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Published: Fri 8 Mar 2002 10:05 AM
Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
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1: Sludge Report #127 - The Hunt For Flight 77
In This Edition: The Hunt For Flight 77 - A Truly Remarkable French Website - Disinformation Warning! - Not Everyone Is Convinced - Eyewitness Reports Of The Crash….
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0203/S00030.htm
2: Keith Rankin: Auckland Traffic And The Public Good
New Zealanders are at their worst when they are "provincial", using the pejorative sense of that word. First there was that irritating minder of Peter Jackson at the Bafta awards who had to spoil the moment by saying "Up the Mainland" ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0203/S00034.htm
3: 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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0202/S00079.htm
4: Dangerous Omens for NZ National in 2002
The reasons for National’s deterioration are both numerous and complex. Its demise is due to factors beyond its control, its inability to manage transition from govt to opposition to govt again.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0203/S00036.htm
5: Links And Transcripts: Israeli Spyring Shocker
EDITOR’S NOTE: Le Monde today NZT published a lengthy report into Israeli spy activities in the US prior to 911 which raises clear questions about the extent of Israeli prior knowledge of the attacks. The story expands on material which first emerged in a ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0203/S00029.htm
6: Speech To Newmarket Rotary Club - Michelle Boag
The supposedly invincible Helen Clark, darling of the photo opportunity, is under funding health, she's messing up education, and she's out of touch with New Zealanders.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0203/S00028.htm
7: Sludge Report #128 – Truth, Beauty & Love (Part 2)
In This Edition: Truth, Beauty & Love (Part 2) - Banking Quotes (To Set The Tone) - Introduction To Banking And Finance (Whose Bananas Are They Anyway?) – More Quotes - 20 Questions, 20 Links (A Beginners Map To The Truth About Banking)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0203/S00037.htm
8: “Victimcrats” and the “Wellington Problem”
Speech by Rt Hon Winston Peters to Grey Power Manawatu, Masonic Hall, 168 Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North, Thursday 7th March 2002, 2.15 pm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0203/S00138.htm
9: Mickey Havoc Bows Out Of BFM Breafast Slot
Auckland's 95bFM has regretfully announced the departure of its breakfast show host Mikey Havoc - the self-described "loud fellow who makes you feel good and gets your sexy ass moving every morning."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0203/S00011.htm
10: Guest Opinion: 500Yrs. History So Easily Forgotten
The second-phase of Operation Enduring Freedom was launched last week: to hunt Abu Sayyaf in the jungles of Basilan and Sulu. Whilst originally a breakaway from the Moro (Muslims of the southern Philippines) independence movement, the 800-strong ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0202/S00035.htm
11: Will We Be The Last To Know, Helen?
Green Party Defence spokesperson Keith Locke says it's becoming even more absurd that the government refuses to let New Zealand know if Kiwi SAS troops are in Afghanistan.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0203/S00142.htm
12: P.O.V: Teachers' Pets
There's a special place, somewhere between martyrdom and pariahdom we reserve for people who scratch the veneer of our sexual self-deception. And Amy Gehring is going there.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0203/S00027.htm
13: Air NZ Loss Not Credible, Just Incredible
"Air New Zealand's half year loss of $376.5 million is further proof of the complex financial difficulty the company was in last year when it approached the Government to lift the cap on foreign shareholding," says National Finance spokesman ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0203/S00132.htm
14: Democracy and Equality In The Commonwealth
A Western reporter once asked Mahatma Gandhi what he thought of Western civilisation. Gandhi in his well-known wry humour said, “it is a great idea”. Indeed going by the events in CHOGM Western democracy continues to remain a “great idea”.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0203/S00032.htm
15: ACT Does Not Support National's Zoning Policy
ACT Education Spokesman MP Donna Awatere Huata today withdrew support for National's new zoning policy.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0203/S00127.htm
16: Scoop Images: Helms Deep Press Conference (1)
The following pictures show film director Peter Jackson with members of the cast and crew of the Lord of the Rings trilogy of films, the filming of which is now drawing to a close in the Wellington region.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0011/S00121.htm
17: Treasury Figures Reveal Super Folly
In a written answer to a question from Green MP Rod Donald, Treasury secretary Alan Bollard has admitted that the NZ Superannuation fund is only earning 5.2% while Government borrowing is costing between 4.8% and 6.8%.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0203/S00131.htm
18: George W. Bush And Harken Oil - Recovered History
RECOVERED HISTORY - From the overstocked archives of the Progressive Review a timeline of the Harken Energy Insider Trading play by U.S. President George W. Bush, a series of transactions that connects the bin Laden and Bush families, and a current link ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0203/S00035.htm
19: Howard's End: What The Innovators Are Up Against
As our Innovation Conference kicks off in Christchurch today, news comes out of Britain that one of its icon innovators, who runs a private company valued at more than a NZD $1 billion, is joining the industrial exodus to Asia. Maree Howard writes.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0203/S00028.htm
20: Govt Will Have To Keep Community Services Card
The Government is expected to keep the Community Services Card it strongly criticised last year, and increase the qualification threshold, National Health Spokesperson Roger Sowry said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0203/S00140.htm
21: Vine Smuggling 'Breath-Takingly Stupid' Say Greens
Green Party Biosecurity spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street said alleged vine smuggling by a grapegrower was an act of breath-taking stupidity.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0203/S00141.htm
22: Truth in Super -- Rodney Hide
Speech delivered by ACT Finance Spokesman MP Rodney Hide to the IIR Superannuation Conference, Intercontinental Hotel, Wellington
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0203/S00135.htm
23: Nick Smith – You’ve failed!
6 March 2002 Nick Smith has failed both reading comprehension and maths with a statement released today on examination fees, Education Minister Trevor Mallard said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0203/S00121.htm
24: Is Our Govt Dithering Again On Air New Zealand?
The Air New Zealand interim announcement does nothing to clear up the most ominous uncertainty facing the company, says ACT New Zealand commerce spokesman Stephen Franks. That is the threat from the Australian government.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0203/S00139.htm
25: Community GE Free Groups Concerned By Attitude
An opinion of an ACT MP that NZ community groups should not allowed to apply for comparatively tiny amounts of money when US $500m is being spent on pro GE propaganda over 5 years is considered unreasonable by GE Free organisations.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0203/S00032.htm
26: Bush Comes Clean On Free Trade Farce
The US decision to slap a 30 per cent tariff on steel imports has effectively killed off any chance of a free trade agreement between New Zealand and US, Green Party Co-leader Rod Donald said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0203/S00136.htm
27: Cullen On Air New Zealand Result
Finance Minister Michael Cullen said the Air New Zealand half year result was broadly in line with expectations.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0203/S00125.htm
28: Five Centres of Research Excellence Chosen
The CoRE Fund Committee, chaired by Sir Paul Reeves, has chosen five of the 11 shortlisted proposals to form Centres of Research Excellence. They are:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/SC0203/S00009.htm
29: The GW Bush - Osama Bin Laden Connection
EDITORS NOTE: The following is a transcript of a link submitted to Scoop by a Scoop reader. Clearly questions are raised in this material about the nature of the relationship between the Bush family and the family of Osama Bin Laden.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00108.htm
30: Sludge Report #126 – Truth, Peace & Love (Part 1)
In This Edition: Unpleasant Thoughts, Truth, Peace & Love - First Some Quotes - Immediate Threats To Peace And Security – Who Is The Enemy?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0203/S00023.htm
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