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The top 20 rating items on Scoop over the weekend (Hobbits excluded) were...
2: At
The Edge - Vision For New
Zealand
AT THE EDGE VISION FOR NEW ZEALAND Speech by Kevin Roberts CEO Worldwide Saatchi & Saatchi Co-founder The New Zealand Edge to the New Zealand Resource Law Management Conference Auckland Friday 6 October 2000.
3:
Libertarianz
Calls For PM’s Head
As the country slides inexorably into the third world, it now appears that, as in any tin-pot dictatorship, any dissent is to be punished. Helen Clark’s call for Roger Kerr’s head shows that free speech is no longer acceptable.
4:
Telling
The Truth About The Brain Drain
I am 22 years old and next year I will graduate with two degrees, in economics and economic geography. As one of the highly skilled elite who were lucky enough (care of a $35,000 student loan) to get an education under the National Government, going ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
HARD
NEWS 10/6/00 - The Lost Boy
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... a concerned young man gathers the country's best and brightest behind him and places a full-page newspaper ad begging the country's leaders to turn the economic ship around. It is a cry in the darkness. Actually, it's a Business ...
6:
Howard's
End: Bringing Kiwis Home
Here we go again! - rushing from one perceived disaster to another. The so-called brain drain is part of being a paid-up member of the global village and it's been around for more than 20 years - affecting all countries. John Howard writes.
7:
Scoop
Image: Fountain Of Fire Dwarfs
Earth
Nasa picture of a fountain of fire on the Sun. Showing the scale of the fountains of fire as compared to earth which has been superimposed.
8:
Scoop
Feedback: 'Young New Zealanders'
Ad
When I get money I will be out of here too, but its not because of the falling dollar or the terrible 'left-wing' government that's taken away all of those poor [rich-aspiring] bastards opportunities - you have to feel sorry for them...not
9:
Upton-on-line:
Olympic Kitsch and Closing The
Gaps
When you know you’re totally out-classed, the only thing left to do is offer undiluted praise to the victors. This New Zealand has been doing with uncharacteristic fervour. Normally prickly about Australian prowess, New Zealanders have swallowed several ...
10:
Scoop
Images: An Awesome Fire Picture From
Montana
This awesome picture was taken in Bitteroot National Forest in Montana on August 6, 2000. The photographer, John McColgan, is a Fire Behavior Analyst from Fairbanks, Alaska. He took the picture with a digital camera. A once-in-a-lifetime shot this ...
12:
US
Elections: God Help Us!
(EDITORS NOTE: A second US based columnist has joined the Scoop US Elections commentary crew. Scoop is delighted to welcome Todd Simpson, an American, to the Scoop Loop. Simpson will be filing his impressions at the end of each week through to polling ...
13:
"Guess
Who's NOT Coming to Dinner"
The Prime Minister’s efforts to get business leaders around the table for an economic pep talk is shaping up to be a “sparse nibbles affair,” ACT MP Dr Muriel Newman said today.
14:
Future
Lefts: All over the world. To change
it.
CONTENTS: Editorial: International solidarity CSM referendum at Auckland University Common currency? Or no common currency? Web Site Of The Week
15:
Who's
pulling the strings of new puppet
Authority?
"Labour Minister Margaret Wilson owes the public an explanation in light of her admission today that she over-ruled an unspecified number of formal recommendations as to who should be on the Employment Relations Authority," National's Max Bradford ...
16:
An
Orchestrated Litany Of
Whines
Cabinet Minister Pete Hodgson says the Business Roundtable and its political allies should stop depressing New Zealanders with their orchestrated whining about the country's future.
17:
Guy’s
World: A Mouse In A
Waistcoat
“George sounds like a mouse with a waistcoat on.” That was the only way I could explain why I liked the name George. “No it doesn’t,” said Steve, deadpan. Like a mouse in a waistcoat or not, it was two against one, as my sister, Su, agreed George was a ...
Upton On The Olympics And The Chapple Analysis - Goff On Milosevic - News From The Committee Rooms - Speechifying… - Power Package Deliberations Released - Cullen On Drop In Telecom Share Price - Contact To The Rescue – Clayton Cosgrove - Learn And ...
21:
Jim's
Advisor Must Be Sacked
National's State Services Spokesperson Roger Sowry has called for Jim Anderton's Senior Advisor Tony Simpson to be sacked following the abusive email he sent to Richard Poole.
22:
Prime
Minister's Whining Pitiful
Prime Minister Helen Clark's whining about Mrs Shipley's visit to the United States is pitiful, says National MP Tony Ryall.
23:
Fountains
Of Fire Illuminate Solar
Mystery
Giant fountains of fast-moving, multimillion-degree gas in the outermost atmosphere of the Sun have revealed an important clue to a long-standing mystery -- the location of the heating mechanism that makes the corona 300 times hotter than the Sun's visible ...
24:
Keith
Rankin: The Big S-Word
Don Brash said it for the first time since 1982. Stagflation. Sounds like a rush of male deer. But it's a case of mixed metaphors. Dr Brash has scared the horses.
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Stirring
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.
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