Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics

Wednesday, 15 June 2005, 6:10 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
LEAD STORY: Feilding Double-Murder Accused Named
Graham Kelly's Attempt At Humour Transcribed
Abortion Rate Drops - Statistics NZ
MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
Scoop Report: Schroeder Under Pressure After Backing Stem Cell Research
Amnesty Int. Calls For End To Palestine's Executions
MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

SCOOP COLUMNS:
No Right Turn Has Some Guidance For Helen Clark
Hon Simon Upton's Monthly Newsletter
Daniel Estulin Takes A Look Inside Bilderberg 2005
MORE SCOOP COMMENTARY:
Bernard Weiner Assesses The Impact Of The Downing St. Memo

OTHER NEWS (Just Politics)
Antarctic Environment Treaty Advanced By New Zealand
Maharey Re-commits To Ending Child Poverty
What Price Survival? Connell Says Kyoto Protocol Costs NZers $600mil
MORE POLITICS HEADLINES:

LEAD STORY:
Feilding Double-Murder Accused Named

An 52-year-old Feilding man appeared in court this morning charged with murdering pensioners Ted Ferguson and Margaret Waldin. The accused had name suppression until 1pm today. He is David Konia, unemployed of Feilding. See... Feilding Double-Murder Accused Named [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00196.htm

Graham Kelly's Attempt At Humour Transcribed

- Former Labour MP Graham Kelly, now New Zealand's High Commissioner to Canada, caused something of a stir with his attempts at humour whilst giving evidence at a Canadian Senate committee studying fisheries. Mr Kelly has unreservedly apologised for his comments. See... Mr Kelly’s Canadian Senate Gaff – Full Transcript [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00197.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00322.htm

Abortion Rate Drops - Statistics NZ

- The general abortion rate (abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years) dropped from 21.0 in 2003 to 20.5 per 1,000 in 2004, Statistics New Zealand reported today. The number of abortions performed in New Zealand has dropped for the first time since 1998. A total of 18,210 induced abortions were performed in New Zealand in the December 2004 year, 300 (1.6 percent) fewer than in 2003 (18,510). This drop follows increases of 6.5 percent in 2003 and 5.9 percent in 2002. See... Abortion Statistics: 2004 [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00149.htm

MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0506/S00220.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0506/S00036.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0506/S00037.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00148.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0506/S00123.htm

Scoop Report: Schroeder Under Pressure After Backing Stem Cell Research

- German Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has been criticised due to his plan to loosen embryonic stem cell research laws. Schroeder said at the celebration of his honorary doctor of the University of Göttingen, Germany mustn’t “permanently avoid the tendency for a liberalisation of the research with embryonic stem cells.” See... German Chancellor Wants More Stem Cell Research [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00234.htm

Amnesty Int. Calls For End To Palestine's Executions

- Palestinian Authority: Amnesty International calls for halt to death penalty as four executed in Gaza. As the Palestinian Authority (PA) carried out its first executions since August 2002, Amnesty International today condemned the use of the death penalty by the PA, saying that it will in no way solve the problem of increasing crime and lawlessness in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and represents a step backwards for human rights in the Palestinian territories. See... Palestine Executes 4 - Amnesty Calls For End [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00217.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00229.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00228.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00219.htm

MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00227.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00225.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00223.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00222.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00216.htm

SCOOP COLUMNS:
No Right Turn Has Some Guidance For Helen Clark

- I'm writing to you in your functions as Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs repsectively, about the upcoming visit of President Pervez Musharaf of Pakistan. See... No Right Turn: Some Guidance Re. Specific Abuses [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00209.htm

Hon Simon Upton's Monthly Newsletter

- In This Edition: The aftermath of the French referendum on the European Constitution ; and Stuart McMillan explores the NZ/Australia security relationship in an address to the NZ Institute of International Affairs. See... Upton-on-line Diaspora Edition - 2nd June 2005 [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00207.htm

Daniel Estulin Takes A Look Inside Bilderberg 2005

- May 24, 2005—The annual secret meeting of the Bilderberg group determines many of the headlines and news developments you will read about in the coming months. But the Establishment media completely black it out. With the exception of half-a-dozen high-ranking members of the press who are sworn to secrecy, few have ever heard of the exclusive and secretive group called The Bilderbergers. See... The World In The Palm Of Their Hands (Part 1) [1] , (Part 2) [2] & Bilderberg 2005: List Of Participants [3]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00203.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00204.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00205.htm

MORE SCOOP COMMENTARY:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00208.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00206.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00202.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00200.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00199.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00198.htm

Bernard Weiner Assesses The Impact Of The Downing St. Memo

- Not just because many of my relatives got wiped out in the Holocaust, or because my wife is Bavarian, but, like so many others around the world, I am ineluctably drawn to the Hitler period in Germany. How could this have happened -- 6 million Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and others herded into camps and slaughtered? More than 50 million killed on all sides in World War II? It's too much for the mind to comprehend. See... Building A New "Movement": The Downing Street Memo [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00201.htm

Antarctic Environment Treaty Advanced By New Zealand

- New Zealand has played a key role in negotiating an international treaty protecting the Antarctic environment, Foreign Minister Phil Goff has announced. “The treaty requires anyone who causes an environmental accident in Antarctica to take action to clean up the pollution and prevent further environmental damage. If a polluter does not take clean up action, then compensation can be claimed," Mr Goff said. See... NZ Leads Agreement To Protect Antarctica [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00305.htm

Maharey Re-commits To Ending Child Poverty

- Steve Maharey today re-affirmed the government's commitment to eliminating child poverty in New Zealand, saying the Working for Families package would lift thousands more children out of poverty by the time it was fully implemented in 2007. See... Govt re-affirms commitment to end child poverty [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00319.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00298.htm

What Price Survival? Connell Says Kyoto Protocol Costs NZers $600mil

- "A monumental miscalculation by Pete Hodgson may leave New Zealand with a $600 million liability before the ink on the Kyoto Protocol is even dry, " says National Party Forestry spokesman Brian Connell. "The stupidity of the Government's ratification of Kyoto ahead of due diligence is coming home to bite us all." See... Hodgson's blunder may cost Kiwis $600 million [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00311.htm

MORE POLITICS HEADLINES:

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