TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
LEAD STORY: MeNZB(tm) Vaccine Debate: Ministry Of Health Plans Nationwide Advertising Campaign
SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE:
Trans Tasman Predicts Dame Silvia To Replace Kelly In Canada
NZ To Miss Its Kyoto Target By 36.2Mt CO2e
Magic Mountain Opening For Skiing Tomorrow
MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
Scoop Report: U.S Creationists Square Off Against Smithsonian Scientists
Security Council Extends UN Force For Further Six Months
Bougainville's Newly Formed Govt Receives Tribute
MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:
SCOOP COLUMNS:
William Fisher On The Allure Of GITMO-By-The-Sea
UQ Wire: FBI Gets Off Very Very Lightly
The Jackson Verdict: America As Neverland
MORE SCOOP COMMENTARY:
Downing St Memos Likened To Martin Luther's Theses
Daniel Estulin Takes A Look Inside Bilderberg 2005
OTHER NEWS (Just Politics)
Graham Kelly's Attempt At Humour Transcribed
Career diplomat Crawford Falconer New WTO Ambassador
Govt Tightens Banking Tax Loop-Hole
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LEAD STORY:
MeNZB(tm) Vaccine Debate: Ministry Of Health Plans Nationwide Advertising Campaign
[1] Is the Ministry of Health proposing a major nationwide advertising spend-up to express its position over the MeNZB(tm) Vaccine Debate? - "The plan is to place this letter in the metropolitian papers, 17 regional papers, the Sunday Star Times and Sunday News, plus about 60 community papers." See... Stop Press!! MoH Seeks MeNZB(tm) Endorsements [2] ALSO: IMAC - MeNZB Debate: Unethical antiscience scaremongering [3] Law/Sumner-Burstyn - Increased Vaccine Risk in Pre-Schoolers - Explain Law/Sumner-Burstyn -Minister Misleads Kim Hill and Public [4] Full Coverage - Meningococcal Gold Rush - 2nd Ed. [5]
SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE:
Trans Tasman Predicts Dame Silvia To Replace Kelly In Canada
- Dame Silvia Cartwright will replace Graham Kelly, New Zealand’s High Commissioner in Canada, when her term at
Government House finishes next April, according to political newsletter Trans-Tasman. In the lead story of its June 16
edition that will be published this afternoon, Trans-Tasman says that Dame Silvia has been looking for a diplomatic post
for some time, but with neither New York nor Washington being available, she has recently been offered Canada. See... Dame Silvia Cartwright to replace Graham Kelly [1] ALSO: Mr Kelly’s Canadian Senate Gaff – Full Transcript [2] NZ First - Reaction To Kelly Comments PC Gone Mad [3]
NZ To Miss Its Kyoto Target By 36.2Mt CO2e
- The latest government forecast of net greenhouse gas emissions for 2008-12 shows New Zealand will miss its Kyoto
target by 36.2Mt CO2e unless further action is taken. "Climate change poses a direct threat to New Zealand's
environment, way of life and economy. Unless there is a concerted global effort to limit emissions and the extent of
climate change, New Zealand, and its agricultural base, will be hit hard," says Convenor of the Ministerial Group on
Climate Change Pete Hodgson. See... Climate change challenge increases for New Zealand [1] ALSO: Climate change related droughts set to increase [2]
Magic Mountain Opening For Skiing Tomorrow
- Operators of Mt Ruapehu, Ruapehu Alpine Lifts, announced today that the Turoa Ski Area will open as planned tomorrow,
Friday 17 June. The Alpine Meadow beginner's area will open tomorrow, and the High Flyer Chairlift will be operational
from Saturday, ... See... Image: Turoa Ski Area To Open Tomorrow [1]
MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
Police seek American father and daughter [1] Naval Task Group approaching China [2] GPs applaud HIV screening programme [3] Universities salary group to be established [4] Cheap booze, Kylie and easy skanks! [5]
Scoop Report: U.S Creationists Square Off Against Smithsonian Scientists
- In the United States a scientific dispute has broken out over a decision to screen a film considered by many to be
Creationistic and not scientific. The National Museum for Natural History of the public Smithsonian Institute plans to
screen the film “The Privileged Planet” on June 23rd. The film promotes the theory of “Intelligent Design”, which is a
form of Creationism. See... Smithsonian Embroiled in God v Darwin Dispute [1]
Security Council Extends UN Force For Further Six Months
- The United Nations Security Council today decided to renew the mandate of the 31 year-old UN observer force in the
Golan Heights for a period of six months, until 31 December 2005. The action comes after a report by Secretary-General
Kofi Annan in which he found that the presence of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) remained essential in the
context of a tense Middle East, even though the situation in the Israel-Syria sector stayed "generally quiet." See… Mandate of UN Force in Golan Heights Extended [1] ALSO: Arrested for holding a Palestinian flag [2]
Bougainville's Newly Formed Govt Receives Tribute
- Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the Security Council paid tribute to the leaders and people of Papua New Guinea for
fully implementing the peace agreement that ended long secessionist fighting and culminated today with the swearing-in
of the new autonomous government... See... UN Congratulates People of Bougainville [1]
MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:
Annan Looks to Unification of Korean Peninsula [1] Belarus Clamps Down On Freedom Of Expression [2] Oz MP to table detainee petitions in Parl't [3] Secretary-General Welcomes US Report on UN Reform [4] Sec. Council Extends Mandate of UN Cyprus Mission [5]
SCOOP COLUMNS:
William Fisher On The Allure Of GITMO-By-The-Sea
- Oppressed Christians: Looking for a five-star holiday? Have we got a deal for you! GITMO-By-The-Sea. Don't laugh,
folks. Our Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could just be poised to become the country's hottest tourist destination
for folks of faith. See... William Fisher: This Just In... GITMO-By-The-Sea [1]
UQ Wire: FBI Gets Off Very Very Lightly
- You probably read something yesterday about the release of the year-old, 371-page audit by the Justice Department's
Inspector General Glenn Fine into pre-9/11 intelligence. See... UQ Wire: The Sound Of One Hand Slapping [1]
The Jackson Verdict: America As Neverland
- As I watch the puerile, middle-aged miscreant walk away unscathed from one of the most media-hyped trials in the
history of the nation, a particular word reverberates in my mind: collusion. The word which literally means co-illusion
implies the sharing of an illusion, the silent, secret handshake between one party and another which condones the evil
of one of them and thereby proliferates and exacerbates the evil. Once again, America has colluded in evil-a pattern now
as old and familiar as our proverbial apple pie. See... Carolyn Baker: America As The Jackson Jury [1]
MORE SCOOP COMMENTARY:
Steve Weissman - Weissman: Dean, His Democrats, and Mr. Bush's War [1] Kamala Sarup - Maoists' Deaths And Extremism [2] John Chuckman - All Bush, All The Time, For The Rest Of Your Life [3] Gale Bullock - Gale Bullock: Weekend Reading On Realty Reality [4] Alun Fosta - Robbing Peter, And Now “Joe Kiwi,” To Pay Paul [5]
Downing St Memos Likened To Martin Luther's Theses
- Almost five hundred years ago, Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Church,
initiating a sequence of events which forever altered the geometry of global religion, politics and power. Luther's
Theses began with the words, "Out of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to light, the following propositions
will be discussed at Wittenberg." See... Will Rivers Pitt: Nail It to the White House Door [1] Barbara O'Brien - Mahablog: Up Downing Street [2] Democracy Now - The Downing Street Memo Comes To Washington [3] Scoop Link - LA Times Feature On Downing St. Memos [4] < li > AfterDowningStreet - Hearings On Downing St. Minutes Moved To Capitol [5] For much much more see... Full Coverage: The Downing Street Memo - Part 2 [6] & Part 1 [7]
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]
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OTHER NEWS (JUST POLITICS)------------
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: Maori Party - Labour Should Sack Rather Than Back Envoy [2]
Career diplomat Crawford Falconer New WTO Ambassador
- New Zealand's next Ambassador to the World Trade Organisation will be career diplomat Crawford Falconer, Foreign
Minister Phil Goff announced today. Mr Falconer is currently Chief Trade Negotiator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and Trade in Wellington. In that position he has overall responsibility for policy advice to the government on the
overall conduct of New Zealand's multilateral trade negotiations in the WTO, as well as the current series of bilateral
Free Trade Agreement negotiations. See... Goff names new Ambassador to WTO [1]
Govt Tightens Banking Tax Loop-Hole
- “Foreign owned banks operating in New Zealand will be required to pay sufficient tax on their New Zealand income as
part of a major tax bill passed by Parliament yesterday,” Revenue Minister Michael Cullen said. See... Major Bank Tax Bill Passes [1]
MORE POLITICS HEADLINES:
Govt - Rural people deserve better than Nats' [1] Govt - Environment-friendly tax changes good for business [2] Govt - Anderton - Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill [3] Govt - Goff names new Ambassador to WTO [4] Govt - Immigration Investor Category changes announced [5] Govt - NZ Conservation Authority appointments [6] Govt - New Zealand to help children in Nepal [7] Govt - Major Bank Tax Bill Passes [8] Nats - Hodgson must resign over billion-dollar cock-up [9] Nats - Mallard tries to duck another one [10] Nats - Truth hurts as Hodgson lashes out [11] Nats - East Coast forestry project to be reviewed [12] Nats - Brash will protect private property rights [13] Nats - National will strengthen biosecurity defences [14] ACT - Govt's climate change response in tatters [15] ACT - Shirley - ACT for a stronger racing industry [16] ACT - ACT will scrap all gaming taxes [17] United - Turner welcomes party drug rules [18] United - Cutting down trees and growing cows not smart! [19] United - Adams laments rise of the CAVE people [20] United - Baldock: No carbon market without a seller [21] United - Time to revisit car pooling rules [22] NZ First - Reaction To Kelly Comments PC Gone Mad [23] NZ First - Peters - When Integrity Counts Most [24] Green - PM must challenge Musharraf over torture [25] Progressives - Drugs Amendment part of balanced strategy [26] Progressives - Skills shortages legacy of visionless National [27] Progressives - Do Nats want to sell party pills to ten-year-olds? [28]
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