Today's Top Scoops - 12 June 2008
Gordon Campbell: Obama's Readiness to Talk To America's Enemies
Political Attacks: Cosgrove Sinks Teeth Into National
Over REINZ
Hooliganism: Potty Mouthed MP Apologises To
Police
Foreign
Affairs: Kiwis Call For Release of US held Cuban
Political Prisoners
Legal
Issues: Proposed Safety Orders Welcomed
Treaty
Treat: Revised Settlement Reached With Te
Arawa
Gordon
Campbell: Bassett Book Review
Going Down: Manufacturing Activity Weakens In May
Kiwi
Ingenuity: Farmers Put Lateral Thinking Caps
On
EU:
Swift Adoption Of Energy And Climate Policies Seen As Best
Response To Rising Oil Prices
Vanished:
UN Rights Group Deplores Sri Lanka Disappearances
Trigger
Happy: U.S.-Led Coalition Forces Destroy Pakistani
Check Post; 11 Dead
Passages:
Ban Ki-Moon Mourns Death Of Vo Van Kiet, Former Viet Nam
Prime Minister
Food
Supply: Global Food Aid Deliveries Reach Lowest Level
In Almost 50 Years
So
Far, Not So Good: Failed Project For The New American
Century?
US
Elections: McCain's Judicial Plans In Lockstep With
Bush
Iraq
Issues: Iraqi Parliament's Push For
Sovereignty
Jurisdictions:
FIVE Reasons To Stay Awake
Wrestling: Smack Down Gets Big Ups
Cult
New Zealand noise: Yokel Ono set to play one-off show
in
Auckland
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LEAD STORY
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Gordon Campbell: Obama's Readiness to
Talk To America's Enemies - Almost every other
day, the US presidential race - and the place the Iraq war
plays within it - manages to leave the rest of the world
looking on amazed at the way the world's only superpower
conducts its rites of succession. Not to mention at the
Republican acceptance of eternal war in Iraq. Earlier today,
John McCain was being reported to the effect that "it's not
too important" how long the US stays in Iraq, so long as it
gets [American] casualties down. More
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[1] - http://election08.scoop.co.nz/obama%e2%80%99s-readiness-to-talk-to-america%e2%80%99s-enemies/
NZ POLITICS
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Political Attacks: Cosgrove Sinks Teeth Into National
Over REINZ - Associate Justice Minister
Clayton Cosgrove says the National Party should come clean
over any deals it has done with the Real Estate Institute
(REINZ) to wind back the government's new legislation to
overhaul real estate law. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0806/S00169.htm
Hooliganism: Potty Mouthed MP Apologises To
Police - National Party Northland MP John
Carter says he deeply regrets an incident between himself
and a police officer who stopped him for a driving offence.
More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0806/S00166.htm
Foreign
Affairs: Kiwis Call For Release of US held Cuban
Political Prisoners - Dozens of New Zealand
supporters of civil rights have added their names to a
letter being delivered to the US consulate in Auckland at
4pm today demanding the release of five Cubans jailed in the
USA. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0806/S00130.htm
Legal
Issues: Proposed Safety Orders Welcomed -
Liz Kinley, Jigsaw CEO Strategic Operations, has added
Jigsaw's support to the proposal that Police who attend a
domestic violence incident be given the power to issue a
safety order. More
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ALSO:
- National - National leads, Labour follows on family violence [2]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0806/S00117.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0806/S00136.htm
Treaty
Treat: Revised Settlement Reached With Te
Arawa - Te Pumautanga o Te Arawa, representing
the Affiliate Te Arawa Iwi/Hapu has signed a revised Deed of
Settlement with the Crown to settle their historical Treaty
of Waitangi claims. More
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ALSO:
- NZ Govt - Te Pumautanga o Te Arawa achieve great milestone [2]
- Te Pumautanga o Te Arawa - Continued unity and support the key [3]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0806/S00151.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0806/S00150.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0806/S00120.htm
Gordon
Campbell: Bassett Book Review -
Scoop's political guru Gordon Campbell has read and analysed
Michael Bassett's history of the Lange years. The book
itself was launched Monday More
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ALSO:
- Selwyn Manning - Flashback: Personal Reflections Of South Auckland's Statesman [2]
- KiwiFM - Wallace n Selwyn Manning Discuss Bassett's Book On Lange [3]
[1] - http://election08.scoop.co.nz/gordon-campbell-reviews-working-with-david/
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00109.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0806/S00136.htm
BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH
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Going Down: Manufacturing Activity Weakens In May
- New Zealand's manufacturing sector continued
to weaken in May amidst challenging economic conditions,
according to the Bank of New Zealand - Business NZ
Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI). More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0806/S00216.htm
Kiwi
Ingenuity: Farmers Put Lateral Thinking Caps
On - Innovations judges announced the winning
entries in the Fieldays Innovation Centre this morning,
saying that simple and effective solutions to common farm
problems were the order of the day. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0806/S00214.htm
WORLD
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EU:
Swift Adoption Of Energy And Climate Policies Seen As Best
Response To Rising Oil Prices - The European
Commission have debated policy responses needed to mitigate
the effects of rising global fuel prices. They analysed both
structural and cyclical factors and proposes a co-ordinated
policy response. Commission President José Manuel Barroso
stated: "Rising fuel prices are squeezing the purchasing
power of all ... citizens, with the strongest impact on the
lowest income families". More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0806/S00204.htm
Vanished:
UN Rights Group Deplores Sri Lanka
Disappearances - The Government of Sri Lanka
needs to stamp out a recent wave of disappearances in which
women and humanitarian aid workers are among those who have
gone missing, a group of United Nations human rights experts
said today. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0806/S00217.htm
Trigger
Happy: U.S.-Led Coalition Forces Destroy Pakistani
Check Post; 11 Dead - On the night of 10/11
June, a border check post at Gora Prai in Mohmand Agency was
destroyed by Coalition Forces in Afghanistan through an
aerial attack. Eleven Security Forces Personnel including
one officer were killed. A spokesman condemned this
completely unprovoked and cowardly act and regretted the
loss of precious lives of the soldiers. He blamed the
U.S.-led Coalition Forces for the violent act. More
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RELATED
- US State Department: "This is a regrettable incident" [2]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0806/S00203.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0806/S00224.htm
Passages:
Ban Ki-Moon Mourns Death Of Vo Van Kiet, Former Viet Nam
Prime Minister - ''As a major force behind the
economic reforms in Viet Nam that started in the late 1980s,
Mr. Vo Van Kiet paved the way for the country's transition
from poverty to a decade of impressive economic growth,''
Mr. Ban's statement noted. "During his time as the prime
minister from 1991 to 1997, he also played a pivotal role in
improving Viet Nam's diplomatic relations with other
countries." More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0806/S00214.htm
Food
Supply: Global Food Aid Deliveries Reach Lowest Level
In Almost 50 Years - Global food aid deliveries
have sunk to their lowest levels in nearly five decades,
with deliveries of wheat and maize facing the sharpest drops
due to the impact of food price rises around the world,
according to the Unined Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
More
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RELATED
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0806/S00194.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0806/S00198.htm
COMMENT
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So
Far, Not So Good: Failed Project For The New American
Century? - It was early morning (for me) when
my roommate got a call from his mother in Wisconsin telling
him to turn on the TV. That's when we saw the first building
on fire. We ran to our roof in Brooklyn that overlooked
Manhattan and saw the plumes of smoke ... More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0806/S00167.htm
US
Elections: McCain's Judicial Plans In Lockstep With
Bush - While it isn't as eye-catching as the
latest reports from Iraq and Afghanistan, or as
headline-grabbing as rapidly escalating gas prices and the
growing number of housing foreclosures, and few voters cast
their ballot based on it, the judicial appointments of
whomever wins the U.S. presidency in November will have
long-lasting ramifications for the country. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0806/S00175.htm
Iraq
Issues: Iraqi Parliament's Push For
Sovereignty - Most Iraqis strongly oppose the
kind of agreement that President Bush hopes to negotiate
with Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki. "The majority of Iraqi
MPs, and more than 70 percent of the Iraqi people, are
against signing any agreements or treaties with the US while
Iraq is under the occupation," Al-Jaberi said. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0806/S00174.htm
Jurisdictions:
FIVE Reasons To Stay Awake - One of the things
that the latest Atlanta Appeal ruling in the case of the
Cuban Five makes very clear is that international territory,
ie what we reasonable people consider belongs to all of us
and is subject to international law, is really under the
jurisdiction of the United States. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0806/S00173.htm
LIFESTYLE
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Wrestling: Smack Down Gets Big Ups - The
World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars of WWE Smackdown
ECW drew huge crowds of enthusiastic fans to the live event
held last night (Wednesday 11th June) at Auckland's Vector
Arena. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0806/S00110.htm
Cult
New Zealand noise: Yokel Ono set to play one-off show
in Auckland - Cult New Zealand noise-rock
outfit Yokel Ono are set to take the stage for a one-off
show in Auckland, and it might not be very good, said
guitarist Thom Burton. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0806/S00108.htm
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