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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.
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Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 16 April 2003, 5:18 pm | Alastair Thompson
STATE OF IT: Why Bush Wants Syria And Lebanon - PM Must Voice Concerns Over US Syria Rhetoric - Greens - Jason Leopold: Profiteering From War And Terror At Cheney's Alma Mater - Report From An Iraqi Refugee Camp - Catherine Fitts: Sex Slavery Company ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 15 April 2003, 4:13 pm | Alastair Thompson
Bankruptcy Incorporated – Who's Paying For This War - Bernard Weiner: Where Next For The New American Century - Neville Bennett: Investing On A War Footing - David Miller: U.S. Hawks Set Sights On The Road To Damascus - An Interview From The Homefront ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 14 April 2003, 4:25 pm | Alastair Thompson
Rupert Murdoch Sells NZ Newspaper Business UQ Wire: What Has Jerry Falwell Got To Do With 911? Babylon Express: Selling Your Soul To Be Decriminalised Firas Al-Atraqchi: Operation Iraqi Chaos Guest Opinion: How It Feels To Be An American How Things Will ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 11 April 2003, 4:14 pm | Alastair Thompson
Xtra Has A Whole Dumb Week – Could This Be Why? - Cullen Views On Air NZ Capital Raising "Misplaced" - Commerce Commission Saves Air New Zealand - For Now - Air NZ Urged To Give Up Monopolistic Ambitions - Hard News And More Is There! - John Chuckman: ... More >>
Broker Says Air NZ Capital Can Be Raised At Home
Friday, 11 April 2003, 10:42 am | Alastair Thompson
Andrew McDouall Managing Director of McDouall Stuart Securities, a NZSE firm, said this morning that Finance Minister Michael Cullen's concerns over raising capital for Air New Zealand appeared "misplaced". More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 10 April 2003, 4:34 pm | Alastair Thompson
Air NZ-Qantas Deal Set To Be Declined - Air NZ Disappointed But Determined - No Surprises On Air NZ Deal For Cullen - The Mystery Of JessicaLynch.Org Is Solved - Satirical Images: George W. Bush The Actor - Babylon Express: Operation Limb Liberation ... More >>
Scoop Mystery: Inventing Private Lynch? Or Not…
Thursday, 10 April 2003, 2:33 pm | Alastair Thompson
Another day another inexplicable event on the world wide weirdness. This time we have the odd case of the prescient registration of an Internet Domain Name. More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 9 April 2003, 4:42 pm | Alastair Thompson
NZ Journalists Condemn USA Fatal Attacks - Nats Siphon More Mileage From PM’s Gore Comment - Air NZ-Qantas Cartel A Crock - Scoop Images: Ouch!!! - Russian Iraq War Site Ends Transmission - Firas Al-Atraqchi: Iraq's Future Govt. Heading For Disaster ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 8 April 2003, 4:57 pm | Alastair Thompson
Starry Sky Tapestry Brings Feelings Of Peace - The Real Deal About Enron - Xtra Has A Couple Of Dumb Days - Hard News Is There - Babylon Express: McDonalds 13th Hour Peace Plan - South Coast Waves Big, But Not Really BIG!!! - FERC Delivers Wall St ... More >>
Scoop Images: 10m White Horses On The South Coast
Tuesday, 8 April 2003, 11:54 am | Alastair Thompson
Images of the South Coast taken this morning at high tide. The waves were big, but nowhere near as big as the huge waves of Waitangi Day last year which crashed up and over the Wellington South Coast Road and which led to the stranding of the Jody ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 7 April 2003, 4:12 pm | Alastair Thompson
Have The People Or Congress Okayed World War IV? - Hard News Is There: Waiting At The Gates Of Babylon - The Path That Leads to Bush's Demise - Kaminsky Sees A Bleak Future If U.S. Wins War - Carving Up The Spoils (1): On U.S. Plans For Its 51st State ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 4 April 2003, 4:34 pm | Alastair Thompson
On The Homefront Old Glory Becomes A Battleground - Award Winning America's Cup Photographs - The Real Deal About Enron - UQ Wire: Victims Of 911 Seeking Real Answers - Stateside: Rosalea's War Diary - Thursday - Behind The Veil: The Muslim Headscarf ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 3 April 2003, 4:47 pm | Alastair Thompson
How Crims Contribute To Global Economy - Firas Al-Atraqchi: Invasion’s Sinister Twist Intensifies - True Timeline Of 9-11 Revealed - Missing US Soldier Jessica Lynch (19) Rescued - Feedback on Scoop Publishing War-Reality Images - Stateside: Rosalea's ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 2 April 2003, 4:18 pm | Alastair Thompson
Missing US Soldier Jessica Lynch (19) Rescued - Feedback on Scoop Publishing War Reality Images - Stateside: Rosalea's War Diary - Tuesday - EYEWITNESSES: Human Shields on USUK Created Carnage - Sam Smith: Decoding DC - SATIRE: Many A True Word’s Spoken ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 1 April 2003, 3:38 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - The History Of American Imperialism - Peter Arnett Finds A New Home At The Daily Mirror - This Is Not An April Fool's Joke – Just Weirder Than Jacko - Jason Leopold: Rumsfeld's Big Mistake - Between The Lines: The Public ... More >>
Parliament Moves Into Period Of "Tidy Up" Urgency
Tuesday, 1 April 2003, 3:26 pm | Alastair Thompson
The House has voted to go into urgency this afternoon and is therefore expected to sit through the day for the rest of the week till late Friday to get through a long list of bills. More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 31 March 2003, 4:40 pm | Alastair Thompson
Peter Jackson To Make Another Blockbuster In Wellywood - Dennis Hans: President And "Trusted" Aide As Phony As Niger Documents - Bernard Weiner: Anyone Detect a Familiar Odor in the Air? - David Miller: A War Built On A Web Of Lies - When War ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 28 March 2003, 4:02 pm | Alastair Thompson
Where Will The Next America's Cup Be Held? The Short List Is… - The US And UK Are Eliminating Truth From War - Tui Billboard Bandits Operating In Auckland Too - The Graphic Portrayal Of Real War - Ashcroft's Brownshirts Move Against Rock'n'Roll - ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 27 March 2003, 4:32 pm | Alastair Thompson
NZ Calls For End To War At United Nations - Scoop Is In The House - Scoop Editorial: The Graphic Portrayal Of Real War - Anti-War Protest Devonport Naval Base Auckland - Intelligence Failure In Iraq (1) - Intelligence Failure In Iraq (2) - UnansweredQuestions.Org ... More >>
Scoop Images: Wings Over Wellington
Thursday, 27 March 2003, 12:25 am | Alastair Thompson
The following images show a team of five planes who performed an aerobatic display routine over Wellington at the weekend. More >>
