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Scoop Today - Weekend's Top Scoops
The top 20 rating items on Scoop at the weekend (Hobbit's excluded) were...
2: Bankers'
Central Bank Warns of US Bubble Will
Pop
Our export led recovery could soon be in trouble according to a Bank for International Settlements (BIS) report issued June 5.
5:
Warehouse
Stationery Now Sells No. 1
Computer
Warehouse Stationery Now Sells Number 1 U.S. Computer Brand Throughout New Zealand State-of-the-art Gateway Computers Now Available ‘In Your Town’
7:
Where
Has All The Money Gone?
Finance Minister Michael Cullen is struggling to find the money to implement the Labour led government's program.
9:
Upton-on-line
- June 16th - Budget Blues
The Government seems to have reconciled itself to a glum reception from the business sector to its first Budget. This is an ignominious defeat because the Government has, up until now, been comforting itself with hopes that the Budget would change ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
10:
HARD
NEWS: Budget, Business and
Bum-Tickle
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... Labour Finance Minister in boring Budget shock! Well, not quite ... Michael Cullen's maiden Budget was plenty interesting - not least in its disarming fiscal prudence.
11:
Sludge
Report #13 - The Budget Is
Wrong
CD and assorted Sludge have been locked up in the Beehive since 11.30am with a remarkably disappointing budget. True it contains a new lingo. But as the government has already announced most of it - what is left comes as a bit of an anti-climax.
12:
Sludge
Report #11 – More Evidence In Money
Mystery
What follows is a transcript of conversations recorded with leading figures in the Free Money for Greedy Mystery described in Sludge Report #10.
13:
Scoop
Archive: ETAN On Resumption of Military Ties with
Indonesia
The East Timor Action Network (ETAN) today called on the U.S. government to cancel plans to conduct a joint military exercise with the Indonesian military (TNI) this summer. This training is part of a proposed program to gradually restore military ...http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/63/b4/200005251001.7ca32a41.html
14:
Sludge
Report #10 - Free Money For Greedy
Mystery
Today's Sludge Report relates a strange tale involving the visit of a NZ MP to Fiji on a speaking trip, free money for the secretive and greedy, and a so called "financial freedom" movement which promotes tax avoidance, offshore trusts and VERY high yield ...
15:
The
Sludge Report #12 – Rodney’s Trip To
Fiji
C.D. Sludge has now caught up with the MP who made a trip to Fiji last year to attend a seminar of Investors International, the principal of which, Rudolf van Lin, was later arrested and charged in the US with Securities fraud. And an organisation which ...
SUVA: Week five begins. The media death skull face of terrorist George Speight struts and talks on the media as he plays his game of Winner-take-all.
17:
Scoop
Images: A Hobbit Summer
House?
Scoop is proud to present another image of Hobbitton… this time of what appears to be a fairly grand Hobbit summer house …enjoy.
18:
HARD
NEWS: Prostitutes, Thieves and
Gold-diggers
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... what didn't happen: democracy hasn't been overthrown by an out-of-town con man and a few hired goons. Not here, anyway.
20:
Winston
Peters on Investors International
Rt Hon. WINSTON PETERS (Leader, NZ First): The ACT party* in New Zealand does not like the paying of taxes, and it does not like certain legal schemes, so it indulges itself in certain schemes that are not legal.
21:
Trade
unions urged to use heads and hearts on
Fiji
Import News from the Importers Institute 16 June 2000 - Trade unions urged to use heads and hearts on Fiji
22:
Scoop
Images: 1400 At Auckland Fiji Crisis
Meeting
The Action for Restoration of Democracy in Fiji group yesterday called a meeting in the Mahatma Gandhi Centre in Auckland which was attended by 1400 people.
New Zealand's overseas debt was $109 billion, an increase of $6.7 billion, or 6.5 per cent, since 31 March 1999, Deputy Government Statistician, Ian Ewing announced today. The latest rise compares with a 3.1 per cent increase between 31 March 1998 ...
24:
Ministers
Call For Reports
Customs Minister Phillida Bunkle and Health Minister Annette King have called for reports into an inter-agency operation which involved Kaitaia Hospital this week.
25:
Cell
Tower Radiation Rises - Resident
Group
The permissible limit for exposing the public to radiation from cell towers for the functioning of cellular phones has been dramatically raised. But I have seen no reference to this in the daily media, which gets a lucrative income from advertising ...
26:
NZ
Appears In Amnesty International
Report
New Zealand's inclusion for only the third time on Amnesty International's annual list of countries violating human rights is a wake-up call to our national attitudes about asylum-seekers, AI Executive Director Ced Simpson said yesterday.
HOBBIT
STORIES...
1: Are
These For Real?
3: Scoop
Images: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: BAG END!
4: Scoop
Image: Where The Hobbits Are
6: Scoop
Images: And Not A Hobbit Was Stirring
8: Scoop
Images: Peter Jackson And The Olympic
Flame
19: Scoop
Images: Wellywood's Favourite Starlet
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