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The top 20 rating items on Scoop yesterday were...
1: Upton-On-Line:
Hobb[e]sian Musings
Upton-on-line has always had a bit of a penchant for Thomas Hobbes - that grimmest of seventeenth century political philosophers immortalised by his characterisation of life in the state of nature as 'nasty, brutish and short'. There's nothing like ...
2:
Best
images yet of Jupiter's cratered inner
moons
Galileo takes risky trip to dribble back data revealing best images yet of Jupiter's cratered inner moons
3:
A
Trojan Horse - Free Trade With
Singapore
As Prime Minister Helen Clark arrives in Singapore, the proposed free trade agreement she has gone there to discuss is analysed in a Q&A format by Professor Jane Kelsey.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Scoop
Images: White Island Erupts!
Wow! White Island of the coast of the Bay of Plenty is now erupting and sprewing ash as far away as Whakatane. The crater lake has turned bright yellow.... these pictures were taken by scientists from the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Science ...
5:
Feral
Coasters Considering New “True Labour"
Party
Incensed that a Labour Prime Minister would call them "fairly feral," and comparing them to lynch mobs in places like Kentucky, West Coasters are now talking about the thing they really understand, forming a new political party likely to be ...
6:
MayDay
Protest- first in a day of Global
Action
The World's first MayDay action of the New Millenium happens in New Zealand, with a protest against the huge KFC bucket in the North Island city of Hamilton. Towering over the skyline of the Frankton working class estate, it is the largest KFC bucket ...
7:
Keith
Rankin - Socially Responsible
Gambling
We tend to regard gambling as a vice, but risk-taking as a virtue. Indeed, risk-taking is a virtue. If nobody had ever taken a risk, then no economic development would have taken place.
8:
All
Fired Up For World Peace
SMOKE ON THE WATER- Fire breathers from the Chilli Club International break a fire breathing world record in 1995.
9:
Scoop
Images: Secret Police Caught In The
Act!
The following message comes from the a16-international-planning list serve,it concerns a photo a protestor took of a man in plain-clothes who was beating him – quite a startling image. Initially the protestor thought it was an incident in road-rage. ...
10:
Scoop
Images: And Not A Hobbit Was
Stirring
The following pictures show the inside of the set for the town of Bree from the Lord of The Rings Trilogy which began shooting in New Zealand yesterday under the direction of Peter Jackson.
11:
Shared
Parenting Bill "Fundimentally
Flawed"
The Family Law Section of the New Zealand Law Society considers the Shared Parenting Bill, due to be introduced into Parliament in May this year, is misconceived and fundamentally flawed.
12:
Interview
Of The President - By Leonardo
Dicaprio
Q Mr. President, I want to thank you very much for your time. And as you know, I'm neither a politician, nor a journalist, but being given the opportunity to sit down with you here and talk about an issue like global warming was an opportunity as a ...
13:
May
Day march promises to put the heat on the
ECA
In Auckland every May Day for nearly 30 years workers, jobless and progressive people march up Queen Street as part of the world festival of the oppressed. This year is no exception. Around the world expectations are that this May Day will be a big one. ...
14:
Scoop
Images: Liv Meets Some Smokin'
Ringwraiths
The following pictures - supplied to Scoop anonymously - show actress Liv Tyler in action during the shooting of some scenes for the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. The pictures were taken in the South Island near Wanaka.
15:
Shared
parenting as a divisive political
football
Last night I was stopped from speaking and asked to leave at a public meeting on Shared Parenting dominated by the Act MP Muriel Newman.
16:
Rialto
Film Club
If you can translate this text message into proper English, then you could win one of two Vodafone Prepay mobiles:
17:
Secret
Group Wrote Employment Bill
A secret meeting was held by the Labour Party in December last year, to dramatically change their election manifesto employment policy, said ACT leader Richard Prebble. Documents released under the Official Information Act show that a covert meeting ...
18:
ACT
Sensationalises Youth
Unemployment
The New Zealand University Students Association (NZUSA) has today rejected ACT’s senseless stance on youth employment, which fails to address the real issues concerning youth.
19:
Greens
say no to ANZAC dollar
The Green Party says it would take a lot of convincing before it would support the demise of the Kiwi dollar.
20:
Employment
Relations Bill: OIA Release
"The release of background and policy formation papers today will give a clearer picture of how the Employment Relations Bill has emerged in its current legislative form," says Minister of Labour, Margaret Wilson.
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
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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