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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Eco-Economy:
Why have we lost social
capital?
My partner and I are now in the process of starting a neighbourhood e-mail group which will hopefully improve the quality of life for people in our street. The plan is that we will supplement the Internet with some real life interactions to build ...
2:
Lindsay
Perigo: Say 'FTG' to Ugly Wimmin
Who'd be an employer? All that money - YOUR money - that you have to give to the Molesworth Mafia via the IRD; all that time - YOUR time - you have to waste deducting portions of what you pay your employees - THEIR money - on the Mafia's behalf; all ...
3:
Scoop
Images: Kalimantan Carnage
[WARNING!]
Scoop received these images of massacred civilians in Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, from an observer in the territory.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Letter
From Elsewhere: The Lord of the
Wing-Dings
I am in mourning for my software. We've been together for fourteen years. We’ve written three whole books, parts of several more, and countless papers, speeches, articles and reviews.
5:
Feminists
Need To Face Biological
Reality
Libertarianz deputy leader Richard McGrath believes the University Students Association has got it all wrong over the issue of rights for working women. "The only way women would ever be on an equal footing in the workplace or anywhere else would be ...
You know in a civilised society such as this one you would have thought we would have elevated to new levels of civility(hence the term civilisation), but you see now I have realised the true light of Helen that we shall and always will be savages ...
7:
Keith
Rankin: Demanding A Knowledge Economy
The Tertiary Education Advisory Committee (TEAC), set up to advise the government how to achieve its vision of a complementary rather than a competition-oriented tertiary sector, presented its second of three reports yesterday. The focus, as expected, ...
How sharp is this Fringe Festival performer? Images from Chris McCarthy.
9:
Libz
Agree with Nandor Shock
In a surprise announcement today, Libertarianz leader Peter Cresswell said he agreed with Nandor Tanczos' challenge to ACT to follow its stated principles and endorse the legalisation of cannabis.
10:
Act
Stance On Cannabis - Principles Or
Politics
Green MP Nandor Tanczos today said Act's position on the legal status of cannabis would be an excellent indication to party members of Act's commitment to either their founding principle of individual freedom or politics.
11:
PM
Hell-Bent On Dumbing Down
Defence
"Reports that the Government is considering reducing the role of our airforce Orions and using business to monitor the seas around New Zealand simply confirm the real Minister of Defence, Helen Clark, is hell-bent on disembowelling New Zealand's ...
12:
Highland
Letter: Hunting Where The Ducks
Are
Just where SKY News found its inspiration for it's latest gimmick (or innovation as they prefer to call it) is hard to say.
13:
Scoop
Images: Nuclear Cargo In Tasman
Sea
Images of the nuclear waste ships and vessels of the protest flotilla, taken from the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P3K Orion aircraft tasked with monitoring progress of the two ships.
14:
10th
By 2010 – ACT Conference Shows The
Way
ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble said the party aimed to set the political agenda for the year with its annual conference starting in Christchurch tomorrow, which has as its theme “10th by 2010.
15:
Nation
Building - Steve Maharey
Speech
Address at the launch of the Tertiary Education Advisory Commission's Shaping the System report. National Library Auditorium, Wellington.
16:
SHARP
ETIQUETTE: Expressions For High Stress Days
Sixteen useful and sharp expressions for those HIGH STRESS days...
17:
NZ
Loses A City In Huge Migration
Statistics
New Zealand has lost the equivalent of a city in the past year, in the worst migration statistics seen for the country in 21 years, National's Immigration spokesperson Marie Hasler said today.
18:
Fact
Vs David Carter: You Be The
Judge
FACT: National sold 13,000 state houses: housing stock dropped from 70,000 in 1991 to 59,000 in 1999 by the time the Labour-Alliance Government was elected. Under National there were no widespread building or acquisition initiatives: the plan was to sell ...
19:
OPEC
Official Opening Speech By Hugo
Chavez
I will not be as brief as Mr. Bouteflika nor as long as when I have my radio and television addresses.
20:
Scoop
Images: Whiter Whites And Brighter
Colours
The laundry on the corner of Abel Smith and Victoria St has undergone an exterior transformation as part of the no motorway campaign.
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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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