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The top 20 rating items on Scoop yesterday were...
1: Nuclear
Spaceplane Downed, South of
Brisbane!
Hamilton, New Zealand: For the last two months rumors have been flying over the internet that, concurrent with the US presidential elections, elements of the US black spaceplane arsenal would be de-classified. No one seemed to know if this was ...
2:
Bunkle’s
Not My Problem, Goodbye - PM Off To
Andes
Prime Minister Helen Clark is flying to South America tonight for a holiday in the Andes, leaving Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton to question Alliance Minister Phillida Bunkle about her taxpayer-owned Oriental Bay apartment tomorrow.
3:
Mallard
Still Parliament's Worst Behaved
MP
Trevor Mallard is still Parliament's worst behaved MP according to a list of Parliament's 10 worst behaved MPs, prepared by United Future leader, Hon Peter Dunne.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
HARD
NEWS 15/12/00 - The Grinch By A Mile
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... so, Closing the Gaps no longer. The Prime Minister is lancing another boil, banning another word or three. She is perfectly correct when she says that the phrase in question was spawned by the previous National government - it ...
5:
Scientists
Prepare For Floods And
Drought
Scientists are figuring out when we'll have too much rain and when we'll have too little.
6:
Richard
Prebble's Letter from Wellington
18/12/00
A growing economy is like a rising tide - it lifts all ships, was Richard Prebble's message to a breakfast meeting last week. Richard reviewed the highs and lows of the parliamentary year, Labour's keenness to change its spots and ACT's plan for ...
7:
ISOCNZ
Proposal For New Second Level
Domain
The Internet Society of New Zealand Inc (ISOCNZ) has begun public consultation on the first proposal to create a new second level domain in New Zealand since 1996.
8:
Upton-on-line
December 15th
A hectic round of loose end tying brings upton-on-line to the end of 2000 and the last edition from the motherland. 42 years on the same farm (that’s all of them by the way), 17 years in the same house and 19 years of political detritus accumulating ...
9:
David
Dougherty To Be
Compensated
Minister of Justice Phil Goff announced today that the Government has agreed that compensation should be paid to David Dougherty.
10:
Sludgegate
Announcement: Last Two
Days
Counsel for both sides will present closing submissions over the next two days. Adrian Chisholm's barrister Chris La Hatte will present his closing submission all day Monday. Council's legal team will present their closing submission to the court for most ...
11:
Sludge
Report #47 – But He Hasn’t Been Elected
Yet
In This edition: But He Hasn’t Been Elected Yet - Pearls Of Wisdom
The court discovered today that a young graduate engineer was left to select Waiheke's emergency sludge disposal site almost completely on his own.
13:
Hamiltonians
pass motion to decriminalise
cannabis
A public meeting in Hamilton last night voted unanimously to support the decriminalisation of cannabis for adults.
14:
Clark
Wants To Make Up With Samuels In New
Year
“It’s time to bury the hatchet,” said Prime Minster Helen Clark today over the rift between her and the sacked Maori Affairs Minister Dover Samuels.
15:
Howard’s
End: There’s Water & Then There’s
Water
As worldwide concern mounts about water quality, fitness and health, bottled water has grown globally into a $NZ120 billion industry. John Howard writes.
16:
SkyCabs
Offer Auckland Transport
Solution
The range of possible solutions to Auckland's passenger transportation dilemma has expanded with the introduction of an innovative new system known as SkyCabs.
17:
Foundation
Law Overdue For Overhaul
Minister for Land Information Matt Robson today announced a major review of the Public Works Act 1981.
18:
New
Zealanders Getting Fitter, But Not
Slimmer
NEW Zealand adults are generally fitter than they were in 1996, however overall, many have tipped the scales in terms of obesity according the latest report Progress on Health Outcome Targets 1999.
19:
Anderton's
U-Turn on Public Audit
Bill
Opposition parties, led by National, have forced the Government to abandon its plans to allow the Auditor General to have powers over community trusts.
20:
Green
MPs Keith Locke And Nandor Tanczos
Green MP Nandor Tanczos (seated) watches fellow Green Keith Locke address the House. Photographs by Mark Graham
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Binoy Kampmark: Jesting On The Environment - Australian Mining Gets A Present
Martin LeFevre - Meditations: The Antithesis Of What Jesus Taught And Lived 
Ramzy Baroud: The West Bank's Men Of The CIA - Why Is The PA Killing Palestinians In Jenin?
Binoy Kampmark: Concentrated Markets And Iceless Fokkers
Binoy Kampmark: Catching Pegasus - Mercenary Spyware And The Liability Of The NSO Group
Ramzy Baroud: The World Owes Palestine This Much - Please Stop Censoring Palestinian Voices