Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics

Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 11:09 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
LEAD STORY: Robsons' Liqour Amendment Bill Passes First Reading
SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE:
Coral Vandals Come Under Fire From Greenpeace
GPJA Liken Auckland Minister To Guillotined Queen
MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
Bolivia's Latest Revolution - Blow By Blow
MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

SCOOP COLUMNS:
Enron Insider Seeks Govt. Funding For Latest Venture
Fox News, Blair And Bush All Talk Downing Street Memo
Richard S. Ehrlich: Do As US Says Not As US Does
Michel Chossudovsky: War Games On Paper
MORE SCOOP COMMENTARY:

OTHER NEWS (Just Politics)
The Devil Likely To Reap Rewards Of Idle Inmates
Fitzsimons Takes Green Message To Dairy Farmers
Dunne Criticises Pharmac For Saving Money
MORE PARLIAMENTARY HEADLINES:

LEAD STORY:
Robsons' Liqour Amendment Bill Passes First Reading

Progressive deputy leader Matt Robson's Sale of Liquor (Youth Harm Reduction) Amendment Bill was this afternoon voted to go to Select Committee, with 78 M.P.s in favour, and a minority of 41 against with one abstention. Matt Robson said that the coalition government, and New Zealand society as a whole, need to "honestly examine" the costs and the benefits of the 1999 decision to lower the minimum legal alcohol purchasing age. See... Progressive Bill part of alcohol culture change [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00153.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00152.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00140.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00068.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00057.htm
[6] - http://www.20years.co.nz/

SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/storiesstories/PA0506/S00154.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00131.htm

Coral Vandals Come Under Fire From Greenpeace

- As the UN meeting to discuss ocean issues begins in New York, Greenpeace releases this image today to illustrate the destruction by bottom trawling. (It was obtained under the Official Information Act in New Zealand.) See... Greenpeace Illustrates Bottom Trawling With Image [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00058.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00143.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00062.htm

GPJA Liken Auckland Minister To Guillotined Queen

- Consumer Affairs Minister Judith Tizard’s response to the explosion of loan sharking in middle and low income communities is reminiscent of Marie Antoinette who when told of the plight of the poor who had no bread to eat in 18th century France is said to have responded “Let them eat cake!” See... Judith Tizard – Labour’s Marie Antoinette [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00055.htm

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[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00054.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0506/S00047.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0506/S00072.htm

Bolivia's Latest Revolution - Blow By Blow

- As authentic journalist Claudia Espinoza said at midday, when we ran into each other in the middle of today's marches: "Once again, we have to write about thousands of marchers who shut down La Paz and clash with the police as they try to take Plaza Murillo." Well, exactly right... today, everyone again descended from El Alto into La Paz, this time with the addition of several contingents of miners. The miners numbered several thousand today, and arrived heavily armed with dynamite. See... Narconews: Today's Combat in La Paz, Bolivia [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00110.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00109.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00107.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00090.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00081.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00063.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00061.htm

MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

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[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00121.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00117.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00116.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00113.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00110.htm
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[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00106.htm
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[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00101.htm
[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00097.htm

SCOOP COLUMNS:
Enron Insider Seeks Govt. Funding For Latest Venture

- The federal government may guarantee hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to help a former energy executive who publicly admitted he had no idea that the division he once ran cooked its books and who is now trying to secure funding for a new energy company he started with three ex-colleagues. See... Enron's White Seeks Govt. Energy Project Funding [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00111.htm

Fox News, Blair And Bush All Talk Downing Street Memo

- HUME: When we come back with our panel, the memo that the left says the U.S. media won't talk about it. Well, we'll talk about it, next. See... David Swanson: Downing Street Memo In FoxSpeak [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00103.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00098.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00119.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00085.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00076.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00072.htm

Richard S. Ehrlich: Do As US Says Not As US Does

- BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld reportedly tried to sell F-16 warplanes, capable of firing Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs), to Thailand two days after he lashed out at China for upgrading its own ... See... Rumsfeld Seeks To Sell Advanced F-16s To Thailand [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00101.htm

Michel Chossudovsky: War Games On Paper

- A recent Report of the Homeland Security Council entitled Planning Scenarios describes in minute detail, the Bush administration's preparations in the case of a terrorist attack by an outside enemy called the Universal Adversary (UA). See... Preparedness against the "Universal Adversary" [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00099.htm

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[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00093.htm
[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00100.htm

The Devil Likely To Reap Rewards Of Idle Inmates

- The Government is undermining prison employment rehabilitation - "the best means of stopping prisoners from returning to jail" - while at the same time throwing money at re-integrative services that don't work. See... Where's prison programme accountability? [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00146.htm

Fitzsimons Takes Green Message To Dairy Farmers

- I don't class myself as a dairy farmer, though some years ago I did stand in for a friend and milked cows for a couple of weeks. However I do own six cows one of which I milk for the house, and we foster calves on them so I have some experience. See... Fitzsimons - Speech to the Dairy Farmers AGM [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00139.htm

Dunne Criticises Pharmac For Saving Money

- The Government needs to work out how much longer it will stand by as Pharmac flip-flops on medicines that keep many New Zealanders alive and healthy, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today. See... Dunne: Time for Govt to deal to Pharmac [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00138.htm

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