Today's Top Scoops - 05 August 2008
Gordon Campbell: The PM's Presser 4 August 2008 Reviewed
Questions
For Oral Answer - Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Conference
Tape: English Misspoke
Defence: RNZAF Iroquois To Tackle Mountains
Gordon
Campbell: National's Economic Vision For NZ
EFA:
PPTA Makes Light Of 'Dense' Complaint
Pest Management: Rentokil Keeping Games Free Of Troublesome Critters
Sports
Cheats: Online Anti-Doping Cartoon Launched By
UNESCO
Glowing
Report: Plutonium Contamination Contained In UN Atomic
Laboratory
US
State Department: Zimbabwe Continues to Suffer After
Sham Election
Get
Together: UN Calls For Somalis To Unite & Overcome
Political Crisis
AIDS
Conference: In Mexico, Ban Calls For Scaled-up Efforts
To Combat HIV/AIDS
Binoy
Kampmark: Occupant of the First Circle - the Death of
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Brad Friedman: Article Casting Doubt on 'Anthrax
Killer' Scrubbed
Dean Baker: The Compromise "Drill Anywhere"
Plan
Walter Brasch: Mining Racism in a Northeastern
Pennsylvania Town
Ramzy Baroud: Obama Joins the Club
Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay: The U.S. Economy and Bad
Government Policies
Uri Avnery: Hollow Time
Sherwood Ross: How The US Reversed Its Policy On
Civilian Bombing
Cocky Tales: Whisky Wizzardry Provides Wellington
Winner
Sport:
Anti-Doping Message Now In Form Of Cartoon With Enormous
File Size
Comedy:
Improvised Crime To Be Fought
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LEAD STORY
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Gordon Campbell: The PM's Presser 4
August 2008 Reviewed - Yesterday at the Prime
Minister's press conference the gallery was treating the
taping of English as being THE ethical issue - and not what
English actually said on the tape, which was ignored.
Initially at least, Clark struggled with the media's line of
questioning.Well, was she surprised by the tape?
Not at all. "Privatization is in the National Party's DNA,"
she maintained. More
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ALSO:
- Scoop Audio - PM's Presser 4 August 2008 [2]
- National - PM wrong - No education spend cuts under National [3]
[1] - http://election08.scoop.co.nz/gordon-campbell-reviews-the-pms-presser-4-august-2008/
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00044.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00055.htm
NZ POLITICS
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QUESTIONS
FOR ORAL ANSWER:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00054.htm
Conference
Tape: English Misspoke - "Statements of
mine secretly recorded at a social function last Friday and
published over the weekend have caused confusion and concern
about National's policy on Kiwibank and Working for
Families," says National Party Finance spokesman Bill
English. "I did not choose my words well." More
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ALSO:
- Audio - Bill English Talks On KiwiBank Being Sold [2]
- Out-Link - 08 Wire: Bill English transcipt [3]
- TV3 Video - Govt puts the heat on National over Kiwibank comments [4]
- 95bFM - Joe & Bill English On Nat Policy & KiwiBank [5]
- Scoop Full Coverage - Full Coverage: National's Vision For New Zealand [6]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00052.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00008.htm
[3]
- http://08wire.org/2008/08/04/bill-englishs-gaffe-in-all-its-glory/
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/business/11328.html
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00037.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00031.htm
Defence: RNZAF Iroquois To Tackle Mountains
- The skies around Marlborough, Molesworth, St
Arnaud and Dip Flat will be humming with the sound of Royal
New Zealand Air Force Iroquois helicopters taking part in
Exercise Blackbird. More
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ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0808/S00022.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0808/S00010.htm
Gordon
Campbell: National's Economic Vision For
NZ - If someone said they were planning to raid
their children's piggy banks in order to pay the rent we
wouldn't be applauding them, and we certainly wouldn't be
lining up to let them run the country. More
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ALSO:
- Scoop Full Coverage - Full Coverage: National's Vision For New Zealand [2]
[1] - http://election08.scoop.co.nz/gordon-campbell-on-national%e2%80%99s-economic-vision/
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00031.htm
EFA:
PPTA Makes Light Of 'Dense' Complaint - As the
election campaign starts heating up the Electoral Finance
Act complaints come rolling in... The good news is the
electoral commission has had the common sense to throw out a
trivial complaint about the PPTA's "How dense do you want
them?" billboard. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0808/S00005.htm
BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH
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Pest
Management: Rentokil Keeping Games Free Of Troublesome
Critters - Rentokil (www.rentokil.com)
announced that it has been appointed by the Beijing
Government to support the pest control strategy for the
Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0808/S00057.htm
WORLD
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Sports
Cheats: Online Anti-Doping Cartoon Launched By
UNESCO - The latest adventures of Rattus Holmes
and Felis Watson - a tale of sport and athletes who cheat by
taking banned drugs - can be found on a website run by the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization, starting today. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0808/S00044.htm
Glowing
Report: Plutonium Contamination Contained In UN Atomic
Laboratory - A storage room at the IAEA
Laboratory in Seibersdorf - 35 kilometres from Vienna - was
contaminated with plutonium due to a pressure build-up in a
small sealed bottle kept in a storage room. Radioactivity
was also detected in two other rooms. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0808/S00071.htm
US
State Department: Zimbabwe Continues to Suffer After
Sham Election - Targeted attacks by the Mugabe
regime against MDC officials and their families continue,
and pockets of violence still exist in northern and eastern
provinces, despite the signing of a Memorandum of
Understanding between Mugabe and the MDC. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0808/S00072.htm
Get
Together: UN Calls For Somalis To Unite & Overcome
Political Crisis - Voicing concern over the
current problems regarding the administration of Mogadishu,
the Special Rep urged all Somalis to remain united in the
quest for peace and reconciliation in the country, which has
not had a functioning govt since 1991. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0808/S00061.htm
AIDS
Conference: In Mexico, Ban Calls For Scaled-up Efforts
To Combat HIV/AIDS - Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon has called for bolstered global efforts to tackle
HIV/AIDS, stressing at the world's largest forum on the
pandemic that the virus impedes economic development and
that discrimination against people living with HIV remains
widespread. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0808/S00043.htm
COMMENT
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Binoy
Kampmark: Occupant of the First Circle - the Death of
Alexander Solzhenitsyn - In A Day in the Life
of Ivan Denisovich , a microstudy of Russia's penal system
is delivered to the reader with unrelenting power. The
subject is accused of espionage and sentenced to rot in the
Soviet gulag. The author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who ... More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00053.htm
Brad Friedman: Article Casting Doubt on 'Anthrax
Killer' Scrubbed - We're glad it's the
Washington Post , and not just us "bloggers," asking
questions about this anthrax case. Had we been the ones
pointing to the questions that WaPo is now pointing to, we'd
have been accused of forwarding "just another conspiracy ...
More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00051.htm
Dean Baker: The Compromise "Drill Anywhere"
Plan - Senator McCain and the Republicans in
Congress are calling Senator Obama and the Democrats
environmental wimps for refusing to allow the oil industry
to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,
environmentally sensitive offshore areas and ... More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00048.htm
Walter Brasch: Mining Racism in a Northeastern
Pennsylvania Town - On a street in Shenandoah,
Pa., deep in the heart of the anthracite coal region, six
White teens took their racial hatred to a higher level. They
confronted 25-year-old Luis Ramirez, an undocumented worker,
and beat him to death. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00026.htm
Ramzy Baroud: Obama Joins the Club - The
exit of Bush from the White House is already anticipated in
the Arab region with sighs of relief. But what is ahead
under the next US president; more of the same, regardless of
who wins, or change? More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00028.htm
Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay: The U.S. Economy and Bad
Government Policies - "The first panacea for a
mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second
is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a
permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and
economic opportunists." Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00039.htm
Uri Avnery: Hollow Time - We were
protesting the death of Ahmad Moussa, aged 10, who was
murdered during a demonstration against the Separation Fence
at Na'ilin village - the fence that robs the village of most
of its land in order to give it to the nearby settlement. A
soldier ... More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00029.htm
Sherwood Ross: How The US Reversed Its Policy On
Civilian Bombing - When Adolf Hitler's
Luftwaffe destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica on April
26, 1937, more than 1,650 people were killed and nearly 900
wounded. This slaughter of civilians was broadly condemned
in the United States and Great Britain. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00038.htm
LIFESTYLE
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Cocky Tales: Whisky Wizzardry Provides Wellington
Winner - Glenfiddich is excited to announce
winner of the inaugural Glenfiddich Untouchables bartender
competition - Riki Carter from Matterhorn in Wellington. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0808/S00062.htm
Sport:
Anti-Doping Message Now In Form Of Cartoon With Enormous
File Size - The latest adventures of Rattus
Holmes and Felis Watson - a tale of sport and athletes who
cheat by taking banned drugs - can be found on a website run
by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization, starting today. More
>> [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0808/S00044.htm
[2]
- http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=9681&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Comedy:
Improvised Crime To Be Fought Wednesdays - For
the last 8 weeks WIT has been entertaining scores of people
with their critically acclaimed improvised soap opera 'The
Young & The Witless' - but knowing that Wellington's improv
craving is still not satisfied WIT is bringing back a four
week season of Improv Angels! More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0808/S00016.htm
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