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Scoop Tech: Scoop Launches Audio & Video Podcast For Scoopers -
Road Watch: New Retail Centre Stops Traffic
Monetary Policy: Economy Slowing But Expected To Rebound In 2007 -
Science: Scienticians Party Up As Awards Flow Like Ectoplasm -
Crime Alert: BNZ Customers Targeted In Hoax Fraud Scam
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Tokelau: New Zealand Supports Fresh Referendum
Mexico: Presidential Campaign Grows Tense
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SCOOP COLUMNS:
American Coup: Bev Harris On Primary Election Day In California
American Coup: Ernest Partridge Defends RFK Jnr On Election Theft 2004
Unanswered Questions: Yet More Questions Around The Ownership Of 'Cocaine One'
Blood & Oil: Dr. Abbas Bakhtiar: Meanwhile In The House Of Saud
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OTHER NEWS (Just Politics):
Immigration: Survey Charts the Kiwi Diasporia
Politics: Lemonade-Selling Kids Ignoring Inflation According To Cullen -
Employment: Personal Grievances Up in 2006
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[1] Former Associate Foreign Affairs Minister Matt Robson was astounded by a recent NZ Herald editorial on Timor. Mr Robson describes the Herald's editorial as 'patronising cant' and 'abysmal'. Regular Scoop contributor No Right Turn is also incensed by the NZ Herald, namely a column written by senior Herald journalist John Roughan. NRT points out that Mr Roughan appears to be an apologist for the genocide and torture inflicted upon Timor by Indonesia. Mr Roughan described this state of affairs as 'rugged' in his column. See… The States That Failed East Timor [2] And also Herald Describes Genocide as 'Rugged' - A Response [3] ON THE GROUND IN TIMOR:Caritas - Giving a Sense of Purpose to 13,000 IDPs [4] Caritas - Peace and Reconciliation are Needed in Timor [5] Caritas - Caritas Distributes Relief in Timor Leste [6]
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Scoop Audio: Selwyn Manning and 95bFM's Simon Pound discuss: [1] how public opposition is mounting against the New Zealand Police's intent to trial the Taser gun on New Zealanders, namely the mentally ill, drunks and druggies. Is this a move toward fully arming Kiwi cops?
Scoop Tech: Scoop Launches Audio & Video Podcast For Scoopers -
Scoop has today launched its audio and video podcast feed providing Scoopers with the latest and best way to stay ahead
of other media and remain in-the-know. The great thing about the podcast is it allows you to listen and view the media
at a time that's convenient to you. The Scoop podcast features news, views, and interviews on almost all topics
including audio and video created in-house by Scoop and by our friends and radio partners here in NZ and around the
globe - and you get to choose what items you want to play. See... Scoop Launches Audio and Video Podcast Feed [1]
Road Watch: New Retail Centre Stops Traffic
- Transit New Zealand advises motorists to avoid the Southern Motorway northbound in the Mt Wellington area due to
continued heavy traffic flow to the new Sylvia Park shopping centre. Traffic continues to move slowly around Sylvia
Park, and all northbound lanes of the Southern Motorway between East Tamaki and Mt Wellington remain congested... See... Sylvia Park traffic on Southern Motorway – Update [1] ALSO:Transit New Zealand - Sylvia Park Traffic on S Motorway – Latest Update [2] Police - Congestion - No vehicle access to Sylvia Park [3] Transit New Zealand - Transit Suggests Motorists Avoid Southern Motorway [4] Newmarket Business Association - Retail competition sends message to Sylvia Park [5] National Distribution Union - Sylvia Park – a high point for low pay [6]
Monetary Policy: Economy Slowing But Expected To Rebound In 2007 -
Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard said: "Recent economic activity has been weaker than projected in the March Monetary
Policy Statement. However, the short-term inflation outlook has worsened. "Growth is expected to remain low through
2006, before recovering in 2007. See... The Official Cash Rate (OCR) will remain at 7.25% [1] ALSO:New Zealand Government - National ignores inflation warning [2] AMP - AMP Capital’s view on Official Cash Rate decision [3]
Science: Scienticians Party Up As Awards Flow Like Ectoplasm -
A PhD student developing a new cell identification technique that could help solve sex crimes has taken top honours at
the 2006 MacDiarmid Young Scientists of the Year Awards, held in Auckland tonight. 25-year-old Claire French has found a
method of identifying whether cells samples collected for DNA testing come from the skin, the mouth or the vagina,
something that hasn’t previously been possible and has the potential to provide additional evidence in sex crimes.
See...See... NZ 's Top Young Scientists Named At Awards [1] ALSO: Awards - Young Scientists: Staggers in grazing animals [2] NZbio - NZBio congratulates young scientists [3] Health Research Council - Young researchers among best future scientists [4]
Crime Alert: BNZ Customers Targeted In Hoax Fraud Scam
- A hoax email distributed today seeking to trick bank customers into revealing their account and password details
illustrates the changing landscape which is now commonplace for New Zealand companies and their customers, the Bank of
New Zealand said today. See... Public Vigilence Needed To Combat Email Hoax [1]
MORE HEADLINES:
Research Reveals Dental Implants Improves Sex Life [1] Power's Criticism A Display Of Policing Ignorance [2] Goff visits East Timor [3] Union campaigns focus on Macquarie Bank [4] Tickets to 48 Hours Film Comp Finals Selling Fast [5]
Tokelau: New Zealand Supports Fresh Referendum
- New Zealand’s foreign minister, Winston Peters, says it will support Tokelau’s decision for another referendum on
self-determination. Tokelau’s assembly wants a fresh vote on the same question at the end of next year or early 2008. In
February, voters chose to retain Tokelau’s status as a territory of New Zealand. Mr Peters says it will take time to
organise another vote. See... New Zealand supports fresh Tokelau referendum [1] ALSO:Tokelau: Caution urged, possible second referendum [2]
Mexico: Presidential Campaign Grows Tense
- With just under a month to go until Mexico’s July 2 presidential election, deep uncertainties have taken hold of the
country. As the top two contenders, left-leaning Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the Partido de la Revolución Democrática
(PRD) and Felipe Calderón Hinojosa of the ruling conservative Partido de Acción Nacional (PAN), begin their final
campaign drives, the two men appear to be in a virtual tie. See... COHA: Mexican Presidential Campaign Grows Tense [1]
MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:
East Timor: Violence Undermining Media Reporting [1] French Polynesian opposition denounces Paris summit boycott [2] Indonesia President & Australia PM to meet over Papua [3] Calls for stepped-up US engagement with UN [4] Iran: Scores Arrested in Anti-Baha’i Campaign [5] Timor-Leste: Peace Talks With Another Armed Group [6]
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American Coup: Bev Harris On Primary Election Day In California
- We ain't seen the sunshine since, we don' know when We're stuck in Blackbox prison, this ain't democracy But that
train keeps a rollin´, over you and me. See... Bev Harris: Hear The Train A'comin' [1] MORE: John Gideon - 'Daily Voting News' For June 7, 2006 [2] Undernews - Undernews: Another Day Of Broken Vote Machines [3]
American Coup: Ernest Partridge Defends RFK Jnr On Election Theft 2004
- Complication of the election integrity issue works to the advantage of the status quo; which is to say, the
increasing use of paperless, unauditable Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines. More complications abound as
critics of the status quo attempt to prove that past, and presumably future, elections were and will be fraudulent.
See... Ernest Partridge: Debunking the Debunker [1] & Robert F. Kennedy Jr: Was the 2004 Election Stolen [2] RELATED: Ron Baiman - Manjoo RFK Jnr. Critique Superficial & Erroneous [3] Thom Hartmann - Stand Up for Democracy With Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. [4] Evelyn Pringle - Most Hated President Ever Stole Both Elections [5] Bob Fitrakis - RFK And Rolling Stone Nail Ohio's Stolen Election [6] Harvey Wasserman - Why Is Blackwell Stonewalling Greens In Ohio? [7] John Gideon - Daily Voting News For June 1, 2006 [8]
Unanswered Questions: Yet More Questions Around The Ownership Of 'Cocaine One'
- Eight weeks after Mexican soldiers at a rural airport in the Yucatan discovered 5.5 tons of cocaine onboard an
American-registered DC9 painted to resemble aircraft from the U.S. Dept of Homeland Security, Mexican and U.S. law
enforcement officials seem no closer to publicly identifying either the owner of the plane, or the tons of cocaine.
See... UQ Wire: Who Owns The DC9 "Cocaine One" [1]
Blood & Oil: Dr. Abbas Bakhtiar: Meanwhile In The House Of Saud
- “Passing over, for the present, all the evils and mischiefs which monarchy has occasioned in the world, nothing can
more effectually prove its usefulness in a state of civil government than making it hereditary. Would we make any office
hereditary that required wisdom and abilities to fill it? And where wisdom and abilities are not necessary, such an
office, whatever it may be, is superfluous or insignificant. See... When Will The House Of Saud Feel Safe? [1] MORE: William Fisher - William Fisher: Saudi Cosmetics? [2]
MORE COMMENT & OPINION:
Russell Brown & Ors. - Public Address 08/06/06 - Remembering Glide Time [1] & Public Address 07/06/06 - Splendidly Patronising [2] Am Johal - The Right to Live Without Fear [3] Ramzy Baroud - Israeli Exceptionalism: Hamas Is Not the Issue [4] Siddhi B. Ranjitkar - Resurrection Of Old Habits In Nepal [5] Evelyn Pringle - Bush Stacked SCOTUS Muzzles Public Employees [6] Narconews - Online Video: "Atenco - Breaking the Siege" [7] Jason Miller - Of Water, Human Beings and Other Commodities [8] Kamala Sarup - When Maoists Killed My Own Uncle [9] Norman Solomon - The Urbanity of Evil [10] Genevieve Cora Fraser - Israel’s Right to Exist a Question of Legitimacy [11] & Militants Bred in American-Israeli Cauldron [12] Bernard Weiner - "Groundhog Day" in Asia: Unwinnable Wars [13] Evelyn Pringle - Ortho Evra Patch Maker Waves A White Flag [14] David Swanson - Nine State Democratic Parties Back Impeachment [15] Sanjay Upadhya - Nepal: Perpetual Legislature, Political Legitimacy [16] John Lama - Nepal Likely To Slide Into ‘Dharma Yuddha’ [17] William Fisher - Calling Mr. Smith [18] Greg Palast - Palast vs. Coulter - Battle of the Books begins [19]
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OTHER NEWS (JUST POLITICS)
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Immigration: Survey Charts the Kiwi Diasporia
- Kea New Zealand's global census, Every One Counts, has discovered a large group of highly talented and engaged Kiwi
expats around the world. The online survey connected with more than 29,000 New Zealanders living in 155 countries. "'The
world's greatest travellers' are making New Zealand one of the most globally connected nations on earth," says Ross
McConnell, Chief Executive of Kea New Zealand. See... Talented, successful Kiwis all over globe [1] ALSO:Survey Results (PDF) [2]
Politics: Lemonade-Selling Kids Ignoring Inflation According To Cullen -
The Reserve Bank's latest monetary policy statement provides hard evidence on inflation that should make National
rethink its reckless tax cut plans, Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today. The bank is forecasting inflation to
nudge 4 per cent over the next year due to higher oil prices. "It's staggering that a former governor of the Reserve
Bank is content to mislead the public by claiming his multi-billion dollar tax cuts are affordable. See... National ignores inflation warning [1] ALSO: National - National's postcard hammers home tax message [2] NZ Govt - Borrow and hope Brash returns [3] Progressive Party - Borrowing to fund tax cuts would deliver downgrade [4] EMA Northern - SOE sell down would keep tax cake and eat it [5] RaboPlus - Sound investments start with credit ratings [6]
Employment: Personal Grievances Up in 2006
- The number of personal grievances heard by the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) against employers rose 28 per
cent last year compared to 2004. The ERA heard 340 cases in calendar 2004 and 436 in 2005. See... Grievance gravy train picking up speed [1] ALSO:NZ Govt - EMA interpretation misleading, says Dyson [2] Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union - Grievance cases last resort for workers [3]
MORE POLITICAL HEADLINES:
NZ Govt - King delegates decision-making on code-sharing [1] NZ Govt - New measures aimed at reducing re-offending [2] NZ Govt - New Zealand opens market to Vanuatu papaya [3] NZ Govt - Law Commission Report tabled [4] NZ Govt - Rowing World champs hosting great for NZ [5] NZ Govt - Forest and Bird and Greens misinformed [6] NZ Govt - Power's criticism a display of policing ignorance [7] NZ Govt - Goff visits East Timor [8] NZ Govt - Regions of New Zealand doing the business [9] NZ Govt - Plan to lift achievement among Pacific students [10] NZ Govt - No tyranny of silence around suicide [11] NZ Govt - Partnerships key to restoring Waikato lakes [12] National - CYF's youth justice changes will not work [13] National - Dangerous prisoner shifted to prison 'motel' [14] National - Cancer sufferers look offshore again [15] National - National will complain to Auditor-Gen about book [16] Greens - Rowing Champs coup a big win for public transport [17] Greens - Flora and Fauna claim good news for Maori [18] Greens - Bottom trawling ban won't net all the problems [19] Maori Party - Turia: Address to Diploma of Social Work Class [20]
POLITICAL COLUMNS
Pansy Wong - Pansy Speak 6 june 2006 [1]
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