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Scoop Top Stories February 10th 2010 News Summary
10 February 2010 3:09pm | The Scoop Editor
LEAD STORY Parliament TV: Live On Scoop From 2pm NZ POLITICS Privacy Breach: ACC Reports Sent To Wrong Addresses Sport & Local Politics: Wellington MP Blue Over Possible Loss Of Sevens Ironies: ACT Calls For Harsher Penalties For Possessing Ten Thousand ... More >>
Public Address 10/02/10 - Tax-cut zombies
10 February 2010 1:49pm | Public Address
Tax cut zombies | Feb 10, 2010 09:58 Keith Ng: Fire is totally the answer Dear DomPost. Your headline today, in very large letters, said "$4b in tax cuts coming". People might read that, and think that there are $4b in tax cuts coming. Except that ... More >>
Response to the Prime Minister's Tax Announcement
10 February 2010 1:23pm | Keith Rankin
Yesterday's tax announcement has disturbing implications for democracy in New Zealand. This government was elected in 2008 - despite concerns that it might have a hidden agenda - on the promise of a programme of tax cuts that would mainly benefit middle ... More >>
Arusha: A Light in the Genocidal Darkness?
10 February 2010 1:19pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Arusha Tanzania is uniquely positioned to take the lead in forging an end to genocide. In 1994, neighboring Rwanda experienced the second worst genocide since the Holocaust, after Cambodia. For the last decade, Arusha has been host to the International Criminal ... More >>
Connie Lawn: Utah is sumptuous
10 February 2010 1:11pm | Connie Lawn
Utah is one of my favorite states in the nation, along with Colorado and the Tahoe region. It has been two long years since my husband Charles and I visited Utah, and I am so glad to be back, even if the trip is a short one. I chose the most visitor-friendly ... More >>
Naomi Chazan, the NIF & the Zionist Council of Vic
10 February 2010 12:52pm | Middle East News Service
[ Middle East News Service comments : It is my practice as Editor of the Australian Jewish Democratic Society Newsletter to prioritise my readers and ensure that they see certain items ahead of everyone else. However, this is such an important item ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Here There Be Monsters
10 February 2010 12:37pm | William Rivers Pitt
I have a livid scar in the center of the back of my right hand. It is clearly visible, so I see it every day, and every time I see it, I am reminded of how I got it. One day, several boys in my junior high school class grabbed me and pinned me to the ... More >>
Michael Collins: Cuomo Takes on The Money Party
10 February 2010 12:15pm | Michael Collins
"This merger (Bank of America and Merrill Lynch) is a classic example of how the actions of our nation’s largest financial institutions led to the near-collapse of our financial system," said Attorney General Cuomo. "Bank of America, through ... More >>
95bFM: The Wednesday Wire with Paul Deady
10 February 2010 11:43am | 95bfm
1215 - Civil Disobedience from Greenpeace - Geoff Keey, Political Advisor. For the first hour of today's show we'll be dissecting and inspecting the speech given yesterday by the Prime Minister in Parliament. O the things he said! More >>
Scoop Coverage: PM's Opening Statement 2010
10 February 2010 10:03am | Scoop Full Coverage
There seemed to be three main components to John Key’s speech : a) tax cuts largely paid for by a hike in GST b) mining in national parks and on conservation land, while building more roads. c) giving firms easier access to the r&d from Crown Research ... More >>
Hawke's Bay To Berlin – This Way Of Life (Part VI)
10 February 2010 9:57am | Cloud South Films
This Way of Life is that rare thing – a truly quintessential Kiwi film. Shot over four years with no budget, the film follows the lives of Peter and Colleen Karena as they raise their six children on the thin edge between freedom and disaster. More >>
Gordon Campbell: John Key’s agenda for the nation
10 February 2010 9:42am | Gordon Campbell
There seemed to be three main components to John Key’s speech : (a) tax cuts largely paid for by a hike in GST (b) mining in national parks and on conservation land, while building more roads. (c) giving firms easier access to the r&d from Crown Research ... More >>
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 09 February 2010
10 February 2010 9:27am | Scoop Daily Ratings
1: 2010 Sevens Street Party Pics (part 2) Carl Suurmond Error: Couldn't get title http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1002/S00063.htm More >>
‘Terrifying’ Narcissism: J. D. Salinger’s Legacy
09 February 2010 8:50pm | Binoy Kampmark
How will be remember J.D. Salinger? The painfully reclusive author of the monumental work on childhood alienation The Catcher in the Rye (1951)? A rather cranky voice for silenced youth? Certainly, many adolescents who opened the pages of the novel ... More >>
Top Scoop Stories February 9th 2010 News Summary
09 February 2010 8:03pm | The Scoop Editor
Scoop Business: Will Good Politics Fix Broken Tax System? Tax reform benefits only the rich - Labour NZ POLITICS Education: Will Govt Introduce National Standards Training Standards? Sport & Local Politics: Wellington MP Blue Over Possible Loss Of Sevens ... More >>
Scoop Full Coverage: Arts Festival 2010
09 February 2010 2:05pm | Scoop Full Coverage
Scoop coverage, reviews, photos and press releases from Wellington's arts festivals, February to March 2010. More >>
KiwiFM: Manning & Wallace Dig Deep Into Waitangi
09 February 2010 10:36am | Scoop Audio
Audio: Wallace Chapman & Selwyn Manning discuss how understanding what lies beneath Waitangi Day is indicative to understanding exchanges between Maori & Government. And also aids understanding where politicians like Hone Harawira are coming from.. More >>
Radio Adelaide: Selwyn Manning's NZ News Round-Up
09 February 2010 10:22am | Scoop Audio
Audio: The National-led Govt has withdrawn land in the MacKenzie Basin from becoming a conservation area. Instead the land will be sold. Also, Waitangi Day exposes how Maori and Government are really getting on, so what's the state of it? More >>
Is One Iraqi’s Self-Hatred Newsworthy?
09 February 2010 10:04am | M. Shahid Alam
An Arab-American of Lebanese descent, fluent in Arabic, Anthony Shadid was one of a handful of unembedded Western journalists reporting from Iraq during the US invasion in 2003. At the time, he was The Washington Post’s correspondent for Islamic Affairs ... More >>
Plains FM Audio: Mornings – Jantina Huls
09 February 2010 9:19am | Plains FM 96.9
Plains FM’s morning show on Canterbury’s 96.9FM. Audio from this morning’s show – Nursing student Jantina Huls talks to Mornings host Ed Swift about the problems she's had with StudyLink over the last 4 weeks. More >>
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 08 February 2010
09 February 2010 9:18am | Scoop Daily Ratings
1: Scholarship Results In The Post New Zealand Qualifications Authority NZ Scholarship examination results for nearly 9000 students have been posted today (8 February) and will be delivered from tomorrow. Scholarship students will also be able to log-in ... More >>
Uri Avnery: A Four-Letter Word
08 February 2010 10:00pm | Uri Avnery
MANY IMPORTANT struggles in Israel are calling out to people of conscience. Among others (in random order): The struggle for preserving the environment and the future of the planet. The struggle for democracy against fascist trends. The struggle for ... More >>
PM's Presser – No Taxation Without Presentation
08 February 2010 6:41pm | Rory MacKinnon
Speculation was rife in Monday’s post-Cabinet press conference, but John Key was having none of it. The Prime Minister said little on the eve of his statement to Parliament, which is tipped to focus heavily on an overhaul of the tax system. More >>
2010 Sevens Street Party Pics (Part 1)
08 February 2010 2:52pm | Carl Suurmond
The capital celebrated in colourful style on Saturday night at the Sevens Street Party on Courtenay Place. Hordes of costumed Sevens fans partied into the night at the end of Wellington's biggest weekend. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Wellsprings of Insight
08 February 2010 2:40pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Indigenous people felt that the rocks and rivers, clouds and creeks were alive with spirit. In the few native cultures that are still relatively intact, people still do. Science has conditioned modern people to believe this way of seeing is superstition, ... More >>
Scoop Top Stories February 8th 2010 News Summary
08 February 2010 2:32pm | The Scoop Editor
LEAD STORY Rammed Again! NZ POLITICS Institutions: High School MPs To Upgrade Behaviour From Kindergarten Level Ironies: ACT Calls For Harsher Penalties For Possessing Ten Thousand Spoons Gordon Campbell: Union-Bashing And The Dispute Over National Standards ... More >>
Basketball humor: O’Bomber Faults NBA’s Arenas
08 February 2010 1:00pm | Sherwood Ross
In a wide-ranging interview, President B. Rack O’Bomber today faulted Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas for bringing an unloaded pistol into his team’s locker room. More >>
New York: Dairy Atrocities Provoke New Laws
08 February 2010 12:32pm | Martha Rosenberg
The video viralled from ABC's World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer, Nightline and CNN to YouTube and social networks. A worker at Willet Dairy, New York's largest dairy repeatedly forces his finger deeply into the eye sockets of calves to hold ... More >>
Personal Income Tax Reform in New Zealand
08 February 2010 12:14pm | Keith Rankin
We have heard a lot of talk recently about how New Zealand's tax system is broken and that it requires radical surgery, the latest being the January 20 Report of the Victoria University tax working group ( http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sacl/cagtr/pdf/tax-report-website.pdf ... More >>
Binoy Kampmark: Trouble at The Lancet
08 February 2010 11:28am | Binoy Kampmark
‘It has became clear that several elements of the 1998 paper by Wakefield et al are incorrect, contrary to the findings of an earlier investigation.’ So concluded one of the longest misconduct inquiries in medical history. The editors of Britain’s ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Monty Python & FTA Holy Grail
08 February 2010 11:00am | Gordon Campbell
Perhaps we can all quietly sign a pact to forego comparing a free trade deal with the US to the quest for the Holy Grail. This ‘free trade as Holy Grail’ notion is a cliché that will not die, because the media loves it so much. More >>
Bomber's Blog: The War On News! (video)
05 February 2010 10:42pm | Bomber's Blog
Video: Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury delivers his war on news Weekly TV show on Triangle/Stratos. Bomber also posts on the Tumeke! blog... and on Scoop of course! More >>
2010 Wellington Sevens Costumes Pics (Part 3)
05 February 2010 5:47pm | Rory MacKinnon
2010 Wellington Sevens Costumes Pics - Part Three: Assiduous Avatars and Zealous Zombies Images by Rory MacKinnon More >>
2010 Wellington Sevens Costumes Pics - Part Two
05 February 2010 4:24pm | Lyndon Hood
2010 Wellington Sevens Costumes Pics - Part Two: The Walk Of Concrete More >>
Jackie Little: Eczema – a cautionary tale
05 February 2010 4:15pm | Jackie Little
At The age of 44, my body has decided that it suffers from Eczema. No warning, no preliminary signals, just a sudden rabid onset of the horrible, tormenting skin affliction for no apparent reason. More >>
2010 Wellington Sevens Costumes Pics (Part One)
05 February 2010 3:29pm | Lyndon Hood
At lunchtime, our correspondent hit the streets as a city dressed up for the 2010 New Zealand Sevens. Outfits ranged from silly to awesome to unfortunate for an event that is the closest Wellington comes to Carnivale. More >>
More Than a Book: My Father Was a Freedom Fighter
05 February 2010 3:07pm | Gilad Atzmon
Ramzy Baroud's 'My Father Was A Freedom Fighter' is more than a book, it is actually a masterpiece. In an overwhelmingly evoking personal style Baroud manages to bring to light the history of the Palestinian people and their battle with Israel and Zionism. ... More >>
Public Address 05/02/10 - Hell's Bells
05 February 2010 2:30pm | Public Address
Mike and I climbed the stairs to the private function room. At the top we were greeted by the media liaison. We exchanged names and hellos and she asked "Are you bloggers?" I'm not sure what gave it away but I agreed with her guess, Mike is of course a... More >>
The Naomi Chazan saga
05 February 2010 2:27pm | Middle East News Service
[ Middle East News Service comments: For several days now I’ve been following the attacks by an Israeli right wing group Im Tirtzu on the New Israel Fund and its head, Professor Naomi Chazan. As a previous news item posted here indicated, the ... More >>
Stateside: That’s Entertainment!
05 February 2010 2:20pm | Rosalea Barker
What’s a girl to do? Nine Old Home folks have been nominated for Oscars ; and nine golden nods have come to New Home folks as well—some of them for the same category and film on account of collaboration on Avatar . I guess I’ll just have to lay ... More >>
Campbell: Govt's clueless response to unemployment
05 February 2010 11:23am | Gordon Campbell
Well, we’re now seeing some of the fruits of small government, and having government butt out of our lives. Unemployment rose to 7.3 % during the last three months of 2009, the highest rate in ten years. Some 168,000 New Zealanders are now out of work, ... More >>
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 04 February 2010
05 February 2010 9:20am | Scoop Daily Ratings
1: Prof. Francis Boyle: Israel Is Committing Genocide Michele Steinberg Jan. 27--``What we're seeing in Gaza now, is pretty much slow-motion genocide against the 1.5 million Palestinians who live in Gaza.... If you read the 1948 Genocide Convention, it clearly ... More >>
Pictures: 2010 Wellington Sevens Parade Costumes
04 February 2010 5:02pm | Rory MacKinnon
Wellington’s Lambton Quay was swamped with Sevens supporters on Thursday, many in costume – although a particularly plucky Air New Zealand cabin crew dispensed with clothes entirely. More >>
From Gaza to Lebanon: Beware the Iron Wall
04 February 2010 4:07pm | Ramzy Baroud
The Israeli military may be much less effective in winning wars than it was in the past, thanks to the stiffness of Arab resistance. But its military strategists are as shrewd and unpredictable as ever. The recent rhetoric that has escalated from ... More >>
Scoop Top Stories February 4th 2010 News Summary
04 February 2010 4:06pm | The Scoop Editor
LEAD STORY Employment: NZ Jobless Rate Jumps To 7.3% Sending Kiwi Down NZ POLITICS Gordon Campbell: Union-Bashing And The Dispute Over National Standards Auckland: Volcanoes May Be Returned To Iwi Climate Change: NZ Joins Copenhagen Accord Election ... More >>
Haiti & its media presentation: historical amnesia
04 February 2010 3:04pm | Jim Miles
The disaster of Haiti is well represented in Canadian media, with significant coverage in print and on television. MacLean’s magazine’s recent cover article photo is one of the very few that perhaps accidentally represents what is really happening ... More >>
Philip J. Rappa: It's Just Not Right
04 February 2010 2:38pm | Philip J. Rappa
Ten years into a new century, (a mere two- hundred and thirty- four years for the U.S. of A.) using history as our guide, we have, in the last thirty years, chosen for President a B-actor, an elitist whose father’s and grandfather's patriotism ... More >>
95bFM: The Thursday Wire with Hamish Fletcher
04 February 2010 12:07pm | 95bfm
Coming up on the show: 12:30 - Mayor of Auckland John Banks ‘None tree hill’ might once be restored to its former glory if government discussions to give back Auckland landmarks to local iwi amount to anything. Back in 2002, Auckland Mayor ... More >>
bFM Audio: Paul Moon On Volcanoes Returned To Iwi
04 February 2010 11:51am | 95bfm
Paul Moon, Prof of Treaty and Economics from AUT's faculty of Maori Development, talks Paul through the latest wrangling over Auckland's cones. Paul says bringing in multiple iwi is an innovative approach that could bear fruit. More >>
Missed Opportunities: District 9 & Sci-Fi Politics
04 February 2010 11:20am | Binoy Kampmark
A sci-fi B-Film that punches above its weight. So argued Anthony Quinn of The Independent (Sep 4, 2009) on the South African spectacular District 9 , directed by Neill Blomkamp. Certainly, it is a refreshing change from such overly done efforts as the Transformers ... More >>
bFM Audio: Spike + Paul Muse Over The Year To Come
04 February 2010 10:54am | 95bfm
Scoop correspondent Spike Mountjoy joins us for one last counterclockwise - today giving us his thoughts on where the political battle lines will be drawn this year. More >>
What Comes After Obama, and America?
04 February 2010 10:45am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The day before his annual State of the Union speech, President Obama telegraphed his disillusionment with the job: “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.” More >>
Paul Buchanan To Deliver Lecture At AUT's PMC
04 February 2010 10:10am | Paul G. Buchanan
International relations and security analyst Dr Paul Buchanan is returning to NZ for a month and will deliver a public lecture on SE Asia/Pacific geopolitics and security. The lecture is open to the public and is hosted by AUT University's PMC. More >>
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 03 February 2010
04 February 2010 9:39am | Scoop Daily Ratings
1: NIWA Unable To Justify Official Temperature Record New Zealand Climate Science Coalition The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) has been urged by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition (NZCSC) to abandon all of its ... More >>
Another U.S. War? Obama Threatens China and Iran
03 February 2010 9:31pm | Shamus Cooke
The possibility of yet another U.S. war became more real last week, when the Obama administration sharply confronted both China and Iran. The first aggressive act was performed by Obama’s Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who “warned” China ... More >>
IL undervote fix creates new bug
03 February 2010 6:31pm | Voting News
McHenry Co. IL. Clerk Kathy Schultz discovered that a state mandated software "undervote warning fix" can sometimes cause the county's voting machines to forget all the preceding votes they'd recorded... More >>
Scoop Top Stories February 3rd 2010 News Summary
03 February 2010 6:26pm | The Scoop Editor
strong> LEAD STORY Check Out The Karaka National Yearling Sales NZ POLITICS Manning & Deady Discuss How Blair To Appear Before UK's Iraq Invasion Inquiry On Friday The PM's Presser: Copenhagen, National Standards and More Climate Change: NZ Joins Copenhagen ... More >>
US-Colombian Deal Accelerates "Dangerous Trend"
03 February 2010 6:17pm | Sherwood Ross
The Obama administration’s pact to use seven Colombian military bases accelerates “a dangerous trend in U.S. hemispheric policy,” an article in The Nation magazine warns. More >>
Free Science Peer Review From Cultish Conspiracy
03 February 2010 1:54pm | Suzan Mazur
While the hacked emails episode several months ago revealing attempts by scientists to withhold information about global warming from publication has put the matter of peer review under scrutiny like never before , secrecy in peer review continues ... More >>
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