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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 20 November 2009

21 November 2009 9:19am | Scoop Daily Ratings

1: Minto: Hone Harawira - Speaking Truth To Power John Minto John Minto writes: None of this should need to be said but the reaction of so many to Harawira's angry email resembles the deeply embedded racism which Don Brash tapped into so successfully ... More >>

Profits Mask Food Shortages in a Land of Plenty

20 November 2009 5:10pm | Damian Baker

The petroleum industry arrived in the Lake Kutubu area, around 20 years ago with Chevron and BP and soon the delicate ecological balance often in play in remote areas began to shift. More >>

Public Address 20/11/09 - Please, be our guests

20 November 2009 4:40pm | Public Address

We've told you it's happening, some of you have already bought the books, but here it is -- the omnibus round-up of Public Address Books launch detail. If you would like to help David Haywood celebrate the launch of The New Zealand Reserve Bank Annual ... More >>

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Report on Yoo, Bybee Legal Work to Be Released

20 November 2009 4:36pm | Jason Leopold

A long-awaited Justice Department watchdog report that is said to be highly critical of the legal work three attorneys who worked at the agency's powerful Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) conducted for the Bush administration will be released at the end of ... More >>

The Israeli Exception: Gilo and East Jerusalem

20 November 2009 4:18pm | Binoy Kampmark

In 1987, the conservative author Midge Decter described her association with Israel and those willing to place it above conventional judgment. ‘We know ourselves to be bound by ties so deep, so essential, so unconditional, that they are beyond daylight ... More >>

Tom Frewen: The Week In Parliament 20.11.09

20 November 2009 3:10pm | Tom Frewen

Parliament congratulates All Whites on qualifying for Football World Cup finals in South Africa, welcomes new Green MP David Clendon as Sue Bradford's replacement, and spends the week skirmishing around National's revised Emissions Trading Scheme ... More >>

Bomber's Blog: The War On News, Nov 20 2009

20 November 2009 2:36pm | Bomber's Blog

Bomber's Blog - The War On News Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury. Bomber's Blog - the war on news. Weekly TV show on Triangle/Stratos. Bomber also posts on the Tumeke! blog: www.tumeke.blogspot.com More >>

Werewolf: Doing the Transtasman tango

20 November 2009 1:58pm | Gordon Campbell

O ver the course of 2009, global practices in business regulation have toughened up considerably. US regulators have used phone taps to clinch their recent insider trading case against the huge Galleon Group hedge fund, and last week they arrested ... More >>

Werewolf: License to prey

20 November 2009 1:56pm | Catriona MacLennan

Let’s make 2010 the year that New Zealand stamps out loan sharks. The Government and the community working together have the power to do this, using a range of strategies. And what’s more – it would not actually be that difficult to do. More >>

Werewolf: Politics in the P Pipe

20 November 2009 1:53pm | Denis O'Reilly

P rime Minister John Key’s anti-methamphetamine initiatives have a good chance of long term success. The ban on across-the-counter sales of remedies containing pseudoephidrine is something of a red-herring in my view. More >>

Werewolf: Breeding animals that feel no pain

20 November 2009 1:50pm | Melody Thomas

U ltimately, do our morals and ethics hold any sway over the way that we consume food? The increasing popularity and marketability of free-range meat products seems to answer in the affirmative. More >>

Werewolf: Portugal weathers the recession

20 November 2009 1:47pm | Gordon Campbell

T uesday night in Lisbon had started out like an old murder mystery movie. I’d been told to take Tram 15 to the end of the line and he’d be waiting for me, in Alges. More >>

Werewolf: When angels fall to earth

20 November 2009 1:44pm | Carolyn Meers

With the reception to Niki Caro's new film The Vintner's Luck becoming more downbeat by the day, it was no wonder that Caro herself seemed to be fully prepped and armed with some beautifully phrased (if somewhat off topic) interview responses. More >>

Werewolf: race to be the Governor of California

20 November 2009 1:40pm | Rosalea Barker

A t 3.10pm on Friday, 30 October, one of the journalists who contribute to the ‘Political Blotter’ blog on the Bay Area News Group’s website posted the following: More >>

Werewolf: Looking beyond the veil

20 November 2009 1:38pm | Lyndon Hood

I don't mean the press releases written by individuals who, while inhabiting this physical world, are mentally on another planet entirely. If we were to reject PR from these people we would, frankly, have nothing to publish. More >>

Werewolf: Racial Stereotypes In Children’s Books

20 November 2009 1:36pm | Gordon Campbell

There’s so much crap in children’s bookshops and children’s tolerance of what is put in front of them is so immense, it should not be abused. That’s why it seems worth singling out some of the enduringly good books that, thanks to librarians and ... More >>

Werewolf: Disasteradio vs The Music Industry

20 November 2009 1:30pm | James Robinson

Disasteradio (or “Luke Rowell” as some may refer to him) is a modern subversion of the singer-songwriter - one man and a computer, not a guitar. While firmly in the underground camp he’s a wellknown name to most clubbers in his hometown, Wellington ... More >>

Werewolf: For whom the Nobel tolls

20 November 2009 1:28pm | Brannavan Gnanalingam

W hile much of the media’s attention over this year’s Nobel Prizes was over Barack Obama’s shock Nobel Peace Prize Award, a similarly contentious (if more under the radar) Nobel Prize went to Romanian/German author Herta Müller. Müller, ... More >>

Werewolf: At home with the Generals

20 November 2009 1:26pm | Nicola Kean

T he railway official eyes us warily. Studies our passports. Eyes us again. He's the image of bureaucratic lassitude, in a sweaty once-white wifebeater. “Two dollars.” More >>

Werewolf: Unpacking the basis of a legend

20 November 2009 1:23pm | Gordon Campbell

CD reviews tend to be consumer guides, a few paragraphs that boil the music down to a buy/don’t buy advisory note. At The Complicatist, we’re pointed in the opposite direction. More >>

Newswire Digest: Latest Stories November 20, 2009

20 November 2009 12:27pm | newswire.co.nz

What’s new on NewsWire.co.nz, the website of Whitireia Community Polytechnic’s Journalism School The best of a swag of new stories and images this week by students of Whitireia Journalism School’s National Diploma in Journalism (Multi-media): More >>

Undernews For November 19, 2009

20 November 2009 12:07pm | Undernews

EMAIL US REVIEW E-MAIL UPDATES REVIEW INDEX UNDERNEWS XML FEED Control + Click on date for permanent link, on Comments to make or read comments, and on the envelope to email story to someone GLOBAL TEMPS SET TO RISE OVER TEN DEGREES BY 2100 Independent, ... More >>

EFF: The Impact of ACTA on the Knowledge Economy

20 November 2009 11:53am | Scoop Link

For the rest of us, with access to only leaks and whispers of what ACTA is about, there are many troubling questions. How can such a radical proposal legally be kept so secret from the millions of Net users and companies whose rights and freedoms ... More >>

Scoop Link: Guardian's Greenwash vs New Zealand II

20 November 2009 10:57am | Scoop Link

When New Zealand's sink forests are harvested in the 2020s, as is likely, all that carbon will return to the atmosphere More >>

Minto: Hone Harawira - Speaking Truth To Power

20 November 2009 9:19am | John Minto

John Minto writes: None of this should need to be said but the reaction of so many to Harawira's angry email resembles the deeply embedded racism which Don Brash tapped into so successfully a few years back at Orewa. More >>

Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 19 November 2009

20 November 2009 9:07am | Scoop Daily Ratings

1: India: Starvation in West Bengal Asian Human Rights Commission E.M. Parvati died yesterday. Parvati was a resident of Belgachhia Bhagar, a municipal dumping ground of Howrah in West Bengal. The doctor who examined Parvati's body certified that the ... More >>

Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament 19.11.09

19 November 2009 5:00pm | Tom Frewen

More criticism of Treasury's emissions trading scheme cost estimates, this time from their own minister, Bill English. Labour MPs take offence after Paula Bennett claims they are sick and tired of hearing about child abuse. More >>

Medical Professionals Write Parliament an RX

19 November 2009 4:04pm | Carolyn Meers

Medical professionals representing the OraTaiao: New Zealand Climate and Health group delivered oversized prescription forms to Parliament today, urging lawmakers to reconsider the current changes proposed to the emissions trading scheme (ETS), changes they ... More >>

Werewolf: California's crowded prisons

19 November 2009 2:51pm | Rosalea Barker

California fails to cope with its crowded prisons Werewolf.co.nz September Issue Original Article by Rosalea Barker E very person in prison in California will one day be released. Take a deep breath and repeat after me: Every person in prison in ... More >>

Werewolf: David Tua's Limited Future?

19 November 2009 2:38pm | Lamont Russell

Looks as though David Tua’s demolition of Shane Cameron has set him up for at least one more big payday. More >>

Werewolf: Changing the Law on Rape

19 November 2009 2:33pm | Catriona MacLennan

N ew Zealanders like to think that we live in a relatively egalitarian society, in which everyone has at least some chance of a good life. Unfortunately, that is not in fact the reality. More >>

Werewolf: The Media, Celebrities and Privacy

19 November 2009 2:31pm | Gordon Campbell

M uch as they shrink from admitting it, journalists and lawyers do have a lot in common. Both professions share a commitment to research, a sense of historical precedent, the need to strike a balance between competing sources and a commitment to expressing ... More >>

Werewolf: Is Test Cricket On the Ropes?

19 November 2009 2:28pm | Brannavan Gnanalingam

Test cricket is one of sport’s most uncompromising spectacles. One game can last five days, thirty hours in total - yet the game is so intricate that one ball can often change the direction of the match. More >>

Werewolf: Convincing The Landlords

19 November 2009 2:26pm | James Robinson

N ew Zealand is not a country known for its imposing cityscapes. Looking back over the Wellington skyline from Oriental Bay at night would probably seem quaint to those more intimately familiar with a city on the scale of Manhattan or Hong Kong. More >>

Werewolf: That song from Night of the Hunter

19 November 2009 2:22pm | Gordon Campbell

I f they know it at all, most people remember ‘Leaning on the Everlasting Arms’ as the signature song of the evil preacher acted by Robert Mitchum in the film Night of the Hunter. Mitchum sings it on more than one occasion during the movie – and ... More >>

Werewolf: Looking After Our Patch

19 November 2009 2:19pm | Dennis O'Reilly

I cracked up when I heard Wainuiomata indigene Trevor Mallard complain that the people involved in his kainga’s misconceived ‘makutu lifting’ tragedy weren’t going to jail after a manslaughter conviction, ‘because they were Maori’. More >>

Werewolf: Iran Paranoid, But With Real Enemies

19 November 2009 2:16pm | Gordon Campbell

I n the words of one Middle East analyst, Iran looks these days as if it is suffering from a type of auto-immune disorder, in which all its limbs are attacking each other. More >>

Werewolf: Portugal And De-criminalisation of Drugs

19 November 2009 2:13pm | Jose Barbosa

E arlier this year a white paper pulling together data on Portugal’s drug policy caused a minor sensation among those interested in such things. More >>

Werewolf: Death in Children’s Stories

19 November 2009 2:10pm | Gordon Campbell

95bFM Audio: Deady & Hood On Coverage Of Nats ETS

19 November 2009 2:10pm | 95bfm

Scoop's Lyndon Hood cracks into the news coverage of the National government's revised ETS - is ANYONE getting the numbers right? More >>

Werewolf: On foot, and fearless in New York City

19 November 2009 2:00pm | Nina Arron

I always considered walking around Manhattan to be a safe and healthy activity. After all, I did it on a more or less daily basis for close to a decade with nothing more than the occasional scrape due to my own clumsy feet. But when I started thinking ... More >>

Werewolf: Bullet Points Will Solve All My Problems

19 November 2009 1:56pm | Lyndon Hood

So now it turns out (who knew?) you can get into trouble for making indirect threats on the Internet. Not that I want to turn these columns into a series of disclaimers, but I feel I should clarify some of the things I've said about Larry Baldock. More >>

Werewolf: a thought for the guy who comes in 2nd

19 November 2009 1:43pm | Lamont Russell

I f Usain Bolt didn’t exist, Tyson Gay would be the greatest sprinter of the decade. Which is a reminder that professional sport is a winner take all business. No one really cares much, or spares a lot of a thought for who-ever comes in second. Gay ... More >>

Werewolf: Mapping the TV cosmos

19 November 2009 1:40pm | Gordon Campbell

But they do have a special charm, and we’re not talking simply about the charms of geography, important though they be. Mapping is a quality of that part of the brain that likes to assume executive power. More >>

Public Address 19/11/09 - A turn-up for the books

19 November 2009 12:07pm | Public Address

Witi Ihimaera, after being awarded an Arts Laureate, has offered to buy back the warehouse stock of The Trowenna Sea, and Penguin is offering to purchase remaining bookshop stocks of the novel. So is this what they mean when they say "pulp fiction"? ... More >>

Martin LeFevre: Falling Leaves, and Squirrels

19 November 2009 12:02pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

One is so accustomed to seeing the gray squirrels in the parkland leap from branch to branch with perfect dexterity that it came as quite a shock to see one miss his mark and fall into the creek. More >>

How Alien Media is Suffocating Real Culture

19 November 2009 11:56am | Ramzy Baroud

A Muslim family sits across of me in café, in a largely Muslim Asia country. An older woman shyly hunches over and desperately trying to avoid eye contact with the giant plasma screen TV, blazing loud music on the popular music video channel, MTV. ... More >>

Gordon Campbell: the 9/11 terrorists on trial

19 November 2009 10:59am | Gordon Campbell

For years, human rights advocates have argued that terrorism is essentially criminal behaviour, and terrorists should therefore be tried under the rules of due process that democratic states have developed over centuries for dealing fairly with crime, ... More >>

Paul Buchanan: The Strategic Utility of Terrorism

19 November 2009 9:27am | Paul G. Buchanan - A Word From Afar

A Word From Afar: Paul Buchanan writes: One of the axioms of counter-terrorism is that the nastiness of the atrocity is inversely proportional to the terrorist’s chances of success. That is to say, the worse the act, then less likely that terrorist ... More >>

Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 18 November 2009

19 November 2009 9:03am | Scoop Daily Ratings

1: Docs say emissions trading scheme will hurt Kids NZ Climate And Health Senior doctors today said that the intended changes to New Zealand’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) will not only threaten our future survival but will be an extravagant ... More >>

Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament 18.11.09

18 November 2009 4:36pm | Tom Frewen

Finance minister Bill English and his Labour shadow, David Cunliffe, play dancing with the stars as TVNZ's controversial "Plain English" programme promotion gets hauled over the coals in the chamber and the committee rooms. John Key goes too far in his ... More >>

World on course for catastrophic 6° rise

18 November 2009 4:25pm | Scoop Link

The world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C by the end of the century, leading scientists said yesterday. Such a rise – which would be much higher nearer ... More >>

95bFM: The Wednesday Wire with Paul Deady

18 November 2009 12:02pm | 95bfm

1220 - SIS looking for WMD at NZ Universities? Dr Tom Ryan, Tertiary Education Union At the top of the show around 1220, I'll be joined on the line by (above). He's been one of the lone voices we've heard from over the last 24 hours with regards to an ... More >>

Obama: one (term) if by war, two if by peace

18 November 2009 11:26am | Harvey Wasserman

As the world awaits Barack Obama's decision on Afghanistan, a lethal myth has spread. It says that standing up to the military will doom him to be a single-term president. More >>

Dean Baker: Hostage-Takers in the Senate

18 November 2009 11:16am | Dean Baker

As most of us are preparing for the holidays a small clique in the Senate, with their collaborators in the Washington punditry, are planning for a dramatic hostage-taking event. Their target of opportunity is a bill to increase the nation's debt limit. ... More >>

William Rivers Pitt: The Decision

18 November 2009 11:11am | William Rivers Pitt

All the presidents in my lifetime share one common characteristic: each one aged rapidly, visibly and dramatically over the course of their administrations. Nixon appeared to be melting by the time he boarded that last helicopter. Ford's stay was ... More >>

"Pig Hell" at Wal-Mart Pork Supplier

18 November 2009 11:06am | Martha Rosenberg

"When he bolted her the first time, she didn't die. She just stood there looking stunned as blood trickled from her forehead. She then got her bearings and tried to turn and run." More >>