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The top 20 rating items on Scoop yesterday (sans Hobbits) were...
While we mourn the death of the crew of the Russian submarine Kursk and we ponder the non-future of our own maritime
submarine surveillance role, we should reflect on exactly what Kursk's mission was. John Howard writes.
Don Brash is reported to be resigned to the dollar's fall. Earlier this year the Reserve Bank sent signals that it would
raise interest rates hoping to support the dollar. In the past the market adjusted to such signals. This time the market
ignored ...
"Rising petrol prices do not produce a tax windfall for the Government. They actually mean less revenue," Finance and
Revenue Minister Michael Cullen said today.
This weeks collapse of the New Zealand dollar should bring the free market experiment of the last fifteen years into
question.
"Michael Cullen and Jim Neanderton are bloody legends," say indebted expat graduates working in countries with stable
currencies - such as Brazil and Mexico.
United States Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, defended globalistion on Friday but warned that latent forces of
protectionism and state intervention may reassert themselves. Meanwhile here in NZ there are also communication
problems. ...
“Once again the Green Party doesn’t let the truth get in the way of a good story in its attempt to question why Hamilton
City Council has joined the NZ Life Sciences Network,” its Chairman, Dr William Rolleston, said today.
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... It's In the Bag, Top Town, Lotto - and now, another great Kiwi game - What Will That Dollar Do?
Michael Cullen – Jim Sutton - Trevor Mallard – Pete Hodgson – Paul Swain
NZ's energy system has never been sustainable - nowhere in the world has achieved that. But it did at one stage have
some claim to being cleaner and greener than most.
After several marathon editions, upton-on-line dabbles in a few odds and ends: military hardware, whales and roads to
nowhere.
NPC Rugby, Wellington versus Northland Sunday, 27 August, 2000 WestpcTrust Stadium, Wgtn Article: Mathew Loh
The following a Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) report on the anti-globalization movement. To access the
CSIS website directly, go to:
Images of the Northland vs Wellington clash at the WestpacTrust stadium in Wellington. Images from Mark Graham -IMAGE
TIME .
Ladies and Gentlemen It is a very great pleasure to be here on behalf of Helen Clark to open your conference on "Leading
the Way: Achieving Peak Performance Through Implementing Socially Responsible Business".
"It is inspiring to see someone resist the moves toward republicanism and dyslexic wobblebottom presidential candidates
who ingest bottles of Coca Cola through their nose, and do their brain damage."
HOBBIT STORIES....