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The Weekend’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
The announcement of the filming of part of the Hollywood feature film The Last Samurai in Taranaki is the culmination of 12 months' activity by Film New Zealand, Investment New Zealand, and regional film promotion organisations.
2:
Baise
Moi, Plain Smut and Violence?
For the moral high-grounders among us the decisions to ban the movie Baise Moi both in New Zealand and Australia must seem like a victory for all that is good in the world. Certainly Baise Moi is pornographic in many aspects. There's real-time sex ...
3:
Car
imports take new safety rules in their stride
Fears that used car importers would be forced out of business by new frontal impact rules have proved to be completely groundless, based on a near-record 11,929 used cars imported in April, the first month that the new standard came into operation.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
HARD
NEWS 17/05/02 - Most Unseemly
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... well, let's hope the police have the right men, and all of them. You didn't need to live in South Auckland to feel a sense of dread this week in the wake of three armed robberies - two of which culminated in cold-blooded ...
5:
INVESTIGATION:
Sept 11th - Unanswered Questions
Within a few months, the events of Sept. 11th, 2001 became but an echo of the events that followed. War in Afghanistan, anthrax, unprecedented powers of detention: the public mind moves from one shock to another, appearing to accept the government’s ...
6:
Scoop
Link: CBS - What Bush Knew Before Sept.
11
SCOOP EDITORS NOTE: CBS News is being attributed with breaking the news of White House foreknowledge of the 911 hijackings. The following are links to their Scoop reports.
7:
Firas
Al-Atraqchi: Lucas Unleashes the Clone
Army
Defying critics and the worried jitters of millions of fans, George Lucas' second instalment in the Star Wars universe of prequels delivers one hell of a laser punch.
8:
Feedback:
Hooters, Not Personal
Development
BSB’s article makes some good points, but it misses what I see as the big picture.
9:
Keith
Rankin: Carbon Emissions and Free
Trade
I am ambivalent on global warming. I am sure it is happening, while sceptical that it is happening to the extent that many environmentalists claim. I am not at all sure that human activity is the principal cause of global warming. I certainly dislike ...
Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
11:
Howard's
End: The Perfect Bomb
The increasing number of suicide belt-bombers and the diversity of their backgrounds is causing concern to global security experts who now fear the low-cost and difficult to detect bombing tactic could be used more often on buses, trains and in shopping ...
12:
Criticism
of Terrorism Bill secrecy
justified
Green MP Keith Locke has backed Professor Jane Kelsey's exposure of an earlier, harsher, version of the anti-terrorism bill currently before Parliament.
13:
Return
of National Party donations for
1996
The Electoral Commission will not be taking any further action about donations Fay Richwhite made to the National Party in 1996.
14:
Say
Sorry For Policy Of Silence
East Timor's Independence must be celebrated. And New Zealand must share in that, but we must also say sorry for past government's policy of silence, a policy nurtured significantly in the 1990s by the then New Zealand Foreign Minister Don McKinnon.
15:
Terrorism
Suppression Bill: What Govt
Wanted
Auckland University law professor Jane Kelsey has secured the release of the original amendments to the Terrorism Bill (dated 25 October 2001) which the Government attempted to push through without public scrutiny late last year.
16:
Full
Criminal Records Must Be Made
Public
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks has written to the Corrections and Justice Ministers seeking assurances that when the murderers in the two South Auckland shootings are convicted, their previous criminal record details will not be suppressed.
17:
Government
moves on illegal street racing issue
MP Clayton Cosgrove’s Land Transport (Street and Illegal Drag Racing) Amendment Bill was introduced to the House as a government Bill today.
18:
Scientists
Find New Submarine Hot Springs
New Zealand, American, and Japanese scientists have found new submarine hot springs northeast of New Zealand.
19:
Howard's
End: Raising Revenue From Boy
Racers
In a typical knee-jerk reaction to the problem of street racers, both local and central government politicians are all jumping on the bandwagon wanting to introduce yet another law, this time to be called the Land Transport (Street and Illegal Drag ...
20:
Hay
And Leaves Fly In Mainland Poultry
Office
At 10am today the Animal Liberation Delivery Team covered Mainland Poultry’s Central Dunedin Office with hay and leaves, in an action highlighting the company’s total lack of animal ethics.
New Zealand First has harsh criticism of Alliance Leader and Youth Affairs Minister Laila Harré’s drug education initiative, most notably the decision to have pro-cannabis activist Nandor Tanczos front the programme.
22:
Shock
And Dismay At Fisheries Commission
Payments
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has expressed shock and dismay at the extent to which commissioners have dipped into Waitangi fisheries assets. Commenting on revelations that $11 million in fees has been paid to Waitangi Treaty Fisheries commissioners ...
23:
ASB
Relieved At Manukau Serial Killings
Charges
We are relieved that Police have charged three men in relation to the Manukau Serial Killings.
24:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day –16
May
Today’s questions concerned: Drug Education – Corrections Emergency Response Unit – Jim’s New Party – Youth Offending – Party Hopping Bill – Venture Investment Fund – Local Body Election Donations - MidCentral Health Cancer Treatment – Petrol And ...
25:
Tube
Talk: Is The West Wing Losing Its
Sheen?
Praise the Lord and pass the broccoli, "The West Wing" has returned! Grandiose, witty and slightly pretentious, "West Wing" follows the workings of the staff of the Oval Office, home of the American President.
26:
Rumsfeld
Interview with Rush
Limbaugh
Limbaugh: We rarely have guests on the program, as you know, but we make exceptions now and then when warranted, and certainly such a circumstance is warranted today. The Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld joins us. Mr. Secretary, this is a real ...
27:
Babylon
Express: Comforting With Intent
A Petone man with no sporting ability was arrested this morning after entering the Starship Troopers Children’s Hospital in Wellington and attempting to comfort children in the Leukaemia ward.
28:
Sexual
Violence Not Needed In Our Society
New Zealand First MP and campaigner for improved censorship standards Peter Brown has secured a meeting with the Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon George Hawkins next week to seek the removal of the present censor, on the grounds that he has failed ...
29:
Scoop:
Top Scoops + Just Politics
Hard News Is Here! - 911: How Much Did George W. Know? - East Timor Independence Day: Memories Good And Bad - Howard’s End: The Global Threat Of Suicide Bombing - No Further Action Over National Donation - Govt’s Preferred Terror Bill Exposed - ...
30:
Press
Briefing by Ari Fleischer (Hijack
Warnings)
Can you tell us specifically what date the President was briefed that there was a threat of hijacking, where he was when he got the briefing, who he gave -- a couple more -- who gave him the briefing, what agencies were warned about the threat, and ...
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Gordon Campbell: On The Coalition’s Awful, Not Good, Very Bad Poll Results
Ian Powell: Policy Vacuum Enables For-profit Corporate General Practice Ownership By Stealth
Gordon Campbell: On Iran Killing Its Rappers, And Searching For The Invisible Dr. Reti
Peter Dunne: MPs Unusually Quiet On Pay Rise
Ian Powell: Cuba And New Zealand: A Relationship Worthy Of Strengthening
Gordon Campbell: On bird flu, AUKUS entry fees and Cindy Lee