Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics

Tuesday, 18 July 2006, 4:09 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS:
War:Lebanon Air Strikes Continue - Blair & Annan Search For A Solution
SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE:
Politics: Philip Field Report - No Conflict Of Interest But Bad Judgement
Media And Justice: RadioWorks Contempt Punishment Stings Wrist A Little
News Flash: Head Farmer Doesn't Like Greenies
Commerce: BNZ Pleads Guilty On Credit Card Exchange Fees
Arts: High School Poets Award Shortlist Out
Agriculture: Now Easier To Score Industrial Hemp
PM's Presser Audio: Who's Honourable, Middle East, Winston In Washington & Zaoui
Trade: EU Butter Ruling Gives European Importers a Slice of Fonterra's Action
Economy: Inflation Hits 4 Percent Thanks to Oil Prices
Scoop Satire: Trust's Anti-Welfare State Comments "Not Stupid", Says Sarcasm Professional
Foreign Affairs: Middle East Conflict Restricted To Press Release Battle In NZ -
MORE HEADLINES:
War: Is There Another Option? – UN Sends Team
MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

SCOOP COLUMNS:
War: Uri Avnery (Israeli) Discloses The Real Aim Of This War
Mexico: A Million Mexicans Protest Election Fraud
War Lies: Why Outed CIA Officer & Husband Are Suing
Energy: Bonus Joules uses solar energy to stop the shivers and THE ECONOMY shakes
MORE COMMENT AND OPINION:

OTHER NEWS (Just Politics):
POLITICAL NEWSLETTERS:
Foreign Affairs: Dunne Steps Up For Aid Budget
MPs in World News: Groser Goes to Markets
Environment: Marsden B Ruling - Call For Carbon In RMA
Local Government: Annual Conference Opens in Wellington
Education: Questions On Lack Of Internal Assessment Checks
MORE POLITICAL HEADLINES:
POLITICAL COLUMNS

Lebanon Air Strikes Continue - Blair & Annan Search For A Solution

[1] - In among the tens of thousands of words being written at the moment on Middle East fighting there lurks some obvious home truths. In a letter to today's Sydney Morning Herald Dennis Shakesheff managed to condense it into three sentences: "I think most observers would agree that Israel's response to the Palestinians' recent provocation is disproportionate. Yet one can't help but be struck by the stupidity of it. Can anyone think of a case in history when a people has been bombed into submission?" If you add Lebanon/Lebanese to the equation you just about got it all in a nutshell. Sol Salbe: Middle East Round-Up [2] MORE COMMENT ON MIDDLE EAST CRISIS:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00257.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00257.htm
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SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0607/S00256.htm

Politics: Philip Field Report - No Conflict Of Interest But Bad Judgement

- Prime Minister Helen Clark today released the report of Mr Ingram QC into matters relating to Taito Phillip Field. Mr Ingram was asked to enquire into whether any conflict existed between Mr Field's duties as a minister and his private interests. "Mr Ingram has concluded that there was not such a conflict of interest. He reports that Mr Field was at all times co-operative with the inquiry. See... Ingram report released [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0607/S00260.htm
[2] - http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/0607/IngramReport.pdf
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0607/S00262.htm

Media And Justice: RadioWorks Contempt Punishment Stings Wrist A Little

- RadioWorks was today convicted in the Auckland District Court with breach of a suppression order. The charge relates to the suppression surrounding the Rickards/Schollum/Shipton case and arises from comments broadcast on Radio Live on 26 May 2006. RadioWorks pleaded guilty to the charge and has been fined $750. See... RadioWorks Breach Of Suppression Order [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0607/S00175.htm

News Flash: Head Farmer Doesn't Like Greenies

- Environmentalism does not speak about the good of man and what mankind has achieved. Like missionaries it talks of man's work as negatives to the natural environment. Environmentalists and historic missionaries both look upon mankind and our achievements as a negative that needs to be curbed and defeated. Environmentalism talks of humans failings and is scathing of its influences and the changes made to the "natural world", and seeks to wind the clock back. See... Pedersen: Address to the Annual Conference [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0607/S00274.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0607/S00170.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0607/S00176.htm

Commerce: BNZ Pleads Guilty On Credit Card Exchange Fees

- The BNZ has become the third major bank to plead guilty to breaching the Fair Trading Act by failing to properly disclose fees charged for overseas currency transactions on its credit and debit cards. The company pleaded guilty to 21 representative charges of breaching the Fair Trading Act. See... BNZ guilty plea on card fees: $5 mil compensation [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0607/S00271.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0607/S00277.htm

Arts: High School Poets Award Shortlist Out

- Ten secondary school students from throughout New Zealand were today delighted to be announced in the short list of aspiring poets in the Bell Gully National Schools Poetry Award, organised by Victoria University's Institute of Modern Letters (IIML). The winning poems were unveiled by top New Zealand poets Bill Manhire, Elizabeth Knox and Hinemoana Baker. See... Top NZ Young Poets Announced [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0607/S00150.htm

Agriculture: Now Easier To Score Industrial Hemp

- Commercial cultivation of hemp may become more common with a relaxing of the rules around its production from August 1. The Ministry's medicine regulatory agency Medsafe will be implementing a new but less onerous regulatory regime for the cultivation, processing and distribution of industrial hemp as an agricultural crop. See... New licensing rules for industrial hemp [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0607/S00162.htm

PM's Presser Audio: Who's Honourable, Middle East, Winston In Washington & Zaoui

- Prime Minister Helen Clark held her post cabinet press conference a little earlier than usual today in advance of a plane journey out of the capital. The question and answer session began with a series of questions on the Middle East crisis and also covered Winston Peter's trip to Washington to meet with Condoleezza Rice, the further delay of the Zaoui Case and local authority rate increases. See... PM's Presser: Honorifics, The Middle East & Zaoui [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00240.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0607/S00243.htm

Trade: EU Butter Ruling Gives European Importers a Slice of Fonterra's Action

- The problems leading to the current ban on New Zealand butter sales to Europe have been widely described as technical. This is a misrepresentation. The reality is that the rulings from the European Court of Justice mean that significant changes will be required to the way the butter trade into Europe is managed. This is going to affect the net returns that New Zealand receives. See... EU butter bans are more than technical [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0607/S00159.htm
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[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0607/S00242.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0607/S00178.htm

Economy: Inflation Hits 4 Percent Thanks to Oil Prices

- The annual inflation rate, as measured by the Consumers Price Index (CPI), increased 4.0 percent for the year to the June 2006 quarter, up from 3.3 percent for the year to the March 2006 quarter, Statistics New Zealand said today. On a quarterly basis, the CPI increased 1.5 percent in the June 2006 quarter, following a 0.6 percent increase in the March 2006 quarter. See... CPI Annual Inflation Rises to 4.0 Percent [1] ALSO:

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Scoop Satire: Trust's Anti-Welfare State Comments "Not Stupid", Says Sarcasm Professional

- Scoop.co.nz's resident satirist has been left at a loss by recent press release from the Sensible Sentencing Trust, headed 'Welfare State Killed Kahui Twins, Says Watchdog'. "Normally I can think of something pertinent and humorous to say about any release if I put my mind to it," explained the satirist, "but this one does not seems to be risible in any way." See... Hood: Satirist Seeks Angle On McVicar Comments [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00207.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00208.htm

Foreign Affairs: Middle East Conflict Restricted To Press Release Battle In NZ -

Israel's Honorary Consul David Zwartz today said a letter of protest from Green MP Keith Locke was one-sided and based on ignorance of the sources of violence in the Arab-Israel conflict. "Mr Locke spoke of the need for negotiations between Israel and the Hamas. He admitted he had not read the Hamas Covenant, and therefore did not know about its Article 13 which rejects negotiated peace settlements. See... Greens' Middle East View Ignorant And One-Sided [1] SEE ALSO:

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Is There Another Option? – UN Sends Team

- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s high-level team to the Middle East, which includes his Special Political Adviser, arrived in Cairo today on the first leg of a diplomatic mission aimed at stemming the increasing violence between Israel, Lebanon and the Palestinians. The mission’s first meeting is scheduled with Egyptian Foreign Minister Abu Ghait after which the three-person team is expected to hold discussions with the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Amre Moussa, a UN spokesperson said in New York. Mr. Annan decided to send the mission following the numerous phone calls he had made with officials around the world about the escalating violence in the region, UN spokesperson Marie Okabe told reporters. After Egypt, the team will travel to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel. See... UN team on the Middle East arrives in Cairo [1] ALSO:

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Uri Avnery (Israeli) Discloses The Real Aim Of This War

- THE REAL aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government. That was the aim of Ariel Sharon's invasion of Lebanon in 1982. It failed. But Sharon and his pupils in the military and political leadership have never really given up on it. As in 1982, the present operation, too, was planned and is being carried out in full coordination with the US. As then, there is no doubt that it is coordinated with a part of the Lebanese elite. That's the main thing. Everything else is noise and propaganda. See... Uri Avnery: The Real Aim [1] MORE COMMENT:

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Mexico: A Million Mexicans Protest Election Fraud

- One week after Mexicans went to the polls to vote for president, hundreds of thousands of supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, of the Party of Democratic Revolution (PRD), converged on Mexico City's Zocalo or central square, to demand a recount in one of the most hotly contested elections in that nation's history. A preliminary count had Lopez Obrador's opponent, Filipe Calderon, of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) winning by some 400,000 votes. A second count of the July 2 vote narrowed the margin between the two candidates to 243,000 of 41 million cast. See... Massive Mexican March to Demand Election Recount [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00251.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00250.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00209.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00179.htm

War Lies: Why Outed CIA Officer & Husband Are Suing

- Syndicated columnist Bob Novak and officials speaking on behalf of White House political adviser Karl Rove have attempted to convince the American people that there wasn't a White House campaign to smear and discredit former Ambassador Joseph Wilson three years ago for speaking out publicly against the Bush administration's use of pre-war Iraq intelligence. See... Leopold: Why Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame Filed [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00211.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/stories/WO0607/S00263.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00178.htm

Bonus Joules uses solar energy to stop the shivers and THE ECONOMY shakes

- Could it be the British Conservative Party is about to put care back into Conservative? And is Labour about to put arduous, difficult and wearisome into Labour? And is the Green Movement about to go green about the gills? Check this new Conservative policy out. See... Bonus Joules: The Economy Jitters [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00205.htm

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Foreign Affairs: Dunne Steps Up For Aid Budget

- United Future leader Peter Dunne is calling for a multi-party commitment on boosting New Zealand's overseas aid levels. Mr Dunne says that most political parties already agree with the principle of lifting New Zealand's level of overseas aid to 0.7% of gross national income by 2015, but a more firm commitment than that will be needed to actually achieve the goal. See... Dunne calls for multi-party commitment on aid [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0607/S00255.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0607/S00212.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0607/S00142.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0607/S00289.htm

MPs in World News: Groser Goes to Markets

- National Party MP Tim Groser has been appointed by the Acting Director-General of the World Trade Organisation to chair the panel charged with resolving a long-running civil aviation subsidies dispute. This dispute relates to the conditions of competition between Boeing and Airbus in the commercial market for large civil aviation aircraft. See... Groser to adjudicate WTO dispute [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0607/S00250.htm

Environment: Marsden B Ruling - Call For Carbon In RMA

- An Environment Court decision that quashes Greenpeace's appeal against the polluting coal-fired Marsden B power plant highlights the need for the adoption of the Green Party's Resource Management (Climate Protection) Amendment Bill, Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says. See... Marsden B ruling shows urgent need for Bill [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0607/S00228.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0607/S00167.htm

Local Government: Annual Conference Opens in Wellington

- Local and central government elected members and officials, the Prime Minister, overseas experts in the field of local government and key stakeholders came together for the opening of Local Government New Zealand's annual conference in Wellington today. See... PM recognises importance of local government [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0607/S00155.htm
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Education: Questions On Lack Of Internal Assessment Checks

- "Labour simply can't continue to brush over the serious problems with NCEA when thousands of students are still getting the wrong results," says national Party Education spokesman Bill English. He is commenting on revelations contained in an investigative report published today by the Herald on Sunday which looks into NCEA internal assessment. See... Labour just can't get NCEA right [1] ALSO:

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POLITICAL COLUMNS

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