Top Scoop Stories - 23 April 2008 News Summary

Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 2:02 pm
Article: The Scoop Editor

Today's Top Scoops - 23 April 2008

LEAD STORY:

Scoop Satire: NZ Politics - The Text Adventure

NZ POLITICS:

Social Crisis: Help Is At Hand For Problem Gamblers
Immigration: Prebble Kept Busy In Last Months In Job
Scoop Multimedia: PM's Post Cabinet Press Conference - Heat On The Prez

BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH:

Coal: Clean Cola Gets NZBCS Push
Science: Butterfly Bafflement Causes Boffin Bemusement
OSH: Industry Sent Message About Workplace Safety

WORLD:

Champions: UN Honours Seven Leaders In The Fight Against Climate Change
Food Warning: Global Food Crisis 'Silent Tsunami' Threatening Over 100 Million People
Photography: Bruno Manser's Penan And Rainforest Photos Go Online
"Our Part": Enlisting Powerfull Allies To Fight Climate Change

COMMENT:

Gordon Campbell: Clinton's Last Stand
Michael Collins: Election Fraud in Pennsylvania?
Uri Avnery: The Lion and the Gazelle

LIFESTYLE:

Theatre: Play About Helen Clark Obsessive In AK
Artiness: Decorative Arts Go Dark in New Exhibition
Top Qwality Culture: Youth Get Opera For A Song

Scoop Satire: NZ Politics - The Text Adventure
YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL ALIKE
> go left
A HUGE GREEN FIERCE SNAKE BARS THE WAY!
> kill snake
WITH WHAT? YOUR BARE HANDS?
> slap snake with 'slippery' tag

More >> [1]

ALSO:

• Dror N Corter - Scoop Satire: Sit-Down Toilets In Our Prisons! [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00335.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00313.htm

Social Crisis: Help Is At Hand For Problem Gamblers - Business sized 'HELP' cards with updated contact details for both local and national problem gambling support services have been designed and will be within arms reach. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0804/S00348.htm

Immigration: Prebble Kept Busy In Last Months In Job - The State Services Commissioner, Mark Prebble, has announced that he would report to Ministers on the Department of Labour's response to concerns about the handling by the Department of matters relating to family members of the head of the Immigration Service. More >> [1]

ALSO:

• Gordon Campbell - : For relatives, the rules could be relative [2]
• National - Confidence in Immigration reserved [3]
• National - PM's move on immigration claims curious [4]
• National - Confidence in Immigration reserved [5]
• Gordon Copeland - Truth not white wash sought on immigration inquiry [6]
• Public Service Association - PSA Welcomes SSC Investigation [7]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0804/S00337.htm
[2] - http://election08.scoop.co.nz/for-relatives-the-rules-could-be-relative/
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00497.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00517.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00497.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00544.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0804/S00341.htm

Scoop Multimedia: PM's Post Cabinet Press Conference - Heat On The Prez - Video + Audio of NZ Prime Minister Helen Clark's post Cabinet press conference for Parliamentary press gallery journalists held this afternoon. More >> [1]

ALSO:

• AGENDA - Mike Williams Interview [2]
• National - Confused? More like cunning [3]
• National - Mike Williams must go [4]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00316.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00303.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00529.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00494.htm

Coal: Clean Cola Gets NZBCS Push - The New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development, whose 71 member companies' $44 billion in annual sales. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0804/S00346.htm

Science: Butterfly Bafflement Causes Boffin Bemusement - Trustees of the Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust are shocked to see a photograph of the 'wrong' Red Admiral butterfly featuring in the current issue of The Listener. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0804/S00040.htm

OSH: Industry Sent Message About Workplace Safety - The Department of Labour says the court decision yesterday ordering an employer to pay $90,000 for failing to ensure its employees weren't exposed to hazards sends a clear message to industry. More>> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0804/S00413.htm

Champions: UN Honours Seven Leaders In The Fight Against Climate Change - The United Nations today acknowledged seven luminaries in the fight against global warming as this year's Champions of the Earth. This year's UNEP Special Prize was bestowed upon Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand, which has blazed the trail towards climate neutrality and hopes to meet the goal of 90 per cent renewable energy by 2025. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00243.htm

Food Warning: Global Food Crisis 'Silent Tsunami' Threatening Over 100 Million People - "This is the new face of hunger - the millions of people who were not in the urgent hunger category six months ago but now are," said WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran, in London. The food price crisis requires a global response, she said. More >> [1]

RECENTLY

• Haiti Facing 'Explosive Situation' - UN [2]
• UN Economic Council To Meet On Growing Food Crisis [3]
• Steps Needed To Fight Growing Global Food Crisis [4]
• Caritas warns on international food crisis [5]
• Global Unions Demand IFI Policy Shift In Slowdown [6]
• G8 Must Press For Action On Food Crisis - UK's PM [7]
• UN Wants Urgent Action On Spiralling Food Prices [8]
• Global Rice Production To Rise By 1.8% In 2008 [9]
• Neglect Of Agriculture In Asia Equals Poverty [10]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00237.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00213.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00174.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00149.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00148.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00143.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00135.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00122.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00037.htm
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0803/S00231.htm

Photography: Bruno Manser's Penan And Rainforest Photos Go Online - The pictures taken by the environmentalist whose attention was focused on protecting the primeval forests uniquely document the threatened rainforest culture of the Penan in the Malaysian state of Sarawak and his long-standing battle to prevent deforestation. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00251.htm

"Our Part": Enlisting Powerfull Allies To Fight Climate Change - Climate change has become the defining issue of our time, set to transform the very way we live. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced today that Chinese actress/celebrity Zhou Xun was appointed as its first National Goodwill Ambassador (NGWA) with a special focus on promoting environmental sustainability. "Our Part" is meant to tell people that small lifestyle changes can collectively make a big difference. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00249.htm

Gordon Campbell: Clinton's Last Stand - OK, in the Pennsylvania vote, Hillary Clinton should still get home by between 5 and 10 points - which would mean a continuation of the stalemate. Anything more gives her the big victory she needs - and anything less continues her eclipse... More >> [1]

ALSO:

• Steve Weissman - Baiting Obama [2]
• Sherwood Ross - Obama For President [3]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00328.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00329.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00327.htm

Michael Collins: Election Fraud in Pennsylvania? - The Pennsylvania primary could lock up the Democratic nomination process once and for all. The campaign that Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean asked to be finished by July 1 could be over this Tuesday. Regardless of your candidate ... More >> [1]

ALSO:

• Brad Friedman - Pennsylvania Primary: Democracy of the Gods [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00288.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00322.htm

Uri Avnery: The Lion and the Gazelle - TONIGHT THE JEWS all over the world will celebrate the Seder, the unique ceremony that unites Jews everywhere in the defining Jewish myth: the Exodus from Egypt. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00319.htm

Theatre: Play About Helen Clark Obsessive In AK - Join the overeducated, underachieving Richard Meros as he charges through the pop-cultural slipstream to prove that Helen Clark needs him! More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0804/S00231.htm

Artiness: Decorative Arts Go Dark in New Exhibition - Etiquette for the Homesick is an exhibition by Wellington artists Genevieve Packer and Caroline McQuarrie that puts the domestic arts in a new light. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0804/S00230.htm

Top Qwality Culture: Youth Get Opera For A Song - The NBR New Zealand Opera's season of the great romantic opera La Bohème opens in Wellington on Saturday 10 May and in Auckland on Thursday 29 May, and anyone aged under 25 can attend for just $25. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0804/S00229.htm

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