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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Bernard
Weiner: Rove, Supremes & A Silent
Scream
I love old-fashioned, small-town 4th of July parades. When we lived in Northern California's San Geronimo Valley in Marin County, we participated, along with everybody else in the small rural community of Woodacre, in as Norman Rockwell-like a parade as you ...
2:
Maori
Party Distances Itself From Gisbourne
Group
The Maori Party today has responded to allegations from Peter Dunne concerning the Maori Government of Aotearoa; and the suggestion that the Maori Party is somehow unconcerned about the broader issue of human rights here and in places such as Zimbabwe.
3:
Postie
dismissed for limiting unsafe overtime
NZ Post this week sacked a postie from the Greenlane Delivery Branch when he said he was exercising his right to refuse excessive overtime to protect his health and safety. The postie’s union, the Postal Workers Association, has described NZ Post’s ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Images:
The Apostles – And Then There Were
8
Image taken yesterday morning at 9:18am by a tourist who witnessed the collapse of one of the Twelve Apostles rock formations....showing all rock formations intact. This is the 'after' picture taken yesterday morning at 9:19am, just seconds after ...
5:
Good
Riddance To Bad Rubbish And Not Before
Time
New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters is pleased that the Immigration Service has finally come to its senses in its decision to revoke the visa of paedophilic apologist Jim Peron.
6:
Brash:
Childcare taxdeductions for working
parents
The next National Government will introduce a new tax deduction for pre-school childcare costs to ease the financial pressures on parents, particularly on second-income earners and employed sole parents, National Party Leader Don Brash announced today.
7:
Pack-Rape
Four Found Guilty
The jury has found four men guilty of pack raping a young woman 16 years ago after 12 hours of deliberation following a two and a half week trial. The four faced charged relating to abducting and raping a woman at Mt Maunganui.
8:
Paul
G. Buchanan: Cracks In The
Façade
The barbeques are sizzling, flags are fluttering everywhere, patriotic parades and speeches are the course of the day. Although large biting fish have deterred swimmers on the East Coast, people have flocked to parks, beaches and lakes to celebrate the ...
9:
Mediterranean
Climate Is Turning Caribbean
An Italian meteorologist has discovered that the Mediterranean Sea is warmer than it has been for 3000 years and fears run high that the region will experience hurricanes.
10:
Supreme
Court - Possible "Fascist" Play
The Bush administration is spectacularly good at sleight-of-hand tricks, directing public attention in one direction while they're working diligently in another. The latest trial balloon of "probable" Supreme Court nominees is no exception. While ...
11:
Doris
Colmes: Morphing the Gestapo
There I was -- a bratty, independent kid, with a twisted sense of humor who enjoyed doing illegal things: Entrance into anyplace at all displaying the “No Dogs or Jews Allowed” signs was fun, even though it was clearly understood that – if discovered ...
12:
Maori
Party stops full support for ICC
submission
Parties from across the political spectrum have joined together to overwhelmingly support a submission to the International Cricket Council regarding the proposed New Zealand Cricket tour to Zimbabwe, says Foreign Minister Phil Goff.
13:
State
Dept. Daily Press Briefing July 5,
2005
DEPARTMENT Secretary Rice's Travel to Asia / Planned Bilateral Discussions Representation at ASEAN Conference Deputy Secretary Zoellick Travel to Sudan, Jordan and Egypt Ambassador Khalilzad Health
14:
Public
Address 06/07/05 - Gods And
Devils
Having now seen the part of the 60 Minutes interview that got Labour's Muslim MP Ashraf Choudhary into trouble this week, I have to sympathise with him. He was not asked whether homosexuals and adulterers should be stoned to death; he was invited ...
15:
Maori
Party misguided on Zimbabwe
The Green Party is extremely disappointed about the position the Maori Party is taking on the Zimbabwe crisis.
16:
Critical
Security Issues In Diebold Optical
Scan
EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT: Incorporated into the foundation of the Diebold Precinct-Based Optical Scan 1.94w system is the mother of security holes, and no apparent cure will produce infertility, or system safety.
17:
Links:
Reporter Murdered And The Story He Died
For
Scoop Editor's Note: Thanks to the alert reader who brought these two items to our attention. The first item recounts the June 24th shooting by a U.S. army sniper of a reporter working for the Knight Ridder news service. The second item is an investigative ...
18:
Childcare
Tax Deductions Questions and Answers
etc
National will introduce a new tax deduction for pre-school childcare costs to ease the financial pressures on parents, particularly on second-income earners and employed sole parents.
19:
Head
rolls at leaky homes service
The sudden and unexpected departure of the national manager of the Watertight Homes Resolution Service is further evidence of the failure of Labour's response to the leaky homes crisis, says National's Building and Construction spokesman, Nick Smith.
20:
NZ
wool biotech key to new haircare
range
Wool protein biotech has inspired leading Christchurch hairdresser Mike Hamel to release an innovative new haircare range with excellent export potential.
21:
Game
On For Zimbabwe Cricket
Tour
Cricket fans wanting to see Shane Bond back in action won’t be disappointed although those who oppose any sporting contact with Zimbabwe may well be after the New Zealand Government today confirmed there would be no legislative action to halt the upcoming ...
22:
Children
first victims of National's spending
cuts
National's childcare policy is a spending cut that will disadvantage 86,000 children and their parents, Social Development and Employment Minister Steve Maharey says.
23:
Former
Heavyweight Champion Hits New
Zealand
Former Olympic gold medalist and former world heavyweight boxing champion, Smokin Joe Frazier shows a little of his old magic to former New Zealand middleweight champion Billy Graham. Frazier is in New Zealand to open a new Roadlife trucks dealership ...
24:
Maori
Party Saddened By Political
Grandstanding
"We are disappointed at the political grand-standing and knee-jerk reactions from Labour, Greens and United Future politicians regarding our response to the political intervention surrounding the cricket tour to Zimbabwe" stated Tariana Turia, co-leader ...
25:
Clear
Warning Of Spread Of Avian Influenza
Reports of recent bird flu victims in Asia, highlights the need for global action to fight against this deadly virus and the World Health Organisation reports that Asia is already under pressure from this disease.
26:
Thai
Beheadings Copycat Iraqi Slayings -
Minister
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Eight gruesome beheadings in Thailand's south, where Muslim separatists are escalating their fight, were "copied from the violence in Iraq," according to Thailand's interior minister.
27:
Nats
don't know childcare from early
education
Don Brash's announcement today that he will scrap the Government's planned 20 hours of free early childhood education for an increased childcare rebate shows National doesn't know the difference between childcare and early education, United Future ...
28:
Dunne:
Brash wants kids out of
way
National's announcement of an increased childcare rebate for "working parents" confirms that neither Labour or National value those who stay home to raise their children, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today.
29:
Challenge
to early childhood educators
Some early childhood services in New Zealand have a tendency to cocoon children in a warm fuzzy world and are reluctant to face up to social and cultural realities, says Diti Hill, a senior lecturer in professional inquiry in the Faculty of Education, ...
30:
Posturing
can't hide the uranium on Brash's
breath
Don Brash has uranium on his breath and no amount of political posturing can hide it, says Green Co-Leader Rod Donald.
ENDS
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