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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on scoop (Hobbits excluded) were...
1: London
Based Kiwi Launches Brain Drain
Website
The ‘Brain Drain’ debate has ignited again. London based New Zealander, Jeremy Punnett, has launched a website attacking the recent campaigns of John Carr and Richard Poole. “I am disgusted that people now see fit to conduct debate by buying full page newspaper ...
Listening to fears being expressed by those with sufficient courage to face the Commissioners - notably the women folk - I began to wonder if they were justified.
4:
Real
Young New Zealander campaign gathers pace
"A positive start," is how Jordan Carter is characterising the response to a counter-campaign to the "Young New Zealanders" who placed advertisements in last week’s daily newspapers.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
Te
Puke Pensioner A Victim Of Drug War
Insanity
Libertarianz Deputy Leader Richard McGrath asks exactly who pensioner George Edwards was harming when he grew some cannabis and sold it to other consenting adults.
6:
Athletes'
Morale, Brain Drain, And Kiwi
Attitudes
Two threats to national self-confidence coincided, merged, coalesced and multiplied themselves in the aftermath of the Sydney Olympics. They were, of course, the sad performance of our athletes and the alleged increase in the 'brain drain'. As one ...
7:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day –11
October
Today’s Questions concerned the subjects of: Ruling: Who Should Answer Questions– Super – Airways Bid For UK Air Traffic Control – Super x 3 – School Zoning – Tranz Rail – Dawn Raid Mistakes – Student Loan Interest Writeoffs – Inflation – Special ...
8:
Prospects
for the New Zealand Economy
The speed of the economic downturn caused by the Socialist policies of the present government surprised everyone. We all knew it would happen. What we didn’t know was just how quickly the economy would be sunk.
9:
The
Thalidomide Of Genetic
Engineering
By the end of the 1980s some millions of people, mostly in North America, were supplementing their diet with L-tryptophan, an essential amino-acid present in proteins of any normal diet. Amino-acids such as tryptophan are routinely produced in micro-breweries ...
10:
"It's
Started"
Just a week after the introduction of the Employment Relations Act, unions are already disrupting workplaces and intimidating employers, ACT Employment spokesman Muriel Newman said today.
11:
Scoop
Cartoon: Gosh! They'll Be Back
Then
Cartoon By Paul McDonald Click on the image to move to http://www.political-cartoons.co.nz/
12:
Scoop
Link: Human/Pig Gene Experiments
Exposed
The following is a link to: Dairies of Despair – “The Secret History of Pig-to-Primate Organ Transplants” - the contents of a website containing confidential Novartis papers which have been protected against publication in the UK by a court order.
13:
Nats
Bill Says People Should Decide On
MMP
National is going to give New Zealanders the chance to vote for or against MMP once and for all.
14:
Mike
Heine: Ghost Of Milosovic Enters PM's
Body
Isn’t it funny how at the same time Yugoslavia overthrows its crazy dictator, Helen Clark decides to become even more autocratic? Has the ghost of Milosevic entered Clark’s body?
15:
Pioneering
scientist honoured by Victoria
Uni
Professor Alan MacDiarmid, a pioneering research chemist and Victoria University graduate, is to receive an Honorary Doctorate of Science at the University’s last graduation ceremony of the century.
16:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Wednesday, 11 October
Paraphrased answers to today's questions for oral answer will be posted in the Scoops wire shortly after 3pm.
17:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 10 October
Today's Questions concern: Jim Vs Jenny On The Kiwi Dollar - Auckland Cardiac Surgery (Where Is Ruth?) – Business Forum – Brain Drain – Cardiac Surgery – Stress At Work – TUF President’s Faith – TranzRail Network – Christopher Truscott – Buddle Finlay’s ...
18:
New
Measures For Westland Economic
Development
A raft of new measures, which includes waiving all new building and resource management consent application fees for the next six months, will be introduced if a committee of the Westland District Council on the West Coast gets its way. John Howard reports.
19:
New
Maori Land Court Judges Named
The Minister of Maori Affairs, the Hon Parekura Horomia, formally announced two new appointments to the bench of the Maori Land Court.
20:
Warning
Bells Ring Over Rail Split
Up
Tranz Rail's plans to divest a large part of their rail services while still retaining monopoly control over the railway lines should ring loud warning bells, Green Party transport spokesperson Sue Kedgley said today.
21:
Enrolments
From Low Decile Schools a Worry
“Abysmal” first-year university enrolments from low-decile schools is a good reason for the Government to again consider introducing a Targeted Individual Entitlement scheme, ACT Education spokeswoman Donna Awatere Huata said today.
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