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The top 30 rating items on Scoop at the weekend (Hobbits excluded) were...
1: Sludge
Report #37 – At Last, A Good Idea From
Iraq
In this edition: Operation Brain Storm
2:
Sludge
Report #36 – Hypocrisy In The Middle
East
IN THIS EDITION: Hikers Under Fire At Nablus - Hypocrisy In The Middle East
3:
Sludge
Report #35 – Let Every Voice Sing
Out
IN THIS EDITION: The Middle East Peace Settlement Needs Our Support – Keeping Hope Alive
4:
US
Election: Cannibalising
Candidates
Here we are still in a dead heat for the election of the United States President. As we come closer and closer to the day when America will decide whether Gore or Bush will run the country the difference between the candidates continues to become ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
Sludge
Report #32 – Resolving A Family
Feud
IN THIS EDITION: Middle East Situation Report – A Question – A Couple Of Answers – Sludge’s Answers – Application Of The Theory
Mark Cubey, the voice of Smartass Wellington, participates – and hacks into – the half-yearly radio survey.
7:
Not
Hard News: City Litter From Mark
Cubey
It's one of those extraordinary sun-drenched Fridays that we love in the capital. We did meeting in the sun on the waterfront. We completed projects. We received lots of nice feedback about our latest issue.
8:
Sludge
Report #33 – Darkness Before The
Dawn?
IN THIS EDITION: Plunket’s Question - Israelis burn Palestinian to death - Black Friday - The Darkness Before The Dawn –Over To You Ehud!
Strange speculations (and some out-right fantasising) have caused upton-on-line to disclose the forthcoming transmorgrification of this publication. By a process of neural re-engineering that is still awaiting FDA approval (and could yet be stopped ...
10:
HARD
NEWS 27/10/00 - Family Feuds
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... was it ever a war? More like a feud based on something someone said when they were pissed, perhaps. But everyone ought to be glad that it's over. It is not that, in the wake of this week's business-to-government forum, everything ...
New Zealand versus South Africa in the third one day international Sunday, 29 October, 2000 Article: Mathew Loh
13:
Upton-on-line
October 27th
The mental space normally reserved for putting upton-on-line to bed was gobbled up this week by a speaking engagement – addressing the curiously named National Press Club. With the exception of Frank Haden, upton-on-line couldn’t see any members of ...
15:
Correctives:
NOW Demolish That Shameless
Obelisk!
"The Corrective Party is shocked, appalled, disgusted and repulsed that no-one opposed the removal of the tree on One Tree Hill on the grounds of morality and decency!!!" gasped Sister Psychotica SM, spokesnun for the Corrective Party today.
Prasad Latest Victim Of ‘Clark Attack’ - Peters Applauds Law Commission Report - Greens Call For Testing Of US Corn - Wool Industry Must Get Sums Right On R&D - Funding Pressure On Health System - Steve Maharey: Getting Family Law Right - Lamb Decision ...
17:
Howard's
End: Power We Don't Understand
Despite criticism by Cabinet Minister, Ruth Dyson, why did Wellington rugby icon Norm Hewitt continue playing against Canterbury in the NPC final while sporting a broken arm? Does Norm Hewitt possess an inner force to control pain and do we understand ...
19:
TV3
News
Goodbye Liam Holloway – Liam’s Legacy – Russian Sub – Kiwi Pilot In Suicide Incident – Child Abuse – Ferret Banned From FINZ
22:
Scoop
Archive: CITY LITTER: Radio
Radio
Mark Cubey, the voice of Smartass Wellington, participates - and hacks into - the half-yearly radio survey.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/75/e9/200010271030.5efbf288.html
23:
Howard’s
End: Europe’s Russian “Energy
Bridge”
The effects of turmoil in the Middle East on oil supplies are likely to be a thing of the past for European Union countries when Russian president, Vladimir Putin, signs a series of contracts in Paris at the end of this month. John Howard writes.
24:
Scoop
Archive: Massive Unemployment
Looming
"Massive growth in unemployment," is the prediction of Libertarianz Welfare Deregulation Spokesman Sally O'Brien, "whatever the outcome of today's govt-business talkfest. While current economic indicators decline rapidly," she observes, ...http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/23/f3/200010240046.58eecb21.html
25:
SERIES
TO S.A.
New Zealand v South Africa, 4th one day international, Kimberly, SA Sunday, 29 October, 2000 Article: Mathew Loh
PM talks tough on Fiji - Celluloid castle - Auckland offered palm of friendship - Trust wants to buy army land - Kiwis spend to see Tua - Inside headlines - Sports lead - Editorial
27:
Correctives:
Stop Transvestite Lunar Antelopes
NOW
"The Corrective Party was shocked, horrified, appalled, and disgusted that Preb-Bull's Rabbles believe that there are transvestite purple antelopes on the Moon!!!" exclaimed Sister Psychotica SM, Spokesnun of the Corrective Party.
28:
Helen
Clark deplores attack on One Tree
Hill
Labour Leader Helen Clark said today that she deplored the latest act of vandalism against the lone pine on top of One Tree Hill.
29:
US
Election: Using Field Glasses to Read the
Polls
"Here he is, the world's greatest pollster!" So went the introduction for Merv Field whose famous California poll dates from the Dewey/Truman era and who was speaking in the Harris Seminar series at the Institute of Governmental Studies at ...
Auckland City arborists have today successfully felled the terminally-ill One Tree Hill monterey pine.
HOBBIT
STORIES...
14: Scoop
Images: And Not A Hobbit Was Stirring
18: Scoop
Images: Hobbiton By The Water
20: Scoop
Image: Where The Hobbits Are
21: Scoop
Images: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: BAG
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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.
Peter Dunne: Dunne's Weekly - Removing An Incapacitated Leader
Gordon Campbell: On A Textbook Case Of Spending Waste By The Luxon Government
Alison Forrest: Whose Values Do You Mean, Winston And Judith?
Eugene Doyle: It’s Bigger Than NATO And It’s Heading Our Way
Ramzy Baroud: Dear West - Your ‘Age Of Monsters’ Has Begun
Keith Rankin: Is Inflation Really Too High?