Today's Top Scoops - 01 May 2008
Election 08: Waihopai and the Troublesome Priest
Religion: Dominican Maintains Tradition Of Irritating
Authority
Maori:
Agreement Reached On Central North Island Claims
Prisons:
Offender Volumes Set To Max
Medicine:
Organ Sharing Scheme Launched
Good Karma: Fair Trade Fortnight Nearly Upon
Us
Sinning: Roger Award Winners Now Breach Fair Trading
Act
Food
Crisis Update: UN To Draw Up Comprehensive Plan To
Address World Food Crisis
Hold
Steady: Gordon Brown Warns Against Protectionist
Backlash
Middle
East: Gaza Power Supplies Critically Low, Warns
UN
Along
The Watchtower: Transnational Crime And Unity Of Effort
To Combat Gangs
Bob
Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman: Did the US Supreme Court
just elect John McCain?
Jason Leopold: Halliburton Bribe Case Haunts
Cheney
Meanness:
Union Launches Attack On Miss Horowhenua
Archival Footage: Record Keeping Recognised
Ghoul Watch: 'I Is Coming Back,' Says Phantom
Comedy: Long Season Gets Longer
Arts:
White Fungus To Release Its 9th
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LEAD STORY
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Election 08: Waihopai and the
Troublesome Priest - Gordon Campbell writes -
Interesting headline in the NZ Herald this morning about the
Waihopai spy base invasion : " Spy Base Priest's History of
Trouble..." In fact, the only 'trouble" the Herald can dig
up on Dominican priest Peter Murnane is that he took in the
Algerian asylum seeker Ahmed Zaoui. Right. So he enabled a
recognised refugee and an asylum seeker to be kept in humane
conditions. More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- NZ First - Zaoui's Mates In Spy Base Fiasco [2]
[1] - http://election08.scoop.co.nz/waihopai-and-the-troublesome-priest/
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0805/S00004.htm
NZ POLITICS
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Religion: Dominican Maintains Tradition Of Irritating
Authority - New Zealand First says the raid on
Waihopai spy base by a Dominican friar who sheltered
Algerian fugitive Ahmed Zaoui should send shivers up the
spine of every security conscious New Zealander. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0805/S00004.htm
Maori:
Agreement Reached On Central North Island
Claims - The Crown and Central North Island iwi
have reached agreement on an iwi developed proposal to
settle historic Treaty of Waitangi claims in the region,
Treaty Negotiations Minister Michael Cullen announced today.
More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- NZ Govt - CNI proposal set to benefit the region [2]
- NZ Govt - Ngâ kaupapa o CNI ka hanga painga mô te rohe [3]
- Fish and Game New Zealand - Public Access to Kaiangaroa Forest Protected [4]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00648.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00644.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00645.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0804/S00315.htm
Prisons:
Offender Volumes Set To Max - Corrections
Minister Phil Goff welcomed the release today of a new
Department of Corrections publication providing information
on offenders within the Corrections system... "The report
charts a 20 year growth in prison population from 91 per
100,000 people in 1987 to 188 per 100,000 in 2007," Mr Goff
said. More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- Department Of Corrections - Corrections Introduces the Offender Volumes Report [2]
- Maori Party - Party keen to debate solutions, not distractions [3]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00640.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0804/S00459.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00657.htm
BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH
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Medicine:
Organ Sharing Scheme Launched - An 'innovative'
new healthcare solution to help increase the number of organ
donors in New Zealand was launched from Parliament today. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0805/S00001.htm
Good Karma: Fair Trade Fortnight Nearly Upon
Us - The first fortnight of May (3 May - 18
May) is a time to make a real difference to the lives of
disadvantaged producers by supporting Trade Aid and joining
in the celebrations for this year's Fair Trade Fortnight.
More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0804/S00465.htm
Sinning: Roger Award Winners Now Breach Fair Trading
Act - One of New Zealand's largest supermarket
companies has been found guilty of breaching the Fair
Trading Act by offering the opportunity to enter into a
prize draw to win a holiday, months after the competition
had closed. The company has been fined $17,000 in the
Manukau District Court yesterday. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0805/S00004.htm
WORLD
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Food
Crisis Update: UN To Draw Up Comprehensive Plan To
Address World Food Crisis - The UN is aiming
for a comprehensive plan to tackle the global food crisis
''around which the institutions and leaders around the world
can coalesce,'' Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian
Affairs John Holmes said today. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0805/S00016.htm
Hold
Steady: Gordon Brown Warns Against Protectionist
Backlash - The world should move towards
flexible free-trade economies that can adapt to the
restructuring of the global economy, he said. Mr Brown
acknowledged the severity of the current financial crisis,
with food prices rising, reserves falling, the US housing
market struggling and the International Monetary Fund
predicting a US recession. The rise of Asian economies,
notably India and China, need not be "a zero-sum game". More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0805/S00015.htm
Middle
East: Gaza Power Supplies Critically Low, Warns
UN - Due to disruptions at the Nahal Oz fuel
crossing - which was attacked earlier this month by
Palestinian militants - fuel supplies for Gaza are
critically low, the United Nations Special Coordinator for
the Middle East Peace Process warned today. More
>> [1]
MEANWHILE
- UN - Secretary-General To Host Upcoming Middle East Quartet Meeting [2]
- UN - Israel Urged To Exercise Restraint In Gaza [3]
- US State Dept - Sec. Rice Remarks To American Jewish Committee [4]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0805/S00008.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0805/S00009.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00283.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0805/S00010.htm
Along
The Watchtower: Transnational Crime And Unity Of Effort
To Combat Gangs - Strong law enforcement
institutions, rooted in democratic principles and protective
of human rights, are vital to preventing a wide array of
transnational threats to our hemisphere, from drugs to other
forms of organized criminal activity to terrorism. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0805/S00013.htm
COMMENT
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Bob
Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman: Did the US Supreme Court
just elect John McCain? - The US Supreme Court
has just dealt a serious blow to voters' rights that could
help put John McCain in the White House by eliminating tens
of thousands of voters who generally vote Democratic. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0805/S00001.htm
Jason Leopold: Halliburton Bribe Case Haunts
Cheney - Dick Cheney's tenure at Halliburton
ended eight years ago, but a federal investigation of
alleged bribes from a company subsidiary to Nigerian
officials lingers from the Cheney era, raising questions
about what the Vice President knew or should have known. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00437.htm
LIFESTYLE
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Meanness:
Union Launches Attack On Miss Horowhenua -
Association of University Staff reports: "In what must be
one the most banal news features emanating from a
university, Massey has trumpeted the success of one of its
students in finishing third in the Miss Universe NZ beauty
pageant. More
>> [1]
THE PR THAT LED TO THE ATTACK
ALSO:[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0805/S00002.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0805/S00004.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0804/S00215.htm
Archival Footage: Record Keeping
Recognised - Records & Archives Week launches
today, with archives and records organisations across the
country demonstrating the importance of records, archives,
and the recordkeeping professions. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0805/S00006.htm
Ghoul Watch: 'I Is Coming Back,' Says
Phantom - The internationally and critically
acclaimed masterpiece, The Phantom Of The Opera returns to
New Zealand for a strictly limited season from October 14,
at The Civic, The Edge in Auckland. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0804/S00320.htm
Comedy: Long Season Gets Longer - The New
Zealand International Comedy Festival today announced that
UK comedian Josie Long has added an extra performance of her
show Trying is Good. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0804/S00314.htm
Arts:
White Fungus To Release Its 9th Issue - The new
issue of White Fungus continues in the magazine's tradition
of mixing in local and international interdisciplinary
content, putting contemporary art and writing on
experimental music alongside local history, political satire
and literature. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0804/S00316.htm
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