Today's Top Scoops - 15 February 2008
Scoop At Webstock: Russell Brown On The State of Online Media In New Zealand
Marine Environment: By Posiedon Those Guidelines Look
Loose
Graffiti:
Plan For 'Tagging' Crime, Ban On Under-18 Spraycan
Sales
Immigration: UN Representative Verbally Roasts NZ
Legislation
Prisons:
Rimutaka Corruption Only Of Non-Systemic
Kind
Disasters:
Recovering From A Sticky One
Down
On T' Farm: Pedersen Tries To Scare off DOC
United
Nations: Temporary Relocation Of UN Mission From
Eritrea Has Begun
On
The Job: Protection Of Domestic Workers, ITUC Supports
Proposed ILO Convention
UNICEF:
90,000 Somali Children Could Die Without Increased
Support
David
Swanson: Democrats Pass Contempt, Republicans Leave The
Room
Scoop
Images: Graffiti Around The World
Martin
LeFevre: Campaign, Movement, Or
Revolution?
Theatre:
Watch Rich Kids Go Mad In Reagan's America
Silliness: Pirates Found By Imperial Army In Island
Bay
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LEAD STORY
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Scoop At
Webstock: Russell Brown On The State of Online Media In
New Zealand - [video + images] Media
commentator, Scoop Media Network partner, PublicAddress.net [1]
publisher and self-confessed "blutter" Russell Brown opened
the final day of Webstock this morning with a provocative
address on the state of web media in New Zealand. (Video
supplied and served by Webstock web-videographers http://www.r2.co.nz [2] .) More
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MORE:
SEE ALSO:
[1] - http://PublicAddress.net
[2]
- http://www.r2.co.nz
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0802/S00163.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/features/anz.html
[5]
- http://www.webstock.org.nz
NZ POLITICS
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Marine Environment: By Posiedon Those Guidelines Look
Loose - New Government guidelines issued today
are a step backward in protecting the marine environment,
Forest & Bird says. Forest & Bird Conservation Advocate
Kirstie Knowles says the new guidelines weaken protection of
New Zealand's marine environment. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0802/S00174.htm
Graffiti:
Plan For 'Tagging' Crime, Ban On Under-18 Spraycan
Sales - Prime Minister Helen Clark and Police
and Justice Minister Annette King announced today a
government crackdown on tagging and other forms of graffiti
vandalism... "Tagging is a destructive crime and represents
an invasion of private and public property." More
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ALSO:
- Manukau City Council - Anti tagging legislation welcomed [2]
- National - Graffiti moves election-year hypocrisy [3]
- Gordon Copeland - The War on Taggers [4]
- Newmarket Business Association - Govt had no option but to ban spray cans [5]
- Waitakere City - Waitakere Mayor Applauds New Graffiti Measures [6]
- Hutt City Council - Mayor welcomes graffiti crackdown [7]
- Jami-Lee Ross - Graffiti Announcement a Start - Long Way To Go [8]
- Auckland City Council - Auckland City Council Media release [9]
- Scoop Images - Graffiti Around The World [10]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0802/S00228.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0802/S00155.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0802/S00230.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0802/S00231.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0802/S00241.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0802/S00157.htm
[7]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0802/S00158.htm
[8]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0802/S00159.htm
[9]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0802/S00160.htm
[10]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0802/S00164.htm
Immigration: UN Representative Verbally Roasts NZ
Legislation - Concern about how New Zealand
was balancing security concerns vs humanitarian ones was
raised by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
regional representative today. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0802/S00158.htm
Prisons:
Rimutaka Corruption Only Of Non-Systemic Kind -
The PSA welcomes the thorough and independent investigation
into allegations of corruption at Rimutaka Prison. "We are
pleased that the investigation has shown that there is no
systemic corruption at Rimutaka," says PSA National
Secretary, Richard Wagstaff. More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- NZ Govt - Minister welcomes independent report on Rimutaka [2]
- National - Much still rotten at Rimutaka Prison [3]
- NZ First - Rimutaka Report Exposes Management Incompetence [4]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0802/S00162.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0802/S00205.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0802/S00215.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0802/S00218.htm
BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH
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Disasters:
Recovering From A Sticky One - Community
response and recovery from disasters is the subject of a
presentation at Massey's Wellington campus tomorrow as the
final instalment of the week-long Emergency Management
Summer Institute hosted by Joint Centre for Disaster
Research - School of Psychology and GNS Science. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0802/S00031.htm
Down
On T' Farm: Pedersen Tries To Scare off DOC
- If the Department of Conservation stopped
fighting farmers and councils and concentrated on their own
estates they could save millions overnight and reduce their
overspending substantially, said president of Federated
Farmers Charlie Pedersen. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0802/S00232.htm
WORLD
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United
Nations: Temporary Relocation Of UN Mission From
Eritrea Has Begun - The UN Mission in Ethiopia
and Eritrea has begun temporary relocating personnel and
equipment from Eritrea to sites on the Ethiopian side of the
border because of fuel restrictions imposed by the
Government in Asmara. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0802/S00169.htm
On
The Job: Protection Of Domestic Workers, ITUC Supports
Proposed ILO Convention - Domestic workers
remain confined within an invisible and very poorly
protected segment of the labour market. Although a vital
link in the economic chain, they are often deprived of their
basic rights and confronted with exploitation and
ill-treatment. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0802/S00164.htm
UNICEF:
90,000 Somali Children Could Die Without Increased
Support - About 90,000 children in war-ravaged
Somalia could die in the next few months without immediate
supplementary nutrition and therapeutic feeding, an official
with UNICEF said today, calling for stepped-up international
support. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0802/S00170.htm
COMMENT
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David
Swanson: Democrats Pass Contempt, Republicans Leave The
Room - Wexler: No one is immune from the rule
of law: Miers, Bolten, Bush, and Cheney! Not since Watergate
has a prez so openly disregarded the will of Congress. The
power of the Congressional subpoena safeguards our liberty.
More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0802/S00165.htm
Scoop
Images: Graffiti Around The World - During
his recent holiday, Scoop's Lyndon Hood had the foresight to
take some holiday snaps of local graffiti. Photos from
Wylam, Brussels, Lisbon and Singapore. Lack of such photos
from Leeds, Newcastle, Southern Norway and Venice suggests
the street art in those places was either too mundane to
bother with or mostly absent. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0802/S00164.htm
Martin
LeFevre: Campaign, Movement, Or
Revolution? - The presidential race in America
grows more exciting by the week, at least on the Democratic
side. The question is: Does all this excitement spell real
change, or does it confirm that hope springs infernal?
Truly, as Charles Dickens wrote, it is "the best of times,
the worst of times, the season of light, the season of
darkness, the spring of hope, the winter of despair." More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0802/S00162.htm
LIFESTYLE
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Theatre:
Watch Rich Kids Go Mad In Reagan's America -
This is our youth is a fast paced modern comedy about the
waste of rich bored youth in Reagan Era America - 3 teens in
1 room for 48 hours with $15000 and 0 scruples! More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0802/S00168.htm
Silliness: Pirates Found By Imperial Army In Island
Bay - Alf's Imperial Army Central Command
Intelligence section has determined the existence of a large
nest of Pirates in the Wellington suburb of Island Bay,
believed to operating under the cover of the
innocuous-sounding "Island Bay Community Centre". More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0802/S00170.htm
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