Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Scoop: Daily Ratings
TO CHANGE MY SCOOP OPTIONS OR UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS
LIST
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/myscoop/signin.html
Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1:
UQ
Wire: Connecting The Dots Bush..Bath..Bin
Laden
Saudi Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, an Osama bin Laden benefactor, has laundered money into tax-exempt U.S. entities for years as a foreign financier of terrorism. But a new 9/11 lawsuit is thrusting Mahfouz’s latent past business links to George W. ...
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, ...
3:
Upton-on-line
- Diaspora Edition 29th August
Special Edition for readers interested in Sustainable Development, especially in NZ * Stop Press: important Dutch report advocates “a return to basics”; see below * [General readers may care to award themselves a break until the next issue]Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
A
Debate on Iraq As U.S. Warplanes Kill
Eight
AS U.S. WARPLANES KILL EIGHT IN IRAQ, A DEMOCRACY NOW EXCLUSIVE DEBATE From Basra to the Pentagon: Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark at the scene of the attack vs. Lt Colonel David Lapan at the Pentagon From… http://www.democracynow.org/iraq-debate
5:
Questions
Of The Day - 28 August 2002
Mr SPEAKER: Before we come to questions for oral answer, I would like to advise all members that as from today an uncorrected transcript of oral questions, question time in the House, will be available on the Office of the Clerk Internet site from ...
6:
Keith
Rankin: Teacher Relativity
I generally favour higher wage rates over lower wage rates. Higher wage rates enable parents to work fewer hours. (Commission for the Family, take note.) Further, higher wage rates encourage firms to economise on labour. The result is higher productivity; ...
7:
Questions
For Oral Answer Thursday, 29 August
2002
1. TAITO PHILLIP FIELD to the Minister of Pacific Island Affairs: What progress has been made with the establishment of a national Pacific radio network?
8:
Funds
To Be Found For Suburbs Rugby Club
Upgrade
A big increase in the number of women's rugby teams is one of the reasons the Suburbs Rugby Football Club in Avondale urgently needs to upgrade its changing and showering facilities.
9:
Dunne
blamed for kids on cannabis
Green MP Nandor Tanczos today said Peter Dunne must take full responsibility for children continuing to access and use cannabis as a result of blocking the introduction of legislation which would reduce children's access to cannabis.
10:
Tanczos:
and kids will continue to use
cannabis...
Nandor Tanczos And kids will continue to use cannabis... Address in reply speech Delivered 28 August at 9.30pm
11:
Scoop
Images: Katya Rivas In Wellington
Dr Ricardo Castanon With A Slide Showing A Cloud Formation (In The Image Of Mary)
12:
American
Group Defies Iraq War Rhetoric - Part
I
They say bravado breeds idiocy, arrogance, and insensitivity. That is certainly true of all the politicians who stand in the shadows, spewing their Iraq war rhetoric, systematically ignoring the humanitarian toll such a war would produce.
13:
Jeanette
Fitzsimons Address In Reply
Speech
Jeanette's speech in response to the Prime Minister's speech from the throne Jeanette Fitzsimons MP, Green Party co-leader
14:
Greens
offer cooperation, but not
confidence
The Green Party today proposed an amendment to the no confidence motion in the Labour-Progressive Government, based on the failure of the Speech from the Throne to address fundamental concerns about the direction of social, environmental and economic policy.
In This Edition: NZ HRT Prescription Numbers - Growing The Economy & Saving - Heaps Of Junk - Can We Ever Bask In The Sun?
16:
Pelvic
Floor - Peak Performance
Introduce the simple lifelong habit of pelvic floor exercise that will enhance your physical and sexual well being, now and in the future.
17:
Katya
Rivas: I Want Us to Talk about
Heaven
Love of My sorrows, I want us to talk about Heaven. The place of which you must talk to encourage My children to work toward its conquest... I transfigured before My apostles so they would see the beauty of My divine face and what irradiates from ...
18:
UQ
Wire: 911 Hijackers Who Lived At A US Navy
Base
Come Fly With Me? A Saudi Flying Instructor Who Died Mysteriously On May 8 Had The Same Name as Two 9/11 Hijackers Who Lived At The Same U.S. Naval Air Base
19:
Deborah
Coddington Maiden Speech
Mr Speaker, congratulations on your appointment as speaker for the new term of the 47^th Parliament.
20:
Saudi
Arabia: The Sarajevo of the 21st
Century?
Is Iraq a Diversion from the Real Invasion or Will Bush Try to Occupy Both Countries at Once? - by Michael C. Ruppert of From The Wilderness
21:
Images:
Portland George Bush Protest Turns
Nasty
The following images and press statement come from the Portland Indymedia website which is carrying extensive coverage of the Bush Protest and its aftermath. See… http://portland.indymedia.org/
22:
“Baise-Moi”
should be Banned says Bill
Hastings
Chief Censor Bill Hastings has confirmed that the French sex-violence film “Baise-Moi” (transl. “F*** Me” or “Rape Me”) is a shocking film that is injurious to public good and should be banned.
23:
NZ
Public Service Amongst Most Honest In
World
New Zealand public servants have been confirmed as amongst the most honest in the world, the State Services Commissioner, Michael Wintringham, said today.
24:
Anna
Leese Wins Mobil Song Quest
Anna Leese, a 21 year old soprano from Woodville, has won the Mobil Song Quest 2002.
It is a privilege for me to exercise the prerogative of Her Majesty the Queen and open the 47th Parliament.
26:
Reducing
Poverty Key To NZ’s
Future
Reducing poverty in NZ needs to be a key priority for this government according to a report released today by the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services.
Could I just thank the members for the warmth of their welcome. From the Prime Minister who came up and welcomed me by name while I was having dinner with Jeanette on my first night in Bellamy's, to fellow Coast to Coaster Bill English and all of the ...
28:
Scoop
Images: Katya Rivas Portrait
Bolivian Mystic (& Scoop Columnist) Katya Rivas
29:
David
Miller: Al-Qaeda Deals the US Another
Blow
The discovery of a large archive of video footage in the remains of an al-Qaeda training camp could not have come at a worst time for the United States. For one thing, the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks is only a few weeks away. Given that ...
30:
NZ
First Preliminary Caucus
Responsibilities
--- MP'S NAME ---- MAJOR PORTFOLIOS --- ASSOCIATE PORTFOLIOS RT HON WINSTON PETERS Commerce, Economic Development, Finance, Immigration Racing, Revenue, SOE’s PETER BROWN Accident Insurance, Energy, Labour, Transport BRENT CATCHPOLE Communications ...
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
Ian Powell: New Zealand’s Shameful Modern Slavery Shutdown
Gordon Campbell: On The Hikoi Arrival, And Tyler Childers
Alastair Thompson: COP29 Erasure Story Update – All's Well That Ends Well
Binoy Kampmark: Thank You For Emitting - The Hypocrisies Of COP29
Alastair Thompson: COP29 Erasure – COP29 Media Center Crippled
Ramzy Baroud: End Of Empathy - Did The Gaza Genocide Render The UN Irrelevant?