Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics

Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 6:14 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
LEAD STORY: Scoop Investigation: HIV/AIDS Poses Grave Threat To South Pacific
SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE:
Scoop Column: Lyndon Hood Considers Falsehoods And Retractions… Outside The House
Labour And Greens Agree On Prisoners and Victims Bill
MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
Deep Throat Unmasked After Vanity Fair Names Watergate Source
MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

SCOOP COLUMNS:
Oh, Wait - Actually That's Not True At All...
Jesus Talks To The US Congress, Or Does He?
Richard S. Ehrlich: Terror As A Tourist Commodity
MORE SCOOP COMMENTARY:

OTHER NEWS (Just Politics)
Govt Reaffirms Commitment To Fighting HIV/AIDS
SAS To Be Redeployed To Afghanistan
OECD Team To Review NZ's Environmental Performance
MORE PARLIAMENTARY HEADLINES:

LEAD STORY:
Scoop Investigation: HIV/AIDS Poses Grave Threat To South Pacific

Reporter Marietta Gross and Scoop co-editor Selwyn Manning examine this most important issue and report that HIV/AIDS in the South Pacific is insidiously working its way into isolated communities with an infection rate that threatens cultural, economic, and community stability. Experts interviewed say HIV/AIDS, not global warming, is the number one problem threatening Tuvalu's survival. See... Time Runs Out On South Pacific HIV/AIDS Crisis [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00001.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00027.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00029.htm

SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00014.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0505/S00756.htm

Scoop Column: Lyndon Hood Considers Falsehoods And Retractions… Outside The House

-The recent experience of Dr Michael Cullen seems to have given his colleagues ideas. For years they have struggled with the burden of it being inadvisable - and in some cases expensive - to declare obvious and demonstrable falsehoods. Or at any rate, to do so outside the House of Parliament. See... Cullen Backdown Unleashes Storm of Retractions [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00015.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0505/S00758.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0505/S00455.htm
[4] - http://www.oldfriends.co.nz/MessageBoardViewThread.aspx?thread=757603&institution=389

Labour And Greens Agree On Prisoners and Victims Bill

- Leader of the House Michael Cullen said today that agreement in principle had been reached with the Green Party to support the passage this week under urgency of the Prisoners and Victims Bill. See... Prisoners and Victims Bill to be passed this week [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00003.htm

MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00006.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00005.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00004.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00003.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0506/S00003.htm

Deep Throat Unmasked After Vanity Fair Names Watergate Source

- Tuesday's revelation that W. Mark Felt, the former number two man at the FBI, was the anonymous source known as Deep Throat, who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein unravel the Watergate scandal in the pages of the Washington Post 30 years ago should be seen as an important reminder that even the leader of the free world can be devious, corrupt and dishonest. See... Watergate Proves That Even Presidents Break Laws [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00014.htm

MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00022.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00020.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00017.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00011.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00001.htm

SCOOP COLUMNS:
Oh, Wait - Actually That's Not True At All...

- The recent experience of Dr Michael Cullen seems to have given his colleagues ideas. For years they have struggled with the burden of it being inadvisable - and in some cases expensive - to declare obvious and demonstrable falsehoods. Or at any rate, to do so outside the House of Parliament. See... Cullen Backdown Unleashes Storm of Retractions [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00015.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00013.htm

Jesus Talks To The US Congress, Or Does He?

- Author's note: I cannot attest to the absolute accuracy of the following transcripts, as the print was smudged with perspiration by the time I received them. It seems my confidential source, a congressional page, had to smuggle them out of the House Chamber in the bustier portion of his black vinyl cat suit. See... Holy Messiah Speaks To His Congressional Fan Club [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00012.htm

Richard S. Ehrlich: Terror As A Tourist Commodity

- BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Osama bin Laden cigarette lighter is adorned with his raised, chrome portrait, an embossed "9.11", sketches of the World Trade Center, an approaching airplane, and a big red splotch. See... Osama bin Laden & 9.11 Souvenirs In S.E. Asia [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00007.htm

MORE SCOOP COMMENTARY:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00011.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00010.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00009.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00008.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00006.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00005.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00004.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00003.htm

Govt Reaffirms Commitment To Fighting HIV/AIDS

- Aid Minister Marian Hobbs has today reaffirmed New Zealand’s commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS in the Pacific. "This is our neighborhood and New Zealand is working actively with our Pacific partners to address the challenges HIV/AIDS brings. We need to ensure that HIV/AIDS does not cast a shadow over the future of the Pacific region," Marian Hobbs said. See... NZ assisting Pacific HIV/AIDS fight [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00027.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00029.htm

SAS To Be Redeployed To Afghanistan

- New Zealand human rights record will be further tarnished by the new SAS commitment to Afghanistan to fight alongside US forces, says Green MP Keith Locke. Defence Minister Mark Burton has announced that the Americans' C17 Globemasters have already begun airlifting the SAS out of Auckland's Whenuapai airbase. See... SAS commitment to US Afghan war will tarnish NZ [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00020.htm

OECD Team To Review NZ's Environmental Performance

- A team from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will be here this month to review New Zealand's environmental performance over the past 10 years, Minister for the Environment Marian Hobbs said today. See… OECD to review NZ's environmental performance [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00026.htm

MORE PARLIAMENTARY HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00032.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00025.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00019.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00013.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00005.htm
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[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00022.htm
[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00015.htm
[12] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00008.htm
[13] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00007.htm
[14] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00030.htm
[15] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00024.htm
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[17] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00017.htm
[18] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00011.htm
[19] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00006.htm
[20] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00018.htm
[21] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00016.htm
[22] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00028.htm
[23] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00012.htm
[24] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00010.htm
[25] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00009.htm

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Alastair Thompson

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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.

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