Today's Top Scoops - January 09, 2008
Rosalea Barker: New Hampshire Primary Results - Part 1
Scoop Military and Defence Issues: Minister Concerned? Send A Frigate - Greens
Finance:
Pin Punching Kiwi's Spend $4.0 Billion In December
Scoop
Weather: Late Summer As La Nina Continues
United
Nations: Two Peacekeepers Wounded In South
Lebanon
His
Day In Court: SCSL War Crimes Trial Of Charles Taylor
Resumes
Conservation:
Illegal Logging And Road Building Threatens Tigers And
Tribes Of The Heart Of Sumatra
Daniel
Patrick Welch: No Change For Me - I Want Bills
U.S.
Elections: New Hampshire Primary - ALL Diebold, ALL The
Time
U.S.
Elections: Huckabee - Social Conservatism Plus
Populism-Lite?
Uri
Avnery: The Case Of The White Bird
Jason
Leopold: CIA Tapes Destroyed As Pressure
Mounted
Scoop Art and Entertainment: Presenting The Tinkles
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LEAD STORY
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Rosalea Barker: New Hampshire Primary Results
- Part 1 - The town I stayed in last August,
Littleton, is not very far from the tiny hamlet of Dixville
Notch, whose election results I watched on local television
news in California during the 9 pm bulletin last night,
Monday, January 7. The polling place in a famous resort
hotel opened at midnight, seventeen people voted, and the
polls closed shortly thereafter. More
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ALSO:
- Rosalea Barker - US Primaries Move On To New Hampshire [2]
- Scott Galindez - Scott Galindez: Candidates Making Final Push [3]
- BuzzFlash.Com - Obama Pulls Even With Clinton Nationally, Leads SC [4]
- Michael Collins - New Hampshire Primary - ALL Diebold, ALL the Time [5]
- TV3 News - Obama gaining on Clinton in polls [6]
- TV3 News - Clinton gets emotional on the campaign trail [7]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00067.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00036.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00065.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00061.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00057.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/4245.html
[7]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/4251.html
NZ POLITICS
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Scoop
Military and Defence Issues: Minister Concerned? Send A
Frigate - Greens - The Government must back up the
Conservation Minister's concerns for safety in the Antarctic
region, expressed this morning, by sending New Zealand Navy
frigates to the region, Green Party Conservation
Spokesperson Metiria Turei says. More
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ALSO:
- National - Are Orions available for whaling surveillance? [2]
- TV3 News - Graphic Japanese video fails to kill Australian anti-whaling sentiment [3]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0801/S00043.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0801/S00034.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/4255.html
BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH
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Finance:
Pin Punching Kiwi's Spend $4.0 Billion In December -
During December 2007 New Zealanders spent over $4.0 billion
across the country via 70 million transactions processed
through the Paymark network alone, up 8 percent
year-on-year. More
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ALSO:
- Nielsen NetRatings - Top Sites December 2007 - Shopping Category [2]
- Motor Industry Association - 2007 new vehicle sales just short of 2005 record [3]
- Barfoot and Thompson - Auckland House Prices Rise 12% in 2007 [4]
- J P Morgan - Australia's building approvals jump 8.9%m/m [5]
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0801/S00030.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0801/S00024.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0801/S00022.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0801/S00018.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0801/S00029.htm
Scoop
Weather: Late Summer As La Nina Continues -
Temperatures over late summer (January - March) are very
likely to be above average for the time of year in the west
of the North Island and the entire South Island says NIWA's
National Climate Centre. According to the centre's seasonal
climate ... More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0801/S00006.htm
WORLD
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United
Nations: Two Peacekeepers Wounded In South
Lebanon - Two peacekeepers serving with the United
Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) were injured today
after the vehicle they were travelling in was hit by a blast
in southern Lebanon. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0801/S00105.htm
His
Day In Court: SCSL War Crimes Trial Of Charles Taylor
Resumes - After a delay of more than four months,
the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles
Taylor resumed today at the United Nations-backed Special
Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0801/S00097.htm
Conservation:
Illegal Logging And Road Building Threatens Tigers And
Tribes Of The Heart Of Sumatra - "We urge APP and
its partners to stop clearing any more natural forest whose
ecological, environmental and cultural conservation values
have not been determined and to stop sourcing any of its
purchased wood from such forests," Ian Kosasih,
WWF-Indonesia's Forest Program Director, said. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0801/S00090.htm
COMMENT
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Daniel
Patrick Welch: No Change For Me - I Want Bills -
In the runup to this year's political circus, the buzzwords
of hope and change are being bandied about like the cheap
currency they are. Divested of any real meaning by their
repetition and cynical misapplication, they quickly become
empty slogans. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00063.htm
U.S.
Elections: New Hampshire Primary - ALL Diebold, ALL The
Time - Tomorrow's New Hampshire primary represents a
major turning point in the presidential primaries. We've got
the rising star of Obama, the stunned Clinton camp, and the
populist efforts of the fast moving Democrat, John Edwards,
just off a 9% increase. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00057.htm
U.S.
Elections: Huckabee - Social Conservatism Plus
Populism-Lite? - Far right dubs Huckabee the `Big
Government' candidate! Owing to his convincing victory in
the Iowa Republican Party caucuses, former Arkansas governor
Mike Huckabee has become "viable." Over the next few weeks
expect the mainstream media to both welcome the
folksy/friendly Huckabee with open arms, and slice and dice
his record and past statements. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00040.htm
Uri
Avnery: The Case Of The White Bird - In public
opinion polls, Tzipi Livni has enjoyed a remarkable
popularity. She trumps all the other politicians in the
governing coalition. While the rating of the two Ehuds -
Olmert and Barak - was going down, hers was on the way up.
More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00050.htm
Jason
Leopold: CIA Tapes Destroyed As Pressure Mounted
- The CIA destroyed videotapes showing its agents subjecting
high-level al-Qaeda detainees to waterboarding after the
agency's inspector general issued a classified report in the
spring of 2004 that concluded the interrogation methods used
on the prisoners. Details about when the videotapes were
expected to be destroyed were revealed in a February 2003
letter released last week by Congresswoman Jane Harman. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00056.htm
LIFESTYLE
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Scoop
Art and Entertainment: Presenting The Tinkles -
Meet Big Tones; an aging, ginger-haired 80's boybander
trying to get back into entertainment scene with a
revolutionary idea: Creating a kiwi children's entertainment
group to rival Hi5! More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0801/S00031.htm
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