TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
Scoop Is In The House
One Law For All – Steven Wallace Killing Report
Sludge Report: Empathy Deficit In Middle East - Nightmare on N Street
Unfairly Treated Lashlie Back In The Fold
Big News: Changes In The Sallies & Choosing A New Pope
Angela D'Audney To Undergo Brain Surgery
Surveillance Snow Job Waste Of Money & Trees
Scoop Feedback: Bouquets For Content & Attitude
Resist Antibiotics Before Disease Does
Scoop World: Kofi Annan Climate Change Speech
Scoop World: Bush Speech To Notre Dame University
Katya Rivas: Do Not Defame My Church

TOP SCOOPS

Scoop Is In The House

– Today's questions of the day concerned: Celia Lashlie – Yelashgate – Usury – Yelashgate – Foot and Mouth – Yelashgate – Sunday Star Times Gets It Wrong – Australian Budget – Tibet – Tertiary Funding – Northland – Poverty. See... SCP HOUSE: Questions Of The Day –23 May [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0105/S00142.htm

One Law For All – Steven Wallace Killing Report

- The background contents of this report titled 'One law for all' was compiled by Advantage Advocacy and appears at http://www.advantageadvocacy.co.nz/docs/report.html on the Internet. The reports author is DERMOT GREGORY NOTTINGHAM. See... One Law For All - The Steven Wallace Killing [1] and Justice Campaigner Complains Re: Steven Wallace [2] EARLIER: - Sludge - Sludge Report #66 – Steven Wallace’s Last Words [3] - Sludge Report #65 – Killing The Silence

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0105/S00140.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0105/S00101.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0105/S00122.htm

Sludge Report: Empathy Deficit In Middle East - Nightmare on N Street

- Is it more terrifying to be killed by a suicide bomber or by a tank-shell, or by a bomb, or by a bullet as you drive your car to work? Does any means of violent death make you more dead than the other? See... Sludge Report #68 – Who Is Terrorising Who? [1] . And ...May twenty-first... Scene... a CIA office somewhere in the Middle East See... Sludge Report #69 – Nightmare on N. Street [2] MORE: - Kofi Annan - Mitchell Commission report release offers hope [3] - U.S. State Dept - Powell on the Sharm el Sheikh Fact-Finding [4] - Phil Goff - NZ Calls For End To Middle East Violence [5] - Gush Shalom - A Just Peace: The Only Way Out [6]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0105/S00129.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0105/S00135.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0105/S00033.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0105/S00030.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00437.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0105/S00029.htm

Unfairly Treated Lashlie Back In The Fold

- Nelson MP Nick Smith today welcomed the reappointment of Celia Lashlie as the advisor to Nelson schools to assist in developing programmes that will help at-risk pupils. See... Smith welcomes Lashlie reinstatement [1] MORE: - Govt - Report On The Investigation Of SES [2] - NZ First - Inadequacies Of State Sector Act Key Lashlie Issue [3]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00449.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00446.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00462.htm

Big News: Changes In The Sallies & Choosing A New Pope

- Well, there’s the old joke: how many Salvation Army Officers does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: change, what’s change? See... Big News: Demilitarisation Of The Sally Army [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0105/S00141.htm

Angela D'Audney To Undergo Brain Surgery

- One of the country's leading broadcasters Angela D'Audney has been admitted to an Auckland hospital after being diagnosed with a brain tumour and is expected to undergo surgery today. See... TVNZ Newsreader To Undergo Surgery [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0105/S00078.htm

Surveillance Snow Job Waste Of Money & Trees

- The Green Party has criticised the Government for spending over $19,000 on the “Securing our Nation’s Safety” publication in order to justify increasing State surveillance of New Zealanders’ private lives and business activities. See... $19,000 Spooks PR Effort A Waste Of Good Trees [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00452.htm

Scoop Feedback: Bouquets For Content & Attitude

- Your “Playing Monopoly” was an excellent call. I have had an Arpanet/Milnet address since my involvement in Honeywell in 1979 (grin). I was a communications consultant in distributed environments before that, so have a deep understanding of what makes the net a value added environment - content content and more content. See... Feedback: Content Is King – Irrational Optimism [1] . See also... Sludge Report #67 – Playing Monopoly On The NZ Web [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0105/S00139.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0105/S00123.htm

Resist Antibiotics Before Disease Does

- Launching Pharmac's Wise Use of Antibiotics campaign today, Otaki MP (and Chair of the Health Select Committee) Judy Keall said that it was very important to educate the public about the best use of antibiotics. See... Bugs resistant to drugs [1] and Don’t Take The Bite Out Of Antibiotics [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00450.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/SC0105/S00062.htm

Scoop World: Kofi Annan Climate Change Speech

- Following is the text of the commencement address delivered yesterday by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts. See... UN's Kofi Annan Climate Change Speech - Full Text [1] and Developed nations, US, must take lead on climate [2] . See also... President Bush Unveils US Energy Policy In St Paul [3]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0105/S00034.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0105/S00032.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0105/S00035.htm

Scoop World: Bush Speech To Notre Dame University

- THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Father Malloy. Thank you all for that warm welcome. Chairman McCartan, Father Scully, Dr. Hatch, Notre Dame trustees, members of the class of 2001. (Applause.) It is a high privilege to receive this degree. See... President Speech To Notre Dame On Poverty [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0105/S00036.htm

Katya Rivas: Do Not Defame My Church

- My daughter, flower of My Passion, write what your Lord wants to say through you…Katya Rivas: My Spouse: The Church [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0105/S00138.htm

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