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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Labour
approved brother-sister sex
paper
Labour approved a discussion paper that proposed legalising brother-sister sex for over-20-year-olds, according to official documents released today by National’s Law and Order spokesman, Tony Ryall.
2:
Are
You An Undesirable Immigrant? Take Our
Quiz!
Amid growing concerns about the laxity of New Zealand's immigration controls, many readers may be concerned that they are not the kind of person Winston Peters wants in our country. So we've compiled this helpful quiz to see if you've slipped under ...
3:
Actions
initiated for wananga
Education Minister Trevor Mallard announced today that he had initiated two holding actions following advice that Te Wananga O Aotearoa is on the brink of insolvency, and will be unable to meet its financial commitments over the next fortnight, including ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Public
Address 09/05/05 - It's A Gas
It clearly hasn't taken long for Winston Peters to reach the bottom of his barrel of inappropriate Iraqis in our midst. His new target is a legitimate refugee - and by his own account, a whistleblower who fled the regime in fear of his life...
5:
British
Intelligence Leak - Iraq Invasion
Strategy
Progressive Democrats of America Make National Call of Support for Congressional Letter Demanding Investigation of British Intelligence Leak on Iraq Invasion Strategy
6:
Helen
Can't Decide an Election
Date
Winston Peters' rise in the polls is adding to the instability the Maori Party has caused for Labour. Labour's support is beginning to erode as the scandals pile up and more incompetence is exposed. Don Brash is sticking to the strategy of pushing ...
7:
Sheila
Samples: We Are Very Good
Drivers...
Even as Tim Russert solemnly announced on Meet the Press Sunday that the "Number three man" in the entire Al-Qaeda network was now under lock and key, the world edition of The Sunday Times quoted European intelligence as saying that Abu Faraj al-Libbi ...
8:
Mr
Prebble’s atrocious sinful behaviour
The liberal bias of the media was evident in its response to the news of Richard Prebble’s adulterous relationship and his desertion of his wife.
9:
Al-Khashali
Case A Sick And Expensive Joke
Rt Hon Winston Peters says New Zealanders will be alarmed to learn that a New Zealand lawyer has just set off a train of refugee appeals similar to the Ahmed Zaoui case.
10:
SCOOP
FULL COVERAGE: Undesirable Iraqi
Migrants
Are You Undesirable? Take Our Quiz! - Amid growing concerns about the laxity of New Zealand's immigration controls, many readers may be concerned that they are not the kind of person Winston Peters wants in our country. So we've compiled this helpful ...
11:
U.S.
Policy Priorities and the East
Asia-Pacific
Evans J.R. Revere, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Remarks to the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs Baltimore, Maryland May 3, 2005
12:
Four
Bloody Lies Of War, From Havana To Baghdad
The Bush Administration's lies about its rationales for attacking Iraq fit a pattern of deceit that has dragged America into at least three other unjust and catastrophic wars.
13:
Bonus
Joules: A Major Encounter
“What does living in Lala land mean?” This question is put to me this week by a friend from India. I answer with a string of expressions: It means you are away with the fairies. Out of your tree. You don’t have your feet on the ground. You are out ...
Israeli soldiers near Bethlehem shot and wounded a Palestinian youngster for refusing to inform on friends who had thrown stones at them, Israeli media sources reported.
15:
Robert
Zoellick Press Conference in Indonesia
DEPUTY SECRETARY ZOELLICK: Well thank you all for coming. I am Bob Zoellick, the Deputy Secretary of State and this is the fourth country that I've visited on a trip throughout Southeast Asia. I've been to Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam over ...
16:
Greg
Palast: Impeachment Time - Facts Were
Fixed
The top-level government memo marked "SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL," dated eight months before Bush sent us into Iraq, following a closed meeting with the President, reads, "Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam ...
17:
Wananga
Mess Entirely Labour's
Making
National Party Education spokesman Bill English says the mess at Te Wananga o Aotearoa is entirely of Labour's making. The Minster of Education today approved an urgent $20 million loan to help meet the wananga's immediate financial needs.
18:
Stateside
with Rosalea: PSPTV
I have seen the future of television, and it is PSP. I'm not talking about just the technical feasibility of broadcasting to, and receiving input from, a handheld device like Sony's Play Station Portable, but about programme content itself.
19:
Christian
Heritage NZ Announces Deputy
Leader
Christian Heritage NZ announced today the appointment of a new deputy leader. Derek Blight of Hokitika has been appointed to the position with the full support of the CHNZ Board. Mr Blight has extensive experience in education and more recently in ...
20:
Scoop
Review: Memories Of Tomorrow, Darkness
Lurks
Amit Tripuraneni creates a surrealistic theme by drawing the viewer into a tight world of strong central characters who each live cocooned within layers of secrets entwined, inter-related somehow by the assassination of a prominent political figure ...
21:
Family
Of Refugees Arrested, Injured In Iran
"Amnesty International has revealed that several immediate family members of Iranian refugees who have been held in Baxter for years, are amongst those arrested and injured during ethnic clashes in the southern province of Khuzestan," WA Refugee group Project ...
22:
Helen
Clark Must Explain Role In
Doonegate
Helen Clark must give a full and truthful account of her actions in relation to the defamatory Sunday Star Times story on former Police Commissioner Peter Doone, says National Party Leader Don Brash.
23:
William
Fisher: The American Press - How
Free?
Recent polling data shows that most Americans think their press is the freest in the world - indeed, some believe it is too free. But according to a new report by Freedom House, a highly respected civil liberties advocacy group, the US is among ...
24:
Articles
Of Impeachment For President G.W.
Bush
Resolved, that George Walker Bush, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and the following articles be exhibited to the Senate:
25:
ACT's
The Letter - 9 May 2005
Winston Peters scored a king hit. (Damn). Labour had a bad week. While the economy roars along, there are signs that the export sector is struggling as forward hedges end. Inflation and union militancy continue.
26:
New
MFAT Deputy Secretary appointed
Career diplomat Caroline Forsyth has been appointed Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, MFAT CEO Simon Murdoch announced today.
27:
New
Deputy Health and Disability
Commissioner
SENIOR and widely-respected journalist Rae Lamb is to take up a new position as deputy Health and Disability Commissioner with special responsibility for complaints resolution, Health Minister Annette King announced today.
28:
Overseas
investors robbing Kiwis
The Overseas Investment Bill, reported back from Select Committee today, won't stop the wholesale sell-off of New Zealand's land and businesses and won't help Kiwis wanting to buy their first homes, the Greens say.
29:
Bridge
Collapse Blamed on Neglect
The collapse of a rail bridge while a train was crossing on the Napier-Gisborne line this morning can be squarely blamed on years of neglect following the privatisation of the rail system, said Rail and Maritime Union general secretary Wayne Butson.
30:
Franks
Speech: Vigilantes for rural
crime?
Vigilantes for rural crime? Now that’s a proposition to stress the justice establishment in their security-alarmed apartment buildings and manicured suburbs. But some farmers must be considering it, given the judge’s decision to acquit Northland farmer Paul ...
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Peter Dunne: The Dysfunctional Wellington City Council Plumbs New Depths
Gordon Campbell: On Israel’s Political Split, And The New Caledonia Crisis
Binoy Kampmark: The Assange Case, A Flicker Of Hope In The UK High Court
Alexander Gillespie: Fast-track Laws, Parliamentary Urgency, Treaty Tension, Media Retreat: Warning Signs For NZ’s ‘Brittle’ Democracy
Gordon Campbell: On ACT’s Charter Schools Experiment
Sonali Kolhatkar: Why Corporations Choose Lawlessness To Fight Unions