryos to go to unrelated people who needed them to have a baby. Then they announced that New Zealand’s first official IVF ‘surrogate’ ...
22:
Punish
Crimes, Not Vices, Say
Libz
Libertarianz spokeman Richard McGrath said the death of Auckland engineering student Shawn Brenner was a tragic waste of a young life, but that subsequent comments made by emergency specialist Dr Tony Smith were similarly unfortunate.
23:
Scoop
Images: Lake Hobbitton - Another
View
Scoop's Hobbit strikes again. Yet another - never seen before - shot of Hobbiton in the the Waikato. Showing the other side of the millhouse pictured in an earlier shot, in the sun, before it was burned down. Hobbit houses can be seen across the ...
24:
Scoop:
Top Scoops (May Day Special)
MAY DAY PROTESTS – FULL COVERAGE - LIVE DIGICAM REPORTS: - GENERAL PROTEST ADVISORIES: - SPECIFIC PROTEST ADVISORIES AND RELEASES: - DISSENTING VOICES: - Scoop Is In The House – Today’s Q&A - TVNZ Charter Unleashed - David Miller: Taiwan Enters The Equation
26:
Stupidity
Endemic in Fundament Communities!!!
"The New Zealand public should be aware that there is an even more insidious designer drug that is now doing the rounds in fundament communities -BAC 182 or "Stupidity." said Sister Raptophilia SM today.
27:
Beneficiaries
Join May Day Parade
The Benefit Rights Service of The People’s Centre of Wellington will be participating in the May Day rally today. Their message is aimed at destroying the common misconception that “beneficiaries have it easy”. Workers from The Benefit Rights Service will be ...
28:
Sweatshop
Fashion: "We'd be better off
naked"
Students, lead by Victoria University's Radical Society will participate in the May Day Carnival against Capitalism with an anti-Sweatshop fashion parade. This will be performed as street theatre as one of the numerous actions being organised by ...
29:
Farmers
need to be wary of WTO
Green MP Ian Ewen-Street today said while some farmers will welcome a decision by the WTO allowing New Zealand to import lamb to the US, farmers needed to be wary of the flipside of free trade agreements.
30:
Wood
Next NZ Ambassador To
Washington
John Wood will be New Zealand's next Ambassador to Washington, Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff announced today. Mr Wood served previously as Ambassador to Washington from 1994-1998.
Alastair Thompson
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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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