NZ Politics and the election campaign is back at the top of the ratings - it has been a while - today's top 20 rating
items on Scoop so far are...
Clark, Anderton, Prebble, Winston And Shipley - with John Campbell as presenter. Format: a minute to start - tax -
income inequality - student loans - vision - and media analysis to boot. And the consensus is.... Winston Won!
The kerfuffle over Coromandel is not about MMP. Rather, it's about first-past-the-post (FPP) and its retention in the
MMP electorate vote.
A US Republican Party aide says that New Zealand bore much of the blame for a disgraceful feud which is flaring over the
appointment of US ambassador-designate to New Zealand, Carol Moseley-Braun. John Howard reports.
The US Congress has voted for a budget bill not to pay its $900 million arrears to the UN possibly leaving the country
without a General Assembly vote come 31 December. Clinton has vetoed the bill but loss of a US vote in the UN could be
positive particularly ...
Responding to the hints of a couple of US Lord of The Rings websites – http://www.lordoftherings.com/ and
http://www.onering.net/ - Scoop earlier this week informed its star Hobbit paparazzi of a reported sighting of Gandalf’s
exploding trees in Upper Hutt.
Relations between the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, and British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, have hit an all-time
low following Blair's branding of the prince as a "goon." John Howard reports.
The following pictures show the inside of the set for the town of Bree from the Lord of The Rings Trilogy which began
shooting in New Zealand yesterday under the direction of Peter Jackson.
At the last count more than 365,000 hits had been received by the Young National’s “nocrap” website. The success of the
site is partly due to publicity generated by Labour MP Pete Hodgson’s complaints.
Having seemingly scored the internet Scoop of the week with his pictures of BREE AT FIRST LIGHT Scoop contacted the
Hobbit who scooped the world and asked him if he had any more snaps from his visit to Bree….
The Labour party has deported party President Bob Harvey to the Northern Hemisphere in an attempt to keep him out of the
spotlight during the election campaign.
Labour Wellington Central candidate Marian Hobbs has welcomed the start of the television leaders debates saying that
they showed voters how lacklustre and incoherent Richard Prebble is.
ID4 has sent me some startling news! This may not be accurate, but ID4 does have some expierence in the field of CGI
art, he first sent me this:
First it was work-for-the-dole now it's work-for-shelter. New York City is about to require all who are homeless in the
coming winter, to work in exchange for shelter - or have their children placed in foster care. John Howard reports.
There are some strange fates that can await you in this world. For example you could be walking the frozen tundras of
Siberia, with your friends and relations 22,000 years ago, only to find yourself run over by a glacier and frozen solid.
Scoop wouldn’t normally so shamelessly lift a photo from a newspaper but in this instance the claim in the Mirror/Daily
Record that this is the “first” picture of the Lord of the Rings secret Kingdom, is, respectfully disputed.
Munawar A. Anees was tried for having sexual relations with Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia's former deputy prime minister, a
charge Mr. Anees denied as part of a set-up to imprison Mr. Anwar and remove him from political life. He tells his own
story...
THE Alliance candidate for Wellington Central, Phillida Bunkle, has finally endorsed tactical voting in the electorate
by urging people to give their electorate votes to Labour.
C’mon New Zealand! Get behind the All Blacks! Wear a black and white ribbon to show your support.
The Electoral Commission has announced it has registered the logo of the political party called Association of
Sovereignz.
Free Doctors' visits? Free Prescriptions? The Alliance leader says these election bribes will cost $850million. Says
Libertarianz Tobacco Deregulation Spokesman Joy Faulkner: "This is the exact amount taken off tobacco consumers to pay
for the ...