Top Scoop Stories November 16th 2009 News Summary
Greens: Smith’s ETS Should Be Shot
Cars: Dunne Says Govt Reinventing Wheel On Driving Age
Audio: Turia & Sharples On Harawira's Future
Useful After All: Army LAVs Off To Afghanistan
On The World Stage: Guardian's 'Greenwash' vs New Zealand
Scoop Satire: Submission On ETS Amendment Bill
Stats: Population Growth Highest In Three Years
High Seas: South Pacific Fisheries Convention Agreed
APEC: Obama Will Proceed With Pacific Trade Deal
ForEx: Smellie Sniffs the Breeze - ‘Reserve Bank Unstable’
Tourism: Whale Watch Kaikoura Takes Out Supreme Award
Scoop Business: NZ Consumers Stay Subdued Before The Xmas Stretch
Connie Lawn: US President Barack Obama Talks New Zealand Defence & Trade With Scoop
Gordon Campbell: The Selective Targeting Of Beenie Man
Dave Cohen: The Oil Situation Is Really Bad
Franklin Lamb: Lebanese Students Advise President Obama How To Get It Right
Uri Avnery: Scoundrel With Permission
The Sensuous Revolt: An Education
Sport: All Whites! All Whites! All Whites!
Gordon Campbell: The Selective Targeting Of Beenie Man
Frontline Wine: What Is A Characterful Wine?
NewsWire Link: Wellington Whiteout Forecast For Saturday
Southern Ocean: End Of Japanese Whaling May Be In Sight
The Amazon: Brazil Spreads Concrete Through The Rainforest
Shrunken Heads: Repatriation Of Maori Human Remains From The UK
Louis Vuitton Trophy: Emirates Team New Zealand Doing Well At Nice
Investigation: Indonesia: The Killing Of A Papuan
Iraq Burin: Israeli Army Use Live Ammunition
Gender: Experts To Discuss Women’s Empowerment
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Greens:
Smith’s ETS Should Be Shot
Revelations that
Climate Change Minister Nick Smith’s proposed changes to
the Emissions Trading Scheme are going to cost taxpayers an
extra $105 billion is something really worth swearing about,
Dr Russel Norman, Green Party Co-Leader said today.“We now
know for certain that the Government’s changes will cost
the taxpayer an additional $105 billion dollars over the
existing law, a whopping $24,000 per citizen.” More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00195.htm
ALSO:
- The Government’s $110 billion blowout [2]
- Background: Government’s ETS Figures [3]
- Error sends cost of ETS changes skyrocketing [4]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00196.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00141.htm [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00130.htm [4]
NZ POLITICS
------------Cars:
Dunne Says Govt Reinventing Wheel On Driving
Age
The Government doesn’t need to reinvent the
wheel on lifting the driving age, UnitedFuture leader Peter
Dunne said today, calling on it pick up his Bill to raise
the driving age. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00184.htm
Audio:
Turia & Sharples On Harawira's Future
Maori Party
co-leader Tariana Turia said Hone Harawira is difficult to
control and it does not look like he is going to change. The
decision “to invite him to consider whether he would
prefer to be independent” was made by the party a few days
ago but has the support of herself and co-leader Pita
Sharples, Turia said. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00142.htm
ALSO:
- Harawira urged to become an independent at hui [2]
- Harawira may resign from Maori Party after all [3]
- Hone - Smells Like Nat-Whip Spirit [4]
- Breakfast With Spanky – Russel Norman [5]
- Oh, Hone! (Plus Rodney) [6]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/national/29283.html [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/29317.html [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00158.htm [4]
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00166.htm [5]
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00140.htm [6]
Useful
After All: Army LAVs Off To Afghanistan
Three
of the Army’s Light Armoured Vehicles (NZLAVs) and their
crews are to be deployed to Afghanistan, Defence Minister
Wayne Mapp announced today. “The LAVs are being deployed
by the Defence Force to support SAS operations and will be
there as long as they are needed,” Dr Mapp said. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00161.htm
On
The World Stage: Guardian's 'Greenwash' vs New
Zealand
As the world prepares for the Copenhagen
climate negotiations next month, it is worth checking out
the greenwash that has followed the promises made 12 years
ago when the Kyoto protocol was signed. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00137.htm
ALSO:
- Error sends cost of ETS changes skyrocketing [2]
- ETS Changes Analysed [3]
- Antarctic ice melting much faster than thought [4]
- A Line in the Sand [5]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00130.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/sections/nzpolitics.html#ets [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/world/29298.html [4]
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00100.htm [5]
Scoop Satire: Submission On ETS
Amendment Bill
The most notable change brought
about by this bill would be giving polluters, to 2050, one
hundred billion dollars... I am right behind that
idea, but the proposed system for delivering the money is
unnecessarily complicated. More »[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00126.htm" name="ets
Government’s
ETS Figures
(Updated: More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00141.htm
ALSO:
- ETS changes Put 84% of Bill to Future Taxpayers [2]
- Government needs to come clean on ETS costs [3]
- Govt welcomes report on ETS costs [4]
- Brian Fallow : Emitters on bludger's end of deal [5]
- Fiddling the books on the ETS [6]
- Bio-fuel levy the "last straw" for forest owners [7]
- Deciding our fate in the Pacific – facing up to the climate change summit [8]
- Guardian's 'Greenwash' vs New Zealand [9]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00117.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00143.htm [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00147.htm [4]
[5] - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10608690" target="_blank [5]
[6] - http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2009/11/climate-change-fiddling-books-on-ets.html" target="_blank [6]
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00352.htm [7]
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00137.htm [9]
Stats:
Population Growth Highest In Three Years
The
estimated resident population of New Zealand was 4,331,600
at 30 September 2009, Statistics New Zealand said today. The
population increased by 51,700 (1.2 percent) in the
September 2009 year, the highest growth in three years. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00118.htm
BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH
------------High
Seas: South Pacific Fisheries Convention
Agreed
Fisheries Minister Phil Heatley today
announced a new convention text had been agreed which will
create a regional fisheries management organisation to
manage non-highly-migratory fisheries in the high seas. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00181.htm
APEC:
Obama Will Proceed With Pacific Trade Deal
Trade
Minister Tim Groser has welcomed today’s announcements by
President Obama and US Trade Representative Ron Kirk that
the United States intends to proceed with the Trans-Pacific
Partnership. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00179.htm
ALSO:
- While you were sleeping: APEC pledge on stimulus [2]
- hile you were sleeping: APEC, Disney profit [3]
- Key: Speech to the APEC CEO Summit 2009 [4]
- 16th APEC Finance Ministers’ Meeting [5]
- US TPP Announcement Significant for NZ Trade [6]
- Barack in the free trade business [7]
- Obama support for TPP announced today [8]
- US New Zealand Free Trade Agreement A Step Closer [9]
- Obama confirms trade deal with NZ [10]
- Key meets Obama to discuss 'holy grail' of FTAs [11]
- NZ - Hong Kong step towards trade liberalisation [12]
- NZ, Hong Kong CEP - opportunities for NZ exporters [13]
- Another important FTA secured [14]
[2] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/16/while-you-were-sleeping-apec-pledge-on-stimulus/ [2]
[3] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/16/hile-you-were-sleeping-apec-disney-profit/ [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00177.htm [4]
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00435.htm [5]
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00444.htm [6]
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00442.htm [7]
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00439.htm [8]
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00438.htm [9]
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/business/29353.html [10]
[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/world/29369.html [11]
[12] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00172.htm [12]
[13] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00429.htm [13]
[14] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00436.htm [14]
ForEx:
Smellie Sniffs the Breeze - ‘Reserve Bank
Unstable’
... Something similar happened to the
headline on my searing investigation into instability on the
slopes above one of the area’s many well-appointed and
uncontroversial sportsgrounds. “Reserve Bank Unstable”,
the headline squawked. More
»[1]
[1] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/13/smellie-sniffs-the-breeze-reserve-bank-unstable/
ALSO:
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00425.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00429.htm [3]
Tourism:
Whale Watch Kaikoura Takes Out Supreme
Award
Whale Watch Kaikoura has outshone some of
the world’s leading tour operators to claim the Supreme
award at this year’s Responsible Tourism Awards in London.
The awards were held last night (NZ time), as part of World
Responsible Tourism Day at the World Travel Market in
London. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00362.htm
ALSO:
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00153.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00370.htm [3]
Scoop
Business: NZ Consumers Stay Subdued Before The Xmas
Stretch
New Zealand’s consumers are still
subdued going into the annual Christmas spending splurge,
according to government data. More
»[1]
[1] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/12/nz-consumers-stay-subdued-before-the-xmas-stretch/
ALSO:
- NZ dollar may fall on lukewarm retail data [2]
- NZ retail sales growth consolidated in September [3]
- Kiwi Confidence Rebounds [4]
[2] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/12/nz-dollar-may-fall-on-lukewarm-retail-data/ [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00377.htm [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00385.htm [4]
COMMENT
------------Connie
Lawn: US President Barack Obama Talks New Zealand
Defence & Trade With Scoop
President Obama has
provided positive answers to a number of questions about New
Zealand. Scoop's White House reporter, Connie Lawn, posed
the questions a few weeks ago. She had been hoping to get an
interview with the President, before... More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00154.htm
Gordon
Campbell: The Selective Targeting Of Beenie
Man
Reportedly, Big Day Out organizers have
backed down from their original intention to include the
Jamaican dancehall musician Beenie Man in the next BDO
festival line-up in January. The reason has been the public
pressure from gay activists who have been ... More
»[1]
[1] - http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/16/campbell-the-selective-targeting-of-beenie-man/
Dave Cohen: The Oil Situation Is Really
Bad
On the eve of the International Energy
Agency’s release of its annual World Energy Outlook (WEO),
a whistleblower at the IEA claims the agency “has been
deliberately underplaying a looming [oil] shortage for fear
of triggering panic buying” in the... More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00159.htm
Franklin
Lamb: Lebanese Students Advise President Obama How To
Get It Right
If those in Lebanon watching the
news on 11/12/09 blinked they might have missed an
interesting news item. It appeared at approximately 4:20 pm
on Narharnet.com , the pro-US/Saudi news website. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00161.htm
Uri
Avnery: Scoundrel With Permission
This means
that no war has broken out, no suicide bomb has exploded, no
Qassam rocket has been launched at Sderot. Ahmadinejad has
not test-fired a new missile that can reach Tel Aviv. Just
another murder. Not that Israel is the world’s murder
capital. ... More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00164.htm
The
Sensuous Revolt: An Education
Sixteen-year
old Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is predictably impressionable.
Intelligence and the odd cutting remark might equip her for
the classroom joust and parents in suburban Twickenham. But
she has much growing up to do, something which is given ...
More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00148.htm
Stateside:
Veterans Day, 2009
On the bus on the way home
from the movie I went to this afternoon, I asked the person
sitting next to me if there was an LP by Boston among all
the records I could see in his shopping bag, and which he
had been trying to unsuccessfully sell to a second-hand ...
More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00144.htm
LIFESTYLE
------------Sport:
All Whites! All Whites! All Whites!
The All Black
have beaten Bahrain 1-0 in Wellington, qualifying for the
South Africa World Cup in 2010. Including Scoop photographer
Karim Sahai's images from the sideline. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00168.htm
ALSO:
- NZ All Whites Vs Bahrain (Part 2) [2]
- PM to All Whites: You’ve done us proud [3]
- Congratulations to the All Whites [4]
- Wellington Wants Football Heroes Back [5]
- Sony offers youngsters chance to follow All Whites [6]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00153.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00180.htm [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00192.htm [4]
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00143.htm [5]
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0911/S00221.htm [6]
Gordon
Campbell: The Selective Targeting Of Beenie
Man
From the very outset, the BDO knew Beenie Man
had a controversial background. In the past, his song lyrics
have included lines such as “I’m dreaming of a new
Jamaica, come to execute all the gays” in “Damn”, and
“Hang chi chi gal [lesbian] wid a long piece of rope” in
‘Han Up Deh.’ Whether Beenie Man had actually signed for
the festival or not, we may never know... More
»[1]
[1] - http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/16/campbell-the-selective-targeting-of-beenie-man/
ALSO:
- Beenie Man: statement from the Big Day Out [2]
- Beenie Man concerts axed in Australia & NZ [3]
- Voltaire vs. the Pink Swastika [4]
- Big Day Out facing pressure to ban gay-hating Beenie Man [5]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0911/S00187.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0911/S00226.htm [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00142.htm [4]
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/entertainment/29321.html [5]
Frontline Wine: What Is A Characterful
Wine?
Specific regional wine tastings are a wine
professional's 'American Idol early rounds'. The bulk of the
evaluation is unmemorable. Some wines sing. Other wines are
the equivalent of a shuffling, toothless tone-death witch
desperately seeking attention (or perhaps... More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00163.htm
NewsWire
Link: Wellington Whiteout Forecast For
Saturday
Tourism Wellington is urging people to
dress all in white to show who they support when the All
Whites meet Bahrain at Westpac Stadium on Saturday. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.newswire.co.nz/2009/11/wellington-whiteout/
ALSO:
[2] - http://www.newswire.co.nz/2009/11/coat-of-paint/" target="_blank [2]
[3] - http://www.newswire.co.nz/2009/11/wellington-guy-fawkes/" target="_blank [3]
WORLD
------------Southern
Ocean: End Of Japanese Whaling May Be In
Sight
A major review of Japanese government
spending could spell the end to whaling in the Southern
Ocean Whale Sanctuary, according to Greenpeace, after the
review committee proposed massive cuts in subsidies to a
body which funds whaling. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00461.htm
The
Amazon: Brazil Spreads Concrete Through The
Rainforest
Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is
not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists,
ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous
peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the
world’s most biologically diverse ... More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00428.htm
Shrunken
Heads: Repatriation Of Maori Human Remains From The
UK
Thirty-three Mäori ancestral remains will be
repatriated by Te Papa from five museums and institutions in
Wales, Scotland, Sweden and the Republic of Ireland between
16 November and 28 November. The largest repatriation took
place in 2007 when 45 kōiwi ... More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0911/S00206.htm
Louis
Vuitton Trophy: Emirates Team New Zealand Doing Well At
Nice
Emirates Team New Zealand has won its sixth
straight race in the Louis Vuitton trophy being sailed at
Nice, beating BMW Oracle by 47sec. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0911/S00205.htm
Investigation:
Indonesia: The Killing Of A Papuan
The Asian
Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned that no one has
been held accountable for the shooting of indigenous Papuan
Mr. Opinus Tabuni over a year ago during a military
operation, and no progress has been seen in the
investigation. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00439.htm
Iraq
Burin: Israeli Army Use Live Ammunition
On
Saturday 7 November the residents of Iraq Burin, a small
village outside Nablus, once again had their weekend
disrupted by settlers and the Israeli army. During the day
settlers from the nearby illegal settlement came down close
to the village in ... More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00441.htm
Gender:
Experts To Discuss Women’s Empowerment
The
experts in UN-INSTRAW’s Gender Training Community of
Practice will meet virtually to discuss about the
empowerment of women for their leadership and political
participation. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00453.htm
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