TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
Howard’s End: Ailing Power Industry Needs Mending
Emergency Talks On Power Crisis
Keith Rankin: Anti-globalisation Brigade Get It Wrong
Italian Embassy Picketed Over Jailed Kiwi Journalist
Lindsay Perigo: Beyond Tribalism
Big News: Third World Debt Solutions
Nandor Tells Of Illegal Search, Calls For Inquiry
US Opposes Biological Weapons Controls
Sow Crate Back-down Sparks SPCA Campaign
Fiji Murders: Videos Weren’t Porno, Police Say
Scoop World: Oil Producers To Reduce Output

TOP SCOOPS

Howard’s End: Ailing Power Industry Needs Mending

- What Energy Minister Pete Hodgson needs to say tomorrow is something like this: "We've got serious supply, distribution and marketing problems and the government has had to take a larger role than it would have liked. But we view our involvement as a temporary role. Our goal is an electricity industry that is open, competitive and market-oriented." See... Howard's End: Echoes Of California In Power Crisis [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0107/S00160.htm

Emergency Talks On Power Crisis

- Energy Minister Pete Hodgson will hold discussions with the electricity industry and consumer representatives on Friday. See... Stocktake on electricity situation [1] and Max's chickens are coming home [2] MORE: - MEUG - Electricity Crisis Undermines Credibility Of NZ [3] - Nats - Govt Pockets Cash As Consumers Suffer [4] - On Energy - NGC to Exit Electricity Retailing [5] - Scoop - Low Hydro Lakes Threaten West Coast [6] - Business NZ - Business Needs Real Answers [7] - EMA - Call For Urgent National Power Saving Campaign [8] - ACT - NIWA Gets It Wrong [9] - NIWA Shouldn't Threaten Legal Action [10]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0107/S00434.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0107/S00435.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0107/S00205.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0107/S00437.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0107/S00198.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0107/S00152.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0107/S00196.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0107/S00193.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0107/S00413.htm
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0107/S00445.htm

Keith Rankin: Anti-globalisation Brigade Get It Wrong

- I am frustrated and bemused by the global anti-globalisation protest movement. It is very much a manifestation of the thing it purports to protest against. Further, the events that it seeks to disrupt are more manifestations of the old nationalist world order than of globalism. See... Keith Rankin: Globalisation and Anarchism [1] Click through to Genoa G8 feature page for full coverage [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0107/S00157.htm
[2] - http://scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=genoa

Italian Embassy Picketed Over Jailed Kiwi Journalist

- More than 40 people rallied outside the Italian Consulate in Wellington at lunchtime today in support of Wellington man Sam Buchanan, who is jailed in Genoa. Mr. Buchanan had been arrested along with 91 others during a violent police raid on a school building where people were sleeping, following protests against the G8 summit in Genoa, Italy. See... Italian Embassy Protest Report [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0107/S00116.htm

Lindsay Perigo: Beyond Tribalism

- There is no excuse for racism. "Racism," said Ayn Rand, "is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man's genetic lineage - the notion that a man's intellectual & characterological traits are produced & transmitted by his internal body chemistry.” See... Lindsay Perigo: Character, Not Colour [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0107/S00159.htm

Big News: Third World Debt Solutions

- “Unpayable debt” should be cancelled out right, as countries are not going to pay it anyway. “Payable debt” should be part of HIPC, and any relief of this debt should have economic conditions related to poverty reduction and should not be taken away from any development assistance. See... Big News: Why G8 Leaders Have Failed The Poor [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0107/S00158.htm

Nandor Tells Of Illegal Search, Calls For Inquiry

- "Bit of a bush lawyer are you? OK you little arsehole, I'm using my powers under the Misuse of Drugs Act to search this bag." See... Speech on misuse of Police powers of search [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0107/S00428.htm

US Opposes Biological Weapons Controls

- Disarmament and Arms Control Minister Matt Robson today described the United States' decision to walk away from talks to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention as troubling and a serious setback to the control and eradication of biological weapons. See... US biological weapons stand a serious setback [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0107/S00443.htm

Sow Crate Back-down Sparks SPCA Campaign

- The SPCA is promising a nationwide consumer campaign against the pork industry, following the failure of pork producers to vote for an early phase-out of sow stalls. See... SPCA Promises Nationwide Consumer Campaign [1] and Pork Industry buying a fight - Greens [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0107/S00111.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0107/S00432.htm

Fiji Murders: Videos Weren’t Porno, Police Say

- SUVA (Pasifik Nius): Fiji police have come under fire for retracting statements on the discovery of pornographic materials at the home of mudered Red Cross director John Scott, the Sun newspaper reports. See... Police Retract Porno Claim [1] EARLIER: - Pacnews - "Ex MP In Porn Tapes" [2] - FPCG - Police Deny Scott Tapes Were Pornographic [3]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0107/S00090.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0107/S00084.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0107/S00086.htm

Scoop World: Oil Producers To Reduce Output

- OPEC has decided to reduce production by 1 million barrels per day (b/d), effective from 1 September 2001, with an open option to hold an Extraordinary Meeting soon if the market warrants it. See... Agreement of the OPEC Conference [1] . EARLIER: OPEC mulls extraordinary meeting in early August [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0107/S00087.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0107/S00079.htm

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