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Yesterday’s top 27 rating items on Scoop were…
1: Howard's
End: A Rat Is Detected In U.S.
Policy
If there's one thing that is fast becoming evident from the standoff between China and the U.S. over the spy plane incident, it's that diplomats and strategists in the West have little understanding of China's ancient culture. John Howard writes.
2:
Scoop
Images: 'Struan's War'
The World War II images and experiences of New Zealand Division gunner Struan MacGibbon will be revealed during April, in a new book and photo exhibition.
3:
Sludge
#57 Feedback: Allegory
Oversimplification
Sludge's allegory whilst entertaining is somewhat of an over simplification of international relations, particularly between large powers. As such the truth behind its message is more than a little blurred.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Tranz
Rail Wins Roger Award
By now, you will have realised by elimination that the winner must be Tranz Rail, the first TNC to have the ignominy of winning this award twice. It was selected because it scored badly on so many criteria.
5:
Sack
Harre For Role In Waterfront
Dispute
ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble said today that Associate Labour Minister Laila Harre should be sacked for her role in the waterfront dispute.
6:
Action
Of Nick Smith Immature And
Illegal
"The actions of one of the parties to the dispute currently surrounding the waterfront industries in various south island ports, in leaking a copy of the mediators draft report to Nick Smith can be only be interpreted as an act of bad faith on their ...
7:
Labour
party pressure in waterfront
mediation
Labour Party political pressure is evident in the government-appointed mediator's handling of the waterfront mediation, National's Industrial Relations Spokesperson Lockwood Smith said today.
8:
Scoop
Images: Phillida Bunkle
Alliance MP Phillida Bunkle today finds out whether she will regain her ministerial portfolios, after an inconclusive report by the Registrar of Electors into the validity of her enrolment in Wellington Central left it to The Prime Minister and her deputy ...
9:
Govt
Dodges Rankin In Social Services Merger
The Government is today expected today to announce the merger of Work and Income New Zealand the Ministry of Social Policy into a new agency called the Ministry of Social Development, National's State Services spokesman Roger Sowry said today. "This ...
11:
Scoop
Images: Johnston's Hill
Panorama
Panoramic shots of Wellington from the summit of Johnston's Hill in Karori. Today is another beautiful day in Wellington, but the calm is expected to be broken shortly by the arrival of Cyclone Sose.
12:
Sludge
Report #58 – Moving On From
WWII
The most interesting thing about the current Defence debate is that, despite the rhetoric, there has been no real Defence strategy in New Zealnd since the end of WWII.
13:
Stateside
With Rosalea: Clumsy Rhino, Hidden
Mynah
Ess Eff's patron saint of journos, Herb Caen, once wrote: "A true Californian is someone who knows that the hills are naturally a golden brown which is interrupted briefly in winter by the appearance of a greenish scum, which soon disappears, returning ...
14:
We're
The Only Game In Town, Says
PM
Prime minister Helen Clark said National’s lack of direction or clear policies is behind their poor showing in recent polls.
15:
Big
News: Arguing Whether God is Still
Dead
Theologian still argues whether God is still dead but still won’t confirm either way
16:
Sludge
Report #57 – Why Dubya Should Say
Sorry
Imagine for a moment that China is not a country, but rather is just an ordinary suburban house somewhere.
17:
Sludge
#57 Feedback: Good analogy, but John
is...
A complete fascist swine who routinely takes people out into his backyard and puts a bullet through their brain and has a cellar full of people with politics he doesn't like chained to the foundations making cheap tools to provide the finance for him ...
18:
NOT
SHARP: Falling Out Of a Lift
Scoop has received its first un-sharp, real life, confession….
19:
Global
Co Is A Massively Expensive
Mistake
* The Government has followed seriously bad process. Without question, Global Co should go to the Commerce Commission. Jim Sutton and Helen Clark are completely wrong when they say the merger is “outside the Commission’s core business”. Even their ...
20:
'Highly
Appreciative' Of Tiananmen Square
Murders?
Libertarianz Leader and Coromandel Candidate Peter Cresswell demanded that the Prime Minister explain whether the outrageous comments in the Communist Chinese Government controlled paper "People's Daily" about improving defence relations with ...
21:
Three
Judges To Do The Job Of
One
National's Justice spokesman Wayne Mapp says he supports the independent profile of the Police Complaints Authority but there is a risk of it becoming overly bureaucratic.
22:
Top
Scoops (With Sharp Stories)
CANCER INQUIRY: Dr Bottrill Says Findings Fair - CANCER INQUIRY: King Says Cervical Screening Recommendations Will Be Implemented - Howard’s End: US Spyplane Had Options, Why Did It Touch Down In China? - Sludge Feedback: Saying Sorry’s Kind Of Complicated ...
23:
Supercomputer
Weather: Cyclone Sose
Approaches
The above image from the NOAA supercomputer Aviation (short range) weather model shows what appears to be a weakening Cyclone Sose hitting the North Island on Good Friday April 13th around midday.
"Official papers released today on the 'Newbank' initiative show the Government received strongly competing advice requiring it to exercise an especially high level of care in deciding to allow New Zealand Post Limited to proceed," Finance Minister ...
26:
Cabinet
decision on Ministry of Social
Development
The Department of Work and Income and the Ministry of Social Policy will form the basis of a new Ministry of Social Development, State Services Minister Trevor Mallard said today.
27:
Process
all wrong for new super
ministry
Green Party Social Services Spokesperson Sue Bradford today said the process the Government had used to establish a new 'super ministry' of social development was all wrong.
28:
Letter
From Elsewhere: Unfinished Business
In 1993, in a book called, prophetically, Unfinished Business, Sandra Coney wrote: “The National Cervical Screening Programme is one of the few tangible outcomes of the Cervical Cancer Inquiry.”
29:
A
Return To "Carless Days"?
The Education Review Office has gone beyond satire with its pathetic politically correct advice on 'trikeless days' at a Lower Hutt kindy," says disgusted Libertarianz leader Peter Cresswell, who is his party's spokesman to deregulate early childhood ...
30:
Supercomputer
Weather: Easter Holiday
Cyclone!
The above image produced from the NOAA supercomputer medium range weather model today appears to confirm the Easter storm forecast published on Scoop last week (See… Supercomputer Weather: When The Rain Comes ).
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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