Today's Top Scoops - 6 June 2008
Satire: Lyndon Hood's Week Incoherence
Crime
Fighting: Call For Police To Release Taser
Info
Espionage:
Spies Release Guff On Sutch
Gordon
Campbell: Immigration Bill = Human Rights
Disaster
Politics: English Accuses Labour Of Bullying
Watchdog
Hippocracy?
Is Soon To Be MP Norman A Hippo Hater
Is That legal? Top Kiwi Lawyer Heads For Sands of
Dubai
Electricity:
Temporary Otahuhu Outage
Transport:
Electric Car Industry Start-Up For NZ?
Middle
East: Ban Condemns Latest Violence In Southern Israel
And Gaza Strip
Youth
Issues: UK Prime Minister Announces Crackdown On
Knives
Privileged
& Touched: Hillary Clinton's Email To Supporters, 5
June 2008
Smarten
Up: Education For The 21st Century Knowledge
Society
World
Environment Day: UN Officials Call For End To Carbon
Addiction
Facing
The Music: Former Broadcom CEO & CFO
Indicted
Tertiary
Education: ZED Innovation Forum Connecting Now To The
Future
Jason Leopold: Bush Vowed US Would "Kill" Anyone Who
Interfered
Stateside: Only my second election...
Cheney: Clinton-Era Sanctions Against Iran Bad for
Business
Booty: A Treasure Of A Book Sale
Faith: Travel In the Style Of Prophets of Old This
Sunday
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Satire: Lyndon Hood's Week
Incoherence - First thing: Hoodie Day. Why no
presents? I waited and waited...And that guy with the KKK
outfit did not count as a gift. It's nice he's apologised
but I think the fact he hasn't already been lynched says
something about the state of our justice system... And that
reminds me, how come all these people are being found not
guilty? We could sort that problem out once and for all if
we abolished trials. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0806/S00073.htm
NZ POLITICS
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Crime
Fighting: Call For Police To Release Taser Info
- Campaign Against the Taser spokesperson
Marie Dyhrberg has called for Police to urgently make public
large amounts of factual material that were excluded last
year from Taser incident reports. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0806/S00064.htm
Espionage:
Spies Release Guff On Sutch - The Prime
Minister and Minister in Charge of the New Zealand Security
Intelligence Service, Helen Clark, announced today that the
NZSIS, acting on a recommendation made by the Chief
Ombudsman, has released a number of papers relating to Dr
William Ball Sutch. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0806/S00079.htm
Gordon
Campbell: Immigration Bill = Human Rights
Disaster - Few Labour voters may realise the
full extent of what the Clark government has in mind - or
has allowed to get out of hand - with its rewrite of the
1987 Immigration Act. To date, the parties on the centre
right have also shown little interest in its sweeping
extensions of state power, while the anti-immigrant crew
within New Zealand First must be thinking all their
Christmasses have come at once. More
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ALSO:
- Caritas Aotearoa - Caritas Dispels Refugee Myths [2]
[1] - http://election08.scoop.co.nz/labour%e2%80%99s-human-rights-nightmare-the-new-immigration-bill/
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0806/S00059.htm
Politics: English Accuses Labour Of Bullying
Watchdog - Papers released under the Official
Information Act reveal Labour attempted to bully electoral
watchdogs over the controversial tax-funded brochure which
is now the subject of a police inquiry. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0806/S00074.htm
Hippocracy?
Is Soon To Be MP Norman A Hippo Hater - An
Environment Ministry "Green Ribbon Award" announced today
for Auckland Zoo is a bit of a joke considering the zoo's
bad record for its hippos polluting a local stream, says
Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0806/S00066.htm
BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH
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Is That legal? Top Kiwi Lawyer Heads For Sands of
Dubai - The legal exodus to Dubai has attracted
one of New Zealand's leading commercial lawyers, Bell Gully
partner Andrew Abernethy. He is to join British-based
international law firm Norton Rose next month. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0806/S00093.htm
Electricity:
Temporary Otahuhu Outage - Contact Energy
yesterday took its 400 megawatt Otahuhu B gas-fired power
station near Auckland off line to repair a fault... The
fault is expected to take approximately four days to repair,
however, the actual duration of the outage will not be known
until a full inspection of the steam generator is completed,
which will be undertaken when the plant has cooled today. More
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ALSO:
- National - Will Minister confirm power plant breakdown? [2]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0806/S00082.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0806/S00055.htm
Transport:
Electric Car Industry Start-Up For NZ? - New
Zealand could soon be building its own electric cars. Talks
are underway in the UK now to set up a manufacturing
consortium, New Zealand's daily carbon market news service,
Carbon News, reveals this morning. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0806/S00078.htm
WORLD
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Middle
East: Ban Condemns Latest Violence In Southern Israel
And Gaza Strip - ''While recognizing Israel's
right to self-defence, Ban Ki-Moon calls upon Israel to
exercise maximum restraint, and reminds the IAF and Israel
Defence Forces (IDF) of their responsibility to protect
civilians under international humanitarian law.'' More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0806/S00097.htm
Youth
Issues: UK Prime Minister Announces Crackdown On
Knives - ''I am serious about getting knives
off our streets. We have doubled the maximum sentence for
carrying a knife, launched a new advertising campaign to
challenge the fear, glamour or peer pressure that can drive
young people to knife crime.'' -- Gordon Brown, British PM.
More
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EARLIER
- UK's Tough New Sanctions To Tackle Knife Crime [2]
- Hard-Hitting Knife Crime Adverts Launched In UK [3]
[1]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0806/S00105.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0806/S00089.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0805/S00441.htm
Privileged
& Touched: Hillary Clinton's Email To Supporters, 5
June 2008 - "On Saturday, I will extend my
congratulations to Senator Obama and my support for his
candidacy. This has been a long and hard-fought campaign,
but as I have always said, my differences with Senator Obama
are small compared to the differences we have with Senator
McCain and the Republicans. I have said throughout the
campaign that I would strongly support Senator Obama if he
were the Democratic Party's nominee, and I intend to deliver
on that promise." More
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EARLIER
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0806/S00090.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0806/S00084.htm
Smarten
Up: Education For The 21st Century Knowledge
Society - ''Over the past two decades, the
Internet has revolutionized humanity's ability to make use
of its accumulated knowledge. Science and technology are
increasingly recognized as the drivers of economic growth
today, and they will have an increasing role in the future.
Nations will prosper in proportion to their scientific,
technological and engineering capacity. Today, we have a
global crisis in education. We are short of is people with
the sufficient technical training and education to support
the increasingly science- and technology-dependent societies
of the 21st century.'' More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0806/S00092.htm
World
Environment Day: UN Officials Call For End To Carbon
Addiction - Top UN officials have marked World
Environment Day by urging individuals, companies and
governments alike to kick their addiction to carbon dioxide.
The main celebrations for the Day - whose theme this year is
''Kick the Habit: Towards a Low Carbon Economy'' - are being
hosted by New Zealand, one of five countries that has
pledged to become ''climate neutral.'' More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0806/S00093.htm
Facing
The Music: Former Broadcom CEO & CFO
Indicted - Dr. Henry T. Nicholas III, a
co-founder and former chief executive officer of Broadcom,
and William Ruehle, the former chief financial officer of
the Irvine-based technology company, have been named in an
indictment unsealed today that charges them with engaging in
a stock-option backdating scheme that forced Broadcom to
write-down $2.2 billion in profits. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0806/S00100.htm
COMMENT
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Tertiary
Education: ZED Innovation Forum Connecting Now To The
Future - AUT journalism student Finbarr Bunting
reports that the ZED Innovation Forum is about business
people connecting with each other and shaping business now
and for the future, Jenny Bygrave, deputy dean of AUT
University's business school says. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0806/S00076.htm
Jason Leopold: Bush Vowed US Would "Kill" Anyone Who
Interfered - President Bush reacted to the
deaths of four Blackwater contractors in Fallujah in 2004 by
proclaiming in a hastily arranged video conference with
officials that the United States would "kill" anyone who
threatened to derail the "march to Democracy" ... More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0806/S00056.htm
Stateside: Only my second election... -
It's just after 8pm here in California and the polls have
now closed for what normally would have been CA's
presidential primary election if it hadn't been moved up to
February this year. Instead, we had a Direct Primary
Election, the primaries being ... More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0806/S00054.htm
Cheney: Clinton-Era Sanctions Against Iran Bad for
Business - When Dick Cheney was chief
executive of Halliburton in the 1990s, he urged Congress to
ease sanctions against Iran and enter into diplomatic
discussions with the country's leaders so the oil-field
services company could legally do business there. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0806/S00058.htm
LIFESTYLE
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Booty: A Treasure Of A Book Sale -
They've got so many books for sale, book lovers are being
asked to Dig Up A Bargain. Come Black Friday, June 13, there
will be a lot of digging up to do at the Pioneer Leisure
Centre More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0806/S00051.htm
Faith: Travel In the Style Of Prophets of Old This
Sunday - World Environmental Day provides an
opportunity for us all to share the ways in which we are
being active stewards of our world and caring for creation,
says Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand Moderator
the Right Rev Pamela Tankersley. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0806/S00031.htm
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