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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Scoop
Images: Wellington's Blood Red
Moon
The following image of Sunday night's total lunar eclipse was supplied by Christopher Picking.
2:
Keith
Rankin's Thursday Column: Generic
Benefits
Labour's plan to introduce a "universal benefit" is a rehash of their 1990 policy. The change is largely semantic. Further the semantics are wrong; this is no more than a step towards a universal benefit. There will still be groups of people ...
3:
Whoop!
Whoop! Pull Up! Pull Up! 1970s
Approaching
United New Zealand leader, Hon Peter Dunne, has congratulated Deputy Prime Minister on his latest initiative.
4:
Upton-on-line
: Hot Nation on the Ice
This week, upton-on-line examines the heart of the nation – a cultural strategy for aotearoa new zealand (sic – lower case fashionably intended as in upton-on-line).
5:
On
The Right: Who Is The Worst
Minister?
Last year, while in opposition, the Alliance website ran a poll asking us who the worst Minister in the Government was. In the unlikely event they ran the same poll now, my answer would be, without a doubt, Matt Robson.
6:
Sludge
Report #23 – Glimmers Of Hope
NOTE: Authors of this report will be anonymous and wide ranging. Indeed you are invited to contribute: The format is as a reporters notebook. It will be published as and when material is available. C.D. Sludge can be contacted at sludge@scoop.co.nz. ...
7:
Howard’s
End: Laws For Some
In the Wanganui District Court yesterday, Judge Andrew Becroft expressed concern with provisions of the previous government's Land Transport Act which he described as 'scandalous.' Let's take a hard look at all of our laws and human rights principles. ...
8:
Gull's
success proves petrol prices are too
high
Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton met with Gull Petroleum today and wants to know why the major petrol companies can't deliver the lower prices they do in areas around Gull services stations to the rest of the country.
9:
The
Need For Revisionist Destructionist
Propaganda
The need for a revisionist destructionist propaganda - a critique of New Zealand Native Timber Milling activism.
10:
Eco-Economy:
Business Sector vs Financial
Sector
The financial sector is hiding behind the word "business". The much discussed political "line in the sand" is not between the left and the right, employees and employers, truckies and farmers. Writes Dr Finlay Thompson.
11:
Flat
Benefit Rate Good Idea - Libz
"A flat benefit rate is the first decent idea this government has proposed in eight months," said Libertarianz Deputy Leader Richard McGrath. His party supports Steve Maharey's proposal for a universal taxpayer-funded benefit level, but differs ...
12:
Fiji
Sun Slams Rebel Threats
SUVA: The Fiji Sun today condemned threats by George Speight's rebels over the composition of the cabinet line-up announced by interim President Ratu Josefa Iloilo, saying the country cannot afford to "go through hell" again.
13:
Fiji
Commentary: Dark Day
Reminders
SUVA: It's two months to the day since George Speight, semi-indigenous failed businessman, pyramid scheme seller and terrorist, stormed into the Parliament grounds of Suva taking the democratically leaders of government as hostages.
14:
Future
Lefts - Democracy Dies in the
Pacific
CONTENTS - Editorial: Fiji's pain will never go away - "Rebels" alive, continue to exhibit stupidity - Business confidence returning - University branch celebrates forty years - News - the Newsiest News in Newstown
15:
Tizard
and Dracula a threat to CER
Albany MP Murray McCully has expressed alarm that visits to Melbourne by both Judith Tizard and Dracula tomorrow may undermine good trans-Tasman relations.
16:
Future
Lefts - The Tories are
bored!
CONTENTS - Editorial: Bored Nats sink to new lows - Presidential Sermon: On being Young Labour - The Launch of Staunch - Membership Sermon - News - Web site of the week
The Green Party is urging the Government to pull out of a proposed free trade agreement with Singapore and has presented a paper to cabinet to back up their case.
18:
ACT
To Target Jeanette Fitzsimons
The ACT Party is to target Jeanette Fitzsimons and the Coromandel electorate, said ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble.
19:
ACT
Welcomes PM’s Report On Waipareira
Trust
ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble welcomes the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) report into Waipareira Trust’s administration of Government programs.
20:
NZ
Extends Sanctions On Fiji
New Zealand has extended its smart economic and political sanctions against Fiji as the chaos in the island nation increases.
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.
Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Why Trump Could Become POTUS Again
Ramzy Baroud: Words Kill - Why Israel Gets Away With Murder In Gaza And Lebanon
Gordon Campbell: On The Dunedin Hospital Fiasco 
Binoy Kampmark: Unrealisable Justice - Julian Assange In Strasbourg
Martin LeFevre - Meditations: We Cannot Return And Recover As Humans; We Can Only Transcend As Human Beings
Binoy Kampmark: Presidential Marxism - AKD And The Sri Lankan Elections