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Alastair Thompson
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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.
Alastair Thompson - Latest News [Page 56]
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 6 April 2004, 3:12 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - LEAD: PM's Presser: Is There Wiggle Room Yet For Tariana? - Foreshore & Seabed Legislation Imminent - Firas Al-Atraqchi: Fallujah Expects The Worst - David Miller: Mercenaries & Iraq More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 5 April 2004, 4:47 pm | Alastair Thompson
Report Accuses Oz & NZ Of Bullying Pacific On Trade - Big Brother Seen Lurking In American Visitor Changes - Bev Harris Gets Inside Sequoia's Voting Machines - Hard New & More Is There - Ramzy Baroud: Voting Incentives In the United States - Patricia ... More >>
Sludge Report #162 - Sequoia Voting Code Released
Friday, 2 April 2004, 5:41 pm | C.D. Sludge
Earlier today Scoop published a report from Blackboxvoting.org 's Bev Harris about holes in the Sequoia vote tabulation software. Arguably this is the biggest new development in the black box voting saga since this column announced the release into the wild ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 2 April 2004, 3:51 pm | Alastair Thompson
Hobbit To Be Shot In Wellywood - But Not By PJ - Travellers To Turkey Advised To Contact MFAT - Israel Moves To Starve 600,000 Palestinians - STORY OF THE WEEK: ACT Mortified At Suggestions Of Govt. Building Generation - US Economic Survey - New ... More >>
Public Address 02/04/04 - Last Words
Friday, 2 April 2004, 11:42 am | Alastair Thompson
It's hard to describe gout pain, but I'll have a go. At maximum welly, it's a deep, inexorable throb, as if a paralysis in your foot (or other extremity) is spreading outwards. It's hot. There are little razor-edge high notes... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 1 April 2004, 5:04 pm | Alastair Thompson
A Second Look At The Watcher Of The Watchers United Future Pushes For Reform of CYFS Several Israeli Perspectives On The Yassin Assassination STORY OF THE WEEK: Hodgson Talks Energy After Aqua Saint Peter Of Miramar Is Fed Up With Being Called ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 31 March 2004, 4:49 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - SIS Inspector General Greig Off The Zaoui Case - Michael King And His Wife Die In Car Accident - Anthony Haas Farewells A Friend - Bosnian Serb: Ten Years Jail For Burning Muslim Village - Hard News & More Is There - Rosalea ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 30 March 2004, 5:51 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Special Report: Is The SIS Performing Below Par But Beyond Reach? - US GM Testing Laboratory Loses MAF Accreditation - Seven Former Warsaw Pact Countries Enter NATO - STORY OF THE WEEK: Look! No Power Shortages Here – Hodgson More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 29 March 2004, 4:42 pm | Alastair Thompson
State Owned Generator Meridian Gives Up On Project Aqua - Govt’s Proposed Draconian Passport Law Change Pressured By USA - Dead and Wounded Counted in Palestine Territories - Stateside: Where Rosalea Crosses The Pacific - John Roughan Crosses Pens With The ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 26 March 2004, 4:07 pm | Alastair Thompson
Mallard Announces Race Funding Review Terms - PM Ups The Veteran Quota On Cassino Trip - Security Council Outrage Vetoed By U.S - Full Coverage From The 911 Commission In D.C. - Hard News & More Is There! - St Molesworth More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 25 March 2004, 4:02 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Brash Drums Down Economic Confidence - High Profit Low Tax Banks Earn Themselves A Review - STORY OF THE WEEK: Winston Speaks On The Treaty - Wayne Mapp Wants Answers From Wilson - UQ Wire: Startling Allegations By Former ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 3:40 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Security Council Holds Urgent Open Meeting On Israel Attack - BERL Predicts Economic Growth Will Continue - Powell & Rumsfeld Testify at 9-11 Inquiry - Truth Movement Holds Presser - Hard News & More Is There! - UQ Wire: Did ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 23 March 2004, 5:03 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Israeli Prime Minister Orders Gun-Ship Assassination Of Hamas Head - … REACTION: Palestine’s Ahmad Qurei Says Assassination A Crazy Act - Maori TV To Finally Arrive This Sunday - Afghanistan: Escalation Of Deadly Attacks ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 22 March 2004, 7:59 pm | Alastair Thompson
Police Corrupt? Robinson Insists Bad Cops Not Condoned - - Justices Express Concern Over Inspector General’s Competency - Back To Baghdad: UN To Return To Iraq - STORY OF THE WEEK: Inspite Of Poll Nats Still Don't Want Treaty Commission More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 19 March 2004, 5:02 pm | Alastair Thompson
Zaoui Lawyers Say Greig Comments Present Apparent Bias - Nationwide Anti-War Protests: Saturda - UN Security Council Eyes Kosovo Violence - Hard News Is There! - Richard Ehrlich: Thai Sex Boss Running For Office - Stateside: Where Rosalea Gets Some Unwanted ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 5:02 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Another Apparent Govt. U-Turn On Foreshore - 72 Hour Counter Terrorism Response Exercise Monday - … Meanwhile Pete Hodgson's Clock Shuts Down Central Wellington - Aus. Immigration Detainees Seize Control Of Compound - Hard ... More >>
NEWSFLASH: Suspected Bomb A Gift To Minister
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 11:26 am | Alastair Thompson
Wellington Police say a suspicious package delivered to the Reserve Bank Building - which led to a bomb scare and the evacuation of four buildings - has been identified as a "ticking gift to a cabinet minister". More >>
NEWSFLASH UPDATE: Reserve Bank Bomb Scare
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 10:05 am | Alastair Thompson
A police sergeant spoken to by Scoop says this is not an exercise as far as he is aware. Conincidentally a major Counter terrorism exercise starts next Monday . More >>
NEWSFLASH: Reserve Bank Bomb Scare
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 9:28 am | Alastair Thompson
The Reserve Bank Building in Wellington adjacent to Parliament was evacuated this morning and Bowen Street and the bottom of the Terrace blocked to all traffic and pedestrians after a bomb scare. More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 8:02 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Brash Tax Pack Not Enough For Business Cronies - NZIS vs SIS Over Three Allegedly Dangerous Residents - Amnesty Concerned Over Wave Of Syrian Kurds Arrests - STORY OF THE WEEK: Race Based Funding For Young Crims Criticised More >>
