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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Scoop Archive: UQ Wire: Was Paul Wellstone Murdered?
Democrats Twice As Likely to Die In Crashes: Was Paul Wellstone Murdered? - History Suggests It - Crash Inconsistencies Suggest It - Many, Including Some Members of Congress, Believe It
http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/1c/83/200211201748.9b4c3d66.html
2: UQ Wire: 911 - They Let It Happen On Purpose!
Imagine you wake up from a coma and you learn that 11 months ago, an "Attack on America" destroyed some significant buildings, killed 3,000 people and forced a war against terrorism. You switch on the news and see pictures of Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0208/S00068.htm
3: Elle Intimates Strips Off With Billboard Campaign
Rush-hour traffic was treated to a striptease in Auckland today as the second of two new Elle Mapcherson Intimates billboards were unveiled by a pair of Kiwifire dancers.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0210/S00031.htm
4: No One Is Safe From America's Killer President
No One Is Safe From America's Killer President By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00150.htm
5: TUBE TALK With John T. Forde: White Trash Paradise
Like most Wellingtonian emigrés, I’m only one or two steps up the evolutionary ladder from small town white trash. Despite my snazzily-cut trousers from Mandatory and a daily trim soy latte, I, too, once drank Ribena out of plastic mugs, danced to ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00152.htm
6: Air NZ and Qantas To Form Major Airline Grouping
The Board and Management of Air New Zealand have unanimously supported the entry by the airline into a major strategic alliance with Qantas.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0211/S00206.htm
7: Qantas Has Its Cake And Eats It
Ersatz competition under "tight regulation" will suit Qantas just fine, ACT New Zealand Associate Commerce Spokesman Stephen Franks said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0211/S00563.htm
8: Kangaroo tramples over Koru
National vows to fight Qantas announcement - Australia has just achieved its biggest win over New Zealand. We have been done over and it is a very dark day for travellers, exporters and tourism groups, National Party leader, Bill English, said today in ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0211/S00564.htm
9: Howard's End: What Is Natural Justice?
A Scoop reader was talking to correspondent Maree Howard and said; "You've written a lot about natural justice and ACC and although I am not on ACC, what is natural justice?" Maree is not a lawyer but Scoop thought the question was important ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00154.htm
10: Air NZ Strategic Alliance With Qantas - Fact Sheet
Control: - 70% of ownership in NZ hands, independent NZ board, independent NZ management - Qantas has only two board members - Air NZ sits on Qantas board
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0211/S00208.htm
11: Australia Plays Accountants Anonymous
How Australia is being drawn into the global deregulation of services that has triggered a legal and ethical crisis in the US. Australia Plays Accountants Anonymous By Alan Griffiths
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00156.htm
12: Coddington Speech: Hold the Canapés...
Hold the Canapés, and Make Richard Prebble PM - Deborah Coddington Speech Delivered to ACT Waikato Regional Conference, Sunday 24 November, 2002 - We hear a lot about Jim Anderton - usually from Jim Anderton, about his Jobs Machine. How he's creating ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0211/S00562.htm
13: Inside Internet Dating... Genève-Style!
Julz’s World: “Flying Elephants and Orange Caterpillars I’m a happy kiwi girl living in Genève who wants to meet a guy who loves travelling, cinema, meals out, hiking and the mountains. (I’m a hopeless skier but I love sliding down mountains on garbage ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00153.htm
14: Air New Zealand & Qantas - Facts At A Glance
FACTS AT A GLANCE Air New Zealand Qantas Corporate Details Head office Auckland Sydney Primary Stock Exchange NZSE ASX Secondary Stock Exchange ASX Chairman John Palmer Margaret Jackson Deputy Chairman Roger France Chief Executive Officer Ralph ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0211/S00207.htm
15: Bernard Weiner: Shining Light on the Shadow Forces
Shining Our Light on the Shadow Forces: Open Letter to the Fledgling "Movement" By Bernard Weiner The Crisis Papers
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00155.htm
16: UQ Wire: : A Time to Break Silence – Rev. King
The Americans are forcing even their friends into becoming their enemies. It is curious that the Americans, who calculate so carefully on the possibilities of military victory, do not realize that in the process they are incurring deep psychological and political ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00157.htm
17: Richard Prebble’s Letter From Wellington
One law firm has told The Letter that three property deals fell over on Friday because of the latest U-turn on immigration. The Auckland Chamber of Commerce estimates that the changes will have a $2 billion negative impact. The requirement that immigrants ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0211/S00573.htm
18: Nandor challenges Dunne to listen to the experts
Green MP Nandor Tanczos is endorsing calls for a more sensible policy on cannabis by the co-author of a major medical report.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0211/S00574.htm
19: Greens oppose Air NZ sell-out
New Zealand stands to effectively lose control of yet another key asset with the announcement that Qantas will be offered a strategic stake in Air New Zealand, Green Party Co-leader Rod Donald said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0211/S00565.htm
20: Suspect Study Perpetrates "Reefer Madness" Myth
Cannabis law reformers say that research reported in the British Medical Journal - touting a causative link between cannabis use and mental illness - is fatally flawed and "conspiratorial" in its lack of objectivity.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0211/S00176.htm
21: Qantas Alliance With Air New Zealand
SYDNEY, 25 November 2002: Qantas Airways and Air New Zealand have agreed to enter into a wide-ranging strategic alliance.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0211/S00209.htm
22: ‘Equal pay for equal work’ next barrier to growth
Equal pay for equal work will be the next anti-growth roadblock to be put up by our supposedly pro-growth and innovation-backing Government, says National’s Finance spokesman, Don Brash.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0211/S00559.htm
23: Government response to Air-NZ Qantas proposal
The government today received a proposal for Air New Zealand to enter a strategic alliance with Qantas under which Qantas would take a minority stake in Air New Zealand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0211/S00571.htm
24: Dunne: welcome to the future, it looks like NAC
United Future New Zealand leader, Peter Dunne, today described the proposed Air New Zealand/Qantas co-operative venture as a black day for New Zealand aviation and the travelling public.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0211/S00567.htm
25: Scoop Archive: UQ Wire: Gore Vidal's The Enemy Within
Gore Vidal is America's most controversial writer and a ferocious, often isolated, critic of the Bush administration. Here, against a backdrop of spreading unease about America's response to the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath, we publish ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/61/a9/200210301020.f626e86d.html
26: Brash Not Brash Enough!
Libertarianz Employment Deregulation Spokesman Warwick Malone cautiously congratulated Don Brash today for the former Reserve Bank Governor’s conclusions that so-called 'equal pay for equal work’ will be the next barrier to growth.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0211/S00185.htm
27: National wants to clip the wings on airline deal
National’s promising to work with the export and tourism sectors, as well as other parties in Parliament, to stop the partial sale of Air New Zealand to Qantas.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0211/S00560.htm
28: STV Petition Nears Target
Dunedin Mayor Sukhi Turner will tomorrow become the 4000th person to sign the Local Body Electoral Reform Referendum petition at 10.30am in the Mayor's office Tuesday 19th November. Ms Turner is one of a handful of city councillors who voted in favour ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/AK0211/S00086.htm
29: Heat on Hawkins to front up on leaky buildings
The National Party’s pushing for Internal Affairs Minister George Hawkins to be called to give evidence at the select committee hearing on the leaky buildings crisis.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0211/S00561.htm
30: Ken Shirley Speech: The Death of Reasoning
Something very weird is happening in New Zealand. Increasingly superstition, fantasy, fiction and fable are creeping into our legal frameworks displacing fact, reality and reasoning.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0211/S00551.htm
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