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PM’s Presser – Mining leak “hysteria”
15 March 2010 6:08pm | Rory MacKinnon
Reporters dug and dug, but there was no gold in them thar hills at Prime Minister John Key’s post-Cabinet press conference. More >>
Scoop Top Stories For March 15, 2010 News Summary
15 March 2010 6:07pm | The Scoop Editor
LEAD STORY Key Refuses To Confirm Conservation Mining Reports Greens and Forest and Bird unhappy at reports of mining plans NZ POLITICS Local Government NZ: Hide On Reform See Also, Cutting Prisoner's Aid Soc. Funding: DHB Limits Prisoner Drug ... More >>
Anthony Ravlich: Freedom from our social prisons
15 March 2010 4:03pm | Anthony Ravlich
The following submission is from the Human Rights Council Inc. (New Zealand) to the United Nations Human Rights Committee concerning New Zealand’s report due to be reviewed on the 15th and 16th of March, 2010. It is also written for a wider public ... More >>
Investigation of Pa. Animal Cruelty
15 March 2010 3:54pm | Walter Brasch
A Pennsylvania district attorney took campaign funds from an organization which promotes killing live pigeons in contests, and then refused to allow the prosecution of animal cruelty charges against a gun club that hosts pigeon shooting contests. More >>
Driving Drunk in Jerusalem
15 March 2010 3:16pm | Middle East News Service
[ Middle East News Service comments: Thomas Friedman’s writings are not known for being profound or insightful but on this occasion he does provide a strong indication that the crisis between Israel and the United States is very real. Let’s face it: ... More >>
President Obama’s trip to Asia & Australia – maybe
15 March 2010 3:08pm | Connie Lawn
“We really wish the President would stop in New Zealand – they are good friends to us.” That was the message conveyed to me from one Asian-Pacific expert. He and many others are working very hard on President Obama’s scheduled trip to Australia, ... More >>
Uri Avnery: A Matter of Timing
15 March 2010 2:46pm | Uri Avnery
SOME WEEKS the news is dominated by a single word. This week’s word was “timing”. It’s all a matter of timing. The Government of Israel has insulted the Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, one of the greatest “friends” of Israel (meaning: ... More >>
Arts Fest Review: Mark Twain and Me in Maoriland
15 March 2010 2:27pm | Kimberley Crayton-Brown
Set in 1895 Wanganui, Mark Twain and Me in Maoriland is a comedy, drama and musical all in one. More >>
David Swanson: I'm Down With Dennis
15 March 2010 1:44pm | David Swanson
Let me get this straight. The Senate will pass a public option if the House will. And the House will, because it already did. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t allow it. So the mortal enemy of public-option backers is . . . Dennis Kucinich. More >>
David Swanson: Senators Versus Students
15 March 2010 1:42pm | David Swanson
As long as we're going to dump most of our money into wars and the military and Wall Street and health insurance bailouts, students are going to have to go into debt to afford college. But it would cost the students less and the government less, if ... More >>
Obama to Netanyahu: Show us you're serious
15 March 2010 1:16pm | Middle East News Service
[ Middle East News Service comments: This sound like a story that we have read before (and on more than one occasion): A crisis between Israel and United States. The US is finally putting its foot down and reminding Israel just who is the superpower ... More >>
Rabbit--It's What's For Dinner
15 March 2010 1:13pm | Martha Rosenberg
Not everyone cottoned to the rabbit-for-dinner piece in the New York Times' dining section this month, pun intended. More >>
Quiz: Who’s to blame for the Iraq war?
15 March 2010 12:21pm | Maidhc O Cathail
This month marks the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Despite the passage of time, there is still much confusion, some of it deliberate, about why America made that fateful decision. The following questions are intended to clarify who’s ... More >>
Moving Right & Going Wrong: Education in Texas
15 March 2010 12:01pm | Binoy Kampmark
Censors, it has been said, are paid to have dirty minds. Education panellists, at least in certain jurisdictions, are paid to prevent the exercise of one at all. For that reason, fifteen unknown individuals in a state should not be vested with the ... More >>
Jim Miles: Book Review - Three Kings
15 March 2010 11:51am | Jim Miles
This concisely written and well documented work covers the “Truman Doctrine…the essential rubric under which the United States projected its power globally after World War II…the ideological foundation for the “imperial presidency.” Lloyd ... More >>
Iceland Sets New Path Toward Press Freedom
15 March 2010 11:39am | Stephen Soldz
If all goes well, Iceland may be about to make history. No, I don’t mean the refusal of the populace to get saddled with Iceland’s $5 billion bad “Icesave” bank debt. Rather, I’m referring to the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative [IMMI], which ... More >>
Muriel Newman: Home Laid Eggs
15 March 2010 11:17am | Muriel Newman
In recent years there has been a noticeable increase in backyard chicken-raising. Part of the reason is that people see the virtues of the good life - but it has also become a bit of a fashion for sustainable-living townies who want to know that their ... More >>
Alternative Reading of the Al-Mabhouh Murder
15 March 2010 11:12am | Ramzy Baroud
The killing of Palestinian activist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh on January 19, 2010 was clearly a well-planned, violent and sadistic act, committed by Israeli assassins in the supposed safety of a sovereign country. More >>
Radio Adelaide: Godfrey & Manning NZ News Round-Up
15 March 2010 11:02am | Scoop Audio
Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning on a significant number of Kiwis & Aussies want to see NZ become a state of Australia. Also, NZ's Internal Affairs Department has turned on its internet filtering system, blocking access to sites containing child pornography. More >>
Arts Fest Review: The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy
15 March 2010 10:44am | Richard Thomson
For me, Cheeseboy blasted off in a similar universe to the one the Little Prince lived in, as imagined by Lemony Snicket; but in fact writer Finegan Kruckmeyer upstages us all by claiming to have got the story off the queen of the Rumanian gypsies. More >>
Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For March 14 2010
15 March 2010 9:08am | Scoop Daily Ratings
1: Bryan Law: Waihopai Ploughshares Trial - Day 5 Bryan Law The testimony and cross-examination of the Waihopai defendents is complete. Defence counsel are well pleased so far. Adi Leason enlivened the jury. Peter Murnane educated them. Sam Land loved and honoured ... More >>
Writers and Readers Week: Neil Gaiman
14 March 2010 6:01pm | Lyndon Hood
Under De Goldi's questioning, Gaiman described how he had inadvertently become a specialist in Edwardian literature, and G.K. Chesterton in particular, due to the limited selection of his school library. More >>
Arts Festival Review: 360
14 March 2010 3:34pm | Rory MacKinnon
360 looks back on the life of Gee, a young man who ran away from the circus to pursue more conventional ideas of fame and fortune. A collaborative effort between Chapman Tripp recipients Carl Bland, Ben Crowder and Peta Rutter, the play swirls around ... More >>
Arts Festival Review: Jenny Morris
14 March 2010 2:52pm | Scoop Review
Jenny Morris does not have a pretty voice. Powerful and strong (and she can still hit the high notes), its beauty comes from the clarity and sheer force, something that has not dimmed in her 30-year career, since the days of the Crocodiles, and ... More >>
Arts Festival Review: T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T.
14 March 2010 2:02pm | Richard Thomson
The 1960s were a highwater mark for the kind of glacially-paced and existentially introspective cinema that hardly anyone makes – or watches – any more, and no one made those movies quite like the Italians: think of directors such as Visconti, ... More >>
Katya Rivas: Jesus Is Taken Again before Pilate
14 March 2010 11:57am | Katya Rivas
I allowed them to treat Me as a mad man and they covered Me with a white tunic as a sign of their ridicule and their making fun of Me. Later, in the middle of furious mocking shouts, they took Me again before Pilate. More >>
Arts Festival Review: Ravi Shankar
13 March 2010 2:27pm | Nick van Dijk
This was a concert of classical Indian music of the highest level. Anoushka Shankar played the first half before her father joined the band. She was accompanied by two Tamboura players (stringed drones), a wooden flautist and Tabla player. More >>
Bryan Law: Waihopai Ploughshares Trial - Day 5
13 March 2010 12:51pm | Bryan Law
The testimony and cross-examination of the Waihopai defendents is complete. Defence counsel are well pleased so far. Adi Leason enlivened the jury. Peter Murnane educated them. Sam Land loved and honoured them. More >>
Kiwis Have Their Say On Ultra Fast Broadband - 1
13 March 2010 9:48am | The Vector Fibre Debate
Here’s what Kiwi’s have had to say this week in support of Vector’s effort to bring fibre to the door of Aucklanders ... More >>
Katya Rivas: Jesus Is Taken before Herod
13 March 2010 9:42am | Katya Rivas
Pilate ordered that they take Me to the presence of Herod… He was a poor corrupt man who only searched for pleasure, allowing him to be driven to disorderly passions. He was glad to see Me come before his tribunal because he hoped to amuse himself ... More >>
Arts Festival Review: Calexico
12 March 2010 9:07pm | Tyler Hersey
Making the best of the Festival Club's tricky combination of arena spaciousness and intimate theater-style seating, desert rock pioneers Calexico put on a superbly dynamic show for the first of two sold-out concerts, elevating from whisper quiet acoustic ... More >>
Audio & Images: Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer
12 March 2010 5:09pm | Lyndon Hood
Neil Gaiman is in Wellington as part of the NZ International Arts Festival's Writers and Readers Week. This afternoon he and his fiancée, musician Amanda Palmer, held a small press conference consisting mostly of media not potent enough to get an interview ... More >>
Scoop Top Stories For March 12, 2010 News Summary
12 March 2010 4:20pm | The Scoop Editor
LEAD STORY Bomber's Blog - The War On News! NZ POLITICS SuperGold Card: Nothing To See Here Gordon Campbell: On The Wellywood Sign (& Education Cuts) Waihopai Three Trial Focuses Peace Activists Waihopai Trial: Day Two Waihopai spy base accused enter ... More >>
Waihopai Ploughshares Trial: Day Five
12 March 2010 4:12pm | Alex Tarrant
The fifth day of the trial resumed with Peter Murnane continuing his testimony. He said his actions were to hold those who run the Waihopai facility to account. More >>
Tom Frewen: Week in Parliament 12.03.10
12 March 2010 3:40pm | Tom Frewen
Parliament in adjournment for a second week, but the Finance and Expenditure Committee made time for Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard's monetary policy statement. That committee also heard submissions on the Insurance Prudential Supervision Bill. More >>
Bomber's Blog: This Week's The War On News!
12 March 2010 2:36pm | Bomber's Blog
Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury delivers his weekly current affairs expose, the war on news! The show broadcasts weekly on Triangle/Stratos TV and on Scoop. Bomber also posts on the Tumeke! blog... More >>
Arts Festival Review: The Arrival
12 March 2010 12:25pm | Lyndon Hood
Red Leap's adaptation of Shaun Tan's book is not only impressively captures hiss visuals and his themes – it also shares that spirit of heartfelt invention. More >>
Arts Festival Review: He Reo Aroha
12 March 2010 10:04am | Anna Sutherland
He Reo Aroha is a wonderful blend of music, drama, and comedy. Performed with passion by Kali Kopae and Jamie McCaskill, the show tells the story of Kaia and Pascoe, lovers separated when Kaia leaves their small home town of Tî Kapa to pursue her singing ... More >>
Richard Dawkins - Gratitude Evolution & Vice Versa
12 March 2010 9:13am | Alastair Thompson
A packed Michael Fowler Center was filled with fans of rational thought, many carrying copies of books by their hero in the battle against evolution deniers and woolly thinking. More >>
Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For March 11 2010
12 March 2010 8:51am | Scoop Daily Ratings
1: Labour launches petition to stop whaling plans New Zealand Labour Party Public pressure is the only way to stop the National Government agreeing to commercial whaling in the Southern Ocean, Labour’s Foreign Affairs Spokesman Chris Carter says. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00135.htm More >>
Day Four – Waihopai Ploughshares Trial
12 March 2010 7:56am | Indymedia
The day began with Adi Leason under continued cross examination from the Crown. The prosecutor set about seeking admission from Adi that the action was not about stopping the satellite dishes from working thus slowing the pace of the war in Iraq but merely ... More >>
Katya Rivas: Jesus Is Taken to Prison
12 March 2010 12:18am | Katya Rivas
Let us go on with this painful story, which you will manage to take to as many people as you can. I will enlighten you in the way in which it should be done. More >>
Waihopai Three Trial Focuses Peace Activists
12 March 2010 12:16am | Carey Davies
The scene in the packed public gallery of Wellington District Court resembled an anti-war rally yesterday, with friends and supporters of three Christian peace activists facing charges for deflating a radar dome at the Waihopai monitoring station in 2008 ... More >>
Scoop Top Stories For March 11, 2010 News Summary
11 March 2010 4:37pm | The Scoop Editor
LEAD STORY Gordon Campbell: On The Wellywood Sign (& Education Cuts) NZ POLITICS Boundary Issues: Final Determination Of Auckland Council Lines Or Offer Them 10,000 Spoons? Justice Minister Releases Knife Possession Report Bryan Law: Reports From ... More >>
Women of the Sun, Women of the Dawn
11 March 2010 3:48pm | Tortilla con Sal
Women of the Sun, Women of the Dawn - Women who triumph constantly! Rosario Murillo, Tortilla con Sal Managua, March 8th, International Women's Day, 2010 A Year of Solidarity More >>
Book Review - Misadventures [of the WTO]
11 March 2010 3:09pm | Jim Miles
Misadventures of the Most Favored Nations - Clashing Egos, Inflated Ambitions, and the Great Shambles of the World Trade System. Paul Blustein. Public Affairs (Perseus Books).New York, 2009. More >>
Arts Festival Review: Happy as Larry (2)
11 March 2010 2:54pm | Katie MacKinnon
With the bright costumes and props reminiscent of childhood or Sesame Street, the merriment was not as you would expect; instead, a solemn yet engaging look at happiness and our drive to capture it. More >>
Don McGlashan and Friends
11 March 2010 2:29pm | Nick van Dijk
Don McGlashan is the metrosexual’s Dave Dobbyn. There, I’ve said it. More >>
Arts Festival Review: 11 and 12
11 March 2010 2:06pm | Lyndon Hood
The production sat oddly the St James Theatre, as if failing to adapt to the space. This was obvious early on as Tunji Lewis, whose character's narration is our entry into the world of the play, rarely brought his eyeline high enough to include those ... More >>
Arts Festival Review: Happy as Larry
11 March 2010 11:53am | Jack Gray
The TSB Arena Stadium is reconfigured for a theatre performance with black curtains, while at the front of the stage stands a man (Dean Cross) drawing little miniature cartoon people in rows in chalk on a grey free standing wall (designed by Adam Gardiner). More >>
Death sentence for more New Zealand kids
11 March 2010 11:35am | John Minto
Act MP David Garrett’s suggestion the government pay bad parents to be sterilized will resonate with a lot of people. Like all of us Garrett says he’s concerned at the numbers of children abused and killed each year in New Zealand and suggests ... More >>
On the Wellywood sign (& Education Cuts)
11 March 2010 11:11am | Gordon Campbell
It is pretty hard to see the logic of promoting the creativity of the New Zealand film industry via a copy of someone else’s creativity... Same as it ever was. On economic policy in recent years, New Zealand has been just as reliant on acts of ... More >>
Waihopai Ploughshares Trial: Day Three
11 March 2010 10:56am | Bryan Law
In Court, Adi Leason re-commenced his testimony where it’d been interrupted by the power failure on Tuesday. His Counsel Mike Knowles by asking him “When and how you decided the work of Waihopai base was so important to you that you had to ... More >>
Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For March 10 2010
11 March 2010 9:39am | Scoop Daily Ratings
1: Waihopai Ploughares Trial: Day Two Bryan Law The whole morning today, and part of the afternoon was taken up with legal argument. The Court was closed, the jury confined to their room, during this process. Because of sub judice rules (and their ... More >>
Scoop Top Stories For March 10, 2010 News Summary
10 March 2010 5:54pm | The Scoop Editor
LEAD STORY Bryan Law: Reports From Waihopai Dome-Deflation Trial - Tuesday Waihopai spy base accused enter day two of trial NZ POLITICS Education: Cuts Auckland: Hide Exaggerating Council's Powers Over CCOs Pacific Scoop: Indian Kiwis Question NZ Justice ... More >>
Katya Rivas: Peter Denies Jesus
10 March 2010 4:40pm | Katya Rivas
While My Heart offers to suffer all these ordeals, Peter, whom I had named “Leader and Head of the Church” and who hours before had promised to follow Me unto My death, denies Me in response to a simple question that is asked of him and which ... More >>
Arts Festival Review: Antibalas
10 March 2010 3:54pm | Tyler Hersey
Have you ever had that dream where you're on the train in a foreign city, surrounded by people of every creed and culture, and the entire car erupts into a spontaneous party? Yeah, I've never had that dream either, but it's exactly what an Antibalas ... More >>
Writers Week: Once Upon A Deadline Stories Online
10 March 2010 3:03pm | Scoop Link
On Monday night the Arts Festival's Writers and Readers week opened with the read-off for the 'Once Upon a Deadline' competition. More >>
Manning & Deady: Indian Kiwis Angered At Verdicts
10 March 2010 2:11pm | Scoop Audio
95bFM Audio: Selwyn Manning & Paul Deady discuss how Indian Kiwis fear New Zealand's judiciary is handing down soft verdicts to those involved with violent crimes against their people. Are NZ's judges failing to deliver justice to our Indian community? More >>
Zahir Ebrahim: Anatomy of Conspiracy Theory
10 March 2010 2:05pm | Zahir Ebrahim
Some may rationally ponder that how is it, that such a long running global conspiracy for world government as outlined in Project Humanbeingsfirst's report “The Enduring Capitalist Conspiracy for World Government”, can be kept alive across centuries ... More >>
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