The top 20 rating items on Scoop at the weekend (Hobbit's excluded) were...
Our export led recovery could soon be in trouble according to a Bank for International Settlements (BIS) report issued
June 5.
Warehouse Stationery Now Sells Number 1 U.S. Computer Brand Throughout New Zealand State-of-the-art Gateway Computers
Now Available ‘In Your Town’
Finance Minister Michael Cullen is struggling to find the money to implement the Labour led government's program.
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 ...
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.
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.
What follows is a transcript of conversations recorded with leading figures in the Free Money for Greedy Mystery
described in Sludge Report #10.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Scoop is proud to present another image of Hobbitton… this time of what appears to be a fairly grand Hobbit summer house
…enjoy.
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.
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.
Import News from the Importers Institute 16 June 2000 - Trade unions urged to use heads and hearts on Fiji
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 ...
Customs Minister Phillida Bunkle and Health Minister Annette King have called for reports into an inter-agency
operation which involved Kaitaia Hospital this week.
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 ...
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.
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