Alastair Thompson - Latest News [Page 19]
Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest 28 March 2007
Wednesday, 28 March 2007, 10:34 am | Alastair Thompson
Section 59: Anne Else On The Insensibility Of Smacking Enthusiasts - Media: Public Address Radio Is Born! - Scoop Satire: Lyndon Hood Takes An Incoherent Look At The Week's Events - US Attorneys: Evidence Of White House Involvement Piles Up - American ... More >>
Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest March 23 2007
Friday, 23 March 2007, 5:00 pm | Alastair Thompson
Stateside With Rosalea: D.C. Impressions From Inside The Power House - Iran: What's It Like Waiting Around To Be Bombed? - Foreign Affairs: Cameron Walker Examines The NZ Double Standard On US Aggression - 911: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed & Senate Approval ... More >>
Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest 21 March 2007
Wednesday, 21 March 2007, 11:10 am | Alastair Thompson
Foreign Affairs: Is NZ Poised For A Major Foreign Policy Shift? - Stateside: Where Rosalea Becomes An American Citizen - Motornet: Karl Ferguson Reviews A Korean Diesel - Iraq: A Majority of Iraqis Support Violent Attacks on U.S. Forces - US Attorneys: ... More >>
Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest 17 March 2007
Saturday, 17 March 2007, 12:17 am | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Satire: Mr Field Goes To Wellington - Foreign Affairs: What Is To Gain From A Cosy NZ/US Relationship? - Foreign Affairs: Is NZ Poised For A Major Foreign Policy Shift? - US Attorneys Scandal: Michael Collins Exposes The American Coup Nexus - ... More >>
Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest 12 March 2007
Monday, 12 March 2007, 7:53 pm | Alastair Thompson
UQ Wire: What Did Israel Know in Advance of the 9/11 Attacks? - Finance: Carolyn Baker On A Return To Serfdom In America? - Privacy: FBI Patriot Act Abuses Do Not Lead To A Resignation - Impeachment: Cindy Sheehan On The Mini-Revolution In Vermont ... More >>
Sludge Report #174: RBNZ Remains Housing Fixated
Thursday, 8 March 2007, 11:06 am | C.D. Sludge
Reading through today's Monetary Policy Statement it seems that our Reserve Bank Governor Dr Alan Bollard remains somewhat fixated on New Zealand house price inflation. Unfortunately on the face of things there doesn't seem to be much he can do about ... More >>
Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest 7 March
Wednesday, 7 March 2007, 1:22 pm | Alastair Thompson
Police: Anne Else On The Rickards Verdict - Lebanon: Yasmine Ryan Photo Report From Beirut - Plamegate: Finally Fitzmas Is Here!: - Meditations: Where Did We Come From? Who Are We? And What Lies Ahead For Us? - Culture: Everyone Gets Together For Sydney ... More >>
ARCHIVES: Scoop Commentary Early 2006 - Dec. 2006
Wednesday, 7 March 2007, 1:09 pm | Alastair Thompson
ARCHIVES: Scoop Commentary Early 2006 - December 2006 From: http://www.scoop.co.nz/features/commentary.html More >>
Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest 5 Mar. 2007
Monday, 5 March 2007, 11:08 am | Alastair Thompson
Environment: Pacific Ecologist No. 13: Climate & Poverty Solutions - American Coup: Missouri Activists CampaignTo Bring Back Paper Ballots - Iran: Comment On The Prospects Of A New War - Iraq: Stopping The War – Three Perspectives - Bush Vs Rule Of Law: ... More >>
NZ Freelance 2007 Conference - Time To Register
Monday, 5 March 2007, 12:20 am | Alastair Thompson
If you're planning to attend the second national conference on freelancing, then please check out the the Bank of New Zealand Freelance 2007 conference website at www.freelance2007.co.nz More >>
Audio: Trevor Malllard Announces Landcorp Review
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 4:52 pm | Alastair Thompson
State Owned Enterprises Minister this afternoon called a press conference to announce a decision of the Government, taken this morning, to review all LandCorp land sales in light of the dispute with the Hauraki Iwi over a block of land at Whenuakite. More >>
Audio: Maori Party Presser On Whenuakite Dispute
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 11:47 am | Alastair Thompson
As the Government has been moving swiftly to defuse the dispute over a planned land sale at Whenuakite of land claimed by the Hauraki Iwi and subject to a Treaty Claim, the Maori Party are calling for comprehensive review of the Treaty Settlement Process. More >>
Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest 27 Feb. 2007
Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 10:41 am | Alastair Thompson
Scoop In NYC: UN Boss Unaware Of Fiji/UN Peacekeeping Deployment - Satire: Media Maltreatment Of The Executive Leads To Poetical Apology - Religion: Is Easter About Retail Therapy Or Personal Reflection? - Intelligence: Wot, No Jihadis? - Iran: Uri ... More >>
Scoop Reflection: Ash Wednesday At The Cenotaph
Wednesday, 21 February 2007, 9:39 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Reflection: Ash Wednesday At The Cenotaph Ash Wednesday Catholic Peacemakers distribution of the ashes service, 21 February at Wellington Cenotaph. Sacrament by Fr Gerard Burns, St Anne's Parish Priest, Newtown, Wellington. Reflection By Sister ... More >>
Scoop Audio/Images: Clark & Howard On Iraq & Obama
Friday, 16 February 2007, 3:11 pm | Alastair Thompson
Today's Trans-Tasman bilateral press conference ended prematurely as New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark shielded the Australian Prime Minister John Howard from questions Scoop.co.nz sought to ask about Iraq and the Aus. PM's recent remarks about ... More >>
Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest Feb. 15 2007
Thursday, 15 February 2007, 10:28 am | Alastair Thompson
- UQ Wire: " a terrorist act in the U.S. blamed on Iran; culminating in a 'defensive' U.S. military action against Iran" - Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski - American Coup: Payback Time In Ohio - Iran: World Govts Concern While US/Iran Clash Intensifies - War Lies: ... More >>
Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest 9 Feb. 2007
Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 11:02 am | Alastair Thompson
Democracy & S***t: Latest Public Address Blend Includes A Dash Of Scoop & Other S***t - PlameGate: Truthout Reads Between The Lines & Catches A President - Motornet: Karl Ferguson Gets A Thumbs Up For The Alfa 159 - American Coup: Blackboxvoting.org ... More >>
Audio: PM's Presser Monday, February 12, 2007
Monday, 12 February 2007, 6:53 pm | Alastair Thompson
Nuclear arms manufacturer investments by the NZ Super Fund received short shrift from the PM during the course of the conference, as did the idea of a Mortgage Tax which the PM says Michael Cullen did not "float" on Friday. A mortgage tax was now ... More >>
Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest 29 Jan. 2007
Monday, 29 January 2007, 4:42 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Satire: National Leader Announces New Leader Prize - Mexico: Oaxaca's Repression Widens To Close Churches - Israel/Occupied Palestine: Remembering Palestine's Fallen Leader - Protest: 100s Of Thousands Of Americans Take To The Streets - American Coup: ... More >>
Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest 26 Jan. 2006
Friday, 26 January 2007, 1:09 pm | Alastair Thompson
Photo Essay: Mon Monreal's Surreal Views Of Welly's Botanical Garden's - Antiquities: Bob Hecht's Former Partner Talks To Suzan Mazur - Motornet: Karl Ferguson Checks Out 2 Merc SUVs - Iraq: Opposition To War Grows On Eve Of Massive Protest - Iran: ... More >>