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Thursday, 15 July 2004, 5:27 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
LEAD STORY:
More Animals Tested On In NZ Labs
Sir Paul Reeves To Address Zaoui Concert
MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
Israel Attacks UN Food Convoy In Gaza
Blair Escapes Iraq WMD Report Criticisms
INTERNATIONAL NEWS HEADLINES

SCOOP COLUMNS:
Hard News Is There! & Fiona Rae Is On The Couch!
No Right Turn: Deconstructing Rich
Simon Pound Examines Brash And Finds Him Craven
Truthout Considers The DHS's American Coup Planning
Daniel Patrick Welch On Beheadings
Marjorie Cohn: George's Judges
Sheila Samples : America -We Need To Talk
UQ Wire: Tom Flocco - New 9/11 Scandal
Skeptical Views On Senate Iraq Intelligence Review
What's Karl Rove Got Planned For His October Surprise?
Genevieve Cora Fraser: Freedom & Academe

OTHER NEWS (Just Politics)
CYF Child Abuse Notifications Soar
Air Quality Standards Come Into Force
ACT Reads Between Cullen's Lines On Foreshore
… & Welcomes National Bowing Out Of Maori Contests
Winston Wonders Why NZIS's Most Wanted Is Still Here
Jim Anderton Fails Motorists - Coddington
Franks Stops Short Of Execution
Brash's Wellington School Comments Anger King
Cullen Talks Growth In Hamilton
Steal Cars - Go On A Ski Trip - Outrage Mark
Braying Portaloo Makes Tizard A Joke Says Coddington
Jim Talks Paifika

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LEAD STORY:
More Animals Tested On In NZ Labs

- An increase in the number of animals used in research, testing and teaching was reported for 2003 in the Animal Ethics Advisory Committee (NAEAC) Annual Report released today. See... Animal research statistics released [1] ALSO: Advisory Committee Annual Report Released [2] - Jim Sutton - Jim Sutton comments on animal research statistics [3] - Greens - MAF hides truth about animal torture [4]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0407/S00165.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0407/S00166.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0407/S00263.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0407/S00259.htm

Sir Paul Reeves To Address Zaoui Concert

- A benefit concert for the family of Ahmed Zaoui will be held in Wellington, Sunday 1st August at the Opera House. Leading musicians and performers have offered their services free to make The Zaoui Concert a reality. Sir Paul Reeves will address this… See... Celebrate Human Rights: Zaoui Concert 1 Aug 2004 [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0407/S00147.htm

MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0407/S00164.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0407/S00148.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0407/S00161.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0407/S00160.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0407/S00154.htm

Israel Attacks UN Food Convoy In Gaza

- The top United Nations relief official for Palestinian refugees was forced to take cover today when part of a UN aid convoy that had delivered food to 20,000 Gaza Strip residents besieged by Israel came under fire, apparently from an Israeli armoured ... See... Israel Forces Attack UN Relief Convoy in Gaza [1] ALSO: UN Middle East Envoy Urges Israel/PNA Peace Talks [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0407/S00151.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0407/S00156.htm

Blair Escapes Iraq WMD Report Criticisms

- United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair has given his response to the Butler Review in the House of Commons. See... UK PM Blair Responds to Butler Report [1] ALSO: UK PM Tony Blair’s Statement on Butler Report [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0407/S00150.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0407/S00149.htm

INTERNATIONAL NEWS HEADLINES

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0407/S00157.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0407/S00154.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0407/S00153.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0407/S00152.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0407/S00148.htm

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SCOOP COLUMNS:
Hard News Is There! & Fiona Rae Is On The Couch!

- Auckland Zoo was brilliant yesterday. The welcome winter sun seemed to have stirred every bird and beastie into action. The emus, with their big, amber eyes, stuck their beaks over the barriers at small children; the kaka in the aviary swooped down and ... See... Public Address 14/07/04 - Happy Returns [1] Public Address 15/07/04 - Large Fee [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0407/S00130.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0407/S00129.htm

No Right Turn: Deconstructing Rich

- A lot of pronouncements on welfare policy are targeted at unemployment - at getting people off the dole and into work. See... No Right Turn: Unemployment And Welfare Policy [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0407/S00128.htm

Simon Pound Examines Brash And Finds Him Craven

- There has been a lot of bruhaha recently over Dr Don’s speech to the Sensible Sentencing Trust . After the reversal of the National Party’s fortunes brought about by the now infamous Orewa race-relations speech there was a more than a wee bit of expectation ... See... Simon Pound: Prison Style [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0407/S00127.htm

Truthout Considers The DHS's American Coup Planning

- A number of trial balloons have been floated in recent days, from Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge specifically, about canceling or postponing the national election because of a terrorist attack. See... UQ Wire: Only Cowards Cancel Elections [1] MORE: - Steve Weissman: Whose Coup in America? [2] - ''Guidelines'' for Postponing November Elections [3]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0407/S00126.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0407/S00124.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0407/S00107.htm

Daniel Patrick Welch On Beheadings

- They behead -- we do it with smart bombs. There is, of course, an ugly truth to this recently minted axiom: the horror of state terrorism is that the overwhelming machinery of death in the hands of all-powerful governments far outweighs individual atrocities ... See... Bring Me the Head of Silvino Herrera [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0407/S00125.htm

Marjorie Cohn: George's Judges

- In 1988, while trying to convince skeptical conservative activists of his father's Christian bona fides, George W. Bush reassured them that George I was with them on judicial nominations, as well as abortion and other issues dear to their hearts. See... Bush's Judges: Right-Wing Ideologues [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0407/S00123.htm

Sheila Samples : America -We Need To Talk

- On July 4th, Bush told a meticulously selected right-wing crowd in Charleston, W.Va. that war brings security at home. He said it's his duty as our Leader to keep seizing opportunities to make us safer and safer. See... Sheila Samples - It's The Questions, Stupid! [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0407/S00117.htm

UQ Wire: Tom Flocco - New 9/11 Scandal

Homeland Security whistleblower Mary Schneider is naming names, revealing that former FBI Director Louis Freeh, Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller and numerous U.S. senators and congressmen knew before the September 11 attacks that U.S. immigration officials were bribed by an illegal Moroccan Muslim allegedly linked to Osama bin Laden’s half-brother. See... UQ Wire:Feds Knew About 911 Bribery Before Attacks [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0407/S00122.htm

Skeptical Views On Senate Iraq Intelligence Review

- The Bush administration has been let off the hook by the Senate Intelligence Committee’s skewering of U.S. intelligence agencies for providing unfounded or overstated conclusions on Iraq’s ''weapons of mass destruction'' (WMD). See... Ivan Eland: Senate Lets Bush Admin Off Iraq Hook [1] . See also… Ray McGovern: The CIA and Iraq [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0407/S00121.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0407/S00118.htm

What's Karl Rove Got Planned For His October Surprise?

- Dear Diary: On with the cape, the Boy-Genius needs to ride again! I've got to do SOMETHING to pull us out of the tailspin we're in. It isn't gonna be easy, given the gross mistakes a lot of us made -- and, yep, I'm thinking primarily of Rummy, ... See... Karl Rove's Diary: Time for Those ''Surprises'' [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0407/S00120.htm

Genevieve Cora Fraser: Freedom & Academe

- Early on the international conference of academics and intellectuals, students and NGOs (non-governmental organizations) at the University of Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium threatened to come apart at the seams. See... The Liberation of Palestine from Occupation [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0407/S00119.htm

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CYF Child Abuse Notifications Soar

- United Future's proposed dual track child protection system is becoming even more necessary in the face of a blow-out of child abuse cases coming before CYFS, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today. See... Dunne: Child abuse blow-out needs radical rethink [1] MORE: - NZ First - Time For Action – Not Talk Over Social Ills [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0407/S00251.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0407/S00261.htm

Air Quality Standards Come Into Force

- Green MP Sue Kedgley says new environmental air quality standards announced today do not go nearly far enough and continue to allow industrial processes that pollute and contaminate the air we breathe. See… New air quality standards leave dioxin issue [1] MORE: - Govt. - National environmental standards approved [2] - United Future - Baldock: UF welcomes air quality standards [3]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0407/S00249.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0407/S00252.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0407/S00248.htm

ACT Reads Between Cullen's Lines On Foreshore

- Deputy Prime Minister Dr Michael Cullen's dismissal of any importance now of the Marlborough Port Company's appeal to the Privy Council, in relation to the seabed and foreshore legislation, is more revealing than any outcome of the appeal ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. See... Integrity Depends On Marlborough Port Company [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0407/S00270.htm

… & Welcomes National Bowing Out Of Maori Contests

- ACT New Zealand Leader Rodney Hide today welcomed the news that the National Party is considering not contesting the Maori seats at next year's general election. See... Maori Seats Must Go: Hide [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0407/S00267.htm

Winston Wonders Why NZIS's Most Wanted Is Still Here

- Rt Hon Winston Peters wants to know why New Zealand's most wanted overstayer is still here and will not be automatically expelled when his travel documents come through. See... Why Is 'Most Wanted' Overstayer Still Here? [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0407/S00266.htm

Jim Anderton Fails Motorists - Coddington

- ACT New Zealand Transport Spokesman Deborah Coddington today labelled the self-styled "Minister for Lower Petrol Prices" Jim Anderton as missing in action. See... Where's The Minister For Lower Petrol Prices? [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0407/S00265.htm

Franks Stops Short Of Execution

- ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today declined to support the death penalty, but said he had no objection to the idea that some crimes deserved it. See... Death Penalty Distraction [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0407/S00262.htm

Brash's Wellington School Comments Anger King

- Health Minister and Rongotai MP Annette King says she is horrified by the slur that National leader Don Brash has cast on a number of Wellington high schools. See... King horrified by Brash slur on Wellington schools [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0407/S00256.htm

Cullen Talks Growth In Hamilton

- My topic for today is New Zealand’s Path to Growth. What we need to acknowledge up front is that we are already well and truly on that path, whatever twists and turns may lie ahead. See... Cullen Speech to Hamilton Club ABN AMRO Craigs [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0407/S00255.htm

Steal Cars - Go On A Ski Trip - Outrage Mark

- New Zealand First law and order spokesman Ron Mark wants the Ministers of Social Welfare and Justice to explain why youth offenders, who stole over 400 cars in Canterbury, have been taken on a skiing trip by CYF in an “attempt to rebuild their confidence”. See... Young Offenders Taken On Skiing Jaunt Says Mark [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0407/S00253.htm

Braying Portaloo Makes Tizard A Joke Says Coddington

- Contrary to what Associate Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Judith Tizard may think, spending $500,000 of taxpayer dollars to send a braying port-a-loo to represent New Zealand at the 2005 Venice Biennele is no laughing matter, ACT New Zealand Arts, ... See... You're The Joke, Tizard [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0407/S00250.htm

Jim Talks Paifika

- I’m sure many here would have seen at least some of the NZ Idol contest on television this year. See... Hon Jim Anderton: Speech at Thrive Pacifika [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0407/S00268.htm

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