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The Best Of It - Top Stories For The Week June 30
The Best Of It - Top Stories For The Week June 25-30
Welcome to Scoop's The Best Of It – Here for your weekend reading, listening, and viewing pleasure is a collection of the best and most progressive stories and casts on Scoop for the week as distilled by the scoop editorial team. Feel free to nominate your top stories by sending Scoop your picks by clicking here.
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Timor: More Kiwi Troops Fly Out This
Weekend to Troubled Country - More than 50 New
Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel will depart for
Timor-Leste on Saturday 1st July. Soldiers from the 2/1st
Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, at Burnham,
and logistics personnel from Linton Camp will fly out on
Saturday morning onboard a RNZAF Boeing 757. Burnham based
soldiers will depart from Christchurch Airport, RNZAF Air
Movements Terminal at 9.00am. The soldiers from Linton Camp
will depart from RNZAF Base Ohakea at 11.25am See... More
New Zealand Troops For Timor
ALSO: 
Scoop Audio: Selwyn Manning and
Simon Pound discuss on 95bFM: A deepening crisis in
Timor Leste has resulted in the NZ PM Helen Clark calling on
The UN to help end the violence. The United States has
responded saying it will support a UN backed military
operation in Timor. What does this mean for the fledgling
country?
ALSO:
[1] http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0606/S00296.htm
[2] http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0606/S00317.htm
[3] http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0606/S00343.htm
[4]
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0606/S00582.htm
Scoop Reports
DWS: She Might Be Downes But She's Left Not
Out! - The finale of Dancing with the Stars was a
bit like watching a a classic Disney cartoon except there
were no bad guys - everyone was the winner – particularly
former Miss Universe Lorraine Downes. Ms Downes and her
professional dancing partner Aaron Gilmore danced like one
would expect a handsome prince and his princess to dance –
moving across the linoleum of the Avalon studios in a
similar fashion to a pair of delicate swans gliding atop a
large marzipan packed wedding cake. See… The
Final Of Dancing With The Stars
[1]
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0606/S00277.htm
Scoop Satire: Parliamentarians Go To The
Movies - The wild speculation of history's great
creative minds has, I've often thought, rarely been able to
match the droll and improbable events that occur in the
politics of this nation. But recently a rash of occurrences
in the life of Parliament had a particularly strong
resemblance to the works of moving-picture artists. See...
Lyndon
Hood: Parliament Imitates Art
[1]
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0606/S00301.htm
Scoop Politics
Politics: Robson Declares a Bad Week for
Nats - The first report on the state of the economy
in 2006 found that the value of goods and services produced
in Aotearoa rose 0.7% in the three months to March 31, a
bitter blow to National which had so gleefully predicted
recession. See... Robson-on-Politics
28 June 2006 [1] http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0606/S00277.htm
Scoop Multimedia
Scoop VideoCast: Pressure Mounts on
Parliamentarians Over Taser Trial Scoop co-editor,
Selwyn Manning, presents Scoop's video podcast, today
reporting on how the New Zealand Police intends to trial the
Taser stun gun on people from September this year.
Opposition against the Police's use of the Taser is mounting
and MPs are being called to stand up and be counted on this
issue. So who is likely to be 'Tasered' by our boys in blue?
Image and Video footage inserts courtesy of
CampaignAgainstTheTaser.com. See... Scoop
VideoCast: Pressure Mounts On MPs Over Taser [1] http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0606/S00299.htm
RECOMMENDED AUDIO and VIDEO: 95bFM Audio: Wallace Chapman
interviews Terry Hicks the father of Australian David Hicks,
who has been held for 4 and half years in Camp Delta,
Guantanamo Bay. Terry talks frankly to Wallace of the long
running struggle to obtain a fair trial for David, and an
eventual release from this legal 'black hole'.
Scoop Audio: Kevin List on
Radio Active discusses: how Mr List is unsure whether he saw
a vision at the Green Party bash; also mentions the deficit
word enough to cause concern among econ-watchers!
Scoop Video: The Week's Movie
Trailers – Sci-Fi Superman Returns; Sci-Fi
Ultraviolet; Mel Gibson's Apocalyto; and a late run on the
Da Vinci Code.
Scoop Audio: Selwyn Manning and
Radio Adelaide 's Peter Godfrey discuss: The family of
the murdered Kahui twins being interviewed by Police;
Auckland City is to remain vulnerable to power-cuts for two
years!; NZ Treasury has issued advice for Cullen to cut Govt
spending.
[1]
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0606/S00318.htm
[2]
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0606/S00315.htm
[3]
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0606/S00227.htm
[4]
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0606/S00302.htm
Scoop NZ News
Food: Public Health Inquiry Into Rugby
Toffs' Ills Progressing - The investigation by the
Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) into the
cause of the Eden Park gastroenteritis outbreak is
progressing. Interviews have been conducted on 407 patrons.
Of those, 81 (20%) have reported illness. Of the four
affected hospitality areas investigated the rate of illness
was highest for the Hall of Legends where 36% of the 178
interviewed patrons were ill. See... Gastroenteritis
investigation progressing [1] http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0606/S00137.htm
Other
Top Stories:
[1] http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0606/S00416.htm
[2] http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0606/S00300.htm
[3] http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0606/S00059.htm
[4]
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0606/S00279.htm
Scoop International
Scoop News: Global News
Round-Up For Week June 26-30 - Israel: Hamas Members
Will Be Tried Israel intends to try the Hamas activists,
government ministers and parliament members captured during
an early-morning incursion into the Gaza Strip, the Israeli
Defense Forces said June 29. ALSO: U.K.: Iran Could
Threaten U.K. Interests - Russia: Joining Turkey's 'Black
Sea Harmony' - Kuwait: Polls Close - NORTH KOREA/CHINA: -
G-8 and Iran: - SPAIN: and ETA. See... Global
News In Brief: Israel To Try Captured Hamas [1] http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0606/S00342.htm
Scoop Comment
Greg Palast: Looking For A
Better-Documented Conspiracy Theory - The US
Congress will open hearings this week on the War in Iraq - a
wee bit late one might think. But one question at the
forefront of the minds of many on both the Left and the
Right is sure not to be asked: Did the Jews do it ? I
mean, after killing Jesus, did the Elders of Zion manipulate
the government of the United States into invading Babylon as
part of a scheme to abet the expansion of Greater Israel?
See... Palast:
The Invasion of Iraq A Jewish Conspiracy? [1] http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0606/S00306.htm
Ian Powell: Cuba And New Zealand: A Relationship Worthy Of Strengthening
Gordon Campbell: On bird flu, AUKUS entry fees and Cindy Lee
Binoy Kampmark: Israel’s Anti-UNRWA Campaign Falls Flat
Peter Dunne: Luxon Gets Out His Butcher's Knife - Briefly
Binoy Kampmark: Warring Against Encryption, Australia Is Coming For Your Communications
Gordon Campbell: On Fast Track Powers, Media Woes And The Tiktok Ban