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Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 5:12 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
LEAD STORY: David Benson-Pope Returns To Cabinet
Iraqis Reject Peters’ Claims As Incorrect
SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE:
Donald Attacks - First the Chinese Govt Now Winston Peters
High Court Overturns Lump Sum ACC Compensation For Asbestos
Scoop Link: NZ's Position On Cartegna Protocol Attracts Attention
Anti Govt Website Snaffled By Govt
MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
Narconews Updates: Bolivia's President Mesa's Final Days
MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

SCOOP COLUMNS:
Downing Street Memo Denials Reach Network TV
SCOOP DOMESTIC COMMENTARY:
Amnesty Calls For Prosecutions Over US Torture
Memories Of Chernobyl & Three Mile Island Fading
Jason Leopold: Pentagon Fesses Up To Koran Abuse
MORE SCOOP COMMENTARY:

OTHER NEWS (Just Politics)
United Future Want To Sell Up to 40% Of Selected SOE’s
Key Energised By Transpower Tax Deal
Gongs And Whistles To Top Hole Kiwi’s
MORE PARLIAMENTARY HEADLINES:

LEAD STORY:
David Benson-Pope Returns To Cabinet

David Benson-Pope today said he was pleased [1] to be returning to his work in the Fisheries and Associate Environment portfolios. He also released copies of information he has supplied to police regarding accusations made in Parliament relating to his time as a teacher. See... Benson-Pope pleased to return to portfolios [2] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00119.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00124.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00119.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/pdfs/db-p_privilege-speakers_reply.pdf
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00162.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00192.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0505/S00382.htm

Iraqis Reject Peters’ Claims As Incorrect

. Over two hundred people mostly from New Zealand’s Iraqi community gathered today in Pakuranga Auckland to discuss allegations levelled at Omer Ali and Amir Salman by New Zealand First leader Winston Peters. See... Allegations See 200 Iraqis Attend Public Meeting [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00058.htm

SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00113.htm

Donald Attacks - First the Chinese Govt Now Winston Peters

- "It is a choice between a Labour/Green Government, which believes in compassion, diversity, and tolerance, and has a strong social and environmental conscience, and a National/NZ First Government, which stands for divisiveness, intolerance, bigotry, and ignoring the poor to give tax cuts to the rich." See... Rod Donald - 2005 Conference Speech [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00106.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00108.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00109.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00103.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00104.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00048.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00043.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00040.htm

High Court Overturns Lump Sum ACC Compensation For Asbestos

- The finding in ACC's favour by the High Court in the Lehmann case clarifies the law on lump sum compensation. See... ACC comments on Estate Lehmann High Court decision [1] & ACC v ESTATE OF ROB LEHMANN HC WN CIV-2004-485-213 [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0506/S00079.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0506/S00081.htm

Scoop Link: NZ's Position On Cartegna Protocol Attracts Attention

- MONTREAL, JUNE 5: Brazil and New Zealand were successful in blocking the birth of an effective global regime for disciplining transboundary movement, handling and packaging of living modified organisms (LMOs). See... Scoop Link: Brazil, NZ block LMOs proposal [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00060.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00038.htm

Anti Govt Website Snaffled By Govt

- Northern Employers and Manufacturer's chief executive Alasdair Thompson's anti-government campaign on Auckland land transport has got off to a bad start after the Labour Party registered his publicised website as its own. See... Thompson's Campaign Off To Amateurish Start [1] Earlier:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00105.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00099.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00050.htm

MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:

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[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00042.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00039.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0506/S00098.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0506/S00096.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0506/S00086.htm
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0506/S00101.htm

Narconews Updates: Bolivia's President Mesa's Final Days

- After a combative day on the streets of La Paz and more than two weeks of turmoil in Bolivia, President Carlos Mesa has resigned from the Presidency. He appeared tonight at approximately 9:45pm, live from the Presidential Palace, to let his country and ... See... Narconews: Bolivian President Mesa Resigns [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00090.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00081.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00063.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00061.htm

MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00091.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00088.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00086.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00084.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00082.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00080.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00072.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00065.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00064.htm
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00063.htm

SCOOP COLUMNS:
Downing Street Memo Denials Reach Network TV

- On June 5, 2005, Ken Mehlman, Chairman of the Republican Party, was asked about the Downing Street Minutes on "NBC News' Meet the Press." To my knowledge, this was the first serious treatment of the matter on any U.S. network news show. See... GOP Chairman At A Loss Over Downing Street Minutes [1] MORE: Buzzflash - Buzzflash: The War to Deceive America Into War [2] David Swanson - David Swanson: Teach-In on War Demands Truth [3]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00085.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00076.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00072.htm

SCOOP DOMESTIC COMMENTARY:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00089.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00084.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00083.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00066.htm

Amnesty Calls For Prosecutions Over US Torture

- The editorial page of the St. Petersburg Times, under the direction of Philip Gailey,.hit Amnesty International (AI) and its secretary-general, Irene Khan, with several low blows in the May 27 editorial “American ‘gulag’?” One can only hope that this will bring to an end Gailey’s dreadful 14-year reign as editorial page editor. If that happens, I offer this advice to his successor: Don’t use the word “fabricates” in an editorial denouncing someone else unless (1) you know you are right, and (2) you don’t engage in the same offense yourself. See... Dennis Hans: St. Petersburg Times Slanders Amnesty [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00068.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00080.htm

Memories Of Chernobyl & Three Mile Island Fading

- Twenty years after Chernobyl, the pro-nuclear lobby has decided that it's time to glue a happy face on nuclear power again. Simultaneous pro-nuclear public relations campaigns have plastered their briefs in the US and British media markets in the last couple of months. Time will tell whether they stick. See… Kelpie Wilson: Sellin' Nukes, Dissin' Wind [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00069.htm

Jason Leopold: Pentagon Fesses Up To Koran Abuse

- If you want to ensure that the media doesn't cover an important political story, send out a press release on a Friday, preferably at the end of the day. By the time reporters return on Monday, the story will be old news and will either be buried deep within a newspaper or not covered at all. See:.. When Is Someone Going To Toss Rumsfeld In A Cage? [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00057.htm

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[14] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00064.htm
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United Future Want To Sell Up to 40% Of Selected SOE’s

- United Future finance spokesman Gordon Copeland today released details of the party’s policy of a 40% sell-down of selected State Owned Enterprises. See... Copeland details part sell-down of SOE’s [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00111.htm

Key Energised By Transpower Tax Deal

- National Party Finance spokesman John Key is calling on Michael Cullen to give the public some answers on a controversial tax deal done by Transpower. See... Michael Cullen ducks questions on Transpower deal [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00123.htm

Gongs And Whistles To Top Hole Kiwi’s

- The Queen has been pleased, on the occasion of the New Zealand celebration of Her Majesty's Birthday, to make the following appointments to The New Zealand Order of Merit: To be Distinguished Companions... Judge David James Carruthers, Ms Cassia Joy Cowley, Mr George Vjeceslav Fistonich, Professor Linda Jane Holloway, O.N.Z.M., & Judge Anand Satyanand... See... Queen's Birthday Honours 2005 [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00114.htm

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